and senegal sinking villages. unprompted and uninterrupted discussions from our london broadcast center. on. the national guard in many cities and soldiers are on standby but the u.s. defense secretary says he doesn't support the use of the military against protesters. as a whole romany watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes a family's plea for justice the mother of george floored stuart or wants charges against all 4 officers linked to his death. in the u.k. and his voice thousands marching in central london in solidarity with america's

anti racism grounds. also china moves towards greater control of hong kong so britain's prime minister talks of offering citizenship to millions. back into the program we begin with the fallout over the death of george floyd in the us and the mass protests across the country u.s. defense secretary mark asked for has spoken going against the president's stance on using military to control grounds donald trump has increasingly put pressure on governors to mobilize troops but the pentagon has pushed back as the sense he's trying to keep his department out of politics has been increasing scrutiny of the military's role after troops and helicopters were used to control protests in washington d.c. . i've always believed in continue to believe that the national guard is best suited for performing domestic support to civil authorities in these situations. in

support of local law enforcement i say this not only as secretary defense but also as a former soldier and a former member of the national guard the option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations we are not in one of those situations now i do not support invoking the insurrection act meanwhile the mother of george floyd's daughter has made an emotional tribute to him with their 6 year old daughter standing by his side roxie washington says she wants justice and for the world to remember floyd as a good man. he would have the. well we're agile way he would never walk down the. problem see they i mean it's you know you think they he doesn't add any more.

and. if i'm here of your. because i want justice you know. floyd's death continues to spark anger not only in the u.s. but also across the world this is the scene around london's hyde park where thousands of marching against brutality towards a black community it follows similar marches to embassies across the globe let's cross over to our white house correspondent kelly how to stand by and condemning what options now ready for the president when it comes to these protests because we've heard now from the defense secretary speaking about what he thinks should happen we wonder what the president might want to do next. well the u.s. president was very clear in the rose garden a couple of evenings ago they feel intended to without mentioning it expressly he

intended to invoke the insurrection act of 1807 which does give presidents the power to deploy the military otherwise this is something that is prohibited by law for forcing domestic policies that essentially if the governors are not going to do anything to quell the violence than he would but it certainly was remarkable to hear the defense secretary pushing back publicly against the president that he believes that is the wrong approach in fact this is a little used approach has been used since the early 1990 s. to deal with the situation of rioting in los angeles so this is a remarkable statement that's being made publicly to essentially the commander in chief the u.s. president now there is also pushing back by the trumpet ministration however and that is to widespread reporting that there were rubber bullets used against peaceful protesters and also that there was tear gas fired the defense secretary saying that there were not they were instead they were smoke canisters pepper balls

and also the u.s. park police saying that the protesters were not useful but were throwing bottles filled with caustic fluids at the police officers in lafayette square now you remember the video showed that there was a use of force to clear the lafayette square 2 nights ago in order for the u.s. president to cross over and have a photo opportunity in front of st john's episcopal church the defense secretary also commenting on that that he was not aware that was going to be a photo opportunity and really just thought it was going to be a visit to the to the church now one other mention that he did make was that he regrets some of his wording in talking about the protesters he says at one point used the word battle space he now says that is not a word that he should have used the president himself has been speaking. can believe and said some quite interesting things. yes

the u.s. president and was asked explicitly would you or do you have a plan for dealing with the fact that there is so much mistrust in the african-american community in the broader community of some of color in the united states when it comes to policing the u.s. president didn't have an answer he just said that it was a long term problem in other words it's not what it appears he has any solutions for as there are protests spiraling in many cases out of control in the united states he also went on to push back that he has very low whole numbers with the african-american community instead saying that they were very high which isn't the case and really blamed the media for not highlighting some of what he sees the successes with the african-american community that he has brought down the unemployment rate of course covert $1000.00 is changed all of that for all americans and he also pushed back on widespread reporting that on friday evening he was in an underground bunker temporarily well the protesters moved closer to the white house committee because well one times correspondent thank you. now one of

the more striking protest images that we've seen was the sight of thousands of people marching onto a busy road in the city of portland in oregon they lay face down on burnside bridge with their hands behind their backs for 9 minutes in remembrance of george floyd in new york police began making arrests soon after its curfew came into effect thousands of people paul on to the city's streets in the early evening now bill de blasio has refused to bring in the national guard saying it will only worsen the tension and thousands of people have gathered in london in solidarity with the protesters in the u.s. organizers say that they're also marching against systematic racism in britain mass gatherings are still banned under the u.k.'s coronavirus restrictions but prime minister boris johnson said he understood the anger after george boyd's death and supported the right to protest when our correspondent said bag is live for us in central london just tell us where you are or what's going on behind you.

while i'm there any why i told a gun shoot is right behind me was the prime minister barak's stance and he didn't go because of virus daily briefings but i'd cite thousands of people have come together to protest in support of solidarity with what's taking place and the united states but it's not only this issue about the united states many people here believe that the u.k. isn't innocent in terms of when it comes to racism but that people here are more likely to get stopped and searched there's been a number of deaths of that people in previous custody but also there's the death of but that there are about 2011 when he was shot and killed by police that led to why it's not only here in the capital but across the country people have been carrying get that is saying that times back to they've been chanting george floyd's name also said you know a lot of anger towards the prime minister himself or is johnson people think that the u.k. needs to do more than the needs to do in this country protecting unprecedented statement saying that they were called at the death of george floyd in the united

states and also justice but also they said that more needs to be done here in the united kingdom to tackle the issue of racism as a back in london thank you. china is warning the u.k. that interfering in hong kong's affairs could backfire and that's after the prime minister boris johnson said the united kingdom could offer millions of people in hong kong a route to citizenship if china imposes a controversial national security law or beijing argues that foreign influence is a threat to hong kong stability and prosperity well those sentiments are being echoed by hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb who's in beijing to meet chinese officials she says the recent unrest in hong kong meant the central government was left without an alternative except to axe or i can only say that the international community and some of the foreign governments at the madoff. data and double standard in dealing with this matter and commenting on this matter it is within the

legitimate jurisdiction of any country to enact laws to protect and safeguard national security. usa is no exception u.k. is no exception so why should they object to assist or even condemn and take sanctions against hong kong and the people's republic of china now the people who have access to what johnson calls a route to citizenship are those with a b a no passport which stands for british national overseas now the be a no it was issued to people in hong kong when it was still a british colony before it was handed back to the chinese in 1997 it's a travel document but it doesn't automatically give holders british citizenship all allow them to live or work in the u.k. around 300000 people hold a passport at nearly 2900000 people in hong kong eligible for it or about 40 percent of the population is in london he says this is a major move that's bound to stress relations between china and the

u k. i think the issuing of this message by 1st of all of foreign secondly dominic robb and emphasized and reiterated by the prime minister himself boris johnson shows i think that the normal discrete lines of diplomacy seem the options seem to be narrowing china has pressed on with this national security law despite opposition and the foreign service here in the u.k. has grown increasingly concerned about that now what are they offering well 1st of all at the moment they are no passport holders that's 30350000 of them can come here for 6 months without needing a visa the often hours for to be extended to 12 months and to have a right to work here in the u.k. and potentially have a pathway to citizenship and what boris johnson has gone even further than the foreign secretary is saying is that if he's gone to extended to those who are eligible to apply for that passports are not just the current passport holders but

those eligible to apply and that number some 2 and a half 1000000 people in hong kong so you can see this is a really major shift in the government's stance and one that has drawn sharp criticism from china the british government has gone ahead with it anyway so you can see there that not tempers necessarily but hackles are right are rising on both sides. now the u.s. department of transportation will suspend all passenger flights from chinese carriers from june 16th the move comes after washington accused beijing you're failing to comply with existing aviation agreements saying it's become impossible for u.s. airlines to resume services to china tensions between the world's 2 largest economies have been strained over the global pandemic and new laws that jeopardize hong kong's autonomy. well still ahead here on out is iran lebanon's money and strangers are back in business after a month long strike. about from a top of the t.v.

all adjust to admits it's we should have to war to curb coronavirus. head of their friends who are writing to all southern and central areas of china you can see this stream of cloud it's all tied to a frontal system the my you buy you from by typical this time of year the seasonal rains also known as the plum rains and so 3 of those a very heavy rains are pushing the way of east coast of china staying generally well to the east of japan so a carrot even sail on friday but to woman as well as soccer 30 celsius 20 take it they could just be wanted to stray shots but by far again the bulk of the rains will maintain across the central and eastern areas of china we could even see one or 2 showers and thunderstorms down into hong kong with a high there of 32 in tunisia plenty wise but chance and thunderstorms here a very heavy rain throughout much of smarter than

a peninsula also across into singapore and then by friday very heavy rains across southern as a thailand of course very extensive as well across cambodia on it towards vietnam in borneo again seeing some very heavy downpours later in the day that we had to india this is tropical cycling it made landfall on wednesday about 95 kilometers to south of mumbai as we go through thursday will continue to work its way through much of pradesh and eventually pushing on into utah protests and very heavy amounts of rain accumulating with this storm system maybe 2300 millimeters of rain and it could of course they to flooding. you know 5 go yes drive to work day. is night you don't learn about august night something else happened on august night. just among 18 year old michael brown was gunned down 2.13 songs so pretty soon it's

really me i saw my son in 15. years that i mentor and i plan and i felt like you know at this my time to stand. more ruthless. oh. oh. looking back i want you know deservedly so robbed a reminder of our top stories the u.s. defense secretary has split from the president over military involvement and he bases and protests donald trump has pressured governments to mobilize troops to control crowds but mark casper says he doesn't support invoking the insurrection act. and the killing of george floyd continues to spark i'm going out only in the

u.s. but across the world in london thousands of people are marching against brutality towards a black community in both the u.s. and the u.k. . and china is warning that the u.k. is interfering at home cons of fairness and that could backfire after the british prime minister said the u.k. could offer billions of people in hong kong a route to citizenship they're trying to impose is a controversial national security goal. now sweden's top of an immunologist has criticized the government's response to covert 19 understand north says too many died too soon and sweden should have done more unlike other countries in europe sweden didn't impose a strict lockdown and kept many businesses open in the 1st weeks of the crisis instead citizens were allowed to practice social distancing on a voluntary basis at least 38589 infections have been reported and there have been nearly 400000 deaths and official inquiries expected to be launched prime ministers there for north and says the government will appoint a commission before the summer for reese is in the swedish city of melbourne he

explains why there's been a lot of surprise over and comments just for a broader context understand jali state epidemiology just is a huge celebrity now in sweden much more of a celebrity than any civil servant could really expect to be it's his word people hang on the daily calm press conferences around covered 19 about the situation in sweden and in fact it's his agency the public health agency that the government actually defers to in making decisions on sweden's approach to covert 19 so it's actually him who's made the decisions. so what he appeared to be saying in his interview on tuesday with swedish radio was that the approach hadn't worked and that they should've done things differently. now that caused a lot of surprise in sweden because every day he's been saying the same line that

this is our approach we're sticking by we think this is best so hearing something different from that cause a lot of surprise in the rest of the world as well so much so that the swedish newspapers today are carrying english versions of the story in which she says well wait a minute i didn't really mean our strategy was incorrect or i really meant was that we could have done things better i've been saying the whole time but. in hindsight we would look at our approach and see what we could have done better and what he does think could have been done better in sweden is to protect people in old people's homes which have been absolutely devastated by this virus so there is a recognition that the health agency and understand the code of improve the strategy in hindsight but they're definitely holding off now from saying our approach was wrong officials in india urged people to stay at home because of a tropical cyclone that's hit 2 states on the west coast at least 100000 residents

of and draft states have already fled their homes for safety but in mumbai dozens of patients recovering from the coronavirus have to be moved is the 1st time in more than 70 years that a site owners touched down in the area. the french quarter has approved the transfer of the rwandan genocide suspect to a u.n. tribunal listen couple girl is accused of bankrolling 1994 massacre of at least 800000 people in 100 days his defense team had argued that he was too elderly and frail to be transferred but the court ruled that the 84 year old's age and health conditions were not obstacles natasha butler has more from paris. a man accused of financing their wanton genocide in 1904 was found by this paris court was told by this paris court that he could be extradited to face an international tribunal in. tanzania now this was a hearing but it's by no means the end of the process because the defense nor the

lawyers for could say that they will take this to a higher court they will appeal they say that he's 84 years old his he's frail his health isn't very good it's certainly not good enough they say for him to be transferred to another country and they argue that he should face justice and france now their appeal could take at least 2 months over the time being a cougar will remain here we spoke to some representatives though for rwandan associations in france ofter today's decision though by the court and they certainly said that they welcomed it they said that this was a very important step even though they worry that if the process takes too long with these appeals that cougar at 84 years old may not make it and they wish that he would see justice because they say that he was a man who was wanted for more than a quarter of a century he was at large for that long until he was arrested in paris last month. libya's u.n.

recognize government forces loyal to ward cleaver after losing ground in areas the leading to a stronghold of total no government troops carried out at least 10 airstrikes earlier targeting and they were trying to capture in southern tripoli the hope to spiders launched an offensive to seize the capital just over a year ago but hold of the one who is in tripoli he says the government is making significant gains. the importance of that airport is that has got its forces have been in control of it over the past 11 months in the role and from there they have been targeting the government forces locations in many areas in southern near tripoli it's a very well fortified and the government forces say that have that is it forces inside the airport to take in shield inside their very strong concrete building is inside the airport now the airport and it's a vicinity is the last a stronghold of have to his forces in southern tripoli the government forces who

are now moving on have to his forces in and around the airport say that if the managed to be captured the airport and it's a vicinity then they can move on after us forces in the city of start of warner south of tripoli the last stronghold of have to his forces in the west of libya where if half the forces lose the city after all now then they have no place in the west of the country now we've been getting reports from government military sources in the vicinity of the hornet city also saying that the government forces who have been besieging the city from the main de erections are now. engaged in fighting would have to his forces in the vicinity of that city. authorities in sudan have put up barricades outside the military headquarters in khartoum crowds are gathering to mark a year since of violent crackdown by security forces that killed more than 100 people and injured 700 others the protests president omar al bashir removed from

power but many victims say those who replaced him yet to deliver justice are serious hipper morgan has more. it's been a year since his son arbaaz was killed and his family can't bring themselves to open his closets to clean out his belongings he was killed in a deadly raid by sudanese military on a protein marquesa sit in at the army headquarters in sudan's capital hot zone and now the few belongings he leaves behind are what the family cherishes most americans. we found out he was shot in the attack when someone saw the video on social media and told us he would lift the house when he heard about the attack then he went to the hospital to look for him we didn't know he was did until we started searching in the hospital then we had to begin the long process of filing cases of the police station to receive permits to bury the body. of the june 3rd attack brought an end to the september started in early april it was what prompted the military to overthrow the country's longtime president armadale bashir after

months of protests after he was ousted the sit in continued as protesters demanded the military hand over power to civilian rule witnesses to the attack which was led by the paramilitary rapid support forces on the unarmed protesters was a total ass lot at least $120.00 protesters were killed on the day of the attack on the sit in but they were not the only atrocities recorded rights groups reported women and men were raped and sodomized and witnesses reported bodies being thrown into the nile river and many who were present on the day of the attack remain missing but a year after the attack some have criticized the committee and say the investigations are slow and justice is being delayed and. when we took to the streets in december 28th scene we demanded freedom peace and justice saddam. can't go forward without peace and freedom but more importantly it can't go forward without justice back in the room that was once had basses his sister says the government needs to remember the price paid by many to bring it to power in the i one hand and i'm going to hand

the government came to power through blood people sacrifice their lives and now there's no justice that has been delivered the people on the streets haven't forgotten what it took and more move on without that justice and accountability accountability that one year on since the attack remains elusive for families who have lost their loved ones he will morgan al-jazeera hutton the city's former 1st lady of messiah to barney has been arrested for murder earlier this year she was charged with ordering the killing of her husband's 1st wife thomas the bonnie resigned last month as prime minister decided to bali had been out on conditional release but listened to his appeal court revote last week the former prime minister is also a suspect but has not yet been charged iranian scientist who was released from a us prison has arrived home serious osgar he was welcomed by his family in tehran he was acquitted of charges of stealing state secrets in november but he was kept in immigration custody because of an expired visa same describing has more from

tehran. this gentleman was detained and has been in u.s. custody since 2016 his trial began in 2018 he was found innocent of wire fraud visa fraud as well as stealing state secrets just last month and since last month there's been a lot of discussion and debate about how to get him back to iran iran has been calling for his release criticizing the american government for not doing enough to protect him from being infected by the coronavirus in their custody in the custody of immigration and customs enforcement agents but the americans have said that iran has been slow rolling of the processes that need to be taken care of to return this gentleman back to his home they said that they question the legitimacy of citizenship that the americans said that they had to shoot him a valid passport for travel several flights that were booked by the americans had to be canceled because of closures to take over 19 spreading across the world but it seems now just earlier

a few days ago the foreign minister started to say that he would be home soon joe boxer if iran's foreign minister on his instagram page just yesterday said that he would be on he was on a plane and on his way home and this morning on state media we saw photographs of him arriving landing back in iran and embrace him his family so mr sears i was curious ordeal is now over he's back home in iran scientist of material scientist a professor of material sciences based at sharif university in neck and back on home ground. the money exchanges in lebanon have ended the strike and returned to work the government had blamed them for the devaluation of the local currency but now appears to be a deal to control the currency market but many warn that stabilizing the exchange rate can't happen as long as dollars are in short supply explains. money exchangers are back in business after a month long strike they were protesting against the crackdown by lebanon's government after it blamed them for the rapid devaluation of the local currency to

leave after it has lost more than 60 percent of its value since october they've now agreed to an exchange rate cap hoping it will drop to $3200.00 lire to the dollar in 2 weeks it's not the 1st attempt to control the money markets that i'm a quicker than a point then i would even with the rate of $3000.00 or $3500.00 a central bank will face another problem because it will exhaust its foreign reserves the market might be controlled for a couple of days but in the long run we will have more than one exchange rate in the market and lebanon is facing its worst economic crisis in decades foreign currency has stopped flowing in and its reserves are dwindling banks which have imposed their own capital controls no longer give out dollars making every day transactions difficult for people in an import dependent economy because of this inflation. rate of change of the. dollar for our life. we cannot maintain any more of the same. unfortunately. the

official exchange rate of $1500.00 lire to the dollar remains in place to import basic goods like wheat and fuel other rates are being used. for example dollar depositors can sell up to $4000.00 a month at the rate of $3000.00 while the rate of $3200.00 by the central bank from money transfer companies this is affecting the government's talks with the international monetary fund that's demanding. a flexible exchange rate before discussing any financial assistance. the government argues floating the currency without porn creditor support will have a disastrous social impact many lebanese are already struggling and many businesses have shut down a sun up here we have been badly affected we lost 80 percent of our business due to the dollar crisis we are products it was an exchange rate of 4 told us to sort

order if we run out of dollars we will be forced to go home caps on exchange rates may do little if dollars remain in short supply and as long as there is little faith in the political and economic system then for there beirut. the watching all deserve means to hold on the reminder of our top stories the u.s. defense secretary has split from the president over military involvement and to braces and protests donald trump ers pressured governments to mobilize troops to control crowds but mark esp a says he doesn't support invoking the insurrection act i've always believed and continue to believe that the national guard is best suited for performing domestic support to civil authorities and these situations in support of local law enforcement i say this not only as secretary defense but also as

a former soldier and a former member of the national guard. the option to use active duty forces in a law enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations we are not in one of those situations now i do not support invoking the insurrection act the killing of george floyd continues to spark anger not only in the u.s. but also across the world in london thousands of people are marching in support of the black community in both the u.s. and u.k. china is warning the u.k. that interfering in hong kong is affairs could backfire and that's after the british prime minister said the u.k. could offer millions of people in hong kong a route to citizenship if china imposed a controversial national security law officials in india have urged people to stay home because of a tropical cyclone that hit 2 states on the west coast at least 100000 residents of maharastra and good states have already fled their homes to safety and in mumbai

dozens of patients recovering from the coronavirus had to be moved is the 1st time in more than 70 years the site owners touched down in the area. a french court has approved the transfer of a rwandan genocide suspect to a u.n. tribunal felicien kaboom is accused of bankrolling of the 1994 massacre of at least 800000 people in 100 days the court ruled that the 84 year old's age and health condition were no obstacles for the transfer libya's u.n. recognized government says forces loyal to ward cleaver have to are losing ground in areas leading to a stronghold of the tuner government troops carried out at least 10 airstrikes earlier targeting an airport that they were trying to capture in southern tripoli those were the headlines about good more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next hour as ever it's witness to stay with us.

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