day when will the presidential candidates get the opportunity to hit the road and so their brand of american politics follow the u.s. election on a jersey. soldiers on standby on the national guard out in many u.s. cities but the defense secretary doesn't want the military used against protesters . comes a whole romany watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up a family's plea for justice the mother of george ford's daughter wants charges against all 4 officers that linked to his death. and the u.k. adds its voice thousands marching in central london in solidarity with america's

anti racism crowds. also the new investigation that suggests that china withheld data on coronavirus from the world health organization. welcome to the program we begin with the fallout over the death of george floyd in the u.s. and the mass protests across the country u.s. defense secretary marcus has spoken going against the president's stance on using military to control the crowds donald trump has increasingly put pressure on governors to mobilize troops but the pentagon has pushed back as for says he's trying to keep his department out of politics there's been increasing scrutiny over the military's role after troops and helicopters were used to control protests in washington d.c. . 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 meanwhile the mother of george floyd stuart 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 of well we're agile way he would never walk down. it is a problem see they i mean it's you know you think they he doesn't add any more.

and. any of your. because they want justice you know. this was the scene earlier in london where thousands of people are marching in support of the black community in both the u.s. and the united kingdom and it follows similar marches to embassies across the globe but don't people how can our white house correspondent kimberly when the last what half an hour we've seen george floyd's family and legal team speaking what have they been saying. yeah the attorney for the family of george floyd holding a press conference that just wrapped up moments ago in minneapolis where he made the announcement that he is expecting demanding charges for the other 3 police officers that were responsible he says for the death of george floyd there are

those charges to be announced and for those individuals to be arrested of course there is one charge that is currently for the man who placed his knee on the neck of george floyd causing a fixation according to the autopsy done by the family but this is something that this attorney says is a tipping point in america right now with the protests that have extended across the united states he says that black people are demanding justice too and the world is watching so the latest news coming out of minneapolis just last few moments is that the family attorney demanding that the 3 other officers again be charged say they are expecting some sort of announcement who are being accomplices to murder now in the midst of all of this the u.s. president earlier today was talking about a conservative radio program he was asked about the mistrust in the african-american community of communities of color when it comes to policing the u.s. president didn't seem to have an answer only saying that this is

a long term problem and really shrugging off the fact that he has very low poll numbers when it comes to people of color in the united states and said saying just the opposite that they're high and if they're low it's the media's fault that they have done that essentially not reporting the highlights of his presidency and in the midst of all of this we should point out that there is it more news that should be expected that 800 g.m.t. the press secretary hillary mcenaney will be speaking to the media but we're also looking ahead to 21 g.m.t. because that's when former president barack obama is also expected to have a virtual town hall where he is expected to address some of the issues of systemic racism this comes one day after he published on the blogging platform. or media very notable as say where he really suggested that if young people want change when it comes to policing they need to do more not just protesting the president and his policies but engaging at the local level where

a lot of these policies that affect policing and communities of color are made of course it's very interesting to hear the defense secretary also. sort of distancing himself from what's sort of transpired over the last 24 hours that one wonders what the options are left for the president because he's sort of trying to hit all bases at the same time but not really dealing with the core problem which is the death of a black man at the hands of policeman. yeah the u.s. president has been criticized for the heavy handed approach as several nights ago when he staged that photo op crossing lafayette park to stand in front of a church argument from the d.c. mayor is that these were mostly peaceful protesters and that was erupted by the force of the riot police who cleared that for the president the u.s. president continues to maintain that he has the option to use the insurrection activate you know 7 to go in and quell civil unrest as we've seen back in the early

1990 s. but at the same time this is highly controversial and already just the force that has been used is being investigated whether it be in low lying helicopters by the national guard or the use of rubber bullets so the u.s. president does have that option but we should be clear for our viewers that ordinarily the power to quell unrest is not the house of the president but in the hands of the governors and in fact the military under u.s. law with the exception of the insurrection act very clearly states that the military cannot be used for policing only for a support role and only at the request of governors and that's why you see this friction point back and forth between the u.s. president and the governors right now it's very clear he was president wants to use more force in both the insurrection act even as his defense secretary saying this is something he would not do. can be held to white house correspondent thanks very much fulfillment of curfew has ended in los angeles thousands to

find statehood waters to launch through the city for us have not stopped demonstrates protesting against police brutality in the u.s. more than 2700 people have been arrested since the protests began. well china is also warning the united kingdom that interfering in hong kong's affairs could backfire but after prime minister barak's johnson said the u.k. could offer millions of people in hong kong a route to citizenship if china imposes a controversial national security law beijing argues that foreign influence is a threat to hong kong stability and prosperity not those sentiments have been echoed by hong kong's chief executive terry lamb who's in beijing to meet chinese officials for i can only say that the international community and some of the foreign governments have been adult. data and double standard in dealing with this

matter and commenting on this matter it is within the legitimate jurisdiction of any country to enacting laws to protect and safeguard nationals. usa is no exception u.k. is no exception so why should they object to recess for 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.l.o. passport which stands for the british national overseas the british national overseas was issued to people in hong kong when it was still a british colony and before it was handed back to china in 1997 there is a travel document but it doesn't automatically give holders british citizenship or allow them to live or work in the united kingdom around 300000 people hold the passport but nearly 2900000 people in hong kong are eligible for it all about 40 percent of the population full brunt of it 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 the foreign secondly dominic robb and emphasized and reiterated by the prime minister himself boris johnson shows i think that the normal discreet 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 be a 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. michael let's just go back to our top story of course on george floyd and his death and we're joined now by michael fauntroy who's the acting director of the ronald w. waters leadership and public policy center at howard university joins me now from washington d.c. could have you with us on the program obviously so many questions for us regarding the death of mr floyd let's just turn our. gaze towards the future of a potential trial and one of the. statements that is often used in a child with police officers in the forefront is qualified immunity is

a defense that's often used when they believe they are in danger more often than not are acquitted how much of power problematic is this specially when senior judges in the american judiciary are saying this is what needs to be looked at and this is where we need to start when we talk about reform. well i think it's absolutely key to understanding why so many police officers in the united states can literally act with impunity for guards to the use of lethal force if a police officer stands in front of a juror and says i fear trauma life or the person that they kill seem like they have a weapon of some sort they're very few jurors are going to look beyond that once they hear that they're going to acquit and so it is a it is a essentially an accountability issue that prevents not just the account

holding police officers accountable but it also sends a message that police officers don't literally have to worry about taking these kinds of barbaric steps with citizens and it's particularly notable in the room when you look at the disproportionate numbers of african-americans that are being or worse by american police officers bijan to see how that develops in terms of a talking point in the months ahead let's just talk about what's happened in the last half hour we've seen mr floyd's certainly legal team and his son speaking outside in minneapolis the 1st thing that they did was they took the knee it's a gesture that we talked about 18 months ago and a senior sportsman in the n.f.l. took his knee was criticized by the american president now everybody's doing it one wonders how hypocritical the n.f.l. all because they themselves are now encouraging their players to take the knee in honor of george floyd. yeah well the n.f.l.

and hypocrisy are sort of time that they have in my view when cutting cabernet turkistan to 2017 he lost his career and then you can say it's about marriage because there are a number of people who play his position even now 3 years later they don't as good at the n.f.l. as engaging in face saving as are a number of individual elected officials around the country they want to keep things from getting worse and don't want to be perceived as part of the problem for athletic leagues in the united states like the n.f.l. and the n.b.a. the national basketball association that's particularly notable when you consider that the overwhelming majority of players are black and so there's a sort of internal agitation to have to move the leaks to do something constructive or not minimum say something constructive but we should not be pulled on this some level what the n.f.l. is doing is about to face

a well as much more to discuss and we will be doing that with you through the day for the moment michel felt with thanks for joining us from washington d.c. my pleasure thank you. still ahead here on al-jazeera about a top epidemiologist who admits that sweden should have done more to curb coronavirus that story after the break. hello there will still have some rain across southern and western areas of yemen it's all coming from this little disturbance samples the same system that brought the flooding rains across into oman to the north as well one to 2 shots through areas of turkey but really by and large it is fine it is dry and it is extremely hot the winds are fairly light there is a northerly winds of 48 celsius in kuwait on thursday even warmer again by friday 49 degrees is 120 degrees fahrenheit the wind should pick up there on

a friday so it may feel a little bit better with that increase in the breeze 40 celsius in doha 44 in riyadh but by far the best weather is going to do the eastern end of the med 28 in jerusalem and a very nice 24 in beirut a fairly quiet conditions not much of a southern africa we've seen the bulk of the rains out towards the west around the gulf of guinea we will see on thursday some scattered showers and thunderstorms really across many of the central areas the tail see out towards the west of becoming havea late in the day on and off into cameroon and then into south africa it's mostly fine and dry some heavy of the rain into northern areas of madagascar they will tend to linger on friday fairly strong on shore breeze as well and we've got some fairly stiff winds coming up into coastal areas of tanzania so again we might just see one or 2 shows as the day progresses. frank assessments tourism but income stream is dead in the water what's been the

result seen poaching go up quite significantly informed opinions there has been a very aggressive political rhetoric that has become very normal and it really is citing in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines it's time for new policy and say the contrary they cannot all be disintegrating but he's threatening their stability over all continues inside story on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera in the cell romney a reminder of our top stories the u.s. defense secretary has split from the president over military involvement and he

races in protest donald trump has pressured governments to mobilize troops to control crowds but mark asked for says he doesn't support invoking the insurrection and. the mother of george ford's daughter 1st made the motional tribute to him with their 6 year old daughter standing by his side roxie washington says she wants justice of the world to remember floyd as a good man. and thousands of people have joined yet another protest in london in solidarity with african-americans in the u.s. it's just the latest event in the global backlash to racism in america. democratic congressman carson of indiana joins me now live on soon from indianapolis indiana he's also senior member of the congressional black caucus of the house intelligence committee good to have you with us live on al-jazeera sir how surprised are you to have seen sort of the reaction of the american people and the global community this past week in relation to the death of mr floyd. well you

know i'm at think the protests that are sweeping across america are really creating the stark backdrop for the 2020 raisman primary they're serving as a clear reminder of what's at stake this election they're not just voting for president and other elected official was we're voting for equality for better criminal justice system and for black lives so i think principled americans are rightly outraged by the horrific inequality racism and even police brutality that permeates america in our president is trying to shut down a deal just a miser you've been a victim of police brutality yourself what happened what was the reaction did you get justice. i did i was arrested at the age of 17 i was outside of a mosque. i was a young muslim and it wasn't the 1st time i had been harassed by police reagan

called the n. word but that moment escalated and i was arrested along with another young man who was 20 at the time he was taken to the jail i was taken to the juvenile facility at that time in 1901 if you were a juvenile you couldn't get released on the weekend they woke me up saturday morning and said these people in the parking lot will not leave until 'd they know that you're ok there were muslims in the parking lot there were people from the faith community pastors there were local activists out in the parking lot and there were people who from street organizations who and community people who are saying these are good young men release them and i was released a few hours later on a weekend and the charges were later dropped you know a politician yourself so one has to really ask for your understanding when do you start changing legislation sort of to allow justice to be seen to be saved especially when it's at the hands of the police because that's the change that

people in the united states are demanding and they're demanding it now. well just intimate does introduced a bill that deals 'd with address in qualified immunity if that's a good start i think we have to talk about perhaps taking away the oversight from v.a.'s and prosecutors as it relates to prosecuting some of these police officers because or too often a lot of the a's and prosecutors rely on pleas officers for testimonies and so i think we need to have greater oversight as it relates to police actions shootings we have to deal with the police academy as it were i ended up becoming a cop over 20 years ago i was in a police academy and i can remember a young man who had a t. shirt on a young recruit of stalin hitler mussolini and a few other leaders and went to from there even by the supervising train officer he simply said i don't agree with everything that was done but he has done some good things and he was very naive in that approach to a similar role police department and i think that in the police department implicit

bias training must be implemented but it has to be implemented by people who have this experience not by folks who don't work for our sort of occasion of course in trying to teach it when they are the worst offenders it has to be taught by people who come from the ground who've had these experiences and can convey it in a way that is digestible relatable and problems one understand it congressman andre carson it's good to get your thoughts and thanks very much for joining us from indianapolis and indiana thank you for your time thank you. not china is denying it withheld vital details about the kind of virus outbreak that's after the associated press published an investigation which found that the world health organization officials heaped praise on beijing in order to coax out more information between e.u. ripples beijing when news of the virus and in january the world health organization looted beijing's perspire we were very impressed with the level of engagement of

the chinese government at all levels. but while the un agency praised china in public privately officials were reportedly frustrated by a lack of transparency and investigation by the associated press concluded that chinese health officials not only withheld information about the outbreak they also delayed distributing the card $900.00 by several days chinese health officials told the public that the possibility of human to human transmission over the w hey joe tweeted in agreement but behind the scenes agency staff were apparently skeptical 100 train china positively as w.h.o. director at honda did during a meeting that she didn't peeing in late january was said to be used as a strategy to gain more information china's foreign ministry says the associated press report is untrue. things the epidemic broke out china has been open

transparent and responsible we have stayed in close in the song communication cooperation with the doubly joe since the beginning of the outbreak china's foreign ministry has not any cover up or accuracy when it comes will forming the public about the run of ours these new allegations deal and added blow to birthday and the world health organization at a time when the agency is struggling to maintain support chinese officials last week donald trump said the u.s. was terminating its relationship with the. accusing it of being china's centric chinese president xi jinping has meanwhile pledged to $1000000000.00 to the organization over the next 2 years funding which analysts say could increase china's influence over the agency. inside of you a chance to efficient within the u.s. really. they have to make sure the. same time alienating. even. china has agreed to

a review into the origin of the pandemic once the outbreak is under control and investigation which many will be scrutinizing when and if it does happen. al-jazeera beijing. plus we've been told purposely ologist has criticized the government's response to covert 19 and too many died too soon and sweden should have done more unlike other countries in europe sweden did to impose a strict lockdown and many businesses open in the 1st few weeks of the crisis instead citizens were left to practice social distancing on a voluntary basis at least 38589 infections have been reported and there have been nearly 4 and a half 1000 deaths an official inquiry is expected to be launched the prime minister stephan often says the government will appoint a commission before the summer paul reese has more from malmo where 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 all 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 could have improved the strategy in hindsight but they're definitely holding off now from saying our approach was wrong. officials in india have urged people to stay home because of a tropical cyclone that's 2 states on the west coast at least 100000 residents of maharastra states have already fled to safety the dozens of patients recovering

from the crowd the virus had to be moved it's the 1st time in more than 70 years the site has touched down in the area and it's been from new delhi. so far we've seen pictures of many trees which have been operated in parts of maharashtra as india's west coast including the states all but also go away hit by very strong winds heavy rains and high tides as cycloid in the south are made landfall around 1 pm local time carrying winds of up to 120 kilometers an hour 100000 people will move to shelters in maharashtra and there are many things along the low lying areas which are structurally sound but there are also many slums in mumbai and we've seen pictures of people who live in very flimsy structures in the slums scrambling crowding to get on evacuation trucks. and its capital the station worst affected by. cases in india and. deaths

in maharashtra and 150 patients who were being treated at a field hospital a temporary field hospital has been moved to a sports stadium which has been converted to a hospital and city officials sent extra power generators to hospitals that the fears of power outages. now libya as you would recognize government says forces loyal to ward cleaver after losing ground in areas leading to a stronghold of top who are government troops carried out at least 10 or strikes earlier targeting an airport they're trying to capture in southern tripoli after the fighters launched an offensive to seize the capital just over a year ago. now the u.n. says some of its programs in yemen will need to close by the end of the month unless it gets an immediate injection of cash now that's after donations fell a $1000000000.00 short of the u.n. target at a virtual pledging conference on tuesday a saudi u.a.e. coalition has been fighting the rebels in yemen for more than 5 years the charity

save the children says the world has abandoned yemenis in their darkest hour and of course you can follow all of the stories that we're covering including the ongoing crisis in the united states over the death of george smallwood on our web site at al-jazeera dot com. but you are just there with me still robin a reminder of our top stories the u.s. defense secretary has split from the president over military involvement and racism protests donald trump has pressured governors to mobilize troops to control crowds but mark asked but says he doesn't support invoking the insurrection act 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. and these are live pictures in london where thousands of people are marching in support of the black community both in the u.s. and u.k. that follows similar marches to embassies across the globe. china is warning the u.k. that interfering in hong kong's affairs could backfire 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 imposes a controversial national security law and officials in india have urged people to stay home because of a tropical cyclone the 2 states on the west coast at least 100000 residents of maharastra under drug states have already fled their homes for safety and in mumbai

dozens of patients recovering from the coronavirus to be moved it's the 1st time in more than 70 years that a psycho has touched down in the area. libya as you recognize government says forces loyal to ward cleaver have to losing ground in areas leading to his stronghold of. government troops carried out at least 10 airstrikes targeting an airport that they're trying to capture in southern tripoli after his fighters launched an offensive to seize a capital over a year ago. and the u.n. says some of its programs in yemen will need to close by the end of the moment unless it gets an immediate injection of cash and that's after donations fell a $1000000000.00 short of the u.n. target at a virtual pledging conference on tuesday those weather headlines calls you follow those stories on our web site al-jazeera dot com i'll be back with more news in the al-jazeera news hour in half an hour but next it's inside story with bernard smith do stay with us.

well the killing of george for change of race relations in the u.s. protests against police brutality continues president donald trump is accused of fanning the flames is there enough momentum to change laws and altitudes in what is already a polarized election year this is inside still. hello welcome to the program and it's the killing of george floyd has reignited pent up anger to war.