huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. 'd we absolutely believe. that he was tortured in the last 8 minutes and 46 seconds of his life anger and outrage from the lead lawyer of george floyd as 3 more police officers involved in his death a set to be charged with aiding and abetting murder. and the u.k. adds its force to a growing global protest as thousands marched through central london in solidarity with america's anti racism demonstrations.

on our toes as al-jazeera live from london also coming up china warns the u.k. to back off as britain talks of offering citizenship to millions of hong kong residents. and about turn from sweden's top epidemiologists good myths the country should have done more to curb coronavirus. and taking it to the streets we look at one man's mission to increase testing in the u.s. communities hit hardest by the pandemic. and we begin in the u.s. state of minnesota where the attorney general is due to charge 3 other police officers involved in the death of george floyd according to the minneapolis star tribune they'll be charged with aiding and abetting murder the white explain their

children who pressed a need to floyd's neck for more than 8 minutes will also have his charge elevated to 2nd degree murder ford son quincy has visited a makeshift shrine at the minneapolis street corner where the 46 year old died last week the death has sparked widespread on rest and protests across the united states and the world the problem is lawyer says he expects the remaining arrests to be made before memorial service on thursday. so we cannot help to just dismiss them in america that black america a word for word america. we must equal justice for their humanity said the mirror. and change is going to cool in the. george floors and i at the corner will. then change stores to.

a prison still taking place over george lord's death across the united states a white house correspondent committee how could a joins us live now committee so we expecting some of these challenges to come through in the meantime though what what options does the president have now when it comes to these protesters still going on well the white house press secretary caylee back in may be speaking in just the last few months wrapping up her briefing saying that the u.s. president still has the insurrection tool in his toolbox if you will that he has the sole authority to send in the military to quiet the protesters and quell the violence and that has he promised in the rose garden he will use it now the u.s. president for his part was asked about some of this is he spoke on a conservative radio program this morning talking about the problem of the mistrust by the african camero american community when it comes to policing he said it was

a long term problem in other words he didn't have a sort term solution other than the military he also pushed back on the notion that his poll numbers are very low when it comes to african-americans saying in fact just the opposite but the polls certainly don't reflect that and the u.s. president also said that when it comes to him hiding out in a bunker as he did on friday evening when the protests 1st started he said that he was there but only for a very brief period of time and only to inspect it and get ready to defend so trey has been speaking as well what's he been saying. yes he has been speaking about the use of this tool of the insurrection act it's not one that has been used very often in fact it goes back to 1807 and it really is considered the last resort in other words the president does not have the authority to inflict the military on states the states actually are controlled by governors not the president and they the

president cannot use the military to enforce domestic policing in other words they have no arrest authority only for support the insurrection act is the exception but the defense secretary says that now is not the time to use it i've always believed and 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 a searcher 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 well there are reports that federal forces including active duty military are

returning to their bases but will remain on high alert there are federal forces still in the city of washington d.c. which we should note does not have a governor and it is controlled by the federal government ultimately although there is an independent mayor we should also mention that the perimeter around the white house has been pushed back and so while there are peaceful protests taking place they are now far from the white house committee how could thank you very much indeed. and i bring in john hendren who's in minneapolis for us and john expecting new challenges in this case said tell us what we know so far. but what we know is that the attorney general is scheduled a news conference but the senator for minnesota u.s. senator amy klobuchar shark has not waited for that she has spoken to the office of keith ellison the attorney general and she says the charge against eric shavon now 3rd degree murder will be elevated to 2nd degree murder and that is the difference

between that is 3rd degree murder means. extreme indifference to human life 2nd degree murder means an intentional killing but not premeditated and the penalty for that is up to 40 years in prison here in the state of minnesota but also there's something that this entire crowd has been calling for they've been calling for all 4 of the officers arrested to be charged as well and senator globe a charge says the other 3 officers will be charged and according to research by the minneapolis star tribune newspaper here they will be charged with aiding and abetting 2nd degree murder so those are very serious charges the crowd has been calling for flat out murder charges against all 4 of those officers but it really suggests that the prosecutors have gone a long way to trying to satisfy the concern in the streets that their investigation has been able to find reason to merit those charges and one reason for that is

there was a private autopsy by the family so the official hennepin county coroner's ontology says that the officers contributed to the death of george floyd but it said he also had some underlying health conditions. and the family's autopsy went further than that it said that the cause of death was its fixation the direct cause of that it's fiction nation was 3 officers kneeling on the back of george floyd not just the one with his knee on george floyd's neck but also the other 2 had their knees on his back in the. the coroner's report said that compressed his lungs and made it unable for him to breathe so that all happened of course right here if you can see over there they've now had to rope off the site where george floyd spent his last moments because so many people have come to pay their respects and of course the number $1.00 thing they have been asking for is charges against all 4 officers and it appears that within hours we will have the official announcement but that is happening john hendren thank you very much indeed course bring you that

announcement when it happens. and meantime in central london tens of thousands of people have marched into show solidarity with the black lymes protests at the rally started in hyde park before one day its way to parliament square the protest spilled onto the street bringing traffic to a standstill but remained mostly peaceful many activists knelt outside westminster chanting no justice no peace no racist police star wars that to john boy it was moved to tears as he spoke to protest his. buddies throughout the no breakaway i had somebody in every day that don't wait for suffering. i'm not using the evil there is never a case of evil when it's right the day we are physical representation of our good fortune. i said big was at the rally in london says protesters also drawing attention to racism in the u.k. several 1000 people have turned up to shoulder support and solidarity for what's

taking place in the united states but for people here it's not just about was talking in the united states about it's about the racial inequalities in the knocked it can go that people are more likely to be stopped and searched there's been a number of deaths and police custody of the people also the death of mark duggan who was shot and killed by police in 2011 back to riots protesters here have been saying that goes back to the same just no justice no peace the turned up at downing street which is the residence of the prime minister barak. but he understood the anger and grief but not only crossed the world and in the unprecedented police chiefs here said that they are told of the death of george floyd and also a justice of the united states also acknowledged that more needs to be done in this country to tackle racism. china is warning the u.k. that interfering in hong kong's affairs could backfire softer british prime

minister said the u.k. was ready to offer millions of people in hong kong a route to citizenship if a controversial national security doors imposed china says foreign influence is a threat to the territories stability and prosperity where sentiments were echoed by hong kong's chief executive carol lam was in beijing to meet chinese officials i can only say that the international community and some of the foreign governments have been adopting blatant double standards in dealing with this matter and commenting on this matter that is with the in the legitimate jurisdiction of any country to enacting laws to protect and safeguard national security. usa is no exception u.k. is no exception so why should they object to resist for even condemn and take sanctions against hong kong and the people's republic of china. well the people who would have access to what johnson calls a route to citizenship are those with a b.n.

opar sport which stands for british national overseas the b.n. is issued to people in hong kong when it was still a british colony before it was handed back to china in 1907 it's a travel document but it doesn't automatically give holders british citizenship or allow them to live permanently or work in the u.k. around $300000.00 people hold the passport but nearly $2900000.00 people in hong kong are eligible for it that's about 40 percent of the population paul brennan is in london with more. 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 be a no passport holders that's 30350000 of them can come here for 6 months without needing a visa the offer now is 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 tempers necessarily but hackles are right are rising on both sides still to come around. food parcels help chileans stay safe indoors it could

be america's outbreak be far worse than thought. and here after sudan's violent crackdown justice continues. on the weather going a little more unsettling cross western parts of europe last tumbling in the cross the british isles. down across parts of france germany through the low countries that are going to sink is why further south was still very unsettled which was east of this area of low pressure still lurking away and that will bring some heavy showers along the spells of right into western russia pulling up towards the baltic states meanwhile that next system all that's going to slide its way across the north sea into were norway into denmark into germany some very heavy rainfall in the focus for thursday across a good possible of the alps further avalanches sunny

a possibility heavy showers continuing to across northern parts of spain here it will dry up as we go through friday but still want to showers around i was continuing into western parts is still on the cool side but those blustery showers pegan temperatures back to around 15 celsius in london and it'll feel a lot fresher than it has done recently that was a weather down towards safely pushing down across the balkans as we go on through friday across the made its lousy 5 and dry and that's fine and dry across a good part of northern africa have a central areas we are seeing some heavy showers bring up quite nicely the seasonal rains doing very well into the gulf of guinea across much of west africa with more shabbas there to the east. but. who knows where in the world is the primary for a specific period faster than it is instead of. only finding our way of life we have been called greenies and it's terrorists and traitors but i was surprised that

it's not like the designer who has fallen into the fast flowing river in tennessee . one man's fight for the rights of indigenous harry teach a time to swing a witness documentary on al-jazeera. move forward. world. and one of top stories here now jazeera the former police officer charged with george lloyd's murder is set to have the charge increased from 3rd to 2nd degree with 3 more offices due to be arrested. tens of thousands of people here in london have marched through the city to show their solidarity to racism protestors in the

u.s. . and china has told britain to stop interfering in its internal affairs after suggesting millions of hong kong residents could be offered u.k. citizenship. 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 maharashtra and states have already left their homes in mumbai dozens of patients recovering from the coronavirus had to be moved is the 1st time in more than 70 years a side turn has hit the area. libya's u.n. recognize government says forces loyal to the warlord highly for have to are losing more ground it says he's being pushed back further towards the stronghold of tarhouni or government troops carried out at least 10 airstrikes and temporarily recaptured tripoli international airport after his fighters launched an offensive to seize the capital just over

a year ago. sweden has one of the world's highest death rates from corona virus and the scientist behind the country's controversial strategy now admits authorities should have done more sweden's government has been criticized for not imposing a lockdown social distancing is encouraged but schools bars and restaurants are open only gatherings of women 50 people have been banned but the nation of more than 10000000 people has recorded 4542 deaths linked to cope with 19 far more than its nordic neighbors and the 8th highest death rate per capita in the world now sweden's chief if you do me on a list and 10 year says the strategy wasn't enough to protect elderly people and stop the spread of infection he says if authorities had known what they know about the disease today the country would have aligned itself more with the rest of the world for races in the swedish city of malmo explains why there's been surprise over the government's admission. on this tunnel's apparent criticism of the swedish

coronavirus strategy came as quite a surprise not least because the criticism was against himself as the state epidemiology 10 yelled at the swedish government the 1st 2 in its handling of the pandemic and its tenure at the public health agency who've made the recommendations rather than restrictions that have enabled sweden to avoid a lockdown now what's said on tuesday to swedish radio was that with the benefit of hindsight he might have done things differently at the start of the crisis and maybe taken a route that was somewhere between a lockdown and the more relaxed swedish strategy on wednesday quickly moved to say no that's not the case i still believe in the approach one of the things he mentioned and that sweden has recognised is that they've failed to protect people in old people's homes of the some 4500 people who have died in

sweden around $4000.00 have been over 70 and around half lived in old people's accommodation now that's one of the things that's made the death toll so much higher than in sweden's neighbors of no i denmark and fenland what tunnels also have been at pains to point out on wednesday is that we'll all have to use the benefits of hindsight in the months to come to see whether they locked down strategy or a more relaxed swedish strategy was more effective when we see what happens in the countries coming out of the lock down. coronavirus cases continue to rise in latin america brazil peru and chile have been the worst hit but as for the number of deaths could be higher than thought officials across the region are now taking a 2nd look at the statistics or latin america to understand human reports from santiago. in chile as capital soldiers in armored cars card to trucks while boxes of food and cleaning products are delivered directly to people's homes

to ensure they can remain indoors but until you have. to have us at home lost our jobs 2 months ago so this is a big help it's the 1st we've received from the government since the pandemic started after $76.00 days of partial or total lockdown hospitals are close to collapsing did 19 infections and deaths keep rising in part because it's been impossible to enforce confinement this fall vox's are certainly welcome but they're not enough to pay for the rent or even cooking gas and other government emergency aid has been slow in coming and so no amount of pleading or even threats of fines has been enough to keep many people at home and from not going out to work especially in local neighborhoods like this one where the infection rate is highest . in neighboring peru nearly 3 months of lockdown hasn't prevented an explosion of infections the country already has the highest death toll in south

america after brazil and i have our own head on air and i've lost 2 brothers and a month but i'm glad they're not suffering any more because of the pain may head. now a new report that compares to 2 stickle data over the last 3 years suggests that the number of cold related deaths in april in may could in fact be more than 17003 and a half times higher than the health ministry figures i asked the man who published the study how this was possible. you know if it many many people who died at home or on the way to the hospital or even at the door of the hospitals which have collapsed were not counted others had respond retore failure is the cause of death even though this was caused by corona virus. regardless of how the death toll is tallied that no american is now the epicenter of the pandemic and yet it's not all gloom. in havana

a young opera singer lives the spirit of health workers and neighbors alike. well thousands of kilometers away chileans applaud the arrival of a box that will also make all this a little bit easier to bear. to see in human al-jazeera santiago. the coronaviruses disproportionately killing african-americans in the u.s. at a time when racial tensions are running high testing is scarce and poor largely minority neighborhoods across the country but one doctor in new jersey is addressing the issue with a mobile solution cameras on they went to meet him. trying to stop the spread of corona virus not from a hospital but from the back of a van it's dr alexander salerno who is offering mobile testing for covert 1000 infections as well as antibodies they can medically salerno when a family health clinic for 30 years was dismayed by the inaction of authorities and

the near non-existent testing in poor communities hit hardest by the by. he took matters into his own hands and spent more than $40000.00 to set up a pop up clinic his team tests more than $100.00 people a day in economically depressed neighborhoods of new jersey what initially gave me the idea it was really ice cream trucks and food bending trucks because you know in urban areas. trucks are very much part of summer time and so we came up with the idea of let's do a mobile cobra testing ban. is not everyone could get to a doctor's office and they really shouldn't be going to emergency rooms and hospitals for testing because that really created a major backlog so it's kind of like bring the testing to the people this is a high rise apartment of senior housing everybody that lives here is elderly and

particularly vulnerable to cope at 19 many don't have the ability to go very far to get tested and now they don't have to they just walk out their front door to doctor salerno. get their tests done and the results come back within 48 hours and he turns nobody away even if they can't afford to pay burnous holmes was trying to get tested way back in march but the site was an hour away in a wealthy community and he could never get an appointment. they 1st site was in bergen county and we can and we couldn't go over there to get tested. a good way to make a movie get closer to the moon is storage proving all it takes to get tests for people who need of the most is a place to park gabriel's arbil. east orange new jersey. a randon genocide suspect is said to be transferred to a u.n. tribunal after a french court approved

a request that he is accused of bankrolling the 994 massacre of at least 800000 people is defense team had argued he was too elderly and frail to be transferred but the court ruled the 84 year old age and health conditions were not obstacles he was arrested in a paris suburb last month after a quarter of a century on the run it is in paris that says this ruling is not the end of the matter in the french courts. a man accused of financing their aunt and 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 defense lawyer 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 so for 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. authorities in sudan have put up barricades outside the military headquarters in khartoum crowds are gathering to mark a year since the violent crackdown by security forces which killed more than $100.00 people the protests or president bashir removed from power but many victims

say those who replaced him have yet to deliver justice under there as had been morgan has more than car too. it's been a year since his son arbaaz was killed yet father and his family can't bring themselves to open his closet to clean out his belongings he was killed in a deadly raid by sudanese military on the pro-democracy 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 and. 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 we 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. this video was taken moments after 27 year old our bass was shot. the june 3rd attack brought an end to the 10 best started in early april it was

what prompted the military to overthrow the country's longtime president. 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 of slots 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 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 just 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 our basses his sister says the government needs to remember the price paid by many to bring it to power. and the government came to power through blood people sacrificed 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've lost their loved ones he will morgan al-jazeera hearts on. the top stories on the news here the charges against a former police officer accused of george floyd's death have been increased their show is now charged with 2nd instead of 3rd degree murder or 3 other officers will be charged with aiding and abetting murder george floyd died. after the officer knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes his son quincy has visited a memorial at the site in minneapolis where he died last tuesday the family's

lawyer says he expects the remaining arrests to be made before memorial service on thursday. so we cannot help to justice systems in america one of the black america l. word for word america we must equal justice for the united states of america. and she. is going to call in their tragic killing of george floor and outlook or. with her serve no witness there change starts to date tens of thousands of people have marched through london to protest against racism it's in solidarity with demonstrators in the u.s. the event was mostly peaceful but there were small scuffles outside the prime minister's downing street home and

a police officer was reportedly punished asked what his message was to president trump johnson said that racism has no place in our society. china's war in britain any attempt to interfere in hong kong will backfire it comes after the u.k.'s prime minister said he would often millions of people from the city visas and possibly citizenship if china persists with enforcing a new security law the move has been criticized as an attempt to end the semi autonomous status on call was enjoyed since britain handed it back to china in 1907 forces loyal to the libyan warlord highly for have to are losing more ground at the un recognized government says it has pushed have to us forces back towards a stronghold of tough huna government troops earlier carried out at least 10 airstrikes. those are the top stories stu stay with us and i was there the stream is up next.

hi anthony ok welcome to the stream today we look at lebanon with a very straightforward question can lebanon recover from its recent economic recession not a straightforward answer that because things to contend with a coronavirus lock down fuel inflation people going hungry people have a new limited amount of money to spend on basic groceries and then on top of that i'm tea government protests if you are already joining us on you cheap you have something to add to this you have a question for our guests jumping to the.