ninety's of cultures across the world. somehow magically. al-jazeera bring you the news and current affairs that matter to leave. out is that . we absolutely believe that he was tortured in the last 'd 8 minutes and 46 seconds of it is like anger and outrage from the lead lawyer for george floyd's family as 3 more police officers involved in his death a charged with aiding and abetting murder. and the u.k. adds its voice to a growing global protest as thousands marched through central london in solidarity with america's anti racism demonstrations.

are intended this is 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 . an about turn from sweden's top epidemiologists good myths the country should have done more to curb coronavirus. and minnesota's attorney general has vowed to seek justice for george cloyd after issuing arrest warrants for 3 more police officers over his death the men have been charged with aiding and abetting murder in a case that sparked fury and protests across all of america's 50 states there the white expert eastman who pressed the need to floyd's neck for nearly 9 minutes is also had his charge elevated to 2nd degree murder to the florida to our beloved

community and to everyone that is watching i say george floyd mattered he was loved his family was important his life had value and we will seek justice for him and for you and we will find the very fact that we have filed these charges means that we believe in them. floyd son quincy visited a makeshift memorial to his father it's been set up on the minneapolis street corner where the 46 year old died last week for its brother and younger daughter have also traveled to the city in the aftermath of his death it sparked widespread on rest and protests across the united states which are spread around the world. we cannot help to justice systems in america with the black america and work for white america we must have equal justice for their united states of

america. and change is going to cohen in the tragic killing of george floyd and i put claim with his son as my witness their change starts today correspondent john hendren is in minneapolis what are the protesters you've been gathering that been saying about their reaction to those new charges. well this is the spot where everyone comes to speak right there you can see the spot with the orange netting which boyd asked les after police knelt on the neck and back and that's where people are to pay their respects and to speak and so we've turned to a number of them and there is a sense that some of the weight has lifted their short term goals have been met and that is charges against all 4 officers we've got

a 2nd degree murder charge now elevated from 3rd degree murder for derek chauffeur and the other 3 officers are all charged with aiding and abetting in 2nd degree murder very serious charges for police officers and that's what the crowd family of george floyd have been calling for but their long term goal is systematic change and that is going to take some time to get out of minnesota has begun that process with an investigation into the apple as is that goes back years and look for systematic recurring abuse and that's an across the aisle with all of these protests in so many cities where we've had these young unarmed african americans who've been killed. apologies there we seem to have a bit of a sound problem with john hendren there in minneapolis a former u.s. president barack obama has addressed a virtual town hall after the death of george floyd he says that people of color

have witnessed too much violence i want to speak directly to the young men and women of color in this country. as well just so eloquently described we have witnessed too much more too much. and too often some of the violence has come. from folks who were supposed to be serving and protecting you. i want you to know that you matter i want you to know that your lives matter but your dreams matter she said with protest in washington as she had watched the mirrored the now. it's makes i mean clearly there is some other relief of the other offices of being charged but as this are often the case the the mood at protests like this is entirely dependent on the posture of the security forces that surround peaceful

protests like this on on tuesday we had a largely peaceful day because the security forces were behind a chain link fence on lafayette square ahead of the white house so they were behind and that meant that everyone felt they didn't feel as threatened as we normally do today we're back to the sort of situation we had on monday except further back from the white house we are surrounded by. quite obviously a u.s. national guard and u.s. army in the u.s. army uniforms all of these are national guard we're told and various other paramilitary groups actually we understand from the d.o.j. f.b.i. a bureau of prisons often actually that's running overall increase in the white house on 3 sides and we've been told that the ranks of uniformed people and combat gear on that side have no identifying marks whatsoever which is causing a certain amount of frustration which goes to show again that we talk about the insurrection act but here in d.c. . doesn't need to invoke the insurrection act to get federal control troops into

our streets because we don't have a governor we're not a state the mayor of d.c. says she doesn't want these troops in d.c. all locally if likely affect elected officials we have no control over that which leads to that sense of on the knees on saturday especially since we know what they're capable off with absolutely no notice we saw that on on monday clearly it seemed like the pentagon there was a rebellion underway that they were beginning to move away from the sort of posture with mock esp of the defense secretary and initially saying that of the very least the 1600 active duty soldiers that have been called out these are professional soldiers trying to kill overseas than we were told yesterday stage in staging positions around the capital they can come into the capital with. alys notice they've been issued with combat gear and bayonets notably which he calls a certain amount of conservation earlier in the day marcus to said they were going to be recalled they're going to go back to their bases around the country he's rescinded that now he went to a meeting at the white house we understand and he was persuaded that those active

duty professional soldiers will stay with out a way from us and they can be called in any time to deal with the civilians if the u.s. the u.s. capitol but there were some nice moments i mean it has as always been very peaceful it's always really the manner in which the security forces can become a focal point for the anger because we can see them so clearly and clearly this is about uniforms against civilians in some ways always actually but there was a very nice moment a moment ago i recently heard louis applause ringing around i don't know whether you can see actually they might have dissipated that spread out but suddenly a contingent of about 20 or so doctors in their white coats came with signs saying white coats for black lives so now we have a rather we had a rather nice counterpoint between the doctors in the white coats their white coated uniform and these mass ranks of military paramilitary hoods when i ranged against us several you know a couple of blocks several blocks away from the white house and i was always we've no idea what they've got planned for us a curfew has now been declared for d.c.

that will begin at 11 pm so for 5 hours from now you have a chance and thank you very much. now in central london tens of thousands of people have marched in a show solidarity with the black lives matter protests around i started in hyde park before winding its way to parliament square approaches spilled on to the street bringing traffic to a standstill but it remained mostly peaceful many activists knelt outside westminster chanting no justice no peace no racist police star wars actor john boy it was moved to tears as he spoke to protesters. from the struggle the price already. started every day that your groceries lover and. i thank you so much the well there is never a case anymore when it's right the day we are perfectly aware of the question of us ok i thought. i said big was at the rally in london says protesters are also

drawing attention to racism in the u.k. . several 1000 people have turned up to show their support of 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 here in the united kingdom that people are more likely to be stopped and searched there's been a number of deaths in france custer of the people also the death of mark duggan who was shot and killed by police in 2011 and the 2 riots we spoke to people here and what they are heading out they feel like it's a start your mind has been somebody caught in the south i know. it's not still it's been something not to be. so nice to. see so sunny people being afraid to speak to say should see something. say something leave them behind never think that these many life decided it's like. you should be here because the people let's focus here have been saying that goes back to an exam just

no justice no peace the turned up at downing street which is the residence of the prime minister barak stunts and now he said that he understood the anger and grief but not only the doctor states but cross the world and in the unprecedented move police chiefs said that they are told of the death of george floyd and also the justice of the united states but also a canard is 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 that's what the 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 noise imposed china says foreign influence is a threat to the territories stability and prosperity the sentiments have been echoed by hong kong's chief executive kerry lamb who is in beijing to meet chinese officials. i can only say that the international community and some of the foreign

governments have been adopting data and double standards in dealing with this matter and commenting on this matter it is with the in the legitimate jurisdiction of any country to enacting laws to protect and safeguard national secrets. usa is no exception u.k. is no exception so why should they object to resist for even condemn and take those sanctions against hong kong and the people's republic of china. the people who would have access to what johnson calls a route to citizenship are those with a b. and no passport which stands for british national overseas the piano was 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 work in the u.k.

around 300000 people hold the passport but 92900000 people in hong kong are energy before 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 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 to the 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 still to come on al-jazeera after a quarter century on the run the man is accused of bankrolling the rwandan genocide could now have his day in court. food parcels help chileans stay safe indoors it could last america's outbreak far western thought.

hello the weather striking up nicely now across much of australia largely clear skies. for the most part it's places the flaps down towards south that area of high pressure that's why we have got the clear weather the karma weather winds easing off now down to us across that southeastern corner of australia and it should be largely fine and dry still quite a breeze though just around the east coast temperatures picking up in brisbane after some very chilly mornings for queensland we are going to see those temperatures just not enough to touch as we go through the next few days 23 celsius in the heat of the day for president 24 there for perth were to the mid teens for melbourne for hobart and also for adelaide on the other side of the ditch we have got increasing cloud and right making its way across new zealand and temperatures will struggle here crushed snow woman around 9 celsius by friday snow levels starting to fall as a system moves through meanwhile this lousy fire dry across the korean peninsula

and northern parts of china not too bad into japan the west the weather that's further south we got some very heavy rain it's essential parts of china the seasonal rains here that's going to continue looking across a similar area as we go through friday possibly some localized flooding but you can see for much of japan escaped the cloud and dry stays fine i'm sure i. was bombs continue to rain down on afghanistan civilians are paying the ultimate price they are completely forgotten and no $1.00 is listening to these people while those responsible operate with impunity this is about owning our mistakes this is about saying science and the accountability in a largely unaccountable war has anyone from the u.s. military been in touch with you since the night. before klein's investigates afghanistan civilian loss in the u.s. air war on al jazeera.

the. way. logan are one of the top stories here now is era the charges against the former police officer accused of george floyd's death have been increased to 2nd degree murder 3 other officers have been charged with aiding and abetting murder. tens of thousands of people here in london have marched through the city to show their solidarity for racism protesters in the u.s. . governor and his under joins us live from brooklyn new york where he's at a rally for black lives matter gabriel people been saying as in reaction to the latest charges they've been brought. they're happy they think

that this is another step towards justice now of course there are some that wanted even stronger charges against those other officers but in general this is what most of if not all of the people who have been protesting are wanting a whole ray of things but when it comes down to the death of george sure of course they did want charges against those other officers which now is mccain this is here in brooklyn that we're at now we're expecting another night of protests here in new york the curfew goes into effect in a little under 2 hours from right now and what we saw at least last night was thousands of protesters on the streets as we're seeing now there's multiple protests throughout new york at this very moment as well as this one behind me we saw protesters go all the way up to the curfew many of them last night went home right as a curfew went into effect at 8 pm local time and then there were thousands others

that went out today to defy the curfew and continue protesting but didn't want to cause any problems or did loot and then we saw a very small group within them it would break off into some looting but that was a very minority of what we overall saw it was much better scenes than what we saw on monday or tuesday huge number of protesters out on the streets if if anything these protests are not going down they're going up in numbers and intensity absolutely no sign of be going away any time soon people are mad and even though those charges are brought against those other officers there's still a big by a fight for justice and what they say is inequality grappling americans in the u.s. and police brutality and the seemingly had from former president barack obama the need to not just protest and he said that was obviously important but to translate some of this anger and so on into into action into changing the system. what what

you think people who you think they want now i mean there are other specific demands that people think they can pursue with these protests. well there's a whole host of demands that's as long as the arm can reach almost so different groups have different demands and what they want different but i think that the overall theme that i think we're seeing at least being out on the streets last 4 days or so is overall people want change and people are mad now some people say they want change of different policing some people say they want change or have other things they want more you quality others say they want to see more punishment for police brutality the list goes on but overall people are out because they say the system is broken overall the system is broken in the us whether it be the financial system the policing system the education system and so this is their chance to say we do want some change and we want our voices heard and we want to be

heard this time barack obama the former president is very popular in the u.s. approval ratings are sky high however i will say a lot of the young people we talked to are saying it doesn't matter what proper bamma says we want to remain on the streets he's the former president he's not the current president we're looking towards the future and not the past. they were those on the thank you very much indeed. libya's u.n. recognize government says forces loyal to the wall or $24.00 have to losing ground it says he's being pushed back further towards his stronghold of to huna earlier in the day government troops carried out at least 10 as strikes trying to recapture the disused tripoli airport after his forces retreated his forces in which to an offensive to seize the capital just over a year ago what would have been a had is in tripoli with latest. we're now standing on the bridge linking the city center of the capital tripoli with the old in to international airport now the governor. forces have launched

a new offensive to recapture the old an active international airport and its vicinity now have those forces are positioned beyond that tower as you can see here now that tower is in the middle of the old inactive international airport after those forces withdraw from this area but the government forces say that they have those forces planted land mines which is derailing their progress to recapture the airport and it's the city meanwhile the government forces launching a new offensive also in the vicinity of the city of the huna the last stronghold of have the force now this way this way links the capital city center with the old inactive international airport now the government forces progress is attributed mainly to the advancement of the government air force and have those forces. strikes have been recently decreasing get notably that's because the government

forces have set up jamming systems in the vicinity of the old inactive information the government forces here say. recaptured at the airport and its vicinity then they can easily move on the city after huna the last stronghold of her forces in the west of libya. a rwandan genocide suspect is set to be transferred to a u.n. tribunal after a french court approved a request for a blogger as accused of bankrolling the 9094 massacre of at least 800000 people is defense team had argued he was too elderly and frail to be transferred to talk about lawyers in paris and says this ruling is not the end of the matter in french courts. 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 is 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. sweden has one of the world's highest death rates from corona virus and the scientist behind the country's controversial strategy now admits or thirty's 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 more than 50 people have been banned but the nation of more than 10000000 people has recorded 4542 deaths linked to covert 19 far more than its nordic neighbors and the 8 highest death rate per capita in the world now sweden's chief epidemiologist and us 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 paul reese is in the swedish city of malmo explains why

there's been surprise over the government's admission. understand l'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 10 yo and his team of 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 lock down 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 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 here than in sweden's neighbors of no i denmark and fenland what tunnels also 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 lockdown. coronavirus cases continue to rise in latin america brazil peru and chile have been the worst hit but it's fair the number of deaths could be higher than fought latin america to see in human reports from santiago. in chile's capital soldiers in armored cars card to trucks

while boxes of food and cleaning products and 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 would vox 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 for not going out to work especially in the local neighborhoods like this one where the infection rate is highest. up 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. never known a man had a marriage i've lost 2 brothers and a monk but i'm glad they're not suffering any more because of the pain may head. now a new report that compares to to 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. for america 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 coronavirus. 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 spirits of health workers and neighbors alike. while 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 sente out will. come out of the top stories around as there are the charges against the former police officer accused of george floyd's death have been increased there at show and is now charged with 2nd set of 3rd degree murder 3 other officers charged with aiding and abetting murder and will be arrested george floyd died after show in knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes to the floor. to our beloved community and to everyone that is watching i say george floyd mattered he was loved his

family was important his life had value and we will see justice for him and for you and we will find the very fact that we have filed these charges means that we believe in them. earlier ford son quincy visited a makeshift memorial to his father it's been set up on the minneapolis street corner where the 46 year old died last week ford's brother and younger daughter have also traveled to the city in the aftermath of his death it sparked widespread on rest and protests across the united states which have spread around the world. including to london with that tens of thousands of people have marched against racism it's in solidarity with those demonstrations in the u.s. the event was mostly peaceful but the worst small scuffles outside the prime minister's downing street home and a police officer was reportedly punched asked what his message to president trump

was spurs johnson the prime minister said that racism has no place in our society. china has warned britain any attempt to interfere in hong kong will backfire it comes after the u.k.'s prime minister said he would offer millions of people from the city visas and possibly citizenship if china persists in enforcing a new security law the move has been criticized as an attempt to end the semi-autonomous status hong kong has enjoyed since britain handed it back to china in 1997. and forces loyal to the libyan warlord honey for have to are losing more ground the un recognized government says its push to have to us forces back to water is stronghold of tahu no government troops earlier carried out at least 10 airstrikes targeting an airport they're trying to capture in southern tripoli. do stay with us on al-jazeera faultlines is next thanks for watching. what a prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own parliament that call means

a lot of the country's fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we're living again bretts it was a slogan that whatever the problem is the boys jobs and counting the cost on al-jazeera. on a saturday morning in kabul families gather to remember their loved ones killed during more than 40 years of conflict in afghanistan. you know it's true. this is the memory box example. families put together boxes like this to make sure their loved ones are numbered and put a face to the wars violent cost. of sports is senseless comes that should. then be crossed.