algy 0. 0. 0 m. the air. new charges are brought against all the police officers involved in georgia for its death with more protests calling for justice across the united states former defense secretary james mattis accuses donald trump of trying to divide america and denounces what he calls the militarized response to the protests. lou i'm fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera life my world headquarters in doha and also coming up police in hong kong and to the legislative council as protests

disrupt a debate on beijing's national anthem bell and at least 39 students and teachers are injured in a knife attack at a primary school in southern china. thank you very much for joining us all 4 police officers involved in the arrests of george floyd in the u.s. have now been charged in connection with this death the charges against the office a c. kneeling on floyd's neck have been elevated to 2nd degree murder while the 3 others are accused of aiding and abetting his actions floyd sammy says it's a significant step and as john hendren reports from minneapolis protesters on the streets say it proves the movement can deliver justice. for the crowds filling the streets here and across the u.s. a sign their demands are being heard i filed an amended complaint that charges the

charges former minneapolis police officer derrick shaaban with murder in the 2nd degree for the death of george floyd for officer derek chauvin who was seen with his knee on george floyd's neck the charge was increased from 3rd degree murder to 2nd degree alleging floyd's death was intentional it's the same day i'm going to make a different they are listening to the people we ask it for me in a global we have to fork over it those are the opposite and they were minnesota's attorney general announced charges for the involvement of the other 3 officers in floyd's fatal arrest of filed a complaint that charges police officer king lane in town with aiding and abetting murder in the 2nd degree for floyd's family it was the justice they've been demanding. i'm happy to all of the been arrested. my boss had nothing to light which is a just let mention. live issue. but for many now it is just

a beginning. george floyd family and the protesters have achieved their short term objectives but their long term goals are systematic change they're here today for george floyd so they don't have to be here tomorrow for someone else as one city after another across the u.s. rebuilds from fire and rebellion in the streets of floyd family lawyer says changing a system that allows the killing of one unarmed african-american after another will take time the protesters did not start these files to bernie it was police brutality and a racist criminal justice system that started the fire burning in america and the only way to extinguish the fire if the happy. i miss accountability equal justice but i don't minnesota's governor has begun by charging really are police police with human rights violations triggering an investigation into races practices that

goes back 10 years the messages now and here in minnesota for the last 5 days come back to the issue at hand which is the systemic issues and the stomach racism and the lack of accountability up and down our society that led to a daytime murder of a black man on the street minneapolis at the george floyd memorial site many say the charges against 4 police officers won't bring protests to an end they just show why the demonstrations need to continue john hendren al jazeera minneapolis. former u.s. defense secretary jay mattis has denounced tom's handling of the protests accusing the president of trying to divide the country the commons followed a rebuke from the current defense chief who said he was opposed to tom's idea of sending in the military my count every for some washington. the protesters are once again out in the nation's capital gathering in the passivity of the white

house and knock familia scenes but in the course of days of demonstration they have been unprecedented sights military police deployed alongside law enforcement units at the president's instruction military and national guard helicopters flying low over crowds using the down drop from rotors to cause people to scatter a tactic often used in iraq or other zones of foreign u.s. military deployment the president has contemplated invoking the insurrection act as seldom used nor introduced in the early 1900 sentry that subject to certain conditions could allow the domestic deployment of the military in the event of civil unrest or insurrection this strongly opposed by the secretary of defense 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

president spokes person brushed aside the secretary's comments president has the sole authority to invoke answer action act it is definitely a tool within his power this president has one singular and it is protecting america's streets we cannot have burning churches we cannot have police officers who are shot we cannot have businesses that are looted and destroyed the insurrection act is a tool available the president has the sole authority i mean if needed he will use it earlier sources at the pentagon announced that armed military units that had been deployed near the city were being sent back to their home bases but this decision was reverse stopped of the secretary of defense held a meeting at the white house and on soldiers remain poised for immediate deployment of the president so decide then in an extraordinary statement to former defense secretary denounced the president for dividing the nation esteemed general james mattis resigned in december 28th after

a serious policy disagreements with president trump he refused to comment then saying he would when the time was right now he's condemned the president for as he puts it ordering troops to violate the constitutional rights of their fellow citizens and he continues donald trump is the 1st president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the american people does not even pretend to try instead he tries to divide us we are witnessing the consequences of 3 years of the deliberate effort we are witnessing the consequences of 3 years without mature leadership heavily on national guard troops deployed on the steps of the lincoln memorial a graphic image up a society divided pitting troops against a city and its residents they are meant to serve. i can i'll just say or washington . and i'll just hear she have a tansey has more on the protests from washington d.c. where there was

a heavy military presence. wednesday was by far the largest protest we've seen yet in d.c. thousands upon thousands protesting not just here outside the white house but around the city but it was also by far the largest show of military force that we've seen so far the protests federally controlled national guards rather mysterious federally controlled paramilitary groups who are uniform but have no identifying markings but we understand from various federal agencies plus always an ever present threat of some 1600 active military units who are stationed just outside d.c. who are ready to be here within the hour without to have their riot gear we're told they have the bandits there on the outskirts they can be here within within the hour so it's rather chilling to know all that however everything is going very peacefully the military units here certainly the national guard units have not lashed out as we've seen often said on monday when they were just surrounded we lash out at protesters for apparently no reason that promises they just kept the line they haven't really done anything which is of great relief to everyone but

i've talked to some of the protesters who are here today. keith what's your feeling there protesting when you're face to face with such immense force potentially. as much as we're presented with a force they are you know our presence is a lot more forceful than they are because you know they're the ones with the weapons what does the weapons mean if we're not doing anything harmful they can't hurt us where are amendment is to peacefully protest the more we peacefully protest they cannot kick us off here they cannot send us anywhere they cannot do anything to us as long as we have peacefully protest in the history of the peaceful protest is often met with violence from security forces in the united states. you're right it does end up in violence from security forces but that's just proving a point that's probably why we need to be out here more that's why we need to band together even more the. what we want to get to the more that we are to get it the harder it is for them to come against us and he's given any sound or

a 14 from me does head to times square in new york city. this is the heart of times square in new york city it's a little after 11 pm here local time this would normally be packed with tourists but as you can see this is an iconic scene of an absolutely empty times square a scene that you'll probably never see again at least in my lifetime just absolutely incredible that's because there is a curfew in new york it is very quiet on the streets it's a sign that the curfew that went into effect earlier this wednesday evening here has had an effect and police officers have been forcing it but there were protests in new york city and in brooklyn as well thousands of people earlier took to the streets all over the city on what has been more than several days of continued protests calling for the the justice for george floyd calling for an interpol east

brutality and black lives matter movement that has been sweeping over the united states it was completely peaceful protest again for the most part in new york there were no sort of problems whatsoever we did not see any of these small groups of looters that had been breaking off and causing destruction and looting none of that was happening very peaceful so again here you are in times square just surreal scenes here quite frankly but don't let this fool you protesters tell me they will be back out on the streets again on thursday they say they will continue to protest over and over again in the coming days they say and till justice is ultimately serve so this is not by any means probably and in to this move. or the protests and all it just means again for the most part very very quiet in new york city.

now on to other world news and several pro-democracy politicians have been kicked out of hong kong's legislature as it votes on a bill that would make insulting the chinese national anthem a criminal offense a debate on possible amendments to the bill was halted after the opposition stage a protest inside the chamber under the proposed law those considered to have misused or marks the anthem could be sentenced to up to 3 years in prison the move coincides with the 31st anniversary of the tan and many square crackdown let's bring in sara clark in hong kong for a solid start with what's been going on inside the legislative council building the debate on the national anthem there which i understand has been adjourned quite chaotic scenes there inside the legislative council. some very chaotic scenes in the lives of council building we had to pro-democracy lawmakers they were addicted as a result of that through some sort of liquid on the chamber floor and clearly this was a bid to try and disrupt and ally the vote on this controversial national anthem lore

now since then emergency workers and police have been in there trying to clean the china but also trying to identify what that particular fluid was that was stranded by those lawmakers and now as you mentioned these new laws that criminalize the mocking or ridiculing of china's national anthem and if found guilty you could face up to $6000.00 fine and 3 years in jail now a bit of background on this particular bill it was introduced last year in january but was quickly withdrawn when it was considered to be fueling further anti-government demonstrations in 2019 but kerry has said that she's prioritize this particular bill and wants passed and as a result last week she reintroduced the bill and wants the votes done by the end of this week but at the moment as you said the debate has been adjourned as a result but the critics say and these pro-democracy lawmakers who are trying to disrupt a vote on this bill they say this particular bill is forced patriot. and brooches at hong kong's one country 2 systems policy and certainly it undermines hong kong's

democracy and basically the debate has been adjourned but we do expect a vote to happen by the end of this weight once that debate does resume in the lips of council the controversial debate coming on a very important day the anniversary of the 10 men square massacre but the vigil has been banned this year. and this is the 1st time in 31 years that this vigil has been banned you might recall vision or shots of the last few years or certainly the last 30 years where this particular vigil can attract hundreds of thousands of people who attend victoria park to remember those people who lost their lives in general square in 1989 a police are now vowing to enforce a ban the bans been put in place simply because of the covert 19 at social distancing rules and any gatherings of people in public it's considered illegal now the whole of this area around victoria park has been sealed off we have police there now trying to stop anyone from trying to enter this particular area but organizers are trying to hold an on line assembly or certainly

a one minute silence and there are also a number of boots have been set up across the city where people can go and mark other respects for those people who lost their lives there i should state that hong kong is one of a few cities in china on chinese soil that is allowed to commemorate this particular vigil and the chairman square massacre in china any talk of it is suppressed but the future of this vigil could be under threat some of the organizers say that the introduction of the china's national security laws in hong kong will target acts of terrorism acts of subversion and political dissidents and certainly people who attend these particular rallies often chant and sentiment as a result and therefore they fear that future events like this might be banned down the track sara thank you very much for that live for us there in hong kong. i still ahead on al-jazeera economize death toll in both brazil and mexico so we're trying new daily high plus an economic blockade spurred qatar to return to rely less on

imports and parties produce its own food products. are saying the weather going a little more unsettled cross western parts of europe last a cloud tumbling in the cross the british isles down across a good part of france germany through the low countries and that's all going to sink his way further south was still very unsettled which was east of this area of low pressure still lurking away a little bring some heavy showers longer 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 forecast for thursday across a good parts of the alps further avalanches sunny a possibility here 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 was

continuing into western parts is still on the cool side but those blustery showers picking 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 italy pushing down across the balkans as we go on through friday cross the made it a fine and dry and it's fine and dry across a good part of northern africa of 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 shadows there to the east. frank assessments tourism but the income stream is dead in the water what's been the result seen perching signal. to get informed opinions there has been a very aggressive political rhetoric that has become very normal in israeli society in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines it's trying to do policy gives

a country cleric not only to be seen to grady but he brittany fish the really deep hole with all continues inside story on al jazeera. to me to. the i. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories the police officer who knelt on the neck of george 4 in minneapolis is facing a more serious charge of 2nd degree murder 3 other officers on the scene have now been charged with aiding and abetting matter the former u.s. defense secretary james mattis has criticized president tom's handling of the crisis he accused trump of dividing the american people saying the consequences are

the result of 3 years without mature leadership and several pro-democracy politicians have been removed from hong kong's legislature as it force on a bill that would make insulting the chinese national anthem and criminal offense the move coincides with the 31st anniversary of the tenements where back down. now the news that least 39 students and teachers have been injured in a knife attack on a primary school in southern china let's get the latest from katrina you in beijing for as katrina what more do we know about this incident. we know that the incident took place in china's southern province which is one of the poorest regions in the country at about 9 30 am local time on thursday a security guard who worked at the school a 50 year old man named michelle min attacked students and teachers with a knife. local authorities say $39.00 as you mentioned students and teachers have been injured including 2 seriously injured who appear to be the headmaster and

another security guard we know that the assailants in the 50 year old man has now been arrested by authorities and he's been questioned and investigated but we still don't know about the more some vacation behind this attack now unfortunately here in china this horrific kind of attack is there happens several times each year 1st notably it happened in 2010 in the southern province of fujian province and during that attack 8 children actually died and since then it's happened in a number of times p. year last year alone a similar attack happened 4 times including once in beijing in the capital now in 2013 the frequency of these attacks spurred the government to implement a policy to beef up security at each school each primary school but unfortunately this particular incident assailant himself was a security guard now the government has said that more so the time when it comes to

these incidents they cite mental illness as being reason we've yet of course to hear a particular motivation behind this attack but many analysts say it's also to do with the chinese system there is no transparency in the judicial system no opportunity for protest and there's a huge divide in terms of wealth and social economic status between urban areas and rural areas and some people who have grievances who are particularly furious and see that they have no other way to express themselves sometimes use these kind of attacks to take revenge out on society katrina thank you very much for that katrina you live for us in beijing. mexico has recorded its highest number of corona virus deaths in a single day it reported 10923 on wednesday more than double the previous days figure the country also saw a record seiji new infections john heilemann is in mexico city and he explains why the figures are so high mexico has just broken the 100000 case mark and

also the daily death toll for corona virus now the government explained that the death toll was actually for one day it was cold lated over a larger period of time as results came in but one thing is for certain and that's that the number of corona virus infections and the number of people dying from this is increasing in the country rather than going down and that's a bit of a problem for the government because they were thinking that the peak to this would be about 3 weeks ago and that hasn't happened is also a problem because the country has been gradually reopening from the 1st of june now at the moment it's meant to be only essential activities and essential industries and people are really meant to be going out in public now in the more affluent parts of mexico city where we are now you can see that that's been largely a bait in the working class parts of the city it really hasn't been we've been in places where there's been a lot of people out in the streets

a lot of them need to go out to earn their living that's what they've been telling us but that could cause a problem in terms of the hospitals we're in an intensive care unit just yesterday and there they were telling us that they're worried about this for opening because they think that the hospitals could get more and more such rated until they can't cope especially if the curve hasn't yet been flat and the last thing to say about this is that the country's president and his mother were lopez obrador is himself actually on tour so he is definitely not staying home and there's been questions over what sort of message that sends 2 of the mexicans. well brazil has also reported its highest daily number of corona virus deaths as a pandemic continues to take a toll on latin america's worst affected country the number of cases in the region has been growing steadily but some governments have already started lifting restrictions. for some of brazil's famous beaches have reopened although not everyone is heading there more drive through test sites for corona

virus have popped up across the state of religion nato just as many hesitantly make their way back to work. no more mail to i don't think it's time that businesses and other things i think we should wait a little more. but we're brazil's economy tanking some think the opposite is true industrial production in the country fell by almost 19 percent in april the biggest drop on record so president. hu's powerless to lift lockdowns once again criticize the restrictions still in place. what's happening with these measures the poor becoming miserable the middle class are becoming poor everyone in brazil is becoming the same and it seems they have no idea when this will end supreme court left decisions in the hands of musing governess yet the already record high 19 deaths are still on the rise and the numbers of infections is expected to double

by the end of the month yes. it's terrible we haven't even reached the peak of the pandemic and everything is open it's all about money. elsewhere in the region the tories are stepping up testing as their economies restart in the peruvian capital lima health care workers are knocking on doors to test informal workers don't want to hear this we understand that many people live day to day that they need to go out for their survival for this sustenance. but controlling the spread of the virus is proving hard across latin america chile is extending its strict lockdown for a least another 7 days the daily rate of deaths there has doubled in a week. but as the region grapples with a deepening crisis many are trying to help the worst saw some of trendiest restaurants of reopen their kitchens to prepare meals for the poor who must make do without their usual informal jobs offering

a lifeline and some relief to those who needed the most allison the. police in senegal have arrested more than 70 people after protests against coronavirus restrictions turned violent angry demonstrators torched police vehicles and a health center near the capital the car there calling for an end to the state of emergency and nighttime curfew and the gaza interior minister is expected to announce the easing of lockdown restrictions later on thursday the world health organization says 2 more a bowler cases have been reported in the democratic republic of congo earlier congolese health officials recorded a 2nd outbreak of the virus after 6 cases were confirmed in ecuador or province a country had been preparing to declare itself ebola free after battling an outbreak in the east that's killed at least 2004 since 2080. friday marks 3 years since 4 nations imposed a blockade on qatar prior to the diplomatic standoff 40 percent of the gulf nations

imports came from its neighbors since then the government has invested in food production and technology dosage of barry has more from doe this is one of the 3 food storage facilities in qatar. is a half a 1000000 meter space here the government stores rice oil condensed milk and feed for livestock. qatar does not have the ability to produce these products for a number of reasons including its temperatures which can reach 50 degrees celsius in the summer months but there are many food items it can now grow itself to meet demand. this is one of the areas where he has achieved that a farm in the north of doha supplying vegetables all year round these greenhouses are set up to cool down the temperature and humidity to produce tomatoes mushrooms to cumbers and plants among others. prior to the 2017 blockade

imposed by 4 arab countries that closed the land border with saudi arabia qatar was importing nearly 90 percent of its food supply now that figure is substantially less 2 years back the local production did not exceed for the fruit and vegetable did not exceed 10 percent today we are almost 30 percent so i think it's just a matter of time since the technology is available and the know how available locally then there's nothing to stop us from reaching our targets. as one of the hottest most arab countries in the world trade and relations with other countries are critical to making sure there's an adequate food supply year round while qatar certainly has plenty of food its dependency on foreign ports has its limitations and that's what western countries focus on it's the message production and since the blockheads it has managed to produce enough very and poultry products to meet demand. this dairy factory is one of the biggest in the country opened in

1986 it used to produce 15 tons of their products a day until 2017 now that figure is up to 85 tons a day before a block is daily on daily as it was the employed to cut out of the data and use a product between 650 to 700 daily basis and bought from hogs like so many companies we need to improve and we need to build our legs inside them. the government has played a big role in helping local businesses grow where you've been at the mo t. to accomplish many programs and pass new legislation for the concept of strategic stock in october of 2018 we also help farmers with providing them seeds we increase greenhouses and offer financial assistance in the form of loans from the

development bank. the blockade of qatar which began 3 years ago is still in place despite numerous attempts by other countries to resolve the crisis but it's also presented a unique opportunity for the government here to rely less on food imports and more on local production door such apart al-jazeera doha. now again for the back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera the police officer who knelt on the neck of unarmed black man george 48 in the city of minneapolis in the us is facing a more serious john just 2nd degree matter 3 other officers on the scene when floyd died have been charged with aiding and abetting matter john hendren has reaction from minneapolis. where they live in the mood a little bit here and there was one of the children man's was that all 4 officers face charges in the fact that the charges against mr sure gone was increased people

were happy to see that because that means the charge itself suggests that killing george floyd was intentional that it wasn't premeditated but it was intentional the 1st degree charge simply meant that there was a reckless disregard for human life and the family in the protesters though that was not an appropriate charge. former u.s. defense secretary jim mattis has criticized trump's handling of the crisis he's accused the president of dividing the american people saying the consequences are the result of 3 years without mature leadership several pro-democracy politicians have been removed from hong kong's legislature as it votes on a bill that would make insulting the chinese national anthem a criminal offense the session coincides with the 31st anniversary of the 10 men square crackdown at least $39.00 students and teachers have been injured in a knife attack at a primary school in southern china state media say a security guard has been arrested after carrying out the sopping it's mexico has

recorded its highest number of coronavirus tests in a single day it reported 1092 fatalities on wednesday more than double the previous day's figure the country has also seen record surging new infections police in senegal have arrested more than 70 people after protests against coronavirus restrictions turned violent angry demonstrators torched police vehicles and a health center near the capital de kock the world health organization says 2 more cases have been reported in the democratic republic of congo a country had been preparing to declare itself ebola free after battling an epidemic in the east sets killed at least 2000 people since 2018 those are the headlines on al-jazeera as always more news on our website al-jazeera dot com the very latest on all of our top stories on there coming up next here it's inside story status.

al-jazeera. will the killing of george for change of race relations in the us protests against police brutality continue present 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 story. hello welcome to the program and it's the killing of george floyd has reignited pent up anger towards racism and police brutality in the united states since his death and many on.