if you want to help save the world. into your own. thousands in hong kong defy a ban to hold a candle light vigil marking 31 years since the chinaman square crackdown. i'm about this and this is all just life also coming up new charges are brought against all the police officers involved in george floyd's death with more protests calling for justice across the u.s. . former defense secretary james mattis accuses donald trump are trying to divide america and denounces what he calls

a militarized response to the protests. libya's u.n. recognized government says it's taken complete control of the capital after months of fighting against the wall huffed are. based in hong kong urging large crowds to despise to prevent a spread of coronavirus they've been gathering on the 31st anniversary of the channel and square massacre in defiance of a ban hong kong is the only place in china with a public memorial to the victims i can live vigils been held in the city's victoria park every year since 1990 but this year protesters had to break through barriers to hold the rally hong kong's legislature criminalised insulting china's national anthem is seen as another sign of beijing's growing control over hong kong sarah

clarke is live for us in hong kong sarah when we were speaking about an hour ago you were saying that at the protests there was really no sign of any security forces what's been happening since then. it was something about $3000.00 place that were deployed across the city but they surrounded that particular area victoria park which is where this huge catholic the jewel is held every year for the people of hong kong to pay their respects to those who lost their lives fighting for democracy in tiananmen square in $989.00 but as for the people who attended not we had thousands who defied that police ban and the government in for so social distancing rules the covert 19 simply basically saying any gatherings larger than 8 are illegal but those people to fire that victoria park that area was sealed off earlier but people entered the park after they vowed to keep come across the gathering and we had this candlelight vigil we had a one minute silence but we also had a number of people chanting slogans like free hong kong one hong kong one country and we also had a number of flags calling for independence which was scattered across this

gathering tonight now we the police are now calling for those people to leave we believe most people have left or are leaving victoria park but we've had a number of people gather in another area in hong kong not as long caught and as a result the right place at least 100 have moved there and the now making arrests that area often does tend to go a bit rogue after the other more peaceful protests have finished at the moment we believe those people are also leaving that particular location but the organizers of this annual vigil which has been going on for 31 years their concern about the future of these large demonstrations what we've seen tonight a last resort about 180000 tonight on thursday we saw far less simply because of those social distancing rules and people are concerned about being issued large fines for being in large gatherings but they gatherings or certainly the national security laws which china has put in place in hong kong which will come into effect later this year the concern is that china might start targeting some of these large demonstrations and political dissidents who attend these demonstrations mentioning

earlier that insulting china's national anthem has no be criminalised by hong kong's legislature on how have people been reacting to that. well people are angry about this we've seen protests for weeks over these particular national anthem laws it's a controversial war that's being introduced in hong kong which criminalizes the mocking of china's national anthem now this particular law it was introduced last year but the government withdrew it because it was concerned that was fueling more anti-government anger during the months of demonstrations we saw in 2019 but carol lam has always said she will prioritize this particular bill she wanted this passed and last week she reintroduced it and today we had a vote but we also saw some kind of like scenes with or 2 of the pro-democracy lawmakers throw liquid across the china and that was a key tactic to try and disrupt or delay the debate but in the end of the vote was passed we had 41 people supported we had one person one of the lawmakers rejected

and of course all the pro-democracy lawmakers there and boycotted that but the concern is that the chinese national anthem or the critics this particular laws they are forced patriotism and it's an impingement on hong kong's freedoms and democracy. and if you are as from not of the 1st in a series of memorial gatherings for george floyd will get underway in the us city of minneapolis it's june to be attended by friends civil rights leaders and others who shared in the outrage over his death in police custody all 4 officers on the scene when he died now face charges a key demand of protest as across the united states john hendren reports from minneapolis. for the crowds filling the streets here and across the u.s. a sign their demands are being heard and found in the men to complain that charges charges former minneapolis police officer derek shaaban with murder in the 2nd

degree for the death of george floyd for officer derek show been 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 is seen they are likely to make a difference they are listening to us they see what we asking for any any good what we ask for the rest goes be officers 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 did all of us not being arrested. my boss had not been killed like this we deserve justice. but for many it is just a beginning. george floyd's 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. the system that allows the killing of one unarmed african-american after another will take time the protesters did not start these bars to burning it was police brutality and all races from one to jeff this is the best start of these 5 grown in america and the only way to stay with these 5 years is to happen these accountability equal justice but minnesota's governor has begun by charging minneapolis 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 a 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. the new charges following more than a week of mass protests in the u.s. at times some of the demonstrations have turned violent with buildings and cars set on fire and shops looted president donald trump had threatened to send in the national military but now he says he doesn't think he'll have to. the former u.s. defense secretary jim mattis has criticized tom's handling of the crisis is accuse the president of dividing the american people saying the consequences are the result of 3 years without mature leadership nearly 2000000

americans have claimed for unemployment benefits in the u.s. last week the new claims are slightly better than the numbers expected white house correspondent kelly hall could has more. the numbers are now not good they haven't been good for a while but this white house says well they're a little better than they were last week and that's reason for optimism most apparently what we've got here is almost $2000000.00 americans 6 again filing jobless claims now that is the lowest number per week since coronavirus started but when you look at this all together you've got more than $40000000.00 americans out of work filing for unemployment benefits now the u.s. president continues to project optimism in fact he tweeted on wednesday that the stock market's in good shape and hang on because things are going to get better in september october and november we're in the early stages of coming back he says but i can tell you most people don't feel like things are coming back right now that is

not the atmosphere in washington d.c. and we're also bracing for the fact that there are going to be more jobless numbers coming on friday the unemployment numbers expected to be close to 20 percent one in 5 americans those are depression level numbers we've not seen since the 1930 s. added projections the congressional budget office says look at when things improve hold on because it could take a decade or 2030 before this economy fully recovers maybe as you and recognized government says it has full control of the capital tripoli so fighting with forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar genny the forces of also retaking control of an abandoned airport in southern tripoli to launch an offensive to take control of the capital just over a year ago fighting continues but government officials say acosta has also lost significant ground in areas close to his stronghold of talk about all comes as libyan prime minister. is in ankara to meet turkish president of egypt the one

bachmann got the warhead is at the airport in seldom tripoli. this is the old inactive international airport in southern tripoli and it's now under the control of forces loyal to the internationally recognized government of national accord after the manage it to drive our forces loyal to the world only for half a from here that happened after heavy fighting as you can see. the remains of the fierce battles that happened here over the past year have those forces remained in control of this airport for the past year and now the government forces say that they have also managed to push back half towards forces beyond the administrative borders of the capital tripoli this airport has been very strategic for both sides from here have those forces used to target the

government forces locations with heavy weapons and also with airstrikes the problem remains as the government forces say in the land mines planted by hazardous forces in the vicinity of this airport which pose a threat not only for the government forces but also for the displaced civilians who cannot wait to return home now the government forces are preparing for a fresh offensive to move on the city of huna south of tripoli which is the last of stronghold of have to his forces in the west of libya without all comes as libyan prime minister of syria's authorizes in ankara to meet his turkish counterpart president richard firebird a wild turkey has been for illicitly and militarily backing tripoli government in its fight against war locally for hospitals forces seem cosier lou has more on

turkey's reaction from istanbul. the 2 leaders are going to be are actually talking right now the meeting has already started and the main focus of the meeting is a political solution political over a solution in libya because we know that russia and the u.s. are urging for a cease fire in the b. about yesterday as the turkish foreign minister put through during a live interview turkey doesn't want to lose time for any more talks about the cease fire because cease fires in fragile countries like libya and syria have proven to be fragile to that's why i chose all the turkish foreign minister focus that all parties who support the ceasefire in the area should actually be now supporting a political solution and they will of course for turkey it's not only in libya is not only we have because turkey has signed a maritime zone deal with which which to which protects turkey's rights and

interests in the eastern mediterranean oil it comes to energy resources and that's why they're backing the internationally recognized government and the riyadh turkey wants an immediate political resubmission to be established inside the country so that all those with the rights that turkey has gained through those agreements can stay in act still ahead on al-jazeera how an economic blockade spurred qatar to rely less on imports and produce its own food products. hello the rain is building again in southern china is the seasonal rain and the usually effects china and japan moment is just skirting the far south or from sure more likely q shoe meaning it remains in the fairly warm weather with

a few showers that warm but less share weather extends right through most of china but as you can see from shanghai sayas woods is likely to be wet the orange center suggest where the heaviest rain is it tends to drift science which does extend these woods as well so hong kong is always in that mix indeed the forecast for hong kong taking you through sunday monday in tuesday's school the thunderstorms in the morning less home to stay at a constant temperature regime and of course it is humid is rife this time the directly south would you still got showers soon away as east was into southern philippines and western side of borneo west was this a bit of a dryish patch in between most of the way is very dry same is true of java but the wet weather it's consistent with the upcoming monsoon is sumatran also isn't particularly on the coast of myanmar after all the monsoon front is in myanmar a moment and the last cycle which is a result of the incoming monsoon is now over land is

a massive cloud giving heavy rain north east india. join our global community they call the crisis is just slapped isn't the place the blessing upon latin upon human hands equals global health keeping you up to date is one of the boys situation where we have a human rights prices that persist beyond the help prices on your questions is a dialogue just nothing we are now approaching a crossroads this is an opportunity that we must go miss the stream on al-jazeera.

i want to go to a reminder of our top stories this hour thousands of people have joined a vigil in hong kong to mark the anniversary of the 1989 chinaman's square massacre that's despite a ban on mass gatherings in the city the testers had to break through barriers to hold the rally. maybe as un recognized government says it's got full control of the capital tripoli after fighting with forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar the g.n.a.t. says it's also retaken and abandoned the airport insult in tripoli. the police officer who knelt on the neck of george floyd 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 murder. 3 men charged with the murder of a black man in the u.s. state of georgia jews who appear in court at aubrey was chased and shot 3 times by a retired white police officer and his son in february they were only charged in

may after a video of the shooting in brunswick led to nationwide protests a 3rd man who captured the killing in the camera was later charged with felony murder. and god has not lie for us in miami with the latest no idea there were big protests about this case around the country what do we expect was going to happen today. well what was seeing today is not a hearing that decides these men's innocent fulfilled this is a hearing to decide whether they can go to trial but there is so much at stake here remember that gregory and travis mcmichael basically armed themselves and corralled all modern break down and shot and killed him by shooting him 3 times in the chest all of that going on while people are protesting the death of george floyd and there are people outside the courthouse in brunswick in georgia who are very tense at the moment if this hearing doesn't go the way that they want it to go there is

the potential for violence the state's governor george camp is saying look he will talk to people he understands the needs and wants of the protesters but he said he will weed out any trouble makers so these are tense moments as these 3 men appear charged with the murder of mr aubry they are appearing virtually via various links from from prison cells but there is a lot at stake here it took 74 days before these 2 men were arrested the 1st 2 men because the video didn't come out until may and then it emerged that various district attorney's office had passed the case for one to another saying that it look gregory mcmichael was a former police officer he worked in this office the police at one point telling mr alvarez family he was the victim he was a victim or suspected of being a burglar so all of that happening as the entire country protest against the death of george floyd so these next few hours if it that's how long it takes will be

vital i think if the people outside don't see the decision that these men should face a trial there is the potential for violence that is some of them outside the courtroom already making their feelings quite plainly. as you say this is of course coming at a time of when we're also seeing the case of george floyd going on this is just going to add to the pressure to the prosecution isn't it to try to get a result in this case. yeah they will and remember i think it's important to note that the state of georgia is one of only 3 or 4 that doesn't have any racial hate crimes that's something that really doesn't sit well with the protesters but when you think about the parallels between these 2 cases they all say nothing happened until the video was released and what it was released it was pretty shocking we've all seen that by now whether to manage on themselves one with a shotgun with a pistol mr aubry was simply out jogging in a neighborhood close to his home and they're claiming that he attacked them that is

not what the video shows but i think the fact that various offices and officials and administrative people in georgia passed this case from one to the another another and it took 74 days for either of these men to even face what they are now facing today it just adds fuel to an already long burning fire that's on the gallagher bringing us the latest from miami on the ahmad allbery case we'll be checking in with you as it goes on thanks andy. mexico has recorded its highest number of coronavirus deaths in a single day but reported 1092 fatalities on wednesday that's more than double the previous days figure the country also saw a record surge in new infections to homeowners in mexico city and he explains why the figures are so high. mexico is just broken the $100000.00 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 late 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 of the 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 it's 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 tool so he is definitely not staying home and there's been questions over what sort of message that sends to other mexicans and he's in senegal have arrested more than 70 people love to protest against coronavirus restrictions turned violent demonstrators torched police vehicles at a health center near the capital dhaka calling for an end to the state of about agency and nighttime curfew senegal's interior minister is expected to announce an easing of lockdown instructions. world health organization says 2 more a bullet cases have been reported in democratic republic of congo earlier congolese health officials recorded a 2nd outbreak of the virus after 6 cases were confirmed in ecuador province

a country been preparing to declare itself ebola free after battling an outbreak in the east that's killed at least 2000 people since $28.00 unit at least $39.00 students and teachers have been injured in a knife attack at a primary school in southern china save media say a security guard carried out the stabbings in the province of grand she he's since been arrested although his motives remain unclear. from monday foreign airlines can once again fly into china beijing 100 fused to latin american passenger flights due to the pandemic but the easing of restrictions follows an announcement by the u.s. that it's banning all chinese airlines starting from june the 16th to the year reports from beijing. beijing airport is known for being one of the busiest in the world but since the beginning of the pandemic it's largely been quiet fearing

imported coronavirus cases chinese authorities had restricted the number of foreign airlines flying in and out of the country starting on monday that. an increasing number of carriers including u.s. airlines will be allowed to resume operations. china has already announced relevant policy adjustments we hope the u.s. side will not create obstacles for resolving this issue the move is an apparent retreat from an escalating ellen dispute with washington on wednesday the u.s. announced it would ban all chinese allies starting on june 16th it said beijing failed to respond to requests by united and delta airlines to resume flights this month while chinese carriers. you're watching all jazeera and i'm taking you to ankara for the libyan prime minister fires all set eyes on his turkish counterpart president. holding

a media conference let's listen in on the point we are going. to be you know about the vote. hoping that the whole of the country of the developing world come together on the same. very thing of. bill we have. about 13. is. reaching. as we said before we are always pollution and this pollution has bought. the roof off of you and you land and also with it being. done

with the government of national afford. this. alternative. i'd like to emphasize that. and i'm using the phone and i'm not using this in the day. badger unity then we have. as rejects the new. agreement and has shown his real face again. because. it's not possible to put hop on one side. on their. heads if they want to show the same approach. and i'd like to hear them again. libyan citizens. they never dealing with this the problems of the

libyan. and this person who never cares about libya could be a citizen has no gods on the table of negotiation it's got to be just. anyone who is supporting this person financially and military. jets they are. making libya to drown in blood and they will be judging the history. talk to let. government of national accord and all the success they have. we have been following them very closely called. truly. we began to talk about again because. libya again because. we talked about.

the old interventions from outside the city to the. city and call it a culture. of sort of we are also. in. a more power and more middle. of figure out again. and again libyan. and a libyan for libya. you know saying that there shouldn't be any training. allowed to the system and you need. military cooperation and destruction of marine jurisdiction agreement we have signed together this.

libya talk. that we've been in the mediterranean. finding actual gas we'll see news on operations will continue. on the. agreement of military cooperation but interesting on this because. do you think it . is viable. libya. let's see. if the interests of all of the region. we can never. shift. the libyan government. united nations. so you know so much that we are seeing.

all the campaign every international thought. you know i could make. the future. do i believe me i think. with my father. and i think this will bring fortune. for the. home of a wealthy russian. how do i thank you very much thank you mr president. my friend when i was going on today we discussed the military and political situation on the ground we'll also discuss the means to develop our bilateral relations. within this context presenting.

suppressed our gratitude and appreciation to the history of stance taken by turkey siding with libya and its people during the current crisis defending their legitimacy again as the subversive of ours. willing to bring that our country back and are the brunt of. that this brave stance was then turn the tide international community was standing by watching on thank you once again on this occasion and after more than one year since more. gratian that satirises met scenario and their sponsors. bring in the good news that the capital tripoli with its outskirts has have been telling an entirely innocent. of the cycles of the mercenaries today

this rectory is the victory of for us all the victims of the falshood the victory of the righteousness over the false who prayed to god almighty to accept in his mercy the fallen moderns we did today to taller people from day one that were adamant to defeat world walking the pleasure and gratian and we will have our great back on the entire country in order to hold a 3rd grade on our resources we can not be subversive. mess. with the resources or the future of our country we. pledge. that we remain committed to the sacrifices made by our brave people and we will not.