world. the city prepares to remember the man whose killing has ignited the u.s. a memorial service for george floyd will begin soon in minneapolis. bombs a hole robin what you want is there live my headquarters here in doha also coming up in the next 30 minutes a defiant standard hong kong thousands ignore a band to mark 31 years since the tiananmen square massacre. also libya's u.n. recognized government says it's taken complete control of the capital after months of fighting against wall old khalifa haftar. and russia's president demand swift action after delays in cleaning up a fuel spill in the arctic polar region. welcome

to the program the us city of minneapolis is moving from protests to remembrance as crowds gather for a service honoring george floyd a memorial is due to begin there in less than an hour for the 46 year old black american who died after police knelt on his neck during an arrest the event will be attended by family friends and civil rights leaders and others who shared in the outrage over his death 10 days ago all 4 officers involved have not been charged a key demand of the protesters john hendren is in minneapolis for us a really a chance to reflect for the many that are attending in 10 days that have changed america in so many ways. that is true there will be ram remember and of the man is a gentle giant he is over well over 2 meters tall 6 feet 4 inches high and he'll be

remembered as a father and his daughter giana of course will be here let me just give you a little idea of the set up here that is where people check in on on the far side over there and as you move along here this is the main entrance you can see the black vehicles in front and up there is the hearse where just a little while ago they took george floyd's casket out and that is in the side so far the gas haven't come but we do expect dignitaries to come where you see that line of press over there and we expect to hear the reverend al sharpton who's going to preside over this ceremony a civil rights leader to say he wants to turn this moment into a movement so there will be a remembrance of george floyd the man but also the movement that he has begun across the nation that has spawned protests and demonstrations from coast to coast here and it'll be a bit of a split screen moment because about 15 minutes before he enters that ceremony

begins there will be a court hearing for the 3 officers who were charged just yesterday so now all 4 officers have been charged the 1st officer derrick chauvet and he's had his charges elevated from 3rd degree murder to 2nd degree murder and the others are charged with aiding and abetting 2nd degree murder and the sentence for all 4 of those is up to 40 years in prison so it is possible they could all get the same sentence and hear the reverend al sharpton is likely going to talk about taking this movement and reforming creating systematic change in police departments in cities across the nation we'll also hear from a few of his family members that the program doesn't say which ones but i think we can expect his brother terence is likely to be one of those and the ceremony could last as long. 2 hours but this movement could last months possibly be on the.

100 in minneapolis thank you let's cross over to brooklyn now new york another memorial event is getting underway that christus me is following that one a different atmosphere a different location but many people like winston. huge crowds gathering in the brother of george floyd terence is expected to make an appearance here along with local civil rights leaders and you can see the crowd is already huge behind me here a continuation of the outpouring of support for this movement that we've seen over the last week demonstrations have been at times intense and ongoing for the last week including last night despite a curfew that was called for 8 pm. demonstrators continued out on the streets there were some blasts even though the man himself said the demonstrators were largely peaceful that's led to some criticism of the marriage from his own current and former employees some $400.00 of them have written

a letter to crying his treatment of the protesters and his failure they say to rein in the police department at the same time the mayor is also facing some tough questions about the police department and the safety of officers after 3 of them were stabbed last night the seemingly random attack no word on the motivation for that attack yet but there is concern that officers are also under attack heard the governor of new york coming to their defense saying that these officers now have an impossible job on one hand allowing protesters to demonstrate essentially against the also being asked to control looting that has taken place in the city the looting hasn't proved with the curfew that is good news as we have moved forward and of course today. you can hear the chants starting to develop in the crowd the focus today. of course really it is on george where the man who started this movement he lost his life at the hands of those police officers and that will be

the main focus as things progress here this afternoon the interest in all obviously you know the protests have been continuing the curfews are in place and this is all in a city that's trying to move forward to reopen the covert 19 pandemic really still continues across the united states and i don't in parts of new york as well. but. really technically the city is still under lockdown the reopening of new york's is not supposed to start until monday at the really we've got big crowds gathering in here i knew it was the opening i usually start it's you know was struction job because my you know once again on monday the bishops are talking about this delicate balancing act and warning that the rotavirus and covert 19 is still there certain

as people begin to go out in the back out but they want to make that advance and go towards that opening for the sake of business is here who have been hit so hard in workers who have been hit so hard not only by the coronavirus but now by the curfew shutdowns as well because in sleep before the update thanks for joining us from brooklyn in new york. now the u.s. attorney general william barr has just spoken at a news conference in washington d.c. he says although a large number of protesters are peaceful there are some who are exploiting the unrest. at some demonstrations there are extremist agitators who are hijacking the protests to pursue their own separate and violent agenda we have evidence that n.t. for and other similar extremist groups as well as actors of a variety of different political persuasions have been involved in instigating and participating in the violent activity and we are also seeing foreign actors

playing all sides to exacerbate the violence william barr speaking there were joining me now is anthony barclay's president and chief executive of aids interfaith residential services and homes and now we know he joins us via skype from baltimore in maryland thanks so much for joining us mr butler floyd family have had time to reflect in terms of the issue of justice and their focus now on the additional charges placed on the police officers is this enough now to placate an angry american public i think that i don't know but i think it's a great start i mean we've got a history in this country of seeing injustice across the nation are coming and a lot. are sworn to protect us so i think when you see prosecution cut prosecutions of police officers in jurisdictions like atlanta what many outlets now might be at year and baltimore else we still have

a long way to go you were heavily involved in sort of in the aftermath of the baltimore incident i mean what were the main differences this is between george floyd and the freddie gray incident in terms of the way that the lessons have or have not been learned and may well apply to the george floyd case now. i think that the lessons we learned or at least organization i think you see any quicker response both not only prosecution but the public as well on our how do you organize what to do moving or how to safely protest so here in baltimore we don't have the level of unrest after pretty gray i think that's up largely because the people who are in hot fire years ago a state of vast state active use that education they learned then helped to see each other and how to see us on what to do went out and do it and i think also you can see now the difference is the participation of law enforcement with the actual

prosecution one thing we deal with here actually our state attorney here i most be with us she was actually in battle with the law the police department who actually thought her attempts to prosecute you don't see that happening now throughout the country and i think that's also a lesson learned in a positive step forward as we progress as a nation to move forward many politicians have talked about reform in these last few days and when we come to the court case there is one term that i've been asking many of our contributors to al-jazeera about what their opinion is about qualified immunity for our international audience that's the term used to defend really police officers if they feel that their life was in danger and a senior justice at the supreme court has criticized this very terminology talking about this is whether reform needs to change would you agree. i do think the application of the term and limits are

a quote immunity to cover officers were for doing their job and performing with in the scope of their duty as a sworn officer when they crossed that line and participate in a legal or criminal activity such as the killing of george floyd in the killing of pretty great i think that's an ab you know bill would score them and that's where you get a large outcry from the public is when you see something like the inhumane way in which george florey guy that crossed the line everyone who's seen it. police of minneapolis has caught everybody about being glisten which is why they were all eventually charged and i think if they misapplication up the process or the house itself a part of annuity is worse which wrong it's supposed to or it's there we should not sue officers for making an honest mistake but when they cross that line at the gate and not be able to appeal themselves of the defense of our i mean it's always good

to get your insight and your thoughts on to me but whether joining us from baltimore maryland thank you sir thank you the 3 men charged with the murder of a black man in the u.s. state of georgia are appearing in court over the allbery who was chased and shot 3 times by retired white police officer and his son in february but they were only charged in may after a video of the shooting in brunswick led to a nationwide protest a 3rd man who captured the killing on camera was later charged with felony murder and he is in miami and says am at all brees case will be watched even more closely after george floyd's death. the governor of georgia brian campus call this a precarious moment for the state he said that he will weed out any bad actors that turn up to protest the case today this is of course these 3 men appearing before court for the authorities decide whether there's enough evidence for them to go to trial but this doesn't sit well this case reflects much of what happened with mr

floyd remember that ahmad aubrey was killed in february late february and the case these men were to rest at the $74.00 days because the video didn't come out until may and in that $74.00 days various district attorneys and legal offices passed the case on from one to the other telling the family that he was killed because he was suspected of being a burglar of course when that video came out everything changed now we are expecting protesters outside the courthouse in brunswick today of course the national guard has been deployed in the state of georgia brian kemp the governor saying he will take action if necessary but he's sensitive to the protesters demands and will meet with them if that is the case this is gregory and travis mcmichael father and son one of them and eggs police officer who both on themselves and basically chased mr marbury down and shot and killed him it outraged not just people in georgia of people across the entire nation it's

a case i think of it is in the back of people's minds as they demand justice to mr floyd's death as well so this case will be watched exist dream that closely all 3 men have been in jail since they were arrested by the f.b.i. in may but now the courts will decide whether they should go to trial. here on al-jazeera over the long protests over something else state of emergency turned violent. tropical cyclone that never was that dropped a meter of rain ever salada it's here it's this is this massive cloud they're producing a lot of rain this time in western yemen they'll be flooding from the interests of shore and he brags of completely otherwise the arabian peninsula is dry and sunny

and hot of course a bit of a shame all maybe picking up the gulf during friday but look at the temperatures it bringing with it 49 in kuwait and about 43 in their heart it's not a pretty dry shamali are still fairly human a suspect that breeze and exists through saturday as well now if you're on the coast of lebanon for example is much better who talk about the twenty's and sunshine with a bit of a breeze and that's true course through most of the coast of north africa is a bit more in the way of sherry windy stuff in morocco rabbet often gets that reflect in the forecast 2425 degrees the showers are not exactly obvious and the wind is fairly strong as it runs through libya but it's been changing directions it's getting cooler in tripoli a warming up in benghazi south of all that of course plenty of shows throughout africa is the time when you tend to get some big hands and drift so the west was and they might into hurricanes not yet but the big shots are certainly showing up with the orange scent is a moment. a

journey of personal discovery by a great grandfather he was a slave of the leave property al-jazeera is james garner and expose his family's legacy of slave ownership young like my family's status and while for has benefited from their choice to slave people and america's debt to the black people today some of us will stall we've askey to speak out as a surprise to. al-jazeera correspondent a moral debt. we move forward to the world.

book about your watching al-jazeera of musical raman a reminder of our top stories minneapolis is preparing to remember george floyd whose death by police sparked a nationwide outrage memorials are being held in cities and towns across the country. 3 men charged with the murder of a black man in the u.s. state of georgia are appearing in court and with all green was chased and shot 3 times by a retired white police officer and his son in february. the day's other news in hong kong thousands defy the band to attend a vigil in memory of the victims of the 1989 chinaman square massacre scuffles broke out between police and crowds in parts of the city but police are urging large crowds to disperse to prevent a spread of coronavirus but hong kong is one of only 2 chinese territories allowed a public memorial to the victims a candlelit vigil has been held in the city's victoria park every year since 1990 but this year pardon me but this year protesters had to break through barriers to

hold a rally earlier hong kong's legislature will criminalize insulting china's national anthem it's seen as another sign of beijing growing can growing control over hong kong sarah clarke is there she says the stakes are much higher for those marking the memorial. this is the 1st time in 31 years that this particular vigil a candlelight vigil which is held as a memorial to pay respects to those people who fought for democracy and square in 1909 $180000.00 people last year this year it was banned in the whole area around victoria park which is the main gathering point had been sealed off earlier and thousands of police deployed across the city to enforce the social distancing rules or anyone who gathers in numbers of larger than i though those gatherings are deemed illegal but thousands of people defied that police ban and instead of victoria park breaking through some of those fences but it was a calm and peaceful gathering that the police there were around and surrounded that particular area but they had said to those organizers if there was common forms of

peaceful rally they wouldn't move in and clear those those numbers out and we had people chanting free hong kong we had people chanting hong kong one nation which is a new slogan and we also had people a number of people holding up those independence flags and it was a much larger gathering than many people had thought we also had a number of boots to set up across hong kong for those people who wanted to go and sign a petition and show their support for the people of square who lost their lives back in 1909 but the concern is that ban or the assemblies like this and large demonstrations may be banned in the future and that's as a result of china's decision to introduce these national security laws and those laws will come into effect later in the year in hong kong and they would target political dissidents and they're also target acts of subversion acts of people talking about independence from the mainland and acts of terrorism and the concern from these organizers are that rallies like this the tiananmen square vigil which has been held for 31 years might be banned as

a result and be targeted by those national security law. u.s. navy veteran michael white too has been detained in iran since 2018 has been released and is on his way home now it comes following an iranian scientist arriving back into iran after being freed from a prison in the united states donald trump has thanked switzerland for their assistance with the release. libya's u.n. recognized government says it has full control of the capital tripoli as a policy with forces loyal to load cleaver have to chile forces have also retaken control of an abandoned port in southern tripoli to launch an offensive to take control of the capital just over a year ago all fighting continues but government officials say have to has also lost significant ground in areas close to his stronghold of who know the mood of the warheads as all. this is the all the inactive international airport in southern tripoli and it's now under control of forces loyal to the internationally

recognized government of national accord after the manage it to drive our forces loyal to the world honey fair have said 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 the supposedly made in control of this airport for the past year and now the government forces say that they have also managed to push back have started 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 that his forces in the west of lives. well it comes as libyan prime minister fires ulcer raj met the turkish president in ankara reza diverted one says turkey will increase in support for serai and that have to and his forces are the biggest obstacle to peace turkey has been politically and militarily backing the tripoli government in its fight against all old clique afters forces. followed we've had a fruitful meeting with mr soros that will contribute to the peace security and welfare of the libyan brothers maintaining stability in libya as soon as possible is a priority for ticky as we have stated ever since the beginning of the ongoing crisis

the solution can only be achieved with the political process under the auspices of the united nations. britain's prime minister is urging world leaders to unite against disease as he hosts a global vaccine summit during the coronavirus pandemic representatives of more than 50 countries joined boris johnson the leaders who wanted to raise more than 7 $1000000000.00 well on the sparrow is an assistant professor of population health science and policy and mt sinai hospitals i can school of medicine joins me now via skype from geneva good to have you with us back on the program disparate quite a successful day really in terms of pledging at the conference what germany offering 600000000 euros to the part of the pot. yes it is and. it's a useful way to get think about what do you for a mind of course that everyone did there at least $100.00 that. diseases

and this is particularly the case this is like measles for example sorry i think the pandemic to remind us of that in many ways because now get this with. and previous epidemics where that number was always more than the virus. then you know then or there they have your health it's the next not just the vaccine and the vaccination but it's those that maternal and child health. which of course it's particularly difficult when you're very vulnerable and in places like sub-saharan africa where and you present a landscape in congress. maybe by thunder testing children and 5 from aborted backed 15 times that many. did the family contagious disease i think 50 times so you went from an area that i mean to drop sorry i want to just to clear up for our international viewers as well that is pledging conference is beyond really covert 19 it's about developing vaccines that are already in existence all thought to be

could could be useful for diseases there elements that do infection of the global population will sort of ailments are we talking about that need to be focused on and where this sort of pledging conference helps develop better more modern vaccines that might be able to help. well maxine's are a fantastic tool to help protect us but what we can see is that not amend the only disease with money to replicate is smallpox we've been trying very hard to do that with polio for some time and what is also a little bit worrying is that last year there was a global commitment over the 6 regions committing to eliminate measles which is potentially fire easy to replicate but it could be directors of those efforts and what we're really seeing is a disease that cultivated not only suspends the normal health services so that it suspends vaccination the general childhelp takes. care of the other diseases diabetes heart disease hypertension but we also see that this is

a disease where the into section of basket diseases like diabetes and had disease and hypertension come together with the vulnerabilities of it we can meet system and now nutrition and this is a disease which targets who need system and you know across africa alone we have existing epidemics h.i.b. tb malaria and and not attrition and all of there is you know make you more vulnerable so what corrective he's doing is you know we have a global and justified they are concerned about catching quite a bit but we have also suspended you know what is already going on and while gabbie has redirected health systems drinking money into people's health care reform. i think what we are seen as a fundamentally clearly right now. is that i would visit her bottom of everything else and we can't achieve you know her can get goes to school we can't achieve economic prosperity we can i keep gender parity recover. you know get ourselves out

of poverty or raise a curity analyst we have health care that doesn't mean there's public health but primary health care and that seems i'm going i'm never going to do the trick and we held. so you get with malaria when we have so many tools to deal with malaria but we still have you know have that 1000000 kids die every year as fiction. that's it that's our biggest impact save us on the point is we have a very safe vaccine like b.c.g. vaccine and might need those which we have very good evidence for also protect children from going because it is incredibly separate to adults ok there we have to stop it and he's ferret thanks very for joining us from geneva thank you the police in senegal have arrested more than 70 people after protests against coronavirus restrictions turned violent demonstrators torched police vehicles and a health center near the capital dhaka there calling for an end to the state of

emergency a nighttime curfew russia's president has declared a state of emergency in the arctic circle after a huge fuel spill 20000 tons of diesel have leaked into a river from a power plant paul brennan reports. footage released by the russian investigative committee suggests the sheer volume of the spillage overwhelmed the concrete levees intended to contain minor leaks tens of thousands of tons of diesel escaped into the surrounding area it was 2 days before the regional government raised the alarm to moscow and in a televised video conference of visibly angry president putin rated them for the inadequacy of their response even questioning whether the governor had taken leave of his senses and what's going to be done you're the governor or we go to learn about emergency situations through social media now have you lost your mind over there norilsk is home to the world's largest producer of nickel and is already one of the most notoriously polluted places on earth the nickel factory emitted nearly

2000000 tons of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere in 20183 times more than the 2nd worst emitter now the land and water also environmentally impacted this incident has dumped more than 20000 tons of diesel and lubricants into the surrounding river system and into the subsoil. it will take decades to clear up because we're talking about cleaning up the surface of the water pumping out the fuel pumping out the polluted water as far as possible in cleaning up the police at the ground. the terrain is sub arctic and swampy at this time of year and specialist vehicles are needed to get around pumping and inflatable booms are trying to limit the damage but access and extraction are a major problem belong mostly in your pool. or it's a secluded area there's no transportation access by road all railroad again there's no way to bring in a large number of boats with heavy tanks to pump the oil into that's the difficulty of an investigation into why this specific tank ruptured is under way but

a company statement has expressed concerns for facilities which are built in areas where the melting permafrost is causing the soil to sink and that raises a much wider question for industrial safety across the whole arctic paul brennan al-jazeera. deserve means the whole romney reminded of our top stories minneapolis is preparing to remember george floyd whose death while by more more than a week ago sparked nationwide outrage memorials are being held in the city and across the country children minneapolis on what will be happening at the memorial service today we're going to be remembering george floyd we can expect members of his family have to talk about him as a gentle giant he was over 2 meters tall 6 foot 4 and we can expect the reverend al

sharpton to repeat what he said yesterday as he presides over this service he says he wants to turn this moment into a movement we can also expect to hear from steven jackson a professional basketball player who called george floyd his brother because they were that close 3 men charged with the murder of a black man in the u.s. state of georgia are appearing in court over the already who was chased and shot 3 times by a retired white police officer and his son in february but they were only charged in may after a video of the shooting in brunswick led to nationwide protests thousands of people have joined a vigil in hong kong to mark the anniversary of the 989 tiananmen square massacre that's despite a ban on mass gatherings in the city that protesters had to break through barriers to hold the rally u.s. navy veteran michael white has been detained in iran the since 2018 and has now been released theirs on his way home it comes following in the rainy and scientists

arriving back into iran after being freed from a prison in the united states told trampas thanks switzerland and i was systems with the release libya's u.n. recognize government says that it has full control of the capital tripoli after fighting with forces loyal to ward cleaver have to g.n.a.t. says it's also retaken an abandoned airport in southern tripoli. and the libyan prime minister fires also raj but the turkish president in ankara reza diaper the ones as turkey will increase its support for the rush but that have to under the biggest obstacle to peace of course you can follow those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com back with the news hour in 30 minutes but next it's inside story with bernard smith do stay with us.

a vigil in defiance for the 1st time. to remember the tiananmen square massacre it comes to impose a national security law on the 70 autonomous territory so will the city's democracy movement survive this is inside story. hello welcome to the program and it's. held a candlelight vigil to remember.