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died during a police arrest. this is the area to deal with police and criminal justice. 3 of the police officers involved in floyd's arrest in minneapolis make their 1st court appearance charged with aiding and abetting 2nd degree murder. a u.s. navy veteran held by iran for almost 2 years is released as part of a deal that saw washington free an american iranian scientists. so then the 1st memorial service honoring a black man in the united states who died in police custody has been held in minneapolis poignant memories was shared of george floyd whose murder spots those nationwide protests the event was also used as a rallying cry to overhaul the justice system mourners including celebrities musicians and politicians stood in silence for 8 minutes and 46 seconds that select

the time floyd is said to have been pinned and a police officer. it's crazy all these people came to see my brother. that's amazing to me that he touched so many people hearts you know that he had such an i was you know. you come to 3rd war where we're from people right now neshamah state a lot of them you know i'm just stand strong as i can because i need to get it out i need to get it out everybody won't just as we want justice the joints he's going to get it he's going to get it just fraud story has been the story of black folks because ever since 401 years ago. the reason we could never be who we wanted and dream debian is you kept your knees on our thanks what happened to for oh it happens every day in this

country and actually occasion in health services and in every area of american life is for us to stand up in charges made and say get showed me off i met. when i separate memorial service was held in new york and that was followed by a march across the brooklyn bridge and this came as the city's mayor bill de blasio trying to deflect criticism of the way police have treated protesters in recent days meanwhile the 3 minneapolis police officers accused of aiding and abetting floyds murder they had their 1st court appearance we have several correspondents covering the story she every times and he's in washington d.c. where many more security bars have been set up near the white house amid protests christians who we as she's in new york where another memorial was held for george floyd the 1st let's go to natasha you can name who's in minneapolis in atocha it

was an emotional powerful service and really showing the world george freud was. exactly at 1 point one of george floyd's brothers asked please will you all say his name and the world learned about george floyd the father the grandfather the uncle the brother the friend we learned he was an avid le bron james fan he was described as a powerful alpha male athletic up had a powerful way with words was lovable said his brother and they also talked about how challenging it was growing up in houston raised by a single mom the brothers said we didn't have much we didn't even have a washer and dryer we had to wash our clothes in the sink and dry them in the oven we ate manny's and banana sandwiches but we had each other there was also a sense of the historical importance of this moment the floyd family attorney

benjamin crump said that there can no longer be 2 justice systems in the united states one for white people and one for black people and he feels that now is one of the best opportunities yet to alter that reverend al sharpton the iconic civil rights leader who gave the eulogy said that these last this last week and i have seen people from all over the world and here in the united states protesting seeing whites outnumber blacks showed him that quote this is a different time and a different season and a moment of uplift north central university this is where the memorial was held here on this campus in minneapolis has established a memorial fund in george floyd's name more than $50000.00 has already been donated right meanwhile the initial stages of justice a beginning to happen with the 3 other offices in cool.

yeah initial is key word here nick the minnesota attorney general has asked the public to be saying the charges came rather quickly but this will be a lengthy investigation he's made very clear that it will be difficult to get a conviction because historically we know in the united states juries tend not to convict police officers but the floyd family had wanted a 1st degree murder charge they did get at least part of their wishes. for minneapolis police officer who was. on floyd's neck his charges have been upgraded to 2nd degree murder if convicted that carries a 40 year maximum penalty and all the other officers the 3 other offices as you mentioned have been charged with aiding and abetting and this was something that the family was hoping would happen before they laid floyd to rest it's worth noting that children had civet 17 prior police misconduct complaints one of the other

officers had 6 and according to some data that the new york times looked at it's clear that this is a moment for the minneapolis police department to look at reform apparently in the last 5 years many apples police department with 7 times more likely to use force against blacks than they were whites or of the story for now in minneapolis natasha good name thanks very much let's switch over to new york sumi is standing by the kristen we saw crows governing for the memorial service the. yeah demonstrations continue to go strong here in new york they've been happening throughout the day the biggest was earlier in the day a memorial service here for george floyd that was attended by his brother terence floyd and a number of civil rights leaders and thousands of people showed up for that it was a really diverse crowd of people young people black white families. very subdued

they cheered and. said you are not alone when terence floyd took the stand and from there are many of the people who have gathered march from that location which is in brooklyn new york over the east river over the iconic brooklyn bridge into lower manhattan and now they're due to arrive behind me here i'm in upper manhattan outside if you look in the green area of the park over there up on the hill that's gracie mansion where the mayor lives that's their final destination we got blocked off here because police have shut the road protesters are coming up on the other side just in the last few minutes i would bet here we've seen the officers put on their helmets and their riot gear they were more casual we 1st arrived. but you know this is really just a continuation of what we've been seeing all week in terms of these different points around the city where the protesters will plan to gather at

a certain time but in between they are marching i mean this demonstration is being felt all over the city from the upper west side to the upper east side to the boroughs to lower manhattan and the protesters are on the move constantly and have shown no signs of backing down now 7 days into this 2000 erastus. and it's still going strong. and you mentioned the mayor just then he's been trying to deflect criticism isn't he. yeah he's a big getting it from all sides when he showed up at the memorial service. earlier he took the stage and people they didn't boom but they turned their backs to him when he spoke and he didn't stay very long he turned around and clearly now they're coming here to make their voices heard right outside of his home. the issue for the mayor is that well he's getting it from the protesters he's getting it from his own administration some 400 city employees current and former members of his administration have criticized him for the way he's handled the protests for

failing to rein in the police. and he's also getting it from the business community because there was looting a few nights back that did a lot of damage now we're seeing boarded up stores all through central manhattan and the last couple nights the mayor implemented an earlier curfew of 8 pm and that since that's happened the looting and the violence has been cut back. but it hasn't stopped the demonstrators from going out and going past their curfew so lots of factors here and then you throw the coronavirus into all of that and the fact that new york city is still technically under lockdown we're not supposed to be reopening for business here until monday of next week so large gatherings are not even supposed to be allowed here but police and the mare have been going from one crisis to another nobody seems happy at this point one thing's clear though these demonstrators are not stopping just yet or

a prison even if the man thanks very much indeed for that christmas and to that new york let's go to she overtimes ease in washington d.c. she had we were talking yesterday of course and then you had some wail from the white house a few streets back but now seem pretty close. look at this security posture look how different it is from i was speaking speaking yesterday well 1st if you take a look at the protests over there just a few 100 people outside here at the white house there's now the familiar of the church of syndrome where donald trump made his now infamous photo opportunity how does an infamous photo opportunity but we were yes we were at least a block away yesterday now that look at this view of the white house we have behind the security fence that was built initially on cheese and has now been added to with concrete blocks but we have another view like this for some for some time because even after the fence was built on monday night into tuesday then there would always be a. line of. security forces that are

behind the fence now we have a smattering of the secret service in the dark uniforms u.s. park police and the lights and the lighting uniforms we know of course is completely deceptive there are 4500 national guard troops stationed around around the city under federal control most of them are from out of state and the mayor wants them to leave but she has no control we have d.c. we don't have control we don't have a governor we don't have meaningful congressional representation so the so that's becoming a big issue now is well 1st of all how long is this fence going to last for which the mass as you know is restricting access to what she calls the people's house but another question is how long forces from around the country national guard under federal control going to stay on the streets of the u.s. supplemented by all these mysterious paramilitary forces we've been seeing from various federal agencies we know that the chief of police has said that it's understandable that the d.c. residents feel that they're under some sort of foreign military occupation right

now effectively the most significant issue that really in some ways at least the most terrifying is has been this deployment of troops from around the country to duty military special soldiers trained simply to key. people who have been stationed outside of d.c. and we're always told they're an hour away they can be on buses and be here with. us and that has been really a point of controversy within the administration as well with the defense secretary and members of the pentagon to stablish been saying we do not want them to be deployed and. donald trump doesn't have to invoke the insurrection act which he said he has to do around the country to have an active duty military doing policing on the streets of america but that few a battery is to him doing it here in d.c. because we don't have a governor and we don't have meaningful congressional congressional representation so it's more likely and probably a swift a process if he does choose to do that there seems to be a compromise number 700 or serve those troops will be going home we're told 900

will be staying there but this seems to be the main discussion within the administration about about even stationing active duty military and threatening civilians with the use of active soldiers on the streets of the nation's capital that's still playing out but we still don't really know how long we will be under effective as as the chief of police suggested military occupation from outside forces who. showed us some of the protests is a little bit earlier peacefully protesting doing their thing in a very diverse crowd what's your sense about the momentum that's building here how long are they going to hang around for how long are they going to stick at this do you think. it's so difficult to tell isn't i mean it's noticeable i mean it's a much thinner crowd than we had yesterday yet but yesterday was opposed by far the largest crowd we've seen since the protests began in d.c. at least on friday and it was thousands upon thousands here at least 30 just a few hundreds but we also know that there are hundreds who periodically appear

here and we're watching twitter carefully and all the social media who are around the city i mean when you talk to people they always say look we're going to stay here until there's meaningful change. how can i judge that. you know i mean there are now proposals i think concrete proposals will start helping so even on a local level now we're seeing proposals at the d.c. level for example prohibiting codes and the restraints. that would be a start the other cause we're seeing in places like new york and elsewhere defunding the police starting to take away the billions of dollars that the police are given each year which is always increasing the budget for military equipment and everything else and starting to redirect that into social programs housing and everything else the mayor here it has to be said about. current budget increases the police budget by billions of dollars millions of dollars rather here and it's taking away money from social housing so she's under pressure here despite the spike the solidarity that's expressed by some local leaders they're the ones who

are funding the police ever more giving them more and more money giving them more and more military equipment was taking money away from social programs so i suppose that's what people are looking for as do they mean it when they say this is the inflection point now will have changed and those are very concrete ways that we can maybe judge that great all right chad thanks for that update fantastic thanks very much indeed giving us the scene there in washington d.c. just outside the white house let's move on to our guest tim wise who joins us live on skype from nashville in tennessee he's and racism educator and all for tim the memorial service the reverend al sharpton said that he was more hopeful today then he'd ever be in terms of the possibility for change is he right to see this is a seminal moment in the united states do you think. well it's hard to imagine hopefulness in a moment where the president is imposing essentially or threatening to impose military rule over the nation despite the fact that constitutionally he can't

really do that but i do agree with reverend sharpton in the sense that what we are seeing is the kind of uprising around the country millions of people now who have been involved in these protests millions of unique individuals some of course going to multiple protests we haven't seen anything like this numerically possibly ever in the country and certainly not in a half century and in this particular instance it is a considerably more multiracial and diverse group of protesters going into the streets and the reason that's going to matter is because we know that this country because it is founded in white supremacy frankly and sadly is more likely to listen to the voices of those white folks who are in the street or white folks like myself for that matter in interviews like this if i say and if they say that we have a white supremacy problem and a police problem then the reality is more white folks and up listening to that it shouldn't be that way but it is and i think what's happening is that because all of

this misconduct on the part of officers whether we're talking about george floyd or briana taylor in lieu of all over talking about the vigilante killing of a model robbery in georgia all of that takes place against the backdrop of a public health emergency a pandemic that is disproportionately also killing black folks here in the united states and it and an administration that is soon as the data was released showing that black and brown folks were dying disproportionately suddenly said oh we really need to open back up and get things moving again in other words it was an open broadcast of indifference to the fact that doing that was going to disproportionately kill black folks you could not have screened it more loudly than the administration did in that moment and it was a bold horn that not only black folks hurt but that white folks heard and other non black for. of color heard and that's why i think the reverend is right about that right and so what you say is everything that's happened this year has demonstrated the breadth and depth of the problem you talk about the president it's an election

year people have a chance to have their say in the event but this is going to be a big issue is not i think it's going to be the issue you know obviously we have a public health emergency and that's going to still i'm sure not be gone by november so that's going to be there the fact that 40000000 americans up to this point have already filed for unemployment that's going to be there but essentially all of these issues are really part of one piece and that piece is that we have a society that still 400 years on since the colonial period and 200 plus years obviously as a country still has not brought itself to the point where it can say unabashedly that black lives matter and not just that they matter but that they matter equal to the lives of white folks and finally after hitting the snooze button on this alarm clock over and over and over again and going back to sleep over and again it is apparent that finally some folks are getting up and getting out of bed and getting involved with this struggle that black folks have been involved in for

a long time and i think i expect that we're going to see that energy carry over into november and if the alarm clock continues to ring in a people stood into action one of the 1st elements of change that need to happen to build the momentum for a deeper more. constructive consistent change. well 1st of all obviously white folks need to learn to listen to black voices and black wisdom and to follow the leadership of black lead movements but in addition to that we also have to talk to our white family members our white colleagues our white neighbors the people that we know and love and have a connection to and make it clear to them why this matters to us this is not just a black issue and a brown folk issue it's not a person of color issue it is a white issue white supremacy is not going to be undone unless white folks work in opposition to that system and loosen up the support structures from inside the leviathan and so we're going to have to be out there demanding the de budgeting of policing or deep policing itself really moving from law enforcement to public

safety we're going to happen to be out there pushing for policy change and internally we're going to have to be having those conversations with our kids with our with our parents with our colleagues with our family around the thanksgiving table whatever the case might be because racism isn't just manifesting within law enforcement it's also manifesting in our kids' schools it's manifesting in the workplace our neighborhoods and everywhere else and these protests that we're seeing right now do you think they're going to continue into the months and indeed in the into the is ahead and perhaps be comparable to something that we saw in the sixty's with the civil rights movement. i think that i think that's entirely likely look i believe that the fact that we can see george floyd as has been the case with others but so clearly and blatantly being murdered on the streets of minneapolis is going to be to some extent this era's emmett till moment you know in 1955 when emmett till was murdered and his mother made the decision to put his bloated face from having been in the bottom of the tallahatchie river for

a week or 2 weeks whatever the case was on the cover of look magazine or life magazine one of those it shocked the conscience of the nation and it is widely believed to have been part of the impetus for the modern civil rights movement and of course that movement then stretched another 13 years in that period that we normally think of as the classic civil rights era and so i believe we are now entering a moment when we've reached that inflection point where the combination of police misconduct and killings but have been building and building and building for years and the coronavirus crisis and our pathetic response to it which demonstrates such indifference if not hostility to the value of black life all of those have raised the temperature and raised the recognition on the part of folks who have been asleep for a long time that this is an issue they have to devote their lives to just the same way that black and brown folks are where we've been saying how important this is has become to thousands hundreds of thousands of people those live pictures of protests going on right now tim wise fantastic to get your perspective on this we do appreciate it thank you very much indeed thank you so much. a judge in the you

in the u.s. state of georgia has ruled that 3 men charged with the murder of a black man will go on trial he was chased and shot several times by a retired white police officer and his son in february but they were only charged in may after a video of the of the shooting the 2 nationwide protests and you got to go has this report. i'm owed aubrey was killed in late february after being pursued by 3 white men who believed he was a burglar the 25 year old's family say he was jogging when 2 armed men confronted him what happened next caused outrage across the u.s. gregory mcmichael a former police officer and his son travis stand accused of mr brees murder along with william bryan who filmed the shooting this was a preliminary hearing to decide whether the men should go to trial but evidence given by state investigator richard dial shed new light on the case dahl told the court that william bryan hood travis mcmichael use a racial slur as

a model lay dead on the street mr bryant said that after the shooting took place before police arrived on mr aubry was on the ground that he heard travis michael make the statement. it took $74.00 days for the mcmichaels to be arrested and only after the video went viral brian was arrested 2 weeks later the georgia bureau of investigation took over the case when local police and prosecutors declined to press charges and example say ahmad aubrey's family is systemic racism system there in the people of brunswick the system bend over backwards not to make an arrest to distort the facts and the law no just yet 6 amount are breeze death led to protests and the place where he was gunned down is now a shrine that his mother wanted cooper jones often visits the day that i laid him to rest that was my promise that i will get our souls. that i would get asked if

that was my promise that's the last thing that told him that they have his family that mama will get to the bottom of it the court was told that a more dobry was trying to escape from the armed men and when he realized he couldn't he decided to fight for his life the u.s. justice department is now launching a hate crimes investigation georgia is just one of a handful of states with no hate crimes legislation the mcmichaels claiming self-defense the special prosecutor in this case says mr operate was chased hunted down and ultimately executed and he gallacher al-jazeera miami florida now the governor of virginia has ordered the removal of the statue of a confederate general robert e. lee ralph northam made the decision in response to george lloyd's killing george floyd's killing as saying the state can no longer on earth system based on in slaving people at least and she was one of several in the state's capital richmond that commemorate confederacy similar monuments across the u.s.

have been used by protesters to highlight the country's history of white supremacist. in other news president trump has thanked iran for releasing a u.s. navy veteran who was detained in iran in 2018 michael white pictured here on the left with the u.s. special envoy bryant hook is on his way home plus what slint this comes a day off to an iranian scientists sort of scotty arrive back in tehran off to being freed from a prison in the united states iran's foreign minister has tweeted that another iranian american my g.t.o. here is to be has also been released from u.s. custody and in december iran released a wiring and chinese american princeton university school for 3 years on why he disputed espionage charges in exchange for the release of a detained scientist so let's take this on joining us now to discuss this in more detail is al-jazeera journalist annie so 1st of all that michael ware has been to michael white who's been detained for nearly 2 years now what were the reasons that

iran gave for his detention according to the official narrative in iran he was there for rescue not she was spying on the ukrainian government does according to the american not that he was there to visit his girlfriend in iran yet at the end he stayed he was in prison for the last 2 years today with several efforts being exerted by different parties he was released today the release of micah white that comes in and part of that with the release off as you said and also majeed thought he seems according to the iranian official not at the swap was between white and heavy who was an iranian physician who has been living in the united states for the last 33 years he's an iranian american yet the although. the other scientist who is also gotti there was a normal procedure for his release because of course on

a lot of pandemic according to the united states statement yes it. so the whole thing. gets into a context a context that started the year to go with the really is iran is really is often is not is like i was a lib unease with an american green card and then they thought on. by the united states. iran and today we have this picture of michael white and i've been as you put it and also as you top heavy and as scotty and out on a meeting the phone it is by the way according to sources in iran. who was there it is unabated so since he's an american he's supposed to go back to the states what given the situation it seems that this is just bottle to proceed you really given the state of relations between the united states and iran you wouldn't think anything was possible right now so how is it that all this is happening well you

know that the beginning of this year the skill ation the cost of the you know brink of the abbotts and everything was like the brink of a war and everything was going towards discoloration and there are many attempts to discuss this deescalate the attempts to form the escalation. of regional parties besides the continuous attempts by european partners to reach a kind of not the deal because there is no possibility for the right now with the united states adding more sanctions on iran and iran also escalating its own stances towards the united states so what's happening today might be a context for the future we have just a few months away from a new american administration or maybe president trump would be they would have another 4 years the iranians also are preparing for the next year presidential elections and in general if we go back in history it's always whenever there are at

them for. a consensus or a negotiations or whatever you know talks this is. these happened in the last year in the last year. at the talks started between the administration and the iranian the us administration and the un and the iranian government and later on with the new government in iraq the deal was struck in 2015 so this might be a kind of laying the foundation for the new situation just in case there are there is a way for. consensus because at the end both countries reach to the brink as we said after the isis a nation of money iranians also retaliated by hitting the american bases yet everything stopped that and both seen that they do not want to go to war or another believe that thanks very much lisa thank you. still ahead here elder

lady is on the war in libya as the u.n. recognized government says it's taking complete control because. she called 2 world leaders to help police an infectious disease. head of the family much warmer across much of the united states still a fair amount of the crowd ran on of course when she scouted they will be slated to be working to make the east with some heavy rain into the great lakes and also working their way tools the eastern seaboard meanwhile out across the west is to say temperatures are on the rise a bit some pieces of cloud will the 2 showers the coming that will widespread on saturday now the system beginning to push in to the pacific northwest but you'll also notice just heading towards the gulf coast this is tropical storm cristobal vast is continuing to impact much of mexico it will continue to produce very heavy

amounts of rain really throughout much of a central america the damage of course has already been done in many areas still continuing to clean up in el salvador this deadly landslides and you can see just the effects of the floodwaters in some of these heavy areas meanwhile mexico some copious amounts of rain some very strong winds and floodwaters have resulted in a lot of damage now throughout friday this is the system is expected to begin to push up into the gulf of mexico again but look at all this rain very widespread again another 2 or 300 millimeters of rain and then through saturday it works its way through these war says of the gulf of mexico taking the bulk of the rain away with it but still very unsettled central america and again the danger always of mudslides and landslides. no where in the world is primary forest disappearing faster then it is inside all. bending the will fly we have been called greenies. hundreds territories and

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i forgot you watch al-jazeera remind about top stories this hour the memorials have been held in minneapolis and in new york and on the george floors he's going spot nationwide outrage and protests the 46 year old black american died off the police knelt on his neck during an arrest. for 3 former police officers charged with aiding and abetting floyd's mad to have made the 1st court appearance derek shivah on the left has been arrested and charged with his murder while the other 3 j. alexandra quinn thomas lane and 2 trial were only arrested on wednesday. president donald trump is trying to run for releasing michael white so u.s. navy veteran detained since 2018 saying it proves the deal to prevail ations is possible becomes a day off to an iranian scientists or askari

a ride back into iran off the freed from prison in the united states. several protesters have been arrested after they defied a ban on attending a vigil to commemorate victims of the 989 tiananmen square massacre officers used pepper spray to disperse thousands of demonstrators who tried to set up roadblocks with metal barriers and agree the peace ban the annual event for the 1st time in 3 decades sightsee concerns have a coronavirus organizers claim it is another crackdown on the city's freedoms are trying to force now from hong kong. victoria park had been sealed off but that didn't deter the crowds thousands defying a police van to pay their respects to those who lost their lives fighting for democracy in beijing stand in the square they chanted slogans like free home talk some call. for independence from my man child but most who joined this year's candlelight vigil were here to mark the massacre on june 4th 1989 holding a one minute silence the fight for democracy has lost it for you know well over 31

years and it's important that we all stand together now organizers of the annual memorials say the police enforcement of social distancing rules are a cover to clamp down on democracy on call now as in going to a new iraq they want to rule by fear and and ban or political expression and i think this is very much worried about the future a little more than 3000 police were deployed across the city to enforce the ban some broods were set up to mock the military crackdown allowing the people of hong kong to honor the victims of the tiananmen square massacre the annual vigil in hong kong is one of the only memorials held on chinese territory to mark a chapter in chinese history that the government in beijing with the certification the mainland has suppressed no mention of the channel mathcad but hong kong's unique status as a special administrative region has exempted from that censorship in the past democracy group said china's introduction of national security rules in hong kong

which target acts of terrorism and political dissidents could threaten the future of large gatherings and demonstrations if the majority of society cannot express or chant no doubt foster asians and their anger for peaceful protests and for certain people with a way out and escalations off to protest action all right the question is maybe be pro-choice by by more and more people in home call god in hong kong legislative council there were chaotic scenes as pro-democracy councilors turn liquid to delay a vote on a controversial national and the bill. is to remind the world that. for the tardis coalminers party for hero. it's all people 31 years ago hours later the bill which would criminalize the mocking of china's much of volunteers anthem was passed those found guilty face 3 years in jail and

a $6000.00 fine the national anthem legislation will become law on june 12th sarah clock out his era hong kong. china says it will start easing restrictions on international travel monday but it still locked in an aviation dispute with the united states which could further strain relations between the 2 powers katrina or you reports now 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 and will. an increasing number of carriers including u.s. airlines will be allowed to resume operations. china has already announced relevant policy adjustments we hope it 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 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 continued flying to american cities the u.s. airlines are ready to resume their flights to china and they would like to not necessarily be there. but with flexibility from the. nation. 7 in much china's aviation regulators implemented a so-called 51 policy limiting foreign airlines to one flight a week it says international flight quotas will be increased as the pandemic eases but routes will be suspended all halted if more than 5 passengers test positive for

the coronavirus beijing's airline dispute with washington to escalate tensions at a time when u.s. china relations are already under immense strain both sides are continuing to fight over trade practices the origin of the coronavirus and hong kong national security . but as diplomatic tensions increase the millions of passengers who usually fly between the u.s. and china every year will be hurting for a few a travel restrictions. and more smooth landings. al-jazeera beijing and senegal's government is easing some coronavirus restrictions off the 2 notes of protests in several cities than $200.00 people were arrested reports now from the capital dhaka angry at the government's restrictions to contain the current a virus protesters in senegal 2nd largest city burned an ambulance and health center meant to protect them from the outbreak on friday president mikey cell announced an extension of the state of emergency including

a curfew until the end of june that decision led to demonstrations throughout the country many of those protesting on labour's unable to travel to the farmlands to plant seed ahead of the rainy season in the southern city of camps during police fire rubber bullets protesters demanding action to address water and food shortages and in downtown to car the military was deployed to disperse an angry crowd of residents who are out of work. among the protesters i'm a do sar. they're not eating good we've got kids family and you voluntarily just stay home that's hot. thousands of funny cattle herders have been stuck in senegal's luger region since the outbreak began in march government restrictions on movement designed to curb the virus have coincided with the hardest month of the dry season cattle are dying of thirst and people are going hungry. hoping to quell the anger and stop the protests the minister of interior announced

an easing of restrictions allowing people to travel from one region to another but a curfew is still in place and so is the state of emergency which allows president monkey cell to rule without any oversight from the parliament's amnesty international's senegal office accuses the government of abusing its power to the state of emergency and of human rights violations hundreds of feet have been violated by the police many people have been i see talk. tried and sentenced 6 months again and this happened in every region of the country . similar protests have taken place in brick enough so when we share according to the un 265000000 people globally face hunger many of them live in west africa while senegal has been successful in containing the outbreak looming is a possible food and economic crisis putting people on edge nicholas hawke

al-jazeera the car. now argentina's president is expected to announce yet another extension to the country as it struggles to contain the spread of covert 19 restrictions have been in place since march let's get more straightaway from to reza both who's and tirzah tell us how bad it is in argentina. well president i want to fernandez if speaking right now he said it will likely announce in the next few minutes that he will extend the quarantine at least until june 21st argentina was one of the 1st countries in the region to impose a quarantine that wasn't more march 20th wrong tool a month and a half ago some people you are saying that it's one of the longest quarantines in the world one of the strictest one because there were security forces on the ground controlling people to stay at home this has generated in a way some debate here there were some protests of people saying that they couldn't

make situation in argentina is extremely complicated with recession inflation and that it cannot afford to continue with the poor in t. however the government in shift and it has the support of the majority of the population that this point team needs to continue because it has helped this country save lives and that's a priority for president i've got to fight him and there's a right now the government announced that over 900 people have been infected today this brings up the figure in argentina to over 20000 people there are currently infected with coal with 1925 people have lost their life in the last 24 hours this is a record number for argentina and even though we have not seen the ficci or in argentina yet the government has managed to postpone it because of the lockdown in place in post 2 months and a half ago but in spite of that the death toll is expected to go up in the next few weeks and this of course is not a problem unique to argentina in the region other countries are also struggling in

a big way. well certainly cold with 1000 is a major challenge for the region a country a region that has its structure of problems housing problems overcrowding poverty lack of sanitation problems with it public health care system among many other things were referred for example to brazil where already more than 33000 people have lost their lives where indigenous groups are becoming infected with cope at 19 and they're also dying in record numbers countries like to rule on chile are also struggling with the amount of people that are losing their lives but there is one country in central america needs that out where while others were locking down and trying to prevent the spread of the dixie's pressure and danielle or big he said that it was not a major threat ask restaurants and schools to remain open but we've been talking to some doctors in the got out right now and they were telling us that if you do ation

is getting out of control. i would give my underwear and express burial in the middle of the night that's how we see it all had to bury his father could still run by the order of the naked eye one government he's father allegedly had over 1000. when i into the cemetery i had to x. naturally because there were orders that the body must be buried and there was no turning back so the only thing i have to try to do was to stream it so that my friends on facebook could be there with me at the time but i don't when we are going to hold reports of people being buried at night show the death toll of 1000 is higher than the government of the new lot of thing i would like to acknowledge officially only 46 people have died since the pandemic started but independent sources say the number is closer to 980 most death certificates say the deceased died of a typical pneumonia. critics say the government was also behind

a campaign to convince. population that been demick will only attack the rich. we are battling private 19 about extreme measures radical measures that would kill the country and the people we are keeping regular activities open and taking special measures to protect the most vulnerable. but among the dead are journalists like more this who also allegedly died of covert 1000 his relatives blame the government for how he was treated. they killed him and this is murder they did not give us any information of what was happening we will continue fighting as christoper gate it is back out in the recliner nobody can say anything they have a muscle in the mouth all takers are the owners of nicaragua they are the owners of . doctors in the country have created an independent commission as

reports show hospitals are struggling to cope with a situation. where the 2nd poorest country in the region we come off to haiti with horrible hygiene conditions trash collection is not working and the capital people don't have any water 24 hours a day the government is not taking any measures to protect the population. when you lot of the guy has when he got i was president since 2007 and has battled opposition brutally in the past few years the fear is that his denial of 19 will have devastating effects in a country that is already in desperate need. world leaders businesses and philanthropists have raised nearly $9000000000.00 for worldwide vaccination programs organizers say the money will be helping you know is hundreds of millions of children against measles and polio it also includes deals for corona virus vaccines for poor countries only entre has more. in the past

20 years one thing has reduced child mortality by ha that's vaccinations but since the coronavirus outbreak many countries have suspended their immunization programs putting 80000000 babies at risk preventable diseases like measles polio cholera and barea. being wiped out but the world health organization is now reporting outbreaks of measles in cambodia and the pool and clusters of cholera in ethiopia there with is the hard won gains may be eroded we cannot exchange one deadly outbreak for another we cannot afford to lose. and everyone has work so far. we need a joint concerted effort by accident nations track and there are many ways to do this wild leaders pledged $8800000000.00 at

a virtual vaccine summit to ensure $300000000.00 children between now and 2025 get the protection they need a pledge to die is $300000000.00 australian dollars total it comes to mind also on the agenda how to make an eventual vaccine against covert 19 available to those who need it most not just the countries who can afford it i would like to announce the launch of the covert 19 global vaccine access facility or kovacs facility as recalling that participating countries will receive access to a portfolio of vaccines procured by the facility and based upon an allocation framework an added negotiated price. the race to find a vaccine is unprecedented what usually takes 10 years is being attempted in 18 months to debar it trees are pulling ahead of the pack with small but successful clinical trials oxford university is testing its vaccine on a 1000 volunteers while the u.s.

biotech company more done a announced its vaccine had already generated antibodies in 8 volunteers who have a does develop a successful vaccine stands to make millions despite calling for a new era of global health cooperation at the summit the u.k. and the u.s. have refused to back a w.h.o. initiative that would make an eventual vaccine patent free both countries have already reserved millions of doses of the future vaccine but the u.n. is warning against vaccine nationalism because with corona virus unless everyone is safe no one is safe. al-jazeera. well it's enough for money for who's an assistant professor of population health science to mount sinai hospital school of medicine and she explains why it's important to support and fund vaccination campaigns. one of the things that is clear and this happens with every outbreak is that the death toll from nonviolence is much greater than that from the parents in this particular

digs children where we see everyone. is $100.00 from baxley in the brain diseases and it's probably $1000.00. other things it's not just malaria tb in a jar b. which are. ongoing and so and looking at these diseases like measles which not killed 10 times as many kids in the congo as a bullet then we've had these vaccines the 50 years so we try to really back we we should have been able to eradicate museums by now and indeed the words and jessica richard wish to do so which has also been to round. but i think what's really is that rig you know we need doesn't like to back scene we need public euro and we need primary health care to bernie now where the constitutional court has upheld the results of last month's presidential election declared the ruling party's candidate. the winner the opposition ledged widespread irregularities catherine soy

has more now from nairobi but this ruling does not come as a surprise atoll we did speak to some people in blue in the hall say that they did not expect anything else they believe that the constitutional court is not independently also r.d.s. spoke to agatha that he was a presidential candidate he filed the petition and he says that he also didn't expect any justice to come his way now he says he's going to take this matter to the east africa court of justice where he hopes that he is going to get a fair day in court we don't want anyone to use this as a lever to. any citizen. we have to to do to talk with those who are. pretending to be voted in to see how do we do we move forward while agathon ross i inquired state that there were

massive irregularities across the country he said that he supporters was intimidated arrested someone killed by government forces he says that there was a lot stop feeling that some individuals voted was to pull times using identities of the dead identities of bru indians who fled the country during a lecture of violence in 2015 as well he also says that the voter register has never been published was not published before the voting took place and some of his claims have been backed by the catholic church which issued a statement saying that some of the observers the catholic church of the had about 6000 observers across the country so the religious leaders say that some observers were kicked out of tal voting and counting centers as well and they say that this made it very difficult for observers independent observers to really

document what was going on and because of this it's very difficult to say that this election was credible but the judges of the constitutional court have said look there is not enough evidence to back this claims and this means that. announcement preliminary at least announcement by the electoral commission stands that the ruling party candidate general in the schmear is the victor in this election with about 69 percent of the vote against 24 percent of the vote that. russia's president has declared a state of emergency in the arctic circle after a huge oil spill where 20000 tons of diesel have leaked into a river from a power plant is paul brennan. 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 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 . and investigation into why this specific tank ruptured is under way. 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 pull brennan al-jazeera the united nations says police in the philippines may have killed tens of thousands of people since the government began its war on drugs in 2016 it says

that president roderigo deter his crackdown may have granted please permission to kill it's calling for an independent investigation government figures suggest more than 8000 people have been killed but other estimates put the number 3 times higher . and that's it for this i'll be back in a couple of minutes with another of our viewers perhaps we'll see that happening. rewind i can't bring your people back to life i'm sorry but dates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries the struggle continues but for too long for use distance rewind continues with australia's last generation ever covered from call on is a really important issue suicide writes do or mine very high we're still twice the

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