be the hero world needs right now. he believes. honoring george showing that memorial services are how to remember the african-american who died during a police arrest. hello there i'm the stars here today and this is al jazeera live from die hard also coming up a u.s. navy veteran held by iran for almost 2 years is released as part of a deal that saw washington free and iranian scientists another record high for

carbon dioxide in the atmosphere despite reduced emissions because of the current virus and. scott hi there in bangkok thailand where the ever important tourism industry has been heavily impacted by corbett 90 but now the government is trying to position the country as one of the safest destinations in the world wants to finally opens back up. now a memorial service has been held honoring george floyd is the african-american man whose death and police custody sparked protests across the united states and around the wilds freud was celebrated by civil rights icons and family members in an emotional ceremony in minneapolis the city where he died john hendren reports. the minneapolis police chief took a knee as the hearse bearing george floyd passed

a barrel of respect for the man whose death at the hands of his officers launched a national movement. they need. inside a minneapolis memorial service george floyd was remembered as a family man a gentle giant who adored his 6 year old daughter giana now fatherless it's crazy. all these people came to see my brother and that's amazing to me that he touched so many people hawt. he was also remembered as the spark that set off often fiery protests in more than a dozen cities across the u.s. a movement the reverend al sharpton urged mourners throughout the country to continue it's time for us to stand out in charges made and say good job and meet. this crowd of hundreds of people didn't come with invitations they came to pay their respects to george for it and there's such

a demand to do so that there will be multiple memorial services one in his state of birth north carolina on saturday another in his former hometown of houston on monday and then a funeral on tuesday. as the memorial took place a key demand of the floyd family was fulfilled 3 of the police officers who detained floyd in his final moments faced hearings for new charges of aiding and abetting 2nd degree murder the 4th officer derek children who note on floyd's neck some of the charges against him elevated from 3rd degree murder to 2nd degree a charge that suggests the killing of floyd was intentional but for those mourning the 46 year old man the charges mark just the beginning my brother's gone. with the floyd nice to live soon as floyd family prepares to take him from his adopted home city for the last time the demonstrations that began when he uttered his final words i can't breathe continue john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis.

protesters have again been out on the streets of washington d.c. and many of them gathered outside the white house where more barriers have been pushed up to try to keep demonstrators at a distance boss as our correspondent you have a 10 day explains a nighttime curfew is now no longer in place. national dog that we saw this time yesterday no sign of them we know they're here we know the 4500 national guard who are deployed around the city but there's always a real effort now to keep them away from the line of sight and of course that will that means is when there's no hope for a provocative presence of heavily armed uniforms uniformed personnel on the streets and member these are protests about heavily armed uniformed personnel that everything tends to go off rather peacefully and that's what we're seeing tonight another peaceful night of protest there were some people here just about 10 minutes ago a bunch of them are just walked in that direction we have this fence which we now understand will be taken down according to the authorities in the middle of next

week but barely any real security presence but we do know that it's here not just the 4 $1500.00 national guard but also the active duty troops that we often hear about that's become a point of control the sea within the administration stationed around the city who couldn't be here within the hour and run again with that would have been next ben that's we're often told so much of a compromise appears to be reached whereby of the $6800.00 who are currently stationed about $700.00 will be returning home so that they leave about $900.00 in the d.c. d.c. area all the american civil liberties union is taking legal action now against president trump and his administration accusing him of violating the rights of protesters. who remember that on monday police in washington d.c. used tear gas and stun grenades take a peaceful protest us from the puck near the white house and this was done to make

way for trump so he could pose for a photo op asked a nearby chat. now a judge in the u.s. state of georgia has ruled that the 3 men charged with the matter of a black man will go on trial. was chased and shot several times by retired white police officer and his son back in february but they were only charged in may after a video of that shooting led to nationwide protests and reports. a mode 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 heard 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 arrival 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 systems are very in the people of brunswick the system bent over backwards not to make an arrest to distort the facts and the law yet 6 no amount of breeze death led to protests in 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 answers. that i would get asked if that was my promise that's the last thing that i told him that they have is for all of their mama will get to the bottom of it the court was told that i'm owed aubrey 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 missed to operate was chased hunted down and ultimately executed on the gallacher al-jazeera miami florida now and other news a u.s. navy veteran has arrived in switzerland after being released by iran michael whites had been detained since 2018 president donald trump thanked terror on for his release and comes a day off to an iranian scientist sirus askari arrived back in tehran off to being

freed from prison in the u.s. i would do it extend my personal thanks to president trump for his efforts both diplomatically and otherwise and making america great again and for what's going to happen here in the future. to go shooting with the iranians is never a linear process there's a lot of stops and starts you have to be very patient this is a regime that has been taking americans hostage for 41 years and our diplomacy has been successful and we're going to keep working at it this appears to be the 2nd prisoner swap deal and 6 months in december iran ready she you won the chinese american princeton university scholar help for 3 years on why they disputed espionage charges in exchange for the release of another detained iranian scientist . now brazil has overtaken to record the 3rd highest number of craven 1000 deaths in the wild that's after it broke its daily death toll record for the 4th day now in

a row more than 1400 deaths were confirmed on thursday pushing the total above $34000.00 brazil is latin america's worst affected country and president i have also has been widely criticized for dismissing the risk of the virus saying on tuesday that death was everyone's destiny now argentina has extended its lockdown until the end of the month as it struggles to control the spread of private 19 isn't through the restrictions on movement and businesses in the capital one as aries but measures will be relaxed in other parts of the country the lockdown has now been in place since march argentina reported its highest daily number of new infections on wednesday the total has now passed $20000.00 and they have been more than 600 deaths senegal's government is easing some coronavirus restrictions after 2 nights of protests in several cities there more than 200 people were arrested reports from the capital dhaka angry at the government's restrictions to contain

the current virus protests years in senegal 2nd largest city bird an ambulance and health center meant to protect them from the outbreak on friday president mikey so announced an extension of the state of emergency including a curfew until the end of june that decision led to demonstrations throughout the country where you have those protesting early birds and the people to travel to the farm lands to plant seeds 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 the car the military was deployed to disperse an angry crowd of residents who were out of work. among the protesters a medusa are. eating good we've got family and. that's hard. thousands of funny cattle herders have been stuck in senegal's luger region since the outbreak began in march the government restrictions on movement designed to curb the virus have coincided with the hardest months 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 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 of been violated by the police many people have been i see talk. tried and sentenced train months 6 months again and this happened in every region of the country. similar protests have taken place in brick enough so when you share according to the u.n. 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 still ahead here on al-jazeera both creatures great and small we look at the world biodiversity plays on our planet and the unprecedented threat that it's now thanks. hello there fairly much warmer across much of the united states still a fair amount of the cloud around and of course once you scattered thunderstorms they will be slow to carry on friday working away crush the east with some heavy rain into the great lakes and also working the way tools the eastern seaboard meanwhile out across the west as i 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 wall 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.

as bombs continue to rain down on afghanistan civilians are paying the ultimate price. no one is listening to these people while those responsible operate with impunity this is about mistakes says about saying sorry and this is the accountability in the news the only count all has anyone from the u.s. military been in touch with. lines investigate afghanistan. in the u.s. . hello

again i must. remind you of our stories this hour memorials have been held in minneapolis and in new york and on a of george floyd whose killing sparked a nationwide outrage and protests the 46 year old black american died after a police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest. the judge in the state of georgia has ruled the 3 men charged with the murder of a black man there will be put on trial. was chased and shot 3 times by a retired white police officer and his son in february but then they were only charged in may after a video of that shooting also led to nationwide protests. a u.s. navy veteran has arrived in switzerland after being released by iran michael why it's had been detained since 28 team president on terror and for his release it comes a day after a rainy and scientist sirus us garri arrived back in iran after being freed from a u.s. prison. now biodiversity is the foundation of life on earth but it's being threatened

like never before and humanity is feeling the impact on wild environment today there are calls for greater efforts to protect the planet's living systems from the largest land mammal on earth to the trillions of microbes in the ocean that help create the ad that will bring cock reports the wonders of the natural world are an antidote to these troubling times especially the extraordinary life you know rationed like the millions of golden jellyfish here in the marine lakes of pirlo a unique subspecies evolved to harvest energy directly from sunlight all the myriad diversity of the world's coral reefs where 25 percent of marine species live but here too there's another biomass which dwarfs everything else combined and it's invisible to the naked eye it's the microbial life of our seas and it's found everywhere from the surface to 4000 meters down and these unseen microbes include

astronomical quantities of viruses that attack marine bacteria all part of the web of life in the sea. in fright every liter of seawater contains no viruses and there are people on the planet 95 percent of all life in the oceans by weights is comprised not of fish or of whales but of microbes. and it is these microbes that create 50 percent of all oxygen on the planet every 2nd breath that we breathe. the problem is from invisible lifeforms to some of the biggest piece on the planet biodiversity is threatened by environmental destruction. for the african elephant it's more than just poaching for the ivory trade who are also facing big big challenges when it comes to happen that transformation for larger industries and of course the biggest

impact that is less talked about which is the increasing population of africans and therefore the competing nature of land between elephants and people. and it's when the ever decreasing frontier between wildlife and humans is breeched disease like corona virus can jump from animals to people out of the 7800000 species that we have on the planet about 1000000 species are under threat from extinction and that's a lot because the nature is this finely attuned by diversifying its human system where each one plays each species plays a role in the bigger puzzle with 19 is clearly one of these messages that we need to understand and heed very fast that you can't continue to undermine and encroach on nature and expect nature to be stable it's apparent that we're at a turning point experts say the era post cove it must be one where we act to save

our environmental heritage or will continue to pay a heavy price nick clarke al-jazeera. well the wells may have ground to a halt during the global pandemic but now u.s. government scientists say the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere still rose to record levels last month covered 19 lockdowns helped carbon dioxide emissions drop by as much as 17 percent in april but that decline was brief scientists warn that carbon dioxide can stay in the f a centuries and long term measures are needed to make a significant difference well we can now speak to thomas newsome his electorate in the school of life and environmental sciences at the university of sydney and he joins me now on skype from sydney thomas people have been pointing to this truck on emissions and sees lock downs were imposed is perhaps the only upside to this pandemic but as we're saying it is set to be short lived and simply isn't enough is it can you give us a check in here just how does where we're at right now compared to where we

actually need to be. well while we're seeing a slight up and very short term draw some of the estimates about 17 percent per day and some of the other estimates annually might be as much as the 4 percent or 7 percent drop over 2020 we've seen c o 2 emissions rise dramatically since the $990.00 s. about $340.00 parts per $1000000.00 to $1.00 of the $410.00 parts per 1000000 and the recent study that just came out has indicated that we're still at the highest levels even looking at records over something like 23000000 years so these these the crimes that we're seeing while they are a sign of the fact that we can make changes and reduce them there is a long way to go because what we really need to get to to maybe aren't. all paris

agreement targets is for example with the coyote only 5 percent allotted to 2000 levels and the paris agreement 26 to 28 percent a lot in 2005 levels by 2030 so we really have a long way to go and the length of time that this short term reduction last fall is really linked to how long the restrictions are placed on people's movements during the pandemic and those restrictions are starting to ease and as they see the 2 emissions will only continue continue to rise thomas i was looking at some of these figures it seems like the fall in road traffic was the main driver of the decline in emissions here and i know that they have shot right back up in the wake of previous economic crisis but is there an opportunity here to try to stay in some of this in a new normal so to speak shifting to having more people work from home for instance or cycle now that we actually know it's possible. well that's a really good point because the the reductions we're seeing in the air if we really

need to make massive changes so the reductions are related to. transport and other things that are really linked to our day to day lives but there hasn't been a major shift in the way energy is produced in the use of fossil fuels and so that the things that we really need to target to get a large scale and sustained and long term reduction in c o 2 emissions where there is sort of an opportunity that he says that the pandemic has created an economic problem quietly and in response to that there are stimulus packages being announced. or throughout europe in the billions and trillions of dollars and the opportunity here is to use those stimulus packages to essentially have a green revolution to tackle climate change because if it is probably

a greater threat than the pandemic that we're placing today so all of those stimulus packages could be tailored and targeted towards. building an infrastructure and an energy projects that shift the major drivers of climate change which are energy and i guess the other area is and restoring part of our city and and retaining biodiversity at the same time thomas nissen met speaking to us from sydney where his electorate at the invest in sydney thanks so much great to get your insights here on out of there tom thank you. now thailand's capital bangkok was named the world's most visited city and 2019 with a 40000000 visitors tourism is often referred to as the engine driving the country's economy but with the status of global travel and the time of this pandemic that engine is running on empty correspondent scott hyde is in bangkok scott thailand has now been easing restrictions partly in the hope that it will

help bring visitors back to talk us through the strategy here. absolutely yeah we're into just the beginning of this week phase 3 was implemented that's for the relaxation of these restrictions because of covert 19 we saw cinemas . touristy areas like here in chinatown here in the capital bangkok they're slowly opening these places now there are still you know registration there most of these locations that have a lot of people coming in with a barcode you have to scan or you write your phone number down so they can trace anybody but you know thailand has been very fortunate in that it's had a very low level of infections and also they were able to quickly flatten their curve so that's something that's encouraging inside because there is such a reliance on tourists coming in that has been the big challenge of the government feels as though they have a plan where they can try to bring back tourists eventually thailand's natural beauty and luxury resorts draw visitors from all over the world and from all walks

of life at least it did before kobe 19 its hotels and beaches now sit empty. the global shutdown has exposed the country's huge economic reliance on the travel industry one that will never be the same after the pandemic and wooing back foreign tourists is not going to be easy but the government has a plan. it's growing the marketing message beyond amazing thailand it's now focused on driving home the idea that the country is one of the safest and cleanest places to visit and launched a health and safety certification program for travel companies or tourists want to know now yes how beautiful the destination is but also is it safe to go there i think safety would be the main concern and if we can give them confidence and have a good stand it it won't be hot when back to. the certification program covers a wide range of cleaning procedures and regulations on how to protect staff and the public the thai hotel group on ataru has already received certification for one of

its bangkok properties at its beach resort in who when they see the certificate as an important credential to have but it's what happens after that's critical. execution of the standards is key. in terms of the manuals and process and the standards that's all very well but it's day to day interaction and delivery from the people that will make the difference. despite having the 1st case of covert $900.00 outside of china thailand has maintained low infection rates and quickly flattened its curve community cooperation and containment measures worked the government now wants to capitalize on that as it calculates reopening bangkok souvenir boom airport here is the country's biggest and busiest over 80 percent of the $65000000.00 passengers last year were international but now it's been reduced to just a trickle of domestic and repatriation flights it's going to stay that way at least until the end of june when the international arrivals ban is lifted it was put in

place back in early april with millions of jobs on the line tyla needs to see it airport's busy again but it will be a slow and steady opening if there is any increase in $1000.00 cases any progress in building travellers confidence could come crashing down so the focus now is on domestic tourism that hotel in our story there they say that they're actually nearly books once they do find they reopen so it's good news for those travel companies but it's not the foreign dollars that they really needed to keep this industry going that's something they're focused on for that later part of this year the 4th quarter they say that then they're going to really target european and north american markets to bring in those dollars that they're so desperately needed but obviously that all depends on how the code in 1000 is doing in those regions before they open up thailand to them. scott who have an bangkok keep an eye on all these developments for us thank you very much. danish scientists have developed a robot powered by also official intelligence that can take coronavirus swabs the

robot scans the patient's id card and prepares a sampling kids performs the swab and puts the sample in a container all ready for testing without human input it's been developed to reduce the infection risk for health care workers and to improve the quality of private 19 testing the team hopes to start testing the 1st patients with that robot by late june. to help. collecting the samples 2nd the role we can guarantee the quality of the samples you get the same procedure repeated again and again which will give better quality of service. now taiwan's president saying when is calling on china to atone for the 1989 chatham and square massacre hundreds of protesters lit candles at taipei's liberty square to mark the 31st anniversary of the crackdown many also turned up to support hong kong where thousands to fire the police band to attend to their annual vigil open

discussion of the massacre is forbidden in mainland china but taiwan's president urged beijing to acknowledge the crackdown in a tweet she said around the world there are $365.00 days in a year yet in china one of those days is purposely forgotten each year in taiwan there were once days missing from our calendar but we've worked to bring them to light i hope that one day china can say the same. i know that this is al jazeera and these are the headlines memorials have been held in minneapolis and new york to honor george floyd whose killing sparked more than a week of protests across the united states the 46 year old black american died after a police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest. it's crazy. all these people came to see my brother. this amazing to me that we the people.

you know that he did such and i was you know. you come to where we from people are crying right now that's how much they love them you know i'm just staying strong is that cane because i need to get it out i need to get it out everybody will just as we want justice to george he's going to get it he's going to get it. while the 3 former police officers charged with aiding and abetting 2nd degree murder in the floyd case have made their 1st appearance in court derek chosen on the left was arrested last week and charged with his murder while the other 3 were in the arrested on wednesday and now a judge in the state of georgia has ruled 3 men charged with the murder of a black man that will be put on trial often aubrey was chased and shot 3 times by a retired a white police officer and his son back in february but they were only charged in may after a video of that shooting also led to nationwide protests a u.s.

navy veteran has arrived in switzerland after being released by iran michael whites had been detained since 2018 president donald trump thanks terror and for his release comes a day off to an iranian scientist sirus askari arrived back in iran after being freed from a u.s. prison brazil has overtaken its lead to record the 3rd highest number of 1000 deaths in the wild that's often reported a wreck or daily death toll for the 4th day now in a row more than $1400.00 deaths were confirmed on thursday pushing the total above $34000.00 senegal's government is easing some coronavirus restrictions after 2 nights of angry protests in several cities a nighttime curfew has now been partially relaxed. well those are the headlines i'll be back with more news here off the fault lines stay with us on out of there as protests rage over police brutality and corona virus grips the nation and

campaigning on the election trail has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and sell their brand of politics to americans before the folds follow the u.s. elections on an. on a saturday morning in kabul families gather to remember their loved ones killed during more than 40 years of conflict in afghanistan and you know as to. this is the memory box example. families put together boxes like this to make sure their loved ones are numbered and put a face to the war's violent cost. its focus service comes to ship. and then because it's.