it is just the opportunity for the girls to recover between those 2. sides a supporting full strong climate policy from the government to reduce emissions without the situation on the get worse. paying their respects the people of george floyd's home city filed past his body ahead of his funeral on in minneapolis the former police officer charged with his murder makes his 1st appearance in court. i'm aaron taylor this is our 0 live from london also coming up north korea and now it says it's cutting off all communication with the south. libya's u.n. backed government makes more games as

a key figure from the arrival of ministration makes a surprise appearance in moscow. and marching to the beat of a different drum india defies its growing coronavirus told to reopen shops and places of worship. center 2 weeks after 46 year old black man george floyd died under the knee of a police officer sparking a global wave of protest the accused killer has faced court there it show been has been charged with 2nd and 3rd degree murder as well as 2nd degree manslaughter he appeared by video link in a minneapolis court as the charges were read thousands of people queued to pay their respects to george ford's body in his home city of houston his funeral will be held there on tuesday and as the protests grow they're trying to defund the police has become louder counselors in minneapolis have already committed to

dismantling the department or new york and los angeles i've also vowed changes to funding john hendren is live from houston and john has been moving a scene there tell us a bit more about what's been going on. with lauren we are entering our 6 of 6 hours of viewing of the body of george ford crowds who have been lining up by the 100 you can see behind me there hearse that brought him here to this ceremony we turn to some of the people in line in the people i talked to all of them said they didn't know george flu. personally but they felt it was an important moment in history to recognize some of them came as far away as it lanta at many are from here and they said everyone should be here everyone should pay their respects that's what one young lady told me and this of course is just the latest in a number of stops for the commemoration of george floyd there was one memorial

service in on thursday in minneapolis there was one in north carolina where he was born and then of course now in houston a day after the viewing today on tuesday we will have the funeral that funeral will be presided over by the reverend al sharpton there will be a video by joe biden the vice president of united states who met with the floyd family earlier today. took some pictures one of them with the daughter giana who's just 6 years old and we also have had a number of parents of young african-americans who have been killed by police just a little bit away from where i'm standing right now who spoke to the crowd talking about the need to end the shootings of young unarmed african-americans and they were there with the reverend sharpton and also with the family of george floor and . it will be put to rest but the movement as you describe it is going to continue isn't it. that's right and that's what we heard

a lot of earlier the reverend sharpton was saying this is the time that he wants to turn this moment into a movement this is the time to seize on and so what they're hoping for is that people will continue the demonstrations peacefully that have been going on across the united states and that they'll push you know various parts of this movement but the goal to make gold is making sure that young black young men and women are not killed by police but they have some other agenda items like right now we're seeing push for defunding the police in some places like minneapolis. there is talk of completely disbanding the police department and others there's talk of just sort of shifting money into things like mental health and homelessness and poverty here so this is a board big sweeping movement this is the end of the journey really here for george floyd but the continuation of the movement that he launched john hendren thank you

very much indeed. a call to minneapolis has set a $1250000.00 bail for show when the police officer charged with 2nd degree murder in children and staff joshua name has been it was a quick preliminary hearing as they usually are chauvelin gave perfunctory answers when called on and the judge gave the prosecution everything they asked for the judge set bail at $1250000.00 without any conditions but if showed when can come up with 1000000 dollars he could get out on bail as long as he abides by the following conditions he does not leave the state of minnesota without permission he surrenders his gun and permits he does not have any contact with george lloyd's family and he does not attempt to work in law enforcement or any kind of security job charges were upgraded last week once these minnesota attorney general took over

the case the 2nd degree murder charge in the state of minnesota means that the prosecution would have to prove that show vin killed george floyd intentionally or that he killed floyd while committing another felony it is predicted that the prosecution will take that latter strategy the attorney general has already said that this will be a difficult case to get a conviction on he is asking for the public's patience but of course protesters have 0 patience especially when lives are at stake. or despite widespread calls to take away the funding or disband police forces across the u.s. president don't trump says it won't happen and i'm very proud of them. there will be defining there won't be dismantling of our police and they're not going to be any disbanding of our police our police have been letting us live in peace so we

want to make sure we don't have any bad actors in there and sometimes you'll see some horrible things like we witnessed recently but 99 i say 99.9 but let's go with 99 percent of them are great great people and they've done jobs that are record setting record setting white house correspondent can really help it has more. in the view of this white house they are essentially saying there to paul that the suggestion by some democrats that there be a defining of the police force they say this is the left going too far. and in fact they say that no one in the white house agrees with this no one in america does either now obviously that's not true because there are many in the left in the united states who are calling for this it can take a number of forms it could mean that there is some money that is slashed from budgets put into social programs economic programs to help companies rather communities that have been affected disproportionately by crime and other issues

that require the police to be called but in the midst of this we should be clear well the trumpet ministration says that it does not support it also that is true of some very prominent democrats particularly house speaker nancy pelosi and also the man who is trying to win the white house come november against donald trump us the former vice president joe biden in fact his campaign putting out a statement saying that they are not calling for a defunding of police forces in the united states instead he says there is an urgent need for reform. some breaking news now north korea says it will completely cut off all communication with south korea and north korea's state news agency says south korea has been dodging heavy responsibility and acting with what it calls treacherous and coming behavior. into a korean hotline's with south korea from noon tuesday nicol time 300 g.m.t. as the 1st step towards completely shutting down or means of contact with so

correspondent robin bryant joins us so the phone from the south korean capital seoul rope or so behind this move. yeah we have been expecting something like this the relations have been deteriorating gradually for a number of weeks here between north and south north korea's growing frustration that the fact that all of its nuclear negotiations with the united states seems to be stalled basically almost in a deep freeze at the moment and this seems to be the north's way of lashing out blaming the nearest person they can which of course is south korea it is of a concern these hot lines are very important keep communications going between the north and south across the heavily fortified militarized the d.m.z. to stop any possible miscommunications or misunderstandings these the lines were protein places you'll recall relations failed to an all time 2070 with north

korea's nuclear and long range missile testing before that of course you just had megaphones talking to each other across the barbwire so it is significant we knew that there was something afoot yesterday monday when the south may want to be 2 daily phone calls to north korea is it done as it does every day on the call. so there was a split suspicion that something was up so this does seem to be north korea confirming. relations. remain to be seen how far it takes it is just said that he's going to start treating the south more or less as an enemy it remains to be seen the if it's going to follow this up with tougher action maybe words against the united states which it has avoided so far also well worryingly would be a return to any of its longer range missile testing. prize thank you very much does that live update on the breaking news that north korea thank you. maybe is you and

or scotland bound to take back the country's east starting with a strategic city if it is hoping to build on a series of victories against the forces of 100 highly for have to panic china. the road leading into sirte is wide open remnants of destruction tell a story of conflict old and. military positions abandoned by the warlords khalifa haftar self declared libyan national army fleeing their advancing enemies we meet abdul hamid on a field commander for d.n.a. forces he says his brother was killed in sirte in the fight to liberate the city from i saw in 2016. i thought i controlled the city for several months before forces primarily from misrata liberated its people and it's a good foothold in libya for. this is personal.

morale is high we have entered the western gates of sirte and a position in the south the latest territorial gains by forces of the government of national court in tripoli follow a series of defeats warlords for hostile building on their momentum in western libya forces loyal to the internationally government of national court have made significant gains for the city of sirte this is checkpoint 51 of the gates leading to the city of sirte government forces tell us they have partially surrounded the city all of them involved. and we have entered the city borders of and have surrounded it because on the city residents to force have to force us to leave the city we sacrificed of a 770 men to liberate from i so that we will not leave the city to do war criminals have to. strategic repositioning on the coast of central 3rd is critical to both harper and the d.n.a. for any possible peace talks. whether the will be met with

the weaker than britain in a prolonged battle with an warmer gadhafi hometown would mean. it's the 3rd time he was told until 9 years ago that the 3 has been a war zone about 3 now over there are just outside the city of sirte in libya as libya's un recognized government continues to retake territory a key figure from another warring administration has appeared in moscow for talks again a saturday they speaker of the parliament based into brooke was also at saturday's talks in cairo alongside ward khalifa haftar and egypt's president a cease fire they announced there was rejected by the un recognized government in tripoli at least 5 civilians have died in russian air strikes on syria in attacks targeted rebel held areas in general as are we are in southern italy province and

several other people were injured in the fastrack since the russian and turkish cease fire was agreed on march the 5th sation followed an escalation of violence that displaced nearly a 1000000 people. still ahead this half hour despite the fears of parents and teachers classes resume in most south african schools. and new zealand lifts nearly all of its restrictions to declare itself run a virus free. skies across much of the southeast of australia cools what that means by night is we have goals very cold place in fact look at this a beautiful start the morning this is in the northeast of tasmania temperatures across this area actually dip down as there was minus 5 degrees celsius but it made

for a very picturesque start so the morning now temperatures will obviously rise as we go through the day 1414 across into place and we should have some pretty good guys so it will be sunny but even so we could see want to into sydney just really long these coasts as in new south wales the next couple of days mostly dry across both of new zealand and also bad day choose to out across western australia so fine and dry in perth but by wednesday there is a front beginning to slide its way towards the west coast it doesn't actually really quite make it there so another fine day with a high of 24 degrees celsius and more showers really developing throughout the day through the northeast of new south wales and again pushing up into coastal areas of queens on so just 23 business with a chance of wanted to show even a stray thunderstorm and then across towards asia of course the bulk of the rains here across the south some very strong thunderstorms and you can see this water spout actually forms off the coast of hong kong plenty more rain in the forecast they becoming rather more extensive on wednesday and it could lead to flooding and mudslides.

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or one of the top stories here on al-jazeera the former police officer accused of killing george floyd has appeared in court for the 1st time derek show been appeared by video link bail was set at 1.2 $5000000.00. thousands of people have queued to pay their respects to george floyd's body in his home city of houston his funeral will be held there on tuesday. and north korea says it will completely cut off all communication with south korea state news agency says south korea has been acting what it called treacherous and cunning behavior and into korean hotlines would be severed in the coming hours. life is returning to normal in new zealand as the country lifts all of its coronavirus restrictions except for border control is one of the 1st nations in the world to declare itself virus free social distancing is no longer required and there are no limits on public gatherings prime minister just in darden imposed a strict lockdown for 7 weeks with most businesses shot and everyone except

essential workers told to stay at home. when hey trying to cut from cambridge in the north and when how the change is being welcomed. well i think for the most part with a lot of enthusiasm certainly there's a sense of pride and celebration in new zealand at how well the country the government has handled the situation yes some people have been critical of how long it's taken for the government to make that decision to lift most of those remaining coronavirus restrictions but again for the most part i think that the way that the government has handled it the way new zealand as for the most part followed the rules put in place by the government is being welcomed here and celebrated as you mentioned what the latest announcement by the government really means is that most of those restrictions being eased apart from the board closures so it will have a big effect on things like out retail shops restaurants cafes that means there's

no now no need for social distancing that means that they can go about operating those businesses with a lot more he says there's no limit on the number of people that they can allow into those premises in fact there's no limits on the number of people who can attend any sort of gathering including sports events we're seeing professional rugby resuming this weekend in new zealand obviously very important to most new zealand is the sport of rugby so they're expecting those professional rugby games to be almost sold out so tens of thousands of people cramming into sports stadiums to watch those matches which will be among the 1st in the world as well to be played in front of live crowds so yes again there's a sense of celebration a new zealand that's comes through this situation that it is now free of any active coronavirus cases and for the most part it is open to business again and watched a long time out from economy that. well i think it was a very interesting comment from just interrupted and the prime minister in that

press conference on monday when she announced this decision saying that new zealand is now one of the if not the most open economies in the world so i think there was a real desire there from her to perhaps sos some positivity back into the economy and send a message to the rest of the world i think you have to look at it in 2 phases really in the initial after a period of economic an activity that lock down period inevitably we're going to see a bit of a bounce back from that we're seeing retail sales spiking so generally there is a an air of positivity at the moment after a lot of negativity out brought on by that lock down period but the long term outlook is still fairly grim like much of the rest of the will most economists in new zealand operatic to a deep recession unfold this country it's a country that relies because of its isolation heavily on exports and tourism we saw exports in april down around 4 percent on the same period a year ago so not design stress but i think there is concern that that figure could

get a lot says recession bites in other countries and the way around the world meaning that those countries will effectively be buying less of new zealand's products in fact the main export an affair new zealand is tourism so a lot of concern around that sector of course because it's gone to absolutely nothing in terms of international tourism because those borders are closed and they will remain so in effect indefinitely with one caveat the governments of new zealand and australia are continuing to discuss a trans tasman bubble basically allowing the borders between the 2 countries to reopen sometime in the future when hayes thank you very much indeed. shopping most restaurants and places of worship are reopening in india months after the government imposed the world's largest lockdown but corona virus infections are still rising india is reporting to more than a quarter of a 1000000 cases and over 7000 deaths it is a prayer and i reports from new delhi. the

bagging of drums welcomes worshippers to new delhi's 500 year old man temple along with a man dressed as the temples namesake hindu isms much loved monkey god hunnam on while priests offer praise the ancient rituals include some new guidelines like temperature checks satta taishan tunnels mosques and limited numbers of people to ensure social distancing the opening of religious places as being welcome to the country where 80 percent of people say religion is very important to them as. god is the supreme being and he's going to make everything ok there is no greater doctor than guard he's gone through all the sadness in the world that are different doctors but every ailment but god is supremely zonta. most of the restaurants also reopened with the same restrictions as temples and while some sharp point as welcome to the business activity others were apprehensive

. because like restart the march. just starting in india and we were in the air pulled in corona was just playing with us and. the numbers it's not like buy. it start the job this is one of delhi's most popular morals which should have opened at midday local time but most of the shops are still closed and there are very few customers some states have clued in maharashtra which is worst hit by the corona virus and indeed administered kashmir have decided to keep such a status in its shot because of the rising number of cases. we know that the health experts say while medical facilities have been improved the government is still under reported the number of cases and deaths testing needs to go up deaths need to be reported accurately and we need studies which recalls the logical so obvious would just tell us how many people have already been exposed to the virus and that has not happened even though we're well into the epidemic. an epidemic which

government leaders say people must learn to live with because the cost of the lock down with 120000000 people jobless is too high to pay a little bit purana al-jazeera new delhi. kernan virus is spreading rapidly in south africa with more than half of its 48000 cases recorded in just the past fortnight but most schools have reopened with peoples in their final years of primary and secondary school returning to class and some of the parents are concerned the country isn't prepared for the move i mean the minute reports from johannesburg. it's an anxious start to the day at whispery primary school in johannesburg so we're all scared i'm scared but yeah my word and we are doing everything as prescribed to keep your child safe principal sheldon macone speaks to parents gathered outside the school many say they're not confident that enough has been done to safeguard their children as will do if you have apparently said i

don't know what the reopening was delayed by a week after teachers unions and parents complained about a lack of personal protective equipment and poor sanitation at some schools the government says 95 percent of schools are now ready but some parents don't feel reassured we already we all worried and for it being put out there to 2 parents who say do not worry how do you not worry as a parent. thousands of students in the hotting province are discovering their school routine is now very different they're having to wear masks and keep their distance from others their temperatures are also checked while they stand in the cold waiting for others to be registered and screamed it's been a nightmare. you know the amount of hours we've put into this. it enormous. after all yes there was involved in his own meeting with politicians bartlett

officials you know trying to determine exactly how really we are because it's something new for everybody you can say you really and then something comes up that you haven't thought about counseling services are available but many parents and teachers are concerned about how while children will adapt to their return and catching up on their schoolwork. many of the children here say they're excited to be back in school but also nervous in the last week alone at least 2 schools in the west and play province was shot after teachers tested positive for the corona virus here in 141 school has remained closed after it was far the student has the disease . inside classrooms students have to stay at their desks and socializing in the playground is banned while online schooling will continue for those who want to stay at home for schools with fewer resources that's not an option the school is giving out education packs for parents to collect but as the number of covert 1000

infections in south africa grows sharply many say they're being forced to balance between educating their children and keeping them and themselves safe from either miller al-jazeera johannesburg in the u.k. new measures have come into effect demanding that anyone entering must self isolate for 14 days rule breakers could be fined nearly $1300.00 but the move has drawn criticism over timing how it will work and what impact it could have on the economy john howell reports from london. new 14 day quarantine rules for passengers arriving at u.k. ports of entry are sure to deter international travel and may well put the brakes on a much anticipated summer recovery for the travel industry. 3 of britain's largest airline groups ryanair easyjet and british airways owners i.a.g. are taking the government to court it is devastating to envelop visitors to british

britain's tools or it is tourism industry it's going to cause destroy millions of jobs in a hotel guest how this is true it's attractions all over the closely during the peak most of july you know is so it's not only irrational only implementable but it's entirely disproportionate to the effect it's going to have on the cynical don't see the point government says of confining incoming travelers with few exceptions to a fortnight of self isolation is to limit the spread of coronavirus from abroad and help prevent a 2nd wave of infection if so say critics why apply quarantine measures across the board including to countries with lower infection rates than the u.k. particularly since the science the government says it's relying upon seems to suggest instead focusing on countries with higher infection rates and in any case why do it now when this is something that might more usefully have been applied 2

or 3 months ago at the height of britain's epidemic new arrivals on monday pointed out other problems from here to home on the use of public transport. so if i'm a courier now then how would they control it how would you know if i have spread it to anyone else so there's no truck of that at all. and then. it's just filling up a form but the the bus was full of us so all the plane was in the bus even before we get to the flight they say keep your social this things keep your mask on and all that stuff but the bus was literally 30 centimeters between all of us. and threats of further job losses mount with some in the travel and hospitality sector warning they won't survive the loss of some of business it's normally one of the world's busiest airports but heathrow is a desolate place now with up to

a 3rd of its staff count said to be in jeopardy all the more so as new government rules mean many of these planes will stay grounded journal al-jazeera at london's heathrow airport plenty more for you any time on our web site address that is al-jazeera dot com and you can also watch us live by clicking on the orange live icon al-jazeera dot com. our mind of the top stories on al-jazeera the former police officer accused of killing george floyd has appeared in court for the 1st time derek show been appeared by video link he's charged with 2nd and 3rd degree murder and 2nd degree manslaughter bail was set at $1250000.00 thousands of people queued to pay their respects to george ford's body at his home city of houston his funeral will be held there on tuesday they have been previous memorials

in minneapolis where he died and in north carolina where he was born u.s. house of representatives speaker nancy pelosi was one of several politicians who knelt in silence in the capitol building to mark floyd's death the democrats' own veiled a police reform bill which they say aims to create structural change. despite widespread calls to take away the funding or disband police forces across the u.s. president don't trump says it won't happen in a very proud of them. there will be defining there will be dismantling of our police and the doctor to be dispensing of our police our police have been letting us live in peace so we want to make sure we don't have any bad actors in there and sometimes you'll see some horrible things like we witnessed recently but 99 i say 99.9 but let's go with 99 percent of them great great people and they've done

jobs that are record setting record setting north korea says it will completely cut off all communication with south korea north korea's state news agency says south korea has been dodging heavy responsibility and acting with what it called treacherous and cunning behavior kellyann will 7 into korean hotlines from noon cheese day to full time that's 300 g.m.t. . and life is returning to normal in new zealand as the country lifts all its coronavirus restrictions except for border control it's one of the 1st nations in the world to declare itself virus free social distancing is no required and there are no limits on public gatherings. coming up the young buck says punching out racial stereotypes this is europe is next i source africa as protests rage over police brutality and coronavirus grips the nation campaigning on the election trail

has been forced to take a back seat will the presidential candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the full follow the us elections on a. time of in of this land. use something from here to metal box keep us nibble at mugs.