how do you define an indigenous brits who do they benefit isn't this more about living with defense and you in pieces and who do they contain. the right to live anywhere in the world have every right to leave their country. goes head to head with a cold coming on al-jazeera. morning george floyd the thousands of people in floyd's hometown of houston pay their respects. in while a former police officer in charge of ford's murder makes his 1st appearance in court. and richelle carey this is al jazeera life and also coming up north korea announces it will cut all communications with the south are angry over a leafletting campaign by defectors. in the fight to

regain control of libya back to government troops push east to drive out war work with the have tars forces. thousands of mourners braved long lines and tents 8 and a pandemic to attend a public viewing of george ford's body in houston that's where acre people came from near and far to pay their respects to floyd who was bodies lying in a casket in a texas church or died last month when a white police officer knelt on his neck for almost 9 minutes john hendren reports from houston. george floyd's final journey brought him to his childhood home to this is my way of speaking just by being present i would like to know how ministering to trouble my loans because i know so many black like they speak for every black man but for every one that i know someone has. a friend

a family member a relative someone that died from police brutality and you need to stop at fountain of praise church mourners paid their respects to the open casket inside some who knew him others inspired by the national movement his death represents every one city so you can see what we need to do is so we don't have to do this again disobey the last sunday and we did as they cantered. as a collective whole disobey to last me in a room they came 15 at a time for up to 10 minutes with masks and social distancing to protect from coronavirus for which floyd tested positive in april and in his autopsy george floyd's body has traced the path of his life the 1st in a series of memorials began in minneapolis where he died beneath a police officer's need a never was held in the state of north carolina where he was born both through thousands and now after this viewing in houston on tuesday there will be a funeral after which he is buried next to his mother. his death his inspired

nearly 2 weeks of protests from washington d.c. to los angeles as mourners passed by floyd's casket in houston the officer who knelt on his neck derek children appeared in court in minneapolis officer direct children should be tried to a couple murdered because what he did was premeditated he knew what he was doing he should be treated like any other civilian would be treated if they would murder somebody like the way mr play with murder on tuesday his funeral will feature the reverend al sharpton civil rights lawyer benjamin crump in a video by former vice president joe biden who met privately with floyd's family on monday his death inspired a movement but his family says on tuesday they will celebrate his life which inspired them john hendren al-jazeera houston. george floyd's brother spoke outside the service found not to give up on the fight for justice. i'm just right now

richard even though everybody coming out. to personalize the deal is tough. i mean. thank you all so much. for coming out what. all of the families will be today. michael brown. 30340 really. you really are the only thing i didn't do every time. i think you know we just can't marry we we're not going to close. it well minneapolis former police officer terrace of on has made his 1st court appearance he's facing charges of 2nd degree murder and said it more than a $1000000.00 name has been following the hearing. 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 of show 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 floyd's family and he does not attempt to work in law enforcement or any kind of security job shoguns 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 the u.s. house of representatives paid tribute to george floyd ahead of unveiling legislation proposed legislation that is congress hopes it will change the way police departments operate the members not for 8 minutes and 46 seconds the same period of time for a pen to the ground by a police officer with a knee on his neck the democrats are proposing legislation that if approved would make it easier to prosecute police misconduct and president all trump has hit back at calls to defund police departments following points to. i'm very proud of them. there will be defining there will 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 would destroy 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 is threatening to cut off hotlines with south korea and state news agency says it'll be the 1st step towards completely shutting down all communication between the 2 sides as the latest in a series of threats and recent days don yang is demanding sole stop defectors from sending propaganda leaflets and to north korea robin pride joins us live now from seoul so how serious of a setback is this rob. this is certainly a worrying development for south korea the president him and jane has been speaking even the last couple of weeks about trying to breathe new life back into the

stalled into korean relations but we have been getting increasingly harsh words from north korea and it all seemed to come to a head last week with a direct threat from north korea to close down its all important liaison office in the border city of case on between north 'd and south korea if the south koreans didn't stop these groups of defectors and other right wing groups from launching these balloons that carry propaganda messages into north korea they say it's now seem to carry through on that threat it was taken seriously by south korea because within a few hours of them issuing that warning the south koreans started to introduce legislation to try to make it harder for people to release these balloons so certainly the south koreans i think realize that relations were at this tipping point if the north koreans do go ahead with their threat by today tuesday to cut all of the hotlines that have been in existence between north and south korea then

it does take us back to the kind of level of communication that we have seen during previous crises across the d.m.z. most recently of course back in 2017 when the only way that you can communicate between north and south is by nega phone across the barbed wire obviously no one wants to see a return to those days and especially of course with the kind of tensions that existed because of the nuclear and missile testing which thankfully we haven't seen to the same extent yet want like everything north korea's telling us now. i mean a couple of things i think there is a growing frustration in north korea about the way that the negotiations with the united states just haven't gone anywhere they have can being completely stalled and the u.s. of course has far greater things on its plate at the moment than the nuclear arsenal that exists in north korea that this is a way possibly of putting pressure on south korea to in turn pressure the united

states also it is a way of baby getting a message directly to donald trump himself the north koreans still regard trump especially as he approaches this u.s. election as being their best and only chance of getting some relief from sanctions so this is a last throw of the trump dice if you like from the north koreans i think it's also possibly for domestic consumption north korea still claims it as not been touched by covert 19 but of course it has become more isolated as a result of that its economy has suffered because of closing off its border with china there have been lots of speculation about the health of kin joe and i think this is all the way of the kim regime saying that it is still very much in charge and in control ok. song thank you libya's u.n. backed government has vowed to take back the country's east starting with the strategic city of sirte earthing to build on a series of victories against former cliff

a half taras forces l.-a traina has us report the road leading into the 3rd is wide open remnants of destruction tell a story of conflict old and new military positions abandoned by the warlords who leave for half 2 years so it will be a national army we are advancing enemies we need to have. 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 saw i controlled the city for several months before forces primarily from misrata liberated its people and is the group's foothold in libya. for abdul. 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 the 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. 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. strategically positioned on the coast of central syria is critical to both and the g.n.a.s. for any possible peace talks. while there has been forces will be met with stiff resistance threatening a prolonged battle within the home town remains to be seen. is the 3rd

time since he was posing killed 9 years ago that the city has been a war zone now a training al-jazeera just outside the city of sirte in libya. still ahead on al-jazeera new york city employees turned on their boss demanding the mayor take action over police violence to restore their livelihoods. and his take on their police forces accused of killing people during the lockdown. had other plans of heavy rain across central and southern areas of china as the seas will raise this time of year the my you buy you friends and that's what this

long trading amount of cloud is all about because it does produce some very heavy thunderstorms this particular storm small one day a waterspout over the waters just off the coast of hong kong we could see a few more of those on cheeses and very heavy amounts of rain some pretty strong thunderstorms throughout chooser the rains beginning to push into western areas of japan the make more headway on wednesday some heavy downpours at times and also beginning to push into southern areas of the korean peninsula but we have this one area really here through more northern areas of china this fine and dry with a high of 35 in a beijing also some dry conditions over the next few days across much of sumatra and also down into java but not across into silhouetted the rains becoming quite heavy as we go through tuesday and wednesday wednesday a scattered showers across much of the philippines and some particularly heavy downpours into more southern areas the thailand that system work its way further east on wednesday so cambodia and vietnam again seeing some pretty hefty down poles and then to into the monsoon rains are making very good progress out across the west the south across into tunnel nodded to the north we've seen some thunderstorms

as an image with a storm brewing but it's mostly clear to the north and still very woman new delhi with a hive 39. scarcity has become a major global issue the demand is going straight up and the supply is going straight down turning an essential natural resource into a commodity traded for profit just because you're a lawyer doesn't mean it's going to be proud of what about the guy that can afford it and that guy still needs water in a new 2 part series out to syria examines the social financial and environmental impact of war to privatized ation loads of food on al-jazeera.

watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you right now thousands of mourners have been paying their respects to george for it at a memorial and houston texas where a corrupt it's the last latest in a series of services hell for floyd whose death as a catalyst for nationwide protests. north korea is threatening to cut off all communication with south korea starting with a hotline young is demanding that seoul stop activists from sending propaganda leaflets into the north and libya's u.n. backed government is vowing to take back the country's east starting with the city of sirte they're hoping to build on a series of recent victories against forklift forces. starting with libya videos emerged that appears to show military officers from the united arab emirates directly training forces loyal to hoff tar.

being trained on a russian made air defense system called the pass or s one also a soft arsed main ally off it all while as a non president senior fellow at johns hopkins university foreign policy institute says this new video is just more evidence of the ladies long known involvement in the libyan conflict in added nations that report says that the u. a has conducted over 850. drone attacks on tripoli over the last 4 months. there is now the. u.n. has now an open investigation. for you a involved in the libya show the u.a.e. evolved into libya is absolutely critical it is also the country reportedly that paid the price or the cause for the wagner group to enter into the service of how they do has been without both political and military and also financial support

that would not be with he is today so today we are looking at additional evidence of a direct involvement in libya and in the attack going tripoli you know all of that humanitarian consequences of that at least 5 civilians have died in russian air strikes on syria the attacks targeted rebel held areas until i was away in southern italy and several other people were injured but they are these are the 1st strike since the russian turkish ceasefire with agreed to on march 5th. france's a tear minister has introduced a ban on police using chokeholds following global outrage over the death of george floyd christoph customer says the method of seizing the neck the a strangle him will be abandoned and no longer talk to officers the french government has come under increasing pressure to address police brutality and racism or than 20000 people protested across france on saturday against racial

injustice. and kenya's capital nairobi activists have been demonstrating against police brutality or into a watchdog. and involved in the killing of 15 people since the country put in and that time curfew in place and march to combat. reports from nairobi. with police. these activists say kenya's police need to be held to account for killings. according to a police oversight body 15 people have been killed by officers in forcing a nighttime curfew to slow the spread of the coronavirus campaigners say that. some of them were killed here in the sari slums we are going all the way every ghetto ghetto to get to telling them to stop killing our oh my kids mind us out crying she says everybody we are all god's babies and justice of police brutality. in march when the curfew introduced in some places it was inforced tear gas and beatings.

this is 13 year old yes he was shot dead in the thory as he stood on his parents' balcony one of the police officers involved was arrested and charged with murder last week. but it's rare for police to be convicted of crimes in kenya. when a homeless man was shot dead in the story last week resident. tires they say police killed him police have denied it. but it prompted the activists to call for peace officers to face justice. i'm here to protest for our youth who have died in the hands of the police without any wrongdoing and we're saying enough is enough as mothers many of our youth have been killed while being labelled as the. kenya's police was created about a century ago by british colonialists it was used to violently put down an independence movement. this is still don't respect people's rights of

people around the world take to the streets against racism and police brutality kenya's activists are calling for change to malcolm webb al-jazeera nairobi kenya and unprecedented protest in new york government employees past and present join calls for police reform within their own city or new york started in 1000 locked down restrictions elizondo reports. fed up and tired hundreds of new york city government workers former and current upset with their boss new york mayor bill de blasio i asked one of the city employees if he thought the mayor has been doing a good job during the recent protests absolutely not he has not done a good job and he's done an atrocious job there calling for the mayor to fire all officers seems using excessive force and also reallocate 1000000000 dollars in the

city's annual budget from the police and put it towards social programs the mayor said he's looking into it but has yet to offer specifics that satisfy the protesters message to the mayor is that we want to be able to have a voice in what goes on in the city we want to be able to talk about funding the fund then if necessary and how we can allocate resources equitably across the city . many of these protesters say they fear retribution that they could be putting their livelihoods are at risk for protesting against a very stupid government that employs nevertheless they say it doesn't matter what's more important is that their message is heard. if you ever seen anything like this city employees past and present coming out like this no it's wonderful i'm i'm grateful that we have the opportunity in the rights of peacefully protest and present our grievances and that's what we're doing here today and i hope the government listens to us the protest came on the same day new york city began phase

one of the reopening after closing down entirely 3 months ago to help curtail the spread of coronavirus the familiar sounds are back. as construction work was allowed to begin again some retail businesses given the go ahead to reopen with tight restrictions. and for the 1st time in months the subway was running on a normal schedule but few people on board a sign that you. city is not even close to being anywhere near what it was like in the days pre-code. most businesses remain closed hundreds like this boarded up in fear of late night looting and no sign of when schools or universities might reopen but on this day the government employees who keep america's largest city running say reopening can't wait their demands to the mayor can't gabriel zonda oh.

new york health organization says it will continue to work with and support the government in the fight against the krajina wireless appeal to the president also to educate its sense about the virus and to report daily cases and deaths in a transparent manner and we will continue to support brazil and the people of brazil in their fight against in their fight against cope with it is at the same time very important that the messages around transparency and sharing of information are consistent and that we're able to rely on our partners in brazil to provide that information to us but more importantly to people to citizens they need to understand what's happening they need to understand where the virus is painted to know how to manage the risks to them and therefore we hopefully trust as any confusion that may exist at the moment can be resolved and that the government of brazil and the states can continue to communicate in a consistent and transparent way. arrivals in britain are now required to put

themselves into quarantine for 2 weeks plane ferry and train passengers including british passport holders must give an address where they will self isolate or face a $1200.00 fine the government says the rules designed to prevent a 2nd wave of infections are critics condemn the restriction as a publicity stunt which will be impossible to enforce qatar will start lifting coronavirus restrictions in 4 phases starting june 15th some businesses and restaurants will partially reopen when the 2nd phase begins on july 1st the 3rd phase will see flights resume from low risk countries in august qatar reported over $1300.00 new infections on monday bringing the total to just over $70000.00 cases the number of reported krone virus cases in pakistan has surpassed $100000.00 the infection rate increased after the holy month of ramadan ended in markets reopened doctors wanted tougher lockdown measures but the government said the economic price would be too high. more from islamic law. no one know it yeah grandpa gets on

really need to be a guardian for some of the medical lake but the next 2 weeks will be critical the world health organization had worn months ago that focused on could be dodging up to $200.00 confirmed cases by july you also have to understand that the country had not yet come up to speed with the number of deaths so far they're trying to achieve $30000.00 deaths per day and the number of confirmed cases of god is rising now at an alarming rate richard also putting a huge burden on the country's outraged medical facilities and not to mention the fact that there are dead is an economic cost israel according to initial estimates by the government up to $2.00 trillion repeat of last days and also alarming neugebauer unemployment that could go up to their credit 1000000 marks and

a country that has about 60 to 65000000 workforce ended other consequences from covert 19 but the important thing the prime minister of pakistan saying that it was an extremely difficult start to go forward for lock down because that border guard the country ball and perhaps also created a lawyer in order to do a show and so the country going ahead with trying to normalize also a message from the prime minister that the people will now have to learn to live with coleridge 90 my school friends south africa have reopened but for now only students in their final years of primary and secondary school are allowed back in class in a miller president one in south africa's largest city. it's an anxious start to the day at whispery primary school in johannesburg so we're all scared i'm scared but you have my word that we are doing everything as police try 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 you know as a meeting with politicians bartlett officials you know trying to determine exactly how ready we are because it's something new for everybody you can say you're ready 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 western cape province was shot off the teachers tested positive for the coronavirus here and putting one school has remained closed of state was following 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 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 900 fictions in south africa grows shopping many say they are being forced to balance between educating their children and keeping them and themselves safe for me to 0 johannesburg. pick up the headlines right now on al-jazeera thousands of mourners have been paying their respects to george forward at a memorial in houston texas for a corrupt it is the latest in a series of services held for floyd whose death was a catalyst for nationwide protests the us house of representatives has also paid tribute to george floyd members not for 8 minutes and 46 seconds the same period of

time for his pen to the ground by a place officer with a knee on its neck democrats are proposing legislation that if approved would make it easier to prosecute police misconduct or korea's threatening to cut off all communication with south korea starting with a key hotline joining us demanding that seoul stop activists from sending propaganda leaflets into the north robin bribe has more from seoul. if the north koreans do go ahead with their threat to buy today choose day to cut all of the hot lines that have been in existence between north and south korea then it does take us back to the kind of level of communication that we have seen during previous crises across the d.m.z. most recently of course back in 2017 when the only way that you can communicate between north and south is by nega phone across the barbed wire obviously no one wants to see a return to those days and especially of course with the kind of tensions that existed because of the nuclear and missile testing which thankfully we haven't seen

to the same extent yet that has emerged that appears to show military officers from the united arab emirates directly training forces loyal to libyan warlord khalifa haftar are. being trained on a russian made air defense system called the answer s. one. main ally libya's u.n. recognized government has made big gains against tar in recent weeks and they're now pushing to take back east of the country at least 5 civilians have been killed in russian air strikes on syria the attacks targeted rebel held areas and so i was away in southern adlib several other people were injured they are the 1st strikes and so russian turkish cease fire was agreed to on march 5th march 5th that is the session followed an escalation of violence that displaced nearly a 1000000 people so the headlines keep it on al-jazeera more news to come and side story as that next.

why is the u.s. pulling troops from germany they've been stationed there since the end of world war 2 and now donald trump is about to cost that number by move on of course but why now and should u.s. allies and nato be concerned this is inside story. that welcome to the program i'm laura brown and there are a legacy of wild will to a symbol of u.s. commitment to protecting its european allies u.s.

military forces stationed in germany a rip.