another dark. this is a moment. where retreat from the world you see that every generation has its moment or hours. ringback 0. hello there i'm the star and this is the news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes george floyd his last words i can't breathe became a global rallying call for racial justice is being laid to rest. the outgoing president who clung on to power for 3 times as diners. an armed

group loyal to libyan war khalifa haftar that tried to stop work in the country's biggest oil field retreats and greece assigns a maritime deal with italy for an exclusive economic zone and while there is tension with turkey over natural resources in the mediterranean. it is just after 15 g.m.t. and in the coming hours george floyd will be laid to rest his death sparked the biggest anti discrimination protests in the united states since the civil rights era for 8 minutes and 46 seconds a white police officer in minneapolis kept his knee pinned on the neck of mr fairlie as a black man who was already handcuffed and under arrest for its death sparked weeks of demonstrations across the wild and galvanized a nationwide movement calling for an end to racism and police brutality mr floyd

will be buried next to his mother's grave and texas he was 46 years old. oh natasha game is in minneapolis where people are gathering to pay tribute at the site where george floyds dies we also have kimberly how countries outside the white house for us but 1st let's go live to john hendren he at is at the fountain of praise church in texas where george floyd's funeral will be held john talk us through what the plan is for today. well we don't know exactly all of the people who are going to attend we know it will be presided over by the reverend al sharpton we know that there will be a video by the former vice president joe biden and that benjamin crump will also speak he's the civil rights lawyer who is representing the family but that will they will be among the 500 guests in most of that guest list has been kept quiet

course those 500 people don't include that thousands of people who milled by that through that door in order to see the body of your lawyer yesterday and of course that which is the latest of several of the oriole services there was one in minneapolis one in north carolina where he was born and then of course we have the feeling here in houston today and people are braving temperatures of 35 degrees celsius in order to get here and i think we can expect some personal remembrances from family members talking about who george boyd is that's what we've seen in other memorials in the simplest action from the civil rights leaders the reverend al sharpton said he wants to turn this moment into a movement that he's been calling out saying that the merican his help the elected need on the neck of black america for years and so this is a call for that movement of protests to continue i think we can expect to hear a little of that and they're making some surprises as they say we don't know all of

the people who are going to be here. but john i imagine that the marriage there is some i mean you were talking about what what al sharpton was saying did you get that there is a sense of defiance. as we've seen in so many of the tributes that have been paid to george white across the country. absolutely and i think we're going to hear some of that in their speeches that we hear today just talking to the people who came to the viewing yesterday a lot of them said they felt like they needed to be here like to pay their respects to everybody i talked to who was in line said they didn't know george floyd personally but they felt that they had a responsibility at all to actually be here and so we're going to hear that because from the pulpit there i expect with the civil rights leaders led by the reverend al sharpton asking people to continue the movement of peaceful movement the process the country where of course we've seen protests in every major city in the u.s. and some minor ones yeah there will be some sumburgh as we've heard in previous

memorials one in minneapolis where. the brother of george boyd has talked about what kind of a person he was a family man a loving and he talked about him as a kid also was an intimidating big man somebody that those who knew him well told harry so we'll hear some of that you also i expect to hear him some calls to action and then do as i say we could have some surprises. john hendren there for us following all of those events for us in cheesed in texas we'll be talking to john throughout the day but for now thank you john well let's now go to natasha going to aim she's in minneapolis minnesota natasha you are at the very spot where told floyd took his last breath how are people there remembering him today. well more than 2 weeks after george would was killed here in this block as you can see the people he knew to come get it are quiet morning a simple. box where there are flowers truck rolls of

george floyd the man over there are preaching one woman said that this is a sad and somber a kid. but she also says that this neighborhood is a cause of encouragement and uplift she says over the last several weeks a multiethnic multiracial group has to these that they were guarded now as a sanctuary and that it is brought people together she says that business people have come to give to this neighborhood donating food and goods to people who are here and it's. given her a sense of optimism during an otherwise very difficult time i spoke to another man who's a hairstyle is he's an african man and he said that he's been bicycling here from downtown and every day he says that george floyd's death has made him think a lot about what would happen if a customer handed him

a $20.00 counterfeit bill and he unknowingly tried to use it would he end up dead as well so as you can see there are a lot of people are still reflect about what's happened the last 2 weeks and in the meantime the city of minneapolis is moving forward with the rebuilding mayor. announced yesterday that there will be a coalition form to help businesses it's estimated $250.00 buildings by the way were damaged during the riots at a cost of $55000000.00 this coalition will try to rebuild minority owned businesses help property owners and even residents whose homes were destroyed or damaged and don't have insurance that will cover the losses. as promised police reform but he's still refusing the push to commit to defunding the police department how is that being received by people that. well this is a complex issue so there is no monolithic response i spoke to

a man about the city council 9 members a majority of the city council pledging on sunday that they would be on the police department saying that the minneapolis police department is beyond reform and one man said what would come next and would this system that replaces the police department would also be free of systemic racism there have been very few details given about what this plan would be the city council members have simply said that it would be some sort of public safety program that they would work on in conjunction with the community as you said the mayor here has said he wants reforms not to abolish the police department but people here people who are in favor of disbanding the police department would say despite police officers wearing body armor despite police officers being trained in deescalation techniques the number of complaints against the minneapolis police department only continues to rise.

in minneapolis natasha will be speaking to you throughout the day but to now thank you. now in the white house president obama has been tweeting about his popularity ratings well also taking aim at the democratic presidential front runner joe biden he's also suggested that a 75 year old protester who was injured after being shoved by the police could be from and t. for well let's bring in our white house correspondent kemi in washington d.c. can be we've been surprisingly been hearing from the president on twitter this morning he's had quite a bit to say and it looks like he's very much now in campaigning mode. yeah it's absolutely right the u.s. president is eager to get out of the white house much like americans are eager to get out of their homes after being understand home warders for so long and there's no question that the u.s. president perhaps is watching many of the marches that have taken place across the united states due to the social unrest and is thinking that it may be time to bring

back is make america great again rallies the u.s. president has been tweeting to that effect make america great again transition to greatness reawakening of america but one of the tweets that as you point out has really ignited some attention is the tweet about the 75 year old man in buffalo new york where one of these protests took place it was captured on video where he was knocked down by police he's still recovering in a hospital and the u.s. president now suggesting that this man may have been doing this deliberately for the cameras and that the he may be connected in some way to the group and tea for that is a left wing group that is militant lee opposed to right wing ideology so the u.s. president has been attracting some attention for 2 his tweet about this but you're right and this is one of his favorite ways of railing against his opponents these rallies and we understand that his campaign says they are considering bringing them back to me how can

a white house correspondent thank you very very much. well for decades incidents of excessive force being used on black people have led to talk of reform but little action in march 1901 video of rodney king being beaten and los angeles with broadcast around the wild the acquittal of the officers involved spot days of riots in february 20th of trayvon martin was shot dead by a member of a neighborhood watch group that led to the launch of the black lives mattia movement there was several high profile deaths blamed on police officers in 2014 including eric gardner michael brown and 12 year old to me a rice in 2015 friday gray died in a police van and baltimore while in the custody of 6 offices and then just over a year later philander castillo was shot and killed during a traffic stop on joining us now from albania the capital of the state of new york as one of the original members of the black lives matter movement wrote rosa

commenting she was also the vice presidential candidate for the green party in 2008 where as a thank you very much for being with us today when you founded black lives matter einstein it wasn't just about police brutality or violence but more about systemic racism and broad inequality where do you think that conversation is now in the united states. i'm not a founder blackboards about it or i was the chapter in our late black lives about and that's really important because the 3 founders are black women countries colors elisia guards are ready to do them that are queer as well so that's just very poor but. i'm sorry can you repeat the question still sorry i had to correct sure no problem and i just recall that you were very involved right now because i wanted to ask you about systemic racism systemic racism and broad inequality what's where is that conversation now in the united states. well you

know it because of what has been going on with the cold bit 90. called it not a pandemic here the coronavirus excuse me the pandemic there were already and we're closer now 45000000 people unemployed in the last 2 or 3 months but i also you know think that bernie sanders and the movement behind bernie sanders both in 20162020 really brought and the predecessor movement to that was you know. other other movements with that bernie sanders in the last 2 election cycles has had a movement behind him you know and part of that movement is those of us who view capitalism at this point as an utter failure so when the economic system is crumbling what you'll tend to see is police. not only get more funding but being more violent on

the street because especially in the united states police officers are taught that property is war import and then life so i've been in police brutality movements since the shooting of diyala where i grew up in the bronx and i actually was here and organize around the trial fortunately those 4 officers walk but 3 of them ended up just being sent to other preseason so they sed one of them is still a police officer the officer that choked eric garner is not only still on the force he has received 3 pay raises since then and lastly we have to begin to talk about the power of the police union sphere that seems to have more power than even some governors in in the united states reza i want to ask you about the protests that we've seen because we have seen broad protests across the united states in response to paper tell us here before do you feel that there is something different this time around as if about cross threats mobilize

a small collective action what's changed if anything. well what changed in this specific murder was that you could hear bystanders literally begging the other cops or all 4 of done to stop in no and we haven't really seen video where you can hear other people saying you're killing time he signed please stop please stop please stop you know so that that is important and it's important to note like i said earlier that 45 almost 45000000 people are unemployed but in the black lives matter historical area we've seen the ferguson rebellion the baltimore rebellion the charlotte rebellion and people in the community still keep doing the work but i also know that part of this historical era has particularly taught white young people and white young people have been interrogating not only their privilege but members of their family who have ideology around white supremacy so and lastly

these young white people in this movement mostly young the home as well as the young but they also know that it is black and brown leadership that will lead these movements you know so that's in something very very new but i think also what happened to mr george yano in buffalo this past weekend you know it did not only late keep igniting what is happening but now people are beginning to see that the police don't care if you're 75 years old they will push you down and they will walk over you while your head is cracked in your bleeding and luckily he has survived but he's in critical condition as you just know to hear the truth who was range is saying that this was all made up that what we see didn't happen. rosa you were talking a lot there about this kind of slow awareness raising and some level of progress it seems in terms of the conversation but we know that george for it won't be the last

matter with racial overtones do you think that we almost need a state have sustained national mourning in order to try to affect political change yes because what we've seen in this past week and now these last 2 days on the media is a slew of other police killings that now their body camera footage has been released or the lawyers of the victims feel comfortable that this is the time to release so there's a video that just came out for you know man his name is haveour from texas he didn't do his lights and the police pulled him over and they ended up killing him and we've seen subsequent video coming out in the last 2 days but what we really have is now a racial consciousness a weight gain within a younger generation again a multiracial gender binary break in younger generation and i want people to understand that here we have my daughter is 15 so in her lifetime not only has she

seen numerous numerous amounts of killing we have mass incarceration gentrification student loan debt a climate catastrophe a younger people right now in our covert they know that the only choice they have is to not only be in the streets but to be organizing and be part of a movement that will keep the pressure on to do what we want which is to fund police departments and in later abolish the system of policing as we know it because it does not protect anybody and it has not worked. for one of the original members of black lives now says tell us about fight will continue thank you for joining us thank you for having me. let's take you to some other news and brandy's president here in chrissie is a has died at the age of 55 a government statement says he died of

a heart attack on monday he was due to step down from office an august after the recently held presidential elections and crazies that had been in power since 2005 when our correspondent malcolm webb joins us on the phone from nairobi where he is monitoring developments malcolm 55 seems like a pretty young age what more do we know about his death. well we understand from the government that he went into hospital on saturday feeling on well the statement says that he had a heart attack on monday and then subsequently died among brilliance and on social media that already a lot of skepticism about what they say the cause is they say it's a heart attack for the room reports going around since 10 days ago. didn't they his wife lady of truly needs including visa through here to nairobi seeking medical treatment that we know is true but

a lot of people were saying that she was sick with one thing but burn the ministry of health denied that at the time we understand that she's still here in nairobi in a hospital and of course a lot of poor indians who don't have a great deal of trust for the government in the best of time on now going to be skeptical about the stated cause of death from the government and it's also bearing in mind that during the was pretty much the only country in africa to have had no policy to try to mitigate the spread of coded 19 the pandemic came when they had this election coming up saying that the government were keen for the election to go ahead to just a few weeks ago and currencies in salford out from the campaign trail attending rallies of thousands of people trying to support his chosen successor who was announced the winner although that was disputed the done success 'd every. injury nonna was meant to take over on the 20th of august when christie to himself after

15 controversial in office was to to be in power just for a few more weeks when this happened welcome as you were saying he is a very very controversial figure to say the least what kind of a legacy that he leave now. well it came to 5 15 years ago and 2 terms it was when he announced his intention to run for that was 5 years ago that's when things really began to deteriorate because the opposition activist says said at the time that was against the constitution they took to the streets that prompted a violent crackdown which resulted in over the subsequent years of almost every free press activist political opposition either fleeing or going quiet or going into hiding. right activists and so on and said that this is most recent election was held in the kind of political space where there was no room to

have any meaningful democracy it'll be same type he was widely blamed for putting together what was known as the youth wing of the ruling party only in bonn recorded with quite what you describe as a militia rather than simply a youth wing they've been playing for wreaking terror and 9 throughout the country to try and achieve the political aims of the government silencing opponents carrying out an arbitrary killings and said during these to the stage of political stability and democracy is according to many activists and so on many of whom are in exile is the lowest point that it has been since its civil war the end of the civil war that had broken currency to power 15 years ago malcolm advent following all of these developments for us in bernie's from nairobi thank you malcolm. now an armed group of backing libya's warlord plea for hofstra that entered the country's biggest oil field facility in the last employees to stop work has retreated libya's

national oil corporation says the oil field has now resumed operations the amount of pipeline running from the shore our oil fields reopened on sunday after being closed by fighters back in january almost all of libya's oil exports had stopped. forces seized the fields during an offensive last year while our correspondent what i will watch it is live for us in tripoli muffled tell us my little more about the storming of this oil field. well mr the current situation now in a. field about 700 kilometers south of the capital tripoli is that the group that stalled with the oil field and threatened employees and forces shut darwen of production has pulled out why because of trade bill mediation like local tribal leader tribal leaders mediated their negotiated with the.

group but it seems also that the. group were threatened by this statement issued by the end no see that's the national oil corporation the state oil field the state oil firm here in tripoli which threaten to. hold case to the general prosecutor and also threatened that closure of oil fields is impacting the country's economy severely especially as it always field is the country's biggest oil producing good field and along with other feel oil fields in southern libya are. producing oil fields after the blockade of the oil christened in central libya. have to his forces now with a group seems to be affiliated to the warlords leaf or have to but it's still part of their petroleum facilities god at the southern the branch of the. petroleum

facility god i have to explain this to you that it's complicated and it's confusingly lapped in the south a little bit the petroleum facilities guard in southern libya shifted allegiance several times over the past 2 years when have to his forces took control of the stars in early 2019 they sided with have to and then after that the siding with the government the national guard now this southern branch is divided between their jenae the group that stormed out charter and pulled out is affiliated to the warlords or have to start. when i go ahead and therefore it's on the ground in tripoli thank you very much mark. elsewhere forces loyal to the un recognized government is continuing its push against have to us forces they are now unset mali trained as an ob across and west of the city and he

explains why there has been a sudden shift on the battlefield we're seeing a dramatic shift in the balance of power on the ground that's mostly in part to the turkish support to the internationally recognized government of national court now just to give you an idea 12 weeks ago we were we were seeing a possible takeover of the wara for 400 years forces zorra is on the border of of tunisia it's in western libya and since and that's dramatically changed. just weeks ago in the in mid april the d.n.a. was able to take over several cities and towns on the western coast of libya shortly afterwards they took at woodchip air base with this which is south of tripoli. and just and just last week they were janay forces were able to get to take control full control of tripoli. after forces were were in

tripoli for over 14 months they were in the southern suburbs of tripoli so that the there's a big change after tripoli the genie forces successfully took over to whom to know was last stronghold in western libya and now we're seeing them building on that momentum the g.n.a.t. are continuing on to sirte we heard today that the oil fields were shut down today by an armed group whether that's maneuvering by half there's forces in any possible negotiations is yet to be seen. well now that has also emerged in libya that appears to show military offices from the united arab emirates training forces loyal to hafta. as you can see they've been trained on a russian made defense system called the punt c a s one russian mary's have been instrumental in helping have to us forces now greece and italy have signed what they're describing as

a historic maritime borders accord it carves out the exclusive economic zones in the ionian sea and also paves the way for greece and italy to look out to look for and exploit marine resources now the moves like you to anger turkey which has signed a similar deal with libya turkey does not recognize the economic jurisdiction of some of greece's islands in the eastern mediterranean from athens our correspondent john. this agreement has eluded greece and italy 40 years but it was achieved in just 7 months since turkey signed a similar agreement with libya on the southern side of the mediterranean carving out a corridor of lorcet cuts diagonally across the southeastern bit of the aegean sea and claiming what greece says is its own maritime jurisdiction the trouble is that turkey's agreement with libya does not adhere to the u.n. law of the sea and 168 nations around the world do and so the european union and

the united states and russia plus many regional players like egypt and israel have denounced that turkish libyan agreement and have called on turkey to carve out a law conciliatory delineation of its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone war says with greece that it has to the law of the sea we shall see where this all leads but at the moment tension between greece and turkey is an all time high because on june the 1st the turkish petroleum exploration company. published a map showing the exploration blocks it's carved out in what greece sees as its jurisdiction and typically within about 90 days such maps being published exploration tends to begin and licenses chance be given recent said that if turkish exploration ships do enter what it sees as its jurisdiction it will sink and with all of the implications of such an action. still ahead on al jazeera us democrats

propose sweeping police reforms but will not find enough support amongst powerful unions. and calls grow in the u.k. to remove controversial statues of people linked to slavery and colonialism. and then and support the financial costs of coronavirus hits brazil's plan to heist the next one ends well. the book. we've got more very hot sunshine across the middle east hotter than it should be actually a little bit of cloud into western parts of saudi arabia but largely clear skies and where those clear skies we are seeing those temperatures skyrocket getting up to 47 celsius in kuwait a 46 there in baghdad 41 here in doha fast not hot enough for you well 1st day

hotter still a 47 here in doha lot of dry weather was a separate some places a fair weather cloud might just catch the shower just around that western side of yemen southern end of the red sea turning up the showers around ethiopia eritrea pushing right across the heart of africa big and foundry south as they once again into the gulf of guinea in nigeria say a healthy dose of those showers those showers extending across gotta liberia seeing some wet weather will see the wet weather pushing up all the way into guinea and a similar picture as we go on through thursday the showers across extend into the democratic republic of congo to the south of that it is lousy fi and dry we got a few showers just coming into the western cape study good deal cooler in cape town 16 celsius on wednesday that wet weather will make his wife further east was 13 degrees on thursday started to recover by the weekend.

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the. head again you're watching al-jazeera let's remind you of our top stories this hour george ford's coffin has arrived at the fountain of praise church in his hometown of houston his funeral will take place and the coming out as his death in police custody sparked 2 weeks of protests across the u.s. and around the wild. burundi's president. he was $55.00 a government statement says he died of a heart attack on monday he was due to step down in august after the recent presidential elections. and an armed group backing libya's warlord cliff

a half stuff that entered the country's biggest oil field facility has retreated the national oil corporation says operations have now resumed. well let's now return to our top story george floyd's death energized a protest movement that's been demanding police reforms for years now u.s. democratic leaders in congress have proposed a bill aimed at some sweeping interventions that bill aims for greater transparency of police behavior and more police accountability for human rights violations it includes a limit on legal protections for police a ban on chokehold and a national database of complaints against police the reform package would also eliminate unannounced police raids and force federal police to use body and dashboard cameras well we now have 2 guests with us joining us via skype from washington d.c. is democratic strategist and also former regional press secretary for the democratic national committee derek plummer and also with us from new jersey is

a former member of the f.b.i. national joint terrorism task force and also a current member of donald trump's campaign advisory board steven rogers welcome to you both thank you for being with us gentleman derek let me start with you where having this conversation on the day of george floyd's funeral and that's spurred a resurgence for this movement not only for police reform but for broad structural change i see reverend al sharpton said this week but the legislation and policy changes will be the ones that determine the victory of this movement derek will there be victory. that's the hope at the end of the day right now we are dealing not with an issue of good apples and bad apples but really to stomach issues that have been pervasive here in the u.s. for 'd honestly since its founding and right now based on what we've seen in terms of people going into the streets and protesting things they demand that we remove these inequalities in terms of how we how the justice system treats black and brown

thinks is really important and so i think we have in this moment the opportunity to really make a difference the reality though is that it's going to take not just democrats but republicans to actually effectuate that change and more importantly it's going to take actually having someone in the white house who not only understand the issues but actually want to address them and you know as it stands right now we have not seen that leadership from the white house hopefully we will because the issues are just way too important and this moment is just too important for so many americans and people across the world stephen as derek was saying that we've seen a huge groundswell of public opinion in favor of police reform will there be support for this democratic bill amongst republicans. i would argue the point that there is a groundswell of support in favor of police reform bill way that democrats are beginning to advance these ridiculous reforms look i was around in the seventy's

the eighty's the ninety's it's the same old story with the democrat party simply making proposals that don't work now keep in mind that we have 800000 law enforcement officers who do a very good job in this country and indeed there are bad racists officers and they should be removed i have said that the individuals protesting and they have every right to and i think they did a good job the protesters did they work within the confines of the law and they have a terrific cause and it's a good cause however saying that the focus of attention should be on the courts it should be on the politicians who have created an atmosphere that is dividing everyone so my point is that these reforms are going to cause more bloodshed especially in minority communities there won't be any police left by the time they get through with the reforms they want to advance and you say that there's going to be more bloodshed in minority communities because well if the police defunded or if

there is reform i want to ask you more about that stephen what what would be driving that why would there be more bloodshed if if there were changes within the party. well because the victims of most of the crime especially in chicago this weekend another 18 people shot more killed they're going to pick up the phone they're going to call 911 and they're committing police look they're in minneapolis they want to this day want to dismantle the entire police department who are they going to send to help these 4 people those individuals who are victims now and they're truly going to be in trouble without cops company are you going to send social workers are you going to send social workers to an active shooter this is absolutely ridiculous and may i just add one more thing one councilwoman bender in minneapolis was asked the question who is going to respond to these crimes she had no answer no answer at all they simply don't know what they're doing steve and i do want to take up on that because there is an issue here about an us versus them kind

of mentality between a lot of minority communities and the police and and there are statistics that show that a loss of minority a minority community is actually said to call the police when they are in need there i'm going to throw that over to you and ask you to respond to steven. yeah. definitely that question you know i think what with all due respect to my brother on the other side here there is a fear mongering that we're seeing from folks like them who don't want accountability who don't want transparency and who don't want to see police officers have the type of reform that actually going to help our community and that is a problem that has been a problem in the seventy's in the eighty's in the ninety's as stephen talked about but i think you have to also go back to the bare beginnings of the u.s. so it's a problematic when the data shows that in the u.s. 1000 people in 200-2018 were bailey shot by the police when other

countries germany a lesson people australia 8 people sweden 6 people u.k. 3 people so to ignore the real issues and try to make this a partisan thing is very very problematic and i think it does a disservice to the people that with all due respect to my brother stephen who have respect for them exercising their rights it doesn't disservice to what they are actually fighting for and so i think we have to make sure that we're having a real conversation here we're not going out these ridiculous mongering. troops that that continue divided so we have to recognize that there are there systematic issues in terms of our justice system that not only starts with police thing but also deals with what happens when people are actually incarcerated and what happened to them when they come out and so like let's have a real conversation let's not try to sweep these things on the rug because anyone who does not think that should be accountability is on the wrong side of history anyone who does not think that there need to be more transparency is on the wrong

side of history and anyone who thinks that there are no issues here in the u.s. clearly doesn't have an understanding of what's going on not only in our communities but across the globe derek steven did make a very good point about what you would replace the penny 7 when so what would your proposal be in times of if there is sweeping legislation not only for reform the potential to defund police departments what would you replacement. yes so let's talk about what the reality here with the democrats have proposed was banning federal no not great. a national standard for use of force. a national registry of police abuse which does not exist you know stevens that was a member of the f.b.i. he knows that we don't that we can keep data about how many people go to the movies or in the weekend but we don't have a data we don't have any data related to police abuse this is about the bill that actually in the house is about increasing independence and federal process these

around police misconduct and making it easier for people to actually recover damages. police departments violate their civil rights and it also makes lynching a federal crime so let's actually talk about what is really happening here this you know when folks talk about defunding the police they're not talking about defunding the police but the talking about actually moving resources to where they're needed in the community no one is saying that we should not be without police know what no one credibly in the house or in the senate is talking about that stephen you mentioned that there is this broad support for police reform and not something that you support i want to ask you about police unions because even the merest minneapolis who has said that he wants to see reform within his party sabbaths he says that that's his biggest obstacle it's coming up against a very powerful police unions who do want to protect their own as well as a sense of brotherhood amongst police officers who brotherhood and sisterhood where

they're looking out for each other rather than necessarily the people that that to protect let me ask you then police unions too powerful and they an obstacle in the in the fine. i believe to some degree they are an obstacle i am a strong advocate of good cops taken down bad cops and there is a problem when the blue wall is put up the bull wall is put up to do want to protect bad cops and my entire career i have advocated that it's time for police unions as good as they are with regard to the positive things that they do for their membership in the communities they fail miserably in my view when they need to step up and defend good cops the majority of police officers in this country are good dedicated servants but when you have a situation where a good cop wants to turn in a bad cop and it is a good cop that the union turns into a bad cop well that has to be rectified so i i certainly stand on that principle that there was some reform within those unions have to be made but there has to be

reform also in other areas and in particularly my good brother the talk about the no knock law well i've got to tell you i've been in on raids where people have had with very very powerful weapons and there's no way on earth i'm going to knock on the door and say hey i'm the police i'm here because you know it's gonna come to the other side of that door bullets and i'm going to be dead so there has to be some reasonable reforms but i think the problem we're facing is that the the and it's the politics i've got to tell you i don't blame the the the african-american community i don't blame the police they're politicians who have promised so much to so many and delivered absolutely nothing i could sit down with their god but. if i miss pronounce your name there by politics i could sit down with him for a day and him and i will come up with real life solutions to a lot of the problems we have but when you sit down with politicians they're only

interested in one thing kowtow either to the police or to the people they want to get reelected we need to move them out of the way let the police work with the community as we did in the ninety's. policing would be a pure we've got to get back to you know order to solve these problems but i think that's an encouraging note on which to end this discussion for now the idea that everyone really needs to come together and make some progress here thank you very much to both derek plummer and also steven rogers thank you for being with us today on al-jazeera. now the belgian city of and to up has removed a statue of a colonial era king after it was defaced by anti-racism protesters activists have long petitioned to remove statues of king leopold the 2nd he was belgians longest serving monarch millions of people were killed under his brutal reign of a modern day democratic republic of congo and in the u.k.

thousands of people have signed 2 new petitions calling for the removal of a statue of british colonialist at oxford university a campaign to remove the statue of sessile rhodes from oriel college has been underway now for several years while the united kingdom is also one of the west hit by the global pandemic total confirmed infections are heading towards 300000 but questions remain over the true size of its death toll the government puts it at just over 40500 a tally by reuters says it's reached nearly 52000 the news agencies figure also includes a suspected cases which it says gives a more accurate picture because testing was scarce early in this crisis and could be even higher an expert from the government's office for national statistics says about $64000.00 more people than usual have died during the pandemic well chris smith is a consultant for all of just at cambridge university he says the death toll is still a mystery. who knows and actually our chief medical advisor chris witty has been

a pains to emphasize throughout this that it could be very misleading to just cherry pick numbers or to look at one moment in time what we really are going to have to do is to look at what's called the excess mortality or excess deaths and that will involve doing this looking backwards because we'll have to look over a year we know roughly how many people are expected to pass away in any given period and therefore we can see if compared with previous years any particular time in the year or across the entire year we see an excess number of deaths and that excess would hard be hard to not attribute to coded so it's that number that will be the magic number when we look back across the year and obviously we're not there yet so we're not going to know what the true position is also means we can compare how the u.k. has fared against other countries. now the airline industry is facing record losses of 84000000000 dollars this year according to the international air transport association ever make that the worst year in the history of aviation or france has

announced a 17000000000 dollar rescue package to its aerospace industry almost half of that money will go to the national air the national carrier air france as most of its planes were grounded due to the pandemic the government is hoping to save hundreds of thousands of jobs iran has announced it will execute a man it says was involved in a plot to assassinate its top general and sort of money a judiciary spokesman says an iranian citizen gave information about ceremonies whereabouts to the cia and the israeli intelligence agency mossad last october so the money was later killed by a u.s. drone strike in iraq in january now at least $20.00 african migrants and refugees have died when their boat sank near tunas yet their bodies were found off the coast of the city of facts the boat was carrying more than 50 people and was believed to be heading for italy. in bahrain

a prominent human rights activist has been released after being sentenced to 5 years in jail over a tweet the bill rajab will serve the remainder of his prison term at home he was detained in june 26th enough that he made claims of torture in prison he also criticized the saudi led war in yemen rajab was a key figure in bahrain's 2011 protests during the arab spring now protesters are taking over parts of hong kong's financial center defying social distancing restrictions they're marking one year since mass pro-democracy demonstrations began police have used pepper strips pepper spray against the protesters and a bid to shut down what they say is an unauthorized rally has more. the organizers of this protest are known as they call themselves hong kong there's the water which means that they are planning to be very fluid throughout this protest so far they have changed through several times to avoid the heavy police presence this is

a significant day for many of these protesters one year ago on june 9th more than a 1000000000 people marched to protest against an extradition law that would have seen hong kong suspects try to elaine and china that bill has since been shelled but it ignited nearly 6 months of often violent kaley protests against the government my biggest worry and concern for hong kong and hong kong is that we will lose the freedom from a simple as i would choosing a black colored shirt or just trying to be speaking our political thoughts or just shouting slogans they're going to take away our freedom and we can't do anything about it so when we have the chance now we have to step out there is a large police presence here they've been trying to shut down this protest even before it began saying this is a non authorized rally now people here are saying this could be the future of hong kong where they're not allowed to protest and speak out for themselves especially

because beijing is going to be imposing a national security law on the city in the near future well still ahead on al-jazeera the new stuff of boxing in north america as the fighters weigh in for the 1st time since the pride of fire struck back.

orleans. well it is now time to scorch and his son thank you very much and they will professional boxing is making its turn in north america for the 1st time since the coronavirus lockdown last vegas is a venue for

a fight cod that will take base it with no fans in attendance 10 boxes are a taking part everyone involved was tested for corona virus on a rival last saturday and went through the same procedure on monday at the wayne's spoke to a boxing broadcaster guys davis he says it to make financial sense big world title fights are likely to need venues where fans are allowed to. that's why we're seeing with the events behind closed doors. over the next 7 weeks there's no real major stars on there because they don't know yet that sustain the waltzes just to see whether these can work as a pay per view events because the big stars the big money of course comes from site fees and paper face to is whether they can come back in small readers perhaps august maybe september towards the end of the year coming back in beta readers now

if that isn't possible they're already looking at furious wilds of 3 potentially barbera has mentioned this potentially in macau china in australia. obviously in the middle east as well because there are huge sites these available for lease places where they would love to have some of the biggest fights in the world and fury in wilds of the 3rd fight the trilogy fight is there. several minority players that from the national hockey league are leading a new push to tackle the league's issues with diversity from a player and a san jose sharks forward event will head at the hockey divest the alliance more than 90 percent of n.h.l. players a white male group that will operate independently from the illegal says it will aim to make the game more accessible and educated the hockey community about racism within the sport. the future financial landscape of european football could be

changed to a by the ongoing legal case involving matches the city and the game's european governing body u.s.a city are appealing against a 2 year ban from the european competitions for breaking fanjul rules is likely the club but will challenge the legality of a us financial fair play system which is aimed at ensuring clubs don't spend more money than they earn well we've been talking to john this a barrister who specializes in sports law the city of sirte and the assembled a team who are on european law and it can be anticipated that one of their challenges is say that financial fair play regulations are an abuse of a dominant position by you wait for the storm the market because effectively they'd limit the expenditure of certain clubs now if tough it's of course the way that you a few have so it's really since the previous financial crisis led to thousands to

try and ensure that clubs don't even spend their clubs are more stable would be thrown into chaos that would be a great advantage to clubs and by wealthy benefactors you of course can pump lots of money into their clubs without necessarily balancing those out against all forms of sponsorship sent. to drive the club so yes i think the answer is that this could be a seminal moment in terms of how you 8th regulate financial stability across clubs in europe. one of the world's best women's football is fears her sport is being left behind in the aftermath of the koran a virus lockdown. the 1st ever winner of the women's battle and all her is worried the women's game is losing momentum right now at the striker is getting back to full fitness after

a serious knee injury with the exception of germany every major women's league in europe has been cancelled brazil have withdrawn their bid to host the 2023 women's world cup the country's football federation said the government could no longer offer the required financial backing to 2 corner virus 3 bids are still on the table a joint offer from australia new zealand while japan and colombia also in the running if you felt will make a final decision on june the 25th the return of test match cricket has moved a step closer the west indies have a arrived in england a 43 test series a jew to start on july the 8th that the team will stay at manchester's old trafford stadium to train and quarantine for 2 weeks 3 players pulled out of the squad due to concerns over coronavirus and that's it for me to say thanks very much santa. let's take you now to live pictures from houston and the fountain of praise church

where the funeral of george floyd is due to start and the tree in the next few minutes you can see reverend al sharpton and the black and white he is believed he will be giving the eulogy will have all that for you and just a moment. on the deserted streets of they've become familiar figures couriers on bicycles delivering food or medicine to lock down colombians most of them here are venezuelan migrants they might almost a mother of 4 says contagion is always on her mind none of them receive health insurance for their work and exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet

there may be a bright side people who look down on them as a skilled migrants now say they're essential to control the virus i receive messages on the app saying that we are you know so i was a nurse back what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. when you're from a neighborhood known as a hotbed of radicalism. you have to fight to defy stereotypes. but on the morning call chunks the stories we don't often hear told by the people who live them in almost. always. some of the boxset faces you read. on al-jazeera the british iraqi journalist who's visualizing complex statistics in a simple form i think you're off as a summary sites of all communities to break apart from those systems of power and

to collect data in a way that makes a represents different community challenging mainstream misconceptions and hopes the pi creates and handled instructions it doesn't alienate people it doesn't like people who are like i'm not smartest on scientists whose truth is that anyway. george floyd whose last words i can't breathe became a global rallying call for racial justice is being laid to rest. and again i'm just on the attack and this is al jazeera live from dar also coming up. outgoing president who clung on to power for 3 times as times.

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