be the hero the world needs. washing. al-jazeera. and no i'm not in tater this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up . his death would not be. tears memories and vows to end racial injustice as george floyd's family and friends celebrate his life. the funeral procession has now set off for the cemetery near houston where he'll be laid to rest. government says president

karen currencies that has died of a heart attack weeks before he was due to hand over power. brazil's top court orders the government to go back to publishing its code with 19 data in full. and outside the home was now have all the sporting including the west indies a rival for the test series in england next month with the i.c.c. announcing new measures to protest there is it doing the pandemic. the man whose death gave rise to an international movement against racism and police brutality is on his way to his final resting place just outside houston texas. hundreds of people are lining the streets for george boards a funeral procession to a cemetery in the town of poland he laid to rest next to his mother 15 days after

he called out to her as a police officer now on his neck while arresting him in minneapolis earlier floyd's family and friends said farewell to him at a private funeral service in houston the city where he grew up. i think god forgive me give me my own personal superman. the 46 year old was praised as a gentle giant as well as a symbol of the struggle for racial justice as you know which ended with a unity by the reverend al sharpton for his 5 days of public memorials in minneapolis north carolina and houston family members said george and changed the world. won't justice for my brother. big brother that's big for all. everybody know would be florida is now. 3rd war

kunal that's what we born it but we got to be remember everybody going to remember him around the world he's going to change the world their offices so no remorse watch my uncle so leave his body he bade him plead it many times just for you to give but you just push harder why must a system because in program lawful are you put in place for the african american system to fail. these laws you could be changed no more hate crimes leaf so why is it make america great again but when has america ever been great. we are not fighting. so disconnected incidents we are fighting an institution. the problem that has been allowed to permeate since we were brought to the

shores and we are fighting wickedness in high places when you can put your knee on a man's neck and hold it there is 8 minutes in 46 seconds that's not even no move towards the beginning less known to a police officer. john hendren is live for us in houston and john it's been a mixture hasn't it of emotion but also anger really at the funeral. that's right we heard about we heard from the family as you just played there they knew him as perrier big floyd affectionately as a gentle giant a religious man but also a man who liked to play his jokes and have a sense of humor his brother talked about how physically intimidating he was but

there was also some important messages there directed from politicians civil rights leaders the reverend al sharpton say very clearly he wanted this to start a movement which in fact it already has but he wanted he wants that movement to continue because this journey has really ended through a number of memorials for george floyd here in houston we had a service in minneapolis one in north carolina a viewing here in houston and then finally 2 days of service but the movement is likely to go on and that is probably why you see so many people lining that. that ceremonial parade on the way to this cemetery. the people that we talked to here who have come to pay their respects not the ones the $500.00 who were inside but the hundreds and hundreds who were outside said they came because of what

george floyd represented what the movement that he represented in that they said that they felt anger toward what happened to him and there was a determination among them to make this count for something good and one person who spoke to that point was the former vice president joe biden now a democratic presidential nominee and he spoke directly to george floyd's daughter giana who is 6 years old take a listen. today. first season. now is the time for racial justice that's the east room must give toward children when they ask why. because when there is justice for george bush more. truly be on our way to racial justice and then she said she. did you will have changed the world. george for you. and your family.

and john as we watch of the procession heading out of town towards. just outside houston tell us a bit about what happens next and he'll be buried next to his mother. that's right george wood will be buried next to his mother. and said in that ceremony he said you can rest now george be with your mother because this movement goes on and will carry it on from here but that he will remain here in houston which was the place where he was raised despite having died in minneapolis and being born in north carolina this was really the place that he considered home he went to high school here he played football here and he was an occasional rap artist here as well apparently had done some recordings and so this is the place

where george floyd will remain but he'll always be remembered now he'll be one of those names that people will talk about and he's kind of an accidental change agent in the sense that he'll be remembered not so much for what he did but for what was done to him lauren john hendren thank you very much indeed. let's bring in nick avery's on the whose life in new york where people are out again in george floyd's name as a quite a crowd there. it is really extraordinary scenes of thousands of people pouring off of the brooklyn bridge right now. quiet peaceful calling for justice and also honoring the life of george floyd and they say everyone that has been a victim of police brutality not only here in new york. but around the united states and around the world thousands of people on the brooklyn bridge gathered

here walking now on the manhattan side we're just near city hall in new york city i want to bring in one of the protesters jermaine right smith yes i do because i don't know the man why do you decide to come out today all reason i'm going out here today in the week is because we're tired of it has been that day after day year after year we've been seeing it on film the money raised moms are here sean bell's mom is up here i'm a duty i was moms out here think of how long you've been hearing those names it has to stop if it wasn't for someone reporting george lloyd's murder it would know this would have never happened beyond a tale almost got swept under the rug because that wasn't reported they ran in her home she was a 1st responder they ran in a home and saw her dead we don't even we didn't even know who those cops were do you feel like a week to the movement has made progress over the last couple weeks if so how well just today the truth 50 x.

. 3 had it so officer was arrested today a novice or an officer that was caught pushing a peaceful protesters and there were charges assault charges filed against her and also now they just made it public if a police officer has any criminal records or records of abuse for their citizens. real thing now out here we're making changes this is not something that didn't just get up though under the rug after all we could see this is real now i notice you're wearing a mask i'm wearing a mask yeah because of coronavirus family still happens b.c. a lot of people are asking about that how do you feel about being out here in the middle of so many people knowing that it's a risk to your health because a coronavirus i know it is a huge risk a serious thing but as we've seen most people are still when their masks people are given out people eat everyone so we're still doing our best to stay safe but we still have to be out here for his last question to you al-jazeera seen around the world i channel by people people around the world are watching this and saying

what's happening in america right now what is your message to people around the world when they ask what's happening in america well unfortunately this is what's been happening in america this is the dawn of america soul hopefully now this is the beginning of the end of that. how long going to stand on the streets as long as it takes that's what a lot of people tell me in the sixty's we saw people marching for hundreds of days this is nothing this is been what about 2 weeks we have to keep on going to appreciate you thank you thank you for talking out his ear so you heard it there he said i'll be out on the streets as long as it takes he mentioned in the sixty's people on the streets for hundreds of days what he was referencing was the civil rights movement here in the united states when as you correctly pointed out that lasted well over 200 days the bus boycott for african-americans to get their rights to vote and be considered equal under the law in the united states so you know young young person there really encapsulates their view of so many that we've heard

for the past 2 weeks but also culminating in a day like today where you are seeing thousands of people on the streets protesting peacefully as they have been for 2 weeks now on the day that george floyd is laid to rest in houston the rest of america and new york city is also out here again calling for just. this and to pay their respects to floyd and his family. there is and i thank you very much indeed. as the pressers procession continues to where george floyd will be laid to rest and cemetery outside houston next to his mother let's bring in ashton people would say is a co-founder of black lives matter houston and he just attended the funeral for george floyd tell me what was your impression of the funeral one person of the funeral was that it was needed for the family to get closer they've been awful wow and i've been worried more about the family as well being mentally speaking i think

this is a good start with healing and moving on and to lay joyous to rest today and also a clarion call to make sure that people understand that the protests and not stop and that we should keep fighting until we get through systemic change on the subject of change the houston mayor during the ceremony committed to banning the police use of chokeholds are you encouraged by the progress so far in those kinds of moves that people have made. no i'm actually impressed with the executive order because he is just now 6 months into the 2nd tower and during that time he has been there over 30 people have been assaulted and murdered by police who have not been held accountable so i think that what really needs to happen is we need to be looking at defunding the police we need to be looking at about wishing other sources of oppression because people don't understand the connection between systems of oppression a distortion of racism that institutions will be your your city government.

just the judicial system. your police department and many people know it's been no fact that they have been i warned us that police departments have been infiltrated heavily by white supremacists and white nationalists and so speaks to the fact that we must dismantle buildings were bad foundations and right now the reforms he has put in the executive order is like a new broom storehouse that could come out even to know what do you make of the reverend al sharpton saying that actually the existing laws of bag want to push to prosecute to place officers who say commit crimes and then just not applied fairly and he said beyond things to change but actually existing laws are there and could be applied what do you make of that. there are some of the existing laws because as you know all politics are local united states but the problem is when those laws

are not funded or given a body of governments that come in for said laws it makes everything more like gestures so to speak symbolic gestures one of the bills that i have the opportunity to work on as an activist with a few elected officials in the texas legislature was called the center by an act that was subsequently passed and bought us a long way to holding police accountable but if we're not going to look at the system in total. the buck stops at the manner of the person who has the police chief or whoever's up with law enforcement to say when it comes to funding and how rules and regulations i may own that he said police department is not transparent are comparable as 6 people were murdered able to the 5th may 30th and none of those people have been held accountable no video has been released and all we're seeing is this aggrandizement of accolades towards police chiefs who deal with protesters

and that all the time around tear gas still say protests as an arrest goes like process this so that they can that when we're talking about change it has to be real and it has to be tangible not well let's talk on the phone right now tell me what you think of the as a matter of voting because president obama for president obama recently talked about the case and said that amongst the things people need to do is to is to go and vote and there's no collections which as you say you know one electronical mass you make the decisions on funding and you know that the police chiefs and so on but president obama pointed out that the turnout on those elections is often pitifully low what is that something that you were trying to galvanize get people to vote more and there's no connection. yes but also i think that that flies in the face of increasing her every assess donald trump i'm softness because people started to realize that we have

a fascist in the white house and people around him who are willing to do is baiting and we see how his the results of his training handling of the corona virus and how it affects black and brown people most often at least a 1000000 deaths what the my community so elected officials on a local level they ask us to vote for them to hire them my courage would be to not just vote because it's a double edged sword in one sense voting saves lives because you can elect people who can and with understanding of what the some of what subjugation is and what issues are in different communities that they wish to represent and then on the other hand voting does not necessarily stop police brutality we can change all the love we want on the books but until we change our system of policing and the way we look at how we fund education and access to health care basic quality of life issues it won't it will be for nothing i'm not saying that we shouldn't go about every election but also vote reluctance november 2020 i'm voting for joe biden but

i don't agree with his policies on policing i do not agree with a lot of this a lot of his stances because he is still coming from the lives of a white man who does not have the experience of someone who is black or latino and you can have as many people around you telling you what to say how to say it but if you don't grasp what the issue is with more effort than what i've been seeing i think that will still be they will still be working hard years from now which is fine because not only should you elect people we're going to do the right thing but you should be willing to make sure you support those people who are elected office who actually try to pass measures and have the bat and it looks like showing up to the different meetings making phone calls and e-mails and it also looks like when that person is going making. that's the project of changes that we've made because we can make all the tape that we want. someone could make it executive or elected

official government force a repeal or we can wind up in court look at what happened to. republicans also rabid about people not getting health care that they're still to the point that characterises that has now been good so we have to work from multiple angles not just about voting but also educating people about what it was for why they're voting for them or how to connect the issues to an audience about to hold people accountable ashton p. woods thank you very much indeed for taking time to talk to us on al-jazeera appreciate it no problem thank you and still following they are the coffin of george floyd the 46 year old black man who was killed when a police officer knelt on his neck in minneapolis and he's now on his way to being buried next to his mother in houston his hometown where he lived as a child. thank us president donald trump is backing

an unfounded conspiracy theory about a 75 year old protester who was pushed down by police in the city of buffalo 2 policemen have been charged with assault as public anger rose over a video showing martin with geno falling and bleeding after being shoved by offices but trump has tweeted without evidence that could you know could be a member of the anti fascist movement and to fire and was apparently trying to block police communications he goes on to say that fell harder than he was pushed and that the confrontation may have been a setup you know governor andrew cuomo has condemned trump's theory how reckless how irresponsible our mean how crude i mean if there was ever a reprehensible done coming from the president of the united states. at this moment of anger anguish and anger what does he

do force gasoline on the fire if there was ever if he ever feels a moment of decency he should apologize for that tweet because it is wholly unacceptable. senegal was once a major transit point on a transatlantic slave trade millions of africans are thought to have died during the treacherous journey to the americas it was hacked went to a black lives matter protest in the capital dhaka were in the most western point of africa. facing the atlantic ocean on the other side is the united states of america it's by here by ship that men women and children were shipped out as slaves this is a place of memorial and this is where people have gathered to protest police brutality and to pay tribute to george floyd now in normal circumstances

a protest like this would not take place this is a state of emergency because of the outbreak and yet authorities here have allowed this protest to take place because they feel that what's happening globally has in effect a resonance to many senegalese here police arrest meant every kind of racism at all levels happens to any black person in the western world so i think it is about time in 2020 that it stops and then we fully recognize a just human beings and citizen of this because this is the year of return where west african countries are inviting african-americans who want to come and visit this region not only that to resettle in the last year 750000 african americans have visited this area many of them choosing to actually settle here ghana is offering them special status among the protesters here some of them have

a message to those african americans the united states who want to move away from police brutality and racism that they face in their country. welcome home. welcome home come back you know you're welcome this is your country your your people. we need you here you have your place we love you. the toppling of statues of men responsible for slavery or for colonized they should responsible for the killings of millions of people in africa has been welcomed by many here governments here have been asking museums in the west for years to return artifacts has been looted on the african continent and so it's part of a greater movement of people wanting to reclaim history too often ignored. well belgian city of antwerp has removed a statue of a colonial era king after it was defaced by protest says more than 64000 people have petitioned to remove statues of king leopold the 2nd belgium's longest serving

monarch millions of people were killed and injured during his brutal reign over what is now the democratic republic of congo a statue was vandalized and set on fire during protests in support of the black lives matter movement and troops mess as the monument will be restored in a museum in the u.k. a statue of an 18th century slave trader has been taken down from outside a london museum a statue of robert milligan new sugar plantations in jamaica it was lifted from its place in the city's docklands officials say it was no longer acceptable to the local community london's mess says he's setting up a commission to ensure the british capital's monuments reflect its diversity. to some other news now president. has died at the age of 55 weeks before he was to step down from power a government statement says he had a heart attack on monday but there's speculation that he may have had coronavirus

after reports that his wife flew to nairobi to be create treated for covert 19 really mohammed looks back at his life. pierre including came to power with a pledge to heal a divided government but his time in office was tainted by a crackdown on his political opponents the former rebel leader became president in 2005 as part of a peace deal that ended a years long civil war that i swear to ban all ideologies of ethnic division and genocide i swear to work for the development of. including diesel won a 2nd term in an uncontested election in 2010 but rights groups and opposition parties accused him of restricting political freedom 5 years later breaking constitutional norms and despite global condemnation he announced his intention to stand for a 3rd term who. what is happening now is the fault of the people who are not

on our side but it is going to make us stronger than ever whatever happens will be their fault not. the move sparked mass protests and violence at least 1200 people were killed and 400000 fed the country in the run up to those elections there was an attempted coup while the president was on a visit to tanzania including impose a further crackdown on his political opponents the un and human rights groups accused his security forces of torture beatings sexual violence and despite it all he won his 3rd presidential time in july 2015 but the violence continued as did his standoff with the international community became the 1st country to terminate its membership of the international criminal court offered started investigating allegations of abuse. in 2018 including these are held a referendum to extend presidential terms from 5 to 7 year mandate.

you should listen. to those who tell you to vote yes if they are those who tell you no then listen to them as well only you know what's in your heart. and last month brunetti held its 1st competitive presidential election despite the krona virus pandemic but again it was marred by allegations of fraud and harassment most international observers were banned off the 15 years in power that was due to step down in august taking pride in the fact that his government despite its troubles brought peace to burundi. is a research at the nordic africa institute and the university of set ups our us department of peace and conflict research she joins us via skype from upselling in sweden thanks very much for being with us would you say the legacy is of currency or. i mean yes it's a it's

a very complex legacy i think that you know he would know within the rebel movement that eventually became the ruling party. in the current government as a great unifier so he unified a disparate group of rebels. and individuals from various backgrounds who were desperate to claim majority rule in bloom did because the country had been for decades ruled by a minority and so he unified many of these disparate characters. from very political backgrounds and and then he ruled quite quite fiercely and quite strongly and in fact. unfortunately he will also be remembered this as a president that does not expand democratic space in the way that he 1st with his person and this is he would. since 2015 the the country has been

plunged into a tremendous political upheaval and the current outcome of this election. is also a bit. of a confusing outcome and so there is a member of the tendencies that the insiders in burundi an outsider's view are very worrying and part of his legacy and tell me byrne did it if they did expel the w.h.o. team who were advising on on coronavirus what exactly is the country's policy on on coronavirus now. because she you know the timing of the of the coronavirus was was quite problematic for the government because the elections were going to take place in may and so there was a there were various mixed messages government did not impose the strictest

restrictions in terms of lockdowns and social distancing. because it wanted to encourage. campaigning and opportunities for. for voters or potential voters to meet and campaign and also because there was quite a lot of movement amongst its cabinet and political partisans so that was one dimension of it and then on the other hand there were messages restricting the. capacity of the electoral process to be as inclusive as possible concerns that they would have to quarantine international a regional observer for 14 days problems with allowing the ins in exile or groom the ins in the living in the diaspora to vote in embassies so a lot of mixed messages it seems that the pandemic was was sort of instrumental

huzzah sized in that way. but is it your understanding that they that they actually admit to the kind of figures they have always i mean is it they kind of being honest about how much of a problem there is there. i think it's very difficult i mean i'm not i'm not i'm not an expert i'm sorry to say about the actual figure. and i think that it's very difficult to know the health sector in has been really decimated and this is in in some some disarray as a result of shortages is as a result of other problems with other diseases that have then. kind of running much more around that they have been problems obviously with infrastructure since the political crisis of 2015 so it's very difficult for me to say exactly have accurate those numbers are really our. strong thank you very much indeed for

talking to us thank you. still to come this hour airlines forecast to lose more than 84000000000 dollars this year because of the corona virus pandemic. one of the 1st epicenter of the virus reports the outbreak may have started as early as last august. and in sport the financial cost of coronavirus its brazil's plans to host the next women's world cup. in one of the top stories here nonzero. the man whose death gave rise to an international movement against racism and police brutality has been laid to rest is being laid to rest in houston texas hundreds of mourners bade farewell to george floyd at a private funeral service in the city where he grew up. with it is now being

taken to a cemetery in the town of pearland just outside houston where he'll be laid to rest next to his mother. brazil's top court has ordered the full release of coronavirus statistics including numbers of deaths after the government stopped publishing them the health ministry suddenly removed the data from its website at the weekend and said it would no longer add to cumulative totals for deaths and infections the website also published contradictory sets of data while the $37000.00 people have died in brazil and the country is not thought to have reached the peak of its outbreak. well health organization has warned that latin america will take longer to slow the spread of kevin $1000.00 the much of the world marcus espionage is a director at the pan american health organization we know that lives in america is the most you know it will region in the world and also one of the most urbanized

regions in the world so we have big cities like rios of lima in where they are surrounded by belt of poverty and you know it would be so the same lock down that was applied in europe to a certain extent cannot be completely applied in latin america and the caribbean if you look into account that the economies are shrinking in many of these countries so we have countries with a high informal economy is very difficult to to implement a total lockdown about health when i say also says that mexico could seen reached the height of its current virus outbreak one year apatow joins us live now from mexico city so give us an update on the health crisis there in mexico. well here in mexico we're hearing both from the world health organization from

health officials here in the country as well as out health experts with the pan american health organization saying that the height of contagion the peak of the curve of the pandemic is is only weeks away it dissipated at this point to be sometime between late june and early july but if you are asking if if mexico could potentially be opening its economy up too soon which is something that we've been reporting on a lot very recently what we're hearing from health officials here paramedics people that work in hospitals is there there is a big concern that we have not yet reached the height of pandemic and already the economy is starting to open up just as hospitals are beginning to become saturated so the guidelines that we're hearing from mexico from the pan american health organization from the world health organization are that despite mexico having ended this national campaign of social distancing they're asking for mexicans to continue to observe social distancing because to continue to observe basic hygiene there are warning that people who live along mexico's northern border with the

united states are at a higher risk of contagion given their proximity to the united states given that the u.s. is the world's the worst affected country by the corona virus pandemic there has been some praise of mexico's response the world health organization has called it a positive but they are also still urging mexico to perform more testing a lack of testing is that skewing data that's being sent to the world health organization and giving a possibly a false sense of security when it comes to the numbers here in the country again the world health organization saying that the worst is still to come that because the contagion is near doesn't mean that things are getting better in fact it means the opposite means that the worst is still to come lord and one nation this out to latin america now to become the new epicenter of the created virus pandemic swelled into the. why is the region in general struggling so hard to mitigate contagion. the latin america was the last region in the world where corona virus hit but it also could possibly be have been the least prepared we know the latin america in

general with a few exceptions such as chilling cuba spend less on public health than any other region in the world we heard from the pan american health organization in the sound bite just before this interview talking singling out a few megacities in latin america cities like cell paolo rio lima mexico city which are massive cities that are surrounded by a belt of poverty so inequality poverty political instability geography even climate we know that south america is now going into winter this is increasing the spread of common viruses influenza this is going to add to the crisis in many countries in south america including brazil and these are all factors that are working against latin america as a whole as a region in its effort to mitigate the contagion lord i happen to thank you very much indeed let's take you back to the funeral for george floyd these are the horse drawn carriages are being used to move the casket

to the cemetery and he's going to be laid to rest next to his mother in a cemetery which is in the town of poland just outside houston and as you remember the 46 year old died when a police officer knelt on his neck and today's been the culmination of a number of days of memorial services and. it is 15 days since he was. killed by a police officer and his friends and his family have said farewell to him at the funeral service and the burial is jean any minute now let's bring in john hendren who's live for us in houston will tell me if people who are watching this now on screens how is this part of the ceremony playing out for ordinary people.

well we're not at this ceremony we're still at the church but. it's or ceremony that was powerful and long. really a long time in any church but there were so many people who needed to speak there. that it really just expanded their ceremony over time it was only supposed to go for 3 hours and at the funeral he'll be laid to rest george floyd will be laid to rest next to his mother this is in the in the town that he really considered home before moving to minneapolis and the ordinary people we've talked to the people who are lined the route on the way to that cemetery they just want to come out and pay tribute to a man who they believe has started this transformation of police departments and cities and even potentially legislation in congress because of what happened to him and because so many african-americans i've talked to have said that each of

them believes that this on a bad day could have been any one of them i jaunt to professionals and working class people rich and poor and heard from so many african-americans that it really doesn't matter who you are and that is one of the reasons that it spurred this movement and that's why you have so many people who were invited among the 500 people here at the church they were among the people who were there laying in george floyd to rest at that ceremony there for the burial but they just wanted to be part of this in some way from as far away is it land. and all around it you know state of texas and houston this is something it's just touched a really broad array of people ordinary people and for some reason something about this story and the fact that it was on video just managed to

connect and that's what has all those people lining the parade route. and cheering the ceremony the reverend al sharpton asked that of the relatives of. trayvon martin michael brown and to stand in support of the family of george floyd a reminder that it is one of a a number of people who've suffered this kind of fate. that's right in those family members spoke here at the church a day ago when everyone hundreds of people thousands of people in fact were walking by the casket of george floyd to pay their respects and they were making the point that this is not a moment that can be lost on the u.s. or the world that they want the killing of unarmed african-americans to stop and so that's why you had yesterday each one of them stand up give a little talk and then today in this ceremony to stand up and be recognized because

the whole point of george floyd's death for so many people who spoken there is that it's not an isolated incident if it were there would be no need to market with this for a half hour ceremony followed by a burial and protests across the nation the point is that george floyd is really a symbol for african-americans across the country who've got a bad relationship with so many police that they've had no reason to bring on they haven't brought on themselves and so they're trying to transform the system trying to make police departments be more racially fair here across the u.s. in that is why this story of george floyd has really affected so many people john hendren the for the time being thank you very much indeed and let's bring in he would see is the co-founder co-founder of houston he attended the funeral. for

lloyd just want to pick up on something else that reverend sharpton talked about was. the kind of the sense that perhaps people are saying sorry now but actually they should have apologized earlier and he mentioned the n.f.l. for. example he said don't apologize give colin kaepernick a job back. so there's been resentment about the treatment of people who try been trying to raise this issue for some time now hasn't there why do you think this moment is changing things when do you in fact think it is a transformative moment. i don't think it's a transformative moment but at the same time i've seen companies i've seen animation studios come out to say black last matter and then their employees their employees their writers their staffers come out behind them and say well why didn't you do a b. c. d. and e. it's one thing to make a symbolic gesture and like to get out there with enough elbow here's a thing common cap and they say what i have

a child for years and have been discriminated against talked down upon by some of the fellow players like durably breed's what we're talking about is the fact that people don't like to be called racist that more concerned about. right democrats not about being called racist but that they don't care about their actions i think they can't be held accountable but this goes hand in hand with police brutality a lot of the issues we have has been were privileging of white skin. not to be mean or hateful or anything like that but the system the things that we live in the united states privileges white people all the black people white is good black is bad and so it seems as though we're only good enough to entertain folks well only good enough to make you smile and laugh and hold your head and be there for you but when things happen. the silence follows and i see a little bit of that breaking but these companies they're capitalism right now all

they're concerned about is the bottom line and until i see it somewhere actionable items take place. actionable tangible actions take place i'm not really big on the apologies or the videos or the statements tell me how in terms of actually processing nourse that will that will make a difference what you make of the efforts in congress to change things do you think there's have a chance of passing through the senate or do you think that those could be pushed back and you could end up at school and you're back at square one and sometimes. i think it could be both i think it's a mixture of both there's always a double edged sword when you have a democratic congress and a republican senate who does everything this fascist and the white house tells them to do as possible because trump wants to look good and he probably wants this out of his bag but the fact of the matter is that the protests won't stop and that the actions that congress take it write down things that have been pushed as local law

for years but not enforced properly i think of eric garner i think of other people who could have been saved by the laws that already existed and policies that already existed but have been under force and underfunded so what i'm looking for is action on every level from the supposed state the county the state legislative section and from the federal government because we can't just have the federal government think it is rules and then the states are going one of the states are going to sue we saw what happened so i helped care system under barack obama because republicans kept so long and slowing the song and now our public health care system has been decimated and we're still an effects of that because of the corona virus which affects mostly people who look like me and so i think that when we're talking about past these bills and give them to congress and signed by president i think that will whip we can use the 1st step at that the president

signed into law not so long ago. where it's barely funded it with the it was a gesture it was had look at me i'm fighting for black people right and then we find out it's underfunded and that has a very executive orders directly contradict the 1st step at so we need to make sure that all of the folks accountable to do what they say they're going to do you can do you can put anything on paper and you can say things on microphone and a set of cameras but your actions speak louder than words i'm not well thank ashton paine want to thank you very much for joining us and that continuing at coverage of hear all that after launch. returning though to the corona virus now and fears that the outbreak in yemen could be worse than thought of being compounded by claims that the rebels are suppressing the real toll the world health organization believes far more people are affected estimating there could be

hundreds of deaths and thousands of cases just $112.00 deaths have been officially reported and only 4 in areas controlled by who see rebels a crisis is further damaging a country that's been wracked by civil war for almost 6 years this year people dying on the truth with you the hospitals are closing the door of the health. the are passing away. the country is running out of the health care provider earth and the direct competition 3rd within a within a month from now we may not have a thing going for the. united nations says the code 19 outbreak is exacerbating the widespread food shortage in north korea it's expressing alarm over an increase in malnutrition and starvation made worse by

a border closure with china in late january the u.n. says homelessness and rising prices for medicine have left many vulnerable it's also calling for international action to ensure food supplies reach the country u.s. researchers believe the corona virus may have been spreading in china last august months earlier than 1st thought after analyzing satellite images they found increased amounts of traffic outside hospitals in the city of new han where the virus was 1st detected the team from harvard medical school found search engine data suggested more people were also looking up symptoms like cough and diarrhea clusters of the new disease were 1st identified there in december china has dismissed the study as really ridiculous. but i speak to a lead researcher in that study an assistant professor of global health at boston university and ceci thank you very much for being with us 1st what could you kind of explain to us what conclusions you reached from your research yet so the goal of

this study was to see you were they had been any change in hospital traffic compared to previous years because people were talking about the possibility that the current or virus outbreak might have started earlier than was reported by china and we wanted to see if there was any indication even our data that hospitals were being used more at that period right before the reports were being made compared to other times and we did see an increase in hospital traffic that started around august and then peaked leader in the year around december but people have pointed out that so far the study hasn't been peer reviewed yet but if your theory is right how would it help us understand the the progression of the disease or understand the disease itself so one of the things that were seen in the study is that we're not 100 percent sure that the increase in hospital use age is due to

corona virus it could have also been the flu or it could be because of the flu in the coronavirus and so there's still more that needs to be investigated and the satellite images along it cannot conclusively say that the crowd a virus was running at that time so what kind of evidence would you need to corroborate the theory that it was around back in august. this is a hospital d.n.r. so going back and testing the samples that we collected from individuals who teeming with it a flu like symptoms or diarrhea and seen if they actually had the current a virus known to point out that the chinese foreign ministry has said that it was dismissed the study is as preposterous. but it clearly there's a kind of political element isn't there i mean if the virus was present before it would add weight to the theory that that china had somehow suppressed the information or had not been honest about what was going on so do you think that

there is more research that you can do that would kind of firm up your theory. so there's not much that we can do you intensive looking at data in china but if if there were cases secularly maybe around october then it's possible that people might have traveled to other countries and imported the virus to those countries so if you've countries can start looking at key stayed at that they have before people would they thought either had the flu or the influenza like illness is then that did our kit either confirm or refute what we're finding now study alone and serious you thank you very much indeed for talking to us i was there thank you thank you for having me and france is handing a lifeline to a terrorist base industry with a $17000000000.00 rescue package the plan is designed to jumpstart air transport and relaunch manufacturing through loans and guarantees the government says the

money will help save hundreds of thousands of jobs amid a slump in air travel companies will have to invest in low emission aircraft in exchange for aid and $1700000000.00 will fund research into environmentally friendly technology. 2020 will be the west and history of aviation that's according to the international action sports satiation which says airlines will news 84000000000 dollars this year because of the coronavirus pandemic that's a hit of 200 $30000000.00 every day and revenues went take off any time soon with total losses expected to reach $100000000000.00 in 2021 predicts lines will slash faster regain business the traffic will still struggle to recover more people will return to the skies next year with passenger numbers predicted to hit 3380000000 a but that still 25 percent below 2900 evelyn's. director general says the

industry desperately needs more planes in the essen we are not authorized to fly or to cross borders or to bring. so there. is all that reason why we. disappeared for weeks or months it's great story we are such that difficult and tragic situation we are expecting governments know now to be you know to be. fast and pushy to reopen but this of course with all the all the misses so a house controls the new coaches but not all of that but things are ready with all the gerrard equipments are ready airlines are the people are great we review we should fly again. leader of an armed group accused of war crimes in darfur has surrendered to the international criminal court and he is alleged to have been one of the most senior leaders in the notorious january militia is accused of crimes

against humanity including murder torture and rape during the war in darfur between 20032004 hours to sudanese president omar bashir is still wanted by the i.c.c. for his role in the conflict up 230-0000 people killed and $2700000.00 were driven from their homes the afghan government has released another $250.00 taliban prisoners brings the total of recent releases to more than $3000.00 a deal signed by and between the u.s. and the taliban in february stipulated the group set free a 1000 security personnel in exchange the swap is said to be a confidence building measure before talks begin between the government and the taliban a prominent human rights activist has been released in bahrain after being sentenced to 5 years in jail over a tweet now be roger poole serve the remainder of his prison term at home he was detained in june 26th even after making claims of torture at one of the country's

prisons he also criticized the saudi led war in yemen but job was a key figure environs 2011 protests during the arab spring let's take you back now to texas where they heard of george floyd is still making its way on a horse drawn carriage to the cemetery where he'll be laid to rest well finally laid to rest in houston people have been remembering the black man whose death sparked demands for racial justice across the planet here's a snapshot of the funeral for george floyd where mourners paid tribute to the man they knew as a gentle giant who touched the world. to make sure that those who look through time that they will know that he made a difference within his time because he changed not only this country not only the

united states he changed the world 2 george flowing change the world. was once again. and. i think god forgive me give me my own personal superman know what hate crimes he's so i said make america great again but when has america ever been great and we are fighting wickedness in high places. see. this.

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business leaders just want to find a brush pile. the british iraqi journalist who's visualizing complex statistics in a simple. i think you're off as a summary sites of opportunities to break apart from those systems of power and so you collect data in a way that makes a represents different community challenging mainstream misconceptions and hope that by crates and hunting in a station it doesn't alienate people it doesn't make people feel like i'm not smart

most of the scientists whose truth is that anyway. every generation has a higher purpose. ours. his death would not be in vain was his name. tears memories and vows to end racial injustice as george floyd's family and friends celebrate his life the funeral procession is on its way to the cemetery know where he'll be laid to rest. of this is ours here and live from london also coming up. the ring days government says.