welcome to bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: these are life pictures in the us. —— live. the us national guard has been deployed in minneapolis to help control unrest triggered by the killing of an unarmed black man by police. when you do not deal with these conditions of inequities and racism and white supremacy in a nation, these are the kind of things that happen. people write, that their language, that's their frustration. —— people riot. western countries condemn china's planned new hong kong security law, saying it

threatens basic freedoms. targeting twitter — president trump signs an executive order aimed at social media companies. easing the lockdown in england and scotland, where people can gather in groups from monday. welcome to bbc news. the us city of minneapolis is bracing for a third night of unrest, following the death of george floyd — who was an unarmed black man — who died as he was being held to the ground by police. the usjustice department and the fbi say they're giving top priority to their investigation into the killing. let's cross to live pictures we have been following over the last couple of hours. initially we saw a peaceful road test, people marching down busy

roads, these are the scenes live on the streets on day three. dozens of protesters have smashed windows and offices. the minnesota governor, tim walz, said he's called in the national guard to help keep order. now, community leaders also called for calm after police fired tear gas at rioters and looting took place at some stores on wednesday night. you can see the rather chaotic scenes here again for the third night ina scenes here again for the third night in a row. there have been protests across the country as well, police being the main focal point of the protests. the police chief has apologised to the family of the victim, george floyd. you may have seen the video which showed him saying he couldn't breathe as a police officer now on his neck. four police officers have been fired. nada tawfik has more.

america's long and painful history of police brutality has always been an open wound. chanting: don't shoot! in minneapolis, for the second day, demonstrators spilt into the streets after the death of george floyd — their protests an outlet for the emotional trauma of watching unarmed black men die at the hands of the police year after year. chanting: george floyd! but as the night wore on, the peaceful chants were drowned out by violence. as the unrest spread, a rush of people began looting and vandalizing property. for hours at this store, crowds took down the aisles, stealing electronics and other goods. the anger turned into a night of fires that engulfed the lake street neighbourhood. it's unfortunate. it's sad.

if people are there, truly there to honour the memory of the deceased and the family, this isn't how you do it. police said the 46—year—old was arrested for allegedly using counterfeit money and had resisted officers, but video footage of the start of the encounter bore little resemblance to that official account, and then this moment — which has left many sickened. a white police officer — identified as derek chauvin — knelt on george floyd's neck for more than seven minutes, even as he repeatedly said, "i can't breathe." i cannot breathe! you are resisting arrest. new details are emerging about what happened once paramedics arrived. they found him unresponsive and without a pulse. for nearly an hour in the ambulance, they tried to revive him, but he was later pronounced dead at the hospital. chanting: we can't breathe! everyone! chanting: we can't breathe! yeah! activists are keeping up the pressure, calling for the immediate arrest of the four officers to face criminal charges. joining them was the mother

of eric garner, a man who died under similar circumstances in 2014 in new york. the police officers come into our neighbourhoods. they brutalise, they terrorise, they murder our children, and we have done nothing. minneapolis is still smouldering from the chaos, and the city is preparing for more unrest even as george floyd's family calls for calm. nada tawfik, bbc news. so that has brought you up—to—date with how we got here. i want to take you back live now. these aerial shots of minneapolis, you can see that huge building on fire, fire trucks around there as well. this is note number three of these protests that have turned violent —— night number three of those protests that have turned violent. this is on the ground level, a separate shot

on the ground of the chaotic scenes at the moment. police have fired tear gas. we have seen have fired tear gas. we have seen live pictures nearby a minnesota police station. lots of protesters. windows have been smashed, thrown stones at the offices, it is a chaotic scene. and this is exactly what community leaders hoped to avoid. there was calm throughout the day today, calls for calm throughout the day today from city officials, state officials, community leaders of wanting to avoid violence, avoid essentially a repeat of yesterday's violence and looting. that doesn't seem to have happened. you can see armed police there. the national guard reporting to try and quell this and calm this. it hasn't happened. a reminder, the point of these protests is because of the death of george

floyd at the hands of four police officers. one police officer had his knee on his neck on the ground and he died. huge anger in the community. the four officers have been fired but there are calls now for those four officers to be arrested. that hasn't happened, but there are several investigations under way. federal investigation is under way. and we heard from officials earlier on that those investigations will happen as quickly as possible, they will be as thorough as needed, but that hasn't capped lots of community activists happy —— kept. a short time ago i spoke to dr bernice a king — daughter of martin luther king — and asked her if if people were happy with the fbi's investigation into the death of george floyd. well, as far as i'm concerned, they can continue their investigation, but they have

enough on probable cause to arrest the officers. that is the problem right now. and the frustration that people are feeling and the anger that these officers are still out there and they have committed a crime, regardless of what the investigators are saying at this particular point, it's very evident, looking at the video. so they've been fired, but that isn't enough for you right now? no, no. i mean, firing does nothing. they could get theirjob back if there isn't a conviction. so firing means nothing. at this point, again, we need to see the wheels ofjustice rolling by having an immediate arrest. the mayor has called for that arrest, so many people have called for that arrest, people calling in unison there is enough probable cause to have these gentlemen arrested. an we have seen protests

three days in a row. is it your sense that these protests will continue until an arrest is made, if one is? yes, because people are past the boiling point. we have been living under oppressive conditions as an african—american community since we have been in this country. and people are fed up. i mean, they are at a tipping point and it is beyond boiling point. while i advocate always for the non—violent way, i believe in it, i think it is the only way to a true, just, humane and peaceful society, the fact of the matter is... sorry to interrupt. given you have said that, what is your reaction, then, to what we saw last night? the violence and the rioting? what did you make of that? as i said, you know, i'm focusing less on the rioting. i understand the pain from which it comes, i don't condone it, i don't support rioting. however, the conditions that have led to rioting is what the focus should be on, as opposed to merely just the riots. you know? in other words, peace comes

through notjust the absence of the tension, but the presence of justice. and so if the wheels ofjustice are in order and the process goes, you will see less of that. and what you think your father would make of what's going on right now in 2020? i mean, he already said, he explained this in 1966, 67, when riots happened in los angeles. he said, look, when you don't deal with these conditions of inequities and racism and white supremacy in the nation, these are the kind of things that happen. people riot, that is their language, that is their frustration because we not addressing those things a nation. well, let's address some of those things now, then. what systemic changes do you think need to take place before we're covering another story like this next week, next month? well, let's be — let's deal with reality first. something like this is probably going to happen again.

but the energy now has to be that we organise our strength, as my father said, into compelling power to deconstruct and reconstruct the whole criminaljustice system, especially around law enforcement. our legal system and law enforcement system particularly in the south was based in keeping black people in check. and the use of this force and power has been used for generations. so we have to reconstruct our police department so police cannot get away with excessive force. there needs to be laws in place, there needs to be policies in place. we have to look at the whole structure and system around law enforcement and change it. it's going to take time to do that but we need to put our energy into that. and that presumably would require political leadership. what's your message to political leadership in the united states right now? well, you know, you can require political leadership

or a groundswell of grassroots organising. most of the time it's grassroots organisations that puts pressure on political leaders. political leaders are oftentimes trying to be politically correct, whether they are republican or democrat or independent. there are very few elected officials otherwise. so it needs to be grassroots putting pressure on. they need to look at the way law enforcement is done in this country. bernice a king. let's bring you some live pictures now from minneapolis where it is dark but people are out. it has just it hasjust gone it has just gone iopm there. we will return if anything develops there. president trump has signed an executive order ta rgetting social media companies.

he said companies including google, facebook and twitter had unchecked power to censor and restrict the views of users. it comes after twitter on wednesday tagged two of his posts as being misleading. the president had claimed that postal ballots would lead to voter fraud in this year's election. twitter reacted with this fact—check warning, labelling donald trump's post as potential misinformation. mr trump has regularly accused social media platforms of stifling or censoring conservative voices. they have had unchecked power to restrict, edit, hide, alter virtually any form of communication between private citizens a large public audiences. there is no president in american history for so small a number of corporations to control so large a sphere of human interaction. and that includes individual people controlling vast amounts of territory, and

we can't allow that to happen. we're joined from washington by daniel lippman, white house and washington correspondent for politico. thank you for being with us. we have an executive order by president trump here. could you expand very quickly and in the simplest terms, what is an executive order, and why is it slightly unusual? so, an executive order is something the president can order government agencies, his own departments, to review different laws and also try to change policy. but this is likely not to get past legally because he can't just likely not to get past legally because he can'tjust rewrite laws that congress has written. and have them passed into law. so this is something that is more huffing and puffing because he is mad at twitter for fact checking some of his posts, versus something that will actually accomplish what he wants. thank you for putting that in contact for us. what is

he trying to do, whether or not he trying to do, whether or not he succeeds? what he is trying to do is right now, there is a section of us law that basically immunises technology companies from facing lawsuits about content on their websites. it makes it very hard to sue facebook or twitter or google or something that you see on their website that is against you or mentions you or anything. so he is trying to wipe that protection away. the ironic thing is that if he is successful, and he is likely not going to be, that would make technology companies more likely to delete posts pretty quickly to not get lawsuits. a lot of those posts they might have to delete our tweeds that donald trump is posting where he is attacking various people and spreading disinformation. —— tweets. and spreading disinformation. -- tweets. and we had a note of caution at the beginning this is likely to be challenged. with this whole incident have much effect at all on the

electorate? i don't think the average voter is going to cast their ballot for trumbull abidin based on these pretty technical issue —— trump or biden. silicon valley investors oi’ biden. silicon valley investors or employees go about this matter, but i think there are a lot of conservatives who feel they have been censored by technology companies or are trying to be politically correct. but i don't think the vast majority of voters are going to care. they are more concerned about the economy, you know, a0 million people have lost their jobs you know, a0 million people have lost theirjobs because of the pandemic and who has the best plan among candidates to bring back the us economy? thank you for that, daniel lippman. thank you. stay with us on bbc news. still to come. using the lockdown on england and scotla nd lockdown on england and scotland will have on the dos and don'ts as rules change.

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this is bbc news. the latest headlines: the national guard has been called in to quell new protests in the american city of minneapolis, following unrest over the killing of an african—american man by police. these are live pictures of the protests under way now. the british foreign secretary, dominic raab, says he's going to make it easier for some hong kong citizens to move to the uk unless china reconsiders implementing its new national security law on the territory. the us, canada, australia and the uk released a joint statement saying the law, designed to criminalise acts of subversion, would curtail individual liberties. our correspondentjohn sudworth reports from beijing.

as they arrived for the closing day of parliament, beijing's tiananmen square was quiet. there are no protests over lockdowns here. inside, china's president had a spring in his step, the virus under control is seen as vindication for him and for a system untroubled by messy democratic debate. there can be no starker illustration of that than this. a new national security law imposed on hong kong with 2,878 votes in favour and just one against. the fear that any anti—china protest might now be classed as subversion has led to an international outcry, including this surprise announcement for the 300,000 hong kongers who hold british overseas passports.

if china continues down this path and implements this national security legislation, we will change that status and we will remove the 6—month limit and allow those bno passport holders to come to the uk and to apply to work and study for extendable periods of 12 months and that will itself provide a pathway to future citizenship. the move will infuriate china, which insists its new law will target only a minority of violent demonstrators. translation: the decision adopted is designed for steady implementation of one country, two systems, and hong kong's prosperity. but china is slowly tightening control. as its parliament came to a close in beijing, hong kong's politicians were in disarray over another new law.

if passed, it would make disrespecting china's national anthem a criminal offence. john sudworth, bbc news, beijing. borisjohnson has announced a further easing of lockdown in england. he said that from monday, up to six people from different households could meet outside. but he said people should still not meet up indoors, and should maintain social distancing even outdoors. meanwhile, police say his top adviser dominic cummings, who's been at the centre of a political storm after he was accused of breaking lockdown restrictions, may have done so in one minor instance. laura kuenssberg has this report. what will it look like on the other side? the reflections of a new reality slowly starting to appear. a different life after lockdown, as the rules begin to relax. the prime minister made it official today — in england the next phase is on the way. i cannot and will not throw away all the gains we have made together, and so the changes we are making are limited and cautious. it's thanks to the caution we've shown so far that all five tests are being met.

that means from monday, as long as you keep your distance, some freedom will return. we will allow up to six people to meet outside, provided those from different households continue strictly to observe social distancing rules. these changes mean that friends and family can start to meet their loved ones, perhaps seeing both parents at once or both grandparents at once. and i know that for many people this will be a long—awaited and joyful moment. this is not a click your fingers moment when suddenly things will snap back to normal, and moving safely into a different—looking world depends on all of us still respecting the government's keep your distance rules, but could that be more complicated after the last few torrid days? there was an outcry when it was revealed that the prime minister's top advisor travelled from london to durham and made a 60—mile separate journey out of lockdown to the town

of barnard castle. the police said today they would have told dominic cummings to go back to his family home, if they had stopped him that day, concluding there might have been a minor breach of the rules. if one of your most senior team wasn't paying proper attention to the rules, why should anyone else? and to the doctors, if i may, is that the kind of example that you want people to follow? durham police said that they were going to take no action, and that the matter was closed, and i intend to draw a line under the matter. you've asked chris and patrick, but i am going to interpose myself, if i may, and protect them from what i think would be an unfair and unnecessary attempt to ask a political question. it's very, very important that our medical officers and scientific advisers do not get dragged into what i think most people will recognise is fundamentally a political argument. but the pressure on the prime minister won't disappear. nobody should be stopped from answering questions from journalists. but it's the prime minister

here who's in issue. he's been too weak throughout this whole episode. he should have acted swiftly. if i'd been prime minister, i would have sacked dominic cummings. we have now effectively wasted a week when we should have been concentrating on the safety of what comes next. political dramas pale, of course, next to the loss felt by so many and the true effects on the country that are emerging piece by piece. let's bring you some live pictures now from minneapolis where there are more protests, more violence and clashes have broken out between protestors and police. that huge fire rating there with our building. we don't know who started it or what the

motives were. he you can see protesters still on the street. —— here. we have seen stand—off between protesters and police earlier on. people holding up signs, people with their hands in the air. the national guard reported to try to quell any violence, to try to stop a repeat of what happened the night before, but they haven't been successful. it has not happened. this is now the third night of protest and clashes. this after the death of george floyd and a number of black man who died when he was being held on the ground by police. a police officer kneeling on his neck. he was saying he could not breathe but was not released. the four officers involved in that incident have all been fired and there is an investigation by the fbi, but no arrest have so far been made. —— arrests. we will keep

you up—to—date with all the events there in minneapolis. do stay with us. for now though i'm lewis vaughan jones stay with us. for now though i'm lewis vaughanjones and this is bbc world news. hello. we know this spring has been warm. it's been very dry in some spots. and now news aboutjust how sunny it's been, with the met office saying provisionalfigures indicate that it's been the uk's sunniest spring on record. and with high pressure close by for friday into the weekend, most will stay sunny and dry, warm, very warm, even hot in some spots. in fact, friday, the flow of air around this high—pressure as it moves north across the uk will favour parts of scotland to see the uk's high temperature of the day, close to 28 celsius. now, we start the day with temperatures for some in single figures, though they will rise quickly in the sunshine. any low cloud across parts of eastern coastal england will disappear, along with any misty low cloud around the murray firth in scotland. orkney brightening up,

shetland staying mainly cloudy. but for most of the uk, it's sunshine all the way. it is now a prevailing east—southeastly breeze. and that means that east—facing coasts will see temperatures towards the teens rather than the low to mid 20s across the bulk of the uk, and, again, nudging the upper 20s in the hottest parts of scotland. temperature not the only thing high. uv levels as well. strong may sunshine. do take care if you're outside for any period of time. and pollen, moderate to high for many of us, as grass pollen levels are on the increase. now, friday looks like a fine evening, plenty of sunshine to end the day. again, temperatures will head down overnight, so if you do try to cool the house down overnight, we're expecting some spots, again, tojust dip down into single figures. and a largely sunny start to saturday morning. and again, just to show you the big picture, it's high pressure maybe just pushing out towards scandinavia, but it is still blocking weather fronts that would give us some rain otherwise from getting to us from the atlantic. so, on saturday, there may be a bit of patchy cloud developing here and there, the sun may turn hazy in some

spots, but for most, it's a sunny story, a brighter one in shetland as well. still the breeze keeping some eastern coastal parts cooler than elsewhere. again, we're talking widely in the low to mid 20s. and then on sunday, again, some patchy cloud developing here and there, but for most places, it will be sunny, it will be dry, it will be very warm. just a hint of something cooler at the end of next week.

this is bbc news. the headlines: the national guard has been called in to help restore order in the american city of minneapolis — which has now seeen its third night of violence and unrest. crowds have been protesting against the killing of an african—american man at the hands of the police. the state governor said he took the decision following widespread rioting on wednesday. the united states, britain, canada and australia have issued a joint statement warning that china's national security law in hong kong would curtail individual liberties there. they said it raised the prospect of people being convicted of political crimes — and would make existing tensions worse. president trump has signed an executive order targeting social media companies, after being angered by twitter tagging two of his posts as potentially misleading. the measures limit the legal immunity the companies have against being held liable for what people post on their platforms.

for two and a half months, streets across the uk have been