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 filled with the sound of applause every thursday night as the nation comes out to thank the carers and key workers of the pandemic. tonight was the 10th week in a row but now the woman who came up with the idea says she thinks it should be the last. here's our special correspondent allan little. every week it has been a moment of intense and noisy solidarity. an anxious, grateful public seeking a way to say thank you — to health workers at first and then to all those on whom we have relied. often those previouslyjudged low—skilled and consequently low paid. we know now how valuable they are. but the woman who created it all has said tonight should be the last. everybody who wants to continue should continue, but i think its is good to do it while we still have such a positive impact with this moment to stop now and then also we are now

in a different part of the crisis. what have they made of it, the health care workers risking their own health to protect ours? it's been very emotional and pleased that everyone has come together. it'sjust been really nice to see everybody get together and we've been able to thank each other. nine weeks ago, we put on our winter coats and clapped in the dark all over the uk. theyjoined in from an antarctic research station. and north sea oil platforms. the prime minister, visibly ill, from downing street. what has it meant this outpouring of shared sentiment? it places at the heart of public esteem a health service whose resources in recent years have not kept pace with the demands made upon it. this weekly expression of affection is notjust for a service the public clearly treasures but, for the values on which it is founded — of fair access for all,

regardless of the ability to pay. healthcare workers wonder whether this public mood will translate itself into actual policy. what is important is that for years to come, ministers should still hear that ringing in their ears and do what's right by those services and by nursing staff. most nhs staff don't think of themselves as heroic. "we are not angels," one nurse told me, "we are professional people with a job to do." but the weekly clap for carers illustrates the enormous burden of public faith they carry and the esteem in which they're held. # dancing in the streets... will it end tonight? i hope we will still come out on a thursday and i think folk will still want something to focus on. don't underestimate the public need to say thank you.

alan little, bbc news. and let mejust and let me just show you the darkness in minneapolis as violence is still just occurring darkness in minneapolis as violence is stilljust occurring on the streets there. this following the death of george floyd at the hands of police in minneapolis. you can just see a fire is burning there, piercing the blackness. we are keeping right across what is happening there in the us for you here on bbc news. now on bbc news, the world is buying more sneakers — or trainers — than ever before, with more styles becoming collectables and more brands releasing limited editions. reporting for newsbeat, lynnie zonzolo travels to new york to see how the industry has tripled in size in a decade and what the impact is on the environment. a lot of people don't

get this opportunity. but you guys came a long ways. we did indeed. you guys crossed the pond. ok, i'm ready. i'm going to let you go inside the million dollar shoe case. you are too kind! holy! this is nuts, nuts, nuts. this is like the closest i'll ever get to holding $20,000—$30,000 in my hand. i feel you! wow! it smells of fresh leather, it feels like christmas, you know, there is something aboutjordan ones when they're fresh out of the box. yeah. i will sniff them like no other, like, it's the best smell in the world. yeah. i can relate to that. oh, my lord, i never thought i would see these! yeah, look at that. classic. absolutely classic.

welcome, welcome, welcome. this beautiful bad boy is the nike back to the future, if you want to buy it's $100,000, 0k? and if you are a size 12, it's $112,000. my first love of sneakers i guess first came about when i was ten. it was my birthday, i got some friends over, i got some money, and pretty much went tojd sports that next day. i really liked popping colours and aesthetically giving me that old—school buzz. my uncle, he had a crazy range of sneakers. and i was like, man, one day all of need those. one day ijust need all of these old—school classics. ok, so, we're pretty much in the hallway, right. and like i said, extra shoes, extra pairs of shoes, more shoes. about $30,000-$40,000 worth of kicks. i need some help. i do, i do.

if i was on a train and i saw some by the window and they had gold nike blazers, i knew they were cool! you know? it's ingrained in you. these things are made to bring uncalculable joy. if you haven't got a pair of these, you are not walking in the right way. being in new york is mind—blowing.

just being in new york is mind—blowing. i'm excited, it's christmas for me right now. it's christmas. i've come to the birthplace of sneaker culture to find out how it became such a phenomenon. the sneaker industry has tripled in the last ten years. it's now almost half of global footwear sales. i own 80 pairs myself, and i'm not gonna lie — i still want more. but why? 2019 and 2020, we're living in the greatest era of sneaker culture, period. there's a huge sneaker community out there and it's global. in 1991 dj bobbito garcia wrote confessions of a sneaker addict, considered the first major piece of sneakerjournalism. so let me break it down like this: there's two pockets of why shoes are cool. on one side, they're really functional. they're comforatble to wear, they look cool, they're an extension of your individuality.

you can become creative with them, you can paint them, customise them, you can own them, right? so that is one pocket. the other pocket is that sneakers in and of themselves have been placed in the same way that people approach art. you've got auction houses during sneaker exhibitions and selling shoes that are highly, highly collectible in the same way that one sells art. we grew up with rules of originality. so the phrase was "no biting." what does that mean? so that means, "don't talk like me, don't dress like me, don't say what i say, don't dance the way i dance." everything was that expression of originality.

if we go out, i show up with my suede pullman's on and you have the same, you've got to change. you either change the laces, paint the stripes do something to the midsole, that's what we live by. this sort of like, disposition of wanting to be unique, is something that was very prevalent in new york and multiple communities and multiple cultures. we are the people who put nike on the map because everyone was wearing converse and pro—keds. we were the ones who put a chance on this new brand. and by the 80s there was nike,

reebok, puma, pro—keds, and it is, pony, you know, converse. by the late 80s and 90s there was a shift and people started really being fed marketing and advertising and buying into that. and a lot of that determine what they want to wear. one of the first shoes to go big was the nike air force one, which came out in 1982. the shoe that really change the game came three years later when nike teamed up with basketball legend michael jordan. the airjordan 0ne netted $75 million in a month. brands realise the power of teaming up with a celebrity, especially if you combine that with creating a unique design in a limited edition quantity. people started to see sneakers as real collectables. there were even riots over big releases, and worse. rap‘s influence grew. reebok and jay—z signed deals, as did wu—tang. and now kanye west's yeezys. for some people, owning

a rare pair has become the ultimate status symbol. i guess sneaker culture, like you see right now, they are repeat sneakers. ifeel personally i'm getting duped. you know, having bought these same sneakers three, four, five times already, not just for yourself or little brother or your son, how many times can you keep buying the same thing, you know what i mean? first time in new york? an absolute dream come true. it's amazing, i love it so much. new yorkers love their sneakers. the numbers are just astronomical, adidas publish their figures and produced 109 million pairs of sneakers last year. i think it was a 60% increase since 2013. wow! i didn't know that. they're cranking out lots of shoes. “119811, the sneaker industry was already about $2 billion. by 2000, but had shot up to almost $14 billion,

and in the last ten years it has just exploded. sneakers have taken over the world. the other thing that has really taken off is collecting. i mean, serious collecting. and they know how to keep you buying, they put out limited editions to keep up demand. a limited drop will cost more right out of the gate. but things get really crazy on the resale market. resellers will bulk—buy limited sneakers and sell them for a higher price. they can cost thousands more than a regular version of the same issue. reselling has gotten so big the market is worth about $6 billion, and it is predicted to hit as much a $17 billion in the next three years. there is a lot of money to be made. as the industry evolved over the years, they weren't thinking as much it seems

about what is going to happen down the line. yeah. eventually, all have to go somewhere. where is it going to go? mostly it is going to go to landfills. we can't really do a lot with it, we can't recycle a lot of sneakers. it is one of those things companies are working on now. adidas being the big example. according to nike, the average carbon footprint of their product is over 700 kilograms, about the same as a ten mile drive. so what does that mean for the planet? well, it would take one tree nearly two years to remove the carbon dioxide from one pair of shoes. with over1 billion sneakers sold every year, that tree would need two billion years offset their emissions. to have two or three sneakers, my parents thought i was crazy. i didn't have the money to buy a lot of pairs of sneakers, so the care that we took to our shoes was again, unprecedented.

when i started painting my sneakers, it wasn't just for aesthetics, it was to elongate the potential use of the shoe. i basically had an extra three months of shoes just by painting them. i was born in 1994, so learning the sneaker culture of the 70s, 80s and 90s, gave me goose bumps because there was a lot of effort and love into it. having a toothbrush and cleaning your shoes, like, it's crazy. it shows there was a genuine love for that and i don't sense that anymore. i want to say the hype is always good, because it obviously brings more attention and things like that, but the love for the sneaker world is kind of lost, for sure.

i don't care where the sneakers are. if i have heard that they are out there i am going to find out. if i've got to go on the internet or something like that it's no fun for me. i'd rather fly there. how did things change so much? i think there's a blurred line between what gets attributed to sneakers and what gets called high culture. for the sake of camping out to get something, that's a deeer rooted issue for people who want to do that. 0k. i've had over 4,000 sneakers in this lifetime. i've never camped double one. stop it. not one. hey, thomas. hi, how are you doing? i'm very well, how are you? i'm very well. welcome. the sneaker glorified. look how protected they are.

i know. we've got to protect them. i would happily starve in it. sneakers for me. then when you were wearing them you wouldn't look so good. laughter. that's true. you've got a point there. you've got a point. what do you think about limited editions? i think they're pretty ridiculous. it seems to me that it's a way of hyping it up and kind of creating, it's sort of a way of stimulating design, is making you buy because you worry... you're getting up in the morning because you are worried that you're not going to be able to get it. call it fom0, fear of missing out. trainer fom0. i have that sometimes. it's nagging away in your stomach thinking if they don't get these now i won't have them. that is artificially created by them saying we're only to produce, i don't know, like whatever number they are going to produce. whereas they could quite easily, you know, produce as many as people wa nt and keep producing it. i'm guessing that you've got more than one pair of trainers.

yeah. yeah, yeah, yeah. so you've got more than one pair. you're probably buying multiple pairs, new pairs before the old pair is worn out. wow. so the question you have to ask yourself is, and i'm guilty of this is anybody, i've got a mountain of these things, so you ask yourself to a really need to keep buying them? i feel like low—key i'm kind of moving towards the — i don't need them... of course you don't need them. i don't need them. i know that for a fact. i don't want to look at somebody‘s shoes and know that i had the opportunity to get it but they didn't. that's how they're getting you. is there is only a business? of course it's only business. of course it's a business. it's about selling shoes. but this passion and outcome of this posting creating, this posting creating, dispassionate design, and this passion in creating, dispassionate design, and is based on buying.

it's like anything. it's like the fashion industry. it's about creativity, it's about design, it's about innovation, it's about new technology, it's about sports, it's about performance, but, ultimately, it's about selling shoes. i've spent about £30,000—£40,000 on speakers. was that money well spent? i don't know. it was my choice. maybe if i hadn't spent it on loads of sneakers maybe if i hadn't spent it on loads of sneakers i could have got a car, bought a flat, but this isn't just about me. over a billion pairs of sneakers produced every year and you can't produce that much of anything without having an impact on the planet, especially something which has as much plastic in it as sneakers do. so i am in germany today heading to the adidas headquarters. i am so excited. so i want to find out more. i just wanted to show you a couple of things.

from the past and what we're doing these days. this year we have got the introduction of this new fabric. it uses part of the ocean plastic. and we'll use twice as much ocean plastic this year as we as used last year. this was the first prototype we actually developed. almost 100% of shoes in the sports industry are glued. the uppers are glued to the bottom. and gle is basically poison for recycling. it's a contaminant. so the real innovation here is that the upper andy barr of are made out of what material, every single piece on here is the same type of plastic, tpu, the shoes are 100% recyclable. the loop is a 100% recyclable shoe. but it's only one shoe. why aren't adidas making all their shoes like this? you can only do it if you can manage to do without losing your business if everybodyjust stopped buying product that doesn't work, because the definition of sustainability is that it works for the environment, it works on people, and it

works the economy. just had a great chat with james. it really, really made me look into myself, you know, as far as a consumer and how i can help the environment. and going back to london is going to make me think more about my choices. nike, reebok, and puma are all bringing out sustainable shoes too. but the truth is they're just a tiny slice of the multibillion—dollar sneaker market. i decided to go see if maybe recycling our shoes could help. morning. good morning. how are you? nice to see you. welcome. we used the idea of trying to shred the shoes into bits and pieces, which i'm going to ask you to do with your sneakers ina minute. laughter. no way! basically what we do is we put the whole shoe into some sort of a shredder, in this case granulator, and it will come

into small particles and we will put it through a number of processes which i will show you in a minute to be able to separate it into individual materials and then we can use those materials to make more shoes or other things. so these were sneakers once upon a time? these were sneakers. it makes me so sad. think about it this time. this is so much better than sending them into a landfill, then there is no use out of this material. this way we can separated and make something out of it. ok, that's fair. so sorry! unfortunately, sneaker recycling is impossible for most people yet. the technology just isn't advanced enough. in the short—term, until our process is significantly improved in terms of how we make rings and how we recycle it, the concept of consuming less and using a product for longest, in terms of environmental benefit, has got the biggest potential.

ok, so i should basically buy less until technology has improved ? um, i've given you all the information. the decision about buying less... i would like to get your take. for example, how many shoes do you have? i have two pairs of trainers, one is for indoor activities, one is for outdoor activities. it is weird to hear that. two shoes and, yeah, two shoes... maybe the secret is returning to the roots of the scene, owning few issues and treasuring them more. so i am literallyjust outside of lead, a meeting young man and he is very much into his customisation and restoration and he has a really good point when it comes to talking about the environment. so i'm looking forward to it. hi. nice to meet you, lynnie. thank you so much. i literally got into trainers just from watching football and the process of obviously going to be put all is wearing nice shoes.

it all just started off from france. theyjust started cleaning shoes and re— dying them and it has moved to this fully customisation work and this is where it is that at the moment. there are not many people really sending old shoes to me. but when they do i tend to want to revamp them fully, so a add new tongue tabs to them, add text to them. i got into it because when it was younger remember my dad buying brand—new shoes and binning them constantly, he would wear them for a few months, they would get ruined output all, and he was just in them. these are getting re—dyed so they will get a custom colour created for the corner and bottom it will get repainted local of that. my reason for it is mainlyjust because i want to keep my trainers in good stead. if i am buying a good shoe i want to keep it strong.

some people don't have the brain to keep their shoe to a decent state. if i can restore nine pairs of shoes in my house, that is not shoes that go to the landfill. it is worse with the toxins in the shoes that leach into the soil, the rubber doesn't degrade. if everyone can just think for a minute before thinking let us bin these shoes, i'm not saying come to my business, but i am saying if you can bring your shoes to me and i can restore them that is one less pair for landfill. he is just one of so many customers and refurbishes who have started up in recent years. it's interesting because they seem closer to the way things were back on the day with making your sneakers last. they love the idea of it, you know, just having a view pairs that matter and customising them to keep them in shape, rather than buying new ones constantly. do i need all the sneakers i have? probably not.

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. 0rkney 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. welcome if you're watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i'm lewis vaughn jones. our top stories: rioting in the us city of minneapolis. these are live pictures of the unrest triggered by the police killing of an african—american man. the daughter of martin luther—king says it's the result of deep—seated problems. they terrorise, they murder our children, and we have done nothing. when you do not deal with these conditions of adequacy and white supremacy in the nation, these are the kind of things that happen. people riot. that is their language, that is their frustration. targeting twitter: president trump signs an executive order aimed at social media companies. western countries condemn china's planned new hong kong security law, saying it threatens basic freedoms. and france announces

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