this is bbc news. i'm lewis vaughan jones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. live in the us city of minneapolis, protestors ignore the curfew as demonstrations continue over the killing of george floyd. a police officer sacked over his death has been charged with murder. president trump offers his sympathy to the family of the victim and calls on protesters to obey the law. i spoke with his family today, terrific people, i think it is so bad for the memory when you see a thing like that going on, and hopefully that won't happen tonight, and as you know the national guard has arrived. in other news: coronavirus deaths in brazil pass 27,000, overtaking spain to become the country with the fifth highest death toll.

violence has broken out in many cities across the united states, in protest at the death of an unarmed black man in police custody, in minneapolis. the police officer, filmed kneeling on george floyd's neck for almost nine minutes, has been charged with murder. there are angry demonstrations in boston, new york, atlanta, denver and washington, where the white house was briefly under lockdown after a large crowd gathered outside. these are live pictures of minneapolis. in minneapolis this is day number four stop minneapolis. in minneapolis this is day numberfour stop it started as a peaceful protest

but it has turned into clashes with police, rioting, looting, arson and violence. minneapolis was supposed to be under curfew from an hour ago but this is what the curfew looks like. people were asked to state off the streets, to stay at home. leaders, city officials called for calm. protesters themselves, many called for calm but they are back out on the streets in their hundreds, even that thousands and this is seen is replicated in cities right across the us. —— scenes. thousands showing the anger over the death of george floyd, being held on the ground by a police officer, derek chauvin. in the immediate aftermath he

was not arrested but has now been arrested and charged. but that was not enough to stop protesters coming out on the street and you can see the smoke billowing and fire and the destruction in minneapolis right now. protesters still angry that other officers who we re angry that other officers who were at the original scene still have not been arrested or charged and they are calling for more systemic change, wider problems that they see in police treatment of black people right across the united states and these are pictures becoming emblematic of that struggle, of that protest. 2a hours ago we saw buildings close to police stations on fire. today we have seen cars on fire, notjust here in minneapolis, cars and vehicles being attacked onto the streets of atla nta,

being attacked onto the streets of atlanta, people pouring and filling the streets of boston, los angeles, chicago, major cities seeing large demonstrations. this is atlanta and it is difficult to tell the difference between cities at the moment. more fire, more protesters on the street. this is atla nta. protesters on the street. this is atlanta. we have been hearing earlier from is atlanta. we have been hearing earlierfrom donald trump with his response to what is happening. i've asked that the department ofjustice expedite the federal investigation into his death and do it immediately, do it as quickly as absolutely possible. it's a local situation, but we're also making it into a federal situation, and it's. .. ..it‘s a terrible thing. we all saw what we saw. it's very hard to even conceive of anything other than what we did see. it should never happen, should never be allowed to happen, a thing like that, but we're determined that justice be served.

let's get more from our north america correspondent david willis. this is a challengejust this is a challenge just to keep across. we have been focusing on the pictures from minneapolis and atlanta but it is not just minneapolis and atlanta but it is notjust those two cities. it is not ended and there is anger on the streets america tonight. virtually post— coast. from new york, washington, dc and the east to los angeles and san diego in the west. we had the white house was briefly under lockdown after some rather nasty demonstrations and clashes with police and also here in los angeles, the police have faced off an unruly mob. minneapolis itself, the epicentre of these protests, there is currently a dusk to

dawn curfew, a lockdown, which will stretch over the weekend there were still scenes of national guard firing tear gas and other things to dispel protesters just before that cu rfew protesters just before that curfew came into place a few hours ago. the curfew at about by the state governor who declared that had been 48 hours of anarchy, as he put it, and that it needed to come to a halt. given your experience of covering protests and events across america for so many yea rs, across america for so many years, just try and put these events this evening into some kind of context for us. it could be summed up probably by the words of a local activist, black lives matter activist in minneapolis, who said that this is an uprising, a response, if you like, two centuries of

oppression on the part of white people against blacks and also racial inequality which has seen racial inequality which has seen so many racial inequality which has seen so many of these insta nces, seen so many of these instances, black some —— suspects been killed at the hands of police officers. earlier today, america's first resident barack 0bama issued a statement and he said we have to remember that the millions of americans are being treated differently on account of race is tragically painful and mattingly normal. —— mad. is tragically painful and mattingly normal. -- mad. thank you for putting that into context. we will come back to you if there are any major developments. we're looking at live pictures from minneapolis. we can see the water as they try to put out cars on fire. ca rs try to put out cars on fire. cars are also on fire in ata la nta, cars are also on fire in atalanta, in georgia, burning

ca i’s atalanta, in georgia, burning cars near centennial park and also in atlanta. these are the pictures, by the way, just gone 10pm in atlanta. atlanta the headquarters of cnn where protesters were smashing windows, jumping on cars outside that headquarter. and also the march, the protest started at centennial park and the protesters a re started at centennial park and the protesters are still on the street. there have been clashes with police. all right, let's try and get a view now away from try and get a view now away fro m atla nta try and get a view now away from atlanta of washington, dc and clarence williams is from the washington post. we have been hearing reports about what has been happening in washington, dc, talk us through what you have been seeing. this

started at about 5pm, dinner time, ona started at about 5pm, dinner time, on a friday. it started with a smaller crowd of around hundred and 50 people and within an hour it swelled into the hundreds. —— 150. protesters were shutting the names of victims here in the states who have died at the hands of police and the protesters then marched south and headed towards the white house where two people at least we re house where two people at least were arrested at lafayette park across from the white house. and protesters have been going for hours. they have traversed to the us capital, they briefly shut down into sections and a highway and hundreds of them are still on the march as we speak. we know the white house

was in locked and effectively earlier on and we understand thatis earlier on and we understand that is now over but protesters get to the front of the white house? it is lafayette park which is a public park north of the white house grounds. barricades erected along the avenue to keep protesters from approaching the fence. several times, at that steel barricades, there were small clashes between police and protesters. water bottles were thrown at police, one gentleman was carried with some difficulty under police custody. there was a pushing, shoving, a lot of vanity but other than that no arrest or any apparent sign of any injuries. if you protesters scroll some graffiti on one of the buildings nearby but after

about an hour, the protesters went on the move again. thank you for talking us through that so you for talking us through that so clearly. what is the atmosphere like now? we are seeing pictures from other cities of cars on fire and high tension. is there a different atmosphere in washington? at this point in time, there's been no sign of any major uppity damage. washington seems to have avoided those kinds of clashes and a distraction at this point. i did witness several practice organisers at the front of the clashes between police and protesters trying to keep calm voices and keep some distance between police and protesters, calming things down. in washington, there are a number of police agencies. the main force is the dc police department and they have had decades of experience dealing with protesters and

they have managed to have a hands off approach but some other agencies, there have been near clashes so that us capital police and us secret forces charged with detecting the capital grounds and at the white house have had instances where they appeared that would stand their ground when protesters were face—to—face with them. many practice organisers were able to defuse the situation switch got quite heated at times but no destruction. this is an impossible question so please, apologies in advance, but any idea on numbers. i know it is difficult and a dangerous thing to do but give our viewers a sense of how big the protests we re sense of how big the protests were or how small? not to be too flippant were or how small? not to be too flippa nt about were or how small? not to be too flippant about it, maps was never my strong suit. mathematics. it started at around 150 and probably reached nearly 2000 people that left the white house grounds. it has

now dwindled to a couple of hundreds. the demonstration has had ebbs and flows, heightened fever pictures but it has come down. the state pictures. thank you so much for taking the time to talk to us. clarence williams from the washington post. as you can see, protests continue across cities right across the us in response to the death of george floyd, the man in minneapolis who was held down onto the ground by a police officer. that police officer, derek chauvin, has been arrested and charged with third—degree murder but the protesters continued to come out onto the streets right across the us and we will be monitoring every step of the way here on abc world news.

let's move on to some other news. brazil has reported nearly 27,000 cases of covid—i9, in the past 24 hours — a new daily record. 0ur south america correspondent, katy watson, is in sao paulo. we're talking 1,124 new deaths in the past 24 hours. it's now surpassed spain in terms of death toll. and we're looking at more than 465,000 confirmed cases of the virus. so every day these numbers keep on going up. every day there is some record, sadly, being broken. and it comes at a time when sao paulo here, the biggest state, is talking about reopening in some way as of monday, talking about getting back to some kind of normality, introducing protocols to be allowed to be able to get shopping malls and visitors back up and running. meanwhile, the president, jair bolsonaro, has said very little about these figures.

he instead, these past few days, has been more worried about a supreme court investigation into allegations of fake news among his supporters, something he calls political. and that is the issue at the moment, is that there's a political crisis going on here in brazil that seems to be taking centre stage, rather than the actual concerning issue, of course, of the pandemic here in brazil. this is bbc news, our main headline: protestors in minneapolis have ignored calls to observe a curfew following riots over the killing of george floyd. a police officer sacked for his death has been charged with murder. anger across america — the killing has led to a number of clashes with police officers in boston, atlanta and a number of major cities. these are the pictures live where the epicentre started.

atla nta, where the epicentre started. atlanta, cars, vehicles are on fire. the protesters have a number of demands and a number of grievances. in new york, one vigil started chanting the phrase, "we can't breed". that, a reference to what george floyd said, i can't breathe. when he was being held down with knee in the back of his neck by a police officer. —— "we can't breathe". there is still anger at the systemic frustrations and anger that many people have with the police forces across the united states. neill franklin is executive director of the law enforcement action partnership — and worked for the police force in maryland. he told me what the floyd case represents. the issue here is notjust the death of mr floyd. it may be

the last straw on the camel's back but there are many other straws before that. this is not an issue of the past decade, this is not an issue of the past decade, we are talking about 400 years of oppression in this country. we are talking about 400 years of racism in this country. we are talking about the police force in this country that historically, it was born out of slavery. with rounding up slaves, slave catchers. we have never dealt with race appropriately in this country. how do you try to address it? what needs to change within police forces? address it? what needs to change within police force57m is obvious that this current policing paradyne in this country just does policing paradyne in this countryjust does not work. we need a new policing paradyne in this country. —— paradigm. we

need a community controlled police department, it is what we need in every corner of this country. i am not talking about a police review board that looks at an incident once it has occurred, we're talking about a police department that is governed by the people, a community board, people who live in the community who hire the police chief, who hire the police chief, who set the budget and the philosophy of how that police department operates and goes about its policing business within that particular community. that sounds like an issue of transparency. it is definitely an issue of transparency. transparency is a big problem right now. including derek chauvin, there were a couple of other police officers, but

there is a history of using excessive force in the minneapolis police department. this is just an example of what we see from one police department to the next. police officers and their history of using excessive force. history of corruption. there is no transparency or the community to know about these officers and their tainted past. if that we re and their tainted past. if that were the case, if we had that level of transparency, then we would be able to take action to these police officers removed from the force and prevent things like this from happening. on this specific case, earlier on the bbc, jesse jackson called for the other police officers to be charged. it is certainly a theme we are hearing on these protest marches right across the country right now. absolutely, they should be charged. a lot of people still don't know that they had a duty, according to

their policy, to intervene in such a case. and it was quite clear that there was a problem here. the nine minutes of derek chauvin kneeling on mr floyd's neck, the comments notjust from mr floyd, pleading for his life, leading to breeze, asking for his mother, but the comments from the people, the witnesses on the sidewalk filming this over and over and over again, begging the police to let him up, to put him in the police car, not to kneel on his neck any longer, basically to save his life. those three other officers knew what was happening, there was no doubt, and they should be charged, they violated their policy, they violated their policy, they violated their oath of office and they broke the law. i want to take you to atlanta, these pictures, because the

fires are still burning. we have seen reports of police helicopters in the air. lots of people, protesters, still on the streets. we have seen looting. there has been looting of shops in millie atlas. lots of shops in millie atlas. lots of anger about it lots of calls for calm and to avoid that it is difficult to see exactly what is happening but it does look similar as to previous evening. we will try and get a handle on exactly what is happening and keep across the latest on those protests. more than 200 schools in south korea have been forced to close just days after they re—opened, due to a new spike in virus cases.

0ur correspondent, laura bicker, spent the day with pupils at one school before the latest closures. here's how it went. hundreds of schools have had to stay closed in south korea. this one is open, but life is far from normal. so how are they keeping students safe? how long since you've seen your friends? about five months. —— how long since you've seen your friends? about five months. have you missed your friends? 0h, very much. we can't hug each other, so we are sad. but this is the first temperature check of the day. and as you can see, it's going off, and that's because i have a hot coffee in my hand. if the temperature gauge

does go off like this, you get a manual check. is it ok? yeah, it's 36.4. 36.4. so i'm good to go. but this is just the first temperature check of the day. there are many, many more to come. there's also a lot of hand—washing required. in south korea, every student has to fill in a phone app to monitor their symptoms. they have to do this every day or they can't come to school.

how do you feel? or do you have a fever? what else? and then i login. i can see my students. so they do this and you check it? yes. 0k. but the hardest part of the school day is keeping your distance from friends. there are reminders everywhere, markers to tell you where to stand. and in classes too, you're kept apart from the person sitting next to you. even at lunch and in gym class, students must stay apart. no contact sports allowed. but when the teacher isn't looking, sometimes the rules are broken.

asi as i speak to you right now, many cities across the united states have protesters on the street and you can see on the left ear is at plantar, vehicles on fire in the background. amelia police, filled in, possibly shops, being attacked. —— in minneapolis. we have just being attacked. —— in minneapolis. we havejust heard from the mayor of atlanta saying, "what i see happening on the streets of atlanta is not a banter, this is not a protest, this is not in the spirit of martin luther king jr” spirit of martin luther king jr., this is chaos. a protest has purpose. when you burn down

this city, you are burning down oui’ this city, you are burning down our community". stay with us. i am lewis vaughan jones, our community". stay with us. i am lewis vaughanjones, this is bbc news. well, friday was a very warm day across the uk. in fact, the hot spot was scotland. temperatures got up to 28 degrees. and saturday, in most parts of the uk, will be every bit as warm, at least the low to mid 20s in most major towns and cities. it's been so reliable during the lockdown that the spring has ended up being the sunniest one on record. so, this has been confirmed by the met office. now, high pressure is in charge of the weather across a large chunk of europe. it's centred across scandinavia and it's clearing the skies across the uk, ireland, much of western and central europe. these are the 6am temperatures. a little fresh in parts of east anglia.

maybe in the rural spots, temperatures could be around 6 degrees, but elsewhere, not quite as nippy. very quickly, the temperatures will rocket during the course of the morning and into the afternoon. let's take a closer look. so, on friday, we had temperatures up to around about 28 in some parts of western scotland. probably not quite so hot on saturday, more like the low to mid 20s. very warm there in glasgow at 24 celsius. we'll match that in liverpool, in birmingham, and probably the hot spot will be somewhere in the south of england. temperatures will get up to around 25 celsius. now, the sun will be very strong as well. you can see high uv levels pretty much right across the country, so take note if you're planning to enjoy that fine weather outdoors. saturday night's looking absolutely fine, and then sunday, we do it all over again. the winds are light, the skies are clear, the temperatures are going to rise. in fact,

in one or two spots, it could reach around 26 or 27 celsius, so a hot day on the way, especially across western parts of england, on sunday. and over the next few days — so this is including the weekend and into next week — that warm plume of air from the southern climes continues to spread across the uk, as far north as scandinavia, even pushing to the arctic circle. so those temperatures are expected to affect peak across the south of the uk come tuesday. we could see temperatures getting up to around 28 degrees celsius. but after that, a big change on the way. look at that — back into the teens by the time we get to the weekend. in fact, next weekend, we're expecting colder air coming in from the north. that's it for me. goodbye.

this is bbc news. the headline: a wave of protests sweeping across the us. these are live pictures from minneapolis, the epicentre of where and unarmed man, george floyd, died while in police custody. the police officer derek chauvin has been arrested and charged with third—degree murder. a curfew was put in place but that has been ignored. protesters continue to come out onto the street, as they have donein out onto the street, as they have done in the cities right across the us. president donald trump has urged calm and we will be continuing to cover these protests on bbc news.