this is bbc news. welcome if you're watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i'm lewis vaughan jones. our top stories: live in the city of minneapolis. right and demonstrations continue even though there is a curfew in place. the police officer derek chauvin has been arrested and charged with third—degree murder. this was a scene in boston where hundreds of activists and police have clashed over the death of george floyd. 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. hello and welcome to bbc news. 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. a curfew was due to start 2 hours ago in minneapolis. it has been ignored. as you can see from these live pictures. this is day number four of protests and violence in minneapolis which has spread to cities right across the united states. the curfew was supposed to be in place from 8pm local time and you can see it has just 8pm local time and you can see it hasjust gone 8pm local time and you can see it has just gone 10pm, 8pm local time and you can see it hasjust gone 10pm, until 6am in the morning. it has been extended over the weekend but instead we have vehicles on fire, appeals for calm by the officials have been ignored. teargas has been fired as protesters have set fire to ca i’s protesters have set fire to cars and it seems buildings and protesters still on the street.

earlier on, donald trump had this to say... 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. let's stick with the president. his comments slightly different to what he tweeted out earlier on. part of his tweet said, when the looting starts, the

shooting start and that has been criticised. it has. the president has since said he was misinterpreted as far as those comments were concerned but he did also refer to the protesters in minneapolis as thugs. the president has since gone on the record as saying he has gone on the record that he has gone on the record that he has spoken to george floyd's family and he expresses sorrow for their loss and his horror over the videotape release. we are getting reports here of demonstrations in about a dozen american cities and, of course, in minneapolis, the epicentre of all of this, it appears the cu rfew of all of this, it appears the curfew is simply being ignored completely. more than two hours into it, there are still protesters on the street and officials have warned there will be hundreds of national guard drafted in to ensure there is no return to the

looting and violence of the last three nights. what the state governor referred to as 48 hours of anarchy. it seems the national guard has shrunk into the shadows, if you like, and if the protesters have the streets to themselves. there was a brief lockdown at the white house after protesters clashed with protesters near there. also new york, los angeles, dallas, atlanta, have all seen violent demonstrations in part. remind us how we got here. this is four days of protest, sometimes violent, but ta ke protest, sometimes violent, but take us back to the original incident that sparked this. this is an incident which was ca ptu red this is an incident which was captured on videotape by a passerby on monday of this week, on the street in minneapolis and it was a man accused of passing off a kind

of $20 bill, his name is george floyd and he was pinned down by four police officers, one of whom put his need to mr floyd's neck. for more than eight minutes, the man could be seen under the ground and for part of that time, he is appealing for the officers to let him go because he cannot breathe. he was taken to hospital and later pronounced dead. that led to immediate protest in minneapolis and since then those protests have spread and the rather more plans for this weekend. is this all of watershed as the troubled history of race relations? it remains to be seen. we have been down this road before but rarely have we seen so many

protests a nd rarely have we seen so many protests and so much violence gci’oss protests and so much violence across the country. and you can see these live pictures of a burning in minneapolis. as we've been hearing protests are going on across the country quincy walters is a reporter for npr's boston station wbur — he's outside boston police's district 4 station where a crowd of protesters remains. the line is a bit shaky but can you hear me? yes. talk us what has been happening. today, about six hours ago protests started inaudible. i am afraid we are struggling to hear, the line is breaking up. if you just try standing still perhaps. we will have one more quick go. protesters gathered in front of this police station

behind me a few hours ago and protesters were nose to nose with some of the officers and it happened when one of the protesters dog locked up on the stairs. protesters started shouting "we can't breath", black lives matter. 0ne police officer smoked and that riled protesters even more. —— one police officer smirked. there are always 100 people still chanting at police here. what are they asking for, their demands? 0ne are they asking for, their demands? one of the initial reasons for people coming on the street was calling for the rest of the police officer, derek chauvin, that has happened now. what else are they asking for? what this has also conjured up is an awareness of other black people who have been killed by police

here in boston. protesters are asking that those cases be reopened, re—examined and that awareness is brought to the fore about black people who have been killed by boston police in the past few weeks. we have been hearing in other places that protests are planning to continue over the weekend. any sense of what is happening in their? is it dying down or people still coming out? i do not know of any other protests planned beyond this one. tomorrow, the mayor of boston is calling a visual for people who have been killed at the hands of this brutality. —— vigil. but i am not entirely sure if they will be another protest tomorrow. thank you for talking with us and we got over

the problems of the line so thank you for talking to us in boston. we have been staying with the live pictures in minneapolis, the epicentre of where the protest started. some protests have been peaceful but it has escalated into violence, looting and writing in other areas. it exposes systemic structural issues in the way policing is set up in the us. a short time ago clarence williams from the washington postjoined us to discribe the situation unfolding in washington. this started at about 5pm dinnertime, ona this started at about 5pm dinnertime, on a friday. this started at about 5pm dinner time, on a friday. it started with a smaller crowd of 150 people and within an hour it swelled into the hundreds. protesters were shouting the

names of victims here in the state who have been... who died at the hands of police, in police custody, tamia rice for example. the protest headed towards the white house where they were brief flashes and at least two people arrested in lafayette park cross, north of the white house, the north lawn. protesters have been going for hours. they traverse the us capitol, briefly shut down intersections and a highway. hundreds of them are still on the march as we speak. we know the white house was in lockdown effectively early on and we understand that it is now over. protesters didn't get to the front of the white house? —— did. to the front of the white house? -- did. it is lafayette park, which is a public park north of the white house

grounds. these had said still barricades along pennsylvania avenue to keep tourists and protesters from approaching the fa ns protesters from approaching the fans of the north lawn and several times, at that still barricades, there were small clashes between police and demonstrators. water bottles we re demonstrators. water bottles were thrown onto police on pennsylvania avenue, at least one gentleman was carried with some difficulty under police custody. there was shoving, and a lot of divinity but other than that no arrests or make any apparent sign of injuries. some graffiti was scrawled on one of the buildings nearby but after about an hour, the protesters went on the move again. thank you for talking to us so again. thank you for talking to us so clearly through that. what is the atmosphere like now? we're seeing pictures from other of cards on fire and really high tensions. is there

a different atmosphere in washington? at this point in time, that has been no sign of any major property damage. washington seem to have avoided those kind of clashes and destruction. i did witness several of the protest organises at the front of the clashes between police and protesters, trying to keep calm voices, to keep some distance between police and protesters and calm things down. in washington, there are a number of police agencies. the main force is the dc police department, i have decades of experience dealing with protests a nd experience dealing with protests and have a hands off kind of approach but some other agencies, they have been near clashes. the us secret service and us capitol police, which protect the white house, have had instances where it appears

they were going to stand their ground and the protesters came face—to—face with them. many protest organises were able to defuse some of those situations which got quite heated at times. i know this is an impossible question so please, apologies in advance, but any idea on numbers. i know trying to guess numbers in crowds is difficult in a dangerous thing to do but give us a sense of how big the protests were or how big the protests were or how small. not to be too flippant how small. not to be too flippa nt about it how small. not to be too flippant about it but mathematics was never my strong suit. i think that my crowd estimation i think started at around 150 and reached at the height nearly 2000 people that left the white house ground stop is started to dwindle now toa stop is started to dwindle now to a couple of hundred. the demonstrators has had abs and flows. it has had heightened fever pitch but it has come down from a high point of 2000

to just about 200 that i left. 0ur to just about 200 that i left. our thanks to clarence williams from the washington post. we have been able to talk you through what exactly is happening in washington, before that in boston. in atlanta we saw the headquarters of cnn being attacked with cars on fire. in new york, scores of arrests have been made and that has been practised in la, chicago, boston as well. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: we're inside a south korea school to see how they're keeping the students safe in the pandemic. in the biggest international sporting spectacle ever seen, up to 30 million people have taken part in sponsored athletics events to aid famine relief in africa.

the first of what the makers of star wars hope will be thousands of queues started forming at 7:00am. taunting which led to scuffles, scuffles to fighting, fighting to full—scale riot, as the liverpool fans broke out of their area and into the juve ntus enclosure. the belgian police had lost control. the whole world will mourn the tragic death of mr nehru today. he was the father of the indian people from the day of independence. the oprah winfrey show comes to an end after 25 years and more than 4,500 episodes. the chat show has made her one of the richest people on the planet. geri halliwell, otherwise known as 'ginger spice,‘ has announced she has left the spice girls. argh, i don't believe it. she's the one with the bounce, the go, girl power. not geri, why? this is bbc world news, the latest headlines:

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. brazil has reported nearly 27,000 cases of covid—19 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. 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. amidst the storm, a beacon of hope. for every night of manila's lockdown, this building's owners have turned on the red lights. they're doing it to show their support for the city's front liners. we are now implementing the extreme enhanced community quarantine. men and women, like police chief colonel dario menor. tonight, his officers are enforcing a strict quarantine of a community in northern manila identified as having a cluster of coronavirus cases. and here's the plan. identify those infected by the virus, separate them from the majority, and then cure them. what do you say to those people who say you should fight this with mass testing, not with guns and armed forces? maybe they are insecure because they themselves has

no contribution to alleviate the sufferings of our people. but elsewhere in manila, there have been accusations of heavy—handedness by the police, captured in video and shared widely on social media. ariel casilao is from anakpawis, a leftist political party deeply critical of philippine president rodrigo duterte's government. he and six volunteers were recently arrested and detained for handing out food aid allegedly in breach of lockdown restrictions. some of the members had been charged with inciting sedition. the intention is to silence the people from criticising the inefficiency and incompetence of government and to use the situation for duterte and his tyrannical, authoritarian tendencies. a spokesperson for president duterte said anakpawis's statement was "absolute nonsense" and that 99% of the hungry have received social amelioration support.

so has the tough lockdown actually curbed coronavirus cases in the philippines? a former health secretary says it undoubtedly helped. before we locked down, there actually was evidence that the pandemic was going out of control. we were able to slow down the epidemic, and there is data that had we not intervened with the lockdown, we probably would have had as many as four million infections. manila's lockdown has been long and testing for the city's residents. but with the government aiming to ease restrictions to kick—start the economy early next week, the end could finally be in sight. howard johnson, bbc news, metro manila. 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. 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. taking you back to the situation in the us. protests have been spreading to cities right across the country including atlanta where there is violence outside the cnn headquarters there. buildings and vehicles have been targeted and vehicles have been targeted and some local leaders have asked residents not to take to the streets. 0ne asked residents not to take to the streets. one of them is atla nta the streets. one of them is atlanta mayor. you are disgracing our city, you are disgracing our city, you are disgracing the light of george floyd —— life of george floyd and every other person that has been killed in this country. we are better than this! we are

better than this as a city. we are better than this as a country. go home. go home. that's it for now. i'm lewis vaughan jones, this is that's it for now. i'm 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 headlines: in minneapolis protestors 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. clashes have also taken place between demonstrators and police in boston and atlanta. president trump has called on people to obey the law. brazil has reported nearly 27,000 cases of covid—19 in the past 24 hours — a new daily record. it's now surpassed spain in the total number of virus deaths, with the fifth highest figure in the world. president jair bolsonaro says the spread of the virus is inevitable and the economy should be reopened immediately. the uk government has announced changes to the scheme that covers the wages of furloughed workers affected by the coronavirus lockdown — businesses will have to start paying contributions, from august. wales' first minister has announced plans