and into wednesday as well. this is bbc news — i'm martine croxall with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. demonstrators gather again in minneapolis as state troops prepare to impose a weekend cu rfew after four nights of rioting over the death of george floyd. these are live pictures from los angeles — where groups have confonted law enforcment officers as nationwide protests are held over police brutality . over police brutality. the first commercially— built rocket to carry astronauts into space has lifted off from florida. the uk government defends plans to ease lockdown — as scientific advisors say

they fear restrictions are being lifted too quickly. as the number of global coronavirus cases passes six million and india's daily total hits a record high— we have a special report on how the poorest are coping with the lockdown. hello: protesters are gathering again in cities across the united states — as anger over the killing of african american, george floyd — under the knee of a white police officer, shows no sign of abating. minnesota, georgia, ohio, colorado, denver, kentucky and the district of columbia have all now either activated or requested the national guard to assist local law enforcement in a bid to stem the violence which has accompanied the protests.

these are the life pictures where here again, the city is in the fourth day of protests as multiracial crowds turned out to protest police brutality brought upon by the death of george floyd. it is become a nation wide uprising and a saturday, morning protests in downtown la turn violent making the city among many across the nation struggling to stem the u nrest nation struggling to stem the unrest and the anger. it looks fairly quiet and protesters detain and contain, contain, i should say. president trump has been speaking about the death of george floyd and said it should never have happened. the death of george floyd on the streets of minneapolis was a grave tragedy.

it should never have happened. all americans all over the country feel horror, anger, and grief. yesterday, i spoke to george's family and expressed the sorrow of our entire nation for their loss. i stand before you as a friend and ally to every american seeking justice and peace, and i stand before you in firm opposition to anyone exploiting this tragedy to loot, rob, attack and menace. our correspondent barbara plett usher is in minneapolis — her report contains some distressing images. america is rising up in anger over the killing of an unarmed black man in police custody. in minneapolis, protesters defied a curfew, taking over the streets for a fourth night in a row. turning them into a smoking battle ground. security forces were overwhelmed, the governor has not announced the largest mobilisation of the national guard in the state

possible is history. he blames outsiders for spearheading the violence. the situation in minneapolis, is no longer in any way about the murder of george floyd. it is about attacking civil society, instilling fear and disrupting our great cities. the scale of destruction is bigger than in previous protests over race —related deaths. here in minneapolis, this is the damage after another night of chaos. authorities thought that they calm things down after they swiftly discharge police officers and they were shocked when the violence escalated instead. i cannot breathe. a widely publicised video shows the officer kneeling on mr floyd's neck as he begs for air. and for that emerge today, you can see two other policemen were holding him down, ignoring his pleas to be allowed to stand up.

the graphic images have ignited protests around the country already grappling with a deadly pandemic. and suffering its worst economic crisis since the great depression. in seattle, washington, demonstrators hurled a rock at an amazon store. they chanted, i can't breathe and black lives matter. in charlotte, north carolina, police fired tear gas in the city councilmember was among several people arrested. and in atlanta, georgia, protesters threw rocks and smoke grenades at police, trashed cars and smashed windows at cnn headquarters. the governor issued a state of emergency and the mayor pleaded for the riots to stop. you are disgracing our city! you are disgracing the life of george floyd and every other person who has been killed in this country! we are better than this! we are better than this as a city! than this as a country!

i am duty—bound to simply say that it is your duty not to burn your own house down for anger with the enemy. accountability is what protests are demanding. but in minneapolis, hundreds maybe thousands of people came up to show that they do not want to burn the house down to get it. they cleared away the wreckage left behind after nights of rage, aware that another one may be coming. professor kaye whitehead is an educator, author, and media host, who is known as the #blackmommyactivist. she teaches african and african american studies at loyola university in baltimore, maryland, from where she told me that the violence had a clear context. i think it's important to recognise that the murder of george floyd comes on top of so much injustice and so many unarmed black men, women and children who have been killed ever since we have been protesting

black lives matter. we can go back and look at the modern civil rights movement, the history of how we got here, but if we just focus on black lives matter, i can easily go through a litany of names of black men, women and children and most recently we had a black woman shot and most recently we had a black woman shot and killed in her own home in kentucky. a man shot and killed in georgia, and now george floyd, you can watch it in real time and you can hear him struggling, yelling out that he cannot breathe, calling for his mother, it is the injustice that we are dealing with as black and brown people in this country when we see this happening to people that could be part of our families and then we don't see people being held accountable so there is a lot of pent—up frustration that got us to this moment. you can change policy,

but that does not necessarily change attitudes, not least within the police. so how do you bring about meaningful change? it's interesting that we have been wrestling with this question around change for quite a while. what would it look like if we were to do something different? we talk about police officers, that's kind of a point blank. to do an intensive training with police officers so that we can build a bridge between the police force and the community. there is predatory policing that is happening in economically challenged black communities where they are overpoliced, herded and controlled, rather than protected and served so that needs to happen. we need to have more accountability for police officers. so, when they do what these police officers participated in, it's notjust that they are arrested, not just that they are fired, not just that they are charged, but they are found guilty and they serve time so that people understand there is a price to pay. there is accountability.

a second thing is to think about reparations. right now, we're looking at how we are economically challenged in this community, we see how the income of black people is steadily dropping by the year 2053, the estimate of income will be zero in comparison to our white counterparts. so, a way of redistributing funds we hope will turn around decades upon decades of economic injustice in our community and third upon decades of economic injustice in our community and third, which i think is the hardest piece is how do we change the hearts and minds of people? there is a large community of people not of colour in this country of white people who really believe that black folks are inferior. they are groups of white nationalism and supremacy and they are pushing that age—old agenda that race is a determining factor. we are fighting against the hearts and minds of those individuals as well.

these are the life pictures where here again, the city is people are coming back out onto the streets again, not in the numbers that we have seen at times, particularly in other cities, but some of the roads partially blocked in last night, the police and los angeles after the shut down much of downtown those restrictions were lifted and an appealfor calm restrictions were lifted and an appeal for calm and peaceful protest. the first commercial spacecraft to carry people into space has successfully launched from cape canaveral in florida. the capsule, built by elon musk‘s spacex, has two astronauts onboard — and they are now on their way to the international space station. rebecca morelle has more. these are steps towards a new era of space flight. the first astronauts to launch from american soil in almost a decade. and this is the rocket,

a company about to make history by carrying people into space. have an amazing flight, enjoy the views of our beautiful planet. three, two, one, ignition, lift off. godspeed! this is a huge step for us, a huge step for the commercial ventures and i think it is important for the world to realise that we are going into space to stay and we are going to continue on to the moon and then onto mars. about ten minutes into the flight and the pull of the earth is gone. dragon separation confirmed.

in the final stages, the rocket gently detaches. dragon is now officially making its way to the international space station today. but this is just the start. they have to be able to come home safely and make sure all the systems and parachutes get them home safely, it is not until that mission is back on earth that we will know that it is a complete success. we hope you enjoyed the ride. for the astronauts, their journey is just beginning. the future of private space flight is truly arrived. the number of recorded coronavirus cases around the world has now passed six million. the latest milestone was announced byjohn hopkins university in the united states. more than 367—thousand people are known to have died — with the us continuing to top the list of both infections and deaths. brazil, russia, the united kingdom, spain and italy are the other worst affected countries.

england's deputy chief medical officer, has warned the nation is facing a "very dangerous moment" in the fight against coronavirus. professorjonathan van tam said the scientific consensus was that easing the lockdown in england next week would not affect the infection rate, but he urged the public not to "tear the pants" out of the new guidelines. our political correspondent, chris mason, has this report. helen's bay beach in county down today, northern ireland and in scotland, groups are already allowed to gather outside. england and wales will follow on monday. new rules grant us more freedom but requires us to make more judgements about what is safe. in bournemouth, the lure of the beach, the challenge of social distancing. in york, the price of the paint and yes, exactly the same challenge. for the number of coronavirus cases falling, ministers say that the time is right for a more liberal approach. but some of those advising our political

leaders have concerns. if we make multiple releases at the same time, we will not know what is causing the inevitablejump in cases. and we do not have an established track to isolate these people. and so it is a very risky point where we can take the lid off of a pot that is still bubbling in places and risks overflowing in these places. regions parking primrose hill two, and greater manchester regions park and primrose hill too, and greater manchester believe it come too soon so the news conference, i asked. what you say to the scientists and others who say that you're using the lockdown in england to quickly? we do not have much headroom and that is of the prime minister has been clear that we need to proceed in a very cautious way.

i believe and you'll recall that i was there when the activity was high in the uk and saying it was very dangerous moment and i believe this is a very dangerous moment. you have to get this right. we have to get this right. the people to actually follow the guidance, do not tear the pants out of it and don't go further than the guidance actually says. knowing how to turn of phrase and make a point. he was also asked directly about dominic cummings, the prime minister's most senior adviser who drove 50 miles to test his eyesight during the lockdown. the rules are clear and they have always been clear. in my opinion, they are for the benefit of all and in my opinion, they apply to all. questions about mr cummings keeps coming and questions about easing the lockdown

will too. it's also been announced that restrictions on more than two—million people — who've been shielding in england for ten weeks — are to be relaxed slightly from monday. this is bbc news — the main headlines: protesters gather in minneapolis as the authorities step up efforts to prevent more riots over the death of a george floyd a black man killed in police custody. the first commercial spacecraft to carry people into space has successfully launched from cape canaveral in florida. let's stay with that story — our correspondent jane o'brien is at cape canavera — she gave me her reaction to the take—off. it was the most exhilarating thing that i think i've ever experienced, to be perfectly honest. to see history being made in history being made in such a visual, sensory fashion, the sound of that rocket taking off and the vibrations that you feel going all the way

through you is just absolutely extraordinary and then to see that shining bright light of the actual rockets taking off and still visible when all you could really see was the cloud and the tracer of the atmosphere coming out of it, i really do feel it was extraordinary or i must‘ve felt like to be part of the team that was able to pull this off the astronauts on board, i can only imagine especially after the disappointment of wednesday when the weather stopped it and i was complaining about thunderstorms on wednesday and i'm complaining about the heat, so the weather is always a problem but space x and for nasa and for crew dragon, to the sun really shown in the weather behaved as it should have. and a very different business model for nasa, no longer a government built spacecraft but something built by a private company in california.

nasa's the customer and that is the bottom line. space x develop this with support and very considerable financial support, they've also developed a similar transport capsule and space x won the race on this particular occasion and as a result, the idea is that it will drive down the cost of putting humans into space which will enable nasa to focus on the big missions like getting humans back to mars and then on to the moon rather and onto mars, which is what this is really all about and it is hoped that these commercial flights will be an integral part of these future missions and so this is really part of changing how we think about exploration and changing the way it is actually done. it is actually done.

some workers are at greater risk of getting coronavirus than others. men working as security guards have one of the highest death rates in england and wales — and those from ethnic minorities with other health problems are at an ever higher risk. our special correspondent lucy manning has been speaking to the family of a security guard who lost his life to covid—i9. kevin rowson wasn't supposed to be on the covid front line, not a doctor or nurse, but a security guard. his football team was nottingham forest so it was brilliant that he got to be security for them. happy birthday to you... the father of four who also worked as a courier, celebrated his birthdayjust a few months ago. it would be his last one. male security guards are dying at the highest rate and the black community suffering disproportionately, as well. how did you feel when you heard that that in terms of

occupations, most deaths have been amongst security guards? i was quite shocked, actually. there is a high risk, especially for security because they're around a lot of people, and a lot of people these days with everything going on, they are getting in security guards' faces and things like that because they can't accept the social distancing or that they have got to queue or things like that, so, they are very at risk. the club marked kevin's death in a stadium with no fans. now, there's another family with no father. he was about six feet six, six feet seven, but he was the gentlest man you could ever meet. he loved life, he loved everybody, he was just amazing. laughter more shops will reopen soon.

although it's still not clear if the high death rate is because of the job or other covid risk factors like race, that it is male dominated and low—paid work, there are demands for more protection. our officers have been threatened, that they were going to be spat at, so there are some people who were scared, some of them refused to work, because obviously it is a hard situation. the government should at least advise people and give us more support, like equipment, because this equipment is not easy to buy online. it's expensive. kelly's brother, like other security guards, risking their own health to keep others safe, and more will do so as the lockdown eases. they're allowing things to go back to normal too soon,

just because the public don't like it, and it is hard. i've lost a family member and i wouldn't want anybody else in the world to lose a family member. it's heartbreaking, it's broken our family. people want to ease off and they want to be out there again and they want to go back to normal but to me there is now no normality. there's never going to be any normality after this. india has announced plans to ease a strict national lockdown put in place to curb the spread of the coronavirus. the shutdown imposed at the end of march has had a devastating effect on poorer sectors of society, pushing millions living on the edge into poverty. in the city of mumbai, one group of citizens took notice, and decided to take action. here is their story. it will you will make that is the biggestjoy. you will make that is the biggest joy. i am just happy that i am just part of this

magic. migrant laborers, the fact that the factories shut down in the small business the shut down and so, they were not getting paid. in the shutdown happened, they went back to their rural towns but they were not earning money, so towns but they were not earning money, so they could not pay rent to stay. they cannot buy food for themselves. it is basically a platform or re—aggregate demand for hungry people across the city and recreate capacities from kitchens and restaurants to supply food we also organize

everything into and by us. we mapa demand, everything into and by us. we map a demand, we create a supply every raise funds for it and. we re were not concerned about coronavirus more so were not concerned about coronavirus more so than hunger. so many are dying of hunger. so many are dying of hunger they do not know what this diseases but all they want is food. there will be about 15 people who will be cooking the food and there's a whole packing team that will continuously put them in containers and dismiss their pact, they're ready for dispatch. i think everyone can do something and when you have a

will, i think god shows you the way. let's look at the protests in response to the police brutality that was shown towards george floyd, the man who died in minnesota, minneapolis after she was put into custody by the police and an officer knelt on his neck. you can see that this is the fifth day of these protests and in washington, there was a moment for the civil, secret servant clash of protesters on the outside and reports of people being pepper sprayed and arrested. the protests of caught on across many cities, not just the capital caught on across many cities, notjust the capital here, but

president trump not at the white house, he has gone to florida for the launch of the spacecraft that he says rightful protest is permissible if it is peaceful. hello there. saturday brought more dry, sunny, and warm weather across the whole of the united kingdom. now, it was a fine end to the day in london and west london did quite well for temperatures. heathrow got up to 26 degrees. but for the most part on saturday, the highest temperatures were across the north and the west of the uk with kinloch here in the highlands of scotland, the nation's hotspot with highs of 27. we're going to see similar kind of temperatures for these western areas as we get on into sunday as well. now over the next few hours, most of us are going to keep the clear skies but probably some low cloud and some fog begin to push onto the eastern shores of scotland and although temperatures in the towns and cities between around 8—13 degrees, in the countryside the coldest spots get down to about 3 degrees so it will be quite chilly for some of you to start sunday morning.

sunday, well, that low cloud and fog can take the first few hours of the morning to clear away from east scotland. maybe a bit of misting this as well in north—east england. but otherwise, a sunny start to the day and a sunny afternoon. now, the highest temperatures in scotland probably again to the north—west of the country, the highlands doing ok with highs probably reaching around 25—26 degrees celsius here. you might see another 23 or 2a for westernmost areas of northern ireland. and some of the highest temperatures in england across western areas and wales too. you could see highs locally hitting around 27. now for monday's forecast, the high pressure is still in charge of our weather, so we've got more of that dry weather to come. more of the sunshine as well. temperatures still on the high side for the time of year, looking at highs of 2a in glasgow, 26 or so in cardiff, but from then on we're going to start to see the weather changing somewhat because an area of low pressure is going to start to develop to the north of the uk and move in as we head towards tuesday and wednesday.

so, that is going to be bringing some cloudy skies with rain or showers pushing southwards and as well as that, the area is going to be getting cooler. so temperatures will be coming back down close to normal for the time of year and normal isn't something we've seen for quite a long time. so, scotland is going to be cooling down as you can see, there will be some rain and showers around as well as we go through tuesday and wednesday. perhaps some of the heaviest rain actually working through during tuesday night. further southwards across england and wales, still hanging onto some warm sunshine on tuesday but the change comes really on wednesday with thicker cloud. again, rain or showers working in. that's your latest weather.

this is bbc news, the headlines. protesters are gathering again in minneapolis and cities across the united states — over the killing of african american, george floyd by a police officer. officials have called for the national guard to assist local law enforcement to prevent riots which have followed the protests. england's deputy chief medical officer has warned of a "very dangerous moment" in the fight against coronavirus. professor jonathan van—tam said easing the lockdown would not affect the infection rate — but he urged the public not to "tear the pants" out of the new guidelines. the first commercial spacecraft to carry people into space has successfully launched from cape canaveral in florida. the capsule — built by elon musk‘s spacex — has two astronauts onboard — and they are now on their way to the international space station.

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