hello, this is bbc news — the headlines: hundreds of people march to the us embassy in central london in protest over the killing of george floyd, the unarmed black man who died in police this is bbc news with the latest headlines custody in america. for viewers in the uk and around the world. hundreds of people march to the us embassy in central london in protest and in the us protests spread from minneapolis over the killing of george floyd, to at least 30 different cities. the unarmed black man who died in police custody in america. president trump blames looters and left—wing radicals for the unrest. after 10 weeks at home, more than two million people in england and wales who've been shielding during lockdown, are told they can go outdoors. this is the scene live the uk government has defended in central london — its decision to ease lockdown measures in england. outside the us embassy. because we have made that progress, steadily, slowly, surely, week in, week out, we can carefully take the steps that we you can hear the demonstrators are taking tomorrow. chanting at the police cordon surrounding the embassy. religious services resume — the pope has returned to st peter's and in the us protests spread from minneapolis to at least 30 different cities. basilica to celebrate mass. president trump blames looters, and leftwing as schools in england prepare radicals for the unrest. after ten weeks at home, to reopen to some pupils tomorrow,

more than two million people in england and wales who've been governors say all children shouldn't shielding during lockdown, have to return before are told they can go outdoors. summer holidays. the uk government has defended its decision to ease lockdown measures in england. because we have made that progress, steadily, slowly, surely, week in, week out, we can carefully take the steps that we are taking tomorrow. 0ne one piece of baking is in the past religious services resume — couple of minutes, it's just been announced the pope has returned to st peter's basilica to celebrate mass. as schools in england prepare to reopen to some pupils tomorrow — governors say all children shouldn't have to return before summer holidays. three, two, one, zero. ignition. lift off of the falcon 9 and crew dragon. and coming up on the programme... a new era for space travel as the first ever comercial rocket carrying humans approaches the space station. we will be watching that live.

hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world — and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. hundreds of people have gathered in central london this afternoon, to protest over the killing of the unarmed black american, george floyd, whilst in police custody. the crowds congregated in trafalgar square, in solidarity with protesters in the us. that is despite the security of the social distancing lockdown measures in london. hundreds of demonstrators then marched towards downing street, and onwards across the river thames to vauxhall.

the crowds have now gathered outside the us embassy building. you can see from these pictures people appear to be crowded together, as i say, despite the social distancing restrictions outside that you embassy. meanwhile similar demonstrations have taken place in cities across the uk, including here in st ann's square in manchester. the protests came as cities across the united states woke up to the aftermath of more street demonstrations and growing civil unrest. curfews have been imposed in at least 13 cities. and several states have called out the national guard. it's in response to the death on monday of george floyd,

a 46—year—old an african american man from minneapolis, who died after a police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest. in all, over seventy five cities have seen unrest. the protests started largely peacefully but violence has flared. shops looted, cars burned and buildings attacked. and a number of states have called out the national guard in attempt to quell the rising tide of anger. president trump has blamed far—left groups and anarchists for the violence. our north america correspondent david willis reports. this was the night america rose up in protest. angry, destructive protest, aimed at the police and their treatment of racial minorities. curfews were imposed in more than a dozen american cities, but they were ignored. and as night fell, a rising tide of anger gave way to displays of arson, looting and anarchy. many of those protests had started peacefully. "we can't breathe", the mantra of a movement that has taken

george floyd's final words and turned them into a rallying cry. i cannot breathe. mr floyd was captured on video gasping for breath and pleading for his life. the police officer seen with his knee on mr floyd's neck is now facing murder and manslaughter charges but that's done little to abate the anger, and calls are growing for the three other officers involved in his arrest to also be brought to justice. president trump said the us military was ready, willing and able to deploy if the unrest continued. as he hunkered down in the white house, protesters rallied for a second nightjust outside the gates. a potent cocktail of factors are at play here. the coronavirus pandemic has thrown a0 million americans out of work and trashed a once buoyant economy. people have been cooped up indoors for months as a result. some knowing it may be months if not years before

they get theirjobs back. david willis, bbc news, los angeles. well over the weekend heard from a number of civil rights campaigners — the reverand jesse jackson, and professor cornel west, as well as eye witnesses and protestors and the protests are mainly taking place in metropolitan cities who traditionally vote democrat. but how has the death of george floyd been digested in republican parts of the country? eric bolling is a former fox news host, the presenter of america this week and friend of the president and joins me now from charleston, south carolina. good to speak to you again. president trump has come out and attacked left—wing groups and anarchists but shouldn't he be allowing those fighting for social justice as well? i think he is and there was a speech he gave at nasa

yesterday when spacex launched the two astronauts into the sky. he did address this. but the governor of minnesota, where this protest started where george floyd was killed, was murdered on tape and we know that, we saw it and we believe it. the governor basically said eve ryo ne it. the governor basically said everyone they have arrested has been from out of state, which tells you this isn't a protest protesting a vicious murder of george floyd, it isa vicious murder of george floyd, it is a movement, a political movement so is a movement, a political movement so people are coming from out of state, likely being paid and those people are typically, there are groups in the united states that do this. they go to the cities where there is some sort of racial tension and they start with protest and it will quickly escalate into rioting and violence and the breaking in of businesses and looting. so it is not genuine anger on the part of the black population who feel isolated and victimised 7 black population who feel isolated and victimised? i didn't say that.

there is genuine anger across the country amongst black americans and rightly should be. three weeks prior to this you had a man being shot on tape as he isjogging down the highway in georgia. three weeks later we see four police officers with their knees on george floyd, killing him. these people deserve justice and they are angry about it. what happens is, it is the professional protesters, the people who are doing this as part of a business to go from state to state, from city to city and create anarchy within the cities and create division amongst the people. he went from a very sympathetic white american population saying, this has got to stop, these are police have to stop killing innocent, not innocent, but killing defenceless african—americans. do now, they have com pletely african—americans. do now, they have completely turned it upon themselves. it's not about george floyd any more. americans are saying you have got to stop brewing

businesses, people are dying because of this protest that started in the right place and it is ending in a different place and the wrong place. this comes during the coronavirus pandemic, 100,000 deaths, high unemployment rate for the black population, up to 50% in some places. this is the worst possible scenario isn't it, at a time of great social pressure. i wonder about the president's language when the looting starts and the shooting starts, some are old enough to remember when it was first used as an expression by walter headley, miami police governor about how to deal with uprising and anger from a black population? a couple of schools of thought in how to deal with this and these very cities, chicago, los angeles, new york, all

run by democrat, liberal mayors who basically say use a soft or give them space to vent. this is the worst possible way. look at what you are doing, you are allowing looters, genuine protesters who are not doing theirjob any more and into looters and rioters and stealing and breaking into businesses, breaking glass and going in and wiping out a mobile store in the matter of minutes over a sneaker store in the matter of minutes. sociologists would disagree and say, if you look at how the american police that have been arming themselves, looking like paratroopers, they use big guns and big force, is that the right way? they are not doing that. they are protecting themselves and they look like they are armed, but they are being beaten up, they are dragging police officers through the streets of chicago, you can look at the

video tape yourself, they are not fighting back because they are being very careful not to fight back. a lot of people would say, this is a mistake, you are opening up a pandora's box of telling professional looters and rioters, go to the city where there is racial tension and say, have it your way with the city. look at the city is being pulled apart. chicago, los angeles, new york, atlanta, they are run by liberal mayors. they are telling the police force to stand out, protect yourselves sure, but stand out. when you tell them to do that it gives them an open invitation to looters to go out and destroy businesses. invitation to looters to go out and destroy businesseslj invitation to looters to go out and destroy businesses. i am afraid we will have to leave it there, thank you forjoining us on bbc news. the first astronauts put into orbit by a private company are moments away from docking with the international space station. elon musk‘s spacex rocket lifted off from cape canaveral in florida last night. jane 0'brien sent this report. over radio: three, two, one, zero.

ignition... liftoff of the falcon 9 and crew dragon! go nasa, go spacex! godspeed, bob and doug! as the countdown reached single digits, the clouds broke, the sky cleared, and the first commercial rocket to carry humans into space finally took off. t—plus 30 seconds into this historic mission! astronauts bob behnken and doug hurley are now in orbit, heading for the international space station. the astronauts are the first to launch from us soil in almost a decade, after nasa retired its shuttle programme. since then, russia has provided transport to the international space station. the multibillion—dollar deal with spacex is intended to reduce the cost of human space flight, including landing on the moon and eventually taking people to mars. i think this is something that should really get people, i mean, right in the heart of anyone who has

any spirit of exploration. and as one proud nation, we salute their fearless service, thank you, thank you. thank you. applause. the shuttle's reusable falcon 9 rocket has already been retrieved at sea by a drone ship. over radio: i'm going to kind of do a side spin... and when the capsule returns to earth, splashing down off the coast of florida, it, too, will be recovered and reused. after all the nail—biting excitement of the launch itself, it's easy to forget that the astronauts still have some work to do. jane 0'brien, bbc news, at the kennedy space center. i think they are almost doing it now, slightly ahead of schedule. let's ta ke now, slightly ahead of schedule. let's take you live, we are told it is just let's take you live, we are told it isjust a let's take you live, we are told it is just a couple of minutes away and joining us is the british astronaut tim peake.

himself no stranger to the international space station. are the two astronauts in charge of this or is it being done automatically? right now the space station has been given go for docking and closing in from 20 metres and that is automatic. they will be monitoring the system is carefully in case they have to take over manual control and complete a manual docking. as it all been textbook, after the postponed initial launch? absolutely, it was a fantastic launch last night and the rocket got them safely into a 200 kilometre orbit. they have done a series of five engine burns erase the obit to about 400 kilometres and rendezvous with the international space station. everything so far has been going very well. you know the international space station, i am not sure if you know the spacex capsule these guys are in? without

any knowledge at all, it looks a more comfortable vehicle than the one you went up in? it is incredible, it is what you expect from spacex, it is a futuristic, glass cockpit and a lot of space inside. it is designed for seven crew members and there is only two on board. it is using absolutely state—of—the—art technology. it is using a lot of reusable technology, which is bringing the cost of access to space down. it is extraordinary how the rockets taken them up there can be used, come down and land on ships, is it a big game changer?m isa ships, is it a big game changer?m is a huge game changer, yes. what we are doing is we're starting to hand over the transportation to private companies and that is freeing up the national space agencies to get on with their plans on going further in terms of going back to the moon and on to mars. what about the risk factors ?

on to mars. what about the risk fa cto rs ? we on to mars. what about the risk factors? we have seen equipment go up factors? we have seen equipment go up before, what will the risk factors for the first humans to go up factors for the first humans to go up from american soil? there is a lwa ys up from american soil? there is always risk in terms of space flight. it always risk in terms of space flight. it is still hard getting to space and we cannot forget that. but this rocket would have gone through a very rigorous testing schedule, including many ground tests and last yearan including many ground tests and last year an actual flight test as well with a non—crewed spacecraft. so it is going to be as safe as possible in terms of getting humans into space. as i say, we have been on the international space station. we are watching it very closely as they are getting close. what will be happening now? once they dock, what happens then? doug hurley and bob behnken will be suited up in their pressurised suits, in case anything goes wrong during docking. once the

dragon is secured to the space station, they will have to pressurise a small volume between the two spacecraft which will be a vacuum and then go through their cheques and drills. the actual hatch opening will not happen for about another 2.5 hours. when that happens, it is similar between both craft and they are acting as one? absolutely, at that point the hatch can be opened, they will be in their flight can be opened, they will be in their flight suits and they can meet up with the other three crew members on—board the space station. they be spending about two to four months on board the space station doing tests and working as a crew. are you a bit envious? hugely envious, yes. as a test pilot, this is a dream. any first flight of a vehicle and any mission to space is a good mission but as a test fire daily—macro pilot to have a first flight, i am very

envious. with other commercial enterprises just behind elon musk at the moment, is it going to radically change the way people get up to the international space station or are we still relying on the age—old technology that has been around for the last 60, 70 years? no, we are starting to change. as we discussed with the spacex, all the reusability is what is new about it. it is still sitting on a huge bomb to get up there? absolutely and until we come up there? absolutely and until we come up with incredible, new technology 01’ up with incredible, new technology or materials that drastically reduce the weight of the rockets, we are not going to see a change in that respect. not in terms of getting to space. what we are seeing a change in is space propulsion, once you are ina space, in is space propulsion, once you are in a space, using iron thrusters that can help you get to the moon and to mars faster. can you stay with us because they have docked 110w. with us because they have docked now. we can see that.

we can also speak to tarqu malik, he's the editor i'm not sure i'm not in chief of space.com. i'm not sure you heard us speaking to tim peake at the moment, and do you concur with that, is it a new era? it is the opening of a new age for commercial space flight. when spacex first got the contract, nasa's commercial crew programme to look at these private astronaut taxis began, spacex was really considered an outlier, elon musk named this craft dragon after puff the magic dragon, it was like a pipe dream and a lot of people thought it would not be able to do that the space agencies of the well—to—do. build a spacecraft to send astronauts safely into space. spacex have done that, under a programme

designed to save money for nasa, which can help them save money and do other things like fly to the moon. spacex has a vehicle, that satisfied for any astronauts, space tourists and they can sell those seats in the future. tim, why can elon musk do it cheaper than nasa other europeans? he is doing it cheaper because of the reusability element. the dragon capsule we have just seen dock to the space station, that will be used multiple times. last night, shortly after launch, the first stage of that rocket landed on a ship in the atlantic. that will be reused up to 100 times with inspections in between. so it is this element of reusability that is this element of reusability that is making it much cheaper to launch into space. but why wouldn't nasa or the european space agency develop that technology themselves? at the moment the plan is for nasa, as far

as they are concerned, to start using this rocket so they will benefit from that. but in terms of prior launches, this is new technology we have been developing that has allowed elon musk, for example, to be able to make those gps —assisted landings using the racket technology back onto pads on earth and the ships at sea. it is highly sophisticated. there were a number of failures before he got there. this is cutting edge technology. how long has elon musk spent on this programme? he made millions with his earlier work in silicon valley, and he put pretty much everything into this company. he almost went broke with both this company and tesla in the mid—2000. last night, elon musk, exulted, as you would expect, was reminiscing about how back in 2008 he put almost every penny of his millions and

billions he had set aside to make this work. he was on the edge of shutting down when they got the contract to fly cargo to the space station with an un—crewed version of the vehicle. so he has been all in and that has give spacex the flexibility to make mistakes and lose rockets. they have had two failures and bounced back both times. the failure of the first rocket, it was almost causing them to close up shop if the fourth didn't work. that kind of flexibility, the deep pockets he has on his own gave him the flexibility to keep trying new things when perhaps an nasa programme, they might have said, we have spent enough money on this, we will move on to what we know works from the past. it has given him a lot of flexibility and room to innovate, which is what we see now. final

thought from you, tim. when space tourism does start and i think elon musk wants to take people into space, richard branson is talking about just space, richard branson is talking aboutjust going into orbit. do you wa nt to aboutjust going into orbit. do you want to be the driver, the pilot for that as well, then you could get as much space as you want to come up and down, up and down the whole time? i will take any mission to space. this will really open up access to a whole host of different people. not just access to a whole host of different people. notjust for access to a whole host of different people. not just for the access to a whole host of different people. notjust for the wealthy, but in terms of other governments around the world that might have their own human space flight programme, who can now participate in space flight. ok, thank you both very much. 0n in space flight. ok, thank you both very much. on this historic occasion, the docking of the dragon spacecraft with the international space station. live picturesjust spacecraft with the international space station. live pictures just to show you that. docking is successful and as tim peake was saying it was carried out automatically. there

will be a couple of hours of cheques, changing the pressurisation in the compartments and then the hatch will be opened and the astronauts, bob behnken and doug hurley willjoin with the other three on the international space station. tim pea ke three on the international space station. tim peake has been on the international space station. that is the latest in space. let's take you back to what is happening on the ground in central london. we have been following the demonstrations there by people protesting about the death of george floyd in minneapolis. but there is a large demonstration in trafalgar square which started at one o'clock, local time. maybe a thousand or so people have been walking from trafalgar square, across lambeth bridge and down to outside the us embassy. let's get a quick update. what is

happening at the moment? possibly 1000 outside the us embassy. it is largely peaceful. it started off in trafalgar square. when there were calls for this demonstration to take place on social media people are saying they should wear masks and socially distance. some people have masks on but there is very little social distancing going on whatsoever. ok, thank you for that update in central london. 0utside the us embassy. thank you very much indeed. you are watching bbc news. plenty more on the website for our viewers outside the uk.

we are across what is happening on the ground and in the states where there has been writing across 30 different cities. you are watching bbc news. just before we go to the weather, i want to bring you the latest figures we have had about coronavirus deaths in england. nhs england has announced 85 new deaths of people who tested positive for covid—19. it brings the total number of confirmed deaths in hospitals in england to 26,000 —— 20 of confirmed deaths in hospitals in england to 26,000 -- 20 6414. of confirmed deaths in hospitals in england to 26,000 —— 20 6414. there have been 29 new deaths in scotland but this comes before a significant easing of the lockdown in england. scotla nd easing of the lockdown in england. scotland making it clear they didn't think it was ready to allow shielded

people, who have been in lockdown for ten weeks, to be allowed out and to meet people, as long as they socially distance. we will hear more about that at 4pm local time from robertjenrick, from the downing street press conference. we will be across all those stories, but before that, some weather. hello there. may has ended on a dry, sunny, very warm note across the board and indeed the first few days ofjune are warm and sunny for many of us but we will start to see some changes taking place in our weather around the middle part of this new week. a fine end to the day and overnight it will be dry with clear skies, bit of low cloud and sea fog rolling into eastern scotland, north—east england. temperatures falling to lows of seven to maybe 13 degrees in the south. monday morning starts dry and sunny for all of us, a bit of low cloud clearing away from coastal areas. some fairweather cloud bubbling up through the day and we could see an isolated, heavy shower developed across scotland and northern ireland.

but another very warm day on the cards, particularly further west that you are. eastern coastal areas a little bit fresher. now we start to see a few changes taking place across the north of the uk on tuesday. this cold front sinks southwards to bring outbreaks of rain to the northern half of scotland and the cooling northerly wind setting in. but elsewhere across the country another dry, sunny, very warm one in the south. 00:28:27,758 --> 2147483051:50:58,594 much cooler across 2147483051:50:58,594 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 northern scotland.