this is bbc news — i'm aaron safir with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. fires burn in washington, not far from the white house as protesters defy the latest curfew to protest against police brutality. in minneapolis, where the protests began, there are stand—offs between activists and the police. in other news: pupils prepare to go back to school — as the british government introduces a further relaxation of the lockdown. nasa astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken reach the international space station — onboard the spacex crew dragon capsule. and christo, the world—renowned artist best known for wrapping buildings and landmarks in fabric, has died

at the age of 8a. in the last few minutes, the capital of the united states, washington, dc, has gone under curfew. as the lockdown to protect the country from the coronavirus pandemic had all but ended, the death last week, of an unarmed black man — george floyd — after a white police officer knelt on his neck for 8 minutes, has sparked local protests, as well as clashes and violence across the nation. right now protestors are still on the streets just a few hundred metres from the white house itself. there are similar scenes all over the country and curfews are in force

in nearly a0 cities. we saw scenes like this. teargas being fired and police and other law enforcement officers starting to move the crowd away from the white house. what we're seeing from the live pictures is few blocks away, the dispersal of the protesters remember, this is a city that is known to curfew full many people are refusing to go home. in minneapolis, where mr floyd died last monday, and the protests began, a truck driver has been arrested. he drove his vehicle at high speed towards a crowd of protesters occupying a major road. officials said no protesters appeared injured in

the incident, but the minnesota state patrol tweeted that the action did appear deliberate. the patrol said the driver was hurt when he was dragged out of his cab by a protestor and beaten and taken to hospital with non—life—threatening injuries. later as the curfew approached in minneapolis, a national guard officer spoke to the protesters outside the state capitol building to try to persuade them to go home. come on, dude, bring it here. alright... no, i got it. i got it, look. it's ok, it's ok. be peaceful, assemble. it's the thing that we swore an oath to do. that was a conciliatory tone between the national guard officer therein and protesters. not so much of a sign of that

in washington dc. this is the scene now live, not far at all from the white house. a short while ago we saw a fire burning in teargas being fired by the security forces and protesters trying to move them away from the white house. that's what is going on in washington dc. as going on in washington dc. as go right across to the other side of the united states to los angeles. melina abdullah is a co—founder of the los angeles chapter of black lives matter. she has been coordinating protests across the weekend. nearly a week on now from the incident that sparked all this, from the death of george floyd. we have a number of cities under lockdown. what, what is going out to protest achieve? what you hope to achieve by defying curfews what you hope to achieve by defying cu rfews and what you hope to achieve by defying curfews and going out and protesting? it's really

important we understand the power of protest. if people are not in the streets or out protesting, you wouldn't be talking about george floyd all the way across the land. the protest is what elevates what is happening here stop the protest is the language of the unheard it's about underscoring how brutal the system of policing is in this country, especially against black people so especially against black people so it's essential that we protest. the death of george floyd was clearly the trigger for these protest but it's sadly not the only death of a black man or blood person at the hands of police. what is it about the george floyd case that has sparked these protests. what's made different and wise had been a trigger?” and wise had been a trigger?|j think and wise had been a trigger?” think absolutely the particulars of the video and

watching the way in which george floyd's life was stolen absolutely triggered and retraumatized and served as a spark for the uprising. the way in which we saw the officer kneel on george floyd's neck for almost ten minutes as he pleaded for his life, as onlookers also pleaded for his life. to intervene and have weapons drawn. it reminded us of the system of slave catching. the system of slave catching. the system of slave catching really is what involved into the contemporary system of policing in this country. but you are right, it's not just about country. but you are right, it's notjust about george floyd. we saw the murder of

breanna taylor in louisville, the murder of three people in indianapolis and the state of eight hours. —— breonna. 601 people killed by police here in the last seven years. they are afamily the last seven years. they are a family member of everyone. what we see is a spark that enables everything else to come to the surface and people who are exploding with notjust pain ansaru but also rage. as you speak, we are also looking at pictures earlier on, hundreds of people gathered outside the statehouse. that was a largely peaceful protest. why is it that some protests have been peaceful and others have been peaceful and others have been peaceful and others have been violent. what is it that can spark violence in these protests? one of the

things we have to remember, we are protesting police violence and sometimes that proves itself to be true by the way in which we are greeted by the police who are there to repress the protests. so yesterday we had a massive protest in los angeles, about 20,000 people poured into the streets and as $0011 poured into the streets and as 50011 as poured into the streets and as soon as the police came, they came at us with teargas and rubber bullets and baton ‘s and thatis rubber bullets and baton ‘s and that is what sparked the violence. the violence is really being initiated by the police who are responding to the protesters who are protesting police violence so it's really kind of a circular thing that happens. we, to protest police violence and then we are met with police violence. president trump and some of his allies have blamed what they call hard and left it. they talk about antifa. the

president has not offered evidence for those claims but from your point of view, are you aware of people hijacking these protests or people leaving going into the protest with violent intent? well, i think that when the current occu pa nts of think that when the current occupants of the white house current occupant of the white house talks about thugs, he needs to look in the mirror first. we need to wonder who he intends to rile up. when we talk about the protests, i'm not concerned. looking at property destruction, what i'm most concerned about his life stop you can replace property, you cannot replace life so when you cannot replace life so when you talk about violence, let's talk about the violence visited upon human beings, not whether 01’ upon human beings, not whether or not a starbucks window was broken. see you don't think that within the crowds of

people out protesting people calling for the same causes you believe in, black lives matter, you don't think any of them would have instigated violence? it's important to remember that when you are talking about masses of people, you don't know what some of the people will do but we are also not in the business of policing people's rage. we have a right to our rage. what we are here to our rage. what we are here to do and the reason we are out in the streets. the reason we are out in the streets is to stop the police violence that is being visited upon black people especially. we are coming up now to a week since the death of george floyd and protests right across the us. for nearly a week now. i'm just wondering, where does this go next? how do you de—escalate? how do we move on? i think that

the powers that be, particularly the government, and that is both federal, state and that is both federal, state and local governments, are going to have to be the ones to de—escalate. we point a lot to the white house but it's also important we look at local leaders. i know the mayor of the city has seen fit to call in the national guard which is only going to escalate tensions. we have seen that evidenced by ferguson in 2014. when you have tanks and people with assault rifles threatening protesters, harming protesters, brutalising protesters, that is only going to further radicalise people. if you want to talk about deescalation, need to do, what these governments need to do is listen to the voice of the people. what are we saying, we are saying we want people held accountable when they harm our

communities. we want them to be prosecuted. we are saying we wa nt prosecuted. we are saying we want the system of policing to be defunded. we want fewer police on the streets and a greater investment in the things that actually make communities safe, like housing, like health —— healthcare, after—school programmes for young people, especially in the midst of a health pandemic and an economic fallout. thank you for your time and putting your point of view across to us. i want to show what is happening in new york city, quite a big march down through manhattan, people marching towards times square and you can see, no traffic at all, just police and protesters. we have seen images on social media of some violent scuffles in new york city. but there is

also mass unrest that we've seen also mass unrest that we've seenin also mass unrest that we've seen in other cities. new york being a big city, it was one of the largest protests and there was violence in that city earlier in the weekend. we will keep across those pictures and let you know if anything happens. the uk government has defended its timing of a further easing of the lockdown in england from monday. the communities secretary robertjenrick said they were "reasonably confident" the steps being taken were manageable — but people also had to play their part. all four uk nations will have guidelines in place allowing more than two people to meet outside and schools in england will begin reopening. here's our political correspondent, chris mason. shropshire in the sunshine. this is carding mill valley, a spot so popular today, the car park eventually had to close. scientists say the chance of catching the virus outside is pretty small, but they're pleading

with us to be cautious. it is notjust about what it is possible to do, it's about what it is sensible to do. and what is sensible to do is have as few interactions as possible. by tomorrow, all parts of the uk will have guidelines in place to allow more than two people to meet outside. in england, groups of up to six people can gather from different households. in wales, any number of people from two different households will be able to meet. families should aim to travel no more than five miles. in scotland, two separate households, up to a maximum of eight people can meet. as in wales, people are being encouraged not to travel far. and in northern ireland, groups of up to six people who don't live together can gather. wherever you are in the uk, social distancing rules still apply and people from different households must stay two metres apart. we've heard how crucial it is in this next stage that we stick scrupulously to the rules,

that this is a very dangerous moment, that this is a sensitive moment. so i wonder how worried you are, having seen the pictures this weekend, where social distancing is difficult or impossible? those additional easements together will still, in all likelihood, keep the rate of infection below one. so we're reasonably confident that the steps that we've taken and will be taking on monday are manageable. as we all venture out more — this was burnsall in the yorkshire dales today — is the government being reasonably confident they're getting this right good enough? labour are sceptical. test, track and isolate is fundamental because unless that works, we won't know where the disease is, we won't be able to shut it down in localised areas and we could see the reimposition of a lockdown. and others point to geographical differences around the uk. are you going in there? yeah, yeah. it may be that actually easing lockdown is perfectly 0k

in areas like london, which were hit early and hit hard. but up north, it's still a very large number of cases. relaxing the rules is loaded with uncertainty. no—one can know what the consequences will be. chris mason, bbc news. still to come, the first nasa astronauts to travel on a commercially built craft have welcomed aboard the international space station. the moment of crowning, in accordance with the order of service, by a signal given, the great guns of the tower. tributes have been paid around the world to muhammad ali,

who has died at the age of 74. outspoken but rarely outfought, ali transcended the sport of boxing, of which he was three times world champion. he was a real fighter and he fought all the way to the end, even through his illness. yes, he did. uefa imposes an indefinite ban on english clubs playing in europe. today is the 20th anniversary of the release of the beatles‘ sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band, a record described as the album of the century. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: fires burn in washington, dc, not far from the white house, as protesters defy the latest cu rfew to as protesters defy the latest curfew to demonstrate against police brutality.

british school children prepare to go back to school — as the government introduces a further relaxation of the lockdown. let's stay with our top story. as the protests continue in many parts of america, so too did the number of injured. a number of journalists around the country have been attacked, harmed or arrested, both by protesters, during the coverage of the uprisings. 0ne protesters, during the coverage of the uprisings. one of them is linda tirado, a freelance journalist, photographer, activist and author, who was shotin activist and author, who was shot in the eye on friday by a small projectile while covering the street protests in minneapolis. shejoins the street protests in minneapolis. she joins us the street protests in minneapolis. shejoins us now. thank you forjoining us from minneapolis. can you just talk us minneapolis. can you just talk us through what happened, please? yeah, so, iwas us through what happened, please? yeah, so, i was out on friday night. police had imposed an 8pm curfew and we got word they had begun firing tear gas about a quarter of our previous with no warning. so i

was just trying to get coverage of that, and i was lining up a shot and i caught a projectile from the direction where the police were. protesters came to my aid. they grabbed me and put me in their medical van and drove me to the hospital. i was in surgery within an hour. i have been permanently blinded in my left eye. so i am out of work for the next, you know, six weeks to six months, they say. we are sorry to hear of your injury and your loss there, linda. was there a sense during that protest that the atmosphere might be about to change, or can atmosphere might be about to change, 01’ can you atmosphere might be about to change, or can you think of a moment where things changed from a peaceful protest to something more violent? not specifically in that one evening, but more broadly along these sorts of protest, because

i was also embedded in patterson for six weeks, and i have been covering these things for years. typically what you will see is a peaceful daytime protest with members of the clergy, community members, and people will be singing, people will be dancing, people are really just letting it be registered but they are angry, but they are looking for change. —— that they are. then towards the evening, police tend to start being aggressive. in trying to shut those protests down. and that is generally when the mood changes and things get a bit chaotic. so we saw the same thing in ferguson, where theyjust started to really see tear gas, kind of indiscriminately, and kind of indiscriminately, and kind of... when you try to force people to not freely express themselves, particularly when they are angry aboutan particularly when they are angry about an obvious injustice, such as, you know, these police killings, it is going to backfire. and so what we have seen

going to backfire. and so what we have seen over going to backfire. and so what we have seen over and over and over again, as police departments tend to escalate and try to exert that control instead of deescalating and working with protesters, whose demands generally quite reasonable, such as, if you kneel on a guy's neck for ten minutes, maybe we should prosecute. maybe that person should be allowed to continue to bea should be allowed to continue to be a police officer, at the very least. —— shouldn't be allowed. those things are not unreasonable, but once it turns into a protest situation there is very much an us and them mentality as regards law enforcement, and unfortunately what we are seeing, with my injury and so many others, is that journalist are injury and so many others, is thatjournalist are now being wrapped into that as well, where we used to be allowed to go and do ourjobs, relatively unmolested, we might get caught in teargas or whatever, but thatis in teargas or whatever, but that is part of the job. but now it is becoming a very direct targeting and that is new. linda, what you describe comedy behaviour from police and law enforcement that you

describe, may well explain why some of these protests turned violent, and we can see pictures, we are looking at pictures, we are looking at pictures right now from the nation's capital, in washington, dc, wherejust a short while ago there was a fire burning not far from the white house. but that doesn't quite explain why someone might loot a small business or break the windows of a large chain store. do we need to just draw a distinction, perhaps, between people who are protesting and people who are protesting and people who are taking advantage of the situation? i think the first thing that you have to understand is what it feels like to be in what is ostensibly a war zone in your own neighbourhood. to have chemical weapons that are bound for use in international conflict, to have an armed and fully militarised force pushing you down the street. —— banned for use in international conflict. in ferguson we saw officers teargas and five —year—olds when their parents we re —year—olds when their parents

were just trying to get home and they had to cross the protesters own because of the cul—de—sac set up on the protest area. so those sorts of things, it kind of changes the metric of what is normal and what reasonable looks like. so thatis what reasonable looks like. so that is in the background, and you have to understand that a lot of these communities, the police are not killing people communities, right? they are not killing people and places where the residents are well connected and have greatjobs. and so a lot of this is just, if you are going to shut down a neighbourhood for however long the police decide to occupy it, you know, there has definitely been some protesters i have overheard who were like, well, i still need diapers for the baby and now i can't buy them. so you do have to do look a lot of motivation. they talk about property damage and looting but what nobody talks about is, this is not a normal situation in which normal rules apply, because typically, nobody is

allowed to put chemical weapons in yourface. but allowed to put chemical weapons in your face. but is allowed to put chemical weapons in yourface. but is not an average day. so kind of taking stock of the nuance and also just the anger and the rage, and... linda, forgive me for interrupting you, but we are running out of time and ijust briefly wanted to go back to you and this life changing experience that you have been through in the last day or so. and briefly, if you can, just how you see your future? well, iaman how you see your future? well, i am an american. so it is questionable, because i don't have health insurance, and the bills for this might total up toa bills for this might total up to a quarter of $1 million. so there is that pressure. but otherwise, i am a journalist, i am going to continue to do my job, i will see you, you know, how much photography i can do, but i am also, you know, a writer, and a presenter, and if i need to adjust, i will. it is

u nfortu nate i need to adjust, i will. it is unfortunate and i am not going to say i am happy about it. but i guess if somebody thought they were going to stop me telling stories and doing my job by putting my eye out, they are going to have to try harder. linda, that is a strong note for us to and on. thank you for your time. thank you for joining you for your time. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. just before we go, ijust wa nt to news. just before we go, ijust want to remind you of what is happening in washington, dc, the capital of the united states, a city that is now under curfew. a short while ago, we saw fires outside the white house, we saw police and protesters standing off not far from the white house at all. teargas was fired on some of the protesters were forced back and gradually, as the time has gone on, they have moved further and further away from the white house. what we can see now is police trying to maintain and assert control over the streets of the capital of the united states. that is what is going on in one city. plenty going on right across the united states.

you can reach me on twitter. i'm @aaronsafir. you can also see the latest on the bbc news website. that's all for now. thank you for watching bbc news. hello there. sunday was another very warm day nationwide, and capping off a very sunny weekend was a beautiful sunset to end the day in the herefordshire area. 20 degrees in porthmadog, making it wales's hottest day of the year so far, and only three tenths from the highest temperature we've seen in the uk this year. at the moment we got clear, starry skies out and about. a few mist and fog patches possible later on across coastal parts of scotland and north—east england, but probably not too many of these. temperatures first thing, eight to 13 degrees in towns and cities and cooler than that in the countryside first thing, but what you will notice first thing on monday is we've got plenty of sunshine. into the afternoon, a bit

of fair weather cloud popping up into the sky, so some sunny spells, the cloud not spoiling the sunshine at all, and another day when we will see the temperatures climbing widely into the low to mid 20s, probably peaking at around 27 celsius in some western areas. so more very warm and sunny weather on the way for monday. looking at the weather charts for tuesday now, we have something of a change on the way. that change, as this cold front approaches northern scotland, bringing some thicker cloud here, and yes, outbreaks of rain on the way. i know some of you have wanted rain for a while. that rain will be accompanied by cool northerly winds, so temperatures for northern scotland significantly lower for tuesday with highs of 13 in stornoway. for northern ireland, southern scotland, england and wales, this is the last of the very warm days and plenty of sunshine again with temperatures widely low to mid 20s, but into the middle part of the week, it set to turn much cooler, and there is the prospect of seeing some rain. on wednesday, we've got the trough crossing the uk, bringing a mixture of rain and showers. as that moves through, the northerly winds that follow

will be dragging on so much cooler as we enter the week, so temperatures progressively will be dropping. many areas will see outbreaks of rain. closest to that area of low pressure the rain will be heaviest across parts of northern scotland, maybe northern ireland too. the rain we see further south will vary from place to place but most places will see some rain towards the end of the week.

this is bbc news. the headlines: we are going to take you to washington, dc, where at the white house a short while ago police fired tear gas at demonstrators who lit fires and threw stones at riot police. washington, dc, this was this ina police. washington, dc, this was this in a short while earlier. we have seen similar themes across the united states as anger over the killing of an african—american man, george lloyd, intensifies. confrontations, violent confrontations have occurred. we also saw pictures like this in chicago, atlanta, new york and los angeles was at nearly 40 cities had imposed cu rfews angeles was at nearly 40 cities had imposed curfews but many people have ignored them, leading to those intense