this is bbc news, i'm lewis vaughanjones with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. tens of thousands of protesters march in washington in the biggest protest so far after the death of george floyd, this is the scene live, near the white house. two us police officers plead not guilty in court to the assault of a 75—year—old protester, in upstate new york. police investigating a suspect in the case of the missing british girl madeleine mccann are also looking into the disappearance of two other children. how a former bomb—maker

for an indonesian terror group is on a new mission to stop the next wave of terror groups in south east asia. hello, welcome to bbc news. thousands of anti—racism protesters have marched through washington in the biggest turnout yet during 12 days of demonstrations. this is after the death of george floyd while being held by police in minneapolis. protests are taking place across the us. this is the scene live in west hollywood with people walking along santa monica boulevard.

thousands have been out on the streets peacefully protesting and that is a theme that is being replicated in city after city across the us, philadelphia, san francisco, new york and washington, dc which has seen some of the biggest protests, you can see the yellow writing on that road there, that spells out black lives matter. this just a stone throw from the white house and people have been gathering not just there but also lafayette plaza and the new road renamed by the mayor black lives matter plaza. so thousands still out on the streets and it has now just gone 9pm in washington and many of them are still there. clarence williams is our reporter for washington post and has been covering the protests for over a week. he told me how today's protests are different from the previous days. it has been a full day of marching, speeches, protests, but largely or across—the—board i think also peaceful demonstrations.

by far the largest in this area that we have seen. there have been demonstrations every night for the past eight days, but this brought tens of thousands of people to downtown washington. city officials here shut down streets all around to make a wide swathe of pedestrian—friendly, vehicle—free streets that demonstrators have. at times it has been a bit festival and at other times, those quiet times get intervened by some marchers with people who still remain angry at what they consider to be the unjust death of george floyd. how different are these protests? put it in a bit of context for us? you know the area obviously so well. the first night, i was with protesters and they grew from 150 to well over a thousand. they stood in confrontation against secret service police outside the white house well

into nearly four o'clock in the morning before federal law enforcement decided to clear lafayette park with smoke grenades, what appeared to be teargas and 0c spray. these demonstrations are all peaceful, federal law enforcement presence is barely in sight. if they are around, they in a support role and the city officials tell me that they have intentionally taken a step back and essentially given the streets to these people to allow them to demonstrate peacefully and get their point across as well as they want to today. give us a bit of an idea of the geography. what is happening behind you, and where is the white house from where you are, for example? i am standing three blocks of the white house complex, or three blocks from the white house total, only about a block and a half from the white house complex on the ellipse. i am standing outside thejohn wilson building which serves as the city hall,

essentially, for the washington, dc local government. after this here, for the last hour, have been painting a mural in response mayor muriel bowser‘s creation of black lives matter plaza on 16th st north—west, just outside of her own city government building, and these protesters have painted a mural that says "defund the police", trying to say that her symbolic gesture yesterday was simply that and they would like to see her take more concrete steps to invest in communities. and you have been speaking to people there obviously throughout the day. what are some of the things that have stuck out to you that people have been saying there? i think what you see across—the—board is, it is fair to say that you see a lot of people here that feel like they realised that this

has the potential to be a real historic moment for this country and for there to be a change, particularly when it comes to black people in this country. we are seeing a lot of them take pictures and try to commemorate their time here to say, i came to have my voice heard, to speak against this injustice. i think that for people of this generation, they think that this is their moment for their march on washington to affect some for a more fair society. this is the seen live, but the protesters have not gone, they we re protesters have not gone, they were still there as was our

correspondence. it was the biggest demonstration washington has seen since the killing of george floyd, but with none of the confrontation from security forces we saw previously. they sent in the national guard, they were teargassing people, shooting them with rubber bullets. really perpetuating police brutality and violence in the streets of washington, dc and still people are still out here and showing up. we are not afraid. we are not backing down until we see change. we are still getting arrested. we are still getting pulled over. we are still getting discriminated in everything in american life. so we have got to fight, not for now but for the future. we may be just outside the white house but the sense we get through speaking to people here is that this has now gone beyond just getting a message across to donald trump. what people are telling us is that they have now really

given up on him doing the right thing. instead, the focus has become changing the system. individuals and police departments. there are huge protests in london, paris, berlin, sydney, in solidarity with african—america ns. how does that feel to you? i have cried every day since i have been seeing the protests, out ofjust pure joy that finally, finally, the voices are being heard. singing at the same time as the demonstration was a memorial service for george floyd in north carolina, close to where he was born. these images associated with this will affect all of our lives for the rest of our lives.

george floyd's body will now continue its finaljourney, but the reverberations of his death will be felt long beyond his funeral in texas on tuesday. two police officers have appeared in court, having been charged with the assault of a protester, in the city of buffalo in upstate new york. the two officers were supended, after video recorded by a local nprjournalist went viral online. a quick warning, we're going to play the footage, which may be upsetting. the video shows the two officers push martin gugino. he then falls backwards and starts bleeding from the head. after the officers were suspended, all 57 members of their unit, the buffalo emergency response team, resigned from that particular unit in protest. kyle mackie is a reporter for wbfo, the local nation public radio station which first captured the footage. i caught up with her about an hour ago, just after buffalo's curfew began.

i am here in niagra square just across from buffalo city hall. this square was packed about a half hour ago but the protesters have since taken to the streets. they are now marching peacefully through the city and i have seen hardly any police presence here this evening. that is interesting. let's recap, let's go back to what happened at court today with these two officers. my colleagues were on scene outside, because of social distancing measures not all reporters were allowed into the courtroom today, but we did see assault charges for the two officers involved and we have now also seen the 57 colleagues of the emergency response team resign in support of those officers. they are still employed by the buffalo police department as far as we know but are no longer on that team and the officers did come out in full force, they stood outside of city court which my colleagues reported this morning and were actually trying to block media,

cameras and really showing a strong front of solidarity with their officers who are being charged today. interesting, and yet you say this evening there is not a particularly strong police presence. what have protesters on the streets been saying to you? tonight's protest was organised by two long—standing activist groups here in buffalo so it was very on message, and the main message tonight was to defund the police. it really wasn't much of a call for reform although they do have a list of demands but the main two messages i heard tonight was "defund the police‘ and also "end white silence". there were a lot of white protesters out today. and on the video itself which has gone viral and is quite upsetting to watch for lots of people, what's been the reaction to that video? there has been quite an amount of disgust and shock. i think because of

the gentleman's age in the video and actually his age also factored into the charges we heard this morning, the local da said that because of the age difference between the protester and the officer who pushed him, that is why it was such a felony charge. the reaction here has been shame that this is the face that buffalo is now showing to the world, but there are lots of calls, especially from people of colour in buffalo, that they also want to see justice for officers who have either killed or assaulted people of colour over the last couple of years and buffalo. we will be back in the us for more on those protests a little while later. now, though, the egyptian president has launched an attempt to end the fighting

in libya. libya's un backed government now has full control of the capital. forces loyal to li bya's forces loyal to libya's un backed government into one of the last major strongholds of the last major strongholds of the military leader. has attempted to retake the capital of libya has failed after a 14 month offensive. fighters celebrate their victory in driving out the generals forces near tripoli. these troops have managed the task with military support from turkey. the conflict in libya has divided regional backing. the general

has substantial military support from egypt, russia and the uae, while the un backed government enjoys the support of turkey, qatar and italy. now the egyptian president speaking from cairo alongside his la has unveiled fresh peace proposals. translation: it is our honour that the declaration comes from egypt. we want a peaceful solution to this crisis that includes the unity and safety of national institutions. earlier, the un backed government, also known as the government, also known as the government of national accord, said that it intended to push even deeper to territory held by the general, so perhaps the timing of this plan comes as no surprise. translation:. we appreciate what you do, we ask you to do more to stop mercenary and weapons coming into libya. there has been a

cycle of political talks, fresh alliances between armed groups, and then more fighting. what many will be asking now is whether this initiative will succeed in restoring any sort of stability in libya where other plans have failed. i'm lewis vaughan jones. you're watching bbc news, these are the latest headlines. tens of thousands of protestors are marching in the us capital washington, in the biggest protest so far after the death of george floyd. two us police officers have appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to the assault of a 75—year—old protester, in buffalo in upstate new york. let's get more on our main story — those protests across the world. many who support the aims have hesitated to join them because of the safety issues in

a a time of social distancing. even if you passionately believe in the cause, is now the right time to be gathering in huge crowds? that is the conundrum. for scientists who know the risks better than anyone, this is an especially complicated decision. drjaime slaughter—acey, an epidemiologist at the university of minnesota, decided not tojoin the george floyd protest march in minneapolis because of the pandemic, but fully supports people who did. i have decided to use my platforms as a scientist and as a faculty member at the university of minnesota to advocate for changes, for fighting systemic racism... but not going on the march yourself? not going on the march myself right now. i have

an underlying medical condition, i have asthma and i also have a child and, having to wave both of those things with the risk of covid—i9 was concerned for me. what do you make of people that did decide to go on the march? i think it is important for every person as an individual to make that choice. we all have different set of risk factors, make us more vulnerable to having covid—i9 complications and each of us have our different interactions with systemic racism impacting our lives and each person also has different sets of platforms in which they can use their voice to protest police brutality. so when you see interests of the large

protest flooding the streets right across the us, with your coronavirus had on, are you not worried about that? of course i am worried about that. as an epidemiologist i have to be worried about that and as a social epidemiologist i have to worry about how a second wave, a potential second wave of covid—i9 is going to disproportionately affect black americans as well as others who are out there supporting black lives matter and antiracism but, as a black american, i also understand that police violence is very much a real issue and that many black americans fear the police more than they fear covid—i9 and

thatis than they fear covid—i9 and that is very much a reason to be out there protesting, despite covid—i9. be out there protesting, despite covid-19. but of course, part of the reason social distancing is in place is not necessarily to protect yourselves, there are many young people healthy young people out protesting but it is to protect anyone vulnerable that you come into contact with later on. correct, correct, so pa rt later on. correct, correct, so part of social distancing is to breaking the chain, right? in furthering... in furthering covid—i9. and to minimise the potential risk for those that you live with and loved ones who are more susceptible to having complications but i

think andi having complications but i think and i think that is very real but, at the same time, systemic racism is very real, police violence is very real, in the midst of a pandemic we saw a black man, george floyd, saying he cannot breathe, gasping for airfor eight minutes and 46 seconds and that is very real as well... you can see both sides of this moral dilemma and it is a really difficult one and we appreciate not only your expertise but for trying to talk us through the complications of that moral decision. thank you so much. you are welcome. police investigating a suspect in the madeleine mccann case, are also now looking into the disappearance of two other children. the 43—year—old convicted sex offender named ‘christian b', is currently in a german prison on drugs offences. the cases being reviewed include the disappearance

of a german boy in southern portugal in 1996, and the disappearance in germany of a five—year—old girl in 2015. jenny hill reports. in the tranquillity of the german countryside, the former home of a suspected child killer. christian b owned this land, lived here sometimes ina caravan. the impression you get is of a rather secretive man, someone who came and went, usually at night, who didn't want to speak to the neighbours. in fact, gave the very clear impression he didn't want to be disturbed. police have searched this land twice in the last four years. they found a memory stick containing child pornography, but no trace of a little german girl who went missing in 2015. inga was five when she disappeared from a family party. we've been told that police still suspect christian b of involvement in her disappearance. there are other suspects. detectives know he had

an acquaintance who worked at the complex where the party was held. this lawyer represents inga's father. it's always when every few months or every few years, new evidence in ourcase appears, it is something between hope that his daughter is still alive and resignation that she might be dead already. christian b first came to portugal in 1995, on the run from germany, where he'd been convicted of sexually abusing a child. a year later, a german boy disappeared in the algarve. german police now reportedly looking again at the case. more details are emerging about the man whose biography is chaotic, characterised by crime. christian b drifted between portugal and germany in the years after madeleine's disappearance. for a while he ran this shop in braunschweig. he is now in kiel prison serving a sentence for drug dealing and for the rape of a 72—year—old woman

in praia da luz. german police believe christian b killed madeleine mccann but they say they still need the public‘s help if they're to bring him tojustice. jenny hill, bbc news, saxony—anhalt. ali fauzi was a chief bomb—maker for an indonesian terror group with links to al-qaeda, responsible for string of bombings in south east asia, including the bali bombing in 2002 that killed more than 200 people. after serving time in jail, he is now on a new mission — to try stop recruits from joining the next wave of terror groups in south east asia. the bbc‘s asia editor rebecca henschke reports from his hometown in eastjava. ali fauzi used to be behind bars for his role in acts of terror but now he is here for a very different reason, to meet and try to reform inmates.

translation: access to education, was what changed me. also meeting the victims. he is sleepy japanese village was a base camp of his group, jemaah islamiyah, responsible for a string of deadly attacks including the bali bombing which killed more than 200 people in 2002. another villager is the centre for his group, the cycle of peace, placed on the victims are invited to so they can talk about the pain caused by the attacks in the group also helps former militants who have served their time find woakes, like sumarno, who played a minor role into the bali bombing are now around this travel agency. translation: bombing are now around this travel agency. translationzlj wa nt to travel agency. translationzlj want to be of use to society

110w want to be of use to society now that i am out ofjail. with my travel company i hope i can leave a life of violence behind me. i want to show the friendly face of islam. for nearly a decade, this village was a centre of terrorism in indonesia. now it is hoped that with these activities, this generation will be a force for peace and tolerance. translation: we teach the children that not everyone has the same faith and that we have to respect non— muslims around us. to respect non— muslims around us. but lulu fauzi admit they have not convinced everyone. translation: after the bali bombings we change because there were too many for terms, it was not right, but many of oui’ it was not right, but many of our friends have not it was not right, but many of ourfriends have not and it was not right, but many of our friends have not and we cannot influence everyone. rebecca henschke, bbc news. i will be back in a couple of minutes with the headlights but remember you can always get plenty more on the website,

online and also on twitter. i'm lewis vaughan jones. this is bbc news. hello there. it has been unusually windy the past couple of days. and we will still have a keen north wind with us during the day ahead, making it feel quite chilly near the north sea coast, around this area of low pressure but gradually high pressure building in for the next couple of days. so that will start to dampen the winds down in southern and western areas and the showers. but, as you can see, there are still further outbreaks of rain or showery rain to come, making its way southwards across england and wales. it does allow drier and brighter weather for much of scotland and northern ireland. just a few showers around, some sunshine in sheltered spots but some of the showers, as they sink southwards, across england and wales, could turn heavy

and thundering. and although the winds are easing in southern and western areas, still quite keen in the north, but particularly as well near the north sea coast, just taking the edge off those temperature again — 12 or 13. but in southern areas, it might be just a little warmer on saturday, with slightly less wind and a little bit more dry and bright weather. and then through the evening and overnight, any of those showers will ease away and, in fact, we start to see some starry skies coming through. so quite a chilly start to monday morning. there could be some grass frost in the glens of scotland. and that is all due to that area of high pressure, that ridge of high pressure from the azores, starting to build in, for monday and for many, we think, on tuesday as well. however, thereafter there's some more much—needed rain, we think, on the cards, as this area of low pressure starts to take shape but, as i say, from monday, it is looking like a drier day. still quite a bit of cloud mulling around but some sunshine, some strong sunshine for this time of year. slightly less windy so it will start to feel warmer. there could just be a few sharp downpours developing into the afternoon. into tuesday, another coolish start but we are,

at long last, losing that northerly wind that we've had. we pick up a south—westerly winds instead, and eventually that will bring some rain, we think, into the north and west but for many feeling warmer because we'll have a bit more sunshine and we've lost that northerly breeze. then, as we get towards mid—week, some uncertainty still but it is looking now as if low pressure will start to develop to bring all of us some rainfall, and that could well hang around for much of the week, and can sink into southern areas and that will give some appreciable rainfall. so certainly one to keep our eye on. it is looking, as you can see, as if southern areas might get some significant rain as we head towards the middle part of the week. as ever, we will keep you updated. bye bye.

this is bbc news, the headlines: tens of thousands of protestors are marching in the us capital washington. it's the biggest protest so far during twelve days of demonstrations after the death of george floyd. crowds gathered near the capitol, but security forces blocked any approach to the nearby white house. two us police officers have appeared in court and pleaded not guilty to the assault of a 75—year—old protester, in buffalo in upstate new york. after the officers were initially suspended, or 57 members of the

emergency response team resigned in protest. in the uk, there were protests across the country, despite warnings to stay at home because of the risk of coronavirus. the demonstrations were largely peaceful, but there were some clashes with police outside downing street. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london. i'm carrie gracie. this week: it's nearly two weeks since george floyd's death on a minneapolis street. an unarmed, handcuffed, non—resisting black man killed by a white police officer. 0utrage over that death has driven a wave of protest across the united states and sympathy marches around the world.