this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. thousands of protestors have joined anti—racism demonstrations in cities in the uk. in bristol, protestors pulled down a statue of a 17th century slavetrader. the statue was then rolled through the streets before being dumped in the harbour. the home secretary calls the actions of those protestors unacceptable. speaks to the acts of disorder, public disorder, that actually, have now become a distraction from the cause in which people are actively protesting about and trying to empathise and sympathise with. in london, police and protestors are currently facing off in whitehall. this is the scene live. after a night of peaceful

protests in washington, president donald trump orders the withdrawal of the national guard saying the city is under "perfect control". the number of people worldwide who have died from coronavirus passes 400,000. more than a quarter of those deaths have been in the united states in brazil, hundreds of anti—government protesters demonstrate against their president over his handling of the virus and in support of george floyd. no new coronavirus deaths have been reported in scotland in the past 2a hours for the first time since lockdown began. but the uk death toll has risen by 77. hello and welcome if you're watching in the uk or around the world, stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here

and across the globe. tens of thousands of people have taken part in a further day of anti—racism protests in the uk, with the statue of a 17th century slave trader pulled down in bristol. the monument to edward colston, which had stood in the city centre since 1895, was then pushed into the river. the latest demontsrations came i2 days after the killing of george floyd by us police and despite the government advising people not to take part because of the risk of catching or spreading coronavirus. this is the scene live in whitehall in central london now where flares have been let off and police and protestors have been locked in a standoff. we'll be live with our correspondent there shortly. but first, our correspondent chi chi izundu reports the statue of edward colston, a 17th century slave trader.

erected in bristol city centre since 1895, it had been the subject of a petition to have it removed. but this is where protesters left it. police say they are now investigating the criminal damage of the statue of the man estimated to have bought and sold 80,000 people. it represents years of hurt and just a lot of emotion and hatred that has been built up inside of us that we've internalised for years and that coming down today, hopefully, signifies change. black lives matter! the demonstrations around the uk had been largely peaceful. in glasgow, protesters tried to maintain a two metre distance from each other. i think the turnout‘s amazing. it's really inspiring and it's amazing to see people already taking social distancing measures seriously and doing the best they can to stay safe today. after a week of protests,

thousands more have decided to take to the streets across cities in the uk, but in london, they've decided to make the us embassy their focus. being black is not a crime! i'm from oakland, california, so i grew up with a lot of police violence around me and it's something i don't want my son to experience in his life. so, that's one of the reasons why i'm in this country, because it is less violent, but there's still racism. so we have to fight it, so, therefore, we're here today. 1a police officers were injured as last night's protests came to an end outside downing street. the government, once again, reminded people right now, meeting more than six is breaking the rules. it is shameful and quite frankly, that is why these protests should stop and they should not go ahead and people must be mindful and stick with the rules that have been put in place. just like the us, the protests in the uk feel like they're gathering momentum. strength of feeling hasn't yet

diminished and those wanting to add their voice is growing. chi chi izundu, bbc news. let's bring you up—to—date with the situation in whitehall in london. these are live pictures at the moment would show the police standing against a row of producers. we can talk to our home affairs correspondent tom symonds. it has been a very quiet day here today. very peaceful, no problems at all and about half—an—hour ago a tea m all and about half—an—hour ago a team of police officers moved in to arrest a young man right next to us ona arrest a young man right next to us on a traffic island, next to or quite close to the corner where parliament is. there was an immediate reaction from the crowd. there had been very little obvious policing in the day we have had so forth. and then at that move, it seemed to really raise the temperature of the situation. and 110w temperature of the situation. and now it is a little bit more tense.

police moving to take a bit more control of the streets around here but nothing like we saw yesterday it has to be said that the police have not wearing their protective equipment, riot gear, and in general, the temperature, the feeling of these protests has been far more relaxed than yesterday. have you been able to speak to protesters during the day? yes, we spoke quite a few this morning and during the march up from the american embassy. there are some people moving behind me so i need to make sure i am not run over. they we re make sure i am not run over. they were of the view that they were justified in protesting. 0ne were of the view that they were justified in protesting. one of them said to me that yes, there are regulations preventing groups of more than six people but they said they regarded the racism in the uk as like a pandemic alongside coronavirus and they said it was as much their concern is the virus.

they said that meant they were intent on protesting and the protests would continue. i think there is a feeling that this sort of protest, a rolling protest, three this week so far, a lot of anger on demonstration, by people taking part, that that will change the feeling that britain has about racism in this country and they do think it will make a change. tom, i should interrupt, to explain we are looking at one group of protesters which is marched perhaps from where you are to the entrance of the houses of parliament. there is a group of about 15 police officers in fluorescent jackets who are group of about 15 police officers in fluorescentjackets who are now working with those protesters. i don't know if you can see that.|j working with those protesters. i don't know if you can see that. i am right there. talk us through it. there is a team of police officers who have been holding the position in front of parliament for most of the afternoon. a line of officers was put across the road about ten

minutes ago and the protesters spotted that and they came down from whitehall towards where we are now, just coming down the millbank area of westminster. that team of officers is now being pushed back, you can see they have got their batons out. they are not wearing riot gear so the batons are therefore their protection in this sort of situation. they are attempting to hold that line but have been pushed back from where they were. some processors have got hold of glass bottles right next to us. hold of glass bottles right next to us. we will make sure we are behind that. so that we have we won't get involved in anything being from throne. do tell is if you need to pause to find a safer position. if not we will continue talking, is that 0k? not we will continue talking, is that ok? we willjust move a bit... it is fine, it is ok. we will move

to get a better view of what is happening which is that this line of officers is holding this across the road, a position across the road just outside parliament. a crowd of about 1000 people is now throwing some items towards that line of officers. moving backwards and forwards and there is a little bit of panic, running to and fro but in general, those police are holding that position. i think it's important to note that there is a lot of emphasis in this part of westminster where the police are intent on guarding the front gates of parliament. we will remember of course there was a terrorist attack several years ago in which a police officer was stabbed to death. those police have been pushed away from the gates to parliament which are closed. to be clear. but they are currently not able to defend those gates from anybody who might get too close. i can just gates from anybody who might get too close. i canjust see gates from anybody who might get too close. i can just see they have been, you will see if you're watching this, the line of officers

who did not have protective equipment on, riot gear or have been replaced by a team which does have riot gear on and the police, what they do is the keep officers at the lowest level of gear they can possibly get away with, if you like, given the level of confrontation they are facing and then if things start being thrown in particular thatis start being thrown in particular that is clearly dangerous and officers are swapped with teams with riot gear which are held in reserve. so we're just moving back a bit further to parliament square to get a bit ofa further to parliament square to get a bit of a higher point to see across to what is happening. i think now they will hold that line and i think whoever is commanding, the gold commander who is overseeing will be looking to see whether they need to and make a move to control parliament square a bit more firmly thanit parliament square a bit more firmly than it currently is. yesterday we saw officers cordoned off the roads to and from the square in an attempt to and from the square in an attempt to control who was able to come and

go to this area. how often are their protests in this area, right next to parliament? it's a regular occurrence. i parliament? it's a regular occurrence. i have parliament? it's a regular occurrence. i have been part scratch covering protests in central london for many years and they vary in size. these protests were earlier. thousands of people and people marched down to the us embassy which is just the other marched down to the us embassy which isjust the other side marched down to the us embassy which is just the other side of the river thames and they then marched all the way back to parliament which has been the focus of these protests. there was a long protest position held by the protesters held outside downing street and the police held their lines there as they have over their lines there as they have over the days these protests have been taking place. as i said earlier, the temperature was much lower of the

protest tha n temperature was much lower of the protest than it has been, and it just raised when police moved in. we just raised when police moved in. we just saw it happen in front of us. a tea m just saw it happen in front of us. a team of about 15 moves to make an arrest, young man standing on a traffic island just on the corner of parliament square. and immediately the reaction from the crowd was they we re the reaction from the crowd was they were not happy that was taking place. and they then pursued that tea m place. and they then pursued that team of officers as they led that man away to a position where they cordoned off road near the treasury where they could move away from the crowd. that is the problem for the police. they have to enforce the law but make sure they do not raise the temperature. you can see far more trouble being created by a reaction from the crowd —— you could. that has been very much the way the police has seen it. as i said earlier, this is an illegal protest, let's be fair. the coronavirus legislation states you cannot have more than six people and there are thousands year. the police said

earlier in the week that they felt that if they were to enforce the coronavirus regulations as they have done previously and protests in this pa rt done previously and protests in this part of london over the weeks, there would be trouble, it would be difficult to keep control so they have decided not to do that. thank you so much, we will keep an eye on those pictures. in bristol, the protests led to the city's most famous statue being pulled down and thrown in the harbour. jon kay was at the site where it was toppled. for anyone who lives in bristol, anyone who has visited bristol, that empty plinth is a remarkable sight. because the statue of edward colston had pride of place right in the centre of the city, not just the statue. this is colston avenue, there are schools named after him. there's a concert hall named after him. for centuries, he was celebrated here as a politician, as a philanthropist, as a businessman, but the last few

decades, there's been a growing campaign to make sure that his role in the slave trade must also be reflected and remembered. i think what's happened here this afternoon with the statue being taken down was that years of frustration were taken out on that bronze statue that used to stand on the plinth behind me. 0ne young black bristolian woman told me she felt an enormous sense ofjoy and relief. she said, i can finally walk through here and feel i belong here, i feel that bristol is my city. that i deserve to live here. but in the last few minutes, we've had a very small a counter—demonstration up the road with people saying that they felt local history had been trashed. avon and somerset police have been defending the way they operated this afternoon. they said that they held back. they could not have intervened given the number of officers they had. if they had done so, it could have got out of hand. certainly tonight... we

have had some performers going up on that plinth where edward colston used to stand, reading poetry, singing songs and speaking out. a lot of people in this reflecting and just... struggling to take on how the city's landscape has completely changed in an afternoon. for more, i'm joined by dr madge dresser, honorary professor in the department of historical studies at the university of bristol. when you saw the pictures of the statue coming down, what were your thoughts? they were mixed. sorry about the phone call. you have a phone call coming in! i don't want to ta ke phone call coming in! i don't want to take away from the justice of the black lives matter to focus on the long—standing injustices suffered both in america and in britain of people of colour but on the other

hand i think we missed an opportunity and we weep the world wind of years of official complacency and bureaucracy, about rebranding colston's statue and proclaimed as a wise and virtuous son of the city and really, the statue needed to be rebranded and contextualised people so people knew the context of him and the history of the city. that did not happen and so we're recent debate failed, disorder is making the point. linda maybe it will get the attention of is the recognition of the continuing legacy. has crystal fully address the legacy of

—— has bristol fully address the legacy of slavery? no there are also different factions in summer reactionary and some are ignoring of the true history of the city. they do not, a lot of people feel they have suffered, working class people or people who have other issues they have, the history of their city has been ignored. and i think we really missed an opportunity where we could buy a missed an opportunity where we could buyafair—minded missed an opportunity where we could buy a fair—minded way readdress the legacy of slavery which continues today and colonialism. and really had history which involved all bristolians and those who were willing to listen. as a historian are you in favour of taking down statues ? are you in favour of taking down statues? i think it varies. are you in favour of taking down statues? ithink it varies. ithink that statue could have been either rebranded or put somewhere else. i

don't think it's practical to put it in the bristol museum logistically but we could have had a museum of slavery and abolition which could have housed it. and we have, there are precedents for statue parks where people could see it and talk about it rather than taking out and not really addressed why it was there in the first place. thank you so much forjoining us. in the united states, security measures have been lifted after huge protests were held in cities across the country at the killing in police custody of the black american, george floyd. new york has ended its nearly week—long curfew and president trump has tweeted that he has just given an order for the national guard to start withdrawing from washington, dc, now that everything is under what he describes as "perfect control". anti—racism rallies have also be taking place across europe against the killing of george floyd.

in madrid, thousands of people marched through the centre of the city carrying anti—racism placards — and in rome an eight minute silence was held with thousands of people taking a knee in his memory. marches are also taking place in copenhagen and brussels. the number of people confirmed to have been killed by the coronavirus around the world has now passed a00,000, just five months after china reported the first known fatality. here, the uk has recorded its lowest number of deaths from confirmed cases of coronavirus since the lockdown began in late march with 77 deaths in the past 2a hours. for the first time no new deaths have been recorded in scotland. the health secretary matt hancock denied today that the failure to lock down sooner had cost lives, as he responded to the view of a senior scientist, who advises the government. 0ur correspondent dominic hughes reports. as the restrictions on daily life start to be eased, there are doubts. are we coming out of lockdown too soon? but also, did we go in too late? yes, we should have gone into lockdown earlier. the data that we were dealing

with in the early part of march and our kind of situational awareness was really quite poor. and so i think it was... would've been very hard to pull the trigger at that point. i wish we had, i think that has cost a lot of lives, unfortunately. that's a judgment made with the benefit of hindsight and one flatly contradicted by the health secretary. no, i think we took the right decisions at the right time and there's a broad range on sage, of scientific opinion, and we followed, we were guided by the science, which means guided by the balance of that opinion. this argument matters because of fears over the r number, the rate at which the virus spreads. 0verall, it's thought that infections are falling. the r is below one. but one study suggests in the north west of england, it's just above one, which could mean increasing infections. while in the south west, it's right on one. and those concerns are

especially acute here in the north west of england. some local councils have strongly advised schools not to reopen after half term, even on a limited basis, and there are questions too over the wisdom of allowing shops like these to start trading again in just over a week's time. so, how to better manage different levels of threat across the country, when even at a local level, infection rates can vary? talk of putting communities under lockdown, we don't think is helpful. some of our council leaders think it's simply unenforceable. so, it does seem to me that a new approach is needed if we're to make sense of the challenge that we now have. and that's what we are calling for with the government today — a kind of closer partnership. and from scotland, some welcome news. for the first time since mid—march, no new covid deaths reported in the past 2a hours. i would offer a note of caution about reading too much into today's figure. we know that fewer deaths tend to be

registered at the weekend than on other days of the week. it is still very likely that further covid deaths will be reported in the days ahead. overall, the statistics across the uk do seem to be heading in the right direction, but this is still a dangerous moment and the future is full of risk. dominic hughes, bbc news, manchester. hundreds of anti—government protesters in brazil have staged a demonstration against president jair bolsonaro, whose popularity has been dented by his management of the coronavirus crisis. this week brazil went past italy to become the country with third highest number of deaths in the world from covid—19. on saturday brazil's health ministry said it would now only be reporting cases and deaths in the past 2a hours, not a total figure as most countries do. president bolsonaro said the cumulative data did not reflect the current picture and had it removed from the ministry website. to tell us more about this is thiago de aragao,

a political risk specialist from arko advice, which is a brasilia—based public affairs and politics consultancy. what is the government doing with the numbers? that's a very good question. it is definitely a reflection of how the government has mishandling the crisis, it is not dealing well at all in perceiving this. even president trump made very harsh criticisms a few days ago. this method is like breaking the thermometer in order to avoid looking at the fever. it is something that will definitely backlash because the numbers can be given in the state secretaries are still going to publish the numbers evenif still going to publish the numbers even if the ministry of health decides not to publish them on the website. so the world can still find out exactly how many people have died in brazilfrom the out exactly how many people have died in brazil from the state secretaries? exactly. the world can sell find out in this decision from

the government is one which is not one of the brightest ones because you don't you it genius to understand that the flow of numbers will still keep on going. the accounting court of the union which is an independent court from the federal government in the institute, brazilian institutions, they are talking with state secretaries to publish the numbers. it is hiding numbers ina publish the numbers. it is hiding numbers in a way which is not right, it sends a terrible message to the world and it also sends a terrible message of how brazil is dealing with the crisis. we have seen protest on the street in brazil. how much support does president bolsonaro have? he has a very solid group that ranges from 23—28% i would say that a core of this group of supporters would back him up despite anything or any decision he comes up despite anything or any decision he comes up to make. but the number of

regulars, the individuals who are neutrals at the government basically issued by issue, they are more and more becoming pessimistic and moving into the rejection side of the government. he is losing support every month but at a slower rate. briefly, what are protesters in brazil in particular campaigning for? it varies a lot. you have those in favour of the government in which they are basically attacking some other brazilian politicians who are confrontational to the president or attacking the tv channels or specific newspapers and journalists. and also some institutions such as the congress or supreme court or any challenge they make against the president. 0thers challenge they make against the president. others are protesting against the president by trying to highlight some of this decision such as the last one he did regarding the numbers. as well as the previous ones. thank you so much forjoining

us. ones. thank you so much forjoining us. thank you. we will continue to monitor the protests in london and around the world. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello there. we have still got a few sharp showers around across more southern parts of england and into wales, but they are going to fade away later on this evening. it is turning dry for the most part overnight tonight, and the winds are dropping too. now, where we have the clearer skies in scotland and the north—east of england, in rural areas temperatures will easily get down to 3—4 degrees. where we keep the crowd elsewhere, temperatures of around 8—10 celsius. now, tomorrow, many places will have a dry day, a little sunshine at times, there will be a few light showers coming into some of those north sea coasts, and during the afternoon we are likely to find some slow moving, heavy showers developing across parts of wales and the south—west of england.

but otherwise a lot of dry weather, some sunshine at times, not as windy as today. temperatures similar to today, so is still a bit on the cool side for monday and it stays cool for a good few days into the week ahead, but the weather starts to turn more unsettled wednesday into thursday and friday. some rain in the forecast and eventually some stronger winds are set to return.

hello this is bbc news. the headlines. thousands of protestors have joined anti—racism demonstrations in cities in the uk. in bristol protestors pulled down a statue of a 17th century slavetrader. the statue was then rolled through the streets before