this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. i'm aaron safir. thousands of people across britain take part in more anti racism protests. in bristol, a statue of a 17th century slave trader is torn down and rolled into the river. it represents years of hurt and just a lot of emotion and hatred that has been built up inside of us that we have internalised. it is utterly disgraceful and speaks to the act of disorder, public disorder that have now become distracting from the cause in which people are actually protesting about and trying to empathise and sympathise with. in london, a huge crowd gathered at the us embassy — as anger over the killing of george floyd in minneapolis

widens to a call for change here — this is the scene live near parliament. thousands of people continue to take part in peaceful protests against police brutality and racism in the us. huge crowds gather in cities and towns across the country. the number of people worldwide who have died from coronavirus passes 400,000. more than a quarter of those deaths have been in the us. brazil is also a hotspot — hundreds of people have demonstrated there against president bolsonaro's response to the coronavirus here in the uk, thousands of people defied a ban on mass gatherings to join rallies triggered by the killing of george floyd, the unarmed black man who died in police

custody in the united states. demonstrators in bristol pulled down a bronze statue of a 17th century slave trader, edward colston, and threw it into the harbour. colston‘s company transported more than one hundred thousand slaves from west africa to the caribbean and the americas between 1672 and 1689, cramming them into ships to maximise profit. the prime minister boris johnson says that the anti—racism protests across britain have been — in his words — subverted by thuggery. jon kay is in bristol where the statue was taken down. chanting: take it down! 300 years after his death, edward colston‘s fall from grace. for centuries, he took pride of place in bristol, celebrated as a merchant, politician and philanthropist. now, reviled for his part

in the slave trade. that statue represents years of oppression, it represents years of hurt and just a lot of emotion and hatred that has been built up inside of us, that we have internalised for years, and that coming down today hopefully signifies change, hopefully we have sent a message, notjust to everyone in the uk or the usa, worldwide. cast in bronze, now daubed with graffiti, one of bristol's most famous sons. some protesters knelt on his neck, a reference to the death of george floyd, across the atlantic. this had begun as a black lives matter demonstration, but it ended in the historic docks, where colston‘s ships once sailed. gone!

jasmine is a trainee teacher. what do you say to somebody who lives in bristol who is horrified by the fact this is gone? people might say it's vandalism, but black people have to walk these streets, black slaves built bristol. we have to walk the streets and see that statue of colston every day. that is what it means. that statue is a kick in the face to all black people. there has been a growing campaign in recent years to remove colston‘s name from buildings across the city, but many feel destroying the statue was the wrong way to do it. tonight, there was a small counter protest, claiming local history had been trashed. sheer vandalism and disorder, is completely unacceptable, and it is right, actually, that the police follow up on that and make sure that justice is taken and undertaken with those individuals that are responsible for such disorderly and lawless behaviour.

avon and somerset police say they deliberately took a low—key approach to the whole protest, due to sensitivities, safety and social distancing. some people will look at this and think, "hang on a minute, you should have intervened and stepped in and at least challenged the behaviour that was happening." this was a very difficult policing operation. there is a lot of context that sits around it and i believe we did the right thing. no regrets? no regrets. well, this evening, people are coming down here and laying placards and many are just standing, looking in disbelief at what has happened here, that in one afternoon, this city has challenged its history and changed its landscape. jon kay, bbc news, bristol. there were protets in several parts of the uk, with thousands gathering at the us embassy in london. this evening, there have been sporadic clashes between a small group of protesters and police officers near parliament. london police say they have

made 11 arrests, chi chi izundu reports. another day where thousands have marched peacefully against racism. in london, the focus was the us embassy. i'm from oakland, california, so i grew up with a lot of police violence around me, and it is something i don't want my son to experience in his life. that's one of the reasons why i'm in this country, because there's less violence, but there still racism so we have to fight it so that's why we are here today. this is my deep passion and i'm here because i believe black people deserve the same chance as everybody else. we need to tackle racism and we've never really dealt with it in this country. there comes a time when we all have to speak up. in glasgow, protesting safely during the pandemic was a concern for organisers.

i think the turnout is amazing, it's really inspiring, and it is really good to see people taking social distancing measures seriously, doing the best we can to stay safe today. in wrexham, people also protested — mindful of the two metre social distancing. this was the m6, partially closed for one hour after protesters blocked the roads. but the day has been marred by a minority. 27 police officers have been injured during this week's demonstrations, but that number is likely to rise after this evening. bottles, traffic cones and other objects were thrown at officers as they tried to clear protesters out of whitehall. it has been a week of protests across the uk and thousands have taken to the street to have their voices heard, but where does this go and what happens next? chi chi izundu, bbc news.

justin breaking news coming out of minneapolis. the city where george floyd died and the protests were sparked. two weeks ago, george floyd died after a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. now nine because the council's 13 members say they will create a new system of public safety and in a state —— statement read hundreds of protesters, decades of reform effo rts protesters, decades of reform efforts had proven that the minneapolis police department could not be fundamentally changed. commentators say this statement sets up what is likely to be a very long and collocated debate in over policing after the death of george floyd. —— comp located debate was a bit is being debated in other cities across the us, how to change what the police do and whether some of those services should be filed out to other parts of government. —— complicated.

large numbers of people are continuing to attend peaceful protests against police brutality and racism in the united states. tens of thousands gathered in big cities including washington and new york, as well as small towns across the country. earlier on sunday president trump announced the national guard would begin withdrawing from washington, following days of unrest. 0ur correspondent, aleem maqbool, has this update from washington. things have been extremely peaceful over recent days and you can barely see the security forces visible. there was a sense that they are a bit of a red rag to the bull, particularly the national guard, for many of the protesters. we now hear that they will not be used going forward but still large numbers of people coming here to the white house and to protest around the country and while the overarching cause, of course, black lives matter against institutional racism and brutality by the bullies is the same everywhere

there are many local causes being fought for as well. like in colorado, people are fighting for justice for, in particular, a family of an african—american who was killed by local police here. in other places like virginia there are protests calling for confederate statues to be removed, and in some cases, protesters have taken matters into their own hands, removing memorials to those who defended slavery or fought to keep it. in other cases, as with the authorities in virginia. they have agreed to the demands of the protesters to remove more statues. while that is still the case, while there are still tangible demands that can be met around the country, i think we will see the protests continue beyond the memorial to george floyd tomorrow, in texas, and beyond his funeral on tuesday as well. mitt romney has become the first republican senator he posted this picture on his twitter page wearing a mask and marching to the white house in protest of george floyd's death at the hands of

minneapolis police. along with the words ‘black lives matter‘. president trump has sharply and repeatedly criticized the demonstrations and called for state and local officials to crack down on them. black lives matter protests have been held across europe. most of the demonstrations were peaceful, although protesters did clash with police in belgium. reged ahmad has more. protesters in rome wearing face masks, kneeled in silence with their fists in the air. thousands taking part in socially distanced black lives matter protests. —— black lives matter demonstrations. chanting: i can't breathe. protesters chanted "i can't breathe", echoing the words that george floyd spoke as a police officer in the us knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. like scenes seen in many cities around the world, black lives matter protests have been held across europe, just as many of those

countries emerge from the coronavirus lockdown. in brussels, the heart of the eu, thousands gathered peacefully outside the courthouse in the belgian capital carrying signs. translation: black lives matter is not only about police violence. here we experience discrimination that other races do not experience. for example, if we start looking for a flat to rent we have difficulties. regarding employment, we are disadvantaged. my message is we need to end racism. it is just unacceptable. just because of your colour of your skin you have less rights? no. i mean, no, it is just not acceptable. there were some clashes and arrests later on as people threw stones at police. some gathered at the statue of former belgian king,

leopold ii, linked to atrocities during colonial rule in what is now known as the democratic republic of congo. the drc flag was left on the statue and graffiti can be seen as well. the peaceful demonstrations stretched to madrid and spain where people gathered at the us embassy chanting and holding placards as they wore masks with their fists in the air. there was also a march and a one—minute silence for george floyd. similar scenes were repeated there and in other european capitals. mass demonstrations, just as part of the continent recover from the devastating overnighting pandemic. the timing, underscoring the strength of feeling on issues of race and equality. reged ahmad, bbc news. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: the madeleine mccann suspect‘s life in portugal — we report from the village where he lived around the time of her disappearance.

the day the british liberated the falklands. and by tonight, british troops had begun the task of disarming the enemy. in the heart of the german capital, this was gorby—mania at its height. the crowd packed to see the man who for them, has raised great hopes for an end to the division of europe. it happened as the queen moved towards horse guards parade for the start of trooping the colour. gunshots the queen looks worried but recovers quickly. as long as they'll pay to go and see me, i'll get out there and kick 'em down the hill. what does it feel like to be the first man to go

across the channel by your own power? it feels pretty neat. it feels marvellous, really. this is bbc news — the latest headlines: thousands of people across britain have taken part in more anti—racism protests. in bristol, a statue of a 17th century slave trader is torn down, and rolled into the river. thousands of people have continued to take part in peaceful protests against police brutality and racism in the us. huge crowds have gathered in cities and towns across the country. hundreds of anti—government protesters in brazil have staged a demonstration against racism and against president jair bolsonaro over his handling of the coronavirus. last week, brazil's death toll overtook italy's and, in the next few days, it is expected to overtake the uk and become the second highest in the world. as katy watson reports

from sao paulo, the brazilian government has been accused of trying to hide the true numbers. black lives matter in brazil, too. but here, president jair bolsonaro's handling of coronavirus is also enraging protesters. a leader, they say, who is threatening the country's democracy. in the past week alone, 150,000 people have caught covid—19 and 7,000 have died. but that's information the government doesn't want people to know. it's wiped those figures from its website because it says they are manipulated. behind those numbers, though, are real people. patients and health workers on the front line, trying to control a virus that is still spreading. "it's like a snowball," helio says. "the cases keep rising, people get infected. "this never ends." karine is also on the front line, receiving death registers

in sao paulo. half of the names in this book, she says, were covid—19 related deaths. and far more people than usual have died from respiratory problems, too. many people put that down to underreporting the real coronavirus figures. i'm feeling like a soldier in a war. i need to receive the information. i need to have good eyes and a smile, to make my public service. while i'm feeling that everybody‘s very, very worried about the disease. brazil only tests around 5% of what most of europe does. the country has struggled on many fronts — the labs are mostly in the south and it is difficult to transport tests there from areas such as the amazon. the government has also made bad decisions.

in february, march, there was a huge flood of chinese tests arriving 9 of 11 were completely garbage. the government did not do anything. they bought the kits and distributed that, and thinking it is better to do that with these kits than do nothing, but that is not true. in this affluent part of sao paulo, the local government's trying something different. it wants to get a third of its population tested. about 600 cars are coming through every day. people are getting their details checked. only those who work or live in the city can get a test done and that takes place over here. now, the idea is that the local government wants to get an idea of how far along the curve it is, how big a problem it is in this part of the city. but doctors here are feeling deflated, with a president who's failing to lead this country to a worsening crisis, they feel undervalued.

translation: i think this is still the country of football. i've nothing against football, farfrom it, but education and health, which need to be prioritised, are not. 0n the ground, healthcare workers keep going to battle against coronavirus. but the battle against censorship has onlyjust begun. katy watson, bbc news, in sao paulo. the number of people confirmed to have been killed by the coronavirus around the world has now passed 400,000 just five months after china reported the first known fatality. here in the uk, the health secretary, matt hancock denied —— the uk has recorded its lowest number of deaths from confirmed cases of coronavirus since the lockdown began in march, with 77 deaths in the past 2a hours. the health secretary, matt hancock denied that the failure to lockdown sooner had cost lives as he responded to the view of a senior scientist who advises the uk government. 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 have 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 judgement 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, a measure of how the virus is spreading. overall, it is thought that infections are falling.

the r is below one. but one study suggests in the north—west of england, it is just above one, which could mean increasing infections, while in the south—west, it's right on one. 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 it's 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 are to make sense of the challenge that we now have, and that is 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. 0verall, 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. a uk newspaper, the sun, is reporting that the us department ofjustice has reportedly filed a request that could force prince andrew to testify about his links to the convicted paedophile jeffrey epstein. the doj has said that it will neither confirm nor deny that such a request exists. a source close to prince andrew's legal team told the bbc:

"legal discussions with the doj are subject to strict confidentiality rules, as set out in their own guidelines. we have chosen to abide by both the letter and the spirit of these rules, which is why we have made no comment about anything related to the doj during the course of this year." prince andrew stood down from royal duties late in 2019 following a poorly received interview that he gave to bbc newsnight in which he defended the friendship. the new suspect in the madeleine mccann case has been described as strange and intimidating by people in the portuguese village where he stayed around the time of the child's disappearance in 2007. 0ne resident claimed people were terrified of the man, identified by the german authorities as christian b, because he carried a gun. 0ur correspondent gavin lee sent this report. this small village is where christian b is said to have stayed in the weeks after the disappearance of madeleine mccann.

the suspect is reported to have turned up here, 30 miles from where she went missing, without money, asking for work. christian b is understood to have stayed in this village for several months and was often seen at this restaurant and with his camper van that police have appealed for information on. and several people have told us they found him strange and that he was intimidating. they said he spent time with two friends who rented this house and claimed they were fostering german children. this woman, who asked not to be identified, rented the property to the couple. she says locals feared him and he was seen with a weapon on his belt. everybody was really terrified of him because my friend's daughter had a health issue, a mental health issue, and my friend was very scared that, you know, he could really do something to her. and being seen with a gun, i suppose, you know, people would be frightened. in germany, police are also investigating the suspect over the disappearance of 5—year—old inga in 2015.

and the father of another german child, 6—year—old rene, who went missing from this algarve beach in 1996, says police have told him there could be a link. this local fireman was part of the search team. translation: we never had any evidence about where rene had been seen. one person said he was near the river, but was not very sure. normally, when people drown in this part of the coast, a body appears after a few hours. in four days, since the new madeleine mccann appeal, police have received almost 400 tip—offs from the public, help which is vital, they say, if there is to be a breakthrough in this case. gavin lee, bbc news, portugal. a reminder about story. thousands of people have divide bans on mass rallies tojoin protests drink to —— triggered

by the death of george floyd in the us. it costin‘s statue in bristol was torn down by protesters. edward colston. hello there. the first week of summer has certainly brought a big change in the weather pattern. over the weekend, cool northerly winds, some rain and a good deal of cloud around as well. interestingly, at loftus in redcar in cleveland, there's been more rain in the last week than we've had during the whole of spring. the start of the new week, though, looks a lot drier, the winds won't be as strong either. that's because we've got this area of high pressure, at least the nose of it heading towards the uk. it may not last long, but for a while, it will keep those weather fronts at bay from the north—west of the uk. now, many places will have a dry day on monday, the sunshine coming and going. there'll still be a few light showers blown onto some of those north sea coasts.

during the afternoon, watch out for some heavy slow—moving showers in wales and the south—west of england. but on the whole, a lot of dry weather around. temperatures not very different from what we had on sunday, but we'll find that the winds are a good deal lighter today. and those light winds continue into the evening. it shouldn't be too long before we see the back of those showers from the south—west, and overnight into tuesday morning, it's going to be dry pretty much everywhere. a fair bit of cloud around, perhaps not quite as chilly across scotland and the north—east of england as it will be first thing on monday morning. moving into tuesday, and there's still quite a lot of cloud in the picture. whilst most places will be dry, there's the odd shower developing through the day ahead of the main change, which is this band of rain here arriving into western scotland and northern ireland, probably very late on in the day on tuesday if not in the evening. temperatures on the cool side for many, 15 to 17 degrees. then more significant changes arrive from mid—week onwards. we've got that weather front driving some rain southwards, pressure is dropping, we end up with an area of low pressure across the uk on wednesday.

we have got some cloud, some outbreaks of rain pushing towards the south—east, and whilst it may brighten up a bit further north, look at all the showers developing, and those could be heavy and thundery. because there is more cloud and more rain around, temperatures will be a bit lower, 14 to 16 degrees. that area of low pressure is still going to be around during thursday and perhaps into friday. it's drifting further south as well. so the wetter weather as we head towards the latter part of the week more likely to be across england and wales, we will see the winds picking up, but by the end of the week, it could be a warmer wind.

this is bbc news, the headlines: a majority of the minneapolis city council has promised to dismantle its police departments. the move follows the death of an unarmed black man george floyd in police custody nearly two weeks ago. nine of the council's 13 members said they will instead create a new system of public safety. large numbers of people are continuing to take part in peaceful protests against police brutality and racism in the us. tens of thousands gathered in cities including washington and new york, as well as small towns across the country. the protests began as an expression of anger over the police killing of george floyd. thousands of people defied the ban on mass gatherings to join rallies triggered by the killing of george floyd, in police custody in the us. demonstrators in bristol pulled down a bronze statue of a 17th century slave trader, edward colston, and threw it into the harbour. now on bbc news, time

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