one month after the death of george floyd in police detention, the us house of represenatives passes a police reform bill. his brother tells us what he would have made of the changes. he would be humbled. he would be, you know, sad that he is not here to be in a world that is making change like this. the us faces a coronavirus spike, as social distancing is relaxed. more than 35,000 new cases are identified in a single day. thousands flock to the beach in england, despite warnings coronavirus cases will rise again if people abandon social distancing. cheering and applause. liverpool claim the premier league title, ending a 30 year wait to be crowned english football champions again. let's start in the us because, in the past few minutes, the house of representatives has approved the democratic police reform legislation named in honour of george floyd, whose death in police custody a month ago sparked calls to address police misconduct. the reform has provisions to end qualified immunity for law enforcement, prohibit racial profiling and ban chokeholds. the legislation is opposed by pr

unsurprisingly as it is a democrat ill and the democrats control the us house of representatives thatlicans controlled the senate, of course, and they are unlikely to agree to it because of certain measures proposed about issues such as qualified immunity, which we were discussing earlier. we will keep across that vote for you. stay with us, hello. thursday brought us, for the third consecutive day, the hottest day of the year so far in the uk. temperatures at heathrow in london reached 33.1; celsius, but if you are not a fan of the heat and the humidity, you will probably be pleased to hear that things are now turning fresher. through friday, it will be a cooler day, the chance of some heavy showers and some thunderstorms around too. still quite a mild, muggy start to the morning. first thing friday, those temperatures quite widely in the mid to high teens, could be not shy of 20 degrees for central london first thing friday morning. now, we start with this band of fairly heavy showers and thunderstorms. this is nine o'clock in the morning. it will be drier down towards the southwest

heartbreaking testimony from the mother trey von martin and the mother jordan davis and being elected to the us house of representatives these innocent young black men were gunned down by white vigilantes now we have the lives of two black men and the black woman the incidents that are inexpressible and on excusable violence a man out for a jog. breanna taylor at home in her bedroom and georgerg floyd on the curbside in minneapolis. once again those gutwrenching words i can't breathe brings tears to our eyes. how many more names of black women and men and children we need to have american honest conversation about training a bias and use of force and consequences foree wrongdoing with that discriminatory and deadly to the next generation of law enforcement and then to invest in social services with those crisis situations they are not equipped to deal with. senators and other legislatures to continue to undo the damage of a criminal justice system that is unfair. most importantly to step back and listen by pervasive systemic racism what can you do a good place to start is the obama task force to deal

the us house votes to make washington dc a state, but the historic step is unlikely to progress.here's a stark warning that millions of children in yemen could be pushed to ‘the brink of starvation‘ unless international aid is dramatically stepped up. it comes from unicef, the united nations children's organisation. the country faces the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with the covid—19 pandemic compounding the effect of five years of civil war. houthi rebels backed by iran have been fighting yemen's government, itself backed by a saudi—led coalition — which is supported by the us and the uk. two million of yemen's children are malnourished, and 1.7 million have been forced to flee their homes. with only half of the country's health facilities in operation, one child dies every 10 minutes from a preventable disease. our middle east editorjeremy bowen sent this report, and i must warn you, there are distressing images right from the start. selwa al—odabei is five, the same age as the war. selwa has cerebral atrophy — brain damage caused by malnutrition she's had since she was t

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one month after the death of george floyd in police custody, in minneapolis, the us house of representatives has passed a police reform bill. however, the legislation, which bans chokeholds and racial profiling, is expected to face opposition in the republican—dominated senate. the us is facing a new coronavirus spike after lockdown restrictions were relaxed. texas has now suspended plans to further reopen the economy because of a significant rise in covid—19 cases. across the country, a record 35,000 new cases were identified in a single day. there are fears a lack of social distancing could see a spike in uk covid—19 cases after around 500,000 people flocked to a south coast beach on the hottest day of the year. the government's chief medical adviser issued a stark warning about large public gatherings. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. no—one better epitomises any strongman style of leadership than president rodrigo duterte of the philippines. he has a visceral dislike of independentjournalism and no—one knows that better than my guest today, maria ressa,

in police custody, in minneapolis. the us house of represenatives has passed a police reform bill. the manner of his death has led to a global wave of protests, calling for police reform and an end to institutional racism. the us is facing a new coronavirus spike, after lockdown restrictions were relaxed. texas has now suspended plans to further re—open the economy, because of a significant rise in covid—19 cases. across the country a record 35,000 new cases were identified in a single day. there are fears that a lack of social distancing could see a spike in uk covid—19 cases, after around half a million people flocked to the beach in bournemouth, on the hottest day of the year. the government's chief medical adviser issued a stark warning about large public gatherings. now on bbc news, the week in parliament. hello again and welcome to the week in parliament. lifting the lockdown across the uk. boris johnson relaxes england's covid—19 rules. today, we can say that our long national hibernation is beginning to come to an end. but can we trust the prime minister? he has been found o

the us house of represenatives passes a reform bill in the name of george floyd. so what chance of it becoming law? several us states suspend plans to re—open the economy, after a spike in coronavirus cases. doctors say it's being driven by young people testing positive. over 80,000 cruise ship workers remain stranded at sea, as governments change their pandemic rules for coming into port. liverpool claim the premier league title, 30 long years since they were last crowned english football champions. the house of representatives has approved the democratic police reform legislation named in honour of george floyd, whose death in police custody a month ago sparked calls to address police misconduct. the reform has provisions to end qualified immunity for law enforcement, prohibit racial profiling and ban chokeholds and create a national registry of police misconduct. the legislation is unlikely to pass in its current form in the senate, where the republicans have a majority. the bill, opposed by president trump, also faces a formal white house veto threat. the bill

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i thought this was briefing was the white house personnel telling us their perspective. i think be knew the white house perspective. what we need to know is the intelligence perspective. i am urging the white house and chief of staff to follow up on my request to make sure we are briefed by the intelligence ommunity directly. mr. schiff: we need to hear from the intelligence agencies about how they assess the allegations that have been made publicly, what can they tell us about the truth or falsity about the allegations and steps they are undertaking or undertaken to vet any information that they may have. so in my view the right people were not in the room that we needed to get. the second point i would make is as we look at these and call them allegations because i cannot confirm or deny any underlying intelligence, as we look at the allegations, number one the president of the united states shouldn't be inviting g8. a into the g7 or we need to determine sanctions in. t bring them and i find it inex politicable in light of these public allegations that the president has

homelessness and human rights ngos said the park inn hotel was being used too house asymm seekers as part of the country's response to the corona virus outbreak. officials announced the public not to share unconfirmed information n about the incicid. hello world news see a u. s. laws president mike pence's struck a note of optimism over the cave in nineteen pandemic saying that such a full stage show and matcha is stabilizing numbers of new cases will speaking at the first at u. s. coronavirus tonsils briefing in months pence it as people. continue social distance into help the virus has a saying that sayays sixteen statetes a seeing an inincrease in faction. here isn't speaking on. as we stand here today we with rising cases southern states president trump asked us to brief the american people. to give details on what we're seeing what we're doing. and how it's different from two months ago. as you may recall. after seeing overall cases dropped from a thirty thousand. a day average in april to. twenty five thousand a day over average in may the first few weeks of june. actually saw

oppression from the doorstep of the people's house the white house using tear gas 'd and flash grenades during this stage photo all we can be forgiven for believing the president is more interested in the tower then in principle and the bishop of st jones. said she was outraged by trump's of a state calling protest sacred and accusing trump of using the holy scripture as a quote symbol of division. and let's bring in washington bureau chief alexander phenomena who is standing by for us near the white house alexandra threatening to bring in the military can he do that. well actually he has studios soroti to deploy the u.s. military to to end unrest to end violence t.v. disobedience he can invoke the so-called insurrection act that was passed in $1807.00 and it was invoked several times in the past the last time 1992 during rodney king on us in los angeles about in order to do so he actually has to be asked by the governors and so far no governor has requested to hold of the you asked active you ass military and even within the pentagon there are voices voicing concern and saying that the

paula. >> reporter: norah, those religious leaders are accuseing the president of using houses of worship for photo opportunities while not si socius countrnspireotts as ( booing ) >> reporter: president trump was met with more protests on his only outing of the day-- to a washington shrine honoring pope john paul ii. archbishop wilton gregory issued a rare public rebuke of the visit. citing last night's use of force to clear protesters, he called it "baffling and reprehensible that any catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused." president trump praised last night's overwhelming force and domination, releasing a campaign-style video of his widely criticized walk across lafayette park for a picture in front of st. john's church, while holding a bible. cbs news has learned the president wanted to make the visit as a show of strength, after reports that he was hiding in a bunker during friday's protests. attorney general bill barr, who was seen inspecting the police line, helped devise the plan. today, the reverend george gilbert stood in the same spotbf demonstrators

first, appreciate the white house inviting us to come in the briefed. as steny said there's not a substitute for all the of the house, but the right people to get the briefing really were not in the room. we need to hear from the heads of intelligence agencies about how the ssd allegations that have been made publicly. what can they tell us about the truth or falsity of these allegations, what can they tell us about steps they are undertaking or have undertaken to vet information that they may have. so in my view the right people were not in the room to give us the canterbury think we needed to get. the second point i would make is as we look at these, and up going to call them allegations because he can't confirm or deny in the underlying intelligence, as will look at these allegations, number one, the president should not be inviting russia into the g7 or g8. we should be considering what sanctions are appropriate to further deter russia's maligned activities, not further ingratiating rush into the committed of civilized nations. and i find it inexplic

in a few minutes, i'll be speaking to us house representative hankjohnson, a democrat who represents georgia — and who's also secretary of the congressional black caucus. that interview coming up here in a moment or two. before that... the uk's health secretary, matt hancock, has been criticised by the head of the statistics authority over the way the government presents figures on testing for coronavirus. sir david norgrove said the data is "still far from complete and comprehensible", which means "it is not surprising" that the statistics "are so widely criticised and often mistrusted". it comes as 324 more deaths have been recorded in the uk in the last 2a hours. here's our health editor, hugh pym. a drive—in testing centre today but with very little activity, as a new debate on precisely how many virus tests are being carried out has flared up. the health secretary, matt hancock, made great play in recent weeks of the plans to boost testing. i am now setting the goal of 100,000 tests per day. currently, just over 50,000 tests available. i can announce that we have met our goal. b

a few meters from good us house you come to st paul's church in 1980 became the seat of the frankfurt national assembly the 1st freely elected parliament for the whole of germany so it's considered the birthplace of german democracy. time for to mine is also well known for its museums no less than 15 cultural institutions line the written line forming the frankfurt museum embankment. it includes germany's oldest museum foundation the shade and was a. collection here covered 700 years of european art history from the 14th century right up to the present day. this is what's going to go on when it was founded 200 years ago in accordance with the will left by a wealthy frankfurt banker named your 100 jewish data he was an art collector which was not unusual in the age of a. mightn't. they saw origin as a key part of his role in society. although frankfurt was a free a material city there was no bishop and no royalty living here in studio stuff so it's always been the local people who have shaped frankfurt and to this day this foundation relies on the huge support it receives from the peop

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our top stories: one month after the death of george floyd in police detention, the us house of representativesthe country. he would be humbled. he would be, you know, sad that he is not here to be in a world that is making change like this. the us faces a coronavirus spike as social distancing is relaxed. more than 35,000 new cases are identified in a single day. thousands flock to the beach in england, despite warnings coronavirus cases will rise again if people abandon social distancing.

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go up with planting of trees and indicate he will extend this idea to the other us houses and we could be out there in time to get their hands dirty planting trees in the school yard can respond from the regular routine so that through our friends we need to rely on them in our community garden wanted daily basis planting trees is more than a symbolic act for david bloom the children have learned a lot about the crucial role as the trees play to provide shade to protect rivers and soil and play a vital role in maintaining the health of our environment. well at a time when our lives are overshadowed by the crisis their commitment you conspiring if we can manage to raise awareness of environmental issues in children then there is hope for real and lasting change the crisis can also be an opportunity here in company change is already underway ever since the lockdown was imposed it's been absolved there has been improved air quality around the city some changes will probably be reversed but some could be adopted for good it is a good buy for me. here. thank you sandra i'll bring about chan

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houston texas is a live pictures of the ceremony being held in front of 500 yards with the born us housing file past his coffin on monday. george floyd's death in police custody. in minneapolis 2 weeks ago spots global protests against racism it was 46 somebody later gets executed by them in a houston suburb.

for the first time in history, the us house of representatives has approved a measure to make washingtons a population of over 700,000 people, larger than the populations of several states, but residents have no voting representation in congress. in the house of representatives, the district is represented by a delegate, who is not allowed to vote. and dc residents have no representation in the senate. despite the vote in the house, the proposal is almost certain to fail in the senate. facebook says it will now flag posts from us politicians that violate its rules, but won‘t delete them — because of their ‘news value‘. until now the company has been reluctant to take action against posts by figures such as president trump because it believed users had a right to hear unfiltered statements from political leaders. facebook‘s chief executive, mark zuckerberg, defended the site‘s record in taking down hate speech but said the company would tighten its policies by labelling potentially harmful posts. in the last week, more than 100 companies stopped advertising on facebook, as part of a campa

not far from there at the portraits of historical us house of representatives speakers who served in the civil war confederacy were taken down from congress on the eve of juneteenth current speaker stem a crowd he had her say remarking there is no place for symbols of racism. and we've been getting reaction to all of this this hour we want to show you what history professor jonathan and is believed is the legacy of slavery in the u.s. he says still needs must discussion and re-evaluation. the united states has not come to terms. with the history of slavery what was it and how did. contribute to the emergence of the nation but also to the emergence of capitalism slavery is and economic system with an economic system that was hugely responsible for the mass distribution around the world of rice to pack sugar and other cash crops and up high on that institution emerges the institution and. the system of capitalism and so the united states hasn't really discussed this i don't haven't discussed this and it but dulls haven't come to terms with this and engage in some kind of truth and reco

for the first time in history, the us house of representatives has voted to declare washington dc america'sgely party lines, comes as the idea of making the city a state gathered steam in the wake of the protests against george floyd's death. washington's 700—thousand residents don't have representatives in either the house or the senate, which critics say is unfair. there's a stark warning that millions of children in yemen could be pushed to ‘the brink of starvation' unless international aid is dramatically stepped up. it comes from unicef, the united nations children's organisation. the covid—i9 pandemic is compounding the effect of five years of civil war — to create the world's worst humanitarian crisis. our middle east editorjeremy bowen sent this report, and i must warn you, there are distressing images right from the start. selwa is five, the same age as the war. selwa has cerebral atrophy — brain damage caused by malnutrition she's had since she was two months old. the vicious mixture that is destroying yemen is killing her. a man—made war, man—made hunger, and the coronavirus pand

info memo on the issuance of a request for proposals to develop, own and operate an affordable housing mixed-use project, which will include approximately 250 units of affordable housing for low-income families and seniors, and formerly homeless families and seniors, a child care facility, neighborhood retail, and streetscape improvements on transbay blocks 2 east and 2 west, transbay redevelopment project area. madam director? >> thank you, madam secretary. what you have before you is a proposal -- or offering a parcel for affordable housing development in the project area. the proposed affordable rental housing and retail mixed-use buildings will provide one, two and three-bedroom units for families and studio and one-bedroom units for seniors. approximately 20% of the both family and senior units and -- sorry, family and senior members will be set aside for formerly homeless individuals. the project will also include a child care facility, retail space and publicly accessible streetscaping improvements. the r.s.p. is currently allowing for it to be consistent with the redevelopment fund and t

the us house votes to make washington dc a state, but the historic step is unlikely to progress.

insulting for all the people who are living in the world would like to be the cd now over in the us house speaker nancy pelosi is leading the fight against confederate statues on capitol hill she has even sent a letter to the joint committee on the library asking for them to be removed amid the nationwide demonstrations against racism can you imagine jefferson davis alexander stephens treason it treason against united know and this judge i feel because there's stage for him here and this does come at the current campaign in the country to take down symbols of the confederacy in norfolk virginia a statue of a confederate soldier has been removed after standing in its place for more than 100 years however officials have stated the decision to take it down was actually made out of safety concerns earlier in portsmouth a man suffered serious injuries after being hit by a statue that was toppled by demonstrators in total 4 statues have been beheaded in the city we discuss the war on monuments the host of r.t. america's on contact show chris hedges. i think it's important to remember what the h

violence it into death has been has not been that much and we're sentient so what is happening to us house back to support that can't be fixed it's absolutely encouraging. that because it's brought in many young people including young people of african descent. yeah so so much imam that of course they do have that. generation they have their own way off of protesting of taking care of issues on social media and so on but that did not indict much much industry as that but if you had generations and good in mind we were fostered at the time so what has happened this last week to be honest has been encouraging and it is a challenge when the civil society organizations have to pick up from here bid on it to make sure the momentum is not lost i'm not pushing it if i change or have. really struggling to the took advantage of a tree there are growing calls in the u.s. now to defund the police from your point of view would that actually help address systemic racism and if not what steps need to be taken in order to do that. it's a great question and i think when we hear deep on the police we don't

yes so that is corrected it had been used by a group to house asylum seekers during the current or virus outbreak so it's being used as temporary housing. at this moment in time i believe that we haven't had a response yet from the spokespeople for. for the group that is in charge of that temporary housing the been a protest at that hotel though in recent weeks have been. well glasgow has actually seen a few protests in recent weeks about one that was just typically about asylum seekers and guys go where protesters were basically demanding that they be treated in a fair way and that one of those protests also saw quite a heavy police presence and they were essentially entire protests was escorted from the city center of glasgow towards that you stand glasgow. and so yes there there there have been a few protests not exactly at the hotel however in glasgow about asylum seekers and the way. they have been treated and. outbreak itself could took him up many thanks indeed some from the herald the glasgow times newspaper who's. we'll get a weather update next year on al-jazeera the southeast

i was the portraits of historical us house of representatives speakers who served in the civil war confederacy was taken down from congress on the eve of juneteenth current speaker nancy pelosi saying there's no place on capitol hill the symbols of racism history professor john of finance has believed that the legacy of slavery still needs big discussion and reevaluation the united states has not come to terms with its past and with the history of slavery what was it and how did. contribute to the emergence of the nation but also to the emergence of capitalism slavery is an economic system was an economic system that was hugely responsible for the mass distribution around the world of price to patco sugar and other cash crops and up on that institution emerges the institution of the system of capitalism and so the united states hasn't really discussed this i don't haven't discussed this and it dulls haven't come to terms with this and engaged in some kind of truth and reconciliation process our students and young people certainly are not going to be educated about it. meantime donald trump rec

vigilant and that's why the council has had to declare a major incident to deal with the situation the us house of representatives has passed a sweeping police reform bill brought by the democratic party the legislation would reduce legal protections for officers and ban chokeholds it will now be sent to the republican controlled senate where it's likely to be rejected as that debate in the house was happening president donald trump criticized the democrats saying that tougher to deal with than some foreign governments. so which is the toughest nation to deal with is it china. is it possibly russia or is it maybe north korea i said no the toughest nation to deal with are the democrats in the usa. the democrats in the usa are much tougher to deal with than any of these people that we deal with. they're far more unreasonable and actually they're a little crazy. well how is opposition can the lazarus check where i was claimed as claimed victory in the rerun of last year's presidential election early results of ahead of incumbent. votes still being counted on with us always more now. human rights a

cbs reporter natalie brand is following this live from the white house for us. natalie? >> reporter: good evening, liz. the president on stage tonight is sticking to campaign topics and campaign rhetoric from talking about law and order to using an offensive racism term for the coronavirus, the president has been eager to get back on the campaign trail but is coming under fire from critics, especially as he travels to a state that has been rising in covid cases. president trump rallied young supporters in arizona, one of 25 states seeing a sungar in coronavirus cases. >> we're here today to declare that we will never cave to the left wing and the left wing intolerance, and that is why we must prevail on november 3rd. we have to prevail. get out there. >> reporter: those attending the phoenix rally were asked to sign liability waive es and organizers handed out masks, but not everyone was wearing them. >> and it has all different names, wuhan, wuhan was catching on, coronavirus, right? conk flu? rears ahead of the rally, the president held a round table on forkedder secur

the us house of representatives has passed a bill granting statehood to washington d.c. if approved by the republican controlled senate more than 700000 people in the district would finally have the representation other states take for granted but as mike hanna reports the bill faces stiff opposition. the last votes on statehood were more than 6 decades ago when alaska and hawaii became the 49 and the state's friday's historic decision was taken on party lines there being 232 votes in the affirmative $180.00 votes in the negative the district of columbia statehood bill h r $51.00 is asked without objection motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. so it's a founding of the nation's capital over 2 centuries ago it has been a district and not part of a state it has no governor no senator and it's aleck to representative has no boat in the house we stand out as the only democracy which to the highest democracy to the residents of its own capital leadership own capital city in a city where nearly half of the population is african american statehood is a civil rights issue

describe it the particular line of inquiry for them shore for the police will be the hotel was being used to house asylum seekers from the middle east and had been far right wing demonstrations outside the hotel once it became clear that those people westward were staying there. so you'd have to assume that one potential line of inquiry for the police will have to be that it was potentially a racist attack against a silence seekers far obviously from being a terrorist attack. the opposite in some ways but all of this is just speculation the moments for the police it's now a mass a really of cordoning off the whole area and in the forensic teams in trying to gather as much information as they possibly can and looking at the backgrounds and the identity obviously of the suspects who has who is now dead. lawrence many thanks indeed of 0 lawrence leigh the life in london mexico city's chief of police has been injured in an assassination attempt in the capital. as the gunshots that could be heard across an upscale neighborhood in the city's west where the attack happened the police chief has since trea

. >> the common flow is extremel extremely -- to be clear, or using the white house does not believe it is race at? >> kayleigh: to be clear i think the media is trying to play games with the terminology of this virus with focus should be on the fact that china left us out of our country. the same price that the media round fleet now condemns has been used by the media. i can go more examples. wuhan virus to see and then set on july 22nd. we can go on and on and on. will the media wants done focus on nomenclature, the president is going to focus on action. yes. >> the president and attorney general over the weekend offered different explanations on the firing of geoffrey berman, the attorney general of new york. can you clarify why berman was dismissed and whether it was at the presence or request? speed i think there were very much in sync this weekend. the attorney general and the president. here's what happened, the president held mr. clayton in high regard and wanted to nominate him to this position. as he returns to new york -- but barr was working on a smooth transition and whe

for the first time in history, the us house of representatives has voted to declare washington, dc america'sa of making the city a state gathered steam in the wake of the protests against george floyd's death. however, the bill is unlikely to pass in the republican—held senate. this is bbc world news. the headlines: a new daily high reached in mexico. the un says aid to yemen must be dramatically stepped up to help save millions of children from the brink of starvation. mexico city's security chief has been wounded in an attack that killed two of his bodyguards. the dramatic incident took place in a wealthy district of mexico city that has until now, seen little violence. reged ahmad reports. in this grainy cctv footage broadcast on mexican television, a group of heavily armed men in an open back truck and suv drive up. blocking off the road, it is understood that they were preparing to open fire on the vehicle of mexico city's security chief, garcia harfuch. the footage zooms in on some of them as one holds up what looks like an assault rifle. residents reported heavy gunfire ringing for se