A leading British Health expert says bringing in the lock down a week earlier would have halved the u. K. s number of covert 19 day. And swedish prosecutors name a Graphic Designer who died 2 decades ago as the killer of Prime Minister of all of parliament 34 years. We begin in the us where George Floyds brother has urged politicians to pass reforms on Police Brutality and quote stop the pain felonies floyd testified before the House Judiciary Committee on capitol hill he told members of congress to make sure that his brothers death will not be in vain george floyd died in Police Custody in may sparking weeks of protests across the u. S. And the around the world the Committee Said it was answering protesters calls for a fundamental change in the culture of Law Enforcement this comes a day after the 46 year old was laid to rest in houston. To exhume to make it stop. Stop the pain stop us being tired george called for help and he was ignored please listen to the cowed im making to you now to the cause of our family and the calls ringing out the streets across the world people of all backgrounds genders and races have come together to demand change on it him on a george and make the necessary changes then make the Law Enforcement the solution and not the problem lets go to heidi jocasta whos on capitol hill for us heidi we have there George Floyds brother asking for change of course that is what the protesters have been demanding now for 2 weeks when house call was answering those demands for reform. Well barbara those demands have indeed made their way from those protests of hundreds of thousands of americans in the u. S. Cities more than 100 cities those demands are now before the halls of congress the members of the House Judiciary Committee are hearing from 12 Witnesses Today of course they include the brother of george floyd who made that powerful statement in the hearings opening saying that he wanted his brothers death not to be in vain these representatives are also hearing from an africanamerican woman whose brother was a Police Officer and he was gunned down in the line of duty were also hearing from the police chief the chief of Houston Texas now what everyone has so far been in agreement with is that some sort of reform is necessary to just take a moment to even say that in the United States is already indicative of what a change in Public Opinion how far it has come in the last 5 years the latest polls showing that 7 out of 10 americans agree that racism and discrimination is a big problem in the United States in agreeing that the death of george floyd is part of this greater problem of Police Brutality and the death of black americans in the hands of Police Officers that is not something to be taking a grant for granted it is a change that has happened only in recent years but what the reforms are calling for it now that is really quite the variety we know that the legislation pending now introduced by House Democrats includes establishing a National Database for to track Police Misconduct and getting rid of whats called qualified immunity for Police Officers which is Legal Protection from civil lawsuits when they are accused of misconduct republicans say that theyre also crafting their own measures in the Republican Controlled Senate theyre very similar in some in. Some forms however lacking there the removal of the qualified immunity which is the Sticking Point it appears the difference between these competing proposals to address this issue there is also of course further demands that go further among the protesters who are calling for defunding the police that means many Different Things to different people for the moderates the vast majority of people calling for this to happen is taking some of the Police Funding and shifting that money to social welfare programs but then theres also the far left torah saying defund the police completely even abolish the police and weve seen republicans in todays Committee Hearing seizing on that most extremist interpretation of defund the police trying to dent the credibility of those who are also champion the these more moderate reforms barbara how does your cast or with the latest on that from capitol hill heidi for the moment thank you well meanwhile the Minneapolis Police department is breaking off talks with the state police union its police chief says its part of planned reforms in the wake of George Floyds this majority our don though says the Union Contract needs to be restructured to provide more transparency. This is further examining the 6 significant matters. That touch on such things as Critical Incident protocol their use of force the significant role that supervisors play in this department and also the discipline process to include both grievances and arbitration. And i believe i speak for my chief peers here in the state of minnesota as well as across our country that there is nothing more debilitating to a chief from an Employment Matter perspective that when you have grounds to terminate an officer for misconduct when youre dealing with a 3rd Party Mechanism that allows for that employee to not only be back on your department but to be patrolling in your communities. And really in response to the widespread protests President Donald Trump says his administration will not consider renaming u. S. Military bases lets go live to our White House CorrespondentKimberly Halkett and kimberly weve just had the press briefing from the white house a lot of issues that came up including a lot of questions about the president s tweet about a 75 year old the protester whod been pushed down by police what they come out of the briefing. Yeah that briefing still under way but it certainly was the top talking point when reporters ask questions the president has to take you back tweeted on just 24 hours ago that there were some questions he had even sort of intimated that one of the protesters a 75 year old man in buffalo new york who theres widespread video was pushed by police fell down his head now recovering in hospital the u. S. President has really struck a controversy when he tweeted in the middle of George Floyds funeral that perhaps this was a stage fall that the man could even be a member of n t 5 well the White House Press secretary kelly machinating responding to this saying that the president does not apologize for putting out that tweet that hes just raising legitimate questions about this protester and his background and that there should also be an opportunity for the Police Officer shown in this video pushing the man down that they should have the opportunity to be heard and should not have their lives destroyed in the court of Public Opinion the reaction from this white house is that americas reaction to this video has been reflected reflexive li anti police and while the president does not condone violence the president s also suggesting there may be more to the video then was originally shown now the white house also pushing back on that democrat legislation that heidi was talking about earlier the White House Press secretary saying that when it comes to the issue of qualified immunity this means that people cant sue a Police Officer in civil court that that is a nonstarter she said the bottom line this president believes that most Police Officers are good and well there is an executive order now being drafted what it would do is really address police for form but not particularly address the systemic racism that many allege is occurring in Police Forces around the United States can be how kit with the latest from the white house can really think you. A statue of Christopher Columbus in the u. S. City of richmond has become the latest to be torn down by protesters demonstrators used ropes to drag the effigy off its pedestal before setting it on fire and throwing it into a lake the monument was toppled less than 2 hours after the demonstrators had gathered chanting for it to go activists then vandalized the foundation that once held the statue. The mayor of london has called for an investigation after a british musician shared a video of his father being tasered by police. The rapper known as wretch 32. 00 posted this clip on twitter it shows a 62 year old father tumbling down stairs at his north london home after an officer warns he has a taser the rapper whose real name is germane scott says there has been no progress in the fight against Police Brutality. Watch them fight against Police Brutality my whole life of 35 no one was through here again today and i now have to have the same conversations that my dad and my home who are my grandparents and my peers had with me when i was a child. I mean theres no progression. A senior British Health expert says the u. K. s coronavirus to 3 to could have been high if the lockdown had been brought in a week earlier former government adviser Neil Ferguson was giving evidence to m. P. s. Those. Who were. So how did we interview. The kind of magic that we carry on with that i find that with the hoff. So a lot i think the measure of given what we know about this but you about this darn thing and its competition that. Were born with and the. Second get in the call and said we have every interview. With this in any event. Or a challenge has more on this story from westminster. It was professor Neil Fergusons study for Imperial College that actually shocks the governments into imposing the lockdown late in march when he said that if the government did nothing then 250000 people would die hes not an uncontroversial figure though he had to resign from his government advisory position after it emerged that he had broken the law down himself to go and visit his romantic partner but he is still an influential figure and when he speaks people listen certainly journalists have theyve picked up on what he said earlier in the day and pressed Prime MinisterBoris Johnson about it at the press conference this afternoon and we can hear now what Boris Johnsons response was we made the decisions at the time on the guidance of sage including professor ferguson that we thought were right for this for this country and i think that the you know the questions that are posed are still unanswered and theres a lot of data that we still frankly do not have and i think youd be you know i know you want me to go to cast judgment on now on everything that happened in the in the months are gone by i just think that is the course that moment will come in of course weve got to learn lessons but i you know i just think that it is at this stage premature the still too much that we dont know for a stance and also announced the latest easing of lockdown measures saying that as of monday all shops can open zoos can start reopening and as of this weekend People Living by themselves or those raising families by themselves can start forming support bubbles that is they can form a connection with one other household lightening the load really of this sink recently long and drawn out coronavirus period. Its good wittily now another country hit hard by the coronavirus for the Prime Minister does it because he is said to be questioned by prosecutors on friday over the handling of the pandemic the prosecutors are looking in particular at why a red zone was not enforced in february around the towns of name bottle and. Regional officials and the government blame each other for the failure if he was europes 1st coronavirus at the center and has recorded over 34000 deaths. Moscows Health Department says 5260 people died from covert 1000 in the city last month thats far higher than the 1895 reported by russias Coronavirus CrisisResponse Center over the course of made officials attribute the spike to a change in the way corona virus that serves certified russia has recorded the 3rd highest number of cases in the world after the United States and brazil but its relatively low number of deaths just over 6000 have raised questions the spite this Small Schools mayor is pushing ahead with the easing restrictions in the city. A group of parents from around the world have finally been able to cuddle and collect their babies who were born to surrogate mothers in ukraine 125 surrogate babies were stuck there after the country closed its borders because of coronavirus more than 100 couples asked ukraines human rights on woman to facilitate their entry despite the restrictions 31 couples have now arrived to collect their infants the new parents had to spend 2 weeks in foreign teams before they were allowed to meet them. We have to stay out the rules. We couldnt go even outside of st louis and leave the very people to our families share and simply leave chris 3. Remains of their appearance where he goes from being. A very good ending and of the story unbelievable. Still to come in this half hour claims of. A South African Police attempt to enforce coronavirus restrictions and scores caravan the latest string of village attacks. Cerium. How it got more lovely warm sunshine across eastern parts of europe pushing up into that western side of russia quite a rash of showers there to central parts of these areas of low pressure rumbling and then we got some more wet weather just waiting in the wings and thats going to swing in from the atlantic as we go on through the next couple of days so well see that increasingly wet and windy just around the press peninsula pushing into that western side of france through the by of biscay Northern Areas a spy or to seeing some rather lively showers temperatures will pick up a little for london getting up to around 20 celsius as we go through thursday off maybe quite a rash of showers rolling in from the north sea in the process this system will swirl its way a little further east which as we go through friday heavy rain coming back into central parts of france and that what weather also affecting southern areas of england and wales meanwhile is the Central Europe will see some showers dances southern poland pushing down towards rumania some heavy downpours here further north generally dry and pharma some showers making the whites was most go for to catch a cow a shower it could be on the lively sides though the parts of africa stay fine and dry because the showers across the heart of africa on into the gulf of guinea some very wet weather pushing its way across west africa now all the way through liberia and sierra leone. For many years so i kept my promise to see. Every time find and to extremism is man send both a. Speed. Bump you dont believe that we were supposed to be top of that weve got to be really hard started to race for. The farmer to have car. Looking in the mirror to confront the past exit the witness documentary on. The on the the in. A reminder now of the top stories on our 0 George Floyds brother has urged politicians to pass reforms on Police Brutality and quote stop the pain felonious floyd testified before the House Judiciary Committee on capitol hill telling members that his brothers death will not be in vain and the Minneapolis Police department is breaking off talks with the state police union the departments chief says its part of plan reforms in the wake of george fords that. And the senior British Health expert says the u. K. Coronavirus test toll could have been cut in half if lockdown measures had been implemented one week earlier britains Prime Minister says that the citizens made war based on scientific advice. The world is facing its worst peacetime recession in a tree thats according to the organization for Economic Cooperation and development the Global Economy is predicted to shrink by at least 6 percent in 2020 because of the coronavirus lockdowns and the o. E. C. D. Says the fallout will be even worse if there is a 2nd wave of the pandemic. Security forces in south africa are being accused of using Excessive Force while implementing coronavirus lockdown measures they were legibly killed at least 6 people from the military ports now from johannesburg. Try to curb the spread of coronavirus so africa imposed one of the strictest lockdowns in the world along with it came the deployment of the police and army and accusations of the abuse of power. In mobile footage this man is forced to hop by a soldier after being found outside his home. Locked on restrictions only allow people to leave their homes for food medicine and essential services. A must was allegedly shot and killed by security personnel working with police at his home in a forceless on johannesburgs east rand his cousin and tom baker you say omar says he was seized who was shot behind this burglar gate during a police raid in the area. Because he says says the officer forced his way into the yard after a confrontation with people seems to at the front gate he carry on came inside got to the yard area i locked my cousin inside the verandah. He wasnt come front to be he wasnt taking him he literally pulled a gun on somebody he was just. There is a. 2 houses away simpy says during the same raid we police kicked in his door and shot him twice with rubber coated steel bullets last month the High Court Ordered an end to police and Army Brutality saying torture or degrading punishment must stop it came off to another man collins course died after allegedly being beaten by Security Forces. Both deaths are under investigation in the case of collins causa a preliminary report says the army did nothing wrong while a Security Officer has been charged with the murder of secrecy so a most dozens of complaints against the military including you. Excessive force physical abuse murder and brutality an independent body which monitors police abuse has registered 39. 00 cases with accusations that at least 6 people were killed by police 2 months after the coronavirus lockdown began soldiers and police are still on the streets despite the easing of restrictions and for many a call to having to compel Security Forces to respect the rights of people has been just as shocking as the violence itself from aljazeera johannesburg. The has begun a week of mourning following the death of president pierre. Citizens visited the president ial palace to pay their respects and sign a condolence book a government statement says he had a heart attack on monday but there is speculation he may have had coronavirus including caesars wife or allegedly was recovering from covert 19 and i wrote the hospital flew back to her on tuesday. At least 35. 00 people have been killed in Northern Nigeria gunmen on motorbikes attacked a village in Katsina State it came hours after the killing of at least 69. 00 people in borno state then a jerry m. Government has blamed the bandits for the attacks violence from boko haram and armed groups in the area has killed thousands of people and displaced about 2000000 how many dress says more now from the butcher. The attacks in cuts in the state is seen as an escalation in the balance which would been seen in the north west of nigeria in states like them for us to. Cut in a status of niger stayed where dozens of people have been killed or hundreds of people have been killed in the past 2 months in that region elsewhere in North East Nigeria would seem book stepping up attacks on Rural Communities especially isolated communities the latest being the attack on a community in local government area a loss of 100 kilometers from the regional capital a degree nearly 70 people have been killed in that attack because the fighters who are boko haram members allied to the Islamic State in west Africa Province accuse them of collaborating with the military and launching even attacks on their own fighters so went into town shock people and run them over with cause motorcycles in that area weve seen this is part of a wider conflict in the lake chad region countries like. Nigeria and cameroon come one by the way for the 2nd time roni occupying the most whose conflicts have been neglected by the International Community the media and even going as it is dealing with 3 major problems 1st of all the refugee crisis in Central African area especially from central of current problems and its also suffering its all in attacks or top suffering attacks from book or other then there is the conflict between Security Forces and separatists in parts of. Republic which has created a lot of refugees in those countries. The head of the uns Human Rights Commission says the surrender of a sudanese militia leader is extremely significant. Faces war crime charges at the International Criminal court relation to the conflict in darfur between 20022004 up 2300000 people were killed and 2700000 driven from their homes ousted sudanese president omar bashir is also wanted by the i. C. C. For his role in the darfur conflict. And the sudanese Anticorruption Committee has frozen a bank account to be longing to Omar Al Bashir has also closed the 5 Foreign Exchange bureaus used to fund his former regime but here was given a 2 year sentence in the center for corruption he also faces trials and investigations over the killing of protesters last year. Russian authorities have detained 3 top managers of an arctic power plant that leaked about 21000 tons of diesel fuel into an environmentally fragile late if found guilty they may face up to 5 years in prison that is aster started at the end of may when a fuel storage tank failed ecologists say the spill will cause extensive damage the regions governor is accusing local officials of the liberally downplaying the accident. Swedish prosecutors say they know who killed former Prime Minister all of parliament ending decades of mystery bomb that was shot on a busy stockholm street in 1986 the suspect has since died ending the investigation but as for recent reports the locking away of files looks unlikely to give the country closure. For 34 years the memorial to murdered Prime Minister of palmer has been the most solid thing about a case that has haunted sweden a man both loved and hated at home and abroad parliament was shot and killed on stockholms busiest street as he walked with his wife liz but palmer had been to the cinema with his family without a body guard a decision that would end in one of the biggest and longest murder investigations in the world and all of palmer and his wife left the cinema at about quarter past 11 on the night of 28 the february 1906 walking past the churchyard where parliament would soon be buried when they got to this corner someone came up behind them shot palma in the back leaving the Prime Minister dying on the ground. The murder scene was immediately contaminated by mourners laying flowers one of a string of mistakes that cut the chances of finding the killer this man christa pettish on was convicted in 1909 but cleared the same year on wednesday swedens prosecutor coincidentally also called chris to petition announced a new chief suspect steve angstrom previously a witness known as the scandi amount because of the Insurance Company where he worked and who opposed palmas socialist policies and storm killed himself 20 years ago to counter the call were told to move on im a louis dor an offer we cant open proceedings or interview him so my decision is to close the investigation as the suspect is deceased the naming of angstrom still without any physical evidence linking him to a murder weapon appears to put to bed the international leads investigation had followed those included the Kurdistan Workers Party after the killings of defectors in sweden led palmer to declare them a terrorist organization. Well in the 1990 s. South african intelligence agents said their colleagues had been behind the Prime Ministers murder following palmas support for the African National congress and condemnation of the Apartheid Regime swedish journalist thomas partition named angstrom as the likely suspect in a book in 2017 glad that they come to the same conclusion as i did that he is the killer most internationally if one famous politicizing of parliament and. Some kind of symbol for. Perhaps the best of sweden and this. Has been tormenting us all of parliament was thats most unusual of swedish Prime Ministers one who had an impact outside his own country his anti colonial and anti racist views made him a fierce critic of global superpowers while at home he raised taxes to fund the welfare state and welcomed immigrants those policies may have put him into the grave in which is lain for more than 3 decades the love that many swedes have for him is enjoyed but as the case is closed it looks likely that the Unanswered Questions will enjoy as well paul reese aljazeera stock. And now a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera George Floyds brother has urged the u. S. Politicians to pass reforms on Police Brutality and quote stop the pale philonous floyd to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on capitol hill he told members of congress to make sure that his brothers death will not be in vain george floyd died in Police Custody sparking weeks of protests across the u. S. And around the world the Committee Said it was answering protesters calls for a fundamental change in the culture of Law Enforcement. Im here. To make it stop stop the pain stop us being tired join us call for help he was that note please listen to the make its now so the cause of our family and the calls ringing out the streets across the world people of all backgrounds and race have come together. On it him. George. Necessary changes they make Law Enforcement the solution. Not the problem meanwhile the Minneapolis Police department is breaking off talks with the state police union as part of planned reforms its police chief says the Union Contract needs to be restructured to provide more transparency. A statue of Christopher Columbus in the u. S. City of richmond has become the latest to be torn down by protesters them strangers used ropes to drag the statue off its pedestal before setting it on fire and throwing it into a lake. A senior British Health expert says the u. K. s coronavirus theft toll would have been cut in half if lockdown measures had been implemented a week earlier britains Prime Minister says the decision made the decisions made were based on the scientific advice available at the time. And the world is facing its worst peacetime recession in a sentry thats according to the organisation for Economic Cooperation and development the Global Economy is predicted to shrink by at least 6 percent in 2028 because of the lockdowns these are the headlines the stream is next to asking how you can be an ally in the black lives matter that. 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