Voting on a bill that would criminalize mockery of the Chinese National anthem on the anniversary of the chinaman square massacre. And the coronavirus death tolls on both brazil and mexico saw twin new daily high. All 4 Police Officers involved in the arrest of george floyd have now been charged over his death 3 of them are accused of aiding and abetting murder while the officers see kneeling on for its neck has had charges against him escalated to 2nd degree murder many out on the streets say the charges are proof that the movement can deliver results while others say its just the beginning john hendren reports from minneapolis. For the crowds filling the streets here and across the u. S. Is showing their demands are being heard in the men who complain the charges the charges former Minneapolis Police officer dear child and with murder in the 2nd degree or the death of george floored for officer derek chauvelin who was seen with his new Young George Floyd neck the charge was increased
A ban on gatherings to hold a mass vigil on this the 31st anniversary of the chinaman square massacre. And as the United Nations marks World Environment Day activists warn that billions of protective masks are expected to end up in the worlds oceans and seems. Im going to richardson welcome to the show in minneapolis minnesota thousands of people have come together to remember the life of george floyd it is the 1st of 3 planned Memorial Service says for the africanamerican man who died in Police Custody last month mourners at the ceremony started for a total of 8 minutes and 46 seconds thats the amount of time that the Police Officer held his knee on floyds neck. Adding to a criminal complaint that time has become of potent symbol of Police Brutality in the days since floyds death with protesters using it as a way to honor him. Well veteran civil rights activist the reverend al sharpton led the service and delivered a fiery eulogy lets take a listen to what he had to say you know much
Monday weve got quite a bit of cloud just along that the coast of oman tend to push further south as we head through choose that it might just produce one or 2 coastal showers that we nothing more than that and this is a time which is sticking really in the to mid thirtys celsius that we had down into Southern Africa if you will for calls across into madagascar and certainly today one of the next few days you could see very warm still in johannesburg by cheese or we could just see even a scattered thunderstorm here and you notice the rains remain quite heavy and quite wise but through much of central and southern goa and that cat extend you cross into namibia as we head over into tuesday. The weather sponsored. Every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories joined the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media when the Intelligence Services control much of egyptian media it becomes an extension of the arm of the president and focus on how they would go out on the s
Organizations under their command and finding a meditative way through the news some. Nice and peaceful its important to push my bullet yet im in Square Hong Kong yoga coming to a mat near you the protests started small but escalated quickly social media can have that effect then came the security crackdown across iraq including the use of live ammunition more than 100 protesters have been killed as many as 6000 wounded and a number of news outlets have been attacked since the u. S. Led invasion in 2003 journalists have usually attributed under arrest on the streets of iraq to sectarianism the divide between primarily shia and sunni muslims they cant do that this time iraqi protesters are demanding an overhaul of the political system a system known as. Which has played on sectarian divides to carve up the spoils of war torn but Oil Rich Iraq so that most of the wealth gets circulated amongst the political elite and not nearly enough trickles down to ordinary iraqis thats what these dem
Governments Main Administrative Office building that was set on fire only only moments ago at least 30 people we can confirm have been arrested in connection to that fire but if theres anything that we can safely say is that these demonstrations this i or this anger on the streets is only intensifying here in quito lord and in that context i mean some reports that talks might start between classes in the government is that is that likely. Thats the big question still on friday the i could go in president letting what i know had it take it had. Put out a statement on National Television saying that he was calling on Indigenous Leaders to speak with him directly to find a solution to the crisis calling for a national a National Dialogue but there is a split eating among Indigenous Leaders and the people that were speaking to here on the street say that they have no intention. Of going into talks with the president this started as a protest against a National Policy change that was removi