Calling for justice is still going strong well President Trump appears to be backing down on his threat to the point the military against the. Former defense secretary jim mattis accuses donald trump of trying to divide america and denounces what he calls a militarized response to the protests. Also ahead an about turn from a top of the me ologist to admit service we should have done more to curb the pandemic. And after more than a week of protests calling for justice for a black man who died while being arrested all 4 officers have been charged George Floyds death triggered mass demonstrations across the United States and around the world and they show no sign of letting up this was the scene in new york just a couple of hours ago for days. Protesters have been demanding an end to what they say is systemic racism and then chairman who held his knee against floyds neck well he now faces an a grade challenge of 2nd degree murder and 3 other officers have been accused of aiding and abett
A court ban protesters in australia say they are running for Racial Justice and an end to aboriginal deaths in Police Custody. The fear is that perus hospitals are running out of oxygen for coronavirus patients the president orders plans to ramp up production. And france says its killed the leader of al qaeda in north africa in an operation in mali. A growing number of Us Police Departments are enforcing changes to their tactics in the wake of George Floyds death the city of minneapolis where he was killed is Burning Police chokeholds and will require officers who see colleagues using improper force to step in and stop them as well as banning chokeholds new york state plans to classify false race based calls to Emergency Services as a hate crime and california will stop training its officers to use a type of restraint that killed george floyd across this country we train techniques on strangleholds. That put peoples lives a risk now we can argue that these are used as exceptions but at
Unemployment rate falls raising hope for an economic recovery from the coronavirus lockdown but the news isnt all good and fears that perus hospitals are running out of oxygen for cover 1000 patients the president orders factories to ramp up production. Thank you for joining us libyas un recognized Government Forces are continuing their advance east ward says a push warlord 25 task forces from the west of the country they say they are now in full control of the town of bani walid which is 180 kilometers away from the capital tripoli their next target is a city of sirte which was more market off hes home town on friday they seized control of the nearby city of tal hona all o. T. For have to have been using it as a non for his offensive on tripoli a day earlier government for. Says said they did regain full control of the capital have task forces still hold however large swathes of territory in the east and south of libya lets bring in our correspondent in tripoli mahmud abdel wahab mahm
Concerned about the threat of violence many want to if they can be free and fast. And want to thank 2 phase of kevin 19 have fun times. In the indian accents on aljazeera. See. September 26th seen nearly 2 months before but then president ial candidate donald trump selection president barack obama spoke at the Un General Assembly via address this hall as president for the final time. Let me recounts the progress that weve made a quarter century after the end of the cold. The world is by many measures less violent and more prosperous than ever before. But with millions of people displaced worldwide. Unresolved conflicts from yemen. To syria iraq and afghanistan an armed groups like he sold on al qaida launching attacks against civilians was president obamas speech too optimistic. His top u. N. Diplomat at the time was ambassador Samantha Power who was responsible for securing International Consensus on a variety of pressing issues of the Security Council and general assembly. Im james b
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