A diet dies at the age of 55 just weeks before he was due to step down also this hour emergency crews in india battling a fire at an oil facility say it will take 4 weeks to get it under control and after 34 years of mystery and conspiracy theories swedens prosecutor names a suspect in a matter of Prime Minister orloff. And obviously with all the sports news as Roger Federer says hell miss the rest of the year because of surgery and professional boxing returns to the ring in the United States for the 1st saw him since the coronavirus stoppage. Thank you very much for joining us more than 2 weeks after his death while being arrested george floyd has been barrys in a Funeral Service in his hometown of Houston Texas floyd was hailed by family and friends as an ordinary man transformed fades into the cornerstone of a movement his killing target protests across the u. S. And iran the world against racism and Police Brutality john hendren reports from houston. George floyds tragic journey ends in a Houston Cemetery but across the u. S. The movement he inspired continues a montage of demonstrations in floyds name plate is his funeral displays his legacy and inspires a call to action from civil rights leaders god took to reject its salt and made him the cornerstone of a movement as quote saved the whole wide work friends and family remember the man they knew is perry or big floyd and mormonism umbrella. And. Im the. Only one. And. I think god forgive me give me my own personal superman this is not just murder. Now thats all i have. Right. To come home baby you should have good its not much but its the life of the man who died beneath a policemans need was celebrated by members of congress and a president ial candidate who spoke directly to floyds daughter giana now is the time for Racial Justice thats the answer must give to our children when they ask why. Because when there is justice for george florida. Then she said she. Changed the world the funeral followed memorial in minneapolis in North Carolina and a viewing in houston attended by thousands who remembered his final words i cant breathe in the weeks months years after these people have left this. Is someone who transformed the world blessed by what he did was done to him some who didnt make the invitation list inside said they were outside because theyre concerned about the next generation. So when you hear stories. About mr floyd. George floyd was buried next to his mother in the place he once called home. And is going to always remember. He left behind children a family and a movement they hope will end the pattern of unarmed African Americans dying at the hands of police John Hendren Al Jazeera houston. And Seattle Washington state hundreds of protesters streamed into the city hall to stage a syrian they were allowed in by the city council. There demanding the resignation of the mayor and that the police force be defunded theres anger after offices use pepper spray on protesters at the weekend after the mayor and police chief had banned the use of tear gas a peaceful protests across the u. S. Have continued including in minneapolis where george foley died the city council there as ordered officers to stop using chokeholds and is working on restructuring the whole Place Department given it is on the web with was with demonstrators in new york. These are truly extraordinary scenes of thousands of protesters that are right now walking over the Brooklyn Bridge theyre doing it on or of black lives matter and also drawn to the life of george florey these are protesters that are quiet obviously very very peaceful and theyre really sending a message a message to new york a message to the United States and they say a message to the world that they will continue to fight for justice for george floyd and black lives matter theyre also fighting over the last 2 weeks here in new york for a justice of people that have been victims of Police Brutality by the new York Police Department and on tuesday 2 things happened one is a new York Police Department officer was. Sure with assault for pushing a peaceful protest or in the very early weeks of the protest in new york and also new york state lawmakers have voted for a series of bills that would in theory make the n. Y. P. D. More accountable but what youre seeing here is very much a message a message that is being sent that they want justice and they will not leave until they get it. The protests against george ford staff in the u. S. Fox demonstrations against racism and Police Brutality around the world was at a rally in senegal capital de kock were on the most Western Point of africa. Facing the Atlantic Ocean on the other side is the United States of america its by here by ship then men women and children were shipped out as slaves this is a place of memorial and this is where people have gathered to protest Police Brutality and to pay tribute to george floyd now in normal circumstances a protest like this would not take place this is a state of emergency because of the outbreak and yet authorities here have allowed this protest to take place because they feel that whats happening globally has in effect a resonance to many senegalese here Police Arrest meant every kind of racism at all levels happens to any black person in the western world so i think it is about time in 2020 that it stops and then we fully recognize a just human beings and citizen of this here because this is the year of return where west african countries are inviting africanamericans who want to come to come and visit this region not only that to resettle in the last year 750000 africanamericans have visited this area many of them choosing to actually settle here ghana is offering them special status among the protesters here some of them have a message to those africanamericans the United States who want to move away from Police Brutality and racism that they face in their country. Welcome home. Welcome home come back you know youre welcome this is your country where your people. We need you here you have your place we love you. The toppling of statues of men responsible for slavery or for calling a zation responsible for the killings of millions of people in africa has been welcomed by many here governments here have been asking museums in the west for years to return artifacts that has been looted on the african continent and so its part of a Greater Movement of people wanting to reclaim the history too often ignored. In other world news brandys president. Has died at the age of 55 just weeks before he was due to step down from office a government statement says he had a heart attack but this speculation he may have been infected with covert 19. 15 year rule was marked by Political Violence and a withdrawal from the International Criminal court for malcolm webb is monitoring developments from neighboring kenya for us he joins us now live from nairobi tell us 1st about the regional reactions to these as death and what more are we learning about this sudden death malcolm. As you mentioned one of the things that were hearing from burundi and elsewhere is that they suspect that peer on currencies a might have been the 1st leader in the world to die from cope with 19 the government says he died of a heart attack but its a few things worth considering here 10 days ago about 10 days ago his wife denise and her in these are flew here to kenyas capital nairobi seeking medical treatment for what the government said was an undisclosed reason but its been widely reported here in kenyas press that shes been suffering from coded 19 citing sources from the hospital where shes seeking treatment the Foreign Ministry through the ministry of health has denied that now pm grins either himself famously played football almost every day at a pitch in belgium bora now it was his unit widely known to be fairly athletic thats why its surprising some people that he should die all of a sudden 55 years old from a heart attack and now in burundi on currency that and his government have been widely criticized for having no policies at all to try and stem the spread of the coronavirus over the last month there have been election campaigns where thousands of people gathered at rallies large sporting events werent canceled and although the countrys only officially registered just over 80 cases a lot of doctors and Health Experts say that while the government denying that theres a pandemic or urging the room indians to fight the virus with religious faith that there is actually a growing crisis there and this also comes amid further on confirmed reports that there are other senior people within the government who are also suffering from coded 19 Marcum Pierre posies it was you just step down in a few weeks he was of course a man a word was feared and he lived in burundi what will burundians remember most remembered him most for ed also where does the country go from here. What will the indians remember him words for and hes got to remember that in burundi its very difficult for people to speak freely about him or about anyone thats empowered but following a sort of deterioration of the political space and growing accuse ations of rights abuses political killings torture and repression of all dissenting voices a lot of opposition activists journalists have fled there in exile from where they can speak relatively freely and if you speak to almost any of those people theyll say that pierre in currencies or has brought a political crisis to burundi that really turned for the worst 5 years ago when he announced he was going to stand for a 3rd term which many people believed and said was against the constitution people took to the streets and that was meant met with a violent crackdown and weve seen a closing of the political space there ever since and he does have a successor who was he was announced the winner of that controversial election last month ever received. But according to the constitution its actually the speaker of the General Assembly who should take over when in the case that the head of state dies there waiting to find out if the president in waiting or the Assembly Leader will be the one to take the reins but in this context there are a lot of lack of political space and widespread rights abuses a lot of those people who are able to speak freely say that this isnt a very safe or stable political environment at all thank you very much for that markham way of life for us there in nairobi. Now the head of the u. N. Human Rights Commission has said that the surrender of a sudanese militia leader is extremely significant. Faces war crimes at the International Criminal court relating to a conflict in darfur alph islamist president omar bashir is also wanted by the i. C. C. For the for his role in the darfur conflict and just a day after a crusade surrender sudans military has closed all roads and entrances leading to a tech quarters in khartoum morgan has more from their home in the capital shes unable to leave because of those actions by Security Forces. Legal shape was very much part of the former ruling party and the former ruling party has repeatedly showed that it still has supporters on the ground that they have various protests against her of all the overthrow of former president ahmed bush here the fact that he was taken to court and tried for corruption on the ground and there were concerns that those supporters who supported former president ahmed rashid and his aides and members of his party and his militias and military will come out and staged protests so what the military that was in late last night was a block of all main roads that lead to the Army Headquarters as well as make sure that they control who would be able to cross bridges that would eventually lead them to the Army Headquarters now they are concerned that they will indeed be processed because i recall she was a member of their former ruling party was he was employed or rather recruited by the military and by the whole ruling party rather to curb the rebellion and therefore and that earned him. Arrest warrants for work crimes and crimes against humanity and there was an illusion of the force of it all concerned that people would come out not only because he surrendered himself as the i. C. C. Said but because they are now concerned that other people involved will also be targeted by the i. C. C. Including former president ahmed wish here who has an arrest an arrest warrant issued against. Egypts ethiopia and sudan have agreed to resume talks on a controversial dam project there in dispute over ethiopias grand renaissance dam its under construction on the blue nile that flows into the nile river ethiopia hopes of pull itself out of poverty by producing and exporting electric power but egypt is it will be deprived of water also dimes water minister says it held a Virtual Meeting to talk about what to do next. Doing questions were discussed during the meeting 1st what were the steps needed to conclude talks just secondly what are the key contested issues that remain disputed the meeting was held in a positive atmosphere and discussions were productive plenty more ahead on this news hour including men whove been honored for decades face of reckoning as calls grow in europe to remove statues of people willing to stay very and colonialists in the past how the real cost of coronavirus in yemen is being hidden from the world and in sport one of germanys biggest clubs has been on guard against a small crowd from the noah divisions hell be here with all the action. At. The u. S. Embassy in libya has raised concern over the military ask escalation in sirte its warned the fighting could cause another humanitarian crisis in the Oil Rich Nation forces loyal to the u. N. Recognize government are trying to push out war latif have to fight as my leg china has more from grain about 140 kilometers west of say. The u. S. Embassy in libya expressed concern over the humanitarian crisis thats developing in the city of sirte they say that the continue escalation will only add to the humanitarian crisis to the city to the civilian suffering of the city and that this could possibly be taken advantage of by extremist actors now sir was previously controlled by i saw in 2016 its important to note that the american the americans were involved and were cooperating with Government Forces here when they took control of the city and eliminated the groups foothold in libya military sources here tell us that theyve received a risk of support from tripoli and the western and western libya. This this is and this is to help continue their advance in the city of sirte now on the political level were seeing more and more countries call for the warring parties in libya to sit on the on the negotiating table and come up with a ceasefire of the Government Forces here government officials and military officials tell us that they feel let down by the International Community because they didnt stop after the advance in tripoli they allowed him to continue on in tripoli they didnt do anything about it so they feel a little bit let down and they say now that only now when they are on the advance and are continuing on that the government that the International Community is deciding to get more deeply involved. To india now where a large fire caused by a gas leak in some state has now been confined to a smaller area but it may still take at least 25 days to bring the situation under control the braes began after gas that had been leaking from a state oil facility for to wreak suddenly ignited on tuesday local media reporting 2 firefighters have died the indian army has been called in to help lets bring in Elizabeth Brown im in new delhi for us live bring us up to speed with the latest on on you know what theyre doing to contain this fire and also i imagine investigation theyre going to be a lot of questions as to why this was able to happen when the gas leak started about 2 weeks ago before the fire. And 2 weeks since it started we are still seeing pictures of the massive fire continuing to huge plumes of smoke even though the chief minister has said that the fire has been contained to a 50 meter radius around the gas well but the file is continuing because its being fed by the gas from the well or the India Limited said that the fire broke out at a clearing operation at the gas well on tuesday they have not been them to stop the gas leak theyve brought in experts from singapore and those experts who said that it would take around 4 weeks to get the situation under control in the meantime there has been a lot of damage to the surrounding areas which ecologically sensitive and a 1000 more than a 1000 people were evacuated off of the gas leak started 2 weeks ago and since the fire broke out 24 hours ago thats more than 6000 people who have been evacuated people have been upset because this gas condensation from the leak that has covered residential areas and National Park nearby schools damaged to brosnans to wetlands to wat