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This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. appeals for calm after a fourth night of violence in the us city of minneapolis following the death of george floyd, a black american, in police custody. a former police officer is charged with murder and the pentagon puts the us military on high alert. anger has spread across america. a state of emergency is declared in georgia. atlantas mayor calls for an end to rioting. you are disgracing our city. you are ...

Here in boston. protesters are asking that those cases be reopened, re—examined and that awareness is brought to the fore about black people who have been killed by boston police in the past few weeks. we have been hearing in other places that protests are planning to continue over the weekend. any sense of what is happening in their? is it dying down or people still coming out? i do not know of any other protests planned beyond this one. tomorrow, the mayor of boston is calling a visual for p...

I am going to ask my photographer to move out of the way of the vehicle that is coming through. as you can see, still a very active situation here. police, the national guard, and firefighters have been overwhelmed by the number of protesters who have been out here. so its a nonstop process trying to extinguish these fires and try and get the situation under control. what is happening in minneapolis is really happening in cities across the us right now. and law enforcement and firefighters just ...

This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the first commercially—built rocket to carry astronauts into space has lifted off from florida. appeals for calm after a fourth night of violence in the us city of minneapolis following the death of george floyd, an african—american in police custody. a former police officer is charged with murder and the pentagon puts the us military on high alert. the situation in minneapolis is no longer in any way abou...

Streets. youre throwing knives at our police officers. you are burning cars. you have defaced the cnn building. ted turner started cnn in atlanta 40 years ago because he believed in who we are as a city. there was a black reporter who was arrested on camera this morning who works for cnn, they are telling our stories. and you are disgracing their building. this is not the legacy of civil rights in america. this is chaos and were buying into it. this wont change anything. were no longer talking a...

Fires stretched across the city. i want to go back to cnns josh campbell on the ground for us in minneapolis. josh, were going on day five of the protests right now. things where you are right now, they look calm, but what are people bracing for during the course of this day into the evening? >> yeah, wolf, what theyre bracing for is what weve seen the last two nights. and that is destruction thats come from some of these protests. you can see this is just happening right now as weve gone on the...

Unions and other political actors. the biggest corporations in the city, if they demanded the politicians do something about it, it would man ovhappen overnight. if they demanded it, it would happen. if the political leadership recognized that this is something that needed to be done and black lives were as important as white lives, something would have been done. and when there is sort of a desire to get things done in this country, the forces can come together quite quickly. but time and time ...

Intelligence community. this seems a little too orchestrated to be randomly, you know, -- random protest going on across the nation i think there has to be investigation into this eventually. but, immediately we have to have the protection of the rights of the people in these cities so they dont continue to be violated by these rioters. pete: quickly, we dont have much time left, what should law enforcement do to prevent a repeat of this scene tonight? >> they are going to have to come out in fo...

To resume behind closed doors include football, rugby and cricket. the uk government insists that it continues to be led by science over the next stages of the easing of lockdown measures, after concerns were raised by some leading scientists appeals for calm after a fourth night of violence in the us city of minneapolis, following the death of george floyd, a black american in police custody. a former police officer is charged with murder and the pentagon puts the us military on high alert. spo...

These are very good people, but they are angry. the 29th one dealing with black folks, these thugs are dishonoring the memory of george floyd, wont let that happen. just spoke to the governor. the military is with us all the way. what was the difference there? >> yeah. the armed white folks in michigan and you had black folks who werent necessarily armed in minnesota. >> yeah. kendis, im not surprised. the president is very clear on who he is. people have to stop reacting to him. hes told us who...