A Police Officer has been charged with the murder of george floyd. The case has triggered protests across the country including in new york korea demonstrators demand justice for prosthetic terms of police brutality. And in spain where the coronavirus pandemic has forced an extra 1000000 people out of work the government unveils its plan for a minimum income. Hello thanks for joining us the u. S. President donald trump has accused the Chinese Government of breaking its word on hong kongs autonomy as beijing imposes new National Security legislation on the territory describing it as a tragedy for the world in response to the crackdown on prodemocracy protesters trump has directed his administration to end preferential u. S. Treatment for the city and trade and travel he also announced the suspension of entry of foreign nationals from china identified by the u. S. Security risks and hes terminating the u. S. Relationship with the World Health Organization over its handling of the corona virus saying it had essentially become a puppet of china. We will take action to revoke con kangs preferential treatment as a separate customs and travel territory from the rest of china the United States will also take this is serious steps to sanction p. R. C. And hong kong officials directly or indirectly involved in a roading hong kongs entente to me and so and just if you take a look smothering absolutely smothering hong kongs freedom our actions will be strong our actions will be meaningful lets talk about all of this so the White House CorrespondentKimberly Houk its a 1st on the World Health Organization companies saying the u. S. Is terminating their relationship with the organization what more are we learning how is this going to work. Well 1st of all theres going to be a lot of criticism given the fact that this is happening in the midst of a pandemic but we did see it coming the funding was suspended in early april we knew there was a review underway and there were a set of demands now the argument being made by the target ministration is that the World Health Organization did not meet those demands in other words it did not make the reforms that were in essence a little bit vague but it essentially the argument is that you didnt do what we asked you to do so were pulling the funding and were going to redirect it the Top Administration says to other global Health Organizations this is a big problem because the United States is the number one contributor for nationally to the World Health Organization it gives roughly 450000000 according to the u. S. President as he spoke in the rose garden making this announcement but essentially what the problem is for the u. S. President is that he believes that essentially the World Health Organization has been more focused on simply protecting china not doing what it is designed to do and that is to prepare the world for a Global Health emergency that it now faces so thats the accusation coming from donald trump we should point out that there have been many Global Health experts that say the world hort Health Organization was living up to its commitments still we have heard from the u. S. President making this announcement the rose garden that it has terminated funding something that we also should point out really is the control of congress so expect that when congress is back in full session that there may be pushback an attempt to undo this and in that same announcements in the rose garden he announced a raft of measures against china and hong kong officials. Yeah and if misha when you hear this ending the special relationship against or for hong kong sounds a little bit counterintuitive why is the United States ending a special relationship the benefits hong kong while still saying that youre with the prodemocracy protesters what this means is that the position of the United States is that well the special relationship was designed for hong kong as the secretary of state said earlier this week hong kong is no longer being controlled by hong kong its being controlled by china so the special relationship status that it was enjoying is really benefiting what the United States sees as its adversary and that is china so it is being revote what this means is that some of the special privileges that hong kong was enjoying whether its commercial trade whether its extradition treaties that is no longer going to be a separate category now hong kong all being seen as one and in addition in this announcement the rose garden u. S. President also saying that some visas for chinese nationals coming to study here in the United States potentially universities are working with militaries a very small percentage of those also being revoked because its long been an accusation of u. S. Intelligence and this administration those are being abused and that what really is happening is that chinese intelligence agencies are using and manipulating those students in order to get secrets from the United States in terms of research and other scientific advancement so some very hard hitting actions coming from the trumpet miss for stray ssion with respect to china today is there something to be said about the timing of all of this camberley i mean why is he announcing all of this now. So glad you asked this question its an Election Year number one number 2 a panic in terms of the pandemic here in the United States criticism for the way that the u. S. President has handled that now hes hitting back we know this is a president that likes to counterpunch and wants to sort of transfer blame from himself and his administration in terms of what many have said is the mishandling of the pandemic initially in order to point the finger so thats why we see this pointing of the finger at china why we see the pointing of the finger at the World Health Organization donald trump is not accepting responsibility for the fact that there are 100000 deaths in the United States from coronavirus its dead he is transferring that to china saying you didnt warn us youre not showing transparency in the origins of the virus and the World Health Organization you were too slow in declaring a Global Pandemic that is why this president is doing it when it comes to timing this is all about politics and a u. S. Election where this president is trying to win reelection in november all right kimberly thank you very much for that update from just outside the white house where the president says that hes spoken with the family of a black man who died in minneapolis ofter being taken into Police Custody so the minneapolis Police Officer who kneeled on the neck of george floyd who was unarmed has not been charged with his murder derek 12 and handed himself into Police Officer 3 days of violent protests over the death of george floyd the entrance to a Police Station in minneapolis was set on fire by demonstrators angry over the deaths while or assume looting and vandalism has been seen across the city john hendren reports from chicago. It is what protesters across the u. S. Have been demanding the officer who held his knee on George Floyds neck has been arrested for mayhaps free sausage or chop and has been charged by the head of the county Attorneys Office with murder and with manslaughter as minneapolis st still smoldering following a 3rd night of riots the student governor is hoping the news will calm the violence in the streets minneapolis and st paul are on fire the fire still smoldering our streets the ashes are symbolic of decades and generations of a pain of anguish unheard. Much like we failed to hear george floyd as he pleaded for his life as the world watched it is my expectation that justice for the officers involved in this will be swift that it will come in a timely manner that it will be fair that is what weve asked for governor tim wants also called the arrest of a black c. N. N. Journalist and his crew early friday by state Police Officers unacceptable i take full responsibility there is absolutely no reason Something Like this should happen calls were made immediately this is a very public apology to that team it should not happen i failed you last night and that in minneapolis riot police stand ready to confront a community that feels its been betrayed National Guard soldiers have also arrived in the city requested by a mayor who is under pressure to bring the violence under control. This was a Police Station in flames on thursday night and anger directed at those who swear to serve and protect escalated not far away more burning shops looting and violence. Protests have spread across the u. S. In denver demonstrators echoed the demand for justice already heard in new york and los angeles anger over the treatment of africanamericans by the police is not new but right now it is very wrong. In louisville in kentucky the death of george floyd has reopened old wounds with protesters demanding justice for an africanamerican woman who was shot dead by police 2 months ago. It is this video of the last moment of George Floyds life a Police Officer nearly on his neck that is driving the outrage President Trump has weighed in calling the protesters thugs and suggesting National Guard troops shoot looters the republican president also to game against the citys democratic mayor mayor jacob fry fired back donald trump knows nothing about the strength of minneapolis we are strong as hell is this a difficult time period yes but you better be damn sure that were going to get through this as the protests and George Floyds name continue to grow the leaders of major cities across the u. S. Are hoping that promises of swift justice will be enough to calm tensions john hendren here. Allison herreras a journalist in minneapolis she spoke to aljazeera earlier on describe the mood in the city. People were cleaning up were going blasts a lot of people were boarding up their windows along eastlake street so you know people are really good lawyers are really angry and people are still really scared i was at a corner of 29th and lake street just earlier and there was there was heavy minister of state patrol presence a woman was you know confronting them and and yelling at them that you know they were out here protecting you know that she expected the same kind of protection for her son you know her nephew that they were doing to businesses on main street so definitely a sense of anger a sense of just raw emotion right now in the city you have to remember were in the middle of a pandemic you know where theres been over 100000 deaths related to covered 1000 here in the country people are feeling i think thats just added adds to the sense of. You know urgency and and and fear here so this city has a history of you know racially charged conflicts between the police and people in the community and this is just the Tipping Point isnt something that they feel like something needs needs to be done thats what im hearing from a lot of people on the streets today well Police Across the u. S. Have condemned the actions of the 4 officers in minneapolis over the death of george floyd but its just the latest in a series of deaths of unarmed black man at the hands of u. S. Police gave those reports starts with the pictures of the incident which led to George Floyds death. The scenes of george fully handcuffed being choked to death by a Police Officer has led to outrage within the insular tight ranks of the Law Enforcement community there was unusually quick condemnation on social media a new York Police Detective said the officer involved brought dishonor to the profession we take over to serve and protect and would like to see that that was the fear and on both things other Police Officers had equally pointed words its time that we take these bad also as a speech out of gas and Start Holding them accountable and hold them to the same laws that we expect systems to abide by and i hope justice prevails and i hope those people are found to be guilty of murder because thats what i was. Second i want to say. And weve got to change this weve got to break these barriers in these walls and weve got to do what we can as Police Officers the Bigger Picture is how the killing of florida is going to complicate police work throughout america already many black communities are distrustful of Law Enforcement this is only going to make it worse when you see. What should be a routine apprehension become a de facto execution it is it is extremely and so we watch. And former new York Police Detective keith taylor says there are systematic issues of race that need to be addressed makes it more difficult for officers interests simply trying to do their job. The fact that these. Negative incidents that occur do get publicized really brings to the forefront how important it is to address the inequities that occur in our criminal Justice System an incident that has left many Police Officers just as outraged as the people they are sworn to serve and protect many wanting answers and justice gabriels on doe aljazeera new york lets bring in Christina Roth shes the Senior Program officer for criminal justice at Amnesty International usa says joining us from washington thanks for your time with us on the aljazeera news hour and were just learning from official records that the officer who had his knee on George Floyds neck had it on his back for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in total and then 2 minutes and 53 seconds of this was was after floyd was actually nonresponsive when you hear this what do you think. Its incredibly upsetting news and thank you again for having me on tonight i think. We witnessed these sorts of killings and you know for context there are a 1000 people that are killed by police in the u. S. Every year and so many of those people will never hear their name has there wont be stories written about them or videos to exactly show what happened in those last moments of their lives its incredibly upsetting and i was particularly disappointed to learn as i heard reported by m s n b c that the officer actually likely work but this are exploiting new him in fact its clear theyre from watching the this video and the other videos that have come to light that there amount of force that was used was unnecessary and its the a great just that he maintain force that amount of time and that his fellow officers did nothing to stop them now that the officer has been charged as you know with 3rd degree murder does it make a difference is this a positive stuff or a to answering peoples concerns in your concerns Amnesty International you know i think given the amount of attention this is drawn i am not surprised that there have been charges or. By the pressure that that that killed george lloyd i i hope to see. The prosecuting attorney whether that is continues to be a District Attorney or an independent prosecutor is appointed as are calling on the governor do you to consider all of the options in their tool box. And also consider you know everyone that was involved as well. And youre saying youre calling out the president for some of the tweets that hes posted as a result of whats happening and in minnesota whats your biggest concern there. Well i think in this moment its clear that people are responding to not just this incident but particularly the idea that as you as you stated we all watched for 8 minutes this mans struggle for his lives for help and say similar words that we heard just a few years ago out of there garner and those plays what listen to and what comes out of the mouth of the president of the United States were out of his keyboard i should say is looting and shooting and i think you know particularly the clips that you played earlier that there are Law Enforcement that are also deeply concerned about whats happening here you know 1st the context as i said earlier its a good step in the right direction that there has been charges brought against the officer principally accountable for the death of mr floyd but that said in these cases typically only about one percent of cases are prosecuted and officers are convicted so im not holding my breath right now just because these charges or that communit