C this practice is still going strong across the u. S. As the secretary of defense says he is against deploying the military to quell demonstrations. And poll race in gothenburg sweden which has become the 1st country in the world to use drones to save the lives of victims of cardiac arrest. So now after more than a week of protests calling for justice for a black man who died while being arrested all 4 officers have now been charged George Floyds death triggered mass demonstrations right across the United States and around the world and showing no sign of letting up this was a scene outside the white house in washington in washington d. C. Just a few minutes ago for days protesters have been demanding an end to what they say is systemic racism who held his knee against floridas neck now faces an upgraded charge of 2nd degree murder 3 other officers have been accused of aiding and abetting murder. George floyd mattered he was loved his family was important his life had value and we will seek justice for him and for you and we will find it the very fact that we have filed these charges means that we believe in them but what i do not believe is that one successful prosecution can rectify the hurt and loss that so many people feel the solution to that pain will be slow and difficult work of constructing justice and fairness in our society. Well this is George Floyds family lawyer and hes acknowledged the new challenges but says that justice will not be achieved until the office is convicted she evertons in washington d. C. Will be speaking to him in just a moment lets start with 100 in minneapolis where the challenges have just been revealed. People were furiously demanding that these charges be upgraded as it were to tell us what theyre saying now that this is happening. Well you can see them talking right behind me back there is the george floyd memorial and as i walk im going to walk along a list of names those are the names of people who have died at the hands of police here and elsewhere over the last 10 years but that crowd behind me is somewhat uplifted because one of their initial goals has been met and that was they wanted all 4 officers to face serious charges and Derrick Chauvin and usually faced a 3rd degree murder charge which is pretty serious but now that has been upgraded to 2nd degree murder and essentially the difference between that is a maximum sentence of 25 years or a maximum sentence of 40 years and i talked to a number of people who said theyre satisfied that shows that people have been listening to what theyve had to say but that is just an initial step what they want beyond that is an end to the kind of systematic racism that they say Police Across the u. S. Have been engaging in and thats why these names are so important the names of people who have died most of them africanamericans at the hands of the police and you can see that spirits are high here but. There is a sense of progress but people are not youre saying thats why we should end approach to these protests and saying thats why the protests need to go on because theyve shown some results so there is a sense of of happiness that something is happen. Here but they say this is just the beginning or just a beginning to. The original demolished wants for these challenges to be increased and to spread across all 4 of them but where else would the demands go what do they want to see happen. Well what they want to see is systematic reform among police all across the United States everywhere where all these protests are occurring in chicago in los angeles in new york in ferguson is eerie in florida all of the places where this is happened and just to illustrate this i mean they are still painting new names on this list which goes back about 100 meters or so and what theyre looking for is just an end to the situation in which young africanamericans die at the hands of police in confrontations that at least according to the protesters weve talked to probably would not have happened had those people been white our journey would have amounted thanks very much indeed thats a picture in minneapolis lets send it over to washington d. C. To roads near the white house where she every time she is standing by she had 90 is full and since we spoke our things are going down then our. Time is following the pattern that weve seen on previous evenings things are dissipating here under the protests i mean this is by far the largest protest weve seen since since the protests began here in washington on friday thousands upon thousands several groups have now gotten better and ways some to continue the protests or coffee doesnt begin to hear and for our i mean what weve seen in previous evenings is that they you know some group center of the capitol hill of the north d and the thing is going to dissipate a small group of these yesterday the policy was a small group was allowed to stay here if you wasnt really enforced and it wasnt in force elsewhere actually frankly around the capitol so that there seemed to be this kind of nice like with a broom which is arrest. Huge control stood up on monday as we know the National Guards and police were cracking down on every one thats changed but the reason the fascinating thing there is this is the most heavily militarized policing that weve had since the since it all began yesterday that was a very hands off approach today it was full on military units policing us all today with all of the carry is uniformed personnel often sometimes without any identifying insignia as its paramilitary as well im vats its that thats got members of the past and current defense establishment rather concerned the use of the military on the streets of d. C. Now but also dull chums constant threats to invoke the insurrection act to take federal control of the National Guard in states overriding governess. To potentially deploy active military professional soldiers on the streets of the states hes already doing that here in d. C. Because we dont have a governor who can pretty much do whatever he wants and hes already threatening us to within an hour away basically has acted with a tree with with bennett super you can be on the streets of d. C. To Police People on the streets in washington d. C. But thats what the defense establishment very concerning concerns 1st of all we had mark s. But the defense secretary on tuesday night distancing himself from the photo opportunity at the church behind me. Saying oh i didnt know there was a photo opportunity which of course was preceded by the National Guard just cracking down on peaceful protest is that he was struggling a bit on wednesday morning when you said well actually i did kind of know there was a photo opportunity and you were going to the church why didnt it as a photo opportunity but then he gave a speech a few hours leza way said he was quite unequivocal he just said look this idea of the insurrection act is not something hes in favor of. Ive always believed and continue to believe that the National Guard is best suited for performing Domestic Support to civil authorities and the situations in support of local Law Enforcement. I say this not only as secretary defense but also as a former soldier and a former member of the National Guard the option to use active duty forces in a Law Enforcement role should only be used as a matter of last resort and only in the most urgent and dire of situations we are not in one of those situations now. I do not support invoking the insurrection act. So that straw im getting criticized by is the current defense secretary and me want a full bit of inspectors waiting to. Write to damascus now as he waited in the last few hours with an interview with the advantage and hes pretty scathing he says donald trump is the 1st president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American People does not even pretend to try instead he tries to divide us were witnessing the consequences of 3 years of this deliberate effort he goes on to defend the thousands of protesters on the streets he says we must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our constitution and then perhaps most startling lee he starts talking about nazi germany and talking about how the nazis tried to divide and rule germany clearly making an inference with donald trump thats not something you hear very often and Polite Company between a defense secretary and former defense secretary is president but we should be very clear about whats happening here this is about the defense establishment being concerned about the use of the military on the streets of the United States not concerned about the militarization of the United States but if these defense secretary have decided over billions of dollars of military equipment going from the pentagon to local Police Forces which is a the local police have been studies on this National Academy of sciences knows where basically little military units in themselves are routine police work down valls armored personnel carriers and the latest out of the out pentagon technology. And weve also seen how thats disproportionately affects black communities and leads to injury and death these defense secretaries are the ones who oversaw all those programs but the suggestion seems to be look this isnt part of the plan. We militarize the police but we draw the line there that actually theyre also using the actual military on the streets of United States that appears to be what theyre saying right now thats what seems to be the last straw all right she had thanks very much indeed that she returns you there close to the white house washington d. C. Lets whip over to the west coast of america this is l. A. Is los angeles an aerial view of mass protests there everything pretty peaceful there to as it has been around most of the cities the United States where the press is taking place and on the ground here you can see people just marching on the streets Holding Placards again its all very peaceful and weve also seen pictures previously from similar sort of scenes going on there people making their case but doing it in a peaceful manner. Well a fatty a soft meister is a professor of law at the university of Dayton School of law in ohio and he explains why its tough to get a Police Officer convicted in the state of minnesota. Very difficult to get a criminal charge very difficult to actually convict a Police Officer specially of 2nd degree murder so the next steps are going to be the actual process the reading of the charge to advise the individual their rights and then youre going to have the motion process where theyre going to say theyre going to challenge theyre going to suppress ability to close all these motions all these collimator a matter is that you have to do well far before you get to trial so i think in the end United States many jurors are more inclined to give Police Officers the benefit of the doubt and like maybe they would give an average us citizen where they think that a Police Officer is putting himself or herself in harms way so lets give this individual the benefit of the doubt which they dont necessarily do for other other cool defendants and many times also to Police Officers dont have a record so you cant use someones record against them if they were to testify but it is a it is a it is a high hurdle today theyve only had they theyve tried to prosecute in the state of minnesota 3 Police Officers for the crime of murder and theyve only got one conviction so far well for us president barack obama has addressed the crisis brought about by the death of george floyd he says the people of color have witnessed too much violence and call for progress on plans for for us i want to speak directly to the young men and women of color in this country. Who has planned this so eloquently described have witnessed too much violence and too much. And too often some of the violence has come. From folks who were supposed to be serving and protect you. I want you to know that you matter i want you to know that your lives matter but your dreams matter. Lets head now from Derrick Johnson whos president of the National Association for the advancement of colored people that c n p and he says the new challenges will satisfy many but there are still many issues affecting the black community. But i think we now start a process that should have started to be good. We had a dish good turning in that county who held the whole system hostage he said to the hostage at the base and nation hostage so im glad now that the state attorney general has been given the ability to step in we will see the process evolve. Charges can be increased if more information is provided what the very minimum was starting the process to administer justice for the ford family and i think thats the most important thing we should keep focused on busting this staff. Creates a functional role for people to begin to slowly retreat from the protests as it relates to this case now there may be other protests taking place around larger issues that are not national in scope to feed so we have a lot of restlessness across the country you have a lot of people who are experiencing economic insecurity the health pandemic. Has to be a bit a space where people have a lot of pent up energy and so the question is how can we funnel that in energy to november but then that will a see people understand that many issues that confront communities today is based on Public Policy punk state and credible and the way to address that is address those who are sitting in elected office and many of those individuals are on the ballot and november. Well thousands of people have gathered in london in solidarity with protesters in the United States to say theyre also marching against systemic racism in britain and Mass Gatherings are still banned under the u. K. s coronavirus restrictions but the Prime Minister johnson said he understood the anger after George Floyds death and supported their right to protest i said baker was at the rally in london and says the protestors are also drawing attention to the racism in the u. K. Several 1000 people have turned up to show their support and solidarity for whats taking place in the United States but for people not just about whats happening in United States about its about the racial inequalities here in the United Kingdom that people are more likely to be stopped and searched theres been a number of deaths in Police Custody of people also just mark duggan who was shot and killed by police in 2011 like 2 riots have been same. Thing just no justice no peace turned up at downing street which is the residence of the Prime Minister part of johnson said that he understood the anger and grief but not only that you like to see the world and in the unprecedented move Police Chiefs said that they are told that the death of george floyd and of asked for justice in the United States also acknowledged that more needs to be done in this country to tackle racism and hundreds of people in the german city of frankfurt came out to express their outrage over the killing of george floyd many held signs in support of social Justice Groups and chanted against racism. And in south Africa Solidarity protest was held outside cape towns parliament to protest also showing support for the global black lives matter movements they call for action against Police Brutality at. But it was still ahead including. And did not one less of thousands that defy the law down in argentina to protest against femicide. The search continues 13 years on police say they have a new suspect in the case of the missing Madeleine Mccann. So hong kongs legislature is set to vote on a controversial bill that would make it a crime to disrespect the Chinese National anthem despite widespread opposition probe aging politicians dominating the Legislative Council are expected to approve the law once passed those who misuse or insult the anthem could be sentenced up to 3 years in prison the bacon coincides with the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown and acts of its plan to defy a police ban to hold a vigil on the victims lets speak to across when katrina you joins us from beijing katrina tell us more about why the vigil has been cancelled in hong kong and whats been the reaction there. Well the government says its because of coronavirus reasons that the epidemic is far from over and it would be simply irresponsible to allow so many people tens of thousands potentially hundreds of thousands of people together in one spot Victoria Park where its normally held at such close proximity but of course the other side of this is that the mormons the Hong Kong Government and chinese chinas Central Government a current