A defiant stand in hong kong where thousands of people ignore a ban to mark 31 years since the Tiananmen Square massacre. Also libyas new and recognized government says its taking complete control of the capital after months of fighting against warlord Khalifa Haftar. For more than a week the mood has been one of anger now the u. S. Is moving to one of remembrance for the black american man who died after a policeman knelt on his neck people are gathering around the country to pay tribute to george floyd the main focus is minneapolis where the 46 year old was killed 10 days ago is just after one in the afternoon there where a memorial is just getting underway in the North Central university as you can see Family Friends and civil rights leaders are all there. So thank you so much for your cooperation and god bless you. This is Brooklyn New York the home of floyds brother terence a Memorial Ceremony has been going on. For just over an hour now. We have correspondents across the u. S. Kristen salumi in brooklyn who obviously is with a large group of new yorkers who have been slowly gathering through the day to really remember george floyd a poignant time and time to reflect these past 10 days. Absolutely a huge crowd has come out today we are expecting to hear from tasteful the brother of george bush who started this movement when he died at the hands of Minnesota Police officers. Big big crowd waiting to hear from also the mayor of new york. Dealing with the coronavirus and then also a massive protest movement i wanted to do see to someone that hamilton is here and shes been attending a lot of the demonstrations how many of you been to and whats brought one and what. Needed to be said needed to be done and im just happy that we could do it peacefully id give a lot of. Id like rather nicely for people young people black people white people to feel like this is making a good catch if they can if you want to you always. When we get back its when we feel. Ok and there has been looting happening at night the mayors come under some pressure because of. That. Isnt taking away from the movie anyway of course its taken away from the movie this is not about doing this is about making our voices heard. Stopping something thats been going on for say years and so we can come out make a change make a difference in unity and peacefully. So thats why im out here as well what would you like to see happen as a result of all this outpouring of emotion but are there any concrete things that you think could be done to see change. Everything but across the board just for a select few it should be every one wrong doing this to put out so when you do wrong you have consequences so thats one issue not doing anything then there should be anything to worry about here the issues that i dont want to see and. A few protests and then it dies out i want to see something change and things moving forward but this is a great beginning and you can see its peaceful and im looking forward to the change how do you think the citys handled demonstrators so far are you happy with the response of the mare and the police to high as far as that is concerned in a different. The situation whats it like this 3 months ago but i believe that theyre doing the best they can and the circumstances that we are in right now can it be done better i dont know but as long as were moving forward to progress and understanding that that together is where the change comes from one of our Police Officers 3 of them were attacked randomly not having to do necessarily with the officers who were randomly attacked have any sympathy for them or any not least a part time and very sympathetic to human life it doesnt matter who it is and so who we are here the lower put lawyers for us to obey and we cant just think best. That we should get permanent that im totally against that because it takes away happening and. Being hurt were praying for their. Families so one cant fathom. That thank you so much for taking time to talk to us to do that so again he was just a crowd hed heard chanting george boyds name earlier and. Waiting for the mayor to come and take the podium now again as. A situation of protesters on the streets persecuted in place and demonstrators going to continue past curfew through the weekend to keep this message to the right bob. Thanks very much kristen sleep in new york lets go back to minneapolis to the trust school and Worship Center. Central university and just listen in to the service that is beginning. This. Run. Lets bring in our correspondent john hendren whos outside the sunset the North Central universe and john obviously the proceedings beginning the full that Memorial Service we are expecting several people to speak and think about the day has been made hes focused on the the University Campus that people gathered to remember George Miller and. Thats right were waiting for the family and youre now but theres already a crowd of hundreds of people who have gathered outside people who havent been invited people who by and large dont know george personally but who came to pay their respects many of them are the people who have been marching and demonstrating in the streets here in minneapolis and there is such a demand to remember this man that symbol that this is really just the 1st of a number of Memorial Services on saturday there will be one in the state of his birth in North Carolina on monday there will be one in the town he was formerly living in that used in texas where on tuesday there will also be a funeral and we can expect the reverend al sharpton who will be presiding over this Service Today to say what he said yesterday and that is he wants to turn this moment into a movement so that the protests that began when george floyd died last monday. Shouldnt and theyre saying that instead they should continue across the country even though theyve gotten charges filed against all 4 of the officers that were involved in his arrest 3 1 of them getting 2nd degree murder and the other 3 aiding and abetting 2nd degree murder that was a demand from the family before this memorial took place they wanted that to happen and we can also expect to hear about floyd the man hes daughter his 6 year old daughter giana will be here and other family members probably his brother terence and theyll be talking about 3 him probably as being d in recent days as a gentle giant man 2 meters tall who was. Churchgoing. Man and. So there will be a little mixture of talk about him as a person as a symbol that pretty much everyone involved in their service has already said they want to serve as a symbol and this movement in the streets across the u. S. Goes on well john for them because who checking back in with you as the service progresses thats just listening to a little bit more of whats being sung. For. The gospel choir the singing of the trust quote of Worship Center will be joining them again later through the new south. The short time ago the u. S. Attorney general william ball spoken to a News Conference in washington d. C. He says although a large number of protest is peaceful there are some who are exploiting the unrest at some demonstrations there are extremist agitators who are the hijacking the protests to pursue their own separate and violent agenda. We have evidence that n. T. For another similar extremist groups as well as actors of a variety of different political persuasions have been involved in instigating and participating in the violent activity and we are also seeing foreign actors playing all sides to exacerbate the violence. Is an attorney who helped oversee new Police Policies and training up to the death of Freddie Gray Baltimore joyce we know via skype from baltimore in maryland could have you back on the program mr butler the pictures that were seeing now from minneapolis just to get your reaction really to what youll see in there to what you experienced in baltimore in the way that the community now. You might say getting around the florida family and around the community of minneapolis well i think theyre very similar in the response i mean the odds were quick and pretty immediate to work we perceived to be Inhumane Treatment of pretty grave and the Baltimore CityPolice Department back to 2016 full week you clearly see with george floyd in minneapolis i think thats primarily the difference and responses least the large your response you see is that the nation is seeing that the in the main treatment 9 minutes of mr floyd and i think thats why you see probably more lingering are protesting in and an arrest that we did back here in baltimore were seeing an elevation of the charges against the Police Officers involved its enough to put placate a very angry American Public at the moment. Oh i think its a great start i dont think its going to be enough no not yet arent we because of what we all fortunately witnessed are through social media and other outlets because theyre not that video we didnt see that were were pretty gray and we didnt have that access to a lot of the other unfortunate killings that emerged weve seen i think thats the difference here with floyd that we can see it with your pleas of bystanders asking the police r. C. Take some action sometimes you do something but they neglected to do so and i think thats why you see the outrage it is similar to that of the Civil Rights Movement in the. Methods they use the reason why they were using this word to show that if we act dont react and maintain our past year but you can see the response from those who are against us in the end the inhumane acts with dogs and fire hoses and police out experience is why you saw a court for the Civil Rights Movement in the sixtys and fiftys and sixtys and why you see the large your International Support for the protests as a result of the murder of george were indeed the pictures that were seeing i think are the reverend Jesse Jackson is also in attendance there along with reverend al sharpton you know after the Memorial Service as we have a difficult funeral to to go through as well im sure for americans and then the talk of reform but under underpins what will be a very Lengthy Court case im sure and reform is the big issue isnt aware reform starts does it start with the Police Forces does it start with the politicians does it start with the Supreme Court and legislation or the constitution this is a really complex norio that those in power have to try and navigate these next few months because the Africanamerican Community want change and they need it now. Agreed that its going to come from all of those sources and it does work. I think what youve seen is in recent years is that the power of the vote a lot of those jurisdictions where you saw that people were being mistreated by their Police Forces using the city leadership change in those stores dictions i think you can see and you see that now as we go through outlets and cycle here in the states that youll see people so out and express their just displeasure with those in power with our vote so i think its a combination of Law Enforcement working with local and federal state and federal leaders as well to make sure that our horses are heard and that not only just from now americans i think we cant do it alone but think what youve seen across the country now is a unified more diverse crowd of people and people who are making their voice heard in support of this type of change so i think thats one of the going to one of the other things different from what we saw here in baltimore is that theres more but you know you know front of people who are expressing their outrage to the inhumane way in which George Forbes from your experience of the freddie gray death and what happened to you in baltimore what changes were you able to make either individually or as part of a group that that either how the police force or helped the community or helped change legislation can you just fill our International Viewers it on on what you were able to do and how long it actually took to do it. Well i think one of the 1st things we did was to educate the folks here in the city so one of the things we did. Do a number of different justice organizations were to train people on what their rights work how do. We hate a police stop you start a number of organizations targeting our members of the community who are actively involved in that process an educational process you also saw are a large effort to teach people how to organize and how to express your words and so i think what were seeing now are about 5 years later some of those people who were educated and became active in your hall just as i have been doing so consistently since. Ear which is why you see a different response from baltimore now were going to in the year not just in baltimore were off the country but there are some young eagles specifically who came of age by music dont work now young adult and leading some of these efforts throughout the country and so i think that education that i think of you know their voice for themselves and for the community is what its like youre in the works why you see the response you see today and of course when you talk about what the community can do and how the community can change also we have to talk about the position of the police because as we head towards the court case weve been mentioning this for several days no the term qualified immunity is something a loophole perhaps one could describe it as often used in Court Cases InvolvingPolice Officers who have been involved incidents like this where they use it as part of their defense to say that they felt they were in danger is being criticized at the highest level by Justice Sonia sotomayor and ive been asking contributors to our jazeera over the last few days what their opinion is about this qualified immunity and how this term got to go in part of the reforms that may be needed to see justice for people who end up in scenarios like this. And i think thats our mis term its up its fine its in the application of of the concept so i think of Law Enforcement officers should have some immunity based on doing to and acting within the scope of their job so i think the difference becomes is using it as dispensed when you acted outside the scope of your job so if you look at the murder of george floyd even and in an interview a few days ago the police chief there in minneapolis indicated that those who participated and were complicit in weis to watch it happen were complicit in the actual murder itself and therefore thats why they moved so it was a bass guitars initially and it upgrades its arms to the primary officer and then later the other officers were involved because of that as a result of that complicity to an illegal act that was outside the scope of their employment they would not be allowed to use a car and unity defense are going to try but i think that they would fail but i think that the problem with the policy is not the other concept is not what it stands for but how its been implemented and so as long as people think they can use that as a shield all of their behavior while theyre on the job at think is incorrect i think the message youre starting to see in other jurisdictions now as you see in entries in prosecutions is that you you are starting to see that it wont you wont be there bill yourself on that call i mean the defense if you act outside of your role and responsibilities and the scope of your employment as a Law Enforcement officer will sell in time for the moment to reflect on the life of george floyd and to me buckley thanks so much for joining us from baltimore thank you for having me. On todays other news the one in hong kong thousands defied the ban to attend a vigil in memory of the victims of the 1990 elements square massacre its the 1st time in 3 decades the memorials been banned sparking anger from organized this you say its another crackdown on the citys freedoms 7 oclock reports from hong kong. Victoria park had been sealed off but that didnt deter the crowds thousands defying a police plan to pay their respects to those who lost their lives fighting for democracy in beijings tenement square they chanted slogans like free home told some calling for independence from my man child but most who joined this years candlelight vigil were here to mark the massacre on june 4th 1989 holding a one minute silence the fight for democracy has lost it for you know well over 31 years and its important that we all stand together now organizers of the annual memorials say the Police Enforcement of social distancing rules are a cover to clamp down on democracy on call now as in going to a new iraq they want to rule by fear and to and ban or are they going to threaten and i think this is very much worried about the future a little more than 3000 police were deployed across the city to enforce the ban some broods were set up to mock the military crackdown allowing the people of hong kong to honor the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre the annual vigil in hong kong is one of the only memorials held on chinese territory to mark a chapter in chinese history that the government in beijing with the 30 picket the mainland has suppressed no mention of the channel mathcad but hong kongs unique status as a specia