A record surge in coronavirus cases but that isnt stopping the government from lifting restrictions its. Ok lets just get right up to date with whats going on there youre seeing live pictures coming to us of hoost and in texas the Memorial Service opened up for george floyd who of course lost his life 2 weeks and one day ago the punctuation mark to the run up to this memorial of course was the events taking place in the American Capital city of washington d. C. Specifically on capitol hill where we saw a clutch of u. S. House democrats taking the niece socalled for precisely the same amount of time as it took for george floyd to be pinned to the ground. And act. That cost him his life on the part of the policeman who is going to appear very shortly. In court in another American City u. S. House members paying tribute to george floyd ahead of the unveiling of legislation that Congress Hopes will change the way Police Departments operate the members paused for 8 minutes 46 seconds as we were saying the same period of time floyd was pinned to the ground by that Police Officer with a need to his neck the democrats are proposing legislation that if approved would make it easier to prosecute miss conduct natasha can and will join us live from minneapolis shortly where the key suspect in floyds murder is expected to make his 1st Court Appearance 1st lets cross to our White House Correspondent kimberly health kit who joins us in washington so kimberly this is all about the Police Reform bill within the prism of american politics there in washington will it get president ial assent i mean will it actually become statute will it become law. Its a very slow process right now it obviously has the support of the House Democrats who control that chamber and are unveiling the legislation some republicans have signaled in that chamber they would support it but there are questions about what happens when it gets to the chamber of the Upper Chamber of the set it that is controlled by republicans and whether this president a republican president would side it now House Democrats have been very clear that they want to build on the momentum of those protests weve seen nationwide for weeks that they believe that its time to end a number of controversy or Police Practices whether it be racial profiling whether be chokeholds or whether its been the need to create a National Registry to identify bad cops these are all the ideas that are embodied in this legislation as it was unveiled by House Speaker nancy pelosi she said why they were doing it and for whom let us my colleague chefs go over some of those names of martyrdom George Floyd Jackson davis grant so sad Briana Taylor on our very bottom John Terrence cloture the lando. Castle freddy gray walter scott to me or rice Michael Brown eric garner Trayvon Martin my colleagues any other names you want to. Let me leave you. Thank you we cannot settle for anything less than transformative structural change and kimberly just to be clear when they have this debate about defunding Certain Police forces does that just mean that they take a chunk of money they skim it off the top of the budget and give it to all the causes of the community causes or all the actually talking about taking away the entire budget from Certain Police forces and therefore in effect disbanding Police Forces. Depends on the community but it could be both of those things that it really is control of local city mayors local Police Chiefs and really the will of the people of the community because this is a country with very strong states rights and also the local rights what were hearing from the House Speaker nancy pelosi is a proposal for the federal Law Enforcement its hoped that by changing there that the change will trickle down but youre absolutely right this is the challenge for the local communities and in the midst of all of this what we have is a u. S. President seizing on this essentially calling for the steve funding of police saying that this is the radical left as he called it in a tweet essentially sort of yielding to the most extreme wings of the Democratic Party the u. S. President saying this year has seen the lowest crime numbers in our countrys recorded history and now the radical left democrats want to defined it abandon our police sorry i want law and order so were seeing the battle lines drawn already for this november election the u. S. President for his part will be at 900 g. M. T. Meeting with Law Enforcement what hes really saying the campaign also saying is that the democrats are in calling for the defining of the police creating chaos that is an absurd idea and whats really needed to address these Police Practices or even institutionalized racism restoring the confidence of communities of color and policing is for there to be better training but again that is not the feeling of democrats ok kimberly will leave it there thanks very much john hendren is outside the church in houston where that Memorial Service is being held today so john were expecting some pretty compelling images from inside that church behind you. Thats right the 1st group of 50 mourners has entered the building through those doors you see behind me just. Asked the 2 hearses and george floyd was brought in in the farthest hearse right now you may see a crowd over my shoulder thats because the governor of texas greg abbott has made an appearance here were not seeing a lot of politicians showing up here so that has drawn some attention and the group the mourners go in 15 at a time and they stay for a period of up to 10 minutes so over the course of the 6 hours at this memorial is open that means more than 500 people could get the opportunity to stream past the open casket of george floyd and we expect some of those people to be people who are known floyd throughout his life he was raised here in houston but others will likely be people who are just inspired by his example and by by this story of how his death has launched this National Movement across the United States this is the 3rd of 4 ceremonies there was a Memorial Service in minneapolis on thursday which i attended and then there was a memorial in the state of his birth North Carolina this is really the end of the journey here because this is a viewing today and then on tuesday there will be a Memorial Service and at that Memorial Service at the reverend al sharpton will speak and so will Benjamin Crump the civil rights leader were also told that after meeting with his family with floyd family today that joe biden the former Vice President and current president ial candidate will be leaving a video for people to see so there have been many opportunities for people to pay their respects to george floyd this is the program for today. Really on the back is just a message of thanks to those people who are coming here to pay their respects and so john if we look forward. To family and friends turning the page because tomorrow is the formal Funeral Service then. Thats right tomorrow is the big day and weve been given very Little Information except for those 3 names that i just gave you the information that was sent out to the press says that no more speakers or guests will be disclosed before the event happens itself so there could be some surprises we wonder whether there will be more leaders from the Civil Rights Community there possibly some politicians as i mentioned youve got the governor out here now but the when those politicians come they really have to be a little careful particularly the go white politicians who have not historically been members of the Civil Rights Movement because they can be subject to allegations that theyre appropriating the culture of this movement which is something that obviously is not a good look for many of them but al sharpton is likely to call on making this movement extended thats what he did in minneapolis when he said he wanted to make this moment a movement of Benjamin Crump talked also in similar terms sharpton saying america is essentially at its collective neck on the on the need rather on the neck of black america for 400 years and hes calling for an end to that and for the kind of policing practices that we have seen john thank you very much ok lets cross now going to whos in minneapolis minnesota thats what director of in the Police Officer charged with 2nd degree murder in the death of george floyd will make his 1st Court Appearance soon natasha what more do we know about the film officer derrick cho been and the case against him. Peter you can see the bank of cameras behind be poised they hope to get any glimpse of 44 year old former minneapolis Police Officer derrick shogun and his attorneys i suspect they will probably take a back entrance into the courthouse his preliminary hearing his 1st Court Appearance since he was arrested begins in about 45 minutes the 44 year old was almost a 20 year veteran of the minneapolis total east department and during that time he had 18 Police Misconduct claims filed against him however in only 2 of those cases was he disciplined and in those cases he was reprimanded show been is now facing an Additional Charge and upgraded charge of 2nd degree murder when the Minnesota Attorney general took over the case last week he did upgrade the charge in the claim against cho then he says that officers in the Minneapolis Police department were trained they knew that restraining someone in their face down and handcuffed is quote inherently dangerous and that the manner in which floyd floyd was restrained by cho been almost 9 minutes on the ground almost 3 of them after he was unresponsive quote it is quote contributing a substantial contributing factor in his death according to the complaint floyd was calm he was not resisting arrest but he had told Police Officers on the scene that he was claustrophobic and he felt afraid to get into the back of the squad car and despite repeated pleas with the 4 officers on the scene that he couldnt breathe he was ignored natasha thanks very much. Lets move on and wrap up some other top stories for you to libya now where there was a surprise move from the leadership of one of its warring a ministrations giller salah the speaker of the parliament based and broke in the east as arrived in moscow for talks he was seen in egypt at the weekend where his ally the warlord after announced a cease fire which was rejected by the un recognized government in tripoli our correspondent in tripoli had brings us up to date russia has been all was arranging with turkey in many areas in the middle east including libya so russia now as a backup of the world for have to could be looking into. Other personalities to have. Participation from the eastern camp led by again the speaker of the to. Parliament in any are possible peace talks in the in the future now i get to himself why i give us the his being. Hosted by the russians why i get asylum could be a possible alternative for have that just because a good listener himself he proposed a plan to shuffle the Presidency Council to be only one president and 2 of the beauties representing the 3 libyan regions he proposed that plan a few months ago and also that has been taken into consideration the plan was taken into consideration within the latest peace deal proposal of of the by the egyptian president of the fact there has sisi. Still to come here on aljazeera another country reopens its economy traffic jams are on the way back to the indonesians capital. How welcomes another look at the International Focus it stays dry across the middle east not great surprises its quiet we have got a little bit of cloud into that western side of saudi arabia but i think it should stay fine and dry pleasantly warm around the eastern side of the mediterranean temperatures here into the mid to high twentys but you push in latin it is as though someones got that had dry blasting away temperatures getting up to 46 celsius in baghdad horses still in kuwait 48 celsius to 42 there in doha winds will ease around the gulf as we go on through wednesday northerly wind picking those temperatures back to around 36 celsius but still plenty warm enough and also want to see showers into Western Areas of yemen they join up with the showers that we have on the other side of the red say they extend their way across the heart of africa and on into the gulf of guinea so some big alive the showers continuing across west africa have started to see those rains not a little further north with guinea seeing some very heavy showers showers pushing up into southern parts of mali as well for good measure south of that it is lousy dry plenty of sunshine across Southern Africa we have got some rain in the forecast that rain will make its way towards the western cape as we go on through chews day cape town with a top temperature of 21 celsius as the rain starts to roll in. 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Congress is presenting legislation that changed the Police Department operates if passed the law would make it easier to prosecute cases of misconduct leveled at the police. With her story joining us here on aljazeera is tommy shes one of 2 cofounders of the peoples Justice Project which led the black lives Matter Movement in Columbus Ohio she is currently the lead organizer of the juvenile Justice Coalition joining us live from Columbus Tommy welcome to aljazeera the politics of this 1st please the legislation as proposed by the democrats is that enough i think its a good 1st start and so. What gives me hope right now is that people are immediately sitting down thinking about what policies can be shape and form to address the is ever dimmick of byrons across our nation and across the world defunding Police Forces whether they lose all their money or some of the money that decision will apparently be taken at a local level is that why because if you get certain towns or areas or cities in effect doing away with the police force the alternative. There are so many other our turn to police. And let me be clear we can wake up tomorrow and say there are Nuclear Leaks across the world or in this country but if you think about the history of police and how police started what we do know is that police were former slave drove. And policing as we know it came out of slavery and after the civil war again. And so we deputize folks and they rounded up slaves and they control their black body and so policing as we know it has transformed itself into what weve seen and streets here in america but all over the world weve literally militarized people to occupy community to round up citizens and control their bodies and so what we are talking about is no longer a controlling bodies in communities for years our organization has done what we call missing campaigns that weve got into some of the most violent communities across this country and we talk to people about like safety really looks like what we know is safety is an investment in our schools what we know is that safety is not locking