Minister questions israels plans to annex illegal settlements. A setback for president also naro Brazils Supreme Court orders his government to publish coronavirus figures in full. And after 34 years of mystery swedens prosecutor names a suspect in the murder of the Prime Minister of palma. And im peter sim for the sport Tokyo Olympic games organizers say theyre working on more than 200 ideas to simplify and reduce costs that are more later this news hour. We begin this news hour in the United States where George Floyds brother has told politicians that to make sure that the death of his brother will not be in illinois as flawed floyd has just testified before the House Judiciary Committee on capitol hill the death of his brother in Police Custody spawn 2 weeks of protests across the u. S. And indeed around the world the House Judiciary Committee hearing said it was answering protesters calls for a fundamental change in the culture of Law Enforcement im here the action to make it. Stop the pain of being far. George called for help and he was ignored please listen to the couch im making to you now to the cause of our family and the cars ringing out the streets across the world people of our backgrounds genders and races have come together to demand change on idiom on to george and make the necessary changes they make the Law Enforcement the solution well in just a few minutes well go live to our White House Correspondent kimberly hellcat for reaction there to those hearings on capitol hill 1st to the Capitol Building and our correspondent heidi castro heidi whats your reading of what weve been hearing so far because we still have some witnesses to go. Thats right peter there are 12 witnesses who will be on this panel today which is a very large hearing the democrats started off with their star witness in a sense the brother of mr floyd philonous floyd who flew to washington straight from his brothers funeral yesterday and he shared a powerful Opening Statement in which he said that the pain of watching those excruciating almost 9 minutes during which the white Police Officer kneeled on his brothers neck killing him he said he wanted that pain to stop and it would only stop if his brothers death were not in vain were also seeing a sense of competition of narratives coming from the republican members of this committee we know 3 of these 12 invited witnesses were invited by republicans and just on the stand momentarily ago was one of the republican witnesses Angela Underwood jacobs she is an africanamerican who lost her brother who was a federal Police Officer just a month ago he was shot while in the line of duty and she was explaining to the committee hope is ition that yes George Floyds death was wrong yes there are these to be a conversation about were formed racial reconciliation addressing racism in the country but she said that this idea of defunding the police was ridiculous we heard that echoed from the republican Ranking Member as well who said abolishing the police or defunding the police was ludicrous and that wells down to really the semantics of this moment peter there is a raging debate now with activists on the left for their calls for defunding the police and being greeted on the right by skepticism different interpretations of what that term means from the right were hearing that meaning abolish the Police Department in in totality of anarchy. On the streets however meant much of the laughter saying that thats simply not the case but rather defunding the police means shifting around city budgets were also seeing the minneapolis this call to dismantle a valve by the city council there to dismantle the Police Department so theres a lot of nuance that has still yet to be explored fully about what types of reforms are on the horizon what we do know is that this that legislation that the Committee Members are looking at now does not to fund the Police Rather it would create a National Database tracking Police Misconduct and it would be it would make it easier to hold Police Officers accountable for Police Brutality in both civil and criminal proceedings it is likely to pass the democratic controlled house once it makes it past that whether or not its taken up by the Republican Controlled Senate though is an open question heidi thanks very much lets go live to the white house and my colleague. Kimberly with new orleans is there potential here for the citizens to get forgotten about because it occurs at this distance it occurs to me that on the one hand youve got republican politicians saying look defunding the police scrapping Police Forces thats a nonsense that would happen and yet the trumpet ministration the trump family on twitter seem to be spinning it as being were going to lose the police theres going to be chaos and carnage if the democrats get what they want. Its interesting you bring that up the u. S. President tweeting to that effect in just the last few moments saying that regarding to funding our great police this radical left agenda is not going to happen to be clear this is something that is being talked about what it means Different Things depending on who you talk to well some believe this means defunding the police altogether others believe it means taking a portion of the Police Budget and investing it in communities putting in sort of ports in the social realm in the economic realm so there is the possibility that this could still happen it is important to know that it could happen at a variety of Different Levels at local levels now for the president he has been putting together his own proposal we know that he sent up his son in law jared cushion or on tuesday as well as his chief of staff to discuss legislation in the Republican Controlled Senate that would compete with the house legislation controlled by democrats but they believe that there is some Common Ground but the nuance in the legislation on the republican side is that they believe supporting the police as well as supporting Community Communities of color is something that can coexist and so thats what theyre working on and in terms of what the ordinary american believes there seems to be room for kind of a partnership of ideas there to what weve seen across the board is more than 70 percent of americans feeling that there needs to be change according to most polls so there is pressure on both chambers in the u. S. Congress now in the midst of all of this we should point out not only re expecting to hear from kelly machinating the press secretary at 800 g. M. T. But the u. S. President will be taking this conversation on the road tomorrow he will be heading to dallas hell be meeting with faith leaders hell also be meeting with Law Enforcement officials as he continues to press for legislation that would. Not only lift up communities of color but also acknowledge that in the eyes of the white house of this president the vast majority of Law Enforcement officials are doing a good job but there is a need to root out injustice and Police Brutality in the on the part of some Police Officers in the United States kimberly thank you very much for joining us here on skype on the news from new york city is Vincent Warren hes a civil rights attorney and the executive director of the center for Constitutional Rights and swore and welcome to aljazeera so chokeholds have been outlawed that is undoubtedly good news but how jura bull will this legislation can this legislation be when it goes to the white house and is signed off presumably becomes law. There are a couple of pieces to this peter and i think number one is that both the democrats and the republicans are missing the point of this moment and while i think the democrats are trying to move forward some reforms around accountability and things like that the the moment theyre missing is that what people are calling for is centering the experience of black people with the Police Killed murdered and maimed for generations in fact i was involved in a chokehold case 30 years ago 30 years from now when we had this discussion were still having it now so the reforms are important but theyre not the whole thing if we were centering the black experience we would be talking about things like in cities like chicago in cities like detroit there are more police in schools then there are School Counsellors and schools thats what the defined and Abolition Movement is about its about shifting the resources so that we are not stuck in black communities with having the entity thats going to respond to the social challenges that we have being in the Police Department and that relates to i think the hard part about getting this legislation passed i think the democrats are on the right track but have it largely wrong because they dont want to talk about an important thing like defunding the police from the perspective of the black communities the republicans seem to be hell bent on saying if we get rid of the police were going to have chaos in the streets which is not true you just have to look at a place like camden new jersey where they dismantled their Police Department and the crime rate went down or even in new york city when my organization one a case against stop and frisk in new york city and while the mayor and everybody in the police said that the crime what was going to shoot up it actually went down so with those 2 problems i have no theres no doubt in my mind that the president is going to use this as a political problem to to boost his base and push back against that the more we talk about how black lives matter and how the. Lisa being brutal the more the president is going to talk about how Police Matter and that if we get rid of the police its going to be ok when you talk there vincent about what were seeing at the moment being part of the thing horses in your mind the whole thing ought to ask you the question a different way what is the force here break it down for us because if youve got someone like john lewis you know who knows about these things saying he is stunned he is amazed because hes never seen so many white people walking cheek by jowl with so many black people and people of color so thats a problem and thats why you end up can i suggest to you with a u. S. President walling himself into the white house. Yes look for that of course the tapping on the street is exactly that and its mirrored around the world in london in paris in south korea there was a protest that what were seeing is that folks are rallying to the support of black people listening to black peoples experience and saying this past stop that is a massive Massive Force and the only thing that the president has going for him is his base which is relatively small but powerful in the United States and the narrative that if we dont continue to invest in Police Departments black people are going to kill white people thats essentially what the discussion is and its never settle with them although its been a little bit more subtle now than usual. But i think the end of at the end of the day what people are beginning to realize is that the only reason why not enforcement exists to this day to the extent that it does is to the extent that people can continue to convey a narrow narrative of criminality amongst black people so the idea that someone like george lord floyd everybody in congress is going to say that was a horrible thing but nobody in congress is going to say that that is endemic in systemic and its been happening for many many years on our video ok that becomes a problem that we have to resolve systemically and not just with policy or are you however saying that theres a chance that the legislation i mean surely even since it cant it cant say go the save the same way as the brady bill you know the closest that your critics would say the critics of the u. S. Would say the closest the u. S. Has ever got to meaningful gun control legislation died in committee it was talked literally to death in committee she didnt get gun control legislation meaningful gun control legislation the folks with the brady bill are you saying that this legislation may actually go no place if only because you mentioned the election there if only because mr biden is largely associate suit with. Legislation in the 1990 s. Which is part of the back story of the negativity and the narrative that were experiencing right now. We have a button that critiques of the United States are absolutely valid about it particularly around gun control and theyre also valid particularly about around antiblack racism and how its expressed through Law Enforcement in our country we essentially are trying to pull ourselves out of our own punitive instinct we solve every problem particularly in this administration the 1st action is militarism the 2nd action is Law Enforcement and we double down on that that is a problem for our relationship in the world as folks on aljazeera will know that is a problem for our relationship in the United States with each other and particularly for black and brown people in the United States i dont feel confident that this that this congress will be able to move forward a meaningful bill without watering it down with compromise because were not wrestling with the fundamental question if you think about gun control its an easy answer but its gets complicated because of the interest the gun lobby interests the narratives around the 2nd amendment and your right to bear arms that complicates that and it makes it feel like a step forward which would be eliminating guns or a step forward which would be like reducing and eliminating. Police departments that are violent and that are seizing in black communities ok makes those things feel like theyre at it like a loss rather than a win and thats the problem that very briefly vincent i mean history always bends it always arcs like lights around to start towards justice ultimately if you and i have this conversation again on november the 4th will you be saying to me that your president reelected president perhaps donald trump is on the right side of history or not. When we have this conversation on november the 4th 20 years from now you and i will be wondering and marveling how we ever allowed the police to act the way that we did because we will have abolished and changed the structure of Law Enforcement november 4th is a much shorter and i think that the path to the presidency is very small waypoint on the in the arc of history President Trump will be on the wrong side of it my concern is that the democrats and the rest of the population will be pushing towards the right side vincent really good to talk to you thank you so much for giving us your insight here on the news hour thank you peter appreciate it in Seattle Washington hundreds of protesters streamed into city hall to stage a sit in they were allowed in by a city councillor. Demanding the resignation of the mayor and that the police force should be defunded there was anger after officers used pepper spray on protesters at the weekend after the mayor and police chief and banned the use of tear gas. Peaceful protests across the u. S. Have continued including in minneapolis where george floyd died the city council there has ordered officers to stop using chokeholds and is working on restructuring the entire Police Department. Well floyd was raid delayed to rest on tuesday and a Funeral Service in his hometown of houston in texas he was hailed by family and friends as an ordinary man transformed by fate into the cornerstone of a movement from houston is john and. George floyds tragic journey ends in a Houston Cemetery but across the u. S. The movement he inspired continues a montage of demonstrations in floyds name plate is his funeral displays his legacy and inspires a call to action from civil rights leaders god took the average that its down. And made him the cornerstone of a movement thats called save the whole wide work friends and family remember the man they knew is perry or big floyd. And. I think. This is not just. Me. Right here oh im thick come on baby you said if you its not much good its the life of the man who died beneath the policemans need was celebrated by members of congress and a president ial candidate who spoke directly to floyds daughter giana now is the time for Racial Justice