this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the uk economy shrinks by over 20% in april, the first full month of lockdown. this is bbc news large swathes of the economy ground with the latest headlines to a halt, in the sharpest for viewers in the uk contraction on record and around the world. the uk economy shrinks by over 20% in april, the first full month of lockdown. it is going to be tough for a few large swathes of the economy ground months but we will get through, we will bounce back. to a halt, in the sharpest contraction on record. the uk government rules out prolonging trade talks with the eu beyond december but checks on goods coming to the uk will be phased in next year. it is going to be tough for a few the uk prime minister says it‘s months but we will get through it absurd and shameful that a statue and we will bounce back very of churchill has had to be boxed up, strongly indeed. to protect it from anti racism protesters. india overtakes britain the uk government rules out as the country with the world‘s prolonging trade talks fourth most coronavirus cases with the eu beyond december with the number of infections rapidly approaching but checks on goods coming to the uk three hundred thousand. will be phased in next year. the uk prime minister says it s and the premier league says absurd and shameful that a statue all players will have the names of churchill has had to be boxed up, on the back of their shirts replaced to protect it from with ‘black lives matter‘ anti racism protesters. for the first 12 fixtures india overtakes britain as the country with the world s fourth most coronavirus cases, with the number of infections rapidly approaching 300,000. of the restarted season. and the premier league says all players will have the names on the back of their shirts replaced with ‘black lives matter‘ for the first 12 fixtures of the restarted season. let‘s return to our main story. the bank of england governor andrew bailey has said he will be ready to take action to help the uk economy weather the coronavirus crisis. he was speaking after figures showed that the country‘s economy hello and welcome if you re shrank by 20.4% in april watching in the uk or around the world. the largest monthly contraction on record as the country spent its first full month in lockdown. well obviously it‘s a dramatic and big number. our top story tonight: in april, but actually it‘s not the uk economy shrank by more than a fifth, that s the largest monthly a surprising number. contraction ever recorded, as the country spent it s first full month in lockdown. the economy clearly closed down substantially. at the end of march the slump of 20.4% in economic and april so it‘s not surprising. growth is three times larger it‘s actually pretty much than the decline seen in line with what we are during the whole of the financial expecting. crisis 12 years ago. the big question of course is obviously, what happens next? it comes as germany s cabinet agrees another we monitor a lot of very high economic stimulus package, worth $145 billion to mitigate the fallout frequency data these days. from the coronavirus crisis. it includes payments we have a lot of access to families of more than $300 to that data, which is per child, why we had a good read and temporary reductions on what in sales tax. was can happen in april. we see science of the economy now. in the us, consumer beginning to come back into life. confidence has perked up from the record lows we do see that. it‘s early days it‘s a gradual of the past few months. coming back to life. we do see those signs. the federal reserve, however, i think that‘s evidence has warned of a further sharp of things starting up again. decline in economic activity in the current quarter. and warned the us faced an arduous but they really big question that and uncertain recovery. goes beyond that is not only how quickly and what pace and in italy, prime minister giuseppe conte has been questioned by prosecutors and what sequence parts after relatives of covid 19 victims demanded an inquiry into alleged government negligence. of the economy come back to life, the focus has been on lockdown this whole policy and relatives argue virus question about how much long term hotspots should have damages that can be? that the thing we have to be very focused on. because that‘s where jobs get lost been isolated earlier. and damages done to people‘s livelihood. now, we hope that will be as small as possible but we have we ll have more on all those stories this next hour. to be ready and ready but first to the economic to take action. situation here in the uk. 0ur economics editor notjust bank kof england by broadly faisal islam has this report. what we can do to offset those long term damage and effect. we have simply never seen a number like this and people would never in northern ireland, non essential shops and retailers a massive hit to the economy is no have reopened, after being shut at the start of the covid 19 surprise when streets are silent and pandemic in march. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page shops are closed and factories are ideal and tens of billions in sales don t happen because they cannot. reports from belfast. but such a slump on the scare in one month is not just the reports from belfast. coronavirus closure is over. but such a slump on the scare in one month is notjust a record, it was unimaginable and way beyond any retail the coronavirus closure is over. retail is being unlocked. in normal scale. this zeal, one example northern ireland they shop shutters are up but there is a new set of ofa normal scale. this zeal, one example of a major attraction that shut down rules. cleanliness is now about more during the pandemic as seeing these than adding sparkle. it is vital to numbers. april had easter in it this keep people safe. retailers are glad to get going. we have to go on we year so numbers. april had easter in it this year so we were numbers. april had easter in it this year so we were expecting about have to figure out a way and it‘s 70,000 guests to come and enjoy the not perfect. but nobody wanted this. zoo 70,000 guests to come and enjoy the zoo and we got nobody at all so we have to be optimistic, we have to while we are expecting £1.8 million see that this is a chance to try and in terms of visitor income for that month we did not receive anything at rebuild our businesses and move forward. and hopefully improve. it all so disastrous april for us. in isn‘t quite as busy as friday in april the 1st full month of normal times. there are cues outside lockdown, the economy fell by 20% some shops but they tend to be losing faith of its total value. it short. however, this looks more like means since the lockdown began in a city centre than at any time over march a means since the lockdown began in marcha uk the last three months. the ghost means since the lockdown began in march a uk economy lost a quarter of town feel has gone. buying his back. value against the cliff on these charts making the financial crisis of 2008 resembled a small prep. the shoppers have missed the experience. question is whether things go from i think it s great, its atmosphere here? we depend so much on human backin i think it s great, its atmosphere back in the town as well. it s contact and we have been very badly pleasant. i think it s brilliant. just to lift people spirits. it s hit by this but also amazingly beena just to lift people spirits. it s been a long few months. it might feel like the events of this year resilient and creative. we will bounce back. there was a report that belong in the pages of a novel. and came out a couple of days ago from real life has entered a new era. this book seller things it may take that group of industrialised nations and it suggested that the drop in gdp for this year for the uk would time to develop new business. this book seller things it may take time to develop new businesslj think time to develop new business.” think we‘ve all been affected by the so think we‘ve all been affected by the so deeply and in so many ways. i actually be worse than for every think a lot of people will be industrialised nation so we are in a reticent and cautious about going very, very difficult situation as a into places where they are going to be meeting people and things like country. in oxfordshire, an airfield that. i think we won‘t manage it. with tens of millions worth a vehicle is waiting for that show 0ur that. i think we won‘t manage it. our main aim is to make it as co mforta ble our main aim is to make it as rooms to sell again. and in turn comfortable for people as possible meaning carfactories to come in. all shops in england rooms to sell again. and in turn meaning car factories will be far from full tilt. this is what those will be allowed to open on monday. green numbers look like in reality. no date has been set for scotland or up green numbers look like in reality. wales. northern ireland has taken a up and down the country, storage significant step on the road to economic recovery. but the journey areas, full of unsold cars, in april ahead will be massively challenging. and 99.7% follow in car sales. the but the journey ahead will be massively challenging. let‘s speak now to keith burge, a director at the institute for challenge now as lockdown starts to economic development, which represents professionals involved in economic regeneration and development in the uk. ease as when it actually returned to if you want to edit these astons, normal? will these cars actually you must take control of this page sell as the economy fundamentally damaged? for the moment the government is focusing on a gradual the government said they would be a restart in output. and they repeated reopening, for example of the that today. do you think it s housing market. we are just starting likely? i‘m afraid i don‘t. i wish to recover, i do believe it would it was. but this much talked of ta ke to recover, i do believe it would take until the end of the year to come close with a wheel or even get there but i feel positive that v shaped recovery they said they get there s enough people who want to out of the fix that we get out of move and get enough people who want his quickly is what got in and i to move then people will sow and think is a tad optimistic.” then they will buy. and there is his quickly is what got in and i think is a tad optimistic. i was listening today to lord oatmeal on much lost ground to make up in the gyms as well with the added the bbc radio for. he was saying you challenge of white people who will should never let a crisis go to use them in a nearly normal?m challenge of white people who will waste. is there an opportunity here, use them in a nearly normal? if that sector has proved before that it is do you think for the uk government to do things that it might not have particularly resilient in a recession and i think it will considered before? and what might that be? i very much like to think benefit greatly from the tailwind provided by the pandemic actually. so. we have never seen that be? i very much like to think so. when the economies generally provided by the pandemic actually. we have never seen a provided by the pandemic actually. we have never seen a week or month, the economy far from fighting fakes, doing 0k and it was generally doing the economy far from fighting fakes, the questionjust the economy far from fighting fakes, okay. you tend to overlook some of the question just how long the process of rehabilitation will take. the fundamental weaknesses but there undoubtedly were within the economy. i think if there is a silver lining let s speak now to poppy trowbridge, former adviser to philip hammond when he was uk chancellor. to this very big and dark cloud if you re happy with us. the high that‘s looming over as it is that there is an opportunity to rebuild street open study on monday and the there is an opportunity to rebuild the economy differently. to make it government will be hoping that more productive, to make it more consumers drive the recovery, but inclusive and to make it more there is a bit of a quandary for the sustainable. what sort of tools. .. government. 0n there is a bit of a quandary for the government. on one hand embarrassing be alert, stay safe and on the other they are seeing debt on public transport and get into the high what sort of tools they could use to street and start shopping again. do that? in anticipation of this that is exactly eight. the government may know what kinds of restrictions will continue to exist we‘ve actually started a commission in our working for economic renewal bringing restrictions will continue to exist in ourworking and restrictions will continue to exist in our working and daily lives, together academics and practitioners through the end of this year and even into next year. they may be from across the uk. dare i say some able to forecast that but what they of the best brains in the business. wa nt to able to forecast that but what they want to be able to forecast easy is who can focus on very specific how however personnel can see my areas. we will be looking at the family spending behaviours have changed perhaps permanently because economic infrastructure which clearly is not fit. at the moment of what s happened over the last two months. and also they will not be not adequately resourced a properly able to predict the entirety the done. employment of steel which will effect on wages and job security within thejob be absolutely crucial because effect on wages and job security within the job market. unemployment is going to go through effect on wages and job security within thejob market. there the roof. and underemployment is effect on wages and job security within the job market. there are two going become basically a big 01’ within the job market. there are two or three other factors they want to be able to count on returning to problem. investment and also normal and i think that s what is worrying most people and governments capturing local economic boundaries to make sure that those areas which right now. that combined with the are going to suffer the most can potential permanent rise in unemployment numbers which as it ca ptu re are going to suffer the most can capture as much economic value as possible. we ve heard from ken ta kes unemployment numbers which as it takes up has a pernicious effect on clarke today who says it‘s not in consumer sentiment mode and business the instincts of conservative government to start, to keep confidence. on the issue of business spending its way out of trouble. and confidence, every business leader that i speak to their concerns are at some point taxes will return. do you think that‘s likely to happen? twofold, one the quarantine that for 0rdo you you think that‘s likely to happen? or do you think because of the people coming into the country, lots interest rates at the moment maybe they will let stand ? of firing people coming into the country to drive the retail stand interest rates at the moment maybe they will let stand? i think i got they will let stand? i think i got the gist of the question. the and then there is the issue of this government has already spent a large amount of money on the furlough evening to a rule, you have to scheme. and provided loans not all create space for businesses to of which i‘m afraid will be repaid. succeed. this neves are dynamic, and it‘s committed to a programme of thatis succeed. this neves are dynamic, that is my experience as someone who followed business my whole career city significant infrastructure. i suppose our argument is that if the and secondly the treasury, the app government is going to spend dynamic in the way back about and hundreds of billions of pounds aping all of us can take examples of getting the economy back on its of basements strength at that in feet. at perhaps that it wants to this crisis, that as 13. the quarantine issue i understand why they think games are concerned about rebuild it in its former image, will it but i am very clear, the health actually try to build some better. of this nation as the number one we think there is general thing we need to maintain consumer opportunity to do the latter.” think we got that. there was a bit business confidence. the health of of break up but we got the gist of it. oui’ business confidence. the health of our work force of our people is what will help the economy bounce back. apologies for the break up there on it may be frustrating but it has to that line. bea it may be frustrating but it has to be a priority. it is not really well, the economic uncertainty has led to calls happening in a vacuum, we have heard for the brexit transition period where the uk follows eu rules on trade, travel, and business to be today about the government not extended beyond the end extending that transition, of course of this year. today, the government ruled that there is an argument going on with out, with cabinet minister one of our biggest markets and that michael gove saying he‘d ‘formally confirmed‘ to the eu that there‘d be no delay. is china. when you look at it and but checks on goods coming here from the eu will be around, i don t think any government phased in next year, faced an economic crisis like this to give businesses time to adjust. 0ur political correspondent before, have we? not since the wire alex forsyth reports. it has not been business perhaps, it took 100 years to like this for months. many firms disrupted payback wired back. there in 90 on issa wages returned to the because of the virus and at the end of this year, pre financial crisis level about another big change could be brewing. three weeks before clothing hit. it our current trade terms with the eu took more than a decade for them to end and there will be no extension return, that as the bad news. the whether there is a new deal or not. good news although that s not the we would not be extending. right way to describe the case back that is it, we are leaving to where the economy is in this the transition period on december 31 together and i suspect that may and that provides clarity and certainty to business drive them to ways of cooperating. and our announcement allows business we are all going to have to recover to plan in an appropriate and flexible way. to get their index. so i think in some ways it might force a different the uk left the eu onjanuary 31, type of dialogue and trading a loving one year were not much changed to work out future relations. relationships we may not have those talks have not made huge considered but you are right, it is progress so on monday not happening in a vacuum but it has the prime minister will meet eu figures to try to get things moving at least injected a sense of being because december 31 is the deadline understanding of how globalised for a new trade deal to be agreed markets are and how globalised and that won‘t be extended. business is and that s really important part of how we climb out although some still think it should be and why. ..? of this economic slump. thank you to take away the risk of a no deal outcome and to make sure that very much. all of us remain focused coronavirus has hit the most deprived parts of england and wales on supporting business twice as hard as wealthier areas, according to official figures. through the post covid recovery urban areas, which are more densely and not making the challenges populated, were worse affected than rural areas. that the economy and our businesses meanwhile, in the last 24 hour face any worse than it already is. period, the number of deaths reported in the uk in hospitals, for some businesses, care homes and the wider community some relief today. this fashion firm imports related to coronavirus were up by 202, bringing the total from and exports to the eu and today number of deaths to 41,1181. the government said from january it would relax new rules on some goods coming in. our health editor hugh pym reports. six months of grace for customs paperwork and payments. setting up a new border control the northeast of england has been system in seven or eight months would not be realistic and i think hit hard by coronavirus. the uk can see more benefit from that. following the peak in the government insists it is not april, the number of backtracking on previous plans, deaths fell across the country last month but slower in this region and arguing that a phased approach to new customs checks is pragmatic elsewhere. and local health experts say in the current economic climate. there were a number of factors. but the eu is not reciprocating. as a gp in city of newcastle we have it says it will be ready for controls on imports comejanuary. large numbers of people with brexit may not have dominated long term conditions here of late but that does not mean or chronic diseases the political pressure has eased. and the ones that we see a the government was re elected with a significant majority, with a strong mandate to get lot of include chest diseases, chronic obstructive disease is very common on with brexit. and that clearly puts you at greater risk if you would catch the virus. if the government is going figures out today for england to fulfil the commitments and wales show a range of death on which it was elected, rates linked to covid 19 between march and we need to have those customs may. processes and our borders fully operational as soon as we can. they are adjusted for differing age profiles in each area. in england in the northeast that for businesses, certainty figure was just over 97 per 100,000 is key, even more so given the turmoil of coronavirus. of population. more clarity on border plans have been welcomed in london the highest was 137 but it is whether a broader deal can be struck which remains crucial. per 100,000 in population alex forsyth, bbc news, westminster. scotland‘s first minister nicola and the lowest in england sturgeon has insisted that was the southwest with just over a1. a programme to test care workers in wales, the highest area once again a for coronavirus is accelerating. big city was cardiff, so farjust over a third at 125 per 100,000 deaths. have been tested wales as a whole at 67 that‘s despite a promises last month that all care home staff was below england. would get a weekly test. 0ur scotland editor the figures show death rates in the most sarah smith reports. deprived areas were i‘m going tojust a lot higher than in the wealthiest parts of the i‘m going to just check your lungs country. there. all staffs working in every in england, more than twice as high. ca re there. all staffs working in every care home in scotland are supposed to be tested for coronavirus every there is a higher death rate in covid amongst people who for week. a big promise. the big problem example are working unskilled labour and it s is that nearly for weeks after that quite likely that there are higher proportions of people in that commitment was made, only a third of the staff have been tested even area that went into private areas. once. at this home they‘ve had no confirmed cases but they‘ve also similarity with an area in urban been unable to get a hold of the areas of high population density it is hard to do your social distancing test. i think it would have been effectively and many of the deprived beneficial to us to be tested daily. areas we are looking at are areas it would‘ve kind of put us all maybe i population density. the medical director for nhs ingrained acknowledged that these a bit more at ease. where before are challenging issues. down the line now having been closed those things that you are at march it‘s quite scary thinking more likely to do badly when you get the infection like that if somebody comes back with a diabetes, obesity, lack heart and positive test that will have a huge lung disease, we see more frequently impact on the home. across the way only for care home staff were tested in my deprived areas of the country in the first week of this month. of all the people in scotland who had died of covid 19 47% of them had and so tackling those issues fundamentally that beenin died of covid 19 47% of them had been in care homes. that is more also mean that people than a been in care homes. that is more thana died been in care homes. that is more than a died in hospital. in the are less likely for an infection such as covid 19. government know that without in scotland and northern visitors its staff will cause the ireland, there are no greatest risk for bringing the virus into homes. that‘s why they want to despite death rates which have test them all every week. but it‘s a been attested by the target they‘ve yet to meet. the differing age demographics in each area. there will be a lot more research charity that runs this home stay on health inequalities, they‘ve only been able to get 5% of prevalence among bame communities, wealth disparities, and underlying conditions. their scottish staff tested. compared to 90% in their homes in today s figures for england and wales at a bit more to an understanding england. i welcome the commitment to of coronavirus. prosecutors in northern wee kly england. i welcome the commitment to weekly tested because that is a italy have been grilling prime minister giuseppe conte commitment that hasn t happened in and two of his ministers over the government s handling of england. but the reality has to catch up with the government the country s coronavirus outbreak. position. the first minister will they re investigating potential not set a date for when the criminal negligence. government might meet the testing in particular, the prosecutors go. why is the commitment to test are examining whether two towns all care home staff not been met in lombardy should have been locked down earlier. 0ur correspondent mark lowen in rome even though it‘s over three weeks explained to me how no one seems since it was first made? and went to be taking responsibility. with that promise be photo?m since it was first made? and went with that promise be photo? it does ta ke with that promise be photo? it does take time to put in place a programme of testing that number of dan has been a real passing of the people in place. and health boards bulk of responsibility in terms of have been doing that. the health how, wayne, who could have imposed secretary and i have given a fairly the lockdown around that town, a direct indication over the last week or out that that progress should be city in northern italy, it is a accelerated. that‘s why the health pretty‘s second richest city and it secretary has made that very clear was the second major hub of kamano to health boards. the other side of thatis virus here in a pity towards the end to health boards. the other side of that is that we‘ve made clear to health boards that the scottish of february. you may remember that government is there if they need town was the first time that was hit additional resources and support. the scottish government is working by the storm of kamano virus, that ona the scottish government is working on a deal to cover sick pay for any and the surrounding areas locked ca re on a deal to cover sick pay for any care home workers who did not do down quickly, not so much more test positive and have to isolate. important figures for staff testing will now down quickly, not so much more im porta nt safety down quickly, not so much more important safety and where there was pressure from economic and business be posted every week. intensifying pressure to increase the test. groups who were unwilling to see we don‘t know how many economic activity limited there. so of the tens of thousands the local officials and the wider of hospital patients discharged to uk care homes at the height region officials who you rightly say of the coronavirus pandemic were tested are under the control of the that‘s the finding of the national audit office. right wing league party and the 0ur social affairs correspondent national government, there was a alison holt explains more. shifting of blame and shifting of responsibility for valuable days i think this report provides us there at the start and two weeks on with a really important timeline terror and national lockdown came in for the decisions being made by government and by nhs england and they paid the price of that two and these are decisions which have shaped our response to the crisis. week delay very, very dearly. in it starts off with what was effectively the nhs action plan, march alone 6000 people died. a letter sent on march the 17th week delay very, very dearly. in march alone 6000 people diedlj remember your interview with the setting up measures to prevent prime minister last month and he hospitals being overwhelmed said as he would have called the which included the rapid discharge lockdown any area where they would of patients from hospitals, have called him a madman because it including around about 25,000 people is that the power of hindsight that we are now looking at all the who were moved to care homes. decisions that politicians have made, if we knew then what we know now that surety the government would the report says it is not known how have lockdown earlier. and we have many had covid 19 or even how many had been tested and it also says just been in the city and we have we do not know how many health got material going out on bbc next and social care staff had been tested during the pandemic. week including on bbc world news and the peak of outbreaks of the virus week including on bbc world news and we spoke to michelle politicians and they are quite defensive as well in care homes was the first week admit there were some errors and of april and about a week later they say oh it was the other on april the 15th we got the government‘s social care action authority that should have taken bad plan, so this is the sort of thing decision and i may say it s realm that say that taken the candidates that will fuel the argument that social care was an afterthought as an antiseptic on fatality with and that had tragic consequences the same lives again and these with a high number of deaths in care homes. questions are being asked all around the world 93 you are in britain as 0n the one hand you have the nhs, well of a bad timing of the lockdown a national health service well and the price that was paid for loved, well understood, losing valuable days. ultimately if a powerful voice, and on the other it is coming out of this, the hand you have the care system, infection rate is right down to the complex and fragmented, figures coming out today for that poorly understood, and this report last 2a hours shall record no says that that has been a problematic relationship increase in new cases coming to for a very long time. it also says, and this 0.07%. 160 new cases. if any has is particularly striking, no one knows how many people receive come out of the other months of hell social care in england. and now it s time i think that there government will see our says that it area and now it s time i think that there are a lot of questions being asked about what went wrong and how that has taken the right decisions hell could have been diminished or at the times and it has followed released at the start. the best advice but i think it is safe to say this is not police in france have been staging something that is going to go away a demonstration in paris. and it will also add to the call officers are unhappy about a new ban on chokeholds for reform of the system where reform is long overdue. and limits to what they can alison, many thanks. do during arrests. police immobilisation techniques have come under greater scrutiny since the death india has overtaken britain of george floyd in america. as the country with the world‘s fourth most coronavirus cases protesters in seattle have taken with the number of infections over a district of the city rapidly approaching three hundred thousand. and declared it an autonomous zone. the number of coronavirus deaths it has set up a stand off in india now stands at eight thousand five hundred. between the state s governor and the white house. but restrictions on shopping malls donald trump threatened have been eased to help to take back the area stimulate the economy. while governorjay inslee said 0ur correspondent, yogita limaye, is in mumbai. even the number of deaths is really the president should stay out of the state s business rising very rapidly. with seattle s mayor adding that any like, yesterday, nearly 400 people invasion of the city died of the infection would be illegal. in the country overall. i ve been speaking to our correspondent gary 0 donoghue the city i‘m in, mumbai, about the decision to give over which is the worst affected city a section of the city to protesters. in india, for two days in a row, we‘ve had now nearly 100 people in the us, the louisville, kentucky, dying of the infection. metro council unanimously passed and what‘s particularly breonna s law last night, distressing for a lot of families here in mumbai, named in honor of police shooting in the capital delhi, victim breonna taylor, but in many major cities of india, outlawing no knock warrants is that if their loved ones get and requiring body cameras be turned sick, it‘s a real struggle on before and after every search. to find a hospital bed. and even those who do sometimes get, breonna taylor, a 26 year old black woman, was shot by louisville police when they executed a no knock say, a regular bed, warrant while she slept in her home in march, but what they really need and the fact that no police officers is critical care, what they really have been charged with her death has been a big part need is an intensive care unit, of the black lives matter movement. and then those are not available. let s speak now to andrea ritchie, author of ‘invisible no more: over the past two weeks, police violence against black women and women of colour.‘ i‘ve spoken to so many people who‘ve actually lost members of their family before they could even get looked at by doctors. it is that you‘re happy with us. the coronavirus pandemic has seen many stories of people helping it s it is that you‘re happy with us. it‘s really a surprising to me when you read this story and i had read each other. it some weeks ago that her name has one such case is a michelin star chef who has been not come up more during the protest, helping to feed millions of people do you think she has been forgotten in india despite being thousands of miles away in new york. and itself? i know she has not been vikas khanna started the feedindia forgotten and itself? i know she has not been fo rg otte n by initiative a couple of months ago and itself? i know she has not been forgotten by a black women, girls, and trans people who are on her but this week he launched a food drive, focusing on the transgender behalf and it‘s a statement to community, people with diabilities and other groups. hejoins us now. demand an aspiration, we are insisting that we fold in the stories like mike whitfield around great to have you on the program. policing self there are many more how on earth do you start an voices speaking her name and many initiative like this when you‘re more new as well. when you look at thousands of miles away in manhattan? you have to be either crazy or a genius. i m gotta with police arrest and police abuse in america, there is no group that genius. telus, who did you enlist to suffers more greatly than black help you? i just use the power of women, more so suffers more greatly than black women, more so than pac man. suffers more greatly than black women, more so than pac-man. cite any black women are the group most genius. telus, who did you enlist to help you? ijust use the power of my twitter account. i went on twitter likely to be killed by police when and asked is anybody can go and unarmed as breanna taylor was than check on the neighborhoods. if any other group including black men anybody the offices, old ham leprosy and additionally we experience different kinds of police violence offices. i have worked with those that we don‘t talk about like sexual organisations for many years and i violence which the officers who know that the kitchen do not run as killed her have been accused of in an operation. it‘s too much of dry past without any action taken by the force. there is not currently which goods like rice, dry sugar, tea and i‘m aware any official data all those things. i realise much collection either on police sexual early on that they are going to be misconduct and i know there are a in huge crisis in that feet of those lot of complaints from women who we re lot of complaints from women who were arrested about the fact that they have been abused during the arrest process. is that something organizations. especially community centers. also for those thousands you would like to see as part of the and thousands of migrant workers who reforms coming in? i think at this will returning to their home villages across india. these days point the movement has come to the conclusion that this is not the time you are famous. you‘ve cooked for the 0bama is, you have been on tv for old solutions or isolations of the past and that reforms which we shows with gordon ramsay, but it have been engaged in extensive wasn‘t always that way was a? you are not from a rich family. i dare reform process in the us over say, you understand how precarious centuries, decades and said to me the last five years since ferguson it can be in india. i understand but uprising and mike brown‘s kidding, i my sense of hunger didn‘t come from india so much. because i was born think people have come to the conclusion that we are past the time and raised elsewhere. we have a huge for rest form, we are at that point where we need to determine what that community kitchen where everybody gets fed. the entire city can eat conditions are that brought office there. my sense of hunger came from as to‘s door and those conditions new york when i was struggling here from the very bottom. it is not easy because it seems no matter what policies are in place the outcomes rising is a brown kid who wants to, are the same and people i think we‘ve had enough and we are not going for half measures any more. what we want to figure out now as who came to america with the dream stop the police from adding power, of irling a michelin star. i think my aspirations are too high or control, funding, scope of their work and how can he actually move crazy. my sense of hunger came from new york. when i used to be at grand central or sleeping around. this is money and investment into the things that will make a safer and not simplya that will make a safer and not simply a process to some one breonna when the post 9/11 was also happening. it was not easy for us to taylor‘s door in the middle of the getjobs. so i realise that mice night where they have to announce themselves and can go immediately after what i don‘t have to announce skin, learning learning in america themselves, they should not be there more than india. and you re paying in the first place in a position where they could care a young woman as she sleeps in her bed. it back full time and your mum is on her own in india? my mum is on her own. ina her own in india? my mum is on her here in the uk, own. in a city where the golden temple is. i won‘t give up on this the sun newspaper has said it did not intend to glorify domestic abuse, following criticism for publishing an interview initiative it‘s very hard. i‘m so in which the former husband oij rowling defends physically abusing used to working in the calibre of the harry potter author. campaigners and members eight michelin star restaurant. you of parliament have called the sun‘s decision to publish the interview see wanting once you had to repeat volatile. when you‘re running initiatives like this so many miles dangerous and irresponsible. away at you constantly need to follow u p away at you constantly need to follow up with people. in the lockdown deliveries are not easy at all. so i gave up on april 11. i well earlier our correspondent helena wilkinson gave us a bit more detail on whath rowling had said called my mama said mum, i can‘t run about her personal experience this. it‘s too difficult, too of domestic abuse. challenging. if i was in india i probably would‘ve been a notch bigger, betterjob. she said i trained you for almost 50 years not that you can take selfies at home. i she talked about the fact that she was a victim of domestic wa nt that you can take selfies at home. i want you to field i feed my country abuse and sexual assault, right now. you‘ve been trained to do it was a long essay this and don‘t give me excuses. i have not look back. we have had more and today the sun newspaper on its front page track down her first husband interviewed him and than 30 million people almost 13 got some comments and on the front million people. how many? say that page got the headline, i slapped jk and i‘m not sorry. this has prompted a huge again. 13 million people. you have amount of criticism of the way it‘s dealt with this story as many people that fed. fed 13 million people. are saying it‘s giving a voice to an alleged perpetrator of domestic abuse, it‘s getting someone like that oxygen and we have had a i hundred thousand slippers, more than 2 million bananas. this is the lot of reaction including jess number at what you‘re talking about. phillips the mp, she talked about this is massive numbers. we were, initially i was doing everything on the headline being awful, also my own. and then later we got some gillian martin who was a member of the scottish parliament, amazing partners we got tropicana she has reacted to dues, we started getting more the headline saying: partners to partner with us. especially when i was doing few huge the events. i did in the event which fed sun newspaper has not said sorry, that have not apologised for what 200,000 meals in mumbai. so people they printed but they have released could come in and there was ration a statement saying: everywhere. dry goods, people will come with bags they could take as much food as they want. and this was i felt was very important to me. where does money come from? who have you enlisted to help you with this? the newspaper goes on to say: has it sort of grown and mushroomed as been carrying on? i initially was spending on my own. now because we janey starling is from the campaign group level up, which produced guidelines can do partnerships with brands. i tell them listen, if you come on for the media on how to report domestic abuse stories. board just give me a product i will put you on all my social media feeds and we get through to the people who needed most. we were, some days what did you make up a newspaper response to the criticism today? inside the trains, on the railway stations come at the bus station, what did you make up a newspaper response to the criticism today7m is incredibly disappointing. the story is not just is incredibly disappointing. the story is notjust abouth rowling, it is about every woman in the uk leprosy centres, orphanages, highways we were serving food who survived domestic abuse and who everywhere. 0ne highways we were serving food everywhere. one day we served almost understands what it feels like to be afraid of your partner and half a million meals injust a single day around india and almost humiliated by your partner and hit by your partner and ultimately has 48 cities. i m being told to wrap read that newspaper today i‘m seeing that front page and had that up. i could talk to all day. do you traumatic memory resurfaced. we live ina traumatic memory resurfaced. we live in a country where two women are sent recipes as well? do you tell them how to cook it? yes. we were murdered by a partner or ex partner and the press has a duty to report testing recipes of the food which on this responsivity and the would not get spoiled. because india is getting very hot right now. we newspaper has a duty to all survivors of domestic violence and today they failed. just finish that made it kind of indian risotto does with rice and putting flavours in them so they are sustainable. i m labour shadow minister says doubt sticking with genius. well and disbelief are the best weapons that abusers have in their arsenal done you. fantastic effort. well and here you have an x partner done. the uk prime minister says it‘s denying and explaining what ‘absurd and shameful‘ that a statue of winston churchill has had to be boarded up because of happened. how should a newspaper be fears it may be vandalised. last weekend, protesters daubed it reporting a response like that? what with graffiti saying that churchill was a racist. is the right way to go about it? borisjohnson also warned people to ‘stay away‘ from protests ultimately i think newspapers need because of coronavirus. to question whether it is their chi chi izundu reports. story to tell and let that they should be giving a platform and space to these perpetrators because what we need to remember is that this has been a week of anger. domestic abuse is about power and control. it is about people who seek peaceful anti racism protests marred to have absolute power and control by violence and graffiti. over their partner often in very humiliating and fighting ways and this is now how the churchill statue the sun has effectively extended this power and control. i read outside parliament stands. 0ver fears today‘s march guidelines and two of the key would result in more damage. principles in that are just the statue of winston churchill, accountability, so make sure that you are not publishing the who is a national hero, perpetrators perspective and also has had to be boarded up forfear dignity, centre the experiences of of violent attack, and that, to me, the women who had endured ideas is both absurd and wrong. because there will be lots of women and lots of people reading that you should not have a situation article who might resonate with those experiences can be to seek where people who are protesting help and i think the price we need to have a beauty to accurately report on sensitive issues like on one basis are violently attacking the police or public property. domestic abuse make their a baby a demonstration planned for tomorrow with suicide because we are public was brought forward to today because of concerns there could be health consequences. you say they should not be giving a platform to trouble between people determined to defend the monuments and those him, as he owed a rights to respondent given that she‘s such a who may have wanted to deface them. famous author with millions of fewer people but a much followers and made such strong allegations against him? is he ok heavier police presence. this is now the second week where people have taken frontpage? that is the debate is an it, you would say no? absolutely to the streets for anti racism marches and the protest organisers not, i would like to sit in a have said again and again that these country where two women have leaked marches should remain peaceful when by a partner, they have a responsibility to report on the and they said again and again starry sensitive sensitive me. that this will not be the last one. i‘m a huge fear of domestic abuse of there is no way i want my kids to allow other people to treat other hybrids is that they will not be people different only believed and a perpetrator will seek because of the colour of their skin. to avenge their reputation and we need change. humiliate them in public spaces and like, what s going on right thatis humiliate them in public spaces and that is absolutely what the sun has now, we are just acting as if because it s been happening couuded that is absolutely what the sun has colluded with today whether intentional or not. for ages it s ok for it to carry on when we need to put a stop to that. but the debate around statues continues. from monday, face coverings will be mandatory on public in bristol this statue of black transport in england. playwright and poet alfred fagon has transport operators will be been attacked with bleach. able to refuse permission to travel to those who are not wearing a face covering, and it could lead to fines. while the thomas guy statue outside the transport secretary grant shapps the hospital in london confirmed that new volunteers called he founded has been boarded up ‘journey makers‘ will be deployed because of his links to slavery. to remind people. and organisers of today‘s protest are concerned that the discussions around whether statues should remain up or be taken down is overshadowing stay with us. there is more to come, their black lives matter message. chi chi izundu, bbc news. we will discuss the economic figures and what they uk government might have of its leaves to pull the uk that is it for me. headlines coming economy out of the trouble its name. stay with us for that. out. do stay with us. it has been a fairly unsettled picture of the past 2a or so, we had winds and good evening it‘s been a blustery. this is hastings on friday rain around. this was in hastings on afternoon. cloudy skies they are friday afternoon. cloudy skies and drizzly rain and fairly windy drizzly rain and wind conditions as conditions as well. as we head to well. as we head to the next couple the next couple days it is a very of days it is a very mixed picture, mixed picture. they will be some they will be some sunshine around sunshine around and things feeling and things are feeling warm, humid quite warm. humidity rising. if rising as well but found to be boundary downpours aren‘t likely. not all of us are going to be saying down for are likely, not all of us them. there is most likely to see will be seeing them. we will see them. there is most likely to see them on saturday across the southwest of england into wales. by thunderstorms saturday across southwest england and wales as well sunday that risk pushes north and and by sunday it will go further northwest england northern ireland north into northwest england and died in ireland as well. all these as well. all these thunderstorms are going to be courtesy of this area of thunderstorms will be courtesy of this area of low pressure which is low pressure moving its way out of moving out into the bay of biscay the bay of biscay. that‘s going to across the uk. so that will bring bring the heaviest of downpours the happiest of nonparties across across the southwest of england, parts of southwest england and wales wales through the course of tonight we‘ve also got some rain to come to the course of tonight and we‘ve got some rain to come for parts of from northern east in scotland. this scotla nd got some rain to come for parts of area of shower pushing across scotland and this area of shower northern england into northern ireland by the early hours of over england into northern ireland by the early hours of saturday. saturday. further south across england and wales quite mild quite friday south across england and muqqy england and wales quite mild quite wales, monkey with the temperature muggy with those temperatures holding up in the mid teens is holding up in the mid teens of a overnight. a little bit cooler for night, colluded further north but the dark but certainly quite mild. certainly quite mild seeing that the temperature is in double figures wherever you are. saturday brings as double figures where 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man george floyd in the us city of minneapolis has been arrested and charged with third degree murder and manslaughter. it follows three consecutive nights of rioting. president trump attacks china s plans to impose new security legislation in hong kong, and says the us will no longer give hong kong special treatment. the move is seen as an escalation of washington s confrontation with beijing. the uk government announces changes to the scheme that covers the wages, of furloughed workers, affected by the coronavirus lockdown businesses will have to start paying contributions, from august. and more than 200 schools in south korea have been forced to close just days after they re opened, due to a new spike in virus cases. most of the new cases are linked to large distribution warehouses. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are iain anderson, executive chairman of the public relations and lobbying firm cicero amo, and sian griffiths, education editor at the sunday times. let s have a look at tomorrow s front pages. in the uk, the telegraph leads with a warning from police that they ll issue fines for anyone breaking lockdown rules by trying to see gatherings of friends and family this sunny weekend, before restrictions are eased on monday. the times says almost every primary school in england is set to reopen on monday in defiance of the biggest teaching union. the daily mail says plans to quarantine travellers coming into britain are falling apart as border force and police officials here say the system is unenforceable . the guardian says the row over the uk prime ministers top aide dominic cummings‘ breach of lockdown rules has prompted tens of thousands of people to flood their mps‘ inboxes in what some say is the biggest outpouring since brexit the financial times says chancellor mr sunak and prime minister borisjohnson are planning a big stimulus package, expected to be announced before the summer, amid warnings that britain sjobless rate may soon hit 10% of the workforce. and the express says prince william and the prime minister have backed a campaign for a national monument honouring the sacrifice of brave emergency workers and those who have died fighting the coronavirus. so let s begin. we will start with the times, most schools to open, sian, does this surprise you, given that trade unions really did not want this to happen? well, it s an interesting survey, andi well, it s an interesting survey, and i mean, it does look at what will happen or what is likely to happen on monday when primary schools are expected to reopen across england. but not wales and scotland, this is telling boris johnson s announcement just a scotland, this is telling boris johnson s announcementjust a couple of days ago that he wanted primary schools to reopen to many, many more pupils. as you say come it s been hugely controversial. the biggest teaching union, the national education union absolutely not 100% convinced that this was a good move. they have been resisting it. but in the times, tomorrow, we will see this story which is based on a pole of the head teachers union. the national association of head teachers. they surveyed 2000 of their members and nine out of ten of those head teachers said they will be reopening their schools on monday for more primary school pupils. so i think it s still very early days. i think it s still very early days. i think we don t know, even if the schools are open, we don t have any pa rents a re schools are open, we don t have any parents are going to send their children back and we don t know how many children back and we don t know how ma ny staff children back and we don t know how many staff or how many teachers are actually going to turn up to work. soi actually going to turn up to work. so i think next week it will be interesting to see. my own view is it will start very slowly with a few children coming back, and then it will probably grow as long as there aren t any outbreaks. it does all goes smoothly and it does appear to be safe to do this. iain it is early days, isn t it? many teachers and pa rents a re days, isn t it? many teachers and parents are worried that they are being used as guinea pigs in this situation. yes. i was talking to a pa re nt situation. yes. i was talking to a parent today who was actually asking me whether or not i could get some more information from them out of the department for education. 0n what this gradual opening up looks like. i mean, so, yeah, those had teachers clearly want to get schools open as this survey says. the teaching unions are much more sceptical. certainly in england is a really big week. it s a big test because if schools start to open, then mums and dads can start to go back to work. it s all about confidence. it appears some teachers, some had teachers are kind of interpreting the rules the way they would want to. not the way the government has set out. so how the schools open or not in england in the coming seven days is a really important barometer as to whether or not the economy is going to open up or whether or not people have confidence. sean, that is the case amazing to? different schools are incrementing different measures, different social distancing from ideas of what a bubble should look like them unfortunately, for me, none of my kids are in classes that are going back, but in other cans are going back, but in other cans are going back, but in other cans are going back, but another cancer saying, well, my parents are going back for one to hear, wendy there, in terms of what ian is saying, about getting parents back to work, iimagine about getting parents back to work, i imagine very few kids are going in five days a week. well, i think, as i say, it will be a very sort of gradual, gentle easing in to this new system with more children going back to primary schools. as you say, there is going to be huge discrepancies checking the gems of children before they let them into the school. they re going to issue some of their teachers with facemasks, with plastic visors, with disposable gloves. there are other schools that will have none of that personal protective equipping tent will not be doing temperature checks. so i think temperature pa rents checks. so i think temperature parents will really be thinking what is my school going to be doing? is a full my child bill? there is going to be thinking by their own personal circumstances. and a lot of parents are at their wits end with trying to home school into childcare and work from home. so i guess they are thinking if they need to go back to work, they might lose theirjobs if we don t turn up at the office. and there will be a real incentive to send their child back, but there are some any factors at play here, and i think it takes an outbreak in a school and the confidence will evaporate again. at definitely count myself as one of those pans of the wits end with home schooling, that s for sure. anyway, back to it on monday, can t wait. daily near, sunlight at the end of the tunnel. it s glorious weather out there for much of the country, brits are ready to go barbecue and picnic crazy, as temperatures hit 25 degrees this weekend. that will be certainly the daily mirror saying and good news for the economy as people go out and shop. this is a very happy headline from the daily mirror. the daily mirror obviously no particular friend of the current government being very very critical of the overall approach, but, yeah, as we head into what looks like another beautifully sunny weekends, you know, they are pointing towards light at the end of the tunnel. just as we are talking about schools, this is entirely dependent on whether or not when people start going out and about, start seeing their friends, start interacting in the way that normal life is supposed to be about, that we don t get the second spike. a story i heard last night on the back of the downing street press co nfe re nce of the downing street press conference was whilst the bubble was very concerned about what was being asked about dominic cummings, and the chief scientific officer, actually, the real world was zapping each other about the ability to get going with the barbecue. spikes and barbecue and food sales, all expected this weekend, but in that mirror story, there s the clear signalling again of the words of the chief scientific officer patrick balance that they are going to be keeping an eagle eye on whether or not the our rate starts to climb again. that s the warning really in the daily telegraph, isn t it? don t try to see family or friends this weekend, because we are not supposed to be seeing more than our families until monday. a lot of people no doubt will be questioning, well, why monday, what s so important about that day? why can t i see the loved ones that i ve been waiting to see for two and half months tomorrow? 0r sunday? well, because i think i m you know, the idea is that we follow the government guidance strictly, so this weekend, the police can find you, and try to breach the rules, and this change in the rules, which is that book can get together and outside spaces, only comes into effect for monday, and certainly, what ian was saying is correct, as soon what ian was saying is correct, as soon as what ian was saying is correct, as soon as that was announced that six people would be able to get together in parks or even in private gardens, for monday, my whatsapp was flooded with invitations to barbecues. my brother whom i am haven t seen in eight weeks. for her friends brother whom i am haven t seen in eight weeks. for herfriends haven t seen eight weeks. for herfriends haven t seen for eight weeks, it will be really interesting to see, you know, how people use this new freedom that they ve got, and which households they ve got, and which households they will choose to mingle with in they will choose to mingle with in the fresh air. not until monday. ian also warnings that will need to understand the overnight stays anywhere are still out of the question, people concerned that travellers will come in to beauty spots like the late district for example, and they are not prepared for it, but you think there does seem for it, but you think there does seem to be feeling that freedoms have been relaxed and people want to spread their wings now and are definitely going to be less cautious? look, there are politics at play here clearly, given the events of the past week and the big focus on dominic cummings actions, the government has clearly moved looking at some of the reports out of this age committee, it s clearly moved faster in terms of lifting the lock and the scientists from the experts if you like to look a little bit nervous. there was another kind of story on that front page of the daily telegraph talking about how greg clark, the former business secretary, one of the chairs of the select committee wants to see if the two metre rule can be relaxed, certainly in time forjune the 15th to be able to allow more businesses to be able to allow more businesses to trade, to allow more activity to ta ke to trade, to allow more activity to take place, but actually, we did a survey at cicero, we got it earlier this week looking at public attitudes across the four key european countries, and the vast majority of people, 85 or almost 95% of people think that we are going to be social distancing for at least 12 months, or until we get the vaccine. there is a sense of, you know, this is going to be the way we live for some time to come. put a hold on all of those weddings and other celebrations, there will be a large number of people. let s have a look at the facetime weekend ft weekend. this is amidst fears that unemployment could rise by 2 million by the second quarter of this year. it s going to be badly needed this, isn t it? yes. i think generation cobit is the generation that are really, really going to be hit by this. if it s young people, it s people under 30 who are always in the recession from their always the hardest hit byjob cuts, rishi soon at the chancellor saying that he plans to draw up a big job creation scheme i think is very very welcome. there aren t many details in the financial times of the front page of exactly what that job creation scheme would look like, but the very fact that it s been talked about but it s been thought about is hopeful it s optimistic. there is a little bit of talk that it might involve broadband and green energy projects, but not much beyond that. there s lots of talk that the education secretary, gavin williamson is drying up a skills package to retrain workers, because i think many, many workers are going to lose theirjobs, unfortunately. you know, as we come out of the furloughing scheme, and there will be industries harder hit than others by the new way that we are all going to have to live. i mean hospitality industry for instance is probably going to be very hard hits because it s difficult to see in some pubs and it s difficult to see in some pubs a nd restau ra nts it s difficult to see in some pubs and restaurants how you can still make a profit over. if you stop to keep two metres apart. so, the whole idea that people have to think, well, how can i make a living in this new world? what new skills do i need? what this new world? what new skills do i need ? what new jobs this new world? what new skills do i need? what newjobs might there be? and it s very good that ministers are starting to put their minds to this. there s also talk i think of a lot of volunteering schemes that may come on stream lot of volunteering schemes that may come on stream over lot of volunteering schemes that may come on stream over the summer to help young people and teenagers coming out of school looking for work. something to get them away from their screens, get them out of their houses where they have been in lockdown, because we know that mental health, good mental health is very tied to having jobs and kind of the sense that you have a purpose in life and you can earn a living. let s talk about the end of 30s, generation covid 19, and this is the under 30s of a survey of young people who say they do not feel in control of their lives. iain it s very worrying and very stark for this generation, isn t it? it really is. you know, once again, in a way, the millennial generation even younger as well now, are going to be hit like a hammer blow by the economics that rishi sunak we were just talking about him today the furlough scheme, now the real concern of furlough scheme, now the real concern of course furlough scheme, now the real concern of course that many of us in business every now and spend perhaps the most comprehensive economic package that we have seen from any government actually, and it s got a lot of praise from business groups, as business gets weaned off the apps support package, which looks like it s going to cost up to 100 billion, i mean, the numbers are just gigantic. what happens to those jobs and the trust is suggesting that 50% of 16-24 jobs and the trust is suggesting that 50% of 16 24 year olds are very concerned about theirjob prospects going forward, and 72% are saying in this story that they feel that their life is on hold. so this speech that we ve just been talking about, that you know, the chancellor who has been from i have to say incredibly impressive through this, andl incredibly impressive through this, and i think his poll ratings rather reflect that. this package that he unleashes is going to be so important, particularly for younger workers. well, we will see what is revealed in the coming days and weeks on plans to help them. let s have a look at a guardian s front page. mps have been deluged with angry e mails over dominic cummings and his breach of lockdown rules. tens of thousands of people have flooded their mps and what say is the biggest outpouring since brexit. that s according to a guardian analysis. sian, we have heard that from the past with mps commencing look, these are all my constituents are talking about from it seems that even though boris johnson are talking about from it seems that even though borisjohnson has drawn a line under it, many people haven t. that s right. i mean, it s days now since we have had that infamous press conference in downing street s rose garden, and still, as you say, even if borisjohnson is desperate to draw a line under this and to say, look, dominic cummings has said what he has to say about his breach of lockdown, let s all move on, stay in post, still, we are getting these stories, particularly in the left wing papers in the guardian and in the mirror, which reflect, i think, guardian and in the mirror, which reflect, ithink, a guardian and in the mirror, which reflect, i think, a continuing public anger at what they see as one rule for the elites and another rule for, you know, the ordinary person on the street. so, tens of thousands of people have been writing to their mps, hundred and 17 mps the guardian has surveyed, and they have received 32,000 e mails between them, and of course, they include conservative mps, so we ve got roger gail, 700 e mails, and really, still wants dominic cummings to step down or be sacked. well, given that boris johnson has said it s time to move on, ian, as a pr guru, what is your ta ke on, ian, as a pr guru, what is your take on this, as he and dominic cummings weathered the storm now, is it pretty much over? it s dying out. i ve been talking to mps all the way through this process, and conservatives all the way through this process in the past. many of them are kind of ban in despair, dominic cummings really we nt in despair, dominic cummings really went into the rose garden on bank holiday monday rate at the start of the week s send. i should have addressed these issues the minute this story appeared. so in terms of the way the communications have been handled, you know, it s not been a great show. i m going into day eight of this story, albeit it is dying out, it should have been addressed all fronts, and a lot of people were trying to say to me, oh, this is an on demand bubble story. nobody really cares about her. well, i don t think so. you know, watching both the news bulletins and actually, the mailbag that the papers are pointing to, there are a lot of mps including conservative mps that think that this has been a really, really bad sign, a bad signal, and of course, i m sure kier starmer at prime minister s questions when parliament is back in the coming week is going to be asking lots of questions about this whole affair. a quick look at the daily mirror. printing plans for travis to the uk and cas. sian, this is about plans that are supposed to include everybody letting his coming into the country from another country in britain going into quenching for two weeks, but actually the police can t enforce it. yes cimino, this is a fairly disastrous story, really. these plans are supposed to be coming into force injust ten plans are supposed to be coming into force in just ten days time, plans are supposed to be coming into force injust ten days time, and they do seem pretty critical, really. they are the plans that eve ryo ne really. they are the plans that everyone who is flying into perdition airports will have to self isolate once they get here have to go into quarantine for 11; days. and this is of christian make sure that if they come in and they are carrying the virus, they don t spread its, and quarantine period, you know, is the period that one needs to make sure that they don t transmit it. now the daily mail has front page story saying, well, the border police can t enforce it, the police can t enforce the system. it s not going to work. anyway, their loads of exemptions and all kinds of people can come and who don t have to be quarantined like, i don t have to be quarantined like, i don t know, but gas bidders and electricians are the groups that they name. but really you know, we need this. most of the countries, many other countries handle the virus and handle this pandemic much more successfully than we have, put this kind of system in place really early on. they closed their borders, they quarantine people who are flying in, and as a result, they managed to control the spread of the virus were much more than we have donein virus were much more than we have done in britain. so the idea that even before we try and do this, it s not going to work is pretty hopeless i think. just before he let you look at the times front page photo of the solid, sunny spring of recommended has been the bright spot of the past two and half months of lockdown, hasn t it? it seems a bit of a mixed idea, doesn t it? the sun on the front page of the times if you know what i mean. i think whether there the weather has certainly been great here in the uk, quite phenomenal. i have no idea whether or not the fact that there aren t so many planes around and there s not so many planes around and there s not so many many planes around and there s not so many ca rs many planes around and there s not so many cars around whether or an art that has had an impact on our weather, certainly it s had a positive impact on pollution levels, but no, this, according to the met office, it s the hottest may on record. it s the best spring since potentially 1929 when of course another major economic event happened, but it was my birthday yesterday. happy birthday! we managed to get out and have a picnic and that was very nice. lovely, we would buy you a cake if we would ve known. if either of your having a barbecue this weekend, enjoy that, enjoy the sunshine, whatever you re doing. things very much for taking us through the papers, iain and sian. thank you. thank you very much for watching. you can reach on twitter. goodbye for now. the match which could see liverpool win their first premier league title that evening with the latest from sports centre. the match which could see liverpool win their first premier league title could be held at a netural venue, according to the national lead for football policing. up to four matches involving liverpool could be moved, with six across the league in total, on health and safety grounds according to deputy chief constable mark roberts. the merseyside derby and liverpool s games against manchester city plus newcastle are the others. man utd vs sheffield utd and man city vs newcastle are the other two games. any changes would be at the request of local police forces. neil atkinson from the anfield rap feels football fans should be trusted to adhere to governement guidelines. i think that the vast majority of people whether they support liverpool or manchester united or anyone else, firstly, they have adhered to the lockdown and the guidelines as people so far. so we end up in the situation where now, when those people become football supporters and newcomers there is an expectation that behaviour will be different. the lockdown in general has been liberalised, so right now, football supporters would be held to a higher standard than the average person who is going about their day to day business. the leicester manager brendan rodgers has revealed he contracted coronavirus back in march the second premier league manager to confirm he s had it. speaking to the bbc, he said it left him struggling to walk after developing symptoms a week after the top flight was suspended. i really struggled, then we got to that, my wife was the same as well. so we ended up getting tested and both of us were detected with the virus, sol both of us were detected with the virus, so i haven t experienced that a little bit in the restlessness of its commit reminded me of when i climbed kilimanjaro, the higheryou go, the suffering from the clementines asian of getting the breath, and that s what i felt like. you know, walking like ten yards felt very very different. the new spfl premiership season will start on the weekend of 1 august if scotland is in phase two of the pandemic route map. it follows talks between the governing body and the sports ministerjoe fitzpatrick. the sfa will also lift the suspension of football for premiership clubs from 11 june to allow clubs to resume training. talks will continue regarding the resumption of lower league football. england cricketer alex hales has been left out of a 55 man squad who have been asked to return to training ahead of what could be a busy summer. hales hasn t played for england since being removed from the world cup squad in may last year for an off field incident. the squad includes 11! debutants plus reece topley, who hasn t played for england in four years after injury problems. england will likely seperate a test and limited overs squad to cope with the number of matches they ll face. andy murray will play as one of the eight best british players in a behind closed doors battle of the brits competition organised by his brother jamie murray next month. it will be the first competitive domestic event to take place since the suspension of tennis. he told the bbc‘s tennis correspondent russell fuller the players are taking it seriously. yeah, i mean, it will become yeah, for sure. the guys have been, you know, trash talking on the group chat i would say over the last 5 6 weeks. so you know, they are right up weeks. so you know, they are right upfor weeks. so you know, they are right up for it. you know, it s a chance for each player to put one over on the other guys. so, yeah, it will be fun, they are fired up, like i said, gives them something to focus on and train towards. you know, help them prepare for getting back on the tour whenever that resumes. and for good cause to, jimmy, i know you said he will place a certain amount to the nhs charities together. definitely. we are going to be able to raise a lot of money for the nhs charities for key workers, front line workers and, yeah, i mean, ithink it s workers, front line workers and, yeah, i mean, i think it s a good cause, and obviously come at a time when a lot of people you know, are putting a lot of hard yards for the nation, i think it s important that we appreciate that respect that and great to be able to raise money for them. the williams formula 1 team are up for sale with the coronavirus pandemic one of many factors resulting in the decision. williams finished last in the constructors championship for the second year running last year and made a £13 million loss. formula one is facing a significant loss of income due to the lack of racing this year, with the sports bosses hoping a shorter season could start at the beginning ofjuly in austria. and the british motogp has been cancelled due to the pandemic. it was due to take place from the 28th to the 30th of august at silverstone. five races this season have been cancelled while others have been postponed, with the season currently set to start in spain on the 19th ofjuly. that s all the sport for now. we are in for a very warm and very sunny weekend. in fact, hardly a cloud in the sky. the uv levels will also be high rate across the country. so if you are planning to make the most of the weather outdoors, take notes. now, this is what it looks like on the weather map. a big high pressure clearing disguise across a large chunk of the continent, scandinavia, western, central europe, and of course across the uk. so hardly any cloud in the sky during the course of saturday morning and saturday afternoon. the winds are very light as well, hence it s going to feel very warm. temperatures will get up to around 25 degrees in london, we will probably hit 25 in western scotland as well. a fine evening on the way. that means that sunday morning is looking sunny and calm, light winds and every bit as warm. temperatures could get up to around about 26 degrees even in some spots of western england. bye bye. this is bbc news. i m samantha simmonds with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. a police officer sacked over the death of george floyd has been charged with murder. after three nights of rioting over his killing in minneapolis, a night time curfew will take effect in two hours. president trump offers his sympathy to george floyd s family. he says he said he wants justice for them and calls on protestors to hold peaceful demonstrations. i spoke with his family today. terrific people. i think it s so bad for the memory when you see a thing like that going on, and hopefully that won t happen tonight. as you know, the national guard has arrived. from august, businesses in the uk will have to start sharing the cost of the government s furloughing
the killing of the african american george floyd all four police officers who were present when he died now face criminal charges. 46 year old george floyd died in minneapolis last week after he was pinned to the ground by his neck for nine minutes. george floyd mattered. he was loved. his family was important. his life had value. and we will seekjustice for him and for you and we will find it. thousands took to the streets in london today, as protests at his death spread around the world. we ll have the latest on the arrests from minneapolis. also tonight. a german prisoner is identified as a new suspect in the madeleine mccann case, 13 years after she disappeared in portugal. this is the camper van used by the unnamed man detectives believe he was in the area when the three year old went missing. from monday, people arriving in the uk will have for m days but the government s plans are criticised from all sides. lecture theatres will remain almost empty this autumn, as universities prepare for a return to campus, with students living and studying in small groups. mummy! and the moment an nhs medic was reunited with her daughters after two months away, working on hospital coronavirus wards. and in sport on bbc news, american ryder cup captain steve stricker says fans would be cheated if they event goes ahead without them this september. good evening. all four police officers who were present when george floyd was arrested in the us city of minneapolis are now facing charges in connection with his death. derek chauvin, the officer who was filmed kneeling on his neck, has had his charge elevated to second degree murder. the three other police officers who were there have all been charged with aiding and abetting murder. george floyd s death has sparked huge protests in cities across america. the vast majority of demonstrations over the past eight days have been peaceful, but some have turned violent. today the us defence secretary, mark esper, distanced himself from president trump s suggestion that the military could be deployed to end protests over the death of george floyd. our north america correspondent barbara plett usher is in minneapolis. it has been quite a day here. i m at the memorial site for george floyd and earlier his son quincy and that lawyer passed through and flagged up that they were expecting new charges and one of the key once they have been demanding is that all four officers be charged. that has happened now, the sun has welcomed that and as we were hearing the people chanting, we got all four, we got all four. that has been one of the key rallying cries for the protest through the weak point of this is how things played out. for the past week protesters have been demanding justice for george floyd, tougher action against the police officers who arrested him. there has been frustration, sadness and pain. but today finally some news. the very fact that we have failed these charges means we believe in them but what i do not 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. these are the four officers who arrested george floyd to ponder the one who pinned him to the ground with the knee to the neck what he struggled to breathe was charged but not the others who are now formally accused of playing a role in his death. today, the family returned to the memorial on the street corner where mr floyd took his last breath. speedy through their lawyer, they have been calling for the authorities to carry out a thorough investigation into the actions of the police force. we cannot have two justice systems in america, one black america and one for white america. we must have equaljustice for the united states of america. protests that began on the streets of minneapolis are spread across the country. in demonstrations not seen since the civil rights unrest of the 19605. since the civil rights unrest of the 1960s. hundreds of thousands of people marched, defying curfews, clashing with the police, chanting, i can t breathe and black lives matter. the table brought a threat from the president to deploy that military, is an aria that so alarmed the defence secretary he publicly opposed it. that option 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. the mother of george floyd s six year old daughter said he had been a good father who provided for them. he will never see her grow up, graduate, he will never walk her down the aisle. for charges announced today it may bring justice for mr floyd but they will not be enough to quell the demands for a radical reform of the way america polices black people. this feels different from previous protests against police brutality. it has galvanised more people across more divides than ever before, a movement against racial injustice that will not be easily silenced. the attorney general admitted that the justice system has failed, he said, in investigating and bringing to justice other cases like this in minnesota but also across america which is quite an extraordinary statement. but george floyd s family are looking forjustice and hoping that this will play out in a way that this will play out in a way that does bring a fair accountability to what happened and the prosecution will be closely watched. but what will also be watched. but what will also be watched is what happens on the street, where the cases of police brutality continue and how they are handled. the lawyer wants this to be a pivotal moment, he called it a tipping point, but it will depend on what happens going forward. george floyd s name is the latest in a long list of black americans to die as a result of police brutality over many decades. clive myrie now looks at how a toxic mix of racism and bad policing has led to the most serious racial unrest in the us for many years. his report contains images you may find disturbing. america s original sin perpetuates. the notion of the supremacy of whiteness over blackness as enshrined in slavery. where the negroes have come up against a determined white resistance, fighting has often broken out. it helps underpin the brutality of some in the police. it helps underpin the poverty of the inner city. and it fundamentally underpins the racial inequality of a land. ..where all are meant to be equal. i have been reporting from the united states for almost a quarter of a century. it a generous nation but, for some, the original sin is still a rule to live by, as slavery morphed into segregation and civil war battle flags became the proud emblems of identity. hail, hail, state police! perhaps inevitably, the institution charged for centuries with enforcing discrimination is the one having the toughest time changing. policing in america is opaque. there is little transparency. powerful unions can protect bad cops and the principle of qualified immunity means officers accused of misconduct are almost always given the benefit of the doubt. i think that there are bad apples among many good police officers in most departments. but the fact that they don t get outed, quickly, and dismissed, is a problem. the fact that a lot of these people who do get dismissed because of misconduct quickly find themselves recruited by other police departments in neighbouring communities, theyjust go from one place to another. it also doesn t help that america s policing system is fragmented to the point of farce, with around 18,000 different forces. in california, training can last 24 48 weeks while in north carolina, it isjust 16 weeks, half the length of time it takes to become a licensed barber in the state. whatever the training, the real life fear of stopping a suspect who may be armed in a country awash with guns can lead to bad decisions. this is atlanta in georgia. it s after curfew during protests over the death of george floyd. police stop a car with two college students inside, who protest they simply got stuck in traffic and didn t mean to break the curfew. the officers aren t convinced. the students are tasered. you can hear the tension and fear in the officer s voice. muffled shouting. but the students are unarmed. six officers now face misconduct charges. rogue cops, inadequate training and weak oversight are a toxic mix. then add racism a scourge in america that sleeps lightly when it sleeps at all. to wake, all it needs is the slightest provocation, as happened on a minneapolis street one day in may. clive myrie, bbc news. here, thousands of people have taken to the streets of london to join in the protests at the death of george floyd. the event was organised by the black live matters group and began in hyde park. chi chi izundu was there. the gesture of a generation. a protest against needless death. thousands gathered at london s hyde park to march against racism in solidarity with the protests in the united states. this is louise, her mum margaret and her son jago. louise says she dreads the day when she will have to sit her son down and explain why he may face discrimination. the truth of the matter is i will have to have that difficult conversation. and i will have to say there are certain things you should do and certain things you should say and be mindful of who you are, your race and how people might see you and judge you and treat you. judgment and treatment helped by star wars actorjohn boyega. black lives have always mattered. we have always been important. we have always meant something. we have always succeeded. and now is the time. people here are angry, they say this has been a long time coming and that the death of george floyd in minneapolis in the united states isjust a catalyst to express how they are feeling. they say that the uk is no different when it comes to racism. it was a largely peaceful protest but towards the end of this was at downing street and after the protest was officially over, more clashes. organisers thought only up to 1000 people would walk with them today, so this is a turnout of support they didn t expect. black lives matter! this is a demand for change echoing around the world, and the voices from the uk also want to be heard. chi chi izundu, bbc news. a german prisoner has been identified as a new suspect in the disappearance of madeline mccann from a holiday resort in portugal 13 years ago. the man in his 40s is a convicted sex offender who had been living in the algarve at the time, travelling around in a camper van. tonight, detectives in germany made a television appeal for more information. madeleine mccann was three years old when she went missing from praia de luz in 2007. here s our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford. this is the volkswagen camper van that was by the new suspect in the madeleine mccann investigation. with its distinctive colours, police hope it will tread that someone s memory and lead to new evidence about their as yet unnamed suspect. trigger tri er someone s trigger someone s memory. he used the vehicle to live in, and certainly the week preceding he was in there, living, so he would move around the area, using that van as probably his base. the suspect also used this jaguar car at the time. he registered the car into someone else s name the day after madeleine mccann disappeared. the three year old went missing on may the 3rd 2007. she d been sleeping in her parents holiday apartment while they were 50 metres away, having a meal with friends. her 17th birthday was last month. on the german version of crimewatch this evening, police there revealed that the suspect has previous convictions for sexually assaulting girls and is thought to have burgled hotels and holiday apartments. he is currently in prison in germany. his phone was used in praia de luz, about an hour before madeleine mccann disappeared. tonight, the metropolitan police are asking for anyone who can help with information about the mobile number he took the call on that night. the vw camper van that he was using that summer and the old jaguar xjr6 that he registered out of his name the day after madeleine mccann disappeared. in a statement, her parents, kate and gerry mccann, seen here in 2007, said they d like to thank the police forces involved in britain, germany and portugal. they said they d never give up hope of finding madeleine alive. the german police said that theirs is a murder investigation, but madeleine mccann s parents said that, whatever the outcome is, they need to know what happened, as they need to find peace. and danieljoins me now. this is such a long running mystery but how significant do you think this development could be?” but how significant do you think this development could be? i think it isa this development could be? i think it is a really big moment. you have three police forces in germany, britain and portugal all agreeing that this man is a key suspect. he isa that this man is a key suspect. he is a person that was living in the area at the time, whose mobile phone was being used in the town that evening, a man whose car was registered out of his name into someone registered out of his name into someone else s registered out of his name into someone else s name registered out of his name into someone else s name and he then left the country soon afterwards. the metropolitan police describe this as a significant moment but frankly i think it is the biggest breakthrough there has been in this case since it began. and importantly of course, the man is in prison in germany already so it does not have to be hunted down. there could still be bumps in the road, sometimes evidence that seems certain becomes less so but i think at the moment this looks really significant. daniel sandford, thank you. from monday, anyone arriving in the uk will have go into quarantine for a fortnight that s what the home secretary confirmed today. but the new plans have been heavily criticised by mps on all sides, including senior conservatives. almost everyone will now have to to self isolate when they come to the uk. priti patel said that people in england could face a fine of up to £1,000 if they break the rules, or even face prosecution. she accepted the new policy would mean challenges for the tourism industry but she said the measures were necessary to contain the virus and the country owed it to the thousands of people who have died. it comes as 359 more deaths have been recorded in the uk in the last 2a hours. the death toll now stands at 39,728. here s our transport correspondent, tom burridge. the experience for people arriving into the uk is about to change. from monday, almost everyone will be expected to self isolate for two weeks. so, what does it mean for holidays this summer? should anyone be booking a holiday anywhere in europe right now? what is your assessment? are holidays abroad this summer going to happen? you know what the foreign office guidance is, the guidance is that everybody at the moment should avoid nonessential travel. everybody should avoid nonessential travel. we have got to knock this virus on the head. so, how will quarantine work? when you book your ticket for a plane, train orferry abroad, you ll have to provide a uk address when you will self isolate when you return. when home, you will have to spend two weeks at that address. government officials will carry out random checks to see if people are self isolating. anyone who breaks the rules might have to pay a £1000 fine. enforcement rules might differ in scotland, wales and northern ireland. airlines say the quarantine adds uncertainty, and the boss of one of the world s biggest travel websites told me brits are looking but not booking. we saw in the uk a lot of searches of people, britons, who want to travel outside, but they are not booking like in the other countries because they don t know what will happen when they have to come back. tens of thousands of people travelled into the uk during the lockdown. the government insists the quarantine wouldn t have been effective at the height of the pandemic because any cases imported would not have had any real impact on the overall prevalence of the virus. labour and conservative backbenchers disagree. unfortunately, like too much of the home office handling of this crisis, the management of arrivals to the united kingdom has lacked urgency and coherence. i m afraid i simply cannot get my head around the public health mental gymnastics of this policy. if such a barrier was required, why was it not introduced earlier in the outbreak? portugal wants brits to travel there this summer and says it is negotiating with the uk so, byjuly, people might not have to self isolate when they travel home. tom burridge, bbc news. our chief political correspondent, vicki young, is in westminster. and a lot of questions about whether this quarantine plan is enforceable. many conservatives i spoke to today are perplexed about why this is going ahead. they are not sure it is enforcea ble going ahead. they are not sure it is enforceable and i think the timing is illogical, because the uk has more cases than most other european countries, and they are very concerned about job losses countries, and they are very concerned aboutjob losses in the aviation industry and in the tourism sector. even theresa may, the former prime minister, pitched in, saying this amounted to closing off britain from the rest of the world, but downing street is determined to press ahead, they think it will be effective, they think people want these extra measures and they want to stop reinfection. there will be a review at the end of the month and many mps are looking for some flexibility but, as things stand, a real question over a foreign summer holiday. and we saw mps in the house of commons but tonight news of another cabinet minister now self isolating. another cabinet minister now self-isolating. yes, business secretary alok sharma, you can see him in the house of commons at the dispatch box, clearly something not right. he is wiping sweat from his face throughout the speech. a spokesman said he started to feel u nwell spokesman said he started to feel unwell in the chamber. he did then leave and he is self isolating to stop he has been tested for coronavirus but hasn t the result yet. many mps have seized on this, saying they don t think they should have been forced back to parliament and they want to keep on working remotely. the commons authorities say they followed procedures and did extra cleaning, the things you re supposed to do if there is a suspected case of covid i spoke to the minister who sat next alok sharma most of today and he said they were social distancing at all times. the prime minister pledged last month that the uk would have a world beating test and trace system up and running by the 1st ofjune, capable of tracking 10,000 new cases a day. but the woman who s been put in charge of it told mps today that she couldn t say what proportion of tests come back in 2a hours, or how many people have been contact traced, because the scheme has only been up and running for six days and the data s not been validated. here s our health editor, hugh pym. if you test positive, nhs test and trace will contact you to trace people you might have infected. with the government advertising the new tracing system in england, there is a continuing debate over whether it is actually working. some contact tracers hired to call people who have met those who tested positive say they have had nothing to do since the launch last thursday, including one who wanted to be anonymous who spoke to the bbc‘s victoria derbyshire. it s frustrating to know that i am sat idle when there is people that need contacting. i can t understand why we haven t had any contacts. and the issue was raised at prime minister s questions. the prime minister promised that we will have a test, track and trace operation that will be world beating and yes, it will be in place by the 1st ofjune. but it isn t. as a result of our test, track and trace system, which was up and running on the 1st ofjune, as i said, mr speaker, contrary to what he said, which was up and running, as a result of their efforts, thousands of people are now following our guidance. there were also heated parliamentary exchanges about testing for the virus, with a commons select committee pressing the system s boss to tell them how many results came back within 2a hours. i don t think there is any citizen service of this scale that would launch and within six days share 24 hour turnaround data. the chair was not impressed. thatjust can t be right. you re telling me you don t actually know how many tests come back within 24 hours and you re in charge of nhs test and trace. no, i have not had the data validated. so, you ve got data but it has not been validated? i have not the data validated by the authority who has expressed concern over previous testing data. rob, who is in a care home, had to wait three weeks for a result after one test was invalid because of a long delay and had to be repeated. it was negative but a friend told me the experience had been upsetting. i just feel really angry because he hasn t got a voice. the home have been absolutely brilliant but it isjust the length of time waiting which has been really traumatic on him as a vulnerable person. the prime minister said by the end ofjune all test results would be back in 2a hours but the trials of a smartphone tracing app are continuing. billed as a key part of the system, it may now not go live for several more weeks. hugh pym, bbc news. rolls royce has revealed the extent ofjob cuts in the uk. 3,000 job losses are expected by the end of this year, with half of them expected to be at its derby based headquarters. a further 700 jobs will be lost at its plant in inchinnan near glasgow. it s due to a downturn in the aviation industry because of the coronavirus pandemic. the firm has begun the process by offering voluntary redundancy to everyone across its uk civil aerospace division. nissan has warned that its plant in sunderland will be unsustainable if the uk fails to agree a trade deal with the european union. the japanese company says the jobs of the 6,000 workers there won t be safe without tariff free access to the eu. our business editor, simonjack, joins me now. this comesjust a this comes just a week after good news for the plant in sunderland. cup last week nissan a massive global cost cutting exercise which saw plants closing barcelona and indonesia but not at sunderland. there was an idea floated that its partner and 43% shareholder renault could move some production in to ta ke could move some production in to take up spare capacity and it seemed that, come what may, the future of sunderland was secured. now renault have said they had no such plans to move production in and then nissan said, without those tariffs, at the moment, 70% of the because they make are sold in europe, if they don t get terra free access, that would not be sustainable this is what the chief operating officer had to say. if chief operating officer had to say. if they don t get tariff free access. if we are not getting the current tariffs, it s not our intention, the business will not be sustainable. that s what everybody has to understand. very importantly, i think, at the government, whose negotiators are currently negotiating the trade deal. the talks are not going well and the two sides are far apart. a reminder that, as all encompassing as covid 19 is, it hasn t thrown the brexit issue, it hasn t got rid of itand, if brexit issue, it hasn t got rid of it and, if anything, it s made getting the trade deal more important. all schools in wales will reopen on the 29thjune for all schoolchildren, but only a third of pupils will be allowed in school at any one time. the welsh government has extended the summer term by one week. our wales correspondent, hywel griffith, reports. it s a maths test facing every welsh school how will they bring back a third of their pupils without breaking the two metre rule? there s room for only six pupils. the head teacher of ysgol rhyd y grug in aberfan is struggling for answers. they ve started redesigning classrooms, but can t fit in enough desks. the official guidance doesn t come until next week, but this is not what he d been expecting. to be told today that we ve got to prepare for every age range in the school has been a bit of a body blow. if we go down the route of having a third of the children in for one day, two days, then how is that deep cleaning going to happen between those different groups of children in order to make their learning environment safe? some teaching unions have gone further, saying offering contact time to every pupil is dangerous, even risking lives a charge the welsh government dismisses. it is not helpful, i think, at this stage, to have inflammatory language. i would do nothing, and i have done nothing from this entire period, when we closed schools for statutory purposes, to do anything to risk anybody s life. attendance won t be compulsory. families can decide if they want a place, which has created a dilemma for sian and her son, evan. she says he needs a return to routine but is worried about social distancing. is it going to be regimented? they have to go here, they have to stand there, they re not allowed to go and interact with their peers. are they allowed to go and have a cuddle off their teacher if they fall over? if they take a place or not this term, families are being warned this may be the shape of schooling in september, too, as everyone tries to calculate the safest way to learn. hywel griffith, bbc news, aberfan. meanwhile, universities are trying to work out what student life will be like when campuses reopen in the autumn. social distancing could mean that students are forced to live and study in the same small group, or bubble , with online lectures and even a virtual freshers week. danjohnson has been speaking to a level students in loughborough who are considering their options. i m hoping to study english at bristol university. i m hoping to go to leicester to study physiotherapy. i m hoping to study business management at york university. imagine making one of life s biggest decisions, when everything is up in the air. i did consider deferring. the worst thing i could do would be to take a gap year, and then i can t go on and do the things i wanted to do. if i m not going to get away from home, is there any point in paying all that money, if it is not something that i 100% want to do? i am also nervous about the idea of losing out on the student experience a bit, because i feel like that is a big part of university. and across the road at loughborough university. so, welcome to our brand new unused 580 seater lecture theatre. ..even the most modern facilities already feel redundant. we miss our students and we are keen to have them back and give them the best experience we can, given the current government restrictions, so we may not get 580 in, but we could probably get 50 or 60 in. the timetable s being redrawn to help social distancing, and students may have to live and study with the same small group, to limit who they mix with. freshers week is going online, like most of the lectures no wonder some are reconsidering. i would just urge students if they are thinking about deferring, is not to make that decision just yet. gather as much information as possible before making that final determination. a lot will change between now and september. they will go through an airport style scanner, which measures their temperature. a lot‘s changed already here in bolton, as they ve tried to keep students on campus. fortunately i have cleared so i can go through. what we have done is followed all the social distancing guidelines and rules for workplaces, and indeed for social space to ensure that that students have got a covid secure environment. these students are valuable, especially if international numbers fall, so universities need to ease their anxiety. it is stressful and it is, it is confusing at times, but, there is not, you ve sort of got to get on with it. you do pay a lot of money to be there, you are put in a lot of debt afterwards. the idea of going through all that and not quite getting what you hoped
this is bbc news. welcome if you re watching here in the uk, on pbs in america or around the globe. i m mike embley. our top stories: a stark warning from president trump that he will deploy the army to end the widespread protests across the country triggered by the death in police custody of the unarmed african american, george floyd. if a city or a state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then i will deploy the united states military, and quickly solve the problem for them. in minneapolis, the official post mortem examination finds the death was a homicide. the victim s brother tells demonstrators violence would not bring the changes the black community deserves. my family is a peaceful family, my family is god fearing. let s do this another way. let s stop thinking that our voice don t matter, and vote! protests against police brutality continue. at least a0 cities and washington dc have imposed curfews, with a heavy police presence at the white house. moments after he threatened to deploy thousands and thousands of us troops against the protests and riots that have engulfed dozens of american cities, president trump has been on an extraordinary walkabout through downtown washington dc. he eventually stopped for photos, holding a bible, in front of the so called church of presidents, damaged in the disturbances. a peaceful protest outside the white house was tear gassed by police to clear the president s path. earlier he d told state governors they must dominate the protests and get much tougher. the death of george floyd, in minneapolis, which sparked the latest unrest, has now officially been declared a homicide. the following measures are going into effect immediately. first, we are ending the riots and lawlessness that has spread throughout our country. we will end it now. today, i have strongly recommended to every governor to deploy the national guard in sufficient numbers that we dominate the streets. mayors and governors must establish an overwhelming law enforcement presence until the violence has been quelled. if a city or state refuses to take the actions that are necessary to defend the life and property of their residents, then i will deploy the united states military and quickly solve the problem for them. i am also taking swift and decisive action to protect our great capital, washington, dc. what happened in this city last night was a total disgrace. as we speak, i am dispatching thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers, military personnel and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting, looting, vandalism, assaults, and the wanton destruction of property. we are putting everybody on warning, our 7 o clock curfew will be strictly enforced. those who threaten innocent life and property will be arrested, detained and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. i want the organisers of this terror to be on notice that you will face severe criminal penalties, and lengthy sentences injail. this includes antifa and others who are leading instigators of this violence. one law and order. and that is what it is one law. we have one beautiful law. and once that is restored and fully restored, we will help you, we will help your business and we will help your family. america is founded upon the rule of law. it is the foundation of our prosperity, our freedom and our very way of life, but where there is no law, there is no opportunity. where there is nojustice, there is no liberty. where there is no safety, there is no future. we must never give in to anger or hatred. if malice or violence reigns, then none of us is free. i take these actions today with firm resolve and with a true and passionate love for our country. by far our greatest days lie ahead. the official post mortem examination of george floyd has declared his death a homicide as a result of compression to the neck while being restrained. the official report was published shortly after an examination commissioned by the floyd family, concluded he died from asphyxiation. earlier, his brother, terence, spoke at the scene of his arrest. in every case of police brutality, the same thing has been happening. y all protest, y all destroy stuff and, if they don t move, nobody don t move, because it s not their stuff, it s our stuff? so they want us to destroy our stuff. they re not going to move. let s do this another way. terrence floyd there, the brother of george floyd. professor rachael vanlandingham is a retired air force lieutena nt colonel and security expert at southwestern law school, she joins me from los angeles. thank you very much for your time. lots of people are wondering whether the president can actually do what he is threatening to do, or says he has already started to do. people are talking about the insurrection act of 1807. well, the insurrection act of 18 seven, which replaced the previous militia act, but has not been used in such a situation since president lincoln called forth the militia to put down the so called insurrection that started and prompted the civil war. so the insurrection act is a mechanism that operates, it is federal statute, based on congress constitutional authority under article one. it authorises the president to use federal troops, federal military troops, including, he can federalised the state ‘s national guard is, to enforce domestic law within the united states. but there are three different predicates for using that, for using this authority. first, which is most typical, is at the request of a state, usually the state governor. in 1992 the state governor here in los angeles, where i live, called and requested help from the first president bush to put down the 1992 riots that erupted because of the unfair acquittal, i m just erupted because of the unfair acquittal, i mjust acquittal of the killers of rodney king, again, police officers. two, the president can make a determination that rebellion or obstruction of federal law is preventing, or that state authorities themselves are preventing the compliance of federal law. that is what president eisenhower and president eisenhower and president kennedy relied on, that authority, to enforce segregation and call forth the us military to enforce, excuse me, desegregation, of course, in the late 1950s and early 19605, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and alabama, mississippi and arkansas. that brings us to the third situation. this is one that we have not yet had in the united states under the insurrection act. that is an authority the president can find that there is some kind of insurrection which is domestic violence or an unlawful combination thereof, which threatens the enforcement of federal law, and deprives citizens of their federal rights, deprives citizens of the total rights. but is rather broad, and i do not think the situation right now has risen to the level of anything like the 1992 riots. for example, in los angeles, in which we had over 2000 individuals seriously injured, 63 people died, almost 4000 fires were set, 1000 buildings destroyed. that was the point at which the governor of california requested for federal forces to of california requested for federalforces to come of california requested for federal forces to come in. of california requested for federalforces to come in. we don t have that in the united states, and what is important to remember is that the state governors have their own local law enforcement, they have the ability to call forth their national guard, the militia, the citizen soldiers can engage in law enforcement and have a long and proud tradition since the founding of this nation of helping enforce domestic law and keep the peace. and state governors, especially after katrina, hurricane katrina in 2005, engaged in and implemented different prostate agreements, so that they can request help from fellow state governors to send those other state national guards and to augment their own. because there is a fear, a deep seated fear that goes back to the federalist papers, to the founding fathers of the united states, and mothers, of the standing army, the us military, the federal military being deployed against us citizens. the standing army was always something to be feared as a threat to democracy and it was to be kept small and used for foreign wars, not internal use in the united states. so there isa in the united states. so there is a fear that president trump is a fear that president trump is using this politically, but he is fear mongering and using the military as, essentially, a proper, which does such a horrible disservice and disgrace and deflects from the tragic murder and death of mr floyd and detracts from the alternate message, the issue here, which is institutionalised, systemic racism in the united states, that president trump has u nfortu nately that president trump has unfortunately contributed to and condoned. i m happy to a nswer and condoned. i m happy to answer other questions. professor, i will have to ask you to be brief on this one, though i know that these are complicated matters that you have to be precise, deep president is also talking about designating this so called antifa a terrorist organisation. there are problems with that, aren t there, quite apart from the fa ct there, quite apart from the fact that antifa is not an organisation? there are huge problems. what he did was meaningless, completely symbolic. it has no legal teeth. under us federal law, and under us supreme court jurisprudence, there is a us federal law that allows the state department or the president to list a foreign terrorist organisation to be a terrorist organisation to be a terrorist organisation, and therefore anyone known to provide material support to such an organisation, that is a crime, a federal crime under us federal law. however, he is not allowed to name any domestic organisation, if antifa, this was collective of seemingly autonomous groups is actually an organisation. nobody can be arrested for belonging to a domestic group. we have freedom of assembly. congress tried to do that during the horrible mccarthy days of anti communism in the smith act, and the supreme court said, not so fast. it is only allowed for foreign terrorist organisations and there are no indications that this is an organisation or that this is an organisation or that it that this is an organisation or thatitis that this is an organisation or that it is foreign. therefore nobody can be arrested for a crime in the us for being a so called member of antifa. they can, however, just like the white aryan brotherhood, or the white aryan brotherhood, or the other white supremacist groups, which have not had president trump label is a terrorist organisation even though they were in cha rlottesville though they were in charlottesville and have been protesting on state capitals on the governors keeping their own people safe, they can be arrested if they actually commita arrested if they actually commit a crime. they can be arrested for the conduct, if they are engaging in assault or battery or property vandalism, or otherwise committing crimes. that is when individuals can be arrested for, not for belonging to an organisation. this is the united states, president trump, andi united states, president trump, and i really hope our courts and i really hope our courts and our law enforcement and our military keep it that way. professor, very briefly, if you can, there are people wondering if what the president is really seeking is martial law. well, if he is seeking it, it is unconstitutional. and i really had the military would say no and say that is an unlawful order. that hope. martial law is the actual taking of of local governance, taking over the courts, taking over law enforcement. even if he invoked the insurrection act, but does not allow him to engage in martial law, it does not allow the military to engage in martial law. they still have to obey the same rules and constitutional restrictions regarding proper use of force. they can t just regarding proper use of force. they can tjust go in and start shooting people, because they are engaged in his protest, right? they can arrest people, and if someone poses a serious risk of imminent, and imminent serious risk of deadly or serious risk of deadly or serious harm to an individual, toa serious harm to an individual, to a police officer or a national guardsman, or to a civilian, that is when deadly force can be used. it is the same exact standard as applies to local law enforcement, and to local law enforcement, and to the police, i would sure hope our us military is going to exercise even more self discipline than what our police have been exercising over the last days and decades and months. professor, thank you so much for your expertise and your insights. stay with us. much more to come on bbc news. the queen and her husband began their royal progress westminster. the moment of crowning, in accordance with the order of service, by a signal given, the great guns of the tower. tributes have been paid around the world to muhammad ali, who has died at the age of 74. outspoken but rarely outfought, ali transcended the sport of boxing, of which he was three times world champion. he was a real fighter and he fought all the way to the end, even through his illness. yes, he did. uefa imposes an indefinite ban on english clubs playing in europe. today is the 20th anniversary of the release of the beatles lp, sergeant pepper s lonely hearts club band, a record described as the album of the century. this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: president trump visits the washington church damaged by protesters, after issuing a stark warning that he will deploy the army to end the demonstrations triggered by the death of the unarmed african american, george floyd. protests against police brutality are continuing in dozens of cities across the united states, including the nation s capital, washington, where a curfew is now in place. there is broad agreement the us has not experienced such protists since the assassination of martin luther king. again, the deep mistrust and hostility felt by millions of african american police have been exposed. the words state of emergency seem inadequate to describe what s happening in america right now. not since the assassination of martin luther king in 1968 have we witnessed such widespread racial turbulence. chanting: black lives matter, black lives matter! if we render these pictures in black and white, they d look like they came from the 60s. # we are not afraid.#. that was the decade when the struggle for black equality achieved such landmark success. the civil rights movement pushing for legislation that ended segregation across the american south and guaranteeing voting rights for black americans. but there was unfinished business. police brutality has always been hard to legislate against. african americans have never achieved equality in pay a form of income segregation that persists today. the racism is a sore that has been festering over and over and over and over again. and it s like when the sore is about to heal, the wound is reopened again by incidents like this and you have to start all over again. and the question is, how much can people take? cheering many hoped the election of america s first black president would repair, even heal america s racial breach, but barack 0bama never wanted his time in office to be defined by the colour of his skin. in terms of racial progress, his presidency was less historic than the fact that he became president. this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. he was followed into office by donald trump, whose political rise started when he disputed whether ba rack 0bama was born in america a groundless accusation. many reasons explain his victory in 2016, but mr trump certainly benefited from a backlash against a black president among some white voters. america is being hit right now by three simultaneous convulsions. a pandemic that s disproportionately affecting people of colour, an economic shock that s disproportionately affecting people of colour and civil unrest caused by police brutality that disproportionately affects people of colour. racial division is america s default setting. so what we re seeing here is not some aberration, but rather the continuation of an unbroken historical thread. nick bryant, bbc news, new york. more reaction to this. i spoke toa human more reaction to this. i spoke to a human rights lawyer who dedicated his career looking at human rights. i think i think it s a representation of what we ve seen throughout history. since we ve had people of african descent on what is the soils of when this land was called the united states of america, there s been a history of violence against them. the police we ve seen in the streets right now other police that came out in slave patrols so it s another iteration of the same cycle. that s the concern as much as anything, there is the same cycle going on and in the past, this cycle has not changed anything. there must be a worry, mustn t there, among the people protesting, even people who are not involved in the violence or disturbance or any looting, all this plays into the hands of the president who says he is tough as he sees it. all this could help in the election. it may not ring any of the change that the protesters want. well, perhaps. it think the most important thing is that donald trump ran on a campaign of law and order and people have gone into the streets to reject that so he can continue to make calls to the military and deploy the national guard but at the end of the day, people are sick and tired of watching people, black people especially, with their faces on the pavement, with white officers kneeling on their back, so there s no amount of threat that donald trump can do against people who have already seen that history. before there was donald trump, there was richard nixon, there was ronald reagan. we ve had iterations of donald trump who have also been law and order police focused and have decided to use that against people of colour, poor people, homeless people, queer people, native people. this country was built on using police in order to build up the capitalist system we have today. so donald trump threatening today, people don t feel intimidated by that because they ve had enough. as long as people continue to go into the streets, we will keep ignoring on what he s spewing out of the white house. this is a president who is not known for is empathy, when his inaugural speech talked about american carnage. there must be concerned about what comes next from this president, surely? sure, the thing is, we don t need an empathetic president, we don t need to rely on donald trump s benevolence to stop the police violence. we can have the most benevolent president in the history of this country but until police officers start losing power, we start shrinking budgets, reducing contact between them and civilians, that s when we get to the heart of the problem. not putting all our hopes and dreams into someone who is the leader of the country and they are nice and empathetic or understand because we had a president who was empathetic to our cause and that did not eliminate the violence of police brutality that we still see today so until we have complete transformational systemic change we can t rely on whether our leaders are nice or sympathetic to our cause. another main story here, people in england have seen that the biggest relaxation of the lot down. there has been criticism from some scientist that it has occurred too soon. enjoying new freedom in england today to meet outdoors in larger groups with social distancing. the rules in wales changed today as well. scotland and northern ireland have already loosened the guidelines on meeting outdoors. so as the restrictions are eased, how will the authorities monitor the spread of the virus and try to keep it in check? a full testing and contact tracing system is seen as essential. as well as testing people, ministers say tracking down recent contacts of those who test positive will be vital to stopping the spread of the virus. contact tracers have been appointed and the system launched, but already there are concerns. 0ne contact tracer who wanted to be anonymous told us he had been given very little work since the launch last thursday. we ve heard reports from some contact tracers that, since they started work in england last thursday, they ve had very little, if anything, to do. what do you think is actually happening with the system? we ve hired, as you all know, 25,000 people to work as contact tracers. and the level of incidence of disease has come down. so actually, we have more capacity than we need. this is a good thing. they were pressed for the numbers of people so far contacted and said those figures would be available soon. then there s the r that s the virus reproduction number. this shows how fast the virus is spreading. anything above one is when an individual is infecting more than one other person. the aim is to keep it below that, which means the virus is receding. the latest official estimate is a range between 0.7 and 0.9, which doesn t leave much headroom. data on infections and deaths will be closely scrutinised. the daily number of new cases has been falling. the line shows the rolling average that s the trend though that does not include people who have not been tested. that s thousands more. the figure for reported deaths has also been coming down steadily, but the rolling average has stalled in the last few days. in the last week or two, we have seen a relatively persistent steadying of the death numbers and a very long tail of this epidemic curve, if you like. we ll be watching closely to see if that is maintained and persistent or if even that increases in coming weeks. an extra 445 deaths have been added to the total because of delayed reporting in previous weeks. 0ne health leader has said this is a dangerous moment and easing of lockdown measures should be painstakingly slow, as scientists watch developments. hugh pym, bbc news. a reminder of the main story. moments after threatening to deploy thousands and thousands of us troops against the protesters, president trump has walked out of the white house staging a photo op outside of washington church damaged by protesters. michael carrick, who preached at the wedding of prince harry, has protested at the use of the church and the bible for partisan political purposes. let just show you live pictures from minneapolis. protest against the death of george floyd still going. derek chauvin, the officer dealing on his neck just before chauvin, the officer dealing on his neckjust before he died will appear in court next week, it has been announced. much more on all the news anytime on the bbc website. hello there. on monday, the temperature reached 28 celsius, and it was the warmest day of the year so far in northern ireland. and whilst it s going to be another very warm day for many today, the outlook is for it to turn much, much cooler. what s happening? well, we ve been dominated by high pressure for weeks now, which has brought us the warm and sunny weather. the high is retreating into the atlantic, and to the north of that weather front, there is much cooler air. that cooler air will get swept down across the whole of the country later this week as a northerly wind develops. there is likely to be some rain around as well. now early morning, we ve got rain across the far north of scotland. otherwise, it s dry, clear, temperatures typically 8 11. and once any early mist and fog patches clear away from england and wales, it s going to be another sunny, warm day for many places. but we ve got rain in northern scotland, where it s cooler, and we could see showers and cloud developing further south across scotland into the far north of england later, and also potentially in northern ireland. so here, temperatures will be 22 degrees. the highest temperatures are likely to be towards the southeast of england, say, 27 in the london area. it will be as windy as it s been over the past few days also. so we ve got cooler air heading ourway. there s also going to be some rain in that cooler air, but it could prove rather hit and miss, and of course there were large parts of the country that were extremely dry during may. and we re uncertain as to how much rain there will be on wednesday across east anglia and the southeast of england. maybe a bit wetter across other parts of england and into wales, and probably largely dry in northern ireland and the western side of scotland. but there will be a stronger northerly wind, which will make it feel cooler everywhere. temperatures are continuing to drop away, probably peaking at 20 degrees in the south east. and those temperatures actually are near normal, really, for this time of year. given how warm it s been, this is going to be a bit of a shock to the system. move things to thursday, and those temperatures fall even further, perhaps a few degrees below average for this time in june. and on thursday, there ll be a lot of cloud around. it may not be quite as windy. at one stage, it looked like most of the showers will be in the north. now it looks like the showers are moving further south across england and wales. where is the high pressure by the end of the week? it s here, well away from the uk. we re going to be dominated by low pressure, some stronger winds, some cooler air and still the potential of some showers on friday.
this is bbc news, the headlines: moments after he threatened to deploy thousands and thousands of us troops against the protests and riots that have engulfed dozens of american cities, president trump has walked out of the white house to stage a photo op outside a historic washington church damaged by protesters. the episcopal bishop of dc has said he is outraged at the use of the church as a political prop. protests against police brutality and the death of george floyd in minneapolis are still going on, despite more than 40 curfews. the official post mortem examination has declared mr floyd s death a homicide. derek chauvin, the officer kneeling on his neck before he died, will appear in court next week. the music industry is to observe a day long blackout on tuesday, in response to george floyd s death. a number of major record labels, have announced they are suspending business, and working with communities to fight racial inequality. some artists have also cancelled radio appearances and media interviews.
with xfinity a breeze. visit xfinity.com/moving today. this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i m michael holmes. well, from a pandemic to pandemonium, right now in cities across the u.s., the health crisis that has consumed almost every aspect of life for months now, is being upstaged by a social crisis. one that has been simmering for generations. protestors, nationwide, have been expressing pain and anger over the death of an unarmed, african-american man. his name was george floyd, who died in police custody earlier this week in minneapolis, minnesota. now, the violent protests there last night exploded across the country today. from washington to new york, atlanta, and detroit. and to dallas, denver, los angeles, san jose, and more. a few of those demonstrations turning very ugly, with people setting fires, damaging property, and hurling objects at police. some of that destruction happened right here, at cnn s world headquarters. this day of rage, coming as prosecutors in minnesota announce the first charges related to floyd s death. fired minneapolis police officer derek chauvin is now charged with third-degree manslaughter. you might find the following documents disturbing. the charging document says he had his knee on floyd s neck for more than eight minutes. even though floyd repeatedly said i couldn t breathe. the document said floyd was unresponsive for almost three minutes before chauvin removed his knee from his neck. anticipates charges for the other officers as well and new video you see now shows the video from a different angle. and might shed more light on the extent of their involvement. you see three officers leaning on his body there. now, friday night, there were some very tense moments in minneapolis between police and protestors. earlier, our chris cuomo asked cnn sara sidner if perhaps police were lining up on one minneapolis street to distract growing groups of people. have a listen. it is not a distraction. there are a couple hundred, i think, officers that have come this way. they have already told the crowd that this is an unlawful assembly. just like you heard kyung talking about. except for here, there was a curfew that was supposed to start at 8:00 that they haven t been enforcing. now, they ve been enforcing. here s what s happening. as they advance street by street, the protestors then back up and set up a barricade. they are using whatever they can. right now, it s trash cans. they set things on fire to try and put something between themselves and the officers. they pick up rocks. they throw them at the officers. the officers then return, usually, with some sort of teargas or shooting rubber bullets. we have seen people get injured from the rubber bullets. and then, officers will start to advance again. the crowd backs up. and then, you see this scenario, literally, street by street, we are watching this. now, we are about three blocks from the fifth precinct. you see there? you see there? someone throwing a rock. now, if you wait a bit, you will start seeing you will start seeing the teargas and the rubber bullets and, you know, the rubber bullets have been flying by us. and the teargas has been coming in between us. but people will start coming up. and we have heard people here say, look, we are not going to stop fighting about this right now because they don t feel like they ve ever been heard enough. and now, they ve unleashed they ve just unleashed all emotions to try and deal with this. so the police, though, from their perspective, they don t want to see any more destruction. we are now in a regular neighborhood, chris. let me look around just a tiny bit and go around the fires. we are in a neighborhood with people s homes. like, this isn t in the same area where you were seeing things go down in the third precinct. we are now backed up into a neighborhood, where folks live. we see we see some elderly folks looking out the window with their phones recording. but these are homes here. and what these guys have not done anything to the homes, they have stayed in the street. and their focus is directly on the police. who have made a move. they are now just stopped about three blocks from the fifth precinct. and every now and then, you see that bright light. they will shine a bright light. and then, you may see some teargas coming from there as well. every time someone comes up to throw a rock, that s where you are seeing this cat-and-mouse game here. and then police are returning fire with teargas and rubber bullets. sara sidner reporting there. as we said, this violence has been going on in many different places, around the country, including los angeles. our kyung lah is there and we join her now. the latest from where you are, kyung, it is, what, 11:00 p.m. there? and things were heating up earlier. bring us up to date. i just want to give you a sense of where i am right now. you can hear all the sirens. you can see all the police. and i want you to take a look at what s happening over here. these these are officers who are staging. what we have a se ve seen throu evening are police officers staging and then moving into intersections, trying to break up crowds of protestors. the protests, initially, when they started, they were trying to block freeways. they were verbally confronting police officers. and then, as the hours went on, we saw more violence. you ve seen stores looted. a starbucks. a dining a restaurant. a liquor store. a clothing store. and these are just what we saw. a subway. and so what police are trying to do, at this point, is that the lapd has to clear back up a little bit. okay. so what we re going to to follow police officer orders and back away. what they are trying to do is to clear this area, and to clear different parts of los angeles because the protestors have decided to not leave. and after sorry and after the violence and the vandalism, the this was declared an unlawful assembly. there have been at least two los angeles police officers who have been injured. they went to the hospital. there were rocks being thrown at police cars. we ve seen a number of police officer vehicles that have bchb spr been spray painted and the windows smashed. so at this point, they re simply trying to clear the streets. and you can see how they ve made a formation here. when they come across a crowd, michael, they use flash bangs to try to disperse that crowd. we have not seen any protestors injured. and i, personally, have not seen any police officers injured. but the report that we are gating from the los angeles police department is that at least two police officers have, indeed, been injured this evening. michael. have you been able to get a sense of the size of the protests there in l.a.? and what have the protestors been telling you? it s it s very difficult. i i don t think i could give you an accurate number because what i ve seen is that there are larger gatherings of protestors from our affiliate aerial pictures. but i ve only been in crowds that appear to be smaller. and there have been a number of groups. it appears that part of the police tactic is to not allow a large congregation of them to merge into one. and so, they have broken up into these smaller groups. and i ve been among the smaller groups. so it s very, very difficult to tell how big they are. as far as what they re telling us, you can hear it in their chants. they are talking about justice. that they are saying that there will not be peace, without justice. but, also, if you start to look at who s in the crowd, it s a diverse crowd. it appears that not everyone is motivated by, you know, civil rights or by expressing anger, just, at the news events. so it s very, very difficult to tell exactly what everyone is motivated by when they gather this evening. yeah. these protests not always monolithic. different groups, with different aims, and carrying out different actions. kyung lah, stay safe there. it is just after 11:00 p.m. on the west coast. we ll check in with you later. meanwhile, peaceful protests turning violent literally just meters in here in atlanta outside the cnn center. and just a little while ago, the governor, declaring a state of emergency and deploying 500 members of the national guard. as i said, most much of the action happened just outside where i sit now, at the cnn center. a police car in front of this building was set on fire. windows were smashed. a lot of windows were smashed. and some buildings were looted, as well. the chaos continued well into the night. it continues as i speak now, just after 2:00 a.m., here on the east coast. police responded with teargas in some areas. our nick valencia was in the middle of the demonstrations. here is his report. reporter: what started as a peaceful demonstration didn t take long to turn violent. cnn center was one of the targets of the frustration of the demonstrators. they showed up here, in solidarity, with the demonstrations that have been happening in minneapolis, hours after arriving here, though, at cnn center, they began breaking windows. throwing rocks. just look at some of the items that were being tossed towards the police line. in fact, our crew here, along with my photographer william walker and producer kevin conlin, were here as police had a standoff with demonstrators. that video you re witnessing, looking at now, it was intense, to say the least. this scene was chaotic. it was we saw officers at least two officers injured in clashes with demonstrators. look at these windows busted open by an individual who is using a skateboard to smash open the windows. and there was a point and a moment where it appeared as though the demonstrators might actually gain entrance into the cnn center. eventually, that crowd was dispersed by the police using teargas canisters. they were eventually able to pull the demonstration demonstrators back. but it did take hours before the unrest that we saw unfold in downtown atlanta was finally clear from the streets. reporting at cnn center. i m nick valencia. let s get some perspective now from cedric alexander. he is a former police executive and past president of the national organization of black law executives. joins us from pensacola, florida. and appreciate you doing so. you were in law enforcement for 40 years. when when you talk to your former colleagues about what happened in minneapolis and what s happening around the country, what what do they tell you? well, we all are dismayed. we all are very hurt, if you will. very angry because, certainly, what we all observed happened on monday, may 24th, was we all consider a black eye to the profession. because those four men are not indicative of the men and women who are out there tonight that you see helping to control those streets and keep everyone safe and allow them to exercise their first-amendment right. but, we re going to get past this, too. and we just hope that, as we continue in trying to deliver the type of service to the community that they so deserve, that what happened monday is certainly not in any kind of way indicative of the work that men and women do across this country. people are ashamed. and we certainly hope justice is explored, in a fair process for them. and it s no doubt in our mind that they re going the other three are going to be arrested. and due process will take place. but that type of behavior, the loss of life, the way that we observed it, it was cruel. it was mean. and it s not indicative of the profession. well, certainly. certainly, here in atlanta, there was remarkable restraint by police that, you know, i witnessed myself here at the cnn center. i mean, in in the broader sense, you know, it s a problem bad actions by cops, some of course, just a very few. or is it a culture that s devolved in police forces? is there something engrained or systemic that needs to change? well, certainly, it can be systemic. look. you will always hear that there are a few bad apples in the bunch. and there is a lot of truth to that. the problem becomes, it s important having chief two cities myself in my career. it s important that we look inside our organizations, and from top to bottom. because if you can have four people, one that actually kill a man right in front of us. and the other three that stand there. that is suggestive for me of a larger systemic problem that may exist inside of minneapolis police department. so it becomes incumbent upon the leadership, that elected mayor, that chief, to look inside that organization because those types of behaviors. if they could do what they did, on camera, in broad daylight, the question becomes is this indicative of past behavior, where there has been no cameras in dark? so we have to take a look inside of our organizations, and make sure that we don t allow those types of behaviors to exist and to sustain themselves. because it certainly does spoil the whole bunch. and and and people expect far more from their public-safety officials and they should. yeah. i think one other thing that is incredibly disturbing is the new detail that came out on friday about what this officer did and for how long he did it. it was nearly nine minutes with his knee on the neck of a handcuffed man, on the ground. more than two minutes with his knee on george floyd s neck, after he was apparently unconscious. all while bystanders are taping with it and pleading with it. and the officer just didn t seem to care about that. i mean, what did you what did you make of that? i mean, it s a clear display, to anybody that s sitting out here and watching it, looking, that was an individual that was an individual, who we are glad to say got arrested earlier today, who was very callous. has no empathy. no concern. no moral compass, whatsoever, about himself. a man is begging you to let him breathe, and you continued to choke him and rock him with your knee with an appearance that your hand is in your pocket. that is unspeakable. and the american people, and people around the globe, watched it. and if you look at those folks that are out across our cities, across this country tonight, that s anger. they re mad. they feel that they have no other recourse. them doing what they re doing, tearing up property is wrong. there is no excuse for that. but we got to do better than this. we re much far greater country than this. we re much far better than this. but, for those types of attitudes and that type of behavior to exist, in any police department in this country, anywhere, cannot be acceptable to anyone. and policemen and women who work with people like that and suspect and been around them. carry on that type of behavior. you better do it. yeah. yourself and your lifestyle and could possibly be criminally yourself. cedric alexander. really appreciate it. we re right out of time. appreciate you coming on. spending time with us at this late hour. thank you so much. thank you for having me. all right. quick break now. when we come back, we ll get you up to speed on the coronavirus pandemic. yeah. that s still going on. new york, which had more cases and deaths than many countries, is moving to reopen. we ll also have some big developments out of the white house when we come back. when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it s ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free. shi don t have to worry about ththat, do i?are irritated. of online sellers. harmful bacteria lurk just below the gum line. crest gum detoxify, voted product of the year. it works below the gum line to neutralize harmful plaque bacteria and help reverse early gum damage. gum detoxify, from crest. for people with heart failure taking entresto, it may lead to a world of possibilities. entresto helps improve your heart s ability to pump blood to the body. don t take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don t take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you ve had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto.
welcome back. a quick update on our top story right now. the fired minneapolis police officer seen on video with his knee on an unarmed black man s neck has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. for the killing of george floyd. the other three officers who were there, as well, and were involved could also be charged. that hasn t happened just yet. the case, of course, inciting pain and a lot of anger across the u.s. georgia s governor activating the national guard after protests in atlanta turned violent. the twin cities of minneapolis and st. paul where the protests exploded last night, are under curfew now. several people there were arrested near a police precinct for ignoring dispersal orders. meanwhile, the number of coronavirus cases and deaths continue to climb. according to johns hopkins university, there are more than 360,000 deaths worldwide. the united states, leading the world, by far, with more than 102,000 deaths. most of those deaths, along the u.s. east coast. new york, of course, was the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the u.s. and the death toll there, more than 29,000 people alone. but, now, the city, poised to reopen in a couple of weeks. well done, new york city. once the epicenter for the pandemic, new york city about to reach a major milestone. it s set to reopen in less than two weeks. june 8th, we have to be smart. again, this is not a happy days here again, it s over. we have to be smart. the city says it will monitor key data, daily, in phase one. and if the numbers reach a certain threshold, it could trigger restrictions again. on monday, five regions of the state are set to move into the next phase, where hairdressers, business offices, and retail can open with some limits. like new york, 24 other states in the country are seeing a downward trend in the seven-day average of new coronavirus cases. in washington, d.c., hair salons reopened today, by appointment. and residents could enjoy dining out, again. but outdoor only. today is the first day of phase one or what i like to call stay at home lite. georgia, which continues to hold steady, will take the major step of reopening bars and nightclubs, with social distancing. still, there is growing concern about the rising cases in 15 states. primarily, in the southeast, like arkansas, which saw its highest single-day increase of community spread coronavirus cases thursday. the situation is critical in alabama, where cases are doubling. two weeks after the state started to reopen. icu beds are filling fast, causing shortages in some cities. the least prepared to deal with this kind of surge, have the least capacity really to do this. and this is what we have been warning about for months now. in washington and california, where the first cases in the country were reported, both states are seeing cases spike. california, just recently feeling its biggest jump since the pandemic started. when you are testing 20 to 30 fold more individuals, you are going to have more positive tests. that s an inevitability. and a grim prediction from the cdc as we move into another month of this pandemic. the agency, forecasting the death toll could surpass 123,000 deaths in the u.s., in the next three weeks. back here, in new york, if those numbers continue to drop. if that june 8th reopening date actually sticks, then we could see construction coming back. manufacturing. curbside retail pickup in new york city. the city says it s actually working with business owners to ease this transition. now, throughout this pandemic, president donald trump has threatened to end the relationship between the world health organization and the u.s. well now, he says, it s happening. here are the reasons he s giving for the move. reasons that have drawn criticism, from both sides of the aisle. china has total control over the world health organization. despite only paying $40 million per year, compared to what the united states has been paying, which is approximately $450 million a year. we have detailed the reforms that it must make, and engage with them directly. but they have refused to act. joining me now is cnn s international diplomatic editor, nic robertson, live from london. i mean, this decision to withdrawal from the w.h.o. in the middle of a pandemic, i mean, from a health perspective, many saying ill-advised because the u.s. is doing so poorly with the virus. but also, if china s influence on the w.h.o., didn t that increase just increase? yeah. i think when the united states look at president trump s actions here, this is a conclusion they are going to come to. this is enabling china, rather than disabling it because their voices at the w.h.o. will be lessened by the fact that the united states voice isn t being heard. the american medical association calls the action senseless. says there will be significant, harmful repercussions. the infectious diseases society says that, you know, the virus doesn t respect international borders. doesn t respect political positions. that everyone needs to work together. and, to that point, the w.h.o., yesterday, actually opened a new portal for sharing information about coronavirus, about therapeutics, about vaccines. about about data. and the the notion that the united states allies can get behind its position, overall, on china and can get behind president trump s position medically here, it just doesn t hold water. so the united states becomes more isolated. china doesn t necessarily get a bigger say at the w.h.o. it s still being criticized by, you know, the united states allies for not providing enough information in the early days about what was happening with coronavirus in china. but, by default, china s voice gets stronger. absent the united states and and a united states that doesn t have its allies at its side. so it does seem counterproductive in diplomatic terms, michael. indeed. nic, thank you. nic robertson in london there for us. we are going to take a quick break here. when we come back, much more on our top story. a night of rage in cities across the u.s. set off by the death of an unarmed african-american man, at the hands of police in minneapolis. we ll be right back.
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minnesotans, who chose to protect our cities, who chose to protect our neighbors and stay home, thank you for that. to all of the first responders who are out there, from firefighters to national guard, to to line crews to utilities workers who are out there to keep us safe, i want to thank you for that. law enforcement is responding the best they can. in this situation. we ll get you all of the numbers that are out there. i want to say, first of all, i, myself, can fully understand the rage. i spoke, this evening, to george floyd s siblings, quite extensively. i understand that rage. we ve talked about it. we we understand what has to happen. what s going on out there right now is not that. the wanton destruction and, specifically of businesses that took generations to build, are being torn down. all of those infrastructures of civil society and the things that make our city great, which which lends me to believe, as we look at this, the disenfranchisement that went with what we witnessed with with george s death is one thing. but the absolute chaos. this is not grieving and this is not this is not making a statement that that we fully acknowledge needs to be fixed. this is life-threatening, dangerous to the most well-qualified forces that are out there facing this. so i want to acknowledge that. i m deeply concerned with the people who you you need to go home. you need to go home. the purpose of this and we re seeing it spread up across the country, is making it more difficult to get to the point where we can deal with these issues. our neighbors are afraid. people are watching this across here and they want to know what s happening. we promised you today, and i want to thank mayor frey for the leadership today. and i think the issue of coordination and and communicating together. this is the largest civilian deployment in minnesota history that we have out there today. and, quite candidly, right now, we do not have the numbers. we cannot arrest people when we re trying to hold ground because of the sheer size, the dynamics, and the wanton violence that s coming out there. colonel langer spoke about this often. seasoned folks who have deployed overseas and seen this and now seeing this here in our neighborhoods. we will talk about this and ways and resources we have left. but, to put this into perspective, the force that we have out there now is about three times larger than the one in the 60s, which is the largest during the race riots and they are out there right now. and the capacity to be able to do offensive actions and they are out there doing that arresting the folks that we can. but, as you ve seen, there s already shots being fired back at our people. this arson that is taking place puts many people at risk. our firefighters are specifically and very open to target and minneapolis fire has been responding heroically. and i tell you all, the citizens, the response time is fast as we want to get it. and that responsibility, as i said, today for coordination, lies with us. i will take responsibility for the underestimating the wanton destruction and the size of this crowd. we have deployed a force that i think as we set down together and talked about, would have, in any other civilian military or civilian police operation, worked. but the terrifying thing is you have aheard people who have seen this and myself looking at this, it resembles more of a military operation at times now, especially ringleaders moving place to place. so i would ask all of us to, again, go home to protect our assets. understanding that the priority of this mission today and the plan to do it was to deploy the assets that we had. to work in coordination, and beef up what we had to do, very, very quickly. in command and control of those, put a joint force together to, first and foremost, protect life, followed by protecting property. followed by restoring order. and the issue, as i ve said this time and time again, whether it was something that now seems so simple to do stay-at-home orders about covid, is to try and get the situation under control to protect all those things. but there is a compact that goes in civilized society that you have to have social buy in. and so, with the elements that are out there now, they are stopping semis by blocking roads and then raiding what s in them. this is not about george s death. this is not about inequities that were real. this is about chaos being caused. and so, my responsibility on this and i do want to thank the mayor. executing a plan is very difficult. and i think the frustrations we all feel certainly isn t aimed at the mayor. he is performing dmadmirably. the same thing with mayor carter of executing together. this is an operation that has never been done in minnesota. the the scope of this has now reached globally or excuse me, across the nation. we were in contact today and had an extensive conversation. general jensen, commissioner harrington and i, and general millie, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, to talk about assets and ways we can help to assess the situation as they are seeing it on the ground. and to put those things into a plan to operate today. that plan has not changed and our folks are out there, as we speak, right now, doing this. our intention is still do those very same things. protect the lives of minnesotans, try and protect as much property as we can, and try and restore order on the streets. i have to do that in a way that protects those who are out there doing that. to ask them to go in a forward motion to try and get some of these people, they are well-coordinated. they will flank these groups. they will do everything possible to cause that destruction. so, with that being said, i m going to have mayor frey come up. a and we ll talk about what the next steps are because i want to be clear. we re about 72 hours into this. the mayor s quick action of activating the national guard, i believe protected as much as we could. i think, now, as we think about this and we re this far into this, it seems almost impossible, two days ago, from an accusation. we went today, planning tonight, for what tomorrow is going to look like because i think minnesotans need to recognize, and we clearly recognize this, what you see tonight will r replicate tomorrow unless we change something that we are doing. the execution of the plan and the quality of the first responders who are out there. you have you have veterans of combat tours overseas. you have state patrol who are seasoned. you have local police and firefighters, who have been doing this for decades. and are the best at what they do. they re just not used to doing it. where you have wanton destruction. and the challenge that we face, and the challenge that the mayor faces. we have to do it with ensuring the safety of those people. ensuring there are legitimate people who want to try and express their grief. the folks who are out there right now want nothing more than entice into conflict. entice something that sets this off even further. entices our folks to get in a situation where we start to lose life. and so, that adds the complexity to it. if it were as simple as just push them and move them back, that would be one thing. they cannot do that. so i want to just reiterate that minnesotans deserve a plan to try and get this. we need to assess that, with all of the tools that we have, with the experience that we ve seen in this. we are certainly in contact with our neighboring states and cooperations, as well as the federal government to think about the best way to do this. the situation tomorrow will be increasingly more difficult because this has spread to other cities in a serious way, which makes the challenge of civil order even that much more difficult. but i do want to and just clarify, to my friend and someone who s led in this and a mayor who should never be put in a position that he was put in. to try and respond. there are a limited number of resources that any city has. and this force that s out there right now bent on this is simply overwhelming what we have on the ground. and so, at this point, it becomes more of a hold what we have and do the best we can. so i want to thank you, mayor frey, i want to thank you you for basically being up for 72 hours. and, every minute, picking up the phone and continuing to adapt to the situation. so, mayor. thank you, governor. and thank you for the command and control today and the partnership. minneapolis, i know you are reeling due to lack of sleep and heartbreak for seeing the events over the last couple of days. i m reeling, too. we, as a city, are so much more than this. we, as a city, can be so much better than this. there is no honor in burning down your city. there is no pride in looting local businesses that have become institutions of a neighborhood. these are institutions that people are counting on. especially, during a time of pandemic. they are counting on grocery stores to get food. they re counting on pharmacies to get medicine. they are counting on their local bank to get cash. if you care about your community, ya got to put this to an end. it needs to stop. you re not getting back at the police officer that tragically killed george floyd. by looting a town. you re not getting back at anybody. if you have a friend or a family member that is out right now, call them. tell them to come home. it is not safe. it is not right. if we care about our city, let s do the right thing now. we are doing absolutely everything we can. our firefighters are hauling around the city, putting out fires, as quickly as they possibly can. our police officers are doing everything to secure corridors, to make sure that the looting stops. and to try and prevent these necessary precincts, which are so essential to safety. right now, chief and chief frietel are in minneapolis, doing everything they possibly can. as i said in the beginning, i am reeling. and i know each and every one of you is, too. let s do right by our city. let s do right by our communities. and let s put ourselves in a position, five and ten years from now, where we look back at this day. and we recognize that this was the point where we decided to make a change. i know, in my heart, that we can do it. because i know, in my heart, that minneapolis is everything that we believe it to be. thank you. thank you, mayor. john. commissioner john harrington. minister department of public safety. yesterday, we put together a unified command structure. a unified command. bringing together minneapolis police department, st. paul police department, sheriffs departments, minnesota state patrol, dnr, and general jensen s men and women of the minnesota national guard. we created a plan that brought together one of the largest civil police forces that we have ever seen in the state of minnesota. larger, frankly, than we had for the republican national convention, even. with well in excess of 2,500 officers total committed to the effort of keeping the peace. we had a very clear mission. the governor was crystal clear and the mayors have been crystal clear that our mission was to keep the peace. to maintain order. and to stop lawless behavior. by 8:00 last night, we began to see that we were going to have to operate on multiple different fronts of criminal behavior. with reports from st. paul that they were actively engaged. reports that we had individuals that were breaching the minnesota freeways around 35 w. that we had crowds of in excess of 2,000 in the lake street area, east of hiawatha. crowds of hundreds in the area of lake street. and crowds of a thousand or more in downtown. we reassessed the assets that we had. the personnel that we had. and redeployed to try and be as at as many of those as we could be at. but we recognize that we simply did not, even with the numbers that i m talking about, have enough officers and personnel to meet all of those missions safely and successfully. we picked missions based on our capacity, and those missions focused on downtown off nicolete and also focused on the precinct area of nicolette and lake. we continue infrastructures around other places that we believed, through good intel, were being targeted and and would have been destroyed. and we have continued to hold those places of critical infrastructure, even as we speak. at the nicolette and lake area, forces were able to rally around that area. they were able to disperse a crowd and make, what i am told is, in the neighborhood of about 50 arrests. we have a mobile field force of in excess of 300. larger than the mobile field force that we utilized last night, to clear the hiawatha and east lake street area. and they have they have been actively engaged. but the level of resistance that we have seen tonight has increased exponentially. we have had officers shot at. we have had what looks to be like improvised munitions that have been targeted toward the officers. we ve had officers injured. and we are in continuing to push that crowd on east of hiawatha with the attempt to try and do what we did last night, which was to move them off of the streets and to restore order there. but we recognize that, as we do that, continuing to hold the area the nicolette and lake and try and maintain order in downtown. that we will need far more officers and far more national guard resources than we currently have. we have created a request for the national guard to substantially increase the number of national guard officers that would be available. and we have reassessed our strategy in terms of our ability to mobilize mobile field forces that have been effective in moving against what is now an armed and more entrenched group of protestors. and what i would really operate and say more that they are an entrenched group of rioters. we have had officers that have been injured. none seriously, at this point. but we have not given up our efforts to try and clear those streets. we will not give up our efforts to clear those streets. we are committed to restoring order in minneapolis. helping st. paul maintain order. and we re getting ready for what will be one of the largest crowds that we have ever heard and that we recognize that we will be at the center of a, not just statewide event, not just a national event but, what is now looking to be like an international event tomorrow. in that same area that we re holding right now, in the area around nicolette and lake. this time, i ask general john jensen from minnesota national guard to provide his comments. good morning. major john jensen. just really quickly, i would like to cover some quick operations that we are involved in. currently, in minneapolis. we are currently have escorted and are supporting three minnesota i m sorry minneapolis fire department teams on fires. chicago and lake. lake and park. and nicolette and 31st street. so we continued our support to the minneapolis fire department, that we began yesterday. we also have over 100 soldiers currently at nicolette mall between hyatt hotel and grand street, supporting traffic-control points, in support of our state highway patrol. this morning at approximately 12:30, i believe, in cooperation and consultation with colonel matt langer, the commander of the minnesota state patrol, the governor authorized the minnesota national guard to increase our strength. the initial request was for 1,000 additional soldiers to support the department of public safety and our state highway patrol. governor waltz and i have looked at different ways that we re going to mobilize this force. and currently, what we re going to use are units that who would normally report to their normal training this weekend. my belief is that we will exceed the 1,000 mark. as the governor mentioned, this will be the largest deployment inside the state of minnesota in history. at the conclusion of tomorrow, i believe that we will have over 1,700 soldiers in support of the department of public safety, the city of minneapolis, and the city of st. paul. you may have you may have seen or heard that, this evening, the president directed the pentagon to put units of united states army on alert to possible operation in minneapolis. while we were not consulted with, as it relates to that, i do believe it s a prudent move to provide other options available for the governor, if the governor elects to use those resources. so, at this time, governor, completes my comments. thank you. thank you, jensen. thank you, commissioner. the situation now is, is the the minnesotans who maybe don t understand this of the force structure we have. we some of this, of course, classified. but where minnesota soldiers are deployed overseas and in support of missions. and and that is a limited force because the national guard is what it is in states. and when we talk about calling up the national guard, it s not like pulling something off a she shelf and it s there. this is a human being, citizen soldier who is working across the state and they get called in. they need to gather equipment and make their things, put their things in order. report to their armory. staff up. and start understanding where their mission is. so it is it is not as easy as it might seem. these deployment levels are reaching deployment levels when we deploy overseas in support of operation and during freedom and some of those types of operations. so the the mission remains the same. to restore order. to protect life and property to the best we can. we are in close coordination, other than this this move by the white house to do that. and i agree with general jensen. as i spoke with president trump the other night, i think it is prudent to have them ready for us to exhaust all resources that we need. and, again, general millie was was quite extensive and we spent quite some time thinking about where those assets are. and they also have to now understand what our federal assets are, into an ever-widening situation when we re losing police precincts in brooklyn and and and some of this unrest spreading across the country. so what i would say, minnesotans, once again, an unprecedented threat to our state. a tragedy that was the catalyst for this. that has morphed into something much different. the challenges of protecting people who wanton destruction is their goal, no regard to life or property, and no sense of civic pride of who we are. that s what these folks are up against. in in a quite dangerous environment. so i would, once again, thank minnesotans who stayed home. thanks for looking out for one another. our goal is to do everything that we can to start to restore order. and and working with our partners on this. and as i said today, once this became a unified command starting last evening, that s the state of minnesota with me. with that, don. governor, for the second night in a row, hundreds of thousands, or maybe millions. all right. there we ve been listening to the governor, tim waltz there, speaking about the situation in minnesota. he says he can fully understand the rage on the streets. but laments the damage the wanton violence, he said, life-threatening, dangerous behaviors, he talked of shots being fired at law enforcement. and said that firefighters are vulnerable. and he said that what he is seeing on the streets resembles more of a military operation than a police operation, in terms of scale and the tactics required to deal with what he said were organized groups, with leadership who want to entice authorities into conflict. thanks for being with us this hour. i m michael holmes. don t go away. i ll be right back, with more news, after the break. the return of drifting