jury selection begins in the trial of the former minneapolis police officer for his role in the killing of george floyd. follow him down jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up the f.b.i. releases new video of a suspect planting bombs before the capital riot and asked the public to come forward with any information. the u.s. or just me and most gentile to exercise maximum restraint as hundreds of

demonstrators continue to protest the coup despite a lethal military crackdown. on wear and tear on web books by american authors are flying off the shelves. now a day later than planned a court in the u.s. has begun the process of choosing a jury in the trial of the former police officer charged with killing george floyd he died in may last year after a white police officer derrick chive in knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes he's facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter floyd's death prompted worldwide protests and calls for racial justice john hendren has the latest from minneapolis where they've gone through half a dozen or so jurors and they have selected one so far interestingly 2 were the people who were not selected were hispanic and that's interesting in this case because the. prosecution is going to want people of color on that jury because

those people might be more likely to have an understanding of the kind of interaction between people of color and police that his come up in this case the big question is did derrick show over and the police officer murdered george floyd . did he know knowingly do so and you know essentially. what were his motivations here the prosecution is trying to get another charge levied against him and that would be the degree murder a lower charge that essentially means the officer acted with a do pray vj's action in this case that they're waiting for a higher court decision on that so meanwhile they're going through the jury there and they're asking a lot of questions about what they've known really every juror that we have seen so far has known about the case and the judge is trying to determine whether or not

they. judge the case and each side is on loud to dismiss a certain number of jurors 15 for the defense 9 for the prosecution and then they can dismiss other jurors for cause but they have to state what that cause is and this could go on for a while if you can seasons we've only got one juror most of the way into the 1st day of jury selection and after that the trial itself could go for about a month or so. now the f.b.i. has released new security footage of a suspect they believe planted to explosives outside the democratic and republican party headquarters in january the f.b.i. says 2 pipe bombs a placed and alley behind the r. and c. headquarters the night before the u.s. capitol hill riots they were discovered and defused the following day a reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect now stands at 100000 dollars well official joins us live now from washington d.c. allan so what more can you tell us about the f.b.i. search for the suspects. well you can see the face of the suspect but the f.b.i.

believes that the person captured on the video has a very distinctive gait you can't say whether or not they're male or female but they do have very distinctive branded name footwear which they think some people might be able to recognize they're also asking the public if someone close to them spent some time buying a couple of backpacks recently perhaps should have interest in explosives or even bought pipes that could be used in the pipe bombs there you'll remember that both of these bags were phone near the republican national headquarters and also the democratic national headquarters on the 6th of january around 1 pm the suggestion at the time was that these were deliberately set hoping that they would go off there was an egg timer attached and that would draw american see services away from capitol hill just as a crowd was moving towards capitol hill that of course january the 6th the day of the insurrection there the day when a crowd to try to stop this certifying of the electoral college votes what is

interesting though is that by this appeal we're also finding out what the f.b.i. doesn't know you know remember from those bags they would have been able to grab some forensics possibly d.n.a. possibly even fingerprints what is clear that by issuing this information 2 months on the that has essentially become a dead end that they haven't been able to turn up any leads point in the direction of anyone who may be responsible which is why they're renewing the appeal and also why they're increasing the reward money hoping that $100000.00 will convince someone to come forward and the dental for the person that we're seeing on this video or a to an official live for us there in washington d.c. allan thank you now the u.s. state department says it's repulsed by the mere monitress use of lethal force against protesters. it's urging the army to exercise maximum restraint dozens of protesters have already been killed

hundreds of demonstrators were trapped in a late night standoff with security forces and gang on sanch one district of a monday and tuesday they have now been allowed to go home. well a senior official from the time leader aung sang suu cheese party has spoken to lodge a 0 about his dramatic escape from me and opera last month's coup doctor is now been chosen as the special envoy of the committee representing the elected government for his safety dr sas i spoke with our diplomatic editor james bays from an undisclosed location. where myanmar's election was held in november the campaign manager for unsung cheese national league for democracy party was dr saw son in an interview with al-jazeera he tells me that when the will of the people was subverted by the military in a coup on the 1st of february he like other leading figures in the party feared for his life we wake up early morning of 1st february we realize that all our fault

was that we cannot make any coal. we're lies there all televisions and every signal was that of course it was scary in the way because we don't know what's going to happen we don't know we are dying so it was a very dark i call my mom called me in evening and say are you dead or alive and says that crying tell us how you got out of the country and that was she would take the driver to have that kind of things and i was against taxi driver and you know it was tough it was tough and after that i end up a motorbike and it was 2 times i lifted my motorbike it we got tape as. the meat of freezer night i can of feel it in my face i can of you know my hand i thought i would die of that situation because it was extreme situation after do we did 3 days and 3 nights. later if we in

a safe place. be tells me the military have underestimated the bravery and stamina of the young people of the country and he's now detecting signs the military may be splitting as so many police forces are rather well to do yours always have to report as some military officer have defected and. that shows to us if you provide us where we are calling to international community to help our strategy to deliver for the people of myanmar he praised me on mars u.n. ambassador john moore turn here who spoke out bravely against the coup last month and he's now going to be working closely with him because dr sour saw has been named as the global envoy of the committee representing the democratically elected politicians of myanmar james pays out 0 at the united nations now the chinese government has breached every single act of a u.n. genocide convention and its treatment of weekends engine charge that's according to

a report by more than 15. global human rights expert says there's clear evidence that china bears a state responsibility for committing a genocide against the weak it's believed around a 1000000 have been imprisoned in camps in recent years mostly in the chin jiang region china denies allegations of human rights abuses let's bring in azeem ibrahim he's director of special initiatives at the newlines institute that's the organization that published the report and he joins us live now from washington d.c. seems so how significant then is your report by these 15 human rights experts and what more is it telling us about the plight of muslim week as in jinja buildout in this airport as extremely significant significant you know as you said these are independent experience and international law in general say in change policy of all the evidence look at those and those institutions of those testimony use from the terms of change policies and you know corroborated dumbass change those laws in

china step that and come to the conclusion very very clearly that change is in breach of the new general state convention on multiple occasions so this is extremely significant in terms of international accountability what to do is change here and as you say there's clear evidence that china bears state responsibility here calling it genocide that's a hugely serious allegation but what does that actually mean. so it means that chain is in breach of the general state convention so the onus is no on other countries are party to the general say convention and his will with 151 of them and remember cheney is also a party to this convention so the onus is on them to treat this as a seriously as it deserves the most essential you know put into place. policies that are true that change as they would be comparable for the us the genocide convention was set up not necessarily to have an academic exercise after

it generally happens to discuss whether it was a general so you're not but essentially it probated to make an ism but it's just got general to it's happening in the. onus is no on countries to behave in a manner that actually calls chain not countable and not be passive otherwise they are also criminally liable for. be complicit in the general state with change yet it's worth pointing out to our viewers that this isn't the 1st report we've seen about genocide by china against the we guess but what more needs to be done to hold beijing accountable because just another report isn't going to change much as it. so the onus is on individual countries know these are individual countries to meet their own each emanations now to come to the conclusion where the chip and. reach of the convention and 0 evidence shows as very dearly as and those countries don't have to behave accordingly you know the business as usual cannot continue with a general. otherwise you're also complicit in that you know say it's according to

that the convention and not the more what countries are simply trying to brush just under the cockpit they are trying to use cause lots of obfuscation and computing mechanisms to save oh look there has to be an international court there has to be and you know a treaty or something of that nature parliaments emotion all of these are just delaying tactics by nishan so some people don't want to step up to the sponsibility and countries are unwilling to do what so what's the sponsible for them to do then they should clearly state that we think a this convention is going anymore as in just briefly what about the international committee and talk about individual countries in particular multilateral organizations like the un what more conveyed to. the un is very very little for the un to actually do here because the chain is a member of the security council and any action that's initiated by the security council will simply be the ha not. really here as on and do it you countries act

like state parties are members of the genocide convention to undertake that only terminations and come to a conclusion a determination and then act accordingly in terms of how that you would change. as a member have got to get your thoughts thanks for talking to our desire. lots more still to come here on al-jazeera including another legal twist for former brazilian president newman to silver after his corruption convictions are wiped clean and a warning from humanitarian leaders that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over one of the sailors. however got some rather stormy weather in the forecast for western parts of the u.s. the central and eastern areas it's lost a 5 andronicus base in places of cloud here last in the area of high pressure keeping it quiet across the eastern seaboard the least for the time bama drawing up

warm southerly winds and those temperatures getting up to 19 celsius in minneapolis saddle change as we go through the next day or so succumb wet and stay temperatures struggling to get to around 7 celsius and that cool air grassy making is where little further race was but a plume of warmth across cities and side of the country to be enjoyed let's see what's going on over towards the west we've got some stormy weather raise thinking snow something of a a wintry storm filtering in here as we go on through wednesday and into thursday some heavy snowfall for some and certainly some pavey rain all the way down into northern parts of mexico actually pushing lance higher towards the brasco will see some snow coming through here just spilling off the mountain states and wetter weather over towards the lakes and then law continues to make its way further east was for thursday with some very heavy rain just coming in across the central plains more snow just around the mountain states over towards the rockies further race when it's warm and dry temperatures a respectable 22 celsius in d.c.

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welcome back a quick round of our top stories here at this hour jury selection has begun for the trial of a white police officer accused of killing george florey former minneapolis policeman derrick chauvin is facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter. the f.b.i. has really security footage of a suspect they believe planted 2 explosive devices outside the democratic and republican headquarters the night before the u.s. capitol hill riot a $100000.00 reward is being offered for information. on the u.s. state department says it's repulsed by me among the trees increasing use of lethal force against protesters dozens of them have been killed since the coup on fabric the 1st. brazil's supreme court has adjourned a decision on throwing out more evidence against former president luis in arceo numa december if the decision goes his way lula will receive another boost after a judge overturned his conviction for corruption on monday the verdict blocked the left wing leader from running for a 3rd term

a path that's now open to him unless there's a retrial he would likely become the leading rival against far right populist president. in next year's election. it was a catastrophic administration of the workers' party government i think the brazilian people don't even want to candidate like that in 2022 before we even think about his possible elections you can see that the stock market went down on the u.s. dollar went sky high we all suffered with this decision i hope that the supreme court grieved reestablishes what was judged well joins us live now from rio de janeiro monica said a supreme court has postponed its verdict whether to throw out the sevens against luna tell us more about the court's decision. ok so the court has now the 5 members on this trial what they were the siding today was whether judge sasha moral religious who was the judge that led the whole

investigation in the car wash scandal which ultimately result resulted in the impeachment of former president bill maher is there and charges that and leave a big charged with corruption and convicted and imprisoned well they were deciding whether he had a political agenda of his own or he wasn't and impartial judge as he said he was and the court was split it was 2 people that he was in partial to people said he was not and the 5th judge said he needed some time to make up because he just arriving you had not read the full history of as you were saying of all these twists judicial twists going back and forth which plunged a little of from being an extremely popular one of brazil's most popular presidents into being a convicted felon and now into being a person who had had his it's been diction overturned so that doesn't mean he can

be retried but what he can do now is run for president and next year's election all right i want to tell you not to have live for us there from rio de janeiro of monaco thank you the european parliament to strip the immunity of tussling as former president and 2 of his former minister as they fled abroad often declaring independence back in 2017 and now sits in the e.u. parliament in brussels but in baba reports. it's a move that's rekindling the debate over the future of spain's catalonia region and its independence movements and results of the approaching session of monday march european parliament has removed the immunity of colors which demands for the catalan president and 2 associates all of whom have seats in the assembly they fled abroad in 2017 following an independence referendum and subsequent declaration of independence which the spanish government deemed illegal it is

a sad day for european parliament. we have lost our immunity. but their opinion parliament has lost more than that. and as a result european democracy to. does a clear case of political prosecution the decision could help madrid's bid to extradite the trio colors put him on tony come in and color have been charged with sedition in spain which to monton kamin are also accused of misusing public funds but ponce 30 who's based in scotland told our jazeera they're confident of winning an appeal we will go guest these thing of the media and. just these. news that these are both the go persecution and as such. should not have believed that. they sometimes have buried its own government and struck hopes that we were on the deal the 2017 independence referendum stoked major

tensions between the spanish government and the leaders of catalonia an autonomous region of 7 and a half 1000000 people the bitterness of the debate has diminished since socialist prime minister president sanchez came to power in madrid in 2018. but in last month's regional elections separatist parties gained for additional seats in the catalan parliament they independent the if parties who compromised our right to attend the collect so there are all kinds of political opinion in their independent the party if they want my charity the couple in parliament told this process that we still have their belly fun in the whole meanwhile a belgian court recently rejected spain's request to extradite another former catalan cabinet member and it's far from clear how authorities here and in scotland will cooperate with madrid now the barber al jazeera. tension between the u.s.

and iran doesn't appear to be going away anytime soon but that doesn't mean iranians aren't interested in reading about the lives of u.s. presidents and 1st ladies some bookstores are full of western titles which are proving surprisingly popular iran isn't a member of the universal copyright convention so the books are being translated into fast and published without the author's consent as a big reports now from tehran booklovers students and avid readers all come to centers to rant to look for the latest releases and it's here in a quite back street where one publisher translates western titles he's just finished his 5th edition of former u.s. presidents barack obama's promised land we do. you know there are severe sanctions laws big american publishers don't get themselves involved in a situation that can be dangerous for them getting involved with the run and risking the sale of millions of copies of their books they say they can't get involved with the running publishes we can't have cultural relations with americans or a financial relationship not even to receive

a simple permission stuff here say obama's book was sold out in 2 days. like to know about everything that is going on in the world and of course america is one of the important ones so people are interested to know outside on the streets there's an appetite for western titles. i've read hemingway's old man and the sea and now when reading tolstoy's resurrection this famous iranian bookstore has western titles in both english and farsi the books are printed inside the country and not authorized by the original authors or publishes the exception is american academic noam chomsky who iranian publishers say gave permission for his works to be translated and printed. you can find books on u.s. president joe biden here michelle obama's becoming and the book and former u.s. president donald trump and fury all in farsi consumed by iranians but there is

a downside to an authorized publishing especially for authors trying to make a living. british author find out his book the good immigrant had been translated and published after a google that i thought is great has an international reach and amazing thing for. what i originally envisaged as a small project but i also thought. that the writers should be compensated because you know these are all writers who got paid money for the original book and that's. the shame of this that we didn't have any so many we didn't have any we don't have any say on how it's been translated house remarked to the publishers we've spoken to say they'd like to be a part of the copyright convention it would increase translation standards and reduce the number of publishers allowed to print a book but u.s. sanctions mean many companies don't want to engage with iran missing out on

reaching a country with a population of more than 18000000 people as big al jazeera the iran now the international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies as warning of a deadly gap in global plans to roll out coronavirus vaccines president francisco rocca has told a virtual pass conference that although vaccines are great news the pandemic is far from over. so i want go now if you wish to drop it developmental out of a penis right you being created as a sign of becoming again the bit but we cannot afford to stop if the fantasy world of virus spread and not we came out there for this fantasy or people in the us and its social money consequences we must not confuse the beginning of the end we get actually and. and even the end of a given day meeting that each ward not equate that with the end of the problem there is much more to do so let's bring in dr marty slots wired davis she is an

infectious disease physician at john cochrane v.a. medical center and joins us via skype from sent louis missouri dr marty great to have you back on al-jazeera said i thought city is warning of a deadly gap and global plans to equitably roll out code 19 vaccines how serious is this and why do you think they're saying this now it's very serious dan i mean we are seeing disproportionate impacts on the most vulnerable highest of which are migrant populations and i don't say this lightly here in the u.s. we are seeing the black and brown people are dying disproportionately what more immigrants from the same communities who sometimes don't have traditional at documentation who already have fear about what will happen to them if they do show such documentation and for whom i have not seen enough by the way of culturally competent language specific education so that they can make informed decision so

absolutely these are the most at risk populations both here in the u.s. and globally do you think i see it as having a bit of a poke at the un's kovacs scheme which aims to of course to be delivered vaccines to poorer countries but we know much about this already has run into trouble because of issues like funding local production and intellectual property. i think in the very least it's a manage it's a magic to say you know it's not just about volume it's about the plan to distribute and give to these folks so i absolutely understand their frustration many of us who represent some of these communities talked about what needed to be happened way before a vaccine was thought of and then when a vaccine was thought of we again talked about equity around rollout and now here we are you know celebrating volume which is great we're so excited about this absolute triumph of science when it comes to the vaccine but it means nothing it means nothing if it doesn't get to those who need it most call it 19 does not see

where you're from what color your skin is and if we allow politics to get in the way everyone is at risk because if we don't get to herd immunity because of a large part of the population which is vulnerable is at risk everybody suffers the head of the i.f.r. saying francisco rocker says we must not confuse the beginning of the end of code with the end of code is there a sense that many countries think kobe has bitten because we now have vaccines are we getting too complacent do you think i love that quote i really love that quote as the capsule it's the problem we have right now i think folks are tired and are standardly so pandemic fatigue is real and it has set in even i as a physician on the front lines feel it every day of my job and then here comes these vaccines the numbers start to get better and folks just want to open everything up without thoughts i want to be very clear when i say there is no

returning back to normal instead there is a new normal that we are preparing for now with better tools in hand so i absolutely agree with that sentiment karen dr marty good to get your thoughts thanks very much indeed excellent to be back with you. now workers are pumping oil out of a chinese fishing boat that ran aground off the coast of the richest the vessel was carrying $130.00 tons of oil when it hit a coral reef near the capital port louis on sunday it was a small spill at 1st but the hull remained intact it should take 5 days to empty and tow the ship away it's the 2nd ship wreck in malicious in less than a year buckingham palace has broken its silence over the allegations of racism and bullying by prince harry and his wife meghan markle in an interview with oprah winfrey i spoke at length about why they stood back from their duties and split from the royal family a statement released on behalf of the queen said the whole family was saddened and concerned by the issues raised all the news of course on our

website every day is on your screen the address al-jazeera dot com that's al-jazeera dot com. top a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera jury selection has begun for the trial of a white police officer accused of killing george floyd former minneapolis police officer derrick cho that is facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter. john hendren has more from minneapolis and the big issue here is racial balance this is a city that's about 20 percent black but juries in the united states draw from counties in the larger county is 10 percent black so there's going to be less representation from the african-american community most likely and that can be a problem in the case of the rodney king beating in los angeles they moved the trial because of the public.