taking 18000 lives and igniting the world's worst nuclear crisis since the chernobyl disaster joining us as we revisit those most affected in a series of reports on. jury selection begins in the trial of the former minneapolis police officer for his role in the killing of george floyd. hello i'm daryn jordan this is out of syria lawyer from doha also coming up the f.b.i. releases new video of a suspect planting bombs before the capital riot and offers a reward for any information that could lead to his arrest. we don't know we. didn't really say raised one senior official from me and mark describes to al

jazeera his dramatic escape following the military coup plus. this cherry orchard may look innocent enough but they're part of a mounting debate here in chile over chinese investment and possible control over this country's most important and strategic industries. 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 jovan 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 as the latest now from minneapolis. where they've gone through half a dozen or so jurors and they have selected one so far interestingly to the people

who were not selected were hispanic and betty interesting in this case because the prosecution is going to want people of color on their 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 degree murder a lower charge that essentially means the officer acted with a do pray to 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 and 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 signed his own 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 as 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 were placed in the 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 $100000.00 well and fisher joins us live now from washington d.c. allan so what will kind of tell us about the f.b.i.

search for this suspect. first time we've seen this video it comes from buildings near the democratic national headquarters and also the republican national headquarters so obviously the f.b.i. have had this for a while when the 1st things they would have done was check the video you can tell if it's a man or a woman you can't see a face but they do have distinctive brand name where the f.b.i. are hoping that someone might be able to identify that or perhaps even the gate that the suspects use now they're also saying look think about january this year was anyone near you buying a couple of backpacks that they express any interest in how would you build a bomb that even go to a hardware store and pick up piping with that be considered unusual all of this as far as the f.b.i. is concerned it could be important no you remember that these 2 devices were found around 1 pm on january the 6th that was just before

a big crowd moved towards capitol hill to try and contest the results of the presidential election many people thought at the time that this was a decoys plant that those devices which were attached to egg timers would go off and detract resources away from capitol hill therefore making it much easier for the crowd to sweep into the building which was of course endorsing the electoral college results but also this video tells us what the f.b.i. doesn't know and that is that they would have gotten forensic of the backpacks they would have been able to perhaps get d.n.a. maybe even fingerprints but 2 months saw and that has led them nowhere which is why they're renewing this appeal and also increasing the reward money to $100000.00 or to alan fischer live for us there in washington d.c. allan thank you. now the u.s. state department says it's repulsed by the me and my military's 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 in the young son chong district of a monday and tuesday they have not been allowed to go home. and a senior official from the tame leader and sang synergies party has spoken to al-jazeera about his dramatic escape from me and after last month's coup dr sassa has now been chosen as the special envoy of the committee representing the elected government for his safety dr sassa spoke with our diplomatic editor james bays from an undisclosed location. when me and my selection was held in november the campaign manager for unsung cheese national league for democracy party was talked to sources 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 if we wake up early morning of 1st february we realize that all our fault was that we cannot make any coal. the orderly visions 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 and even ing and say are you dead or alive and says that crying tell us how you got out of the country i know it was she would text driver to have that kind of things and i was against taxi driver you know it was tough it was tough and after that i had a motorbike and it was 2 times lifted by motorbike and 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 are now living in a safe place. he 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 d.d. air movement 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 too and you know he spoke out bravely against the coup last month and he's now going to be working closely with him because dr sources are 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 the chinese

government has breached every single act of the u.n. genocide convention and its treatment of we goes in change and that's according to a report by more than 50 globe. human rights experts it says there's clear evidence that china bears a state responsibility for committing a genocide against the weak us it's believed around a 1000000 have been imprisoned in camps in recent years mostly in the shin jiang region china denies allegations of human rights abuses well as an abraham is from the newlines institute that's the organization that published the report it says it's significant in terms of international accountability these are independent experience and international law in general say it changes policy all the evidence look at those and those ins tens of those in the testimony use it from the terms of policies and you know corroborated numbers change those laws in china stepped out and come to the conclusion very very clearly that change is in breach of the 91

genocide convention on multiple accounts so this is extremely significant in terms of international accountability or what to do is change that means a change is in breach of the general convention so the onus is no on other countries are party to james a convention and his will with 131 of them and remember cheney is also a party to this convention so the onus is on them to keep this as seriously as it deserves the most essential you know put into place. policies that issue that chain as he would accountable for this convention was set up not necessarily to have an academic exercise after a general 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 1st place or as the onus is no on countries to behave in a manner that actually whole chain are countable and not be passive otherwise they are also criminally liable for. be complicit in the general state with change.

the european parliament has stripped the immunity of catalonia as former president and 2 of his former ministers have fled are brought up to declaring independence and 2017 and now sit in the e.u. parliament in brussels that involved reports. it's a move that's rekindling the debate over the future of spain's catalonia region and its independence movement the result of the brushing session of monday the each of march the european parliament has removed the immunity of colors which demands for more catalan presidents 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 he's a sad day for european parliament. we have lost our immunity. but the rupee and parliament passed last more than that. and as a result european democracy to. this is

a clear case of political persecution the decision could help madrid's bid to extradite the trio colors put him on tony come in and color ponce said he had been charged with sedition in spain 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 because. these are the goebbels occasional asides he should not have believed that. they sometimes bury its own government and hopes that we were on the heel 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 28 team. but in last

month's regional elections separatist parties gained for additional seats in the catalan parliament the independent the if parties who compromised our right to attend the so there. are all kind of political opinions in the independent the is party if they want this majority in the catalan parliament so this proves that we still have their their elephant in the hole 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. lots more still to come here in al-jazeera including another legal twist for former brazilian president lula da silva after his corruption conviction was reversed on the chips are down how global shortage of semiconductors is hurting the high tech industries more of them stay with us.

for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways however the weather's slushy fighting dry across japan at the moment nice big area of high pressure just keeping things since the settled and sunny we have got a disturbance to the north and that will bring some cooler air in across northern parts of japan as we go through wednesday with some snow into hokkaido it will clear up it'll brighten up nicely as we go through the day 19 celsius in tokyo too bad here dry and fine too with some pleasant spring sunshine in seoul lifting temperatures to 17 degrees central areas of china down to a south on the other hand well that's going to the dominant feature to go through the next couple of days it'll make its way across eastern parts of china eventually running into the fosse out of japan but ahead of that 2nd kid as we go through the next couple of days then we've got to watch the fine dry weather across indochina

meanwhile northern parts of the philippines lotty fog in dry as well they've got a little clip just storms just rolling in from the open waters central and southern parts of the philippines will see some very heavy rain as we go through the next couple days and that could lead to some localized flooding usual russia showers through malaysia and on into indonesia and we got some showers to coming into shoreline over the next day or so southern parts of india also looking a little disturbed and we've got a westerly disturbance for northern pakistan and india. sponsored by qatar airways. 9 years ago outta 0 was the 1st major network to find evidence of genocide and made on. when the tragedy of the routing was mostly unknown force.

it in genocide on out just 0. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on al-jazeera jury selection has begun for the trial of a white policeman accused of killing george floyd former minneapolis off the derrick chauvinist facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter. the f.b.i. has released security footage of a suspect they believe plotted to explosives outside the democratic and republican headquarters the night before the u.s. capitol hill riot a $100000.00 reward is now being offered for information. on the u.s. state department says it's repulsed by the minimum military's increasing use of lethal force against protesters dozens of them killed since the military coup on

separate 1st. now the u.s. state department is imposing new sanctions on 2 iranian officials accusing them of human rights violations secretary of state anthony blinken says the 2 members of the islamic revolutionary guard were involved in the torture and punishment of peaceful protesters in 20192020 blinken says the 2 interrogators along with their families would be banned from entering the united states sanctions come amid international efforts to bring the u.s. and iran to the negotiating table let's bring in sigurd neubauer he's a political analyst and an expert on a rainy and gulf affairs he joins us via skype from washington d.c. good to have you back so the u.s. is now sanctioning these 2 iranian interrogators how significant is this and what sort of message is washington trying to send here do you think. thank you very much 48 but it's opportunity i think it's important to emphasize right away that even though these 2 individuals us as you reported will be banned from entering the

united states because of the sanctions this is not really what is essential because these individuals were unlikely to travel here anyways i think what's important here is that the by the straits that is signaling that it will not lift sanctions on iran which was imposed by the previous administration in till. the discussions with iran is broadened to include human rights and including iran's foreign policy and this is the signal that to defy didn't stray she was sending at this moment in time yeah i'm not an important point to make because the u.s. says this is about human rights abuses but the context of this seems to me to contrasting something one about human rights and the other about the nuclear deal talks come these 2 sit together do you think. well i think from from an iranian perspective. the american gay marriage initiative just

up today is it is another setback because iran would like to. adhere to the gypsy view a all but 2015 and now brought in this book of the discussions i think from the american now perspective things have changed and that is that in 20151 united states and its . partners in the un security council plus germany signed the j c view a there was a young belief and there was a hope that. they would lead to greater confidence between iran and the united states and that iran in return to the changes i regional foreign policy. post yours that has not happened so now the political consensus. in the by the negotiation seems to be that the status quo on 2015 was is not sustainable so therefore what the united states is trying to do is to put in additional pressure on iran in government while they have the sanctions in place to try to bring iran

not just to negotiations they will alert. the nuclear file but also over human rights and. other regional activity has got a final thought to you what does all of this then telling us about how the bottom administration seems to be shaping its foreign policy over iran going forward i mean it as you cite wants to bring iran back to the table but at what cost. well i think that human rights is something that is important not just for you ron. but also for other arab states we're seeing that president biden has personally emphasized that this is a human rights and the football you know all present. this is something that he would like to correct and iran is just a leader is a country where human rights will be added to the end of this is not. to politicize the issues but rather to have a. government wide approach to human lives across the region so good new about

always good to get your thoughts thank you very much indeed for talking to al-jazeera thank you thank you. brazil's supreme court has adjourned a decision on throwing out more evidence against former president luis and i assume that a silver if the decision goes his way and do no 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 is now open to him unless there's a retrial he would likely become the leading rival against far right populist president jabil tomorrow and next year's election. some of them into it was a catastrophic administration of the workers' party government i think the brazilian people don't even want to count the days 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 group reestablishes what was judged. has more now from rio de janeiro.

so the court has not 5 members on this trial what they were deciding today was whether judge send him order which was the judge that led the whole investigation in the carwash scandal which ultimately result resulted in the impeachment of former president bill maher affair and the charges and a big charge with corruption and convicted and in prison well they were deciding whether he had a political agenda of his own or he wasn't an 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 his vote because he just arriving here not read the whole history of as he was saying of all these twists

judicial twists going back in court which plunged rule of from being an extremely popular one of brazil's most popular presidents into being a convicted felon and now into being a person that had his conviction overturned so that doesn't mean he can be retried but what you can do now is run for president in next year's election. chinese state owned companies are gaining a bigger foothold in chile corporations are extracting billions of dollars of resources and some politicians are now proposing ways to stop them america isn't a cinnamon reports from. from the $1000000000.00 i.q. of one of the woods largest solomon companies to the purchase of copper and lithium mines to wineries and fruit fields. china has set its sights on cheney it may be a small country but it has

a very long and strategic pacific coastline and lots of resources that the agent. giant needs but that's not the only attraction the most important thing for china east. window shop in. their region. to say. you know we are in. america but while chile's economic growth a great deal to china members of congress are warning of an aggressive investment offensive not from private capital but from the chinese state yes you're not me or not if you don't regulate the participation of a foreign slide in your economy that economy could be nationalized not by our own country but rather by a foreign state that's what we've presented a bipartisan bill to level the playing field for everyone because we're facing an offensive by the chinese side the wants to take over strategic sectors of the

economy what the congressman has called drafted a proposal that seeks to regulate farm state ownership in strategic and geopolitical sectors of the economy on the top of his list is the chinese state's majority control of electricity distribution in chile cherry orchard like the one you see here may not seem to fit that description but chinese companies are increasingly buying more and more agricultural land like this farm to produce one of chile's prime exports fruit especially cherries and that's raising concerns that china may be moving towards producing packing and exporting its own fruit eventual eliminating the chilean entrepreneur altogether. 6 weeks ago at the height of peak season $1000000000.00 cherry exports to china ground to an abrupt halt. it's very suspicious exactly when we started buying this bill in congress the social networks in china who will now controlled by the slight weekend announcing

that our cherries had traces of coated 90. chile's foreign ministry refuses to entertain the notion of foul play at least publicly but never at all is not alone in suspecting that china was sending a veiled message that there's a high price to pay if chile decides to limit china's economic influence you see in human al-jazeera. a global shortage of semiconductor chips is hurting the high tech industries from the makers of game consoles to cars auto plants are reporting production delays of up to a 1000000 vehicles and the problem is highlighted the dominance of 2 of the world's leading chip makers taiwan and south korea from abroad reports from seoul. between them south korea and taiwan have a near monopoly on the world's production of processing and memory chips it's a dominance in a strategic commodity that's been developing over years but now making itself felt

as the world becomes increasingly technology driven but from here on out it's going to broaden considerably to 8 ships with everything in sight if. it's not. your electric vehicle if your car's going to have a retreat it's getting old like other car makers this general motors plant outside seoul has been experiencing delays because of a global shortage of chips it's been a wakeup call for many world leaders but the investment of time and money needed to become a chip maker means south korea and taiwan will maintain their lead for years to come it's a global shortage that's been made worse by the pandemic when car factories ramped up production again late last year it coincided with a surge in demand for consumer goods also needing chips and a move towards online activities requiring greater data processing that needs

yes ever more chips frank wang is the founder of one of taiwan's chip manufacturers whose business has grown as the island has come to dominate the sector this is a burning portal with a one continual sub why a bell in the porch opinion of the state and other your country on this so buying toys in the 2nd largest processor if we have a problem the war or have a problem it's this indispensable that works well right now taiwan's chips are also indispensable to mainland china providing it with the so-called silicon shield against beijing's expansion in the region but also raising the stakes in the increasing comp. tition between china and the u.s. semiconductor is strong taiwan is strong but it's becoming so strong and so we need to be careful so is the better to keep it neutral because if semiconductor or

silicon shield you know distress is being used as a weapon one way of getting off it will that was the conflict between us the in china and that is the dangerous there is. it's not increased. grain. type trying to contradict your competition south korea isn't taiwan's production mastery of a tiny component that makes any potential conflict in east asia a matter of global concern rob mcbride al-jazeera sold 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 spoke at length about why they stood back from their duties and split from the royal family again said they face questions about her then unborn son over how dark his skin color would be a statement released on behalf of queen elizabeth says the whole family is saddened

to learn the full extent of how challenging the last few years have been for her and meghan the issues raised particularly that of race are concerning while some recollections may vary they're taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately harry meghan and archie or will always be a much loved family members. of the headlines that 3 jury members have been selected so far the trial of a white policeman accused of killing george floyd format minneapolis off the direction of been 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 juries in the united states draw from counties in the larger county is 10 percent black so there's going to be less representation .