coming in across the central plains more snow just around the mountain states over towards the rockies further a swell this woman try temperatures a respectable $22.00 celsius in d.c. . the jury selection begins in the trial of the former minneapolis police officer for his role in the killing of george freud. daryn jordan this is a lawyer from doha also coming up the f.b.i. releases new video of a suspect planting bombs before the capital riot and as a reward for any information that could lead to an arrest. i would die of that situation because it was extreme situation one senior official from me and ma

describes to lodge a 0 his dramatic escape following the military to. these 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. 3 jury members have been selected so far for the trial of a white policeman accused of killing george floyd he died in may last year triggering worldwide protests format minneapolis officer derek chauvin is facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter john hendren has the latest now from minneapolis. interestingly 2 of the people who were not selected were hispanic and and bad it'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 has 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 and they've got a few charges one is murder 2 the other one is manslaughter in 2nd degree murder the question there is there's no question of premeditation but it's whether he had the intent to kill george floyd well 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 vengeance 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 a. judge the case and each side is allowed 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. the f.b.i. has released new security footage of a suspect they believe planted 2 explosives outside the democratic and republican party headquarters in january the f.b.i. says 2 bombs were placed behind the r. and c. headquarters the night before the u.s. capitol hill riot they were discovered and diffuse the following day a reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect stands at $100000.00 alan fisher has more now from washington d.c. . first time i'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 one of the 1st things they would have done was check the video you can't tell if it's a man or a woman you can't see a face but they do have distinctive brand name food where the f.b.i. are hoping that someone might be able to identify that or perhaps even the gate that the suspect use no 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 now you remember that these 2 devices were found or own 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 but your state department says this repulsed by the 1000000 mom military's use of lethal force against protesters. surging the army to exercise maximum restraint dozens of protesters have already been killed hundreds of demonstrators were trapped in a late night stand up with security forces and young guns sunshine district of the monday and tuesday they've now been allowed to go home. a senior official from the time leader and sang some cheese party has spoken to large as they are about his dramatic escape from me and after last month's cool dr sassa has now been chosen as

the special envoy of the committee representing the elected government for safety dr sassa spoke with our diplomatic editor james pays one undisclosed location. one man miles election was held in november the campaign manager for unsung soon cheese national league for democracy party was dr sausage 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 in the early morning of february we realize that all our phones that we cannot make any coal. is 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 in the evening and say are you dead or alive

and says that crying tell us how you got out of the country i know who she would take the 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 end up with a motorbike and it was 2 times leave that to buy it we got to. 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 in our lead if it is they pleased. 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 report as some military officer have defected to the

air movement that shows 2 hours if you provide us where we are calling to international community to help our strategy to deliver for the people of myanmar he praised be on mars u.n. ambassador drawn to and spoke out bravely against the coup last month and he's now going to be working closely with him because dr saw saw has been named as the global envoy of the committee representing the democratically elected politicians of myanmar james out 0 of the united nations the chinese government has breached every single act of the u.n. genocide convention and its treatment of weekends and shin jang that's according to a report by more than 50 global human rights experts it says there's clear evidence that china bears a state responsibility for committing a genocide against the weekends it's believed around a 1000000 have been imprisoned in camps in recent years mostly in the shin jan region china denies allegations of human rights abuses ever him is from the new

lines institute that's the organization that published the report he says it is significant in terms of international accountability. these are independent experience and international law in general say in change policy all the evidence you know those and those ins tens of those testimonials from the terms of chain us policies and you know corroborated numbers change those laws in china stepped out and come to the conclusion very very clearly that cheney is in breach of the $948.00 genocide convention on multiple accounts so this is extremely significant in terms of international accountability or what to do is change it means a chain is in breach of the general convention so the onus is no on other countries are party to the james a convention and his will with $131.00 of them and remember cheney as also a party to this convention so the onus is on them to treat this as a seriously as it deserves they must essentially you know put into place.

policies that issue that chain as they 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 it's 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. ivory coast's ruling party has retained its majority in parliament winning 137 of the 254 seats up for grabs reactions to the results are so far peaceful a country with a history of post-election violence i dress reports from abidjan. michel broke or some form of ivorian president will save us a window of a city targeted in this town the supporters are extatic about the victory.

aware of the tensions in the land michel one of the new faces in parliament says it's time the country heals. for you all bullshit we've got a long we're going to work on reconciliation in the return of ivorians in exile including my father that way democracy in our country will be strengthened. reassuring words for citizens who fear the worse. the opposition had hoped for better results but given it boycotted lost his presidential election some of us say the coalition performed better than expected. under the law anyone not satisfied with the provision of results can go to the court in the next 72 hours the result of the election gives president alassane ouattara and the ruling r h d p party total dominance over ivory coast politics. she the opposition p.c.i. is a minor league party that based at lakes national spirit as it's clear we have won

the parliamentary majority we set out to achieve. election observers called a process to respond despite incidents recorded in some parts of the country but this is really a minor issue. the. election. claims and counterclaims a victory by the leading political parties nearly price the country into another round of violence businesses here in become a couple to lobby join remain open during and after the announcement many here say the country has pulled back from the brink of another round of post-election violence but he also warned what political leaders say or do in the next few days will determine what happens next. the results will now go to the constitutional court to decide in 3 days either to reject or validate the outcome comedy treece.

time for a short break and when we come back another legal twist a former brazilian president lula da silva after his corruption conviction was reversed. and the chips are down our global shortage of semiconductors is hurting high tech industries in that state this. time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored by qatar airways. hello there 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. it clear up it'll brighten up nicely as we go through the day 19 celsius in tokyo too bad his driving

fine too with some pleasant spring sunshine and so lifting temperatures to 17 degrees central areas of china down to was the south on the other hand well that's going to the dominant feature as you 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 still good 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 largely fog and dry as well but 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 sri lanka with amazed southern parts of india also looking a little disturbed and we got a westerly disturbance for northern pakistan and india. sponsored paul qatar airways. make a change. change your life or the path of

a country challenge the accepted truth if you want to create something you push to break it continually mold up to turn the status quo and fight injustice down the hall months the team rather than. just our. witness personal documentaries not photo perception on al-jazeera. put them back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour 3 jury members have been selected so far in the trial of a white policeman accused of killing george floyd former minneapolis officer derek

jovan is facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter. yet they are israeli security footage of a suspect they believe planted to explosives outside the democratic and republican headquarters the night before the u.s. capitol hill riots a $100000.00 reward is being offered for information. on the u.s. state department says it's repulsed me and monitors increasing use of lethal force against protesters dozens of people have been killed since the 2 on february 1st. and 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 lincoln says the 2 interrogators along with their families would be banned from entering the united states the sanctions come and international efforts to bring the u.s. and iran to the negotiating table well as a political analyst an expert on

a rainy and go for affairs he says the u.s. is signaling to iran that the 2015 arrangement is no longer sustainable. i think from from an iranian perspective. the american in the initiative just today yes it's another setback because iran would like to. add here today. 2015 and now brought into scope of the discussions i think from the american perspective things have changed and that is that in 20151 the united states and its. partners in the u.n. security council plus germany signed the j.c.b. late there was a young belief and there was a hope that. it would lead to greater confidence between iran and the united states and that iran in return. changes direction of foreign policy. post yours that has not happened so now the political consensus. in the vital information

seems to be that the status quo on 2015 was not sustainable so therefore what the united states is trying to do is to put in additional pressure on the iranian government while they have the sanctions in place to try to bring iran not just out today negotiations they believe. in the nuclear file but also over human rights and . other regional activity. for european parliament the ministry of company as former president and turn of his former minister by fred are brought off to the clearing in the pendants and 2017 a mouse sit in the e.u. parliament and brussels or false. it's a move that's rekindling the debate over the future of spain's catalonia region and its independence movements the result of the bruising session of monday to each of march the european parliament has removed the immunity of colors which demands for

more 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 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 pon 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 do them justice because. it means that these are only gobos occasional asides. should not have

believed that. they sometimes bury its own government and 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 independently if parties who compromised our right to attend the collect for their. are all kind of political opinions in their independent parties they want majority parliament so this proves that we still have that balance when in the 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 dean barber al jazeera brazil's supreme court has adjourned a decision on throwing out more evidence against former president lula da silva if the decision goes his way buthe 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 but that's now open to him unless there's a retrial he would likely become the leading rival against far right populist president to narrow in next year's election. sort of near to you it was a catastrophic administration of the workers' party government i think the brazilian people don't even want a candidate like that in 2022 before we even think about his possible elections you can see that the stock market went down and the u.s. dollar went sky high we all suffered with this decision i hope that the supreme

court grieved reestablishes what was judged. here has more now from rio de janeiro . so the court has now the 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 car wash scandal which ultimately result resulted in the impeachment of former president bill maher assef and the charges and a big charged with corruption and convicted and in prison well they were deciding whether he had a political agenda of his own or he wasn't in impartial judge as he said he was and the court was split it was 2 people that he was impartial to people said he was not in the 5th judge said he needed some time to make up a smoke you can see just arriving here and not read this whole history of as he was

saying of all these twists judicial twists going back and forth which plunged moola 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 he can do now is run for president in next year's election. now 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 a latin america at its honesty and human reports. from the $1000000000.00 acquisition of one of the world's largest salmon companies to the purchase of copper and lithium mines to wineries and fruit fields. china has set its sights on chile 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. is. window shop in. their region. to say. you know here 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 reforms light 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 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 are controlled by the state became denouncing that out sherri's had traces of coded 19. chillies 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 in human al-jazeera. a global shortage of semiconductor chips is hurting high tech industries in the makers of game consoles to cars auto plants are reporting production delays of up to 1000000 vehicles and the problem was highlighted the dominance of 2 of the world's leading chip makers taiwan and south korea rob rob 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 broader considerately to egypt with everything modern fighter. it's not a semiconductor in 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 one continuous so why a bell in the porch opinion i me state and other you know we're country on this so buying toys in their 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 in so we need to be cared for so it is

a better to keep it neutral because if semiconductor or silicon shield you know distress is being used as a weapon taiwan will getting off it will that was the conflict between us the and china and that is the dangerous there is. it's actually getting increased asian grade. thanks to 3 washington types 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 they spoke at length about why they stood back from their duties and split from the royal family and again said they face questions about her then unborn son of how dark his skin color would be for

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 particular that of race are concerning are some recollections may very well taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately harry meghan and archie will always be much loved family members. of the headlines here on al-jazeera 3 jury members have been selected so far in the trial of a white policeman accused of killing george floyd former minneapolis office that derrick chosen is facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter john hendren has more now 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 for.