just the other. way they don't do that because he's been. a court hears from potential jurors as the trial process begins of a white former police officer accused of killing george floyd. matheson this is obvious here on live from doha also coming up the f.b.i. releases new video of a suspect planting bombs a day before the capitol hill riot and offers a $100000.00 reward. because it was extreme. a senior official from maine martell's al-jazeera about his dramatic

escape following the military coup plus. unaccompanied and under age the challenge facing vast numbers of children migrant children as they try to enter the u.s. by its southern border. 3 jury members have been selected so far for the trial of a white policeman accused of killing george floyd. he was. and they were interviewed in a courtroom and their identities have not been revealed floyd died in may last year triggering a worldwide protests for minneapolis officer derek children is facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter the court set aside 3 weeks to choose the jurors but that could be delayed over plans to add a 3rd degree murder charge the state's asked the court to stop for savings until

that's resolved john hendren has more from minneapolis. on day one of jury selection in the case of the former police officer accused of murdering george floyd the court picked 3 jurors one a white chemist a man from minneapolis another is a white man who works as an auditor and says he's got a friend who's a police officer and he's got a relatively negative view of black lives matter the 3rd is a woman of color who says her uncle is a police officer and all 3 said that they felt they could judge the case fairly race is particularly important in this case of a white police officer accused of killing a black man in a racially charged incident that was videotaped by bystanders and went viral that video sent protesters into the streets across the united states and set off riots here in minneapolis and elsewhere it's rare that a police officer is charged with murder and really we're still that one is convicted in the concern here in minneapolis is that if derrick chauvin is found

not guilty of these charges that those riots that began on may 25th when george floyd was killed could begin a new that's why security is heavy around the courthouse with high barricades arrested around it national guard and police inside and very few people allowed inside that courtroom now ultimately the judge needs to pick 12 jurors and at least 2 alternates in order to start the trial but with 3 jurors being picked on the 1st day of jury selection they are on pace to begin as scheduled on march 29th live in bates as a criminal defense attorney mount a former prosecutor in baltimore maryland he believes local testimonies will provide enough evidence to judge the case. one of the things makes america great country is that within the judicial system you have the opportunity to be judged by their peers with your community if they take the case outside of minneapolis

minnesota then you're not judged by your peers these are the individuals that live in those neighborhoods understand the police officers these are the individuals understand the race so these issues of their own cities they're the individuals who are best equipped to be able to judge this case say guilty or not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt this is that you dish the system that we have in america and it's going to be interesting as here the most important witness if you asked me would be the force experts that the defense and the prosecution put on those are the experts that will say this police officer did their job this is how they were trained or this police officer to be able to do his job and be on with this training it will be that simple and says me based on that testimony and based on that video i think they're opiate not to say guilty or not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt if they are as released new security footage of a suspect they believe planted to explosives outside the headquarters of the democratic and republican parties in january the f.b.i.

says to pipe bombs were placed behind the r. and c. headquarters the night before the u.s. capitol hill riot they were discovered and defused the following day i want for information leading to the arrest of the suspect stands $100000.00 balance fisher has more 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 anywhere 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 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. they are state department says it's repulsed by the man more militaries use of lethal force against protesters. and surging the army to

exercise maximum restraint dozens of protesters have already been killed hundreds of people were trapped in a late night standoff with security forces in yangon sun shone district over monday and tuesday they have not been allowed to go home a senior official from detained leader aung san suu cheese party has spoken to all jazeera about his dramatic escape from me amar after last month's coup doctor has now been chosen as the special envoy of the committee representing the elected government for his safety dr sassa spoke to 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 february and we realize that all our phone was that we cannot make any call. 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 and even ing 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 text 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 and a motorbike and it was 2 times lifted by motorbike and we got tape as. the middle of freezer night i can of feel it in my face like in

a few of 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 a 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 his era at the united nations. the united arab emirates is appealing for the lifting of sanctions on the government of syria's bashar al assad here he is foreign minister says the pressure. campaigns making it more difficult to settle the conflict it was meeting the russian foreign minister the us is imposing economic penalties on our side and other officials in damascus for war crimes against the syrian people them iraqi ministers says he also want syria to be allowed back into the 22 member in the arab states. to keep the seasonal as it is will make things harder and not only for us as countries but also for the private sector this has to be a part of the dialogue we are speaking clearly about it with our friends in the united states of america it is very important for syria to return to its role in the arab league no doubt that this needs huge if it differently from the syrian side as well and it needs huge effort from our colleagues from the arab league

brazil's supreme court is adjourned a decision on throwing out more evidence against former president lula da silva if the decision goes his way below that will receive another boost from a judge overturned his conviction for corruption on monday the verdict blocks the left wing leader from running for a 3rd term a path that's not open to him unless there's a retrial it would likely become the leading rival against the far right populist presidents jabil scenario in next year's election. 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 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. monica you not have has more from rio de janeiro. so the court has now the 5 members on this trial what they

were deciding today was whether judge samuel morrow which will was the judge that led the whole investigation in the carwash scandal which ultimately result resulted in the impeachment of former president bill modest there and the charges and with 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 an impartial judge as he said he was and the court was split it was the 2 people that 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 this whole history of as he was 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 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 still ahead in all does it go by catalonia politicians could not face extradition to spain off to flee into accepting. these cherry orchard may look innocent enough but the part of a mountain debate here in chile over time is investment and possible control over this country's most important and strategic industries. for the perfect gentleman. with a sponsored play qatar airways. hello there the weather slushy fought

a trifle much of the middle east as per usual but the northeast looking a little unsettled we got a bit more clout there just around 30 and then as we make the way across greece well this little area of cloud wet and windy weather will make its way into the eastern side of the mediterranean over the next couple of days to turkey turning increase the unsettle there be some snow over the high ground just around the caucasus georgia romania azerbaijan all seeing some wintry weather over the next couple of days talk to some wintry weather to into afghanistan kabul 6 celsius so let's look for the south where it is 5 and dry as promised 28 celsius here in doha over the pleasant sunshine coast much of the arabian peninsula and present sunshine see through the whole of africa. fine and dry a little kwassa for you gondolas southern parts could catch one of 2 showers the showers stretching down into rwanda and into broome they say easing their way down

the rift valley showers still lingering on here of course and through the central areas of africa we are looking at the usual tropical showers some heavier showers to just rolling across the mozambique talent and more than pulse of madagascar southern africa it's warm and dry. at ways. things are said and it's time for a different approach one that is going to challenge the way you think i'm asking the questions now is the new host of the next season of the show that's got no space for sound bites only counted the list least implicitly into the headlines join me as i take on the lies dismantle the misconceptions and debate the contradiction. i'm marc lamont hill and it's time to get up front right here on al-jazeera.

we want to go to syria a reminder of our top stories this hour 3 jury members have been selected so far for the trial of a white policeman accused of killing george floyd form of minneapolis officer david children is facing charges of 2nd degree murder and manslaughter. the u.s. state department says it's repulsed by the miramar military's increasing use of lethal force against protesters dozens of people have been killed since the coup for the 1st. the f.b.i. has released security footage of a suspect they believe planted 2 explosives outside the headquarters of the democratic and republican parties the night before the u.s. capitol hill riot a $100000.00 reward is being offered for information. the chinese government has

breached every single act of the un genocide convention and its treatment of we goes in changing 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 weavers it's believed around a 1000000 have been imprisoned in camps in recent years mostly in the changing region china denies allegations of human rights abuses seem even to him is from the newlines institute the organizer organization that published the report it says it's significant in terms of international accountability. these affect the independent experience and international law in general say in china's economic policy of all the evidence you know thousands and thousands tens of those testimonials from the terms of change us policies and you know corroborated numbers change those laws in china stepped out and come to the conclusion that very clearly

that chain 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 that means a chain is in breach of the general convention so the onus is no on other countries are party to the general so you convention on this will 131 of them i remember change as also a party to this convention so the onus is on them to treat this as seriously as it deserves they must essentially know put into place. policies that are true that chain has held accountable for this convention was set up not necessarily to have an academic exercise after a general so it happens to discuss the way that it was you know so you're not essentially it preventative mechanism but it's just got general to it's happening in a fossil a so it's the onus is no on countries to behave and in a manner that actually whole chain are countable and not be passive otherwise they're also criminally liable for. be complicit in the general state with change.

chinese state owned companies are gaining a bigger foothold in chile corporations at extracting billions of dollars of resources and some politicians are suggesting ways to stop them in america and it's missing in human reports from china but don't go. 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 for china 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 right we're 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 fall. time 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 who social networks in china who controlled by the slight weekend announcing that our cherries had traces of coke at 19. chili'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 in human

al-jazeera. brazil has recorded its highest number of deaths from corona virus in a single day in 2000 registered on tuesday the country has had more than 11000000 cases and it's facing the worst phase of the pandemic yet pushing its hospital system to the brink of collapse. palestinian prime minister in the hamas state says the territories going through a challenging 3rd wave of infections in several hospitals everybody in the intensive care unit is being used they is also asked for countries to send the vaccine doses they've promised as soon as possible is able to him more from ramallah or something here in one of the main governmental hospitals dealing with 900 patients and the hospital officials have been telling us that turning away tens of patients every day. medical attention we're here in front of the emergency

room and we're seeing patients waiting for their turn to get inside the. staff told us that she is a priority when there's a vacancy they would need her immediately i know that they're doing their best given the circumstances. the doctor told us she has to sleep in the hospital but we can't keep waiting in the corridor my mother in law is tired she's 92 years old people's concerns were confirmed by the palestinian prime minister that the hospitals are gearing up here pretty even though the government has doubled the i.c.u. the start of the pandemic. the government with one of those 3rd and more. thing and wearing masks but people have been spied with the government they say that not only did this government not compensate people for the consecutive closures over the past year but also some of the few 1000 arrived in the occupied

west bank have been given to their families which is raising a lot of nerve among you know the integrity of the future vaccine program. the governor of texas has ordered hundreds of national guard troops to the southern u.s. border with mexico in response to a surge in migrants trying to cross among those seeking to enter the united states thousands of central american children traveling without parents and that's posing a challenge for the biden administration how did joe castro reports. u.s. border patrol agents encountered more than $19000.00 unaccompanied migrant children at the border this fiscal year a number on pace to vastly surpass previous surges the miners made the arduous journey from central america without a parent arriving after president joe biden reopened the border to them we felt it was the most humane approach to addressing whatever very difficult circumstances in

the region and that means there are more children kids under the age of 18 of course coming across the border the border patrol encountered $78000.00 migrants in january a leap from former president donald trump's final months in office and the highest january total in a decade on tuesday the republican governor of texas announced a surge of state police and national guard troops in response to the worsening situation there is a crisis on the texas border right now with the overwhelming number of people who are coming across the border this crisis as a result of president biden's open border policies the biden administration says the border is still closed to the majority of migrants the few who are allowed in officials say are the unaccompanied children and the asylum seekers who had already been waiting in line in mexico for 2 years these families will live freely in the u.s. until an immigration judge decides whether they can stay but the children who arrived

alone are detained inside border patrol holding cells for days or weeks in violation of a court order as they wait for shelter space that's nearing 100 percent capacity the government has cancelled pandemic restrictions of the shelters to fit more children who live here for more weeks until they are placed with u.s. sponsors we're definitely seeing an uptick in numbers but we're also seeing that the administration is very conscious of it and is working very quickly to put resources into place to handle future. progressive's urged the white house to improve the conditions of detained children while conservatives accuse biden of inviting a run on the border meanwhile pandemic related poverty in central america is driving more people to leave putting more pressure on biden and on the u.s. border. castro al-jazeera washington and the european parliament has stripped the

immunity of cattle on his former president and 2 of his former ministers it's not abroad after declaring independence in 2017 in the knesset 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 movements the results of the rushing session of monday th of march the european parliament has removed the immunity of colors which demands for a catalogue 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 the rupee and parliament has lost 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 them on tony come in and color ponce said he had 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 being of the media and of justice because. news that these are both the gobos occasional asides. should not have believed that. they sometimes have babies don't go but 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 pedal 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 come from the right to attend the collect so there are all kinds of political opinions in the independent the party if they want the majority the couple in parliament told this process that we still have their ballots 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 buckingham palace has broken in silence over allegations of racism and bullying by prince harry and his wife meghan markle in an interview with oprah winfrey the couple have been speaking at length about why they stood back from their juices and split from the royal family make a mark or said they faced questions about her then unborn son or 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 harry and meghan it says the issues raised particularly that of grace concerning some recollections may vary they are taken very seriously and will be addressed by the family privately how do you make and archie will always be much loved family members. this is all just 0 these are the top stories he. can read. he was a top. 3 jury members have been selected so far for the trial of a white policeman accused of killing.