the us city of minneapolis agreed to a $27000000.00 settlement in the death of george floyd his death sparked global protests against racial injustice. we have to show. george to our life matters by actions. by loudly clark this is out 0 in life and also coming up it's only titan's covert 1000 restrictions shutting down schools and restaurants the prime minister warns of

a new wave of infections. the search is on in nigeria for more than 30 students missing after yet another mass abduction. a major landmark in chile's capital is removed after a 19th century war hero is caught up in a modern day battle. of and his death in police custody sparked a global outrage now the u.s. city of minneapolis is agreed to pay a $27000000.00 settlement to the family of george floyd council members voted unanimously in favor of the record payout floyd was killed last may when a police officer knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes his death prompted world wide protests calling for racial justice and an end to police brutality it was a watershed moment for america. it was one of the most

regis and shock and documentations of an american citizen been tortured to death by a police officer for having his knee on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds one of the worst ever witnessed in history. george floyd's families says the settlement is a meant to step in their quest for justice but when bringing back. the officer the escalated the situation we're now hearing during his press conference no joy just did a lot. i think speak for myself and my family when i say that we give the settlement big lately to have joy still here with us no amount of money can cure this pain this hearty no amount of money. can bring him back to be here for his children not to make memories and watch them grow. let's say now from john hendren who's been

following developments from chicago. as we understand it the entire city council of minneapolis voted unanimously to award the family or the estate of george floyd $27000000.00 that is a huge civil rights settlement by comparison the family of brianna taylor who a black woman who was sleeping in her house when police raided it looking for drugs from someone else did not find it and ended up killing her that family was paid $12000000.00 so this is really one of the largest settlement you could find but the family says that they're not just looking for a monetary settlement that family all along has been calling for a guilty verdict in the case of derek chauvelin and the other 3 officers involved now show ven is already on trial the jury selection is ongoing in that case and the issue there is trying to ensure that that jury has some minority red representation

and it does so far there's been at least 6 jurors picked including one african-american and hispanic as well the hope is that they would have some understanding for what minorities in the united states face when they are confronted by police officers in challenging situations like the one involving george floyd when he died last may 25th the course that set off riots in the streets and protests across the united states meanwhile the mayor of minneapolis emphasized the need for change to bring about racial justice. so today's settlement reflects our shared commitment to advancing racial justice our khamenei our sustained partial progress our commitment to minneapolis and our commitment and compassion to one another we need to be unrelenting we need to be unapologetic in

our pursuit of a more equitable local government and a more just approach to community safety in our city and we will be all right let's bring in ivan bates he's a former prosecutor and currently a criminal defense attorney joins us via skype from baltimore welcome to the program so this is a huge civil rights and who does know how far does it go in easing the burden of george ford's death. you mean. it goes. you know the. criminal part of the part of the civil or should've been taken care of $17000000.00 to make sure that children it almost. doesn't bring them back so now the next our. problems far are. so as far as the civil case is concerned to what degree will with settlement effectuate change do you think. well it's number of things one if

you're the city of minneapolis you want to ensure that hopefully that there are no more rides no more ingress let's say that your it says 'd that it's not guilty what will the family say some bad hand you're going to say hey you know what maybe this is a 'd that it can be with you understand that the city wants to do the right thing that the city is acknowledging that the police department has the stomach issues the city is understanding that we are in charge of the police department the city is taking responsibility so you do see some change when some of the in dollars is a large amount of money if i'm not mistaken and maybe the largest very large sum that up are for and possibly police down it is a large amount of money does it all go to the family all the a certain amount him for the relevant civil projects and so forth well it's going to go to their state the family i'm sure will decide what they're going to do the lawyers get theirs portion as well so large now i'm sure they've decided what what

happen this state is your state will be the ones who make the decision about what they do whether that he really projects whether they're and sure that you have the educational needs made or buys children who are still in their trust or their future abs their decision because now it's their money and the family's been coding for a guilty verdict of course in the shaving case where with the offices of other offices involved as well this does this settlement make any difference to the forthcoming trial. actually it doesn't. end when you have a little bird or a civil judgment a civil settlement such as this that's one part of the equation you still don't have a criminal trial the criminal charge says it's also guilty beyond a reasonable doubt the jurors should not even think about whether or not it's and so you know right now the self the city is not in their responsibility and their

issues or their issues could be described as training be they put options out there that mel if they were going to the city is told from the criminal matter you're here you're saying our system bar is directly responsible. for the murder your lawyer and the lawyers for the floyd family are all searching the senate to pulse the george floyd justice in policing act tell us more about that but what they're basically trying to talk about is how arches are trained when they're allowed to use force with particular our use of force or they laugh use i.e. new york we saw a chokehold here you have an officer with a knee in the back of mr lloyd so they want to make sure those are the trains that never use those types of measures anymore and the other with the community going to the public. great to get your spots of on this appreciate that very much thank you thank you.

countries around the world are still straining to contain coronavirus despite the rollout of vaccines restrictions are ramping up in 3 weeks ahead of these the break from monday the strictest measures come into force for most of the country including rome and milan and brazil has just topped 275000 that's the 2nd most in the world the world health organization warns that brazil is not moving in a good direction with hospital stretched to their limits kenya's nationwide curfew has been extended for another 60 days as it braces for a 3rd wave of the virus and the world health organization has approved johnson and johnson vaccines for emergencies it says there's also no reason to stop using astra zeneca rory challenge has more now on the shutting down of a family at a fascination center if you maci know airports it's a nice prime minister mario draghi acknowledged the discomfort his country is about to go through. so. i'm aware that today's

measures will have consequences for the education of children for the economy and also for the psychological state of all of us the president of the red cross reminded me of the psychological difficulty that some people have suffered especially the elderly but i think it is the same for everybody especially for people who live alone who today feel even more alive it's difficult for them to see the people who they love these measures are necessary to avoid a deterioration that would make even more stringent measures inevitable. head of the easter weekend national lockdown and aids regions including the capital rome and one autonomous province to bring in the restrictions from monday corona virus infections rose by 10 percent this week and officials have warned the situation is worsening with new more infectious variants gaining ground in recent days more places have become red zones the highest here of localized one of them is frozen

noni in the let's say a region some areas have infection rates of 23 percent of those tested higher than seen earlier in the pandemic. i am worried my 14 year old daughter is being told there chile she's losing her best use of adolescents like these from morning to night she's inside the house. italy is one of several european countries to have a least partially restricted use of the astra zeneca vaccine while reports of blood clots are investigated but the prime minister insisted the inoculation campaign would carry on luggage. the european medicines agency is reviewing the suspected cases but is also advised that the faxing should continue to be used. for italy as elsewhere widespread vaccinations are seen as essential for a return to normality rory chalons how does iraq. let us bring in dr georges

benjamin now he's executive director of the american public health association joins us from washington d.c. that's in georgia benjamin thanks for joining us here in oz or let's look at the global picture here vaccination campaigns very much under way in certain parts of the world yet we still see these these new waves emerging at what point when will we see things changing for the better. well let's think about what we have here yes you're right we have these outbreaks that have gone down in u.s. and israel but there are big outbreaks of going up in places like brazil and italy you know we have 7800000000 people on the planet only about 119000000 of them that we know of have been infected and we've only vaccinate about 335000000 people so there's lots of people that can get infected and we have these new variants out there which are much more infectious that's really puts into perspective the thing is that there's very uneven spread of vaccine coverage globally and where as many

in the global north are likely to achieve widespread vaccination by pretty much by late this year 2021 other poorer nations well that's going to struggle for years on it yes a real challenge here we've got a there wealthier nations have got to step up to the plate and really begin to focus on these nations that are not able to you know vaccinate themselves who don't have the resources to buy the vaccine we've promised and we're going to help we really need to begin sharing of that so you know a vaccine right now and given the disparity that you talked about between those vaccinated in those not these strains are just going to keep emerging that's the problem is that we have to think of this as a global problem and this vaccine nationalism is not a bad idea in other words we're protecting ourselves and not recognizing that we have to share as a global community some nations like the united states in the u.k. looking to do some restrictions by the summer do you think that's hasty how could

it go wrong. well you go from there very quickly we have lots of pandemic fatigue so you know we're going out more we're not worried mass of people who are not social distancing and there are some parts of the country like we have in our state of texas where they're all completely opening up as of today that's a real problem yeah and is there a lesson area where in places like the united states and the u.k. that we see as we enter the summer months of people god drops and we also see a drop in case numbers at the same time everybody relaxes and then we see another later in the year and we get back into it in the winter everyone of us are worried about it for it search and it may not be the winter we may have actually get this towards the early part of summer for not careful i suppose the thing is that by the winter then you would hope the vaccination campaign would have taken its effect well our goal of course the united states is to make sure we get everybody who wants a vaccine vaccinated by may 1st hopefully by july but that's going to take

a lot more work we're going to you know we've increased dramatically the number of vaccinations that we get pre-date we're over 2000000 per day but we're going to get in that $3.00 to $4000000.00 per day range of vaccinations if we're going to get everybody vaccinated that needs to get to get us to herd immunity yep still a massive task ahead certainly around the world dr george is benjamin preach at that thank you thank you thank you so head hair and onto their. anger in algeria protesters call for a complete government total. maybe surprisingly for march there's the potential for historic winter storm warnings

through colorado and where is it you might ask well it's actually does sort of thing developing we're driving warm air up from the gulf and it's quite a significant warm the still plenty of cold over the rockies and that difference might well turn into something significant a proper circulating still but 1st it's rain it stretches across the ohio valley then the snow starts to fall heavily particularly in denver and the whole that whole thing starts to rotate and we end up with potentially nasty thunderstorms in the central plains and even this snow will run out through when the brassica and south dakota but certainly is a going to be on the high ground of colorado so this could become something really quite nasty at the same time on the coast of california another systems working its way slowly dying with snow quite happily into the cascades and rain down on the car just. now this bit more of a breeze in the end now this time of the year so more showers around for the great run today's a few feet less around to these and of course the central america away from

billie's down to panama that's increasingly like to be cloudy with breaks of lightish rain in south america the heaviest showers are probably going to be around about equity. $100000000.00 gone missing embedded in such a small thing to everyone i would ever want to it's way easy to corrupt the system . legally about. it instead. it's a film that helped bring down the corrupt governments and led to the jailing of the former president. al jazeera investigates stealing paradise.

again you want to remind of our top stories this hour and the family of george floyd will receive a $27000000.00 settlement from the u.s. city minneapolis floyd died last may after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes his death prompted worldwide protests calling for racial justice. create a virus restrictions are being ramped up in several regions in italy most of the population will be under the strictest measures from monday committing recompose. brazil has just top 275000 deaths from cave at 19 that is the 2nd highest in the world after the united states the world health organization bourne's that brazil is not moving in a good direction and hospital stretched to their limits. that security forces in nigeria searching for around 30 students kidnapped in the north of the country

thursday night raid on a college in could do an estate is the 4th mass school abduction in the region since december government officials say a large group of armed bandits attacked the school which is near a military academy soldiers confronted the attackers and were able to take another $180.00 students and staff to safety if you don't as a member is following developments from the capital a brooch. this is the 1st time that the groups are targeting is used to titian of higher learning specially gelson is used to teach an almost every day kidnapping across nigeria there has been kidnappings of the people who are in commercial buses people india homes and towns and villages big government has been making a forced continues but in recent months since specially since december there's been an increase if not it will would be replacements of military top generals.

the president mohamed. the place the. army friends never. the navy and also what the. crowds to stop things and mainly people that was going to situation is really getting out of. the spokesman for the rebels in yemen says they've rejected a u.s. plan for a nationwide ceasefire saying that they may represent saudi and u.n. views earlier the u.s. envoy for yemen said that he sees appeared to be prioritizing an offensive to take the american legion and warn the country will spiral into greater conflict unless fighting stops to melinda king's also said the u.s. has restored humanitarian assistance funding to north yemen. thousands of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets of several cities in algeria to reject early elections on thursday the president called for legislative polls in june after dissolving parliament last month demonstrators see the elections as an

attempt to maintain the political status quo they've been railing against for 2 years protesters are demanding a complete overhaul of the government. but tim had a melody as a researcher at the london school of economics and an associate fellow for the middle east and north africa program of the u.k. think tank chatham house she explains why many algerians continue to protest continues practices of the algerian regime repression arrest little activists but also the deteriorating economic situation meant a lot of people took to the streets in recent weeks and on during seem very much to chairman to consider protesting until meaningful political changes are actually due to so kuala we're seeing is the regime gauge and it said it cosmetic we want all ain't to every new the regime without actually. getting into meaningful

change so we're still very much following their growth math that was set out by former general ahmed. in 2019 and this road map consisted organizing presidential elections and these were how in the summer 2019 and then coming up with a new constitution that was a referendum that took place in november 2020 and now they do the final step of this roadmap is legislative elections and yesterday president of the images of born announced that these elections will take place in june of this year however a lot of this is very custom it that the regime and the army particular the true power holders in algeria still hold and that her hand on the whole process and we haven't seen any meaningful changes whether the guys in the new constitution which still gives a lot of authority to the president and has not really engaged in redistributing

power to other institutions but also in daily political practices. the leaders of the united states japan australia and india have met by video link to discuss climate change coronavirus and security challenges the so-called quad group was initially formed in 2004 indian ocean earthquake and tsunami it was wrist uplift in 2017 as relations deteriorated between the u.s. and china each of the leaders independently in the course of the meeting referred to this event as historic because it's cemented a group of strong democracies that will work together going forward to secure a free and open indo-pacific the president noted in his opening remarks that this is the 1st multilateral summit he's hosted since taking office and that's on purpose it reflects his view that we have to rally democratic allies and partners in common cause and his belief in the central idea of the indo-pacific to the national security of the united states well let's hear now from our white house

correspondent can we help you out who has more on the mend. the u.s. president for one but the other leaders as well have identified that there still are ongoing threats and concerns that they can work on collaboratively and that is really the foundation of u.s. foreign policy under the biden administration so identifying some of those threats climate change they talk today about how they can make sure that all nations are living up to their commitments under the paris climate accord as well the issue of covert 19 news made at this event the announcement that in fact there would be a unique partnership among the quad where they would be setting a goal of getting out vaccines 1000000000 by 2022 through us supplying the vaccines they're being manufactured in india the financing by the u.s. in japan and then australian support so this was something that was another goal that was identified as something it's because of that partnership but security is

one of the major issues that still confronts not just these 4 but they feel by banding together they can confront this issue in the national security adviser in fact stopping by the white house press briefing to talk about why this group is so important when addressing issues particularly when it comes to china. pools are growing louder for new york governor andrew cuomo to resign over sexual misconduct allegations u.s. senate majority leader chuck schumer is the latest recruit refuses to step down more than a home of new york's democratic congressional members and most of the state legislature once amounts that have been home for a dozen such was sold to harassment allegations against quote. the u.k.'s prime minister brose johnson is visiting northern ireland amid rising political tension over its proposed to break that status his trip to inspect the vaccination facilities has been overshadowed by his government's plan to further delay the e.u. customs checks the u.k.

agreed to a customs border between overnight and the mainland in the e.u. withdrawal bill angering unionists the u.k. has altered its implementation date prompting the e.u. to call for legal action. johnson says he wants to ensure the northern ireland protocol is backed by both nationalist and unions communities in keeping with the peace process i think the most important thing about the protocol is that it should guarantee that the peace process in the in the good friday agreement which we all believe in everybody. in our land in the u.k. has normal and is worked so hard to achieve and there's got to be a balance and symmetry in that and what we want to ensure is that the protocol holds the wishes of all communities of both communities and has the consent of both so there's got to be an east west consent to what's going on as well as north.

a mass funeral has been held in equitorial guinea for the victims of a series of explosions that leveled much of the city about soldiers carried each coffin in the city's a sports stadium where the service was held at least 105 people were killed in multiple blasts at a munitions depo on sunday president 2 daughter obiang has blamed the explosions on the mishandling of dynamite stored at the base and fires set by farmers living nearby human rights watch is calling for an independent inquiry. workers who scrap ships in south asia can now sue british sell the vessels over deaths or injuries on the job hundreds of so-called ship breakers that injured or killed every year in bangladesh india and pakistan and now u.k. court ruling says that british shipping companies know that work has a legal duty of care even if the vessels have been sold for scrap through 3rd parties it's hoped the decision will force improvements in working conditions. like the lincoln memorial in washington or the art the trip from paris to me is that

backward on a monument in santiago that has been familiar century let's just be removed to save it from attacks from protesters it's led to cheers rippling and outrage a lot of america at its embassy in human reports now from santiago. under the cover of darkness chile's national monuments authority began removing the statue of general manuel backing down from the plaza that bears his name. it's a major landmark of santiago but when it became the epicenter of constant social protest 16 months ago the battle for back of them was on the war of the pacific hero was painted written and dressed up by protesters who renamed the area dignity plaza. no amount of special forces police water cannon or tear gas could preserve his dignity if you know you're a symbol indeed this is symbolic between the old and the new order that is

a rose more than a year ago with the safe school uprising. in the last 6 months and his steel have been painted every color of the rainbow by day just to be read painted a dignified black by night by authorities there's something else very significant about this exact spot in that is that it represents an invisible dividing line between uptown and downtown something between of the wealthier and the poor and rightly or wrongly many people seem to see general back to the north as a symbol of someone who was trying to defend that division. but when he was set on fire last week and almost had his leg sawn off authorities decided he had to be removed sparking a fierce political controversy and we thought. we've just witnessed a capitulation the chamar represents all chileans but the government has decided to . remove him so the vandals can continue to storing

a civic centers. using his statue to fly the indigenous my poochie flag has even been described as heresy but many others see it as an act of historic justice. he's a symbol of terrorism he messick of the pirkei in southern chile just to have back a dano occupying the space is violent. the national monuments council says the 2 ton statue is being taken away for repairs for at least a year an image that represents general back in the annals 1st major defeat or at the very least a tactical retreat to see in human al-jazeera santiago. this is out 0 these are the top stories and the family of george floyd will receive a $27.00.