to these guys i just how did he create a new system makes it hard for people to know what's real and what's not step outside the mainstream shift the focus covering the way the news discovered the listening posts on a. city of minneapolis agrees to a $27000000.00 settlement in the death of george floyd his death sparked global protests against racial injustice. that i make clark this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up it's only titan's covert 1000 restrictions shutting down schools and restaurants as 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. in algeria protesters called for a complete government overhaul. so his death and police custody spot 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 the death of an armed black man at the hands of a white officer from today worldwide protests calling for racial justice and to police brutality it was awarded a shared 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 will join floyd's families says the settlement is a major step in their quest for justice but it won't bring him back head office or deescalate the situation we're now hearing during his press conference no joy i just did a lot. i think speak for myself and my family when i say we give the settlement big lead to have joy still here with us no amount of money can cure this pain is hardy no amount of money. can bring him back to be here for his children not to make memories and watch them grow. john hendren has 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 chauffeur and and the other 3 officers involved now chauvin 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 well let's hear now from ivan bates who's a defense attorney and former prosecutor he explains the next steps in the floyd criminal case. there are 2 parts right now you know the criminal part of the part of the civil or shouldn't been taking care of $1000000.00 and make sure that his children and they can care but as as his brother said it doesn't bring them that. now the next part is a serious a lesson and then surely the criminal trial office and if you're

a city of minneapolis you want to ensure that hopefully that there are no more rides no more and ross let's say the jury says 'd that it's not guilty what will the family say so that hand you're going to say hey you know what maybe this is a 'd big community understand that this city wants to do the right thing that the city is acknowledging that the police department has to stand because the city is understanding that we are in charge of these department the city youth taking responsibility so you do see some change 27 $1000000000.00 is a large amount of money if i'm not mistaken and maybe the largest very large government for poor and trust the police that was going to go to their state family i'm sure they're going to their lawyers get their portion as well so large now i'm sure they've decided what will happen to this status if they will be the ones making the decision about what they do where if you really project whether then and sure that you have the educational needs made for buys children who has children

outre for their future their decision because now it's their money. countries around the world are still straining to contain coronavirus despite the rollout of vaccines restrictions are ramping up in italy 3 weeks ahead of the easter break from monday the strictest measures come into force for most of the country including raman melanne of brazil has just topped 275000 deaths that is the 2nd most in the world the world health organization warns of brazil is not moving in a good direction with hospitals stretch 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 is approved johnson and johnson vaccines for emergencies says there's also no reason to stop using astra zeneca for each other and has more now on the shutting down of it. at

a fascination center a few 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 chiles 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 has 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 out his era well let's turn to the rising infections in kenya catherine so it has more now from nairobi. president or king arthur has extended the national cough you a 5 am to 10 pm ballot the 60 days raising concerns about the number of confirmed cases that we're seeing on wednesday the health ministry announced the highest number of confirmed cases since january we are seeing more people being admitted to hospital in i.c.u. use on ventilators and so one the health ministry has said that the country is in the middle of its. wave which appears to be more vicious this week that the health minister also started the back summation campaign. medic call off he says health workers are receiving the fast dose of the astra zeneca vaccine from. this program

is to elderly people those with underlying conditions before moving on to the general population but people are very worried about the pace of this vaccination the government says that it hopes that by the end of 2 to 23 to have vaccinated 30 percent of the population that's about 9000000 or 50000000 kenyans a number that is extremely low a lot of people are saying they're hoping that the government is going to ramp up this exercise acquire more vaccine more vaccines and you know vaccinate more people basically especially now when things seem to be getting worse security forces in nigeria searching for around 30 students could not to the north of the country once wrote on a college and continued state is the 4th mass school abduction in the region since december government officials say a large group of owned by in this attack 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. campaign and from the bring back our girls movement this he says many parents are scared to send their children to school because of the kidnappings. this is not the 1st time that erroneous. college of higher learning in 2013 the college of i agree cordial goodbye in your best state was actually attacked and over 40 people were killed in 2014 september 2014 also a college of teach us train was attacked in congo and over 15 people were killed by a recent times we have seen a lot of schools being attacked and of course there is incentive for the for the kid for the terrorists to keep up docked in people because id end of the it seems as if around some is actually change and time and then they're getting they're getting more important to continue to talk to abduct people from school to law to do with ideology in the sense that we know the terrorists basically do not want

people to to go to school and so in putting all of this out it's ensure that a lot of people begin to doubt sending their children to school we've seen a lot of abduction to have happened where the terrorists tell the students that they should not come to school again so it's what we have got into a place where parents are actually out straight to get children to school so you have to weigh in that keeping deaf children safe or getting their children educated and also it seems as if it's whistle baffled right now as citizens and we are really scared as citizens of nigeria because it's incisive it's free for all and then people i just mean up doctor and left right and center and it's almost as if it's an economic business it's a business where you know. they're around 0 the warning the war yemen could get worse off to the rebels reject the plan to win the fight. back and they gave the help and sports fans feel safe and secure again because.

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potential in the central philippines as a potential for some flooding in the center and a hint even of a circulation to the west of the circulations we must watch at this time of the year in is a bit dry that of late a few showers running slowly eastwards into bangladesh where the most of stanch ones in the pole to bhutan and the west a disturbance giving a lot of snow for afghanistan the finals of pakistan the far north of india but doing precious little else in the northern plains of in the we still got morning fog which can be persistent in new delhi and fairly poor air quality. sponsible qatar airways. for $1300000000.00 going to meet your members in such a small place where everyone was there for a while it's way easier to corrupt get higher taxes don't. really care about. britain so. it's a film that helped bring down corrupt governments and led to the jailing of the

former president. al-jazeera investigates stealing car dies. variegated watch out 0 a reminder of our top stories this hour and the family of george floyd will receive a $27000000.00 settlement from the u.s. city of 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. coronavirus restrictions are being ramped up in several regions in italy most of the population will be under the strictest measures from monday including rome and. brazil has just talked

227-5000 deaths from covert 19 the 2nd highest in the world after the u.s. the world health organization warns that brazil is not moving in a good direction with hospital stretched to their limits. 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 that they've been rallying against for 2 years demanding a complete overhaul of the government then him and he is a researcher at the london school of economics and associate fellow for the middle east and north africa program at the u.k. think tank chatham house and she explains why many algerians continue to protest. continues practices of the algerian regime where crash an r.s.s. 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 determined to continue protesting until meaningful political changes exceed the so call a we're seeing is the regime gauge and it said it cosmetic we want all a need to i renew the regime without actually. getting into meaningful political 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 of 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 the the final step of this road map 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 called an upper hand on the whole process and we haven't seen any meaningful changes whether that is 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. so a spokesman for the who threw rebels in yemen says they've rejected a u.s. plan for a nationwide ceasefire saying it only represents saudi and u.n. views earlier the u.s. envoy for yemen said that these appeared to be prioritizing an offensive to take the marab region and warned the country will spiral into greater conflict unless fighting stops to melinda king who also said the u.s. has restored humanitarian assistance funding to north yemen mike hanna has more now from washington d.c. so i'm going to king who's the u.s.

special envoy for yemen has said that the cease fire has been presented to the duty leadership he spent the last 2 weeks in the region negotiating exactly such a settlement which does appear to be based on a ceasefire both among hooty as and among the saudi arabian forces but this is now turned down at this stage it would appear by the hutus obviously the u.s. deeply disappointed in this there's been no direct reaction from the special envoy at this particular point but understanding what he is attempting to do is forge the settlement to get negotiations going with the u.s. and importantly under the auspices of the united nations to 1st of all get a cease fire in place to be able to ramp up humanitarian aid but at this stage it appears a stumbling block they've got the hooty leadership saying that the proposal that's been presented to it is a saudi and a u.s. one it does not represent hooty interest so a little bit of

a log jam in the situation here while the biden administration may be getting a little bit more impatient than it has been in recent months the un's migration agency fears as many as 60 migrants may have died during a fire at an overcrowded holding facility in yemen last sunday and it's far above its initial estimates more than 170 people were injured in the blaze of a couple sun it's not known what triggered the fires the agency is calling on the who things to allow health workers to access those seriously injured. calls 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. refuses to step down more than half of new york's democratic congressional members and most of the state legislator want him out have been half a dozen sexual assault and harassment allegations against him believe is the united states japan australia and india have met by video to discuss climate change

coronavirus and security challenges so called quote group was initially formed after the 2004 indian ocean earthquake and tsunami it was reestablished in 2017 as relations worsened between the u.s. and china white house correspondent kimberly how could this. a virtual meeting with his indian australian and japanese counterparts a group also known as the quad us president joe biden told the group free and open indo-pacific is essential to each of our future the quad was formed to cope with the devastation following the 2004 indian ocean earthquake and tsunami but now it's set its sights on a new threat the rising military and economic might of china the quiet is concerned about china's growing assertiveness in the asia pacific region and the world the united states certainly sees this alliance to stop the

growing influence of china if not contain china it is not dissimilar to the nato organization which was started 947 to stop the increasing influence a military threat that was coming from the soviet union as the world battles the covert 19 pandemic that originated in china the group also announcing on friday a new initiative to manufacture and produce u.s. vaccines in india financed by japan and the united states and supported by australia the quad committed to delivering up to 1000000000 doses to ozzy on the indo-pacific and beyond by the end of 2022 climate change is the other big challenge the group must confront how to push global nations to live up to the commitments made in the paris climate agreement overall china admits almost double the c o 2 of the united states but per capita the us takes the lead china responded to

the meeting of the quad saying exchanges between governments should be to create understanding not target 3rd parties the meeting of the quad comes just days before the us secretary. state and national security advisor will meet with their chinese counterparts in alaska that meeting is expected to be more forceful as the united states confronts china over issues of economics security and human rights kimberley health at al-jazeera the white house the case prime minister has visited northern ireland amid rising political tension over its peace breaks its status 1st johnson's trip to inspect vaccination facilities was overshadowed by his government's plan to further delay e.u. customs checks the u.k. agreed to a customs border between northern ireland and the mainland and the e.u. withdrawal bill angering unionists for the u.k. has altered its implementation date prompting the e.u.

to call for legal action everybody is a journalist historian and author from belfast and explain sports at the heart of the dispute the bottom line is this the republic of ireland is within the european community and in the e.u. u.k. has left you or your does not want any persian parts meat products sausages livestock coming into no front. until 10 surely moving across into the irish public who are part of the phillies yet tested for the prickly standards and that is along the short unionist protestant community they are. that to differentiate between northern. great britain in any way in terms of the inspections of food products coming in

is a violation. of the you know the. scot . that's what really is. their. status. as being changed by force he said it would happen he said no prime minister no british prime minister could stand. and then you read it was europe and there is . still his visit today i think probably has achieved very much a police officer has been charged with the kidnapping and murder of a 33 year old woman in the u.k. . disappeared after walking home from a friend's house in london earlier this month her body was found on wednesday in the town of ashford that's about an hour from london and death has triggered about the safety of women in the u.k. to tanzania and officials say the president is in good health and working normally

following claims he was critically ill with coronavirus and being treated abroad john mica foody is africa's most prominent coronavirus skeptic and hasn't been seen in public since late february on thursday the opposition leader to listen said the president was in a coma in india with covert 19 the prime minister has blamed the claims on what he calls hateful tanzania living approved a call for athletes to boycott next year's winter olympics because of china's treatment of the weekend's has been labelled as making no sense the games are scheduled for beijing in february lympics chief thomas back says history shows the point was don't achieve anything the u.s. can aid in and that's governments have described china's treatment of the weak and minority as genocide. why. the athletes from your own country if you have a dispute with the government from another country. these trust you know

makes no makes no makes no real sense and the athletes are would be the ones who are suffering and one after the key principles in trying to in the olympic or charteris of the political you're trail ity half the i.o.c. we are not as super world government no not as un security council no. no cheese 70 g 20 has solutions of the seas in the room it's off politics sports venues in america's biggest city are trying out a new app to ensure that fans can safely return to the big games that came in 1000 passports verify if the holder is infected or not kristen salumi ports now from new york. for basketball fans it's game on extremely excited to go to a game. with huge basketball they'll do whatever it takes to see their favorite

team including taking a covert test we got tested and it turns out when we got tested it wasn't that so now we have to get retested here or in this case a retest not quite the crowd you'd expect here for a game night attendance is being limited to 10 percent capacity and you have to have a negative p.c.r. code test on your phone in order to get inside sports venues in new york are testing out a new app meant to verify the holder's covert 3 it's a digital record what some are likening to passports allowing access to countries or night clubs currently being used to verify vaccination and places like israel and china leading new york mayoral candidate andrew yang believes there should be more of this technology on the local level in shops and workplaces so this to me is going to be a vital element of getting the city back on its feet for people to be able to quickly convey their vaccination information and this is something the city needs

to invest in paul meyer runs a technology foundation called the commons project that's been working with the airlines to develop a system that's not only secure but also internationally recognised people are showing up at the airport waving pieces of paper that are easily forwards if you think about it from countries perspective countries want to open up they want to allow troubled resume to get economies going but their 1st responsibility is to protect their populations health but the slow roll out of vaccination efforts made clear that lack of digital access remains a problem among the most vulnerable americans and critics worry implementing this on a local level will just increase and equalities to day one in 5 americans don't have access to a smartphone and that number is much higher when you look at those over 65. so we're potentially talking about a form of. the wall off millions of new yorkers from every day life at this stage of the reopening game access for cell appears to be winning over access to all in

the rush to jumpstart the economy kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. europe's largest volcano has erupted for the 12 time in less than a month from tens of love it was seen erupting several times as high from mt and now on the telly 19 of sicily research is i haven't seen the volcano this active since 1980 but they say it poses no risk for residents who live around the area. this is out here these are the top stories in the family of george floyd will receive a $27000000.00 settlement from the city of minneapolis floyd died last may offer a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes his death prompted worldwide protests calling for racial justice.