we're going to be right about ecuador. a lot of the stories that we cover all highly complex so it's very important that we make them as understandable as we can as al-jazeera correspondents that's what we strive to do. the city of minneapolis agreed to a $27000000.00 settlement in the death of george floyd and his death sparked global protests against racial injustice. we have to show. joy joy life matters action. hello and o'clock this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a warning that brazil is headed in the wrong direction and struggling to contain cave in 1000 factions and deaths which are pushing hospitals to collapse.

in algeria protesters call for a complete government overall. and major landmark in chile's capital it's removed after a 19th century war here and it's caught up in important a battle. so than george floyd family is getting a $27000000.00 payout for his death while in police custody in the united states but they say they'd give it all back to have him still alive council members in the city minneapolis voted unanimously in favor of the record settlement in a case that sparked global outrage john 100 has more on the. the city of minneapolis has put a price on just how much black lives matter in the case of george floyd $27.00 moon

in dollars that's the amount the city has agreed to pay in a civil settlement with floyd's family in the racially charged case of a black man who died beneath a white police officers knee i thank the state of minnesota for getting that settlement taking care. but even though my brother is not here he's here with me in my heart 'd because if i could give you my back i would give all that is bad the settlement is the largest ever in a minneapolis police shooting it also eclipses the $12000000.00 the kentucky city of louisville paid recently in the death of briana taylor gunned down in her own home by police one year ago friday a floyd family lawyer says the beneficiaries go beyond one family the financial compensation most directly impact george floor and his family their

future of their family but it is tough to see ripped the ems down to fix all of us other cities will think twice he says before allowing police to use chokeholds no knock warrants and other controversial tactics because in cases like this one as george floyd's family reacted to this settlement the man who knelt on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds was less than a mile away he has spent the week in a minneapolis courtroom where the court is selecting jurors to decide if he should be convicted of murder derek chauvinism faces 2nd in 3rd degree murder and manslaughter charges and the risk of decades in prison the other 3 officers will face charges later this year of aiding and abetting him those officers will be held accountable there is a prosecution team that actually cares and is fighting. and if you need a reminder just think of the george floyd case and that if you don't get policing

correct if you don't make these changes if you don't fix the policies that are happening. then you'll be seen as again despite this settlement the floyd family and justice won't be served until that happens john hendren al-jazeera chicago. a defense attorney and former prosecutor and he explains the next steps in the floyd criminal case. there are 2 parts right now you have the criminal parts of the part so the symbols or should have been taken care of $17000000.00 to make sure that his children is taken care of well as as his brother said it doesn't bring them back so now the next part is if your is a lesson. then surely the. artesian if you're the city of minneapolis you want to ensure that hopefully that on there are no more rides no more unrest let's say that your he says that it's not guilt what will the family say so on that hand you're going to say hey you know what maybe this is

a big community understand that this city wants to do the right thing that the city is acknowledging that the police department has a 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 $27000000000.00 is a large amount of money if i'm not mistaken it may be the largest bird the largest settlement ever for and cost the police dept well it's going to go to their state family i'm sure i'm sorry but they're not into noise if there's portion as well so large now i'm sure they decided what was happening in this state ringback as if they will be the ones who make the decision about what they do with it if the 1000000 projects whether they're in and sure that you keisha on the bed or buys children who are still in their trucks or their future abs their decision because now it's their money.

the stark warning for brazil as it struggles to contain coronavirus they will tell full denies ations has the country is not moving in a good direction deaths from cave in 1275000 feet is the 2nd highest number in the world after the united states won a eunuch monica janak if reports now from here to generic. aside for sore eyes a couple of empty beds waiting for couvade 19 patients and enough professionals to welcome them but the administer to give out a hospital in the seaside town of money is an exception in most of brazil the health care system is on the brink of collapse as the corona virus is spreading and claiming lives at an alarming rate. doesn't rest of their we're seeing an upsurge of infections and deaths everywhere partly because people have stopped prospective social distancing last month's carnival was counselled but that

didn't keep brazilians from partying without masks doctors in this intensive care tell us they're admitting a greater number of younger patients than a year ago beds are scarce but so are vaccines in rio de janeiro diana finally had to wait in line to get her mother admitted to a single beso as a spit on there were 5 people ahead of her personally she was able to wait but i'm sure that many others who were in the more critical condition didn't make it brazil is facing the worst phase of the pandemic since it registered the 1st covert 19 deaths exactly a year ago this week saw a rise in the daily rate of deaths with 2000 people losing their lives every 24 hours. mass inoculations could have been a light at the end of the tunnel but president jade maddow downplayed the pandemic and delayed the acquisition of vaccines less than 6 percent of the population has

received the 1st shots so far as a result of governors and mayors have decided to take matters in their own hands the city of medicare for example just announced it will buy 400000 doses of the russian vaccine enough to not relate its entire population thank you we're going to get. more by day we can't even count on the numbers the federal government gives us at the beginning of march the health ministry said it would buy 48000000 vaccines then it reduced the number to half at this right brazil will finish the 1st round of vaccinations and i pull may next year by then new variants will be circulating which maybe i'm into the vaccines we have now poor states and cities with larger populations will have more difficulties in fighting the pandemic on their own but doctors and scientists warn that have no action is taken brazil will represent a threat to itself and others. neighbors many countries in latin

america almost all of them except a couple and some countries are doing better in the neighborhood but if the situation in brazil continues to be serious like this then the neighboring countries will be affected and it's not about the neighboring countries but it could go even even even beyond. the fear is that mutations more curt at a much faster rate outpacing the vaccines and spreading to the rest of the world monica i'll just sirrah we addition narrow. well italy's are also facing great address from infections from monday most of the country will be under the strictest. restrictions including roman milan residents in red zones won't be allowed to leave home except for work exercise or motion seize and also be clamped on during the popular easter break starting 3 weeks rise in infections is believed to be driven

by a variant discovered in the u.k. or francisco attorney is a journalist and he says what's most concerning to time insisting slow vaccine rollout the pace is very slow in the last week less than 2200000 doses per day were giving to 2 italians with 60000000 people here so that the prime minister might be a druggie said that these numbers will tribal and next week's what. if if the 'd doses will not come. this this won't won't happen so this is very concerning for people more more than the red zones of the moment italy's infections numbers have been growing for 20 days now in a row so reaching 20000 daily cases from the beginning of march so this new restrictions are considered quite inevitable for what is happening the new

government started new possible restrictions for weeks and decided to take action now also looking at what could happen in easter that is in april and so people from the government were very worried that the next weeks could basically make the virus explode and all over the country now how funny to me is becoming a red zone it's important to say that red zone is not exactly as that 2020 is locked down but it's still the maximum level in italy's system of restrictions. thousands of anti-government protesters have been rallying in several algerian cities to reject early elections the president has called for legislative polls in june off to dissolve parliament last month demonstrators see the elections as an attempt to maintain the political status quo they've been rallying against for 2 years they're demanding an overhaul of the government 10. years of research at the

london school of economics and associate fellow for the middle east and north africa program at the u.k. think tank of chatham house and she explains why many algerians continue to protest . continuous tractor says of the algerian regime repression arrest of 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 to so call a we're seeing the regime gauge and accept 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 in these warehouses 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 customer 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. still ahead here around syria a warning the war in yemen could get worse after who the rebels reject

a plan to end the fighting. the search is on in nigeria for more than 30 students missing after yet another mass abduction. it's time for the perfect gentleman to weather sponsored point qatar airways poor air quality in beijing has become a problem once again the last week or so there's nothing much to move it i'm afraid temperatures are on their way up that's true for all of northern china as nothing permanently frost even on the tower up to 30 for the obvious thing on this chart is the low that spinning through honshu still cold enough air up in the mountains to give some wet snow but the most tokyo's included will be a windy and wet day on saturday it'll improve on sunday but it warms on the lead breeze out of the mountains gives you 20 in tokyo everywhere else remains quite

without much breeze a tall some increasing clouds a bit of rain in the far west of china and an increase in the breeze and the shower potential in the central philippines as a potential for some flooding in the islands the center and a hint even of a circulation to the west of that circulations we must watch at this time of the year now in is a bit dry that of late there are a few showers running slowly eastward into bangladesh where the most substantial ones in the pole to baton 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. sponsored paul qatar airways. levanon is grappling with its worst economic crisis in generations. exasperated by the coronavirus pandemic and then this.

one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history shine a light on a nation already in economic and political freefall people in power travels across the country to find out what's next for the trouble states lebannon the state to collapse on i'll just say you know. hello again you're watching al-jazeera or mind of our top stories this hour 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. for zille has just topped 275000

deaths from cave at 90 that's the 2nd highest in the world after the u.s. the world health organization wants a privilege not moving in a good direction with hospitals stretched to the limit. coronavirus restrictions are being wrapped up in several regions in italy most of the population will be under the strictest measures for monday including rome. a spokesman for the rebels in yemen says they have rejected a u.s. plan for a nationwide cease fire they insist it only represents the views of saudi arabia and the united nations she never tansey has more now. the u.s. backed boming of yemen by saudi arabia and its allies has already created the world's worst humanitarian crisis now as who the rebels attempt to solidify their position in the north the united nations is warning of even worse to come the violence has forced up to 15000 people to flee since early february roughly 60

percent of them are reportedly residing in informal settlements and crowded sites where services are overstretched more than 20000000 people 20.7 to be more exact need humanitarian assistance many of them are at the brink of starvation speaking in washington the u.s. is on void timlin the king says the saudis support when he cools his sound plan for a ceasefire but feels the hoot these prioritising taking the government's last area of control in the move the province of matter and we urged who these tourists are that's why i was in the region for these last 2 weeks and i will return immediately with who these are. the world food program agrees a ceasefire is key because it is shallow. biometrics at a significant way which will allow us the liquidity into the economy which will wrap the real date back up which will allow food prices stabilize or that the who

thing you say the ceasefire proposal fails to address the economic blockade that's led to such hardship whenever you have a kind of how he and his mom then there can propose will does not stop the seats or the fighting however it represent cosmetic understanding to bring back the siege what the american envoy presented is a conspiracy to put yemen in a more dangerous state than the current one. and the u.n. reports that in fact the siege is tightening last month no commercial fuel imports were allowed through data port that's 0 in recent years more than half of commercial fuel imports had been coming through for data this is the 1st time since the escalation of the conflict in 2015 that we've seen the level drop to 0 this is driving shortages and price rises. the biden administration is however placing the blame for the impasse on the duties and the us military is reported to be increasing its assistance to the saudis claiming such help is defensive and not

offensive and make sure she had a chance the al-jazeera. security forces in nigeria are searching for around 30 students kidnapped in the north of the country thursday night's raid on a college in could do in a state is the 4th mass school abduction in the region since december government officials say a large group of armed bandits attacked a school which is near a military academy soldiers confronted the attackers and were able to take another 180 students and staff to safety i show you through food is a campaign in from the bring back our girls movement and she says many parents are scared to send their children to school because of the kidnappings. this is not the 1st time that terrorist act college of higher learning in 2010 at the college of agriculture goodby in your best it was actually attacked and over 40 people were killed in 2014 september 2014 also a college of teachers train was attacked in congo and over 15 people were killed by

a recent times who have seen a lot of schools being attacked and of course there is incentive for the for the kid for the tarot is to keep up docked in people because id end of the it seems as if around some is actually changing hands and then they're getting they're getting more involved in to continue to talk to abduct people from school to lot to do with ideology in the sense that we know the terrorists basically do not want people to go 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 afraid of sending their children to school so you have to weigh in that keeping their children safe or getting their children educated and also it seems as if it's where so 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 left right and center and it's almost as if it's an economic business it's a business where you know. people from a.m.r. stranded in the u.s. because of the military coup will be allowed to stay for at least another 18 months about $1600.00 are getting a temporary protected status washington says it's because they'll face brutal violence from the military if they return as well as a humanitarian and economic crisis. at least 70 people have been killed in protests in myanmar since the military. last month let's bring in our terrorism abraham moved director at the new lines institute for strategy and policy joins us from chicago as he may tell us more about who this program applies to. this program place to all myanmar such as. united states and i think it's indicative that the u.s. no regularity that nobody wins is not going to be beating 18 or 70 people have now

been killed in the cold test and all were to use those and have been arrested to those over $1600.00 have been charged the military completely missed co-created extent on the terrace and has no choice but to escalate and bones trying to bring it to an end and i think the u.s. is simply amazing that the conditions are not good any time soon or to send people back there right included in the $600.00 nationals already the united states under the program it includes diplomats suv broken with a jointer. and i think that's that is very important to look to normal because it's denying that easy legitimacy is over that those diplomats still have diplomatic occasion they can stay in the u.s. and they can operate. almost like a shadow government of myanmar and the united states i think that wanted it he elements that to deny it to mysie up to the military and did not recognize him on the international stage the thing is that had been persistent warnings haven't from

the international community to the joint and they've all just taken little effect no effect at all in fact so what further steps can be taken. options are quite limited to the international community though the military in myanmar who are now in control of clearly indicated that they are willing to wear their daily m. sanctions and even though the military did you manage cheat leeson he said that even myanmar just simply had to learn to walk with little cranes and. international a solution and there so the options are relatively quite limited by i think that key things that we can do is to look at more targeted sanctions sanctions against military companies that enjoy it enjoy and control large swathes of the economy so target damon restrict them in terms of the trading activity globally and also tying to the steps humanity in the. government but actually through their civilian and injure you parties on the ground i think that would be much more effective over the

long run i guess you would be careful with sanctions in the sense that you don't want to deprive the people of myanmar without having that straight yeah that is why the military companies and this very large number of them that are integrated into the economy those are the ones that should be targeted many of the generals some become main street at shore with the ears or with a kids and a huge shortenings in my car when cheney known singer this is all relatively well known and and those are the ones that we should be targeting those people have been rich them so. you look through this. road as i'm pretty sure that thanks very much for the as him speak to us from chicago. now tributes are being paid to south africa's zulu king who's died at the age of 72 the nation says that the good will in theory had been in hospital for weeks to treat diabetes with his health took

a turn for the. 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 but he refuses to step down more than half of new york's democratic congressional members and most of the state legislature want him out of a dozen sexual assault and harassment allegations a gates quibble. he's prime minister has visited northern ireland amid rising political tension over its post breaks its status or as johnson's trip to inspect vaccination facilities was overshadowed by his government's plan to further delay customs checks u.k. agreed to a customs border between northern ireland in the mail and in the e.u. withdrawal bill angering year mists but the u.k. has altered its implementation date prompting the e.u. to call for legal action but boris johnson says he wants to ensure the northern ireland protocol is backed by both nationalist and units 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. he's 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 south . like the lincoln memorial in washington or the arc the trail from paris to chile is a back and done a monument in santiago has been a key landmark for nearly a century but it's just been removed to save it from attacks from protesters that's led to cheers and to outrage a latin america editor lucien human reports now from santiago.

under the cover of darkness chile's national monuments authority began removing the statue of general manuel back 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 by no amount of special forces police water cannon or tear gas could preserve his dignity if you know you indeed this is a symbolic war 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 is 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. 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've just witnessed a capitulation the gemer represents all traditions but the government has decided to remove him so the vandals can continue to storing a civic center. 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 through free will he's

a symbol of terror. he massacred them up to cheese and southern chile just having that down occupying this 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 that his 1st major defeat or at the very least a tactical retreat you see in human al-jazeera santiago. so this is these are the top stories in the family of george floyd will receive a $27000000.00 settlement from the u.s. city of minneapolis floyd died last month after a white police officer knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes his death prompted worldwide protests calling for racial justice the officer deescalate the situation we're not here during this press conference.