it's under threat demonstrators and journalists are dealing with internet outages police intimidation and charges of said dish shift the focus covering the way the news the culture of the listening posts on the jersey. if i could get you back. that is. the u.s. state of minnesota agrees to pay the family of george floyd $27000000.00 to compensate for his death in police custody. hello there i'm just on to tell you this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up at least 3 people are killed in the latest crackdown against protesters and me an all. new fear is the u.n.

security council ones of increasing attacks in afghanistan a car bomb has killed at least 8 people inherit problems. calls for action in brazil as a surgeon coronavirus cases leaves hospitals overwhelmed and the death toll passes 275000. now the u.s. city of minneapolis has agreed to pay $27000000.00 to the family of george floyd and the known just settlement of its kind in the country's history freud died when a policeman knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes sparking global protests the officer is set to go on trial and his family says the cash payout is just one step on the road to justice john hendren reports. 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 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 the policy reforms they want 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 chauvelin 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. if you need a reminder just think of the george sloot case. in 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 serenus again despite this settlement floyd family and just your into that happening john hendren and user who crosses. all saturday marks a year since brianna taylor was shot and killed by police in the us state of kentucky like george foid who was killed 2 months later her name became a rallying cry for last year's black lives national protests tell it was shot by officers when they forced their way into her apartment during a botched narcotics raids in louisville no one has been charged over her killing her family received $12000000.00 in compensation now u.s. senate majority leader chuck schumer is the latest new york politician calling for the resignation of governor andrew cuomo who is accused of sexual misconduct cuomo is facing several allegations of sexual assault and harassment but is refusing to

step down there's also a growing scandal over his handling of the covert crisis his top aides are accused of altering days or to obscure the number of deaths from the disease and nursing homes now moving on and at least 3 more protesters have been shot dead an antique demonstrations in myanmar there are reports of police firing on protesters and mandalay on saturday overnight security forces used live ammunition on crowds gathered outside a police station in yangon at least 70 people have now been killed since the military seized power last month well tony chang is keeping an eye on the situation for us from bangkok and neighboring thailand tony we've seen the number of protesters out in the streets decrease in recent days is the military strategy of a brutality here working. i think it's certainly true that fewer people are coming out but it's also hard to get a gauge of exactly how many people are actively taking part in these street

protests because the protesters themselves have changed their tactics in reaction to the sort of aggression that they're seeing from the security services for example in mandalay you mentioned just now they were having 3 separate protests smaller but very active nonetheless and one of them on 41st street we understand that the middle aged woman was shot and killed and several have been taken away and wounded and we're also seeing those protests spread widely not just any more in the in the large urban centers where they were immediately after the coup in the beginning in february but in small towns all across the country in the sort of slightly unsettled ethnic areas as well where some of those protesters have been coming under the protection of ethnic armed forces so they are still going on and the voices that we're hearing from the protesters are very much that they are going to continue to do this they're aware of the dangers they face and they're seeing it with the tear gas coming in with the live rounds being used but they are still

absolutely committed to this because they realize that this is their one chance to try and turn back the clock on this cute the other interesting thing is that they're still taking part in the civil disobedience movement and there does appear to be having in effect if ective the we've seen myanmar's public transport system shut down the banking system is shut down at the moment hospitals are barely working and so it is creating an awful lot of pressure on the military in fact we understand that the letter went out to civilian banks saying that if they don't reopen next week the military will seize their funds and distribute them through military run banks and that's the kind of thing i think people are hoping will put so much pressure on the military they will be forced to turn the clock back someone very interesting indeed tony chang there cross that for us from bangkok thanks so much tony. a car bomb in afghanistan's heritage province has killed at least 8

people and injured dozens a hospital spokesman says the explosion late on friday night also destroyed several homes no one has yet claimed responsibility but local officials have already blamed the taliban that within hours of that attack the un security council condemned the alarming increase in attacks on afghan civilians in a statement the un security council said it condemned in the strongest terms the alarming number of attacks deliberately targeting civilians in afghanistan same continued these heinous attacks have targeted civil servants the judiciary the media health care humanitarian workers including women those who protect and promote human rights and ethnic and religious minorities where we cannot speak to mushtaq writing he's the founding member of the afghanistan affairs unit a security think tank and he joins us now from kabul that was a very rapid response that we saw there from the u.n. security council given the state of the peace talks and the push that we've been seeing from the u.s. to try to get things going again is this

a sign then of the pressure mounting. well yes indeed i think 1st of all let's look at the incident you have started to get out of course we didn't who are in such a huge jack spot as the time distance time but then there is a dingy area was deceiving a lot of these secondly nobody has claimed responsibility and in this sends a message across that minutely in our spoilers our affairs and it means they're trying to be in the peace process and of course that is forms that comes from the human. element is that how serious it is going into look so you can get hurt but of course we have seen the last few months that nobody has been gaming this possibility or certainly no doubt that government stripped away says it's a problem which means that this is more of a tactic being pushed pressure on the on. in the dark of the military

effort that is going to dominate the peace talks. as you say the taliban of say haven't yet claimed responsibility but the choice of the top at this time even though as we've been saying that west civilian casualties that it does appear to have been placed me a police station does that give us a sense of who might have carried it out is there are you nice into taliban at the moment. look that one we don't know about really kind of on at least for the time being didn't mean it didn't mean the united but did have i did it out for example of the mushroom in afghanistan and they were attacked different targets all because of last few years. and one cannot rule out that those are of course must may be engaged in this attack but in the meantime. the taliban's response has not come out which means that we will be claiming that a sponsor going to be. the incident but definitely. you

know spoiler elements who have been trying to beat up on peace process denmark interested in pursuing that peace is your narrative rather then they're looking at fungus taking people with the whole of the fired out of sharing it on the negotiation but some of the context is so complex when we get our treaty doing the boring good ones that single who are single out one certain our project is operating and i want to stop and you talk about intentionally trying to deal with the peace talks we have seen shop increases in these sorts of attacks at different points during the peace talks could this potentially actually rather be an attempt to gain leverage in talks rather than actually detail them. we have experienced a lot of targeted killing some of the intellectuals going to believed which was the number one is than civil society activists or who was up last 3 months and even back it was seen as an effort to put pressure on governments raised public

sentiments we've sent me beyond government to push them to the senate will see ition and rather the except more of the conditions there who for whom i have been told about. this as well can be seen in a from 2 frances one is definitely an effort when going see that this could be an effort to exert pressure to gain leverage on newbies think was you should be able to but in the meantime won't get our call our quits and all of those other momentous which are trying to really challenge your ongoing peace process the challenge the sentiments of the people who need to be stresses and again i'm trying to tell you that the complexity is so much that it's really difficult to group. or draw conclusions we revisit backs and their argument more because behind them let's talk that from afghanistan affairs yet speaking to us from kabul great to get you inside china to say thanks for being with us mr. still ahead from here on

al-jazeera no idea why he rebels in yemen have rejected a u.s. plan for a ceasefire. and researchers in the philippines are on the hunt for bats to learn how to prevent another pandemic. well the spring thaw is well underway for most parts spring weather actually wet and windy and this cold front is actually bringing the wet and windy so it's pushing cold air out of the way that junction always bring snow and that snow is going to really push into western russia listen the temperature in moscow significantly to 0 briefly making it cold in the southeast of you but it's not really a very active front after that point temps will start to rise in the sunshine then the following band of wind the rain is a little bit cooler just by a few degrees but for example in zurich you'll see it's 13 on saturday in the windy

wet weather then it goes down to 5 then drops further and sleet or even snow the billows wet snow i think for the northern house least and temperature drop by and that a single figures in places like berlin still 10 in london warm sunshine in spain and portugal still warm censuring greece and returning to turkey but with some significant wet snow in some of the high ground there in the balkans would be math across anywhere there is action south of that variance very quiet look at this band of cloud here in central areas that is likely to develop into a proper little area of low pressure its most active feature probably is the wind picking up dust running up to the north coast including sudden. on counting the cost of the perfect storm a pandemic drought and china's demands food prices hit 6 year highs margin time

before soaring inflation sends demand to its lowest since the 1950 s. last ethiopia's 6 help was it that burden becomes too much. counting the cost on al-jazeera. a diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of our networks journalists on al-jazeera. hello again i'm a saucy attainder let's remind you of our top stories here this hour the u.s. city of minneapolis has agreed to pay $27000000.00 to the family of george floyd the largest settlement of its kind in the country's history freud died last may

when a policeman knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes sparking global protests. at least 3 more protesters have been shot dead an anti crude demonstrations in myanmar police are reported to have fired on protesters and mandalay on saturday overnight security forces used to live ammunition on crowds and young. the u.n. security council has condemned the increasing number of attacks on civilians in afghanistan this comes after a car bomb inherit a province killed at least 8 people injuring dozens more. now the u.s. japan australia and india have agreed to supply asia with a 1000000000 coronavirus of vaccine doses by the end of next year that commitment was made at the fast meeting of the so-called quote group that aims to counter china's growing influence our white house correspondent committee reports a virtual meeting with his indian australian and japanese counterparts a group also known as the quad u.s.

president joe biden told the group free. because essential to 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 quote 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 $947.00 to stop the increasing influence of 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 a 21000000000 doses to i.c. 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 emits 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 u.s. secretary of 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. spokesman for the who the rebels in yemen say they have rejected a u.s. plan for a nationwide ceasefire they insist it only represents the views of saudi arabia and the united nations she has written see has been. 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 $20.00 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 what he calls his sound plan for a ceasefire but feels the these prioritising taking the government's last area of control in the move the province of matter and we urged who these 2 risks 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 to good still of. 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 pen 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 her day to port that's 0 in recent years more than half of commercial fuel imports had been coming through her data this is the 1st time since the escalation of the conflict in 2015 that we've seen the level drop to 0 and 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 opens and they can she have a tendency i'll just different. well thousands of people have marched in lebanon's capital demanding a new independent government to help lift the country out of its economic crisis

protesters are frustrated over the state of the economy and the surge and unemployment more than half of the population is now living below the poverty line prices have soared as the lebanese pound has lost more than 80 percent of its value haul security forces in nigeria are searching for $39.00 students kidnapped from a college in the north the raid on thursday night in kaduna state is the 4th mass school abduction in that region since december government officials say a large group of armed bandits targeted the school that's near a military academy soldiers confronted the attackers and took $180.00 students and staff to safety. now the w.h.o. says brazil is not moving in a good direction and the struggle against the current virus deaths from carbon 19 now exceed 275000 that's the 2nd highest number in the wild after the united states

not a chaotic you have reports now from rio de janeiro aside for sore eyes a couple of empty beds waiting for couvade 19 patients and enough professionals to welcome them but the next 2 to give out a hospital in the seaside town of medicare 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 a new more me. as a christian here we're seeing an absolute different factions and deaths everywhere partly because people have stopped respecting social distancing last month's carnival was canceled 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 sink 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 was i was 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 to downplay the pandemic and delayed the acquisition of vaccines less than 6 percent of the population has received the 1st shot so far as a result 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 knock you late its entire population if you're going to get all.

we can't even count on the numbers the federal government gives us at the beginning of the health ministry said it would buy 48000000 vaccines then it reduced the number to have 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 may be immune to the vaccines we have now. poorest states and cities with larger populations will have more difficulties in fighting the pandemic on their own but doctors and scientists warn that if 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 would perch at a much faster rate out piecing the vaccines and spreading to the rest of the world monica al-jazeera rio de janeiro while the world health organization says there's no reason to stop using the astra zeneca coronavirus vaccine thailand bug area and democratic republic of congo have become the latest countries to delay their rollout of the job on thursday denmark norway and iceland suspended the use of the vaccine while reports of blood clots are being investigated as well it is government is stepping up its pandemic response after a surge in infections there from monday much of the country will be under the toughest restrictions including in rome and. people in so-called red zones will only be allowed to leave home for work exercise or majesties it's believed new

highly contagious variants are driving the rise in infections that. well tanzania's prime minister says the president is in good health and working normally on thursday the opposition leader said john legere foully is in a coma in india with curve of 19 is africa's most prominent coronavirus skeptic and hasn't been seen in public since late february the prime minister blames the claims on what he called hateful tanzania and living abroad while researchers in the philippines are taking an extra step to try to try to prevent another outbreak like of 19 they've been focusing on diseases from bats to find out more about other types of strains and as general allen dorgan reports their efforts have been vital for vaccine development. local folklore here is steeped with stories of just how mystere use philippine bats can be. but we are not climbing mt mckee link

to explore legendary tales like these filipino scientists are testing bad spring new strains of coronaviruses they hope to prevent another global pandemic. philip a live your life has been recording and testing bats across the country for more than 10 years the bad species found here on mount mckinley ling is that close this gene is to the one in one china where the 1st case of covert 19 was recorded give us all the more recent to be urgent about doing. this virus work for the government in more ways than one we focus their priorities. working on for all of you an epidemiologist so it's $530.00 local time the mist that have been set up and researchers here tell us any time now the bats are going to come out of the cave. we stay quiet for a few minutes. the air is cold and the night's creatures soon start to make

their presence felt. over and then the 1st bet flies into the trap and water. then another. and another. the researchers say about $5000.00 bats come here during the meeting season. now they think only a few 100 are left. with the captured bats a safely contained. we make our way back from the forest. the bats are identified. measured. around. and swabbed. before they were released back into the wild. dr and his team of isolated at least 7 kinds of

viruses over the past decade including corona virus and an ebola virus. they say their work serves as a blueprint that can be used to develop vaccines globally including those for corona virus. and they are to believe that every evolution in human history has been great because suppose scientists determination. dogon al-jazeera manila. l.o.l. this is al-jazeera these are the headlines the u.s. city of minneapolis has agreed to pay $27000000.00 to the family of george floyd the largest settlement of its kind in the country's history for he died last may when a policeman knelt on his neck after nearly 9 minutes sparking global protests a criminal trial for.