you know from right here on out here. the u.s. is always of in for the people in the world people pay attention to what people here now does it is very good to bring the news to the world. the u.s. and china take aim at each other during high level talks in alaska with accusations of grandstanding and a cold war mentality. hello i'm rob matheson this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up european countries resume use of astra zeneca as covert 1000 vaccine after a vote of confidence from the e.u.'s drug watchdog. challenging times for the

military is helping to reinforce a lockdown after a surge in covert 19 cases. and tanzania swears in its 1st female leader. takes power after the death of john i go fully. there is trying to talk to wrap up with a closing session in the coming hours after a fiery starts on thursday sitting across the table from each other in the u.s. state of alaska the 2 sides traded barbs in a point to display of how tense relations remain diplomatic editor james bays reports from anchorage. this is a meeting that will shape future relations between the world's 2 biggest powers relations that are currently at a low point good afternoon. and welcome normally opening remarks at events like these are brief and polite but the u.s.

side when told to list their specific concerns and shins wrong hong kong taiwan cyber attacks on the united states economic coercion toward our allies the chinese response was long and just as frank the foreign minister wang ye said you don't welcome guests with sanctions a reference to the blacklisting of 24 chinese and hong kong officials in the hours before the meeting his senior colleague politburo member yang jiechi was clearly unhappy. well i think we thought too well of the united states we thought the u.s. side would follow the necessary diplomatic protocols. he went on to complain about regime change in the middle east and the u.s. is own human rights record and yet the challenges facing the u.s. and human rights are deep seated they did not emerge over the past 4 years the slaughter of black people the problem existed for a long time. the word slaughter was not translated into english for those in the

room by the chinese delegations interpreter on one second please journalists were about to be ushered out when the secretary of state made it clear his delegation wanted to speak again i just made my 1st trip as i noted to japan and south korea. i have to tell you what i'm hearing is very different from what you describe i'm hearing deep satisfaction that the united states is back there were reengage with our allies and partners i'm also hearing deep concern about some of the actions your government is taking a confident country is able to look hard at its own shortcomings and constantly seek to improve and that is the secret sauce of america alaska is a midway point just over 6000 kilometers to beijing just under 6000 kilometers to washington d.c.

this was a meeting that was supposed to build bridges. james is joining us live from anchorage in alaska james you've covered many of these meetings and these public elements are very often stage managed in your opinion how much of this is genuine anger and how much of this is essentially stage setting for the cameras for domestic and international audiences. well i think some of it is for that reason it's certainly very unusual what went on in the room behind me normally the opening remarks of pretty short and pretty polite. even perhaps be part of the trump factor. which we thought had passed but maybe that maybe maybe diplomats now realize that there's a way of grabbing attention with that using shock value i don't know about that but certainly that that's a possibility and certainly the chinese when they heard the u.s. citing in detail its concerns about china including what china does in its own

territory they were prepared with a very long retaught to that what's most important of course is not what happened publicly in the room it's what happened afterwards and whether this amounts to a clearing of the air and both sides understanding clearly where each other's positions is or whether it's a deepening of the division and that really isn't clear to us u.s. officials are saying that the talks are more constructive after the reporters left and behind closed doors but we heard from the chinese foreign ministry in beijing and the foreign ministry spokesman said when the chinese delegation arrived in anchorage their hearts were chilled by the biting cold and the reception by their american hosts so china the chinese certain in beijing are still saying that this was negative or they had a very negative reaction to what happened here at the start in anchorage the talks are not over they have been continued until quite late last night we watched them

leave last night and they'll be back here along this corridor or i think we can show you actually those reporters gathering just to to film some of the arrivals which will happen in the next few minutes we believe it was supposed to start at the top of the are these things never start on time but i'll be going behind closed doors again for a further session of talk. and we are expecting at the end but both delegations will speak to their respective medias to give us an idea of how they see it but again that it you have to remember that some of that is for national consumption in both cases the other interesting thing to note isn't it james that this isn't just a one off there's no indication that this meeting is going to be drawn to a close because tempers are frayed there is a definite plan to have a succession of meetings after this oh absolutely and there needs to be for all of us for the entire world because of these are the 2 most powerful

countries on earth they need to have some sort of relationship even if it's a difficult one these are 2 permanent members of the u.n. security council there are so many issues that they need. to deal with issues like of course climate change the iran nuclear deal remember owner is one of the signatories as well as the u.s. which is trying to rejoin that deal important regional issues china is a neighbor of afghanistan china is a neighbor of myanmar so very important issues that depend on these 2 powers having a form of a relationship but what is that relationship going to be and the contours of that are exactly what they're trying to work out here as a diplomatic editor james bays live in anchorage in alaska james thanks very much and was speaking to reporters outside the white house president biden said he's proud of secretary blinken it was also asked about relations with russia. very proud very very good. and other high. level

barbara for. that that's. not your brother that. your other brother. yemen's who the rebels have targeted in iran call facility in the saudi capital of riyadh an official source in saudi arabia's ministry of energy has told state media the drone attack was caused a fire which controlled and no injuries and they say fuel supplies won't be affected area the who things had announced what they say is a successful operation now for that. our armed forces have conducted the operation with 6 drones the targeted in a remco facility in the saudi capital riyadh and the target has been hit with precision. finland has suspended use of the astra zeneca vaccine as it investigates 2 cases of blood clots the decision comes as other european countries resume using that vaccine on thursday europe's drugs watchdog said the job is safe and there's

no evidence linking it to increased risk from blood clots several e.u. countries and stopped using the shots because of safety concerns. france is among the countries to resume use of the astra zeneca vaccine and one of the 1st to receive it was prime minister john key aspects as natasha buckley reports from paris. how stocks had said that if the european medical agency gave the green light for the astra zeneca vaccine again if you like and said that the side effects in the blood clots were small risks but not enough to outweigh the benefits and costs like said that he would receive an asteroid seneca vaccine well that is what he's done he's done it a publicly on television the reason he's done that is because he needs to try and convince along with the french government and the and the president convince the french people that the astra zeneca vaccine is safe and that people should feel comfortable having it even though the government have said that they recommend this

vaccine for over 50 five's now they're going to have a huge p.r. job on their hand as are many as are many other governments in european countries because the esters anika vaccine has received so much conflicting defy data and unpublished see over the last few months in the european union nevertheless governments are forging ahead with resuming their use of the vaccine here in france a resumption of astra zeneca shots began this afternoon germany italy also netherlands many other european nations deciding to resume the use of this vaccine at a time when many countries are trying to stop backing what has become evident of 3rd waves a rapid increase in corona virus infections is forcing chile to put half of its population into an indefinite locked on america i didn't see in human reports from santiago. this time they mean business that's the message chile's government aims to send by deploying thousands of soldiers onto the streets to help police enforce

new lockdown to nationwide here in the capital residents into lockdown can only leave home with special permits and risks to find or even arrest if they don't have them. do deceive us look don't have very harsh measures for the population to analyze every fact county by county. we haven't taken this this is in light. in the last 24 hours infections and deaths from coated 9 team with the highest since last june and even hospitals on the brink of collapse critics say that excessive relaxation of restrictions during the summer and insufficent of force and of the restrictions that remain is to blame for the sanitary crisis now one out of every 3 chileans is under total lockdown and on the weekends 95 percent of the country will have to remain in the hall the government is also declaring full lock downs for an

even larger portion of the country. it's very sad what's happening many of those in hospital may never see their families again. in brazil where deaths climb to a new high every day members of the very indigenous tribe in amazonas state received their 2nd dose of the sin of act vaccine with a sigh of relief it'll be a political book for the village it was very important because it took away the thought the concern that people had that they were going to get sick and die. despite recent doubts about its safety a brazilian laboratory has just finished producing half a 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine for the domestic market they should help speed up what has been an extremely slow process of inoculation mexico's government is also receiving 2 and a half 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine from the united states i left back in chile the only exception to the rules for those under lockdown is for people who

are going out to get a vaccination a new clinical study by chile's catholic university indicates that with 2 doses the sooner that vaccine provides immunity in 90 percent of cases but until vaccine herd immunity can be established. forcing people to remain home yet again is the only option to see. newman al-jazeera sente out the still ahead on al-jazeera a u.s. judge refuses delay and change of location requests in the trial of a police officer accused of killing george floyd. security forces and anti couth protesters face off across me and mark.

it was hot hot hot in the gulf states on thursday so much so we record record in qatar 41.5 degrees 40 was the old record it was very windy and dusty back to go on friday $33.00 degrees going to stay that way as the shamar comes in and in fact beyond that there's nothing extraordinary to look at it should be in the low to middle thirty's the most part are these the sun should be out and it is and there are showers or outbreaks of rain still from the late wintry stuff catching northern to the higher ground of parts around more especially afghanistan nothing will change dramatically in the next couple days except probably for the fall northern parts of turkey particularly actually istanbul which we have a pretty cold into the weekend with snow not far away but only rain in the city the still some active weather further south along the south actually in south africa with this southerly breeze coming against what still like summer sun so you get some pretty big thunderstorms potentially port elizabeth on the coast doesn't get

sunday we're getting just rain for the next couple of days when optically strong always the wrong direction but inland it further in south africa is a line of showers building quite big ones which will keep drifting slowly eastwards . but. frank assessments the world is on a brink. that model failure is that a fair assessment you catastrophic. to white valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying big oil ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story.

if. you want to go to see a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. china talks in alaska due to wrap up with a closing session after a fiery start on thursday americans have accused china of threatening the international order while beijing has warned washington to stay out of its internal affairs. just a while ago u.s. president joe biden voiced strong confidence in secretary of state anthony blinken after his tense diplomatic exchange with chinese officials he also said he'll meet a russian president vladimir putin when the time is right. several european countries are resuming oxford astra zeneca vaccinations after suspending the jobs because of safety concerns and guns after europe's drugs watchdog said on thursday that the vaccine is safe. a judge in the u.s.

city of minneapolis has rejected an attempt to postpone the murder trial of the police officer involved in the death of george floyd last week the us city of minneapolis agreed to pay 27 $1000000.00 to floyd's family the defense team argued that the highly publicized settlement offered jeopardized derek joshua gans chance for a fair trial video shot kneeling on george floyd's neck spock global protests last year the name of george floyd became a rallying cry for the black lives matter movement in the u.s. well john hendren is joining us live from chicago so there's no change to the venue and there's no change to the date either what impact is this going to have on the trial john. that's right this is a judge who wants this case to move on time in place and efficiently on schedule so the judge says he's not going to allow a delay in the case and he's not going to move the case and that's important because that would have implications for the jury the case is currently in

minneapolis that means you've got a diverse jury pool and in fact they have picked all 12 jurors and one of the 2 alternates they're going to take and of those people 7 of them are white 4 black 2 are mixed race that's much more diverse than they would get if they went out in the suburbs and that's important because this is a case of a white police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man eventually who died in that case so this is a judge who wants to make this case efficient and as he told one juror he wants to wrap this up on a schedule in 4 weeks after opening arguments on march 29th given the level of publicity there's been about this case john what's the likelihood to be the main argument from chauvin the defense team. well the main issue here is did shows on directly contribute or directly caused the death of george floyd that's the accusation that his kneeling on floyd's neck for 8

minutes and 46 seconds is the cause of death of george floyd and there is some controversy in the autopsy but a private autopsy commissioned by the floyd family says that is what happened that is not what the defense is going to say the lawyers for this fired police officer derek chauvin are arguing that what happened actually was a combination of factors george floyd they say was on drugs specifically methamphetamine and fenton you know that's an opioid they say that he had a heart condition and also that he was head coated 19 at the time they say all of those things contributed to his death and therefore children wasn't solely the cause of death in that case the defense is obviously going to take the opposite point of view one other thing the judge talked about was he said he will allow testimony about a previous arrest of george floyd but only as it pertains to his medical condition

so the real issue there is did show over and do it or was it a combination of factors as the defense will suggest john hendren live for us in chicago john thank you very much u.s. president joe biden is expected to meet asian american community leaders in georgia on friday off to a shooting incident killed 8 people 6 of the victims were a woman of age and descent stoking fears tuesday's murders were racially motivated attacks targeting asian americans have been on the rise. tanzania has its 1st female president samir salut who has done has been sworn in during a sermon in the city of daraa salaam it comes 2 days after she announced the death of president john fully at the age of 61 from saudi has more from the kenyan capital nairobi. has just given her fast maiden speech and it was a very emotional tribute to her predecessor john paul the mughal fully she also

said that he's going to be buried on the 25th that's next thursday and i mean are these taken to the people in tanzania just trying to get a sense of what she is about and what they're telling me many of them is that she her leadership style is very different from that of the late president michael fullilove they say that she listens to counsel more she's not one to make unilateral decisions she did not talk about coronavirus understandably so it was all about the late president and burial arrangements for him but a lot of people are looking to see if she's going to change strategy on president felipe had come under a lot of korea has faced a lot of criticism for how he handled the disease he never put the country on lockdown he never encouraged people to wear masks or you know family ties and implement other. coronavirus measures until very recently when he talked people that they can start wearing locally manufactured masks so it's going to be

interesting to see how madame flu who is going to handle this perhaps people are telling me that she's going to start slow tell people to wear masks tell people to social distance and so one but then the more controversial things is whether she's going to allow a rollout of this vaccination program so people are waiting to see how she's going to deal with this disease and how she's going to if she's going to change strategy and change the policy that had been adopted by president mark foley. fossum academy is former president of the tiny law and society she says president hassan is hoping to unify the country intense and they have what we refer to as an imperial presidency. which means that she is completely responsible for whatever policy that she wants to put in place some kicked and subject only to

the party money system. we saw during the fully era was a complete disregard of the party manifesto and the. system policies it was basically a one man show so it will be interesting to see what she does in future will she go back to the party money sesto will she then make this part of the policy or will he go out on a limb and come up with her own policies or will she continue ringback with the model for the policies i hope to see a more independent somebody has more who i hope to see after me as who who goes back to the foundations of how party and because that is perfect and what we need at the moment tanzania is predict that at least 8 protesters have been killed in me

in marjah in the latest rallies against the military coup. crowds faced off against security forces in several cities the military and police abuse increasingly violent tactics to suppress the protest movement a local rights group says more than 220 people may have been killed since the coup in early february. indonesian president joko widodo has called for an urgent meeting of us in nations to discuss the crisis he says democracy must be restored. it will be sad to say indonesia urges the immediate end to the use of violence and more so that no more victims will fall the safety and prosperity of the people must become the top priority indonesia also urges dialogue and that reconciliation must be done in order to restore democracy peace and stability in myanmar and scotland has more from buying call in neighboring thailand. we saw a bit of a standoff with protesters and police and security forces what had happened is

we've been seeing a lot more around the country particular where there are bigger cities the protesters are building these barricades and that's where they kind of usually have a face off with the security forces tear gas is fired and then it escalates usually to live rounds and that's what we saw in this central command mar city of on what happened is that it seems as though while the police were trying to take down the barricades the protesters approached and then that's when this violence took place and at least 8 people there were killed there were some smaller protests again around as well we know at least in one case in the northwest one person was killed when there's a confrontation with security forces as well indonesian president has called for a high level meeting of the os the on this is the block in southeast asia 10 nations to discuss what's been going on in myanmar and when you look at it it's very interesting they've kind of indonesia has taken a leadership role if you will in the region in trying to get reach some kind of political political solution to what's going on in myanmar but it's

a very tall order to tall task because normally see on don't really interfere with each other's internal matters as they say but indonesia is trying to break that tradition one thing needs to be said the nations that neighbor and have a lot of relations close relationship closer than internees if they find it it's going to be a little bit more difficult to have these kind of discussions particularly nations like thailand was a lot of trade and a long border with me and more so that's an interesting to see how those discussions if those high level discussions actually take place a journalist for the b.b.c. is berm means language service is feared missing in an online statement the broadcaster says reporter owned toda was taken away by unidentified man in myanmar as capital more than 30 journalists have been arrested since the military coup in february. the afghan government and the taliban have reportedly agreed to speed up peace talks russia has been hosting talks in moscow which are taking place

less than 2 months before the deadline for american troops to pull out of afghanistan the u.s. russia china and pakistan have i was warring sides to reach an immediate cease fire shall stratford reports. the moscow meeting between members of the afghan government taliban representatives and observers from various countries including the united states and china is one of 3 international conferences on afghanistan to be held before the 1st of may but the deadline by which all remaining u.s. and nato forces must leave the country the agreement was made last year between donald trump's administration and the taliban but it's reported new u.s. president joe biden has other ideas and may propose an interim power sharing government in kabul which would buy time for more comprehensive peace talks this would possibly allow the u.s. to keep an estimated $3500.00 troops in afghanistan beyond the may the 1st deadline

but a turnaround spokesman at the mosco conference warned what would happen if u.s. troops are not out of afghanistan by then they should go. because if they do not go. that means they continue after that it will be a. while ation of the agreement that would not be from our site but it would be. around 9000 u.s. troops have withdrawn from afghanistan over the past year pentagon leaders reportedly oppose a full withdrawal saying thousands need to remain in order to support afghan forces and conduct counterterrorism operations washington in kabul wants an immediate cease fire but the taliban says it will negotiate that only as part of peace talks with the afghan government rushes efforts to mediate comes after a year long negotiations in concert between the afghan government and the taliban

stalled with it is a well distorted we call on the united states and the taliban to continue to abide by the provisions of the peace agreement supported by the un security council. attacks by the taliban have increased in recent weeks rights groups say there has been a marked rise in the number of targeted killings of government officials civil society leaders and journalists especially women the taliban launched a wave of attacks in december in the north and south of the country nato says there were more than $2500.00 civilian casualties in this 3 months from october to december last year more than $800.00 people were killed. the joint statement after the moscow meeting said all parties involved pledged to accelerate peace talks a good game is that the fighting against problem troops ok now let's talk let's keep peace work to get there live to get that in peace maintaining our own

different views but at the same time make a commitment that we don't resort to violence we do in big terrorists moves another 2 in pursuit of our political agenda if the recent surge in violence is anything to go by and with no concrete agreement to the negotiating table on how to stop it we are still a long way away from that chance trotwood al-jazeera. this is a disease where these are the top stories the u.s. china talks in alaska due to wrap up with a closing session after a fiery start on thursday americans have accused china of threatening the international order while beijing has warned washington to stay out of its internal affairs just a while ago u.s. president joe biden voiced strong confidence in secretary of state and to the bank and after his tense diplomatic exchange with chinese officials in a separate.