everything away al-jazeera will expose the simple living movement aimed at reducing personal consumption credit and not sounding like hope to be here as a result. a simple life on al-jazeera. emotional scenes outside the courthouse as the trial of george floyd's alleged murderer begins. a later think of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up another death in police custody sparks outrage this time in mexico a woman dies from a broken neck often office into.

celebrations of the suez canal this up massive container ship finally floats free traffic begins moving again. and despair on the border the families course up in violence between venezuela's army and colombian rebels. it was a death that spock's america's latest reckoning with racial injustice and ignited protests across the world now the band charged with murdering george floyd has gone on trial in minneapolis minnesota in the opening arguments on monday the prosecution and defense laid differing narratives of the events that led to floyd's arrest and death john hendren begins our coverage from minneapolis or her mother penalty of perjury the most watched civil rights trial in america opened with a stark accusation of murder mr barrett schama betrayed his badge

when he used excessive and unreasonable force upon the body of mr george florey. that he put his knees upon his neck and his back. grinding and crushing him. until the very breath no leisure gentleman until the very life was squeezed out of them as opening arguments began in the trial of the police encounter that sparked a racial revolution in the streets the lawyer for the white former minneapolis police officer accused of murdering a black man named george floyd shot back you will learn that derek sheldon did exactly what he had been trained to do over the course of these 19 years. the use of force is not attractive but it is a necessary component of policing this morning about the prosecution's 1st witness

a police dispatcher who watched on police cameras as officers knelt on the back and neck give george floyd then she did something she'd never done before she called the police on the police alerting a sergeant to what seemed to her like an unusual use of force. floyd was on the ground so long she said she thought the video had frozen i don't know if they had to use force or not they got something out of to back up the spot and all of them sat on this man the central question in this case is this did chauvelin kill floyd using unreasonable force as the prosecution suggests or did a combination of drugs covert 19 and heart trouble kill him as the defense contends those arguments are the beginning of what's likely to be a month from long trial filled with painful and potentially inflammatory testimony . with jurors watching new evidence and really watching that disturbing 9 minutes of video with george floyd using his final breaths to cry out for his life at the.

minneapolis is boarding up and bracing for the final verdict and the possibility it could revive the riots of the long and violent summer of 2020. outside the heavily fortified courthouse floyd's family made it clear it is american racial justice that is on trial they say trust this system. they want us to trust a system. where this is a chance to show us. we can trust you. judge peter cahill says it's a police officer that's on trial not race but once the jury has its say in the racially charged case of a black man who died under the knee of a white police officer the crowds in the streets of minneapolis and cities across the u.s. will render their own verdict on racial justice in america john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis. spoke with some of the protest us are gathered outside the court show

support for george floyd and his family. court has been adjourned for the day and several 100 protesters have gathered right outside of the courthouse and they're all calling for justice for george floyd many people here say that they've been waiting a long time for this day for this 1st day of this trial to take place many watched the trial on monday and everybody here says that they want justice for george floyd and they wanted now and they're here to show their support for floyd and his family who watched the trial the 1st day on monday today what did you think. i thought that the video that was played by the prosecuting. team says it all and i don't think anything else has to be said it doesn't really matter what is said from here on out the video. so is that all why do you feel you need to be here as such

a young guy right now out here on the streets just supporting just won the support because it's my own blood these are brothers out here getting killed harmony how old are you. 11 almost 1211 almost 12 why are you out here today because i believe in bill b.l.m. in supporting. b.-o. and black lives matter yeah you're holding a sign of george florey a poster what does that poster mean to you. in means like well one else should get killed and it should just stop right here most people say they will stay on the streets until justice is done as more people come into minnesota to take part in these protests and this trial that's expected to last a month. a death in police custody in mexico that storing comparisons with the george floyd case is causing widespread outrage the mexican president has promised justice after an officer was filmed kneeling on the back of

a refugee from el salvador who later died of autopsy. showed that her neck had been broken and go per reports. face down and barefoot salvadorian refugee viktoria esperanza salazar died on a roadside in the mexican resort town of to learn police officers threw her body in the back of a pickup after restraining her on the pavement a state prosecutor says offices used excessive force they make up police eloquent local police technique of body control that was applied of the level of force used was disproportionate immoderate and with a high risk to life. salazar's mother says police treated her daughter like a man and more. importantly they already gave her reports that my daughter's nick was broken and they broke a lot of ribs because there were 3 men and a woman on top of her. the death is an embarrassment to mexico just as it began hosting a u.n. summit on gender equality on monday mexico has one of the west straights of gender

based violence in the world last year an average of 10 women died every day and the day before the summit families of femicide victims rallied outside the president's residence president lopez obrador says those responsible for salah says death will be punished this year. i want to say to her family members to salvadoran and mexican women to the women of the world to all men and women that dose response but will be punished they are already in the process of being prosecuted in o.b. no impunity it's not clear why salazar was arrested but have family members say they'll fight to give her the dignity she was denied in. barbara and. roll but he says by now it is a professor at the national university of mexico he says the police have been using excessive force against migrants and refugees since they started flowing through the country in greater numbers. the relationship between the name migrants and the

police this is a case who shows they really of the way that the mexican authorities treat the lead they center americans in their way to the united states or if they decide to work in mexico is as is the case of bitter residents are many migrants they cross the border without documents in may you would give them meant to percent of them came from honduras el salvador guatemala and other countries in africa and constitute there but if you are a few of them are from other parts of the world and with these the mexican police of mexican military it stops the migrants but they find a case highways to to to cross to the united states in some cases they go to displaces to work this is a case of victory is a listen in to whom is where there are many tourists from the from europe from the

u.s. but she was working there in the services sector in the tourist sector is this is different because the on the one hand there they were in the they fail him a lot of these said that they respect human rights but on the other hand the police in the streets treat very hard they did the migrants they are of the use of force is incredible is late like they are for old as a situation in minneapolis in may of the t 20 is exactly the same case brazil's president has replaced 6 ministers at a major government shakeup foreign minister. were staying highest profile casualty his attacks on beijing have been plain for hampering the country's access to corona virus vaccines also dollars but on the growing pressure over the spiraling scale of the pandemic. china's top legislative body has unanimously approved sweeping changes to hong kong's electoral system the number of seats is increasing from 70

to 90 but those directly elected by the public will be cut from 35 to 20 plans for a major overhaul were unveiled earlier this month during the national people's congress beijing has repeatedly said that only so-called patriots kind of minister the semi autonomous region activist group said the thailand was forced back more than 2000 people fleeing airstrikes and all the attacks targeting the qur'an national liberation army the all death knit group is one of dozens fighting for greater autonomy in the out while tony chang reports. ethnic korean villages hiding in the jungle on the jets attacked their homes overnight thousands fled off the coast launched a series of attacks at the weekend that left several people dead many are now too scared to return fleeing across the border into thailand.

last night we were not aware that the jet fighters were coming and they randomly bombed all of a sudden and then left late at night the jets came again and afterwards we heard gunshots we heard that the jets will come again. thailand is tighten border security in expectation of a flow of refugees from myanmar but as ballance has fled in the citizen border areas over the past week wealth or it is fear that could become a flood. many refugees are expected we have prepared an area for them to stay 1st up that they cross over we can talk about the numbers later we are not going to talk about permanent shelter yet we are not there yet. members ethnic armed groups have long feared attack from the air their basic weaponry is if clips to by a professional armed force with high tech from china and russia and now it seems they have the ability to attack at night. and it's not a fair fight elsewhere either protesters on the streets of yangon defending their

homes from the security services facing soldiers armed with machine guns with bows and arrows like david tacey goliath. tony chang al jazeera. weather update next 0 then losing that territory on their way of life a study in spotland day sonic solutions that began decades ago continue. and living in the shadow of afghanistan's past a struggling cave dwellers about beyond the fear a resurgence of the taliban. it's time for the perfect gentle. sponsored plan qatar airways their wind has been a feature of the last few days down the red sea through the series and on the gulf this is the ship malas a seasonal windy tends to drop the temperatures of bring some dust with it as

borrowing costs on the u.a.e. is doing that but things are weakening and the breeze down the red sea is also weakening largely because of what's happening in the black sea in the g. and this is a bit of late. winter coming back to turkey but time to get to wednesday snows like to fall in line is about 10 degrees in the stamboul much the same in ankara and that strong wind will whip down for the g. in the small island and towards northern egypt and the levantine coast 11 for example there are a few showers inland in iran but otherwise the winds died down by this time and temperature this should be the middle thirty's would be fairly typical that this system is going to keep moving slowly east was in the wettest time looks like being late in the week for example in gaza we've got for thursday and friday breezy or windy and a couple of shower days is pretty normal for this time of the i just thought you might be interested to see it. now most of the seasonal right has gone from south africa now that sat out from angola that runs out today i'll see some sunshine wind

direction very much to turning the temperature but nothing seems extreme to me for the next few days. sponsored poll qatar airways jump into the story there is a lot going on in this show and julian on global community when i talk about the misinformation i think we are more afraid than we are nowhere to be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we have been disconnected from who we are too little to heat a new ring each to be part of today's discussion this dream on out is there.

hello again this is al jazeera mr much of the main news this hour the white police officer charged in the killing of george floyd has gone on trial in minneapolis prosecutor gerrie blackwell described how jared derrick chervin knelt on choice neck while he and his fellow officers ignored wade saying i can't breathe at least 27 times each of its defense argued that he was simply following police procedure at the ford's drug use continue contributing to his death. mexico's president has promised that there will be justice off the death of a refugee from el salvador in police custody a female police officer was filmed kneeling on her back and autopsy showed the woman's neck a broken. china's top legislative body has unanimously approved sweeping changes to hong kong's electoral system the number of seats is increasing from 70 to 90 but those directly elected by the public become from 35 to 20. china is warning

foreign companies not to mix business with politics if they want to continue operating in the country they jane is accused of abuses including forced labor in chin jang province that's prompted some brands to stop using cotton from the region adrian brown reports from hong kong. shouldn't jang has now become a sensitive issue for china's consumers western clothing and sportswear companies who've raised concerns over the use of force labor in the province's cotton industry are being punished as shoppers respond to calls to boycott some of the biggest brands in the world and here we are boycotting them because of the statements they've made if what they've said is true then we are willing to accept the situation but that's not the case that's why we boycott them but i think at the heart. person so at least for now i want back anything from these plants the u.s. government says the boycott is the result of

a state led social media campaign but it also coincides with a deepening diplomatic row between china and western countries over human rights and on monday a government spokesman had a message for brands like sweden's was why you cannot also seen on the internet that no one is going to age and in stores now so what are the results can you survive in the chinese market can you still make money from the chinese you can't earn a penny china's government has repeatedly rejected accusations that forced labor including tens of thousands of ethnic weaker muslims is used in its cotton industry that accounts for around 20 percent of global production the united nations wants to investigate that as well as other well documented evidence of repression we have asked for the human rights i commissioner to be able to have a visit in china we not any limitations in the excess this is being negotiated at the present moment between the office of the i commission and the chinese

authorities while human rights groups remain skeptical about the prospects for a meaningful visit with unimpeded access in china the un secretary general says for now he remains hopeful that agreement can be reached adrian brown al jazeera. on tuesday palestinians commemorate alarms day when israel confiscated thousands of hectares of land of galilee in by 276 korean places military zones and state land around methods used to take over palestinian property and push locals the abraham reports. this is the only place where articles hold a small village named tom saw in the occupied west bank she's been living here for more than 50 years now her simple way of life is under threat last june israeli soldiers handed had an eviction notice saying that this area was designated as an archaeological site said if this is the enemy i told the military that's one

never added the block i live in a tent but that didn't said i have to leave. justinian's years say israel has been trying to make life so difficult for them that their only option is to leave unwanted judith lives in the just click village in the jordan valley israeli military confiscated his tractors last year saying he used them on state lands he's been ordered to walk through to his call trees the lot of local but though but only the money. i've been here since 2007 there's a shack that has been here for the past 25 years neither me nor the previous owners have heard of the term state land why know only one 3rd of land in the west bank was regulated before israel occupied it in 1967 a year after an israeli military order it suspended large regulation hundreds

of factories were registered as the clan before the occupation and israel has declared hundreds more through the years palestinians say israel used every trick in the book to strip palestinians of their lands closed military area as weapons ranges and nature reserves have all been used this means to control more land and if it passed any. door at guess has been documenting illegal settlement construction for 2 decades he says large areas of land designated as military zones are cultivated by israeli settlers it's about taking land from the palestinian local population and giving it israeli settlers but the story is very simple israel's government has defended its practice of confiscating land citing various military or civilian laws that women hate and what the israeli aim is to tell palestinians that their presence here is illegal the main challenge is not

legalities the truth as this people steadfastness get him upshot says the landscape around her has changed a lot through the years military bases and checkpoints as well as illegal settlements have been sprouting around her but she insists she's not leaving new deborah heem. york your part west bank. ships once again sailing through egypt so this canal on monday a giant container vessel that's been blocking the canal for 6 days was finally moved victoria gave me reports. after being stuck in a maritime traffic jam for almost a week this ship was one of the 1st to resume its journey along the suez canal on monday night it will take several days though before shipping along this vital waterway returns to normal and not the rightness of navigation resumed at 6 pm local time is from both sides within 12 hours 113 ships will cross in different convoys either from port sader from suez this means that within 3 days or 3 and

a half days the delay will be resolved earlier on monday the stricken ever given which had been blocking the world's busiest shipping lane for 6 days was finally free. much to the delight of the crew of the dredge who'd worked round the clock to clear thousands of keep it meters of sand around the giant container ship. 10 tug boats then pulled it out of the bank and into deeper water it has taken as quick as possible to do this and the high tides will have helped insult jeffords as well as well but i think it's fantastic news for the suez canal so the suez canal authority needs chips i think a really good joke has been delayed by all involved 12 percent of global trade normally passes through the suez canal between the red sea and the mediterranean while the immediate crisis is over experts say the ever givens mishap raises long term questions about the canal sustainability is going to be

a lot of head scratching and thinking not only about making supply chain more resilient but i'm sure the series canal authority is having a good hard think as well about how to make the the canal itself more about. the ever given is now in a wider section of the canal where it's being inspected for damage bringing an end to a crisis that's disrupted billions of dollars worth of global trade victoria gates and be al jazeera. prosecutors and bella russo stars are going to investigation into the opposition leader's 5 planned attack us not taken of sky or on charges of terrorism she's been an exile in lithuania since last year with the disputed election victory of longtime president alexander lukashenko sparked mass protests she's accused of attempting to stage explosions and arson attacks in the better russian capital minsk in recent days a spokesman dismissed the charges as absurd. as well and refugees in colombia are

accusing their country's army of killing innocent civilians are saddled m.p.'s he reports now from the border town of r o a kita 6. for the rummy race in burma lima families the pain is unbearable. yet. yet the 4 of their relatives were killed last week during a military operation ordered by the venezuelan government security forces accuse them of being part of a colombian rebel group and said they died in combat but neighbors and family members insist they were innocent taken from their homes and executed just that up in the end i was looking out for my brothers i saw them in their house and gestured to them then ran back into my home because soldiers were threatening people that's when i heard an armored vehicle stopping in front of their house. neighbors saw our house soldiers took them away so she ran out again let me go to work i know that i

told the other soldiers they took my family they said go home that i didn't need to worry that they were taking them to the battalion for questioning before returning them home instead they reappeared in pictures circulating on social networks bed some dressed in fatigues with pistols or a grenade at the side of their body when yeah anybody who knows my sister in law will tell you she hated boots she never wore boots like those you don't need to be a forensic expert to know that this was staged. many of the almost 5000 refugees who fled the clashes share similar stories accusing the military of illegal detentions as well as looting and burning homes. under pressure venezuela's defense minister vladimir putin said the armed forces were to defend the country from the regular groups but added that human rights needed to be respected and that the events at the border would be investigated have been a swell as former prosecutor general now in

a poser of president nicolas maduro told al-jazeera that will likely not be the case or you know if there is no type of accountability today in venezuela no any institution that investigates look at how the prosecutor's office controlled by their search has took 5 days before announcing they're going to investigate events at the border such serious facts should be investigated immediately like countless other colombians from this border region that i mean this had fled to venezuela over a decade ago at the height of the conflict between get 3 years in state forces in the country but now the same kind of violence seems to have reached them on the other side of the border alison the. u.s. intelligence agencies have warned that the taliban could overrun afghanistan within 3 years if american troops leave prematurely it's one of many concerns for afghans in barely on province where the taliban destroyed

a cultural treasure 20 years ago reports. carved out of the rock by buddhist monks more than a 1000 years ago these caves in by me our national park are now home to some of of ghana stands poorest people the government says they're squatters. but those living like this say they have nowhere else to go. mohamed makes his living collecting scrap metal but it's barely enough to feed his family only once a day. there are no jobs we don't have any other place and i don't have the means to build a house on the government to provide us with shelter. then the mission of. daily life is grim. there are no toilets burning wood for heat makes it difficult to breathe and insects are ever present as is the fear the taliban might

come back. to miss a lot of voters who are not mr the taliban is a problem for us there is fighting 24 hours a day and people are in trouble they're not safe and there's no security you don't know. her worries are valid these communities live near the site of the bombing on bhutto's giant stone carvings from of ghana stans rich previous slum it passed in 20016 months before 911 the taliban declared the statues an affront to islam and drew a line in the sand for the whole world to see. more shown. through all of. the statues of the buddha that once stood at this site in balmy on were an estimated 15 centuries old and they want us to part of afghanistan's history they were a part of human history many officials here in afghanistan say that their destruction

at the hands of the taliban is also a part of history now and that they are best left in the past broken pieces of the buddhas still sit under lock and key with little hope of rebuilding but 20 years later a 3 d. projection helps afghans see the statues as they once were. on a song the demand of the afghan people must be included in peace talks such mistake and crime should never be repeated again any group that lives here should accept that this cultural and historical artifacts belong to the people history and culture of afghanistan. when the sun comes up the lights go down and the buddhas disappear once again leaving only vatican holes a grim reminder of the kind of violence afghans fear could happen again if the taliban come back. balmy on.