across 5 known for india the state's health experts and bob mentioned this and been warning for months that the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in pollution and the impact that would have on those because of the 19. these are rare either very rare side effects unusual but possible europe's medicines agency links astra zeneca has covered 19 vaccines to blood clots but insists its benefits still outweigh any risks. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up today he was not attempting to solve the ulcers cake punch or anything of that nature the

trial of the former u.s. police officer accused of killing george floyd here's more evidence that the force used during his arrest was excessive and unnecessary. the u.s. commits to removing all remaining combat forces from iraq without setting a timeline. paid back to rights and back to safety and grief or fear of conditions food delivery reuters for an online giant go on strike. our top story europe's medicines agency says it remains overwhelmingly confident in astra zeneca as qubit 19 banks enough to finding it may cause blood clotting in very rare cases now the risk is greater among younger people prompting some governments to restricts or advise against its use among lower age groups journal

hole reports now from london. the oxford astra zeneca vaccine comfortable scrutiny medicines regulators in the u.k. and the e.u. have judged that its benefits outweigh any possible risks but they haven't ruled out a causal link between the vaccine and rare blood clot conditions in a tiny number of recipients based on the current evidence the benefits of the covert 900 facts in astra zeneca against covert 90 and its associated risks hospitalization and death continues to outweigh the risks for the vast majority of people. our review has reinforced that the risk of this fred suspected side effect remains extremely small in arms today the european medicines agency said there was insufficient data to isolate risk factors like age and gender and that blood clotting should be listed as a possible side effect of the jab this case also shows us that our

pharmacovigilance system is working these very rare and unusual events have been picked up identified analyzed and loudest to come to science based recommendations to allow the safe and effective use of this vaccine investigations into the astra zeneca vaccine were triggered after rare cases of blood clotting in the u.k. and europe out of 20000000 doses of the vaccine given in britain 79 cases of clotting were reported with 19 deaths resulting in a minute percentage chance of complications affecting 4 in every 1000000 people vaccinated the u.k. regulator went a step further than its european counterpart announcing that adults under 30 could be offered an alternative vaccine if one is available at the time and if they're currently healthy and not at higher risk from covert 19 in reaching their conclusions the regulators have had to weigh up the risks for older people and

those at greater danger from covert 90 well the minute risk attached the vaccine is one worth taking but for fit healthy younger people less vulnerable to the virus those odds are more finely balanced so in these age groups the u.k. regulator is proceeding with more caution. it's not a clean slate for the office but astra zeneca vaccine already blighted by political disputes and manufacturing delays question marks over possible side effects could further dent its credibility even if the regulators verdict is that it's brutally safe go to hell al-jazeera. while staying with the story jeff lazarus. balsall an institute for global health fund he's the head of its health systems research group p says low income countries could benefit from receiving unwanted vaccines the european medicines agency has concluded that the.

very rare side effects scrutinized the situation and reported twice with the same findings but then it's up to the individual member states to decide how to use it we've already seen many differences between the countries are sticking it to various age groups 1st it was a younger age group now it might be an older age group some even spain is talking about restricting it just to a small group of maybe 60 to 64 year olds so it's sending conflicting and confusing signals to the population but the main message which the main made clear today is that the vaccine is safe and the side effects are extremely rare in many countries don't have access to any vaccines at all and so i think they would welcome access to the asters and vaccine particularly when they heard that the european medicines agency has said it's safe so i think some countries are shaking their heads and saying well if the europeans won't use it send it to us because sooner you know at some point they're going to need to vaccines anyway so why don't we get it to them

if countries decide that they're not going to use it the important thing is to make sure that they're not sitting on the vaccines that they get them to countries where they will be administered. the number of corona virus deaths in brazil has dipped slightly from a record high of 4200 announced on tuesday another 3800 deaths were reported on wednesday there are 92000 new infections as he has throughout the pandemic the president also nada continues to play 19 a new record has been set for turkey for infections with 55000 registered on whedon's day last week president tayyip erdogan tighten to cope with 19 restrictions including the return of full nationwide weekend lockdowns during the islamic fasting month of ramadan which starts next week cats are has introduced tougher restrictions as of weapons day the ministry of public health said the u.k. and south african variants have spread throughout the country leading to an

increase in the number of deaths the gulf state has one of the highest infection rates per capita in the world restaurants beauty salons cinemas and other non-essential businesses will now close. an expert in use of force the use of force is testified at the trial of the former police officer who's accused of killing george floyd jodie steiger said derrick chauvin used inappropriate quote deadly force when kneeling on floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes he added that the pressure from shipman's body his body weight could cause a form of. 3rd you have an opinion to a degree reasonable professional certainty how much force was reasonable for the defendant to use on mr floyd after mr floyd was handcuffed placed in a prone position and not resisting. yes. robin was that no 4

should have been used once. he was in that position. a forensic sciences camisoles who testified on day 8 of the trial they will question the pills containing methamphetamine and fentanyl that were found in george floyd's call the defense is arguing that illicit drugs with the major factor in floyd's death live to our correspondent in minneapolis john hendren john just walk us through what took place in court today. day 8 in the murder trial of derek show been ended in march's days 7 did with expert testimony you summarize some of it right there you did have jodi steiger that los angeles police department sergeant who said that there was excessive force and b. he said that at the same time as derek children was kneeling on the neck of george floyd he was also using what they called a pain compliance technique and that is they showed a close up of. crushing the fingers of george floyd as he was doing that the idea

behind that as steiger said was to release the pain as the subject complies and he was asked what if the subject is not resisting and he said ben it's just pain we also had a bit of excitement when a prosecution witness named special agent james ryerson of the state of minnesota was saying that he was asked by the defense if he had heard george floyd say something they played it very hard to understand and the defense lawyer said did you understand george floyd to say there i ate too many drugs and said yes then the prosecution back that tape up again played it for me again and asked him if that's really what he heard and he said no now what i hear him saying is i ate doing no drugs and then you have a series of forensic witnesses you mentioned they found a couple of pills inside george floyd's car when this state tested those they found

methamphetamine but they couldn't confirm anything else and then there was a prosecution witness. who was a forensic expert as well who said in fact she did find small amounts of both methamphetamine and fenton oh that's key because the defense is arguing 2 things one that by being on drugs if he was indeed george floyd presented a greater risk to those police officers thereby justifying them holding him down and 2 that he could have died of a drug overdose and not because derek children's needs was on his neck john thank you very much john hendren there reporting live from minneapolis the united states agreed to withdraw all remaining combat forces which were deployed to fight against isis however talks with the iraqi government did not settle on a timeline some soldiers and coalition forces will also remain to train and advise the iraqi army the u.s. president joe biden like his predecessor has been looking for ways to wind and want

to become known as endless wars. on the 2 sides agreed that there will be no american military bases in iraq and therefore there will be no foreign bases this is what was agreed upon today at the end of the 3rd round of the strategic dialogue lynette's a washington correspondent following that story after the state's mike hanna so mike a training and advisory role what does that do to the numbers overall. well at this stage it leaves the numbers where they are which is roughly around 2 and a half 1000 that's being confirmed by the pentagon this was all part of a strategic dialogue between the u.s. and iraq led by the secretary of state tony blinken and on the iraqi side the foreign minister followed hussein now the pentagon clarified what appeared to be initially a slim thing a somewhat confusing statement about the withdrawal of u.s. troops the pentagon spokesman making very clear that there is no timeline he said

that what has happened is that the iraqi troops are now transitioned to play the dominant role in terms of the original mission which is combating isis in the iraq areas so the u.s. will withdraw from combat roles although it has largely done so at this particular point and now the pentagon says they will continue to focus on training in particular. their footprint as it is at present and now the pentagon spokesman also saying that there is no timeline whatsoever for withdrawal the question off withdrawal is agreed to in principle that was when iraq invited as the u.s. puts it the u.s. forces back in to iraq in 2014 to combat so this is a situation where although they've agreed to an eventual withdrawal no timeline no date has been set ok months no timeline but the must be an awareness as far as the pentagon and indeed joe biden's white house is concerned that there are iranian

type voices out of baghdad i should say that want all u.s. forces gone a.s.a.p. . well very much so the iraqi government is caught in a bit of a tight vice in this particular case as you say there is a popular support for a complete u.s. withdrawal particularly of the assassination of a senior iraqi official in the in the previous year so there is a sorry iranian official in the previous year so there is a lot of popular support for the u.s. troop withdrawal at the same time at the pentagon is very reluctant to commit to a total u.s. withdrawal pointing out that the mission is still in place they say that there is still a threat from insurgents within iraq that the u.s. forces are there to help train the iraqi forces to contend but what we're looking

at here perhaps is a kind of interim stage where the pentagon and the u.s. itself and willing to commit to a timeline for withdrawal because that could encourage posing fighters at the same time as you say well aware of the popular nature of the u.s. presence in iraq and what we do know about paul is president biden in the red point of agreement with former president trump has said that he wants to reduce u.s. is fighting presence in all parts of the world he wants to bring the u.s. soldiers home where he can do so however like with afghanistan iraq is a situation that has got to be reviewed on an ongoing basis and the pentagon spokesman says that is exactly what is going to happen ok mike many thanks mike and of the reporting live for us from washington. in the news ahead for you restoring age the palestinian and the u.s. president pledges millions in assistance in another reversal of donald trump's policies to place ups on the streets of london ambassador to the u.k.

finds himself locked out. of. the sequences started already the snowy weather over the high plains and the parent ins in the northwest of the u.s. is bringing its cold air across the plains states that line there is rather dodgy looking because it's where cold meets warm and you develop a line of thunderstorms which tonight will go through missouri and in the tail down towards new orleans more or less all of these potentially big thunderstorms there the 2 big well i wouldn't want to to promise you that and they keep moving east was a tomorrow they do lose their impetus tomorrow but the cold air is still coming back down through the plains we might see a repeat performance for thursday night as well in fact the picture on friday does indeed suggest and still some quite active showers as far as the gulf coast and

then a sparking of things inland as far north maybe as a console we've seen persistent shadows a line that will move really from puerto rico through his spine europe to jamaica honduras and nicaragua it's given the flash flooding flooding in the dominican republic and i think it might do the same again because the showers have not gone away haiti is also a potential risk but it does seem to drop a little during friday heavy shasta's seem likely in costa rica and panama but in mexico the suddenly brace you should be enjoying warm sunshine. in the yugoslav wars of the ninety's crimes were committed by a bull's eyes. out as their world meets me at go crowds a croatian sob who went to jail for crimes he says he didn't commit. was he

a guard in a concentration camp or was he simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. coked out ads trial and error on al-jazeera. to. the world. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera my name's peter w. your headlining story so far today european and u.k. medicines regulators have concluded there is a plausible link between the oxford astra zeneca covert 19 vaccine and rare blood clots but they insist the risk of the corona virus is far greater than the risk of death from clotting. an expert in the use of force as testified at the trial of the

former police officer who's accused of killing george florida jodie steiger said derrick jovan used inappropriate deadly force when kneeling on fois neck for more 9 minutes. the u.s. has agreed to withdraw all remaining combat forces which were deployed to fight against isis but talks with the iraqi government didn't settle on a timeline some soldiers and coalition forces will also remain to train and advise the iraqi army. the iranian president hassan rouhani has praised efforts to revive the 2050 nuclear deal as a new success his country met the signatories to the pact in vienna on tuesday the u.s. participated in directly but as the talks continue an iranian ship was attacked off the coast of japan as a big reports now from the iranian capital. a coincidence or an attempt to sabotage the nuclear talks an attack on an iranian ship in the red sea iran says the m.v. was being used as a base to support the just to kill and anti piracy operations but it's long been

believed the cargo ship was used by iran's revolutionary guards and israel quickly emerged as a possible suspect for the attack last month israel had accused iran of targeting one of its vessels but neither country is admitting responsibility for either incident in the case of the m.v. sevis it's believed the miners attached to the ship as a nuclear talks in vienna got under way it's hard to consider this a coincidence maybe it is but you know the good news is that the entire world supports a return to the nuclear deal by the u.s. and iran with a couple of notable exceptions and i think the israelis the saudis and iranians and congressional republicans are the parties who are vast minority who do not want to deal and are going to do everything possible to try to upset this process iran wants old sanctions imposed by the united states lifted before it returns to its compliance of the nuclear deal when former us president donald trump pulled the u.s.

out of the agreement in 2018 iran began increasing its uranium enrichment beyond accepted levels despite the challenges still faced in securing a new cooperation iranian president hassan rouhani is upbeat about the vienna talks . well that. we have no doubt that this success was achieved thanks to the resilience of the iranian nation and their national integration the u.s. administration is admitting that they have no other way but to negotiate and suggest that it talks if iran wants or indirect talks through the p 5 plus one countries. but there's still a long way to go we do see this as a constructive and certainly welcome step and in the end we hope that we are able to leave vienna return to united states our negotiating team i should say with a better understanding of a road map for how we get to that in state mutual compliance so far both the united states and iran a positive about the talks even though they're not talking to the directly the

european go she says hope that some form of agreement can be reached but some regional countries are not happy with joe biden's policy of engaging with iran and this concern here and that they may be attempts to derail the negotiations i said big al jazeera the one. the u.s. is resuming palestinian aid to the tune of $235000000.00 angering israel american funding was severed by the former president donald trump $150000000.00 will go directly to the u.n. agency for palestinian refugees known as on russia will be $75000000.00 in economic and development assistance in the occupied west bank and gaza and $10000000.00 for peace building programs through the u.s. agency for international development israel's government says annorah should be reformed before u.s. funding is restored but the u.n. has welcomed this desperately needed cash. the relationship between the united

states and on or is a long standing relationship we hope that. others will now follow suit. there were a number of countries that had greatly reduced the whole tid contributions to our new war we hope that the american the american decision will lead others to rejoin. our noise and or donors know the palace crisis is over jordan's king abdullah the 2nd has addressed an unusually public family feud which turned into a political crisis in a statement king abdullah said sedition has been nipped in the bud the government accused the king's brother hamza the former crown prince of involvement in a plot to destabilize the kingdom security the king's public letter reads like this the challenge of the past few days was not the most difficult or the most dangerous to the stability of our country it was rather the most painful for me because

participants were from inside and outside our country and sasha cohen am has more now from amman. but you were mentioning that despite the un president events of the last few days it was largely expected that king abdullah would not so make a televised speech before the nation he released a very lengthy statement which was clearly designed to reassure unify and relate to the jordanians injected some of his personal feelings about what transpired over the last several days he led jordanians know that he is well aware of the economic hardship they're experiencing which has been exacerbated by cupid night scene but above all else he wanted to reassure jordanians that he is prioritizing their interests he is quote the guardian of this country path with these parting it and he took measures as we to do exactly that as i said this is also

a tense you know by the country he said i'm talking to you as you are the family and the clan he's referring to the tribal nature of jordanian society he went on to say that he makes no distinction when he talks about his responsibilities from the small family referring to the royal family and the large family referring to the jordanian populace and as i said it was there was a bit of emotion in the statement he said that quote nothing came close to the shah's anger and seen as a brother and leader of the people that he felt as things unfolded this week he said that is not the most dangerous or challenging or sorry difficult challenge that the country is faced with that for him it was most painful because he said quote the discord came from within and outside the family and he made it clear that this royal wrist which began with his brother prince hamza and ended with king

abdullah was resolved as a result of the royal family taking care of it within the family he mentioned that his uncle was called in to mediate the only mention made of his half brother prince hamza was at the end of the statement he says that prince has that is with his family in his palace and quote under my care. the turkish court has handed life sentences to 6 former soldiers for the role they played in the coup attempt in 2016 they were convicted of plotting to overthrow the president rushed up typer to 118 others who were acquitted due to a lack of conclusive evidence more than 250 people were killed resisting the takeover attempt by a renegade military faction at least 12 more pro-democracy protesters have been killed by the military in me in mar according to a local monitoring group and says the worst violence was in calle where security forces fired grenades and machine guns the military said to be targeting more rural areas such as this town north of mandalay almost 600 people are known to have been

killed in violence following the coup on february the 1st indian go on protesters sent a message to beijing by burning a chinese flag they denounce what they claim is china's support for the jointer in contrast to the strong condemnation and sanctions coming from western capitals china's response has been much more muted emphasizing the importance of stability of a world away myanmar's ambassador to the u.k. says he's been locked out of the embassy in london cures you or me and says his deputy has taken charge on behalf of the military. had broken ranks with the joint calling for the release of the detained civilian leader aung sun suu chee mozambique's president says the military has forced eisel linked fighters out of the northern town of palma armed groups had attacked the gas hob 2 weeks ago killing dozens of people thousands to escape the violence led to the city of pemba on thursday leaders from south africa zimbabwe and botswana appear to meet in the

capital maputo to discuss the unrest. the reuters news agency is reporting on abandon cargo ship is no longer at risk of running aground or spilling oil off the coast of norway the ship will be towed into port by tug boats the dutch vessel has been adrift in the north sea for 2 days now the crew abandoned ship to in a heavy swells it's carrying 350 tons of heavy oil and 50 tons of diesel. writers with the best meal delivery service delivery are on strike in london demanding better pay and conditions and that's coincided with a better performance by the company on the stock market and its workers want a bigger slice of the success here's paul brennan. as demand for takeaway meal sold during europe's kovac $1000.00 lockdowns delivery riders with branded backpacks have become a common sight in towns and cities since launching in london in 2013th delivery room now operates in 54 cities across 13 different countries but delivers stock

flotation has given some investors india gesture and filled many of these right as with indignation often i'll grind peak times then on friday night and i might be waiting 40 minutes for a job when our job comes through it might be 3 pounds 50 something i'm not and i'm not an other buy for another hour you know exactly how i was when i got it 3 pounds 50 or 70 pounds in what should be peak times so it's not sustainable. he's striking writers are just a few 100 among the 50000 writers that work for delivery in the u.k. becoming just a few weeks after the u.k. supreme court ordered the right heading apple 2 back to treat its drivers as well because the message about rights and conditions in the so-called big economy is having an impact at a corporate level. this conversation by the liberal lot is a slow more than just a symbolic gesture the full c. of the share price among retail investors will share it with institutional investors many of whom are still concerned about the mobile moment to get the

economy in the straight face right as it's a diet that demands i bet to rise and safety you know they've what for out a pandemic that could literally put their lives on the line well they've seen a company. business boom yet they've seen peg conditions get was some was for the pandemic after planning to launch a $460.00 pence per share delivery of floated last week at $390.00 pence and immediately dropped even further to $280.00 pence that's still a valuation of more than $6000000000.00 several big name institutional investors have decided to stick their investors out among a higher sounded full well what is at stake. the end of khana me style. practice is really in terms of the exact extent of what he's going to mean for companies is not really how it's hard to predict the indications are the deliveries so-called retail investors have chosen to hang on to the stock instead of dumping it in the share price rose by

a modest 2 percent in early trading on wednesday delivery who hasn't yet published financial results for 2020 and the apparent boom in the delivery business during the pandemic year could well bounce the share price back up but the workers who made that possible are demanding their share of the success paul brennan al-jazeera shortage east london. this is al-jazeera these are your top stories european and u.k. medicines regulators have concluded there is a plausible link between the oxford astra zeneca qubit 19 bank scene and rare blood clots but they insist the risk of the corona virus is far greater than the risk of death from a blood clot and expert witnesses testified at the trial of the former police officer who's accused of killing george floyd jodie sigler said derrick cho even used inappropriate deadly force when kneeling on floyd's neck for all the 9 minutes .