inspiring story people trust our children to tell them what's happening in their communities in a clear an unbiased and as an african i couldn't be more proud to be part of how. these are rare either very rare side effects unusual but possible europe's medicines agency links astra zeneca is covered 19 vaccine to blood clots but insists his benefits still outweigh any risks. hello again i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also this half hour. 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 floor here is more evidence that the force used during his arrest was excessive. the u.s. commits to removing all remaining combat forces from iraq without setting a timeline. but to rights and better safety. hungry for fairer conditions food delivered writers from online giant go on strike. europe's medicines agency says it remains overwhelmingly confident and astra zeneca has cope with 19 vaccine after finding it may cause blood clotting in very rare cases now the risk is greater among younger people from seeing some governments to restrict or advise against its use among lower age groups journal reports from london. the oxford astra zeneca vaccine under uncomfortable 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 to 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 oxford 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 broadly safe jonah how al-jazeera london. well 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 whedon's day with around 1000 new infections and he has throughout the pandemic the presidential year paulson abra continues to plague 19 monica has more from

rio de janeiro. doctors here and scientists have been warning that the new variants were boring to show up in brazil because not much has been done to control this outbreak the spread of infections you have mayors and governors of some cities and states imposing restrictive measures to keep people at home you have the president saying that they should not stay home and so there isn't an organized effort to control the outbreak and with this the virus is spreading rapidly and mutating very rapidly and what doctors here have told us is that they're afraid that by the time brazilians are all vaccinated those vaccines might not be enough to control the new variants of food still don't know and which will show was a vengeful argentina is clamping down with restrictions on movement and burning

non-essential workers from public transport a series of reports now from winners iris a 2nd wave has brought unprecedented cope with 19 infections. this images are from a central train station when a site is the amount of people here could be one of the reasons why corona virus infections have skyrocketed in argentina in the past days on wednesday argentina's government confirmed over 22000 new infections of covert 19 and that's why president about a family's announced new measures to prevent the spread of the virus. in the masses in these months we want to help health care aid economic recovery and keep schools open as much as we can if we do this we can diminish the speed of transmission the higher the transmission and the hospital occupation the more restrictions we will have to impose and that's why we need to protect ourselves from them this also announced a curfew had midnight restrictions on public transport and social gatherings in

private homes. last year argentina was one of the 1st countries in the region to impose a total lockdown to prevent the spread of the virus but the situation is different now. argentina's government is trying to avoid imposing a total lockdown mostly because of the impact it would have on argentina's fragile economy where millions are struggling to make ends meet and that's why it's focusing on analyzing caseload they tapped imposing short term restrictions and getting hospitals ready to cope with a 2nd wave. the long lines of people at this testing site show mounting concerns with the rice and infections but most of those we spoke to say they cannot afford to stay home you know a single c.d.'s are blowing it's impossible to close everything it's impossible i hope they move forward with the vaccination campaign and we can move forward this is a delicate time for president of the for a man this who tested positive

a few days ago some 2 months after receiving the russian sputnik vith vaccine later this year argentina will hold me term elections and he will have to defend his party's majority in congress says the lengthy lockdown last year its popularity has been bruised by a shortage of vaccines and economic troubles exacerbated by the pandemic you know. i would imagine that the solution is going to be very flexible very much handling the day to day and that it will be managed by different levels of government national provincial but for the city of borno say this coordination of some restrictions will be necessary without restraining the economy argentina like most emerging economies is finding it tough to come up with cash for pandemic relief efforts and like many wealthier countries and that's why international organizations like expressed concerns about the mounting cases in this part of the

world because they know it cannot make difficulties. pose a challenge when it comes to fighting disease. and when a site has. a new record been set in turkey for infections with 55000 registered on weapons day last week the president tightened covert 19 restrictions including the return to full nationwide weekend lockdowns during the islamic fasting month of ramadan which starts next week. i i. an expert witnesses testified at the trial of the former police officers accused of killing george floyd jodie steiger said derrick jovian used inappropriate deadly force when kneeling on floyd's neck for more than 90 minutes ellen fisher reports now from minneapolis back in the witness box on day 8 the man employed by the prosecution as a use of force expert sergeant jody steiger works with the los angeles police

inspector general's office he investigates police wrongdoing he analyzed what happened to george floyd his verdict this was the unnecessary use of lethal force 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. my opinion was that i know for sure the news once. he was in a position. like this. the defense has argued the police officers attending to george floyd were distracted what about a growing frustrated crowd that insisted mr steiger was not an issue because i did not perceive them as being a threat. and why is that. because they were merely filming and

they were most of it was their concern for mr ford. the truth and nothing but what if the agent in charge of the investigation of the death of george floyd told the court the size of the investigation dozens of agents hundreds of statements in reply to defense question here greed to 20 george floyd seem to suggest drugs was a factor but then later corrected himself saying he was no clear about what he had hair harry heard in context to tell. mr foreigner saying yes i believe mr for saying i do not drugs. little different than what you were asked in a. portion of the video yes thursday will start with legal arguments can the man who was with george floyd on the night of the incident give evidence morris hall is what he that is answers could put him in legal jeopardy the defense is keen to hear from alan fischer al jazeera at the derrick children martyr trial in minneapolis

the u.s.s. agreed to withdraw all remaining combat forces which were deployed to fight against eisel however talks with the iraqi government didn't settle on a timeline some soldiers and coalition forces will also stay to train and advise the iraqi army the u.s. president joe biden like his predecessor has been looking for ways to wind down or to become known as endless wars. 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. the biden administration 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 annorah 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 is strongly opposed to the endos israel and then they semitic a t.v. happening in unrest facilities we believe that this un agency for so-called refugees should not exist in its current form and under a schools regularly use materials that incite against israel and that was that the phoenician used by the agency to determine who is a refugee only perpetuates the conflict still to come here on al-jazeera pressure builds on major sporting groups over voter rights in the us state of georgia. and why chinese ex-pats in sri lanka and guessing it's in a farm vaccinations but not locals.

it's time for the perfect gentle. weather sponsored by qatar airways. now the sun has returned to japan after the rain went through a couple days ago which is this line here but it's over that the driving force is still a winter storm bringing snow back to suckle in the plains and eastern russia and probably down into hawkeye died during friday and the backwash cold will probably bring snow showers on the higher ground of honshu as well the western slopes at least supposed to hit tokyo you go to 18 degrees but you might get a cold shower coming through china's largely funds no wind to improve the air quality which is not are good in beijing and there's no significant rain that's coming into friday's going off shore as you've probably noticed the heavy rain that we saw in east indonesia is gone that was developing psych i was going sas of your screen of the bottom so let me daily showers that the heaviest ones probably going to be heading towards west papua rather than timor for example but it's still

really ready season so there is more to come and we see the development of cloud and rays of light rain running up through india this southerly feed hints at rather more and i think i'll be realized in calcutta for example quite possibly get thunderstorms by friday which will last into saturday and as the wind dies or are away they could be persistent otherwise it's a fairly fine picture and getting hotter. qatar airways. from the al-jazeera london broil cost center to people in thoughtful conversation i got my braces than when i was at the university of oxford which really scared me because i was like these people are going to be in positions of power with no host and no limitations empire is the reason that we live in a multicultural society part 2 of pfizer's shaheen and adam rather fit studio unscripted on out his era.

updating the top stories for you here on al-jazeera e.u. and medicines regulators have concluded there is a plausible link between the oxford astra zeneca code with 19 vaccine and rare blood clots but they're insisting the risk of the corona virus is far greater than the risk of death from crossing. an expert in the use of force as testified at the trial of the former police officer who's accused of killing george ford jodie steiger's said derrick children used inappropriate deadly force when kneeling on the floor its neck for more than 90 minutes. the u.s. has agreed to withdraw all remaining combat forces which were the words fight

against deisel the 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 quote a new success his country met the signatories to the pact in vienna on tuesday the u.s. took part in directly but as talks continued an iranian ship was attacked off the coast of japan as said big reports now from tehran. 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. service was being used as a base to support the just to kill an 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 well who do not want to deal and are going to do everything possible to try to upset this process iran wants all sanctions imposed by the united states lifted before it returns to its compliance of the nuclear deal when former u.s. 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 corporation the iranian president hassan rouhani is upbeat about the vienna talks about jamey

a mommy to name chain my office we have no doubt that this success was achieved thanks to that is zillions of the iranian mission and the national integration of the us administration is admitting that they have no other way but to negotiate and suggest that it talks if iran wants or indeed it 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 returned 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 that directly the european negotiators hope that some form of agreement can be reached but some reason those countries are not happy with joe biden's policy of engaging with iran and this concern here and that there may be attempts to derail the negotiations.

al-jazeera ran. at least 12 more pro-democracy protesters of being killed by a 1000000 miles military according to one local monitoring group it says the worst violence was in cali where the 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 being killed in violence following the coup on february the 1st in yangon on protesters sent a message to beijing by burning a chinese flag they denounce what they claim is china's support for the gender most of the 600000 doses of china's sign of farm vaccines sent to sri lanka are sitting on ice the government hasn't approved for use there so the only people getting jobs so far a chinese nationals living in sri lanka and elfin and that story from colombo anyone thinking the scenes are in china could be forgiven it's actually you can read 1000

vaccines into the chinese nationals living and working in sri lanka. they were the 1st to receive vaccines from the 600000 doses they need to do the south asian island might be using this tactic to give only for the chinese city sense while living here working and living it and the families and those who love working in interland after a point the next thing i think there is no more i don't have any heart so for now i feel good. but these reactions are not enough to sri lanka's regulator the national medicines regulatory authority to clear the use assign a farm on local it's demanding more detail before making a decision we had to go over the scientific evidence and then only give the poor for anything like cover that it's a diagnostic method or drug or rexy so it is therefore the sign of a morsel if the if

a good data is available regarding the efficacy and the safety then there's no problem with that but without those that are definitely we cannot because we can't risk of giving something to other people. off with 3 are not the doolies causing displeasure within the government would present good to have been his brother mine the rajapaksa have worked closely with china in recent years the president received a shipment of vaccines from the chinese ambassador in colombo we need to arrive last week our finest are just pandemic out all countries under 2 peoples who will be always standing for money together under us the pundits are hardly a friend to each other we face many difficulties during the last 2 to 3 weeks to bring this to sri lanka due to certain unexpected. influences from

various parties how were your home will these influences and ultimately make it to success not going as the regulatory authority refused to be pushed to grant approval the government removed 7 of its 13 board members describing it as a move to reform the body that is seen in dr gleamed then removal was connected to descend from next. at a time when corporate vaccines around the world are coming under scrutiny regulators they cannot approve the sign off from doors until this study or unnecessary data they say the sooner they receive this the sooner they can make a decision when the finance are dizzy or colombo india and earns more than 115000 new infections on weapons day another record there were 630 more deaths the highest since november new delhi mumbai and dozens of other cities are imposing

curfews the government says people still are not complying enough with mask rules and social distancing on thursday the us president joe biden plans to reveal his 1st steps to curbing gun violence at link lewd moves to reduce the proliferation of so-called ghost guns which are self assembled and untraceable states will also be given help to write red flag laws which allow courts and the police to remove guns from people deemed to be at being a risk. the u.s. masters golf tournament is taking off in georgia the u.s. states under a cloud of controversy from new voting laws other sporting organizations and large corporations have taken a stand against the legislation and it looks at whether others will follow them. when georgia's republican controlled senate passed new voting laws the reaction was scathing from civil rights activists and democrats billboard part of it not

something we want to do and something we have to do protesting the state's new rules including limiting voting drop boxes and new id requirements citing the impact on minorities huge corporations many based in the state were initially muted but after pressure came out in support of activists saying voter access is a fundamental right the most consequential move came from major league baseball opting to move their all star game out of state a decision that could cost georgia $100000000.00 georgia's an all american city know what this decision means it means cancel culture and pars and activists are coming for your business they're coming for your game or event in your hometown the masters golf tournament is going ahead the professional golf association saying it's committed to local charities in the community in or guster many star players say they support civil rights but also the financial boost the game brings i think

that's the topic that we should all be talking about we should be talking about whether we're here or not. the masters the p.g.a. tour we do such a good job or we're trying to help communities out and i think that's our main focus for the week be on the calls for corporations to condemn georgia's voting laws there's concern about the financial impact some leading democrats in the state say it's a fine line but the potential to harm poor communities is very real republicans say the new laws will make georgia's elections more. secure and have walked back earlier rules that would have limited voting on sundays a major point of contention democrats say corporations taking a stand is a move in the right direction it's not council culture when companies decide to stay and eat their principles and values and understand that their consumers are also looking at what is happening here in georgia and that their consumers want to

see the company do the right thing as well the new laws are likely to face legal challenges even as other states annex similar rules it's likely the conservative leaning supremes court will have the final say as the battle for voting rights continues and gallacher al-jazeera the reuters news agency is reporting that an abandoned 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 tugboats the dutch vessel has been adrift in the north sea for 2 days now the crew abandoned ship in heavy swells. writers with the best meal delivery service delivery room are on strike in london demanding better pay and conditions now it coincided with a better performance by the company on the stock market paul brennan picks up the story. 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 i job comes through it not 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 take time so it's not sustainable. these striking right is a just a few 100 among the 50000 riders that work for delivery in the u.k. becoming just a few weeks after the u.k. supreme court ordered the right heading apple 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 along the 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 the rights and safety unite they've what for out a pandemic that could literally put their lives on the line well they've seen a company. business. 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 2 $180.00 pence that's still a valuation of more than $6000000000.00 several big name institutional investors have decided to steer clear investors out among a high or some good will is taking the end. economy style. practices really in terms of the exact extent of what is going to mean for companies isn't 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 illiberal 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 he's learned. this is al-jazeera these are your top stories in the you and u.k. medicines regulators have concluded there is a plausible link between the oxford astra zeneca qubit 1000 bank scene and rare blood clots but they insist the risk of the corona virus is far greater than the risk of death from clotting the number of corona virus deaths in brazil has dipped slightly from a record high of 40 to 100 announced on tuesday.