it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day school open headlights inside story . tributes are being paid around the world following the death of prince philip who has died at the age of 99. and kim the now this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. an appeal from me and miles the u.n. ambassador for protection for his people as the military issues death sentences.

the medic who did the only autopsy on george floyd says police action caused his death. the law enforcement subdual restraint on the no compression just more than mr ford take. those hard. scrambling to escape an erupting volcano thousands of people are forced to get off a caribbean island. prince philip will be honored with a 41 gun salute at locations across the u.k. on saturday following his death at the age of 99 british naval ships around the world will also take part to honor his legacy as a combat veteran queen elizabeth's husband was at her side for 7 decades he's been praised for supporting the monarchy as it began reinventing itself in the 21st century paul brennan reports. the official notice of prince philip's death was

posted at the gates of buckingham palace the prince had died peacefully on friday morning at windsor castle it concluded the royal family joined with people around the world in mourning his loss the prime minister was among the 1st to pay tribute to prince philip earned the affection of generations here in the united kingdom across the commonwealth and around the world like the expert carriage driver that he was he helped to steer the royal family and the monarchy so that remains an institution indisputably vital to the balance and happiness of our national life. the duke of edinburgh witnessed 1st hand as britain's global empire was replaced in the 20th century by the current commonwealth of nations and now statements of condolence have come from across the continent he was a little guy. you know. his life to observers you know i think you know come to. visit with everybody from small to india's narendra modi praise the princes

distinguished career in the military and his many community service initiatives and the zimbabwean president innocent man and god sent his deepest condolences prince philip will be remembered as a champion for young people a decorated naval officer a dedicated philanthropist and a constant in the life of queen elizabeth the 2nd. after more than 70 years at the queen side prince philip was the longest serving broiled consulate in british history from the moment they got married he support the queen he was one step behind and this was a man who could have had an absolutely stellar career in the navy gave up that job and supported the queen for the next more than 70 years in the streets of the british capital the news of his death was greeted with genuine sadness and respect the queen had been married for a bit 17 years the n.c.c. missing really sad my man you know we know he'd been the off the file long time money history to. the prince his body will lie in rest at the roll residence

windsor castle in the funeral service will also be health there in st george's chapel in accordance with the prince's wishes it will not be a state funeral with a military procession but a much more private and intimate occasion a fitting ceremony for a man who spent so many years in a supporting role largely avoiding the limelight and attention of the british royals attract. al-jazeera. charles anson is a former press secretary to the queen he says prince philip played a huge role in modern the modernizing the british monarchy. well i think prince philip was a very distinguished career and of public service that he offered both in support of the queen and also earned his own right a very energetic man who contributed to the well sorts of words of the benefits of young people to the benefits of the environment and many many other causes that he is he supported so his contribution being here and. his work with the queen

in its own right way to combine those and stylish way prince philip was definitely one of the driving forces behind the evolving british more acute i mean the reason why this one appears survive so well is that it has adapted to changes in society and i think that philip has been the driver of that and very much supporting the queen in that sort of adjustment to stay relevant and use and not actual interests in the environment and young people in industry and engineering ideas and more cerebral man as well as an actual man and i think he sets an example of the public and injury in the modern age making a difference in the sorts of things. 19 people have been sentenced to death in me in march for killing an associate of an army captain it's the 1st time death

sentences have been announced since the military seized power in february the army has been cracking down hard on who protest is across the country several people were killed when security forces targeted demonstrators in the southern town of bargo on friday tony chang is monitoring developments from bangkok. news is now emerging of a very violent crackdown yesterday we were watching closely on social media from the very early hours of the morning before dawn when the security services moved in there was there were recordings of automatic gunfire being used loud explosions. emerged overnight tonight is a picture of very bloody crank. it's being reported by radio free asia in myanmar now that more than 60 people have died now those very difficult to confirm because apparently the military have been taking bodies away and storing them at

a local monastery and a school so people can't ascertain exactly who has been killed in this crackdown but we've seen evidence very serious weapons being used there's been recordings of automatic gunfire as i said also r.p.g. being used and mortar shells and light artillery. the united nations security council has heard fresh pleas from the people of me and maher for action to stop the crackdown at an unofficial meeting of council members and diplomatic editor james based reports. as the military continues its crackdown on peaceful pro-democracy protesters they're also now reneging on their own promises a spokesman for the jointer says although at the time of the coup they pledged to hold elections in a year they now won't take place for 2 my years at the un in new york a meeting was held to give security council ambassadors a picture of the deteriorating situation now most people feel that they are left

alone to face the brutal regime armed to its feet start from by the same international actors who preventing action the military nord are condemnations posing a test for the security council with the council well council where over language in yet another statement are we apt to save the lives of the people myanmar's u.n. ambassador who opposes the generals called for a no fly zone an arms embargo and targeted sanctions leave the the state action. this meeting was organized by the u.k. all security council members were invited but it wasn't a formal security council meeting both china and russia which object to an official open meeting only sent low level diplomats not surprisingly both countries seem opposed to any sanctions on the generals we share the same concern the main thrust

of recent diplomacy has been in the region here earlier this week the indonesian foreign minister meeting her u.k. counterpart i'm told a meeting of the leaders of the 10 countries in the regional as the group is likely in indonesia in the next 2 weeks but how do you persuade the generals to talk and to give ground the un special envoy christine sharana bergen has had her permission to visit myanmar denied i'm told there are some countries that are contemplating the idea of appeasing the generals and giving them a few chill role in the governance of the country something that would have poor human rights activists and those protesting on the streets james al-jazeera at the united nations. i. the medical examiner who performed the only autopsy

on george floyd as told the u.s. court he died from a police neck restraint and not trucks dr andrew baker said floyd did have underlying health issues and evidence of drug use but neither directly caused his death former police officer and is accused of killing floyd by kneeling on his neck ellen fisher reports from the trial in minneapolis. the prosecution has produced a number of experts to say george floyd died because of police action latest to appear in court lindsay told a forensic pathologist who reviewed the videos of the night and me and idolized all the $42.00 is in lab reports what it means to me is that the activities of the law enforcement officers resulted in mr floyd staff and that specifically those activities were the subdual of the restraint and neck compression and does this not also represent your own conclusion yes a conclusion you have reached an opinion you hold a reasonable degree of medical certainty yes she said police officers find no pulse

and george floyd is really on the ground continue to pressure on him she ruled out drugs or heart disease is the cause of death a theory put forward by the defense she suggested if george floyd had not encountered the police that night he would still be alive do you. have an opinion to reasonable degree of medical certainty that mr floyd would have died that night had he not been subject to the subdual and restraint of the police there's no evidence to suggest he would have died that night and sat for the interactions with law enforcement. another witness was andrea baker the man who carried out the autopsy on george floyd he didn't want any videos before his examination he ruled the day was home a sight i did not want to bias my exam by going in with any preconceived notions that might lead me down one pathway or another he said he phoned underlying heart issues in georgia floyd and the altercation with police would not have helped what

that adrenaline is going to do is it's going to ask your heart to beat faster it's going to ask your body for more oxygen so that you can get through that alter cation and in my opinion the law enforcements to do all restraint on the neck compression was just more than mr floyd could take by virtue of those heart conditions under cross-examination dr baker agreed there were many factors involved in the death that drugs and heart disease may have played a part but he said they were contributing factors not the direct cause of its expected the prosecution will end its case early next week the defense will then get the chance to present what it believes. is not responsible for the death of george floyd alan fischer. minneapolis. still to come on al-jazeera. struggles to stop its worst on resting appeals for calm fall on deaf ears.

and u.s. president joe biden considers making sweeping changes to the supreme court. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored plan at ways that whether slouchy set fire across the arabian peninsula for the next few days for the north something of a chinese going on let me get some lively storms in the eastern side of the mediterranean some wet weather some blustery showers rolling across cypress into that west. sada syria the lebanese mountains could see some wet weather possibly some snow over the high ground and it's all some snow there into central and eastern parts of turkey yet again that wintry mix will make its way a little further east which as we go on through sunday started to see the temperatures picking up around the arabian peninsula once again doha getting up to around 36 celsius and 19 in kabul but the chances when she flakes into northern

parts of afghanistan pushing towards the far north of pakistan further south it is generate dry that dry weather coming down across the malia if generation usual richard showers that just making their way right across central parts of africa pushing across towards cameroon and southern parts of nigeria further south it is not too bad it's all last they've come down into also zambia zimbabwe will cease and places sunshine there into botswana in the maybe south africa recess of the next few days one of 2 showers into northern parts of my same basic. support qatar airways talking to i'll just see what. can you tell me what the government you represent is now illegitimate and we listen we do not sell the fence material to any country to the euro conflict and yet we meet with the global news

makers until about the stories that matter on al-jazeera understand the differences and similarities of cultures across that would certainly to have you take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter. you're watching are just there a reminder of our top stories this hour versions of prince philip queen elizabeth husband has died at the age of 99 he was married to the queen for 73 years and served on site or through the length of her reign the world family has entered an official period of mourning. the 1st death sentences since the military coup have been announced and meanwhile for the killing of an army captain's associate many

people have been killed in the southern city of bob as the army cracks down on protesters. the medical examiner who performed the only autopsy on george floyd has told the u.s. court he died from a police neck restraint and not drugs dr andrew baker says floyd did have underlying health issues and evidence of drug use but needed to recruit caused his death. after a week of violence in northern ireland pro british loyalists say they want to maintain calm out of respect for prince philip but it's still tense in belfast especially at the dividing line between loyalists and people who identify more strongly with ireland andrew symonds reports. the situation is tense nothing like it has been on wednesday or 1st or not at this date but this can be the loyalists saying that they want to have a calm out of respect but this problem still persists there is

a whole round of speculation about some sort of suspension but they're ignoring calls from the assembly the northern out of the somebody to stop this whole protest movement by saying there can't be any peace right now because of because of the situation they're in over imports exports the the whole bureaucracy of of the ports and goods from britain this place being really a part of the european union now with the border in the r.'s 3 so the brics it is meant to be the central issue but there are other complications like always in northern ireland there's more behind the story there's a situation where the funeral a year ago was took place as a prominent are a member bobby story and at that funeral something like 2000 supporters

gathered at the end of it all the unions said this was in breach of covert regulations and prosecution says it should be made across the board particularly at the senior shin fein leadership there that didn't take place all all in foster has now called for the resignation of the chief constable and that has not if you can see everyone's reliance on the security forces but right now that they're under fire from the politicians themselves so it's by no means a secure situation here. chinese regulators have find the economist giant alibaba $2800000000.00 for violating anti monopoly will beijing says the company has been penalised for abusing its dominant market. i barbour's billionaire founder jack wall has been under scrutiny from chinese authorities after criticizing the country's regulatory system. about 200 rebel fighters have been killed by security forces in central african republic that's according to the president's security

advisor valerie's a couple of witnesses told al jazeera the government troops and russian forces surrounded the town of near him and attacked rebel bases several devices have been arrested the rebels have been fighting the government of president fast in our challenge to addenda since his reelection in december. pfizer and bon tak have applied for approval to use their covert 19 vaccine on 12 to 15 year olds in the u.s. the companies say phase 3 trials for younger teenagers have been effective they plan to make similar requests around the wall when the coming days mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . there are tests for 12 to 15 year olds that phase 3 tests indicated the success rate of 100 percent this is very high indeed and it also revealed that the sight of thick for patients this age was exactly the same as side effects for

patients age 16 and above now at present the emergency use authorization does apply to ages 16 and above but now pfizer is seeking to increase the pool of those liable or available for vaccination between 12 to 15 now what happens next is that the f.d.a. sits down and looks at the request for an extension to the emergency authorization that's a process that should take pretty speedy time given previous authorizations that have come through or previous extensions to amendments but why this is particularly significant at this moment is that yesterday for example in the united states thursday there was some 60000 new cases of corona virus reported now this is been an average for a number of weeks now and health officials are warning that this represents a major threat to the country in particular as the majority of new cases are that u.k.

variant now this is of great concern to health officials any action that will widen the pool of those available for vaccine could have a major role in terms of continuing to attempt to push back the virus. coronavirus cases are continuing to rise across parts of latin america health systems in several countries are a breaking point to resemble has more from argentina's capital. the rise of infections in latin america confirms that the 2nd wave of the corona virus pandemic has arrived to this part of the world mounting cases in countries like colombia bolivia peru and argentina in argentina president about a man there's an announced new restrictions in order to prevent the spread of the virus among those restrictions there is a curfew in the middle of the night there is also a prohibit of social gathering in private homes and also more restrictions on public transport there's this is a highly divisive issue in argentina and while some are asking for

a total lockdown in this country others say a bad knockdown is an attack against personal freedom and of course this division this polarization is what hurts argentina's chances of recovering from the pandemic of fighting the pandemic but also recovering economically from what's with happening in this past year in brazil there was another daily record over 4200 people lost their lives to coronavirus pandemic and this is happening as the supreme court in the country has authorized an investigation of parliamentary investigation over precedents ajai towards when i was handling of the pandemic in another country or 2 why the government has announced they're extending their extinction until the end of the month and we know that right now cases have been rising in order why and the intensive care unit capacity right now is at 75 percent latin america south america specifically is one of the hardest hit regions by the

virus pandemic we have seen unemployment rise poverty rise in this past year and there's lots of difficulty and lots of challenges because many countries in this part of the world cannot afford to assist their populations over the coming months and on what's coming next. germany's health minister is calling for another nationwide lockdown this corona virus infections. intensive care units across germany a filling up fast their affairs the health system will be overwhelmed if the number of cases continues to rise stephanie decker is in berlin and says germany is grappling with how to handle its outbreak the message that a strong lockdown is needed across germany to curb the numbers is not new this is different to figures have been saying that over the last couple of weeks now of course more indication coming out that numbers are increasing there's warnings that intensive care beds could run out if there isn't an increased lockdown also

a lot of germans we've been speaking to saying that things aren't clear that the rules keep changing nothing seems to have a firm hand on it so now we understand politically also there may be some movement to chancellor angela merkel was supposed to be meeting with the heads of the 16 regions on monday that's now been pushed to spode but we do understand that they have agreed to perhaps change some legislation because this is a country that is ruled by a decentralized system giving the federal states autonomy so to speak when it comes to their health care policies that's one of the problems that the chancellor has been facing really over easter cold for a strict lock down but how do you turn it within the space of 24 hours so we are expecting that legislation to be put before the cabinet on tuesday to see if it's going to give the central government more powers to implement strict lock downs in areas where numbers of coronavirus infections over $100.00 per 100000 people but certainly the message coming out that more needs to be done to stem the infection

rate. a veteran greek crime journalist has been shot dead inside his home in athens police say your goal scorer was attacked by 2 gunmen on a motorbike he was one of the country's best known crime reporters on television and online. now the number of judges in the u.s. supreme court could be expanded president joe biden is ordering a bipartisan commission to study potential reforms term limits could be part of any changes reform is a priority for progressive democratic politicians after former president donald trump forced through a replacement justice before last year's election a white house correspondent can help it has more from washington d.c. . well because it was a campaign promise made by president biden on the campaign trail so he's making good on that pledge to at least study the issue but i can tell you that packing the court as it's called is controversal in the united states currently it's favored by

democrats who want to see the ideological balance of the court which rate now tips to the right or conservative given the 3 appointments by the previous president so they're in favor of it it's something that for the most part conservatives oppose this just to give you some context is something that we really don't know what joe biden ultimately thinks about whether or not this is a good idea all he would say in the campaign trail is that he was willing to set up a commission if he became president so that's what we're seeing right now this commission being set up the white house press secretary saying that he will be listening to a diversity of viewpoints we know that they will sort of conclude their findings after about $180.00 days of review but that they will not be making any recommendations so it's really a little unclear what's going to happen next. thousands of people living near a volcano on the caribbean island of st vincent have fled on both sides to an eruption so fear spread ass across villages in the north of the island around 16000

people have been told to leave the area with experts warning of more about since the volcano had been dormant for more than 40 years. and we'll leave you now with this look back on the life of prince philip who died at the age of 99 on friday his funeral will be a low key affair as for his own wish as well which happens. he was by his side throughout the longest reign of a monarch in british history prince philip you could read into it wasn't only a marriage but the life of service to his wife queen elizabeth the 2nd born into greek cannes danish royalty philip had a lonely childhood he was taken under the wing of the british aristocracy when he married her then princess elizabeth in 1947 he was a promising young naval officer. it was a fairytale wedding for a country emerging from war and hardship. it's all change for the young couple when

elizabeth sparta king george the 6th died at only 56 years of age she became queen and philip in the words of his private secretary looked as if the world would fall and down on him his naval career ended along with his independence prince philip was sort of forced into making huge sacrifices he was very much a man's man not someone who was going to naturally fall into the position of playing 2nd fiddle and walking 2 paces behind his wife and calling how ma'am in public and so on and so began life in the queen's shadow hundreds of engagements a year he did however manage to find time for his own charities helping young people and conserving wildlife very energetic a problem solver sort of scientific cast of mind so there is a sort of you know on the positive side the attributes that people of modest sometimes you know his his detractors would would would say that you know some of

his forthrightness could come across as rudeness phillip had a reputation for embarrassing politically incorrect remarks whether he was being rude about the chinese or indians or swearing at photographers who kept him waiting too long often a sideshow to formal occasions yet even though an air of racism hung over him the story royalist u.k. media generally forgave him he was certainly given a much easier ride than politicians politicians who tend to make a racist or an offensive remark in this day and age tend to have to apologize a couple of days later because so much pressure on them but i've never known a prince philip to apologize for a mark and i remember once he won it over after i said to an aboriginal leader do you still throw space at each other and i saw him do this in australia in 2002 and the next day he came over it made front pages all over the world and he just wanted to. know since if you the complete absence of human so he was going to come. his

retirement from public duties came in 2017 with a sendoff from the royal marines. whatever his faults his 60 years of public service was admired by many people while their marriage was said to have had its ups and downs in the couple's younger years prince philip remained dedicated and supportive to the queen chill receive immense sympathy from a british public known to view her with respect and affection. with the headlines on al-jazeera prince philip will be honored with a 41 locations across the u.k. on saturday following his death at the age of 99 it was married to queen elizabeth a 73 years.