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i'm sam is a than this is just their life from the house so coming out regional neighbors raise concerns over japan's decision to dump radioactive water from the fukushima plant into the ocean. iran val's an attack on its main nuclear facility won't go unpunished israel issues its own warning. and how the city that never sleeps plans to switch to renewable energy by 2023. now there's a tense standoff between police and protesters in minnesota as anger grows over the police shooting of an unarmed black man of asus have used tear gas and pepper spray to try and disperse crowds grab reports of multiple arrests protesters are defying

an 11 hour curfew after a stately emergency was declared in the region. who was killed during a traffic stop on sunday we'll get the latest from our correspondent she have returned see shortly but 1st allan fish is reports on what the police chief's calling a tragic error. it started as a routine traffic stop and ended in a futile shooting of another black man by police 20 year old dawn to right killed on the streets of brooklyn center near minneapolis a tragic error says the police chief is my belief that the after he had the intention to deploy their taser but instead shot mr wright with a single bullet. this appears to me from what i viewed and the officers reaction in distress immediately after that this was an accidental discharge this all coming as a former police officer stands trial in minneapolis for the murder of another black man george floyd just a year ago the media expressing his shock at such a twist we recognize that this is happening at

a time when our community when all of america indeed all of the world is watching. our community from the white house president joe biden also made clear his frustration we will watch tonight as soon as i did the film which is really the body cam which is fairly. truly graphic question is was in an accident or was it intentional every man is to be determined. by whom on investigation don't you right called his mother as it was all happening the call ended when she dialed his number again his girlfriend answered and said he was dead in the driver seat like a minute later i called him his girlfriend he answered with the passenger in the car and that even started shooting acted like tender on an already volatile situation hundreds took to the streets to protest overnight but some of those

protests turned violent it's been reported 20 local businesses were looted what's been described as a chemical attitude was used to disperse the crowd which was growing in numbers and frustration police here guarding the local station have a to face off against angry protesters they've brought in state troopers and the national guard to bolster the numbers they've even brought in concrete blocks to secure the area the local police chief believes that if he's open and transparent that might diffuse some of the younger but that might not be enough for african-american boys so every day as a father raising boys in america how do they do it makes me feel terrified but it's not a shocking i mean it was a shock we this is what happened for over 400 years for us a state level investigation is now underway the local community wants answers especially to the question are things ever going to change alan fischer al-jazeera brooklyn center minnesota i should have written c.

joins us now live from washington d.c. so are protesters still defying that curfew she have. there are and it's interesting i mean it's very much in the area that alan was reporting that during the day the area around the police the police station have been an area where people had started to gather throughout the day and continued to gather off to the curfew began i should say it was interesting to hear alan say well the police chief said that he hoped the transparency would diffuse some of the anger when the protesters 1st got there what was flying on the the flag side outside the police station was the the blue lives not a thin blue line flag that has come to come to symbolize police defiance against black lives matter hardly hardly putting out the olive branch have to be said for the protesters who are protesting against yet another 20 year old black man being killed by the police in what the medical examiner says was a homicide everything was relatively peaceful there we had the police on one side

of a fence and we have the protesters on the other side of the fence as is so often the case that some point for whatever reason is not an entirely clear what the police decide are right it's not time to go in they began firing tear gas flash bang grenades they started moving forward and now we know i mean now we can see what the strategy is i guess is what they were trying to achieve which was to try to get people as far away from that police station as possible so they've dispersed the crowd bow down down the street basically from what we can tell the protesters are now and also lining the streets basically down from the area where they are allowed down into interior into the suburbs but while all this was going on that has to be said all sorts of news was actually taking place 1st stuff the police officer who killed dante right was identified as kim potter a 26 year veteran of the brooklyn center police department she was actually the

president of the brooklyn center police officers association that is the local police union and in that role she's represented other officers involved in deadly shootings you kind of see that. that patent that sort of systemic nature of this problem once again revealing itself just in the biographies of some of those involved here that you know that there's always that attempt which evolved into the direct job of suggesting these are bad apples but it does seem to be happening quite a bit and which is why we see black lives matter talk about systemic problems and in fact actually she was once accused during one of these prosecution of another police officers of having helped conceal evidence when a 21 year old was killed and 29000 without i'm sure that will be coming out sooner or later i'm also interested as all of this was going on the local city council was meeting and was coming out with some rather interesting interesting measures that is to ban crowd control tactics during protests including the use of rubber bullets tear gas kept going and true and that was primarily targeted at these very same police officers who are currently using tear gas and flash bang grenades however it

turns out having have been trying to get more of a sense of this from local journalists on the ground it appears that the government could override the local city council on those methods in fact that was a symbolic move but it but grimly ironic symbolic legislative move by the local city council banning the police from doing exactly what they are doing currently in brooklyn center. thanks so much to have watching the situation for us there. and just 20 kilometers from the place shooting that killed on tehran george florey died almost a year ago floyd's brother has testified in the murder trial of derek he described floyd as a family man who loved his siblings and one of a conversation chip with his mother john hendren has the story from annapolis. the witness for the prosecution testified to the life lost when george floyd drew his last breath to breathe beneath the police officers need. people.

just because he was. here and. he did with a person. everybody in the running community he knew how to make people feel better a unique spark of life doctrine in minnesota allows prosecutors to humanize crime victims like george floyd as his brother phil in east did as the prosecution showed pictures of his slain brother prosecutors began day 11 in the murder trial of former police officer derrick show been with a cardiologist who laid the blame for george lloyd's death directly on show vun saying his niece starved floyd of oxygen in stop his heart in this case mr george george floyd died from a cardio pulmonary arrest. it was caused by. and those low oxygen levels were induced by the prone restraint and positional asphyxiation that

he was subjected to dr jonathan rich ruled out the defense's alternative theory an overdose of the fentanyl and methamphetamine an autopsy found in floyd system if not for the officers holding him down he said floyd would have survived the encounter after the shooting of another on arm black man just 16 kilometers from the site of the trial in brooklyn center minnesota children's lawyer asked the judge to sequester or isolate the. the fear is that they'd be unduly prejudiced or might be inclined to convict jovan to avoid more civil unrest but the judge said no deny the motion to question the jury and for additional blood here this is a totally different case after 2 weeks of prosecution witnesses the defense begins to present its case on tuesday and it's likely to be a short one the judge says he expects it to be over in time for closing arguments on monday and when that happens the jury will be sequestered until 'd they render

a verdict as they deliberate prosecutors hope they'll reflect on the man children is accused of killing. like how to treat a mom in particular. he he just he loved her so dearly when we went to the funeral. is joy. oh my god over again. he would just say my. mom was over there would be. you remember it's not likely to be lost on the jury that those are also women floyd's last words as he lay on the pavement. evidence the prosecution is likely to suggest in its closing arguments that george floyd wasn't suffering from a heart attack or a drug overdose but knew that he was taking his last breaths as his life was being choked out of him john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis japan says it

will release more than a 1000000 tons of contaminated water from its ruined fukushima nuclear plant into the sea south korea and china are warning that will take necessary measures to ensure the health of the citizens the waste is being released a decade after an earthquake triggered a meltdown at fukushima comes from water pumped into ruined reactors to cool the plant bride is with protesters in seoul. this is a highly controversial decision that has been long awaited here in northeast asia we are down at the location of the japanese embassy here in seoul in south korea where there is a demonstration taking place organized by a number of different to n.g.o.s and environmental groups opposed to this some of them saying that this amounts to nuclear terrorism by japan from the south korean government there has also been a statement of opposition saying this is totally unacceptable it will lodge a formal complaint with the japanese also official concerns of course in china

another neighbor here in northeast asia but probably some of the strongest opposition will be in japan itself especially around the northeast part of the coastal area of japan that was impacted by this. by the earthquake and tsunami 10 years ago where we have the the big buildup of water we're talking about 1250000 tons of contaminated water here this is water that was used to cool the crippled reactors groundwater rainwater which got on to the site also became contaminated now over the years this is simply been stored in storage tanks that have been added to by the operators of the plant it has been treated to the operator say it is taken out most of the radioactivity but there is a still low level radiation connected contaminating this water now the author already say it is in such small amounts minuscule amounts that it will make no difference once it's released into the oceans but of course it's the perception of

that which is going to impact people in that area with their fisheries opposed to this also agriculture and tourism still ahead of al jazeera. a generation has been lost the united nations special envoy for yemen warns the country's children are being deprived of their future. and the volcano on the caribbean island of st vincent fires up its biggest eruption yet. the violent weather has gone from florida b. you can see it going it's this massive thunderstorms in the tail end of a cold front which is wrapped around this system here see the arcs of cloud as the back end of a low which is drawing cold arctic air in fact across central kandor down into the

northern plains states minnesota and back to montana the cold will spread for size but it will be warmed by the sunshine never less because the difference in the cold war in the cold brings more snow to the rockies we will get development of showers further south mostly i think the biggest ones are going to be near the gulf coast not quite the same area as before however they could still be pretty vicious but that's the picture for wednesday that has jumped south once again we're going to see a repeat of potentially big showers drifting through the bahamas towards hispan yola including cuba jamaica parts of rico and of course the smaller islands quite a few showers slow moving at the moment and with the upper winds being west and east that means the ash cloud france and vincent does indeed bring ash to barbados we've seen pictures that are no doubt but the trade winds mean it'll be wettest in panama costa rica and some of the great further west as well most of mexico looks fine but the far south east could be a few big storms here. from

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welcome back you're watching hour just 0 time to recap the headlines now police in the u.s. are using tear gas to try and disperse protesters in the minneapolis area the mayor has declared a state of emergency but people are defying an 11 hour curfew tensions are growing over the police shooting of an unarmed black man. george floyd's brother as testified in the trial of former police officer during in minneapolis felonies floyd described his brother as a family man who loved his siblings and had a one of a kind relationship with his mother. japan will release more than a 1000000 tonnes of contaminated water from its ruined the fukushima nuclear plant into the sea the move comes as a decade after an earthquake triggered a meltdown on. israel's prime minister is describing iran as the greatest threat to the middle east and vowing not to let it gain nuclear capability his comments come after the apparent sabotage of iran's main nuclear facility the

iran has written to the u.n. secretary general describing it as a reckless act of terrorism which won't go unpunished herefore said reports from west jerusalem. iran says its main uranium enrichment facility was the victim on sunday of nuclear terrorism the perpetrator it says was israel the spokesperson for iran's nuclear agency was injured when he inspected the damage there will the incident happened in a place that is used for power distribution as it was a small explosion it caused part of the ceiling to collapse and to some elementary i'm scattered over the floor there was a hole there covered by these parts and it was about 7 to 8 meters deep i didn't say that and when i stepped on it i fell down citing unidentified intelligence sources the new york times reported an explosion took out the power supply setting the uranium enrichment program back but at least 9 months in my view without

a doubt if this is definitely not a coincidence and one thing you need to remember while it is. israelis the usual suspect in these events over the last few years one must be mindful that there are many opponents in many different corners to the resumption of their joint comprehensive plan of action not the least of which is from within iran itself iran is now urging the international atomic energy agency to take action saying it reserves the right to punish the perpetrators there's been no official comment from the israeli government but the media here are widely reporting this as an israeli attack it comes as the u.s. and iran are preparing to resume power low talks in vienna aimed at resuscitating the 2015 nuclear deal a deal that the israeli prime minister persuaded president trump to withdraw from and which he still vehemently opposes. a tense backdrop then to benjamin netanyahu 1st face to face meeting with a senior member of the biden administration u.s.

defense secretary lloyd austin and we both agree that iran must never possess nuclear weapons my policy as prime minister of israel is clear i will never allow iran to obtain the nuclear capability to carry out its genocidal goal of eliminating israel earlier asked into an israeli air force space with defense minister benny gantz who on like netanyahu talks of working with the americans to revive the iran nuclear deal on the incident at natanz austin didn't say much i'm aware of the reports i really don't have anything to add on that. in terms of. you know our efforts to. engage iran in the promising on the j.c.b. away of those airports will continue and i'm very obviously supportive of the president's efforts but those negotiations are now further complicated by the

natanz incident the e.u. warning against any efforts to derail diplomacy it may also have undermined iran's leverage by setting back its efforts to accelerate uranium enrichment for its part iran is insisting the damage can be quickly repaired harri force at al-jazeera west jerusalem now the e.u. is calling on the international community to act after a report found the syrian government likely used a chlorine bomb in 2018 the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons says there are reasonable grounds to believe syria's air force used a bomb on homes in the rebel held it live region injuring 12 people the government has denied using chemical weapons during the 10 years of war. the turkish and libyan governments have held their 1st high level meetings in ankara libya's prime minister travel to turkey just a few weeks after being sworn in on the agenda was increasing cooperation including

the controversial agreement over maritime borders in the mediterranean a source out of the reports from istanbul. with just 8 months before libya's planned elections the government interpol the and how much to do. the head of the neve unity government. is tasked with rebuilding libya he pointed out turkey's crucial role for libya state balloting. could now. we express our will of corporation with turkey in security rebuilding capacities based on the needs of the libyan government turkey's role in achieving a permanent ceasefire and stopping war in our country is important. both turkey's president. and libyan prime minister the babysat they want to strengthen ties especially in construction and energy production transportation and the health sector they also reiterated their commitment to the previous agreement over the

maritime borders in mediterranean. we've always regarded the mediterranean sea as a base for peace and prosperity the maritime deal which we've signed with libya in securing the national interest in the future of both countries idea rather mr de baby has also reiterated many times that disagreement serves libya's national interests. the turkish president also plans to send 150000 doses of course 1000 work seem to lead to an established pandemic or spittal in the country. our current 3 poorly are keen to broadstairs existing strong ties with so many sequels as in the country from egypt turkey and you need to greece italy and france the libyan government will need to navigate relations sadly in order to rebuild the fragile nation reference there about al-jazeera the stumble. now the united nations special envoy for yemen is urging parties involved in the water find

a diplomatic solution martin griffiths describes children who've become victims of the 6 year conflict as a lost generation more than $6000000.00 yemenis desperately need food with about 50000 close to starvation griffith's comments came before un security council members began talks aimed at ending the war. the war in yemen has lasted over 6 years. in these 6 years yemenis have increasingly and appallingly lacked access to food and medicine. more than 6 years with no basic services with restriction of movement in or around the country and over 6 years of the children of yemen being deprived of schooling and being deprived of the future generation has been lost mexico honduras and guatemala have agreed to increase the number of troops on their border as

a growing number of migrants trying to make their way to the u.s. that's according to a white house official the number of people seeking asylum in the u.s. has increased in recent months there's this spike mexico deploying more soldiers in march and honduras doing the same in january. more gas and rocks of rain down on the caribbean island of st vincent after a 2nd volcanic eruption in less than a week the explosion of last volcano is believed to be one of the largest in more than a century around $16000.00 people have been forced to leave areas around the volcano authorities say they're concerned about residents who refuse to move and harry is a program manager at n.b.c. radio he says the islands are already in desperate need of aid. because i want to distribution system depends on on as mentioned a surface water which is highly contaminated many are for want to collection systems in the upper want to share below the flanks of the volcano and in close

proximity to be affected by ash drinking want to is very much hard to come by i know there are persons who have been to the stores that were opened a few that were open today searching for bottled water pushes has been a limited supply we have gotten pledges from our regional neighbors to get bottled water to us but we don't have the time and the yet but it's a matter of us having a drink in want to particularly and fresh available want to put particularly those in the shelters and those who remain in their homes across the different zones the concern is that the the explosive eruption will continue the scientists advised that this may go on for days and go on for weeks beyond that and there may be very large explosions from time to time throwing even more into the atmosphere and the ever present threat of the caustic density currents is one of the major concerns from the limited reports we've had those ones because it's really dangerous to be

that this time we've heard of stories of farmlands pretty much been stripped to bare of leaves and all of. the things that you would normally see on a farm the structures have all been destroyed a very close to the volcano and this information is limited and it's not going to be a pretty picture when we when we get a few full view of it things now when it comes to clean. in the u.s. it's. tricity from renewable sources by 2030 so why the. fossil fuel expected to increase at the end of this month. explains. in the heart of new york since the legendary big alice once the world's largest generator of electricity its owner rise lie in power now wants to make it the cleanest by building the largest battery facility in the country here a 316 megawatt storage facility for renewable energy what are the challenges that

you face to meet this deadline in terms of c o clint plummer acknowledges it won't be easy our challenge is new york's show and it's also the country's challenge of the world's challenges how do we transition from a city that's run primarily on fossil fuels for as long as you know electricity to one that's focusing on now running on clean energy infrastructure that make people more diverse. because the batteries will replace their dirtiest carbon spewing oil and gas fired generators the ones they rely on to power new york city in high demand periods like a heat wave the plan is to connect them to wind and solar farms proposed for construction outside the city new york is attempting to wean itself off of fossil fuels at the same time it's taking another major source of carbon free electricity offline indian point nuclear power plant in 2019 this facility alone was

responsible for 13 percent of the state's power unlike fossil fuels you are emits no carbon and no small unlike knoebels like solar and wind it is not. pro nuclear power environmentalist say batteries aren't yet up to the task of replacing fossil fuels the group nuclear new york calculates it will take a wind farm larger than new york city to replace the energy generated by indian point alone the amount of electricity that it builds store the. 30 minutes of new york city's energy needs so if you think about. the amount. or solar or wind that you hypothetically feed to that battery to feed new york city. like where are you going to put it. natural gas facilities are expected to make up the difference resulting in an increase in carbon emissions in the short term still others say the switch to renewables can't wait i think we're going to be

. magic. but it's. really. and we're really on now the path may be uncertain but in new york the goal of eliminating carbon emissions at least is no longer up for debate kristen salumi al jazeera new york. let's take you through some of the headlines here in al-jazeera now police in the u.s. are using tear gas to try and disperse protesters in the minneapolis area the mayor has declared a state of emergency people are defying an 11 hour curfew tensions are growing over the police shooting of an unarmed black man she have returned to has more from washington d.c. before the curfew there was a vigil for the.