al-jazeera. this is. the. police used tear gas to try to disperse crowds gathered for a night demanding justice for the shooting an unarmed black man in minnesota. hello there i'm a saucy attain this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a defense witness says the policeman accused of killing george freud was justified

in kneeling on his neck some of the 9 minutes. president biden is expected to announce that u.s. troops will now pull out of afghanistan by september 11th going against a deadline agreed with the taliban. on the long road to recovery the beleaguered forecast for people living in the shadow of a caribbean volcano still erupting. but we begin in the u.s. state of minnesota where an 8 hour curfew has just come into force there's a tense standoff there between protesters and police in brooklyn center after demonstrators gathered there for a 3rd night of the fatal police shooting of dante riot police have been using flash bangs and tear gas to try to disperse those crowds who have gathered around one of the city's precincts they have declared an unlawful assembly sunday's shooting has already led to the resignations of the police chief as well as the officer who shot

bryant to cheering a traffic stop it said that she mistook a gun for her taser. well it is now just after 10 o'clock at night then now and our correspondent allan fishes outside the police station in brooklyn center minnesota i don't know where they've been asking people to specify some time now but are they actually going home. by the few has actually started not in the still lots of people over on the street hundreds gathered here certainly there was a very peaceful protest earlier this evening they gathered for a vigil and a march in remembrance of all done to right people make speeches and they walked and people seem to be gathering but in a very peaceful way then the police to clear is that it was an unlawful assembly and started to move and you can see just appear to be police lines just beyond that just within the headlights are there's

a large number of police and they're moving people out of the street away from the shooting out no i'm not but entirely sure what they're going to show to but they move to have people along the street or we've from the police station just street donut line in front of me where you can see the lights there's been a line of police officers and national guard there for some considerable time it would appear that the police tactics are working they're trying to bring people into smaller groups and as the getting smaller groups then they start to drift away now have no idea what's going on the other side of these buildings and that's where the largest part of the crowd was directed certainly when the police moved in and they started firing flash bangs and particularly tear gas we moved here in this direction and you can still smell the tear gas that is hanging in the year that the police are hoping there wouldn't be i thought night of protest that's because they thought the emotional temperature had been dropped by the fact that the police chief resigned also the officer who fired the shot a 26 year veteran of the police service she also resigned and the city center

manager was fired all of that in the last 24 hours but many of the. people who are here and that come from some considerable distance not just minneapolis and which is about 20 kilometers away and also from brooklyn center themselves but some people have driven 3040 minutes to get here to make their voices heritage they said the reason that they were here was because this happens far too often that almost every year there is a protest of this kind and nothing seems to change and so while the police are hoping that people will drift away many of those that we spoke to said that they will be here every night until they see some sort of structural change isn't just about the resignation of the police chief or the police officer who may well face manslaughter charges after shooting dawn to write. about structural change for the police just a reminder of what happened on sunday there was a traffic stop at the police moved in to rest until right at the police officer

drew a weapon she thought she was drawing her teaser she claims she had a gun in her hand she fired a shot she did show she deployed a weapon but she actually fired gun and shot down to right chest and killed him and already the coroner has ruled that that's homicide that means death at the hands of someone else it's not a legal judgment but you can see that for the night and or all those things have quite done and come down in the last 1015 minutes or so there are still a lot of people on the streets still an incredible number of police on the street a lot more than there was it has been a better only called night with snow on and off for the evening but people are still on the streets and that's the they will stay here all night if they have to you know eventually they will drift away that's just the nature of these things but you can see that the anger in the community here is not dissipating even with those resignations they want to see something more significant something more substantial

and you can hear the police helicopter in the year and we've seen. people here threw bottles and stewards of police cars as the driven by but i have got to see that 1st of all there was a few fireworks directed towards the police but nothing that was hitting the police lines then the police declared this i don't know for the assembly that's when we started to see the tear gas being fired and the police moving it in right here in significant numbers so i thought night of violence is i see the curfew no fight but it's all here in brooklyn center alan fischer there on the ground for us in brooklyn center in minnesota thank you so much allen and do stay safe while meanwhile u.s. president joe biden has condemned that shooting and says there must be a full investigation you know it's not a right it is a mystery. caught up. surely the result is dad. in the midst of an ongoing trial of the killing of george borjas not only was

what's happened based on what berg though it would not be fair. and his vice president come on harris says law enforcement must be held to the highest standards of accountability she said dante wright should be alive today folks will keep on dying if we don't fully address racial injustice and inequities in our country from implicit bias to broken systems well let's not bring in you who are williams he's the founding director of the racial justice initiative at the university of san thomas he joins us now from some pull your attentions obviously high there in minnesota office apostle who shot mr rice as i was saying it been with the force the 26 years i believe she was even the president of a police union now the police are maintaining it was an accident obviously there will be an investigation also the resignations all issues potentially being conflated hit. not really i think this is part of the problem and it's been central to this discussion in minneapolis st paul 'd in minnesota in the nation about

police training about the power of the police union and ultimately about the ability to hold police officers accountable when they deploy deadly force particularly against persons of color african-americans latinos in situations like this and we're talking there about accountability this is all obviously happening this than 20 k.m.'s s. from the courthouse where derek 7 a standing trial there were those global prizes that we saw after his death a kohls for police reform what's changed since that if anything at all there's been a lot more discussion in particularly here in minneapolis st paul a lot of talk around this idea of defund the police can we take some of the resources that are allocated toward policing in reassign those to meet some of the critical needs in communities of color where issues of housing lack of education health care in other disparities help to drive up poverty and create conditions that lead to some of the problems that we so see it with over policing but the

reality is those conversations are are fairly premature and we haven't seen much reform here in the twin cities beyond conversations about the fund to police and some minor changes but no substantive changes that activists are really talking about oh we did see a host of police witnesses right take the stand for the prosecution against 7 last week that breaking of the so-called blue wall how significant is that in the eyes of the people who are calling for peaceful. not terribly significant in the sense there are those who see that as important because of course that doesn't happen often but in this particular case as people are concerned about the potential for a replay of last summer rioting and looting and other violence in the twin cities some have argued that that stand on the part of the police is basically throwing off 6 children under the bus to try to avoid implication that the department as a whole needs further reform and while i don't buy that i think chief down to what

others were very clear about their distain for what they saw in that footage in the treatment of george floyd that is one of the arguments that's been made by activists here it's not really the crumbling of the blue law blue wall but the recognition at least in this moment that they don't want to be associated with dear dear children well as you say you heard the protests have 10 violence at times and over the last few days people say seem to sing even president biden calling for that to stop is the message potentially getting don you said all potentially even damaged by the end of that we're seeing. what and that's the difficult part over watching that play out this year as your correspondent captured there are really 2 pockets of protesters there are those who are engaged in nonviolent direct action protests who are not confronting the police who are adopting nonviolent stance and essentially using civil disobedience is a means to amplify their voices around the need for

a change in your area of criminal justice and then there are those who are engaged in much more direct confrontational actions with the police that they will in the water bottles of course you mention the looting and it's really hard to disentangle the 2 what happens unfortunately for the nonviolent protesters is that they're grouped together with those that are engaged in looting and then of course that obscures the message around why all this is happening in the 1st place and that's yet another dead person of color dead african-american at the hands of police only who it sounds like you alluded to earlier that the issue isn't just police reform but really the way that different communities of color are treated and perceived not only by offices but but also society more broadly how do we even begin to look at reform when none of that's been addressed. it's a great question and i think what it involves is a conversation in the united states in particular of how we deal with issues of

economic social and political disparities that ultimately inform systemic racism in our larger society and culture we've seen this with regard to voting in this country we can talk about what's happening in georgia now we've seen it with hope disparities in a response to covert 19 and the most visible for most people is what happens with criminal justice it's hard for any of us to deny what we see in the video associated with the killing of mr wright and of course the killing of george floyd last summer but the reality is that these are deep structural issues within american society and culture that really have to be addressed otherwise the police reform that everyone's talking about will be for naught if you don't deal with those other structural issues you heard that the founding director of the racial justice initiative at university said thomas great to get your thoughts and insights here on out is there thanks for being with us here thanks for having me.

i am. now returning to the floyd trial and a use of force expert has testified that derrick's ivan was justified in penning george floyd to the ground for more than 9 minutes during an arrest austria it was a fast day of defense testimony in the form of police officers not a trial in the us city of minneapolis and john hendren as that. thank you the defense opened its case by putting george floyd on trial turning the court's attention from former police officer derek show to the man he's accused of murder. 'd 'd us the defense theory is that floyd died of heart trouble in a drug overdose to support that show vns lawyers called a police officer and a paramedic who testified that floyd took opioid pills when he was arrested in a separate 2019 encounter prosecutor aaron eldridge fired back mr flame dr denbigh you are interacting with a cracked. no thank you for. the floyd family calls the attacks on him

character assassination of a dead man police solve the killing and we have been murdered at a rate that i. can imagine if the time. and that time is now media you are ok sweep this under the rug anymore. and we will fight but just as family hoping to link the 2 arrests the defense then showed police body camera footage from the fateful day of may 25th to hill was in the car with floyd when police 1st arrived is. spent on the defense's star witness of the day. george floyd's neck for 9 and a half minutes. thing wrong. in your opinion was this the use of deadly force it was not. i felt that officer showbiz interactions of mr floyd

were following his training. following current practices in policing and were objecting to the recent prosecutor steve slicer push back noting children held floyd down long after he had not only stopped resisting but was apparently dead did you hear some point in your review officer king say that he couldn't find a pos yes. all of this would have been known to a reasonable officer in the defendant's decision correct yes and the defendant's position is and was and remains as we see here at this moment at this time in this clip on top of mr floyd on the street isn't that right yes. i have nothing further with the defense expected to wrap up its testimony this week one big unanswered question is whether show been himself will take the stand john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis well to other wild news that the u.s.

will take more than 4 months longer than an agreed deadline with the taliban to pull its troops out of afghanistan u.s. government officials have indicated that president joe biden will withdraw all of them by september the 11th that's also the 20th anniversary of the 911 attacks mike hanna reports now from washington it's being america's longest running war u.s. troops with those deployed in afghanistan 20 years ago following the attacks on september the 11th now it will be said it's a date by which the withdrawal will be concluded the president has been consistent in his view that there is not a military solution to afghanistan that we have been there for far too long that has been his view for some time this means president biden is pushing back that deadline up the 1st of may set by it's pretty decisive donald trump last year. it's a timeline which a number of pentagon officials are believed to have argued against reaction in

congress has been mixed the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell describing the withdrawal as a grave mistake a view shared in the statement by the ranking member of the house armed services committee mike rogers who says i am concerned that the president is so desperate to get a deal done that he is willing to capitulate rather than insist u.s. strategic objectives are met success but there's also significant support for the withdrawal the senate foreign relations committee member chris murphy issued the statement after 20 years it's clear that our continued military presence will not deliver political stability to the country and the afghan people must decide their own future in coordination with our allies and partners as vice president joe biden argued strongly against the u.s. military presence in afghanistan but was overruled them by barack obama but now as president he'll have his way a complete withdrawal of u.s.

forces with no conditions attached mike hanna al jazeera washington. well still ahead here on al-jazeera russia is that to end a military buildup on its border with ukraine cause a threat of war. when we look at argentina's double dynamic go back into lockdown and see the economy some even further or let cases keep on rising. winter is not finished with north america these arcs of cloud here are in arctic air actually they're bringing snow and wintry temperatures if you like from the central part of canada into the northern plains of the u.s. that cold air coming always through iowa and eventually we're going to get the cold war meeting up in the southern states snow will fall in montana and then towards

colorado it's going to keep going if not in harms is next to so but the big thunderstorms the result of these 2 meetings will be along the southern coast once again possibly florida on their way out during service today so seas not quite change there now just on the bit further east into the caribbean to show you what we normally expect the trade winds which temporarily here into the southeast gerry's be come from the east and we get big shows whenever you get this cold air coming up the u.s. so that's what's happening in the leeward islands less so press record has been euro so surface wind from barbados towards st vincent clouds so a long way up the clouds going in that direction that's why but from the volcano and some vincent the ash is being taken east was 2 balls barbados and there are the plumes in the last day or so big ones raining ash down on the outer barbados.

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hour police have used tear gas to try to disperse protesters in brooklyn some to minnesota demonstrators have been rallying there for a nice against the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man on sunday the police chief and the officer who shot dante wright have both resigned. and use of force expert has testified at the trial of derek show been to the police officer was justified in pinning george floyd to the ground because there was a frantic resistance it contradicts the testimonies of top police officials who said that show even used excessive unjustified force in the us city of many employments. u.s. president joe biden has reportedly decided to withdraw all remaining u.s. troops from afghanistan by september 11th that means the u.s. will miss the deadline of may fast that was set by the trumpet ministration. now russia is being urged to deescalate border tensions with ukraine u.s. president joe biden has proposed a summit in the coming months with president out of

a person but russia has already rejected nature's call to end a military buildup on ukraine's border and talked about the reports now from paris . unjustified and unexplained was how the head of nato described russia's buildup of troops on its border with ukraine after a meeting with ukraine's foreign minister in brussels russia must end this military buildup in and around ukraine stop its provocations on the escalate immediately. russia has deployed naval ships heavy armor and tens of thousands of troops in recent weeks violence is risen between russian backed separatists and ukrainian forces in ukraine's east ukraine's foreign minister said nato must respond to what he called a threat of war by gathering today we try to avoid the mistake that was made in 2014 when russia was ready to act swiftly and pursue its military

goals in crimea and gone bust while our western partners were considering their reactions to what was happening on the ground. russia will not be able to catch anyone by surprise anymore we could label also discuss the situation with the us secretary of state was on a 3 day visit to proselyte the us will station an extra 500 troops in germany we're seeing unfortunately. record take a very provocative act want to have right without. the largest concentration of russian forces on prince ordered since 24 team kremlin officials say the troops are on a training exercise and that ukraine has been acting provocatively some analysts say vladimir putin is less interested in conflict than in challenging washington what we have seen over the last few months is a breakdown of the u.s. russia and relation seems that by going to mr asian. power and i

think putin is basic you trying to die and he's testing be by going to be sufficient to see how far i'd be willing to go john if they really are all on russia the white house says u.s. president biden has called russia's leader to urge a deescalation of tensions for kiev the best way to end the conflict with russia would be followed nato to follow struck its request for membership of the alliance sending a clear message to moscow the ukraine sovereignty could not be threatened natasha butler al-jazeera paris now been aeons incumbent president the tryst alone has won a 2nd 10 and the election law by violence and low versatile out early results on received 86 percent of the vote but official data also shows us just off of edible voters turned out.

now brazil senate has agreed to launch a congressional inquiry into the government's handling of the coronavirus endemic it's the most severe political consequences to date for president diable sonars approach to cover 19 he has repeatedly downplayed its impact and undermined restrictions imposed by state governments the virus has now killed more than 358000 people in brazil meanwhile argentina is reporting a record number of new cases with more than 27000 and factions confirmed just on tuesday but with millions facing difficulties putting food on the table the government is reluctant to impose more restrictions trees of our ports not from one sorry. food is a human right see this people in the center of what a sight is the government in argentina's capital to demand more government help to afghans he said represses poverty rates are on the rice and millions of people are

struggling to survive. we understand the way out is with work in the we're in a complex situation but there are resources the government will have to choose whether to continue paying for foreign do it will take care of those people that can barely make ends meet the pandemic poses a major challenge for argentina the government is already assisting over $10000000.00 people with food and cash handouts but the economy has deteriorated rapidly the country is struggling to paid for in debt and still every day around 20000 new infections are confirmed. there is an evening curfew here in the capital and access to public transport is limited but authorities are reluctant to declare another full lockdown like they did last year fearing the consequences that my come from closing the economy completely but i'm not against there's no social margin to shut down everything there are lots of people that don't eat meat if they don't work the government has fewer tools than they did last year and that's why it's

crucial that exploring the vaccination campaign they cannot focus only on restrictions because there is no support and there is need on the street even though argentina has one of the strongest public health care systems in latin america is to 2 sions and workers here are under stress they're rising factions in the past we have most of you don't want to fight this war i think in some no place out there already crowded place since the other area north of hope but i demand there have been waiting for hours to go inside an emergency room and daniel o'donnell is a construction worker and says he rushed to the hospital because he was feeling ill . my throat hurts my back hurts i have difficulty breathing i've been waiting for a while to see a doctor but experts say this is the beginning of a 2nd wave with a long winter ahead and scars resources are evaluating when is the best time to

shut down. and just want to cite us now the caribbean island of st vincent has been rocked by another eruption as activity threatens water and food supplies 16000 residents have already been forced from their homes and you've got to get reports. for decades less of free air remain dormant but late last week huge eruption sent gas and rocks spewing from its summit for the 50 kilometer this. is something the initial impact led to evacuation orders 416000 residents on monday a big a volcanic explosion made a dire situation worse those that didn't evacuate to dealing with increasing amounts of choking ash and water shortages and fear that more eruptions may come i'm not telling a lie and right now i think. because we don't know if you ever get back. now we have to suffer

a little aid from neighboring countries is slowly making its way to this island of 100000 people but the prime minister told al jazeera the road to recovery will be hard we can see we might dramatically decision how long it's going to last but this is a long haul we need to be in this condition before bob's or more but it's going to take much longer time to react when we do tend to reconstruct so far there were no reports of deaths or serious injuries from the multiple eruptions those that live close to the volcano were evacuated to scientists or signs of activity in 1000 know to an estimated 1600 people died during a violent a ruction those that remember the last eruption in 1989 and say this is worse if you looked up. there is this huge. in this. deadly drug only once and now within minutes. it would

just feel a change in the mood in the town the volcano sits on the northern part of the island away from most of the population but the threat to crops water supplies and the health of those still on the island is critical and vincents prime minister. says normal life doesn't exist and may not for some time to gallacher al-jazeera. that this is al jazeera and these are the headlines police have used tear gas and flash bangs to try to disperse protesters and brooklyn center minnesota you're watching live pictures from there now demonstrators have been rallying for a 3rd night against the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black man on sunday the police chief and the officer who shot dante right have both resigned allen said is right there on the scene.