virus lockdown in iran people in power. in pakistan's largest city climate change and water shortages and driving some residents to desperate measures it's 101 east meets the water of corruption on al-jazeera. ready. and now it is time to bring our forces home after 2 decades of war american and nato forces are expected to leave afghanistan together but they won't meet a crucial deadline. you're watching al-jazeera on live from a headquarters in doha i'm doing you know bill gates also coming up the police officer who fatally shot a black man in a minneapolis suburb during the weekend has been arrested she's being charged with

2nd degree manslaughter so malia's president signs a controversial law to extend his term by 2 years despite threats of international sanctions bernie made off the american phone and syria convicted of running the largest ponzi scheme in history has died in prison. hello thanks for joining us plans for the u.s. to withdraw its troops from afghanistan by next month are being delayed president joe biden is expected to announce in an hour that those forces will now be leaving by september the 11th under a deal signed with the taliban the troops were to pull out by may the 1st at the peak of the war in 2001 there were more than 100000 americans nearly 10000 foreign troops from 36 countries are still serving as part of a nato mission the u.s. contributes the most followed by germany and its defense minister says she'll meet

with officials from the u.s. u.k. and france to coordinate their exits a delay in the withdrawal raises questions about talks with the taliban and afghan government which are set to resume in turkey the taliban has said it won't take part until all foreign troops leave our white house correspondent kelly halkett is joining us live for more on this story we expect the president to speak on those or the next hour or so kimberly but just talk us through what's been said so far in the reaction. right as we await the president's official announcement about the withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan on the anniversary of the september 11th attacks we have had a bit more clarity given to us from the white house press secretary gents saki in just the last few moments about why the president made this decision why he is not going to sort of respect the date that was put in place by his predecessor donald trump of may 1st instead has pushed it to september 1st with the press secretary is

saying is that the belief of the president after a 3 month review of policy in the region is that the terror threat and risks to the united states have evolved in other words what the mindset was in 2001 no longer applies in 2021 a generation later they say that the threats to the united states now exist elsewhere to u.s. interests in al shabaab for example in somalia or in syria and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula so the press secretary saying that u.s. forces and intelligence services will continue to disrupt terror networks but that the threat has in her words metastasized and so they will meet that threat where it exists now in terms of afghanistan specifically she says that there will be a monitoring that there will be sort of a looking out to see if there is any threat resurgence and that will be addressed

but for now she says the u.s. president has been making it clear and will make it clear in about an hour's time that there is not an open ended timeline for the u.s. presence and footprint in afghanistan and kimberly in terms of the actual logistics any more detail on how this may take place and is it going to be a difficult time for the military. well given the small numbers now about $2500.00 that's going to be a lot easier than we saw when we had at its peak hundreds of thousands so but the infrastructure has become somewhat permanent we know that there will still be a diplomatic footprint what we don't know though and what the press secretary declined to answer when reporters pressed her just moments ago in the white house briefing is just how many contractors will remain and clint destine forces which we know were also present in the region and that we've never really had accurate numbers on so whether or not there will be

a beefing up of those numbers still remains unclear but what is clear is that the u.s. president has come to the conclusion now there's no longer should be a strong military presence and that beginning is early as may 1st we can start to see some of those troops coming home as well that should be completed by september 11th ok thank you so much kimberly hocket for that reporting from the white house. now it's day 13 of the trial of the former minneapolis police officer derek cho ven chauvinistic use of murdering george floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes in a case that triggered worldwide protests demanding racial justice the defense argues that floyd died from heart problems and a drug overdose a pathologist was among the witnesses taking the stand earlier today attorneys are expected to wrap up before the end of the week and in

a minneapolis suburb the officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man on sunday has now been arrested can potter has been charged with 2nd degree manslaughter she is well as the brooklyn center police police chief have since resigned video captured on body cameras show computer using her gun instead of her taser when trying to arrest dante right at a traffic stop there been protests for 3 and a. in a row when demonstrators ignoring curfew to demand an end to racial injustice. is covering both stories for us and joining us from minneapolis a 1st on potter the police officer that has been charged what do we know about the charges. second degree manslaughter i just looked up the minnesota statute that's when someone quote creates an unreasonable risk and consciously take chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another i think negligence is a key part of this as well it has a much room sentence of 10 years maximum fine of $20000.00 it should be said that

this is an investigation that is that we would expect to be the very early stages only happened on sunday so they could be more charges coming it should also be pointed out that it's so rare for police officers and this is happened so often in the past for yourself as you claim they used a gun instead of a taser and killed someone to actually be successfully prosecuted but we do actually have a comment from ben crump who is representing the don't see right family he says well we appreciate that the district attorney is pursuing justice we don't say no conviction you give the right family that loved one back this was no accident this was an intentional deliberate an unlawful use of force clearly a. family's lawyer says this is not an accident but we know from from kim porter's boss police chief who has actually subsequently resigned that as far as he was concerned it was a complete accident she meant to reach taser instead reached a gun and shot dead down to the right and she had the trial what was the defense's

case today. it's still trying to trying to suggest that reasonable doubt in at least one juror so we've had a forensic pathologist david phyla who's been on the stand for some time now and he has laid out his case it was it was george floyd's preexisting condition was his heart disease as hypertension which which contributed to his death as well as is his drug use in addition he's sort of a new argument which we have not really before that carbon monoxide poisoning had some role to play that the exhaust tail pipe off the police car near to where george floyd was was being pinned down that may have contributed to his trouble breathing of course he would have been having trouble breathing if he was being pinned down of course we would looking forward to the cross-examination on that one and now i think is quite key he is suggesting that the science is not settled on whether the pressure to the back will lead to breathing difficulties remember this

is about reasonable doubt so he's saying look the experts don't have don't have agreement even amongst themselves sometimes about whether enormous pressure on the back will create breathing difficulties in fact the lawyer. for the defense of what points compared what he's brought up the the concept of the world series in baseball players and then when a baseball player you know when a baseball team wins they all piled on top of a baseball player it seems rather a good comparison perhaps but but that's just to look at it that you know the baseball player doesn't die seem to be the implication from that so very intriguing the other fascinating thing about this particular witness this forensic pathologist is when he was medical examiner in maryland he himself is being sued for allegedly covering up police crimes by a family of a 19 year old who was smothered to death affectively or at least allegedly smothered to death by several police officers when he was a medical examiner he cleared the police officers so it's rather intriguing we

don't quite sure that that's going to be admissible as evidence because he's currently being sued that no case isn't over yet ok she had thank you so much for that update from minneapolis. south africa says a local study on the johnson and johnson co in 1000 vaccine showed no major safety concerns and yet it has decided to suspend its use over issues raised in the us that it could be linked to blood clots the single those vaccine was the only one being administered but it does have other doses on order from pfizer helen reese is a member of south africa's ministerial advisory committee on cove in 1000 she says the pause is a matter of precaution. in the south african setting where we live in this 300000 doses we haven't seen this rare condition but because this has been seen in the united states and they're evaluating it now it was thought wise that we just put a temporary hold while the u.s.

has more investigation we don't know globally nobody can say at the moment whether this is what's called called causal i.e. is it the vaccine that's causing this rare condition or is it other factors that pertain to the individual that might have contributed to this condition such as smoking for example now we're going to be rolling it up to millions of people and if you see a rare side effect it might be real it might be associated with vaccine but it might just be that once you roll things out to millions of people such conditions will occur that's life and that's nature and that's people's health so you need to be able to differentiate whether this is just a coincidence and not causal or whether it really is associated with the vaccine so so that's what's being looked at at the moment but i think that what the f.d.a. has said is that they're being ultra cautious i think many regulators i'm i'm i

chair the regulator for richie here in south africans while we're being very cautious about safety signals and evaluating them that's good news that is reassuring for the public on the other hand as you say it's confusing for the public because they say go go go no go that is computing we need to be able to be a short one. india's health care system is struggling to deal with a dramatic rise in coronavirus cases there were more than 180000 new infections and a 1000 deaths on tuesday tough new restrictions are coming into effect in the worst that states. are in their correspondent elizabeth parata reports from new delhi. a long line of ambulances outside a covert byington hospital in the state of inside a patients struggling to breathe and waiting for a bed to become available good roth is one of many states but the hospitals are overcrowded and they don't have enough equipment or health care workers to deal with the current caseload. the ambulances bring in the patients who are on oxygen

supply some of them are critical and they are admitted forced as soon as the beds with ventilators are available the patients who are on oxygen supplies to the venturi masks are given that in 108 ambulances. as patients wait for beds the families of the dead mourn for their loved ones nowhere is the situation as bad as in the state of maharashtra where migrant workers crowded bus and train terminals after more restrictions were announced the closing down of all but essential services has seen many daily wage earners lose their jobs they want to travel to their home states afraid the government might shut down public transport as it did last year. but it's the common man who suffers the most i've come here from with that i have no russian card or any of the local documents all the doors were local and i would ration card will get groceries outsiders don't get anything at all hobble migrant workers feed themselves that's why they're leaving for their

villages. state's leader has said he had no choice but to impose the restrictions but that this disease is spreading at a very horrifying base i say horrifying because today's number of positive cases in the state is the highest so far. as $125000000.00 people will only be allowed to go out for work and shop placentia supplies including groceries and medicines until the end of april as india witnesses the world's biggest surge in cases the health ministry says it will pass track emergency approvals for the pfizer that montana and johnson and johnson vaccines that's amid continuing reports of taxing shortages in the country which produces 60 percent of all the vaccines in the world elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi still ahead on al-jazeera $100.00 days to go until the opening ceremony it will be tokyo olympic games go ahead as planned with rising coronavirus

cases a celebrate tory mood in jerusalem on the 1st night of ramadan as its old city bus thanks to cope with 90 restrictions. the atmosphere is a bit restless in spring quite often the shamar when this when the blood on the gulf is increasing little bit it will make little difference to how things feel i think for the most part little bit less humid in doha for example there's the wind kills inland it tends to induce more showers in the mountains of western society in yemen and they may well start to form around medina even reactor central side you know it's quite sherry there's probably sons told to be on this for the most part the sun is warming things up jerusalem's up to 28 for example anchorage just on the edge of new wintry weather eastern europe is up to 17 degrees at least and we see

little difference what time we get to saturday just a lucky increase in the showers in central saudi. this is something you would expect to see at a cigar certainly wasn't these red areas indicate higher than average temperature is particularly true down the coast in the movie and into the northern cape of south africa wall display on the coast of libya hits a new record by several degrees as bit of a heat wave going on here hasn't reached. down to 25 but that is above average and get to suss day you could have got the heat out about 32 degrees beyond that is a mostly sunny picture of the seasonal rains got a long way north angola cooling down to madagascar. but. most people will never know what's beyond these storms. deafening silence that's 100000 forms how it feels to touch danger

every day. most people will never know what it's like to work with every breath is precious with it is not an option. but when not most people. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken says nato allies will coordinate a withdrawal of forces from afghanistan president biden is due to announce he will pull out all remaining u.s. troops by september the 11th that means pushing back

a deadline set by his predecessor donald trump. live pictures from the minneapolis courtroom because it is day 13 of the trial of the police officer derek chauvelin a pathologist is among the witnesses for the defense that had taken the stand chosen as accused of murdering george floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes. and in a minneapolis suburb the officer who shot and killed an unarmed black man on sunday has now been arrested him potter has been charged with 2nd degree manslaughter the officer as well as for a police chief have since resigned. well the u.n. and some world leaders do not support the president's decision to extend his term in office they say president mohamed out the law he for magia was undermining the peace process and stability of the country he signed into law a bill allowing him to stay despite opposition from some members of parliament his

mandate had ended in february prompting protests and calls for him to step down catherine soy has this update from neighboring kenya. a lot of somalis saying that what the president has done is problematic on so many levels so he signed this motion into the last night but ideally what's supposed to happen according to the law is that once the lower house passes such a motion they have to forward it to the upper house the senate for approval or rejection so that stage has been skipped we also have had from the speaker of the senate of the upper house who said that they would have rejected this motion anyway because it was unconstitutional there's also a lot of reactions from different quarters we've had from a correlation of opposition presidential candidates and some leaders of the federal states particularly jubal land end point land all of them saying that they reject

this decision they reject any extension of the presidential term saying that president from just wants to clean on to power we've also had from somalia's key donors the e.u. the u.s. and the u.k. all of them speaking on this in the same tone in very strongly worded statements basically saying mr president if you continue with this we are going to rethink how we do business with you it will be business as usual talking about perhaps saget it set targeted sanctions or some individual seeds to be stumbling blocks the former financier and convicted fraudster bernie made off has died aged $82.00 the us federal prison he pleaded guilty in 2009 to orchestrating the largest financial fraud in american history cheating tens of thousands of people out of billions of dollars he was given a 150 year sentence the bureau of prisons made off died of natural causes bill

black is a former federal regulator and professor of economics on law at the university of missouri kansas city he's made off victims who are often members of his own community. made up lied about everything including the size of this fund so that you can see numbers as large as 50000000000 but that involves completely phony transactions that didn't actually have a party on the other side that was being defrauded so the best guess is somewhere in the range of $17000000000.00 and it wasn't just individuals it was major charities it was major universities and such so. it had a broad impact in particular on the jewish americans because this was a pariah to what we call in criminology affinity for awd it's easier to defraud people

that you have something in common with because they're more likely to trust you bernie made off with jewish and he mostly target in fact he overwhelmingly targeted jews and indeed he went after jewish charities and incredibly famous pious jews like any of the cell a nobel prize winner that you know no one if you were jewish could believe that he would seek to defraud those kinds of people and that added of course to his ability to defraud the prime minister of same vincent has told al jazeera volcanic activity on the caribbean island could go on for months huge eruptions have blanketed the country and outside are threatening water and food supplies 16000 people have been forced from their homes and in gallons are reports. for decades less of free air remain dormant but late last week huge eruption sent gas and rocks spewing from its

summit probably 50 kilometers in this. above the summit know 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 were able to get back. now with the stuff for a look 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 when mathematical precision how long it's going to last but this is a long haul we're going to be in this condition before bob's or more but it's going to take much longer time to react really did 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 as scientists or signs of activity in 1902 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. if you 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.

haiti's foreign minister a close has been appointed as the new prime minister his predecessor joseph jew 3 designed after an increase in unrest including mass protests kidnappings and killings 2 days ago a gang kidnapped 10 people including clergy members and french citizens president has promised to do more to stop the abductions he's embroiled in a political standoff over his term limits protesters angry at the security health and economic crises have been calling for his resignation with $100.00 days to go until the opening ceremony the international olympic committee say they have no doubt that the tokyo games will take place that's despite a rise in corona virus cases in the country and polls suggesting the vast majority of japanese people want the olympics to be cancelled and they richardson reports. events to mark the $100.00 day countdown to the start of the tokyo games were

necessarily low key the city has just raised its coded 19 alert level and government experts say japan is heading into a full full wave of infections organizers though all resolute in their commitment to the event going ahead. and i had no hesitation in saying that the games will take place and they'll be the safest guides possible. all of the counter measures have been put in place to deal with that to ensure that the public place and all of the other participants are safe we can expect that emotions will run even higher because of the significance of the world being together for the 1st time in a pandemic situation there are so much expectations from the world community $11000.00 athletes will compete at the games the international olympic committee said being vaccinated isn't supreme requisite for taking part but many countries

are hoping they will be able to offer their athletes the option of getting vaccinated the athletes and the pieces are going to take the world is going to take yo so in terms of looking after the health and well being of the athletes and also giving him that confidence that they have been vaccinated going to be very important that performance in. the top 3 lay is an event designed to raise awareness and interest levels in the games that the most recent poll of japanese public opinion suggested that more than 70 percent on the event canceled or postponed and matsuyama city has just called off its like of the relay jutes arising coronavirus cases we have medical professionals here questioning why the games are going on saying it's a too big a risk despite all that it is going on it's going on because the international olympic committee lives of television revenue it must get these games on television secondly the japanese state has invested perhaps $15000000000.00 in these games prime minister suga i think is staking his claim to perhaps extending his prime

ministership are making these games successful so the japanese public cannot back off and so the games go on tokyo sold itself as a safe pair of hands when it won the right to host the games in 2013 back claim is now being tested in a way few would have thought possible and the richardson al-jazeera. muslims in occupied east jerusalem have been marking the 1st night of ramadan with prayers inside the mosque it's a very different picture from last year when covert 1000 restrictions meant to say was closed to worshippers during islam's holy month harry fossett joined the crowds . the 1st night of ramadan and drew slim's old city is bustling a year of coronavirus and the accompanying restrictions took a heavy toll on lives and livelihoods here this has the air of relief and celebration with a common destination in sight last year we were all abandoned to come to our luck some of this year 100 and we are all allowed to go hopefully until the end of the

month we can go because then a little bit last year we stayed at home they were not prey is this yet is life there are people there are sweet there is. initially the israeli vaccination campaign struggled to find take up in occupied east jerusalem but recently the vaccination numbers have been going up at the same time as coded cases have been in steep decline allowing for an ever greater reopening there's a real sense of joy of release here in the streets around the oxer mosque and that in large part is explained by the ability once again to pray during ramadan it islams 3rd holiest site but it's also about the ability to experience together with friends families neighbors this very important time of the year after a year of pandemic. last year's ramadan came at the end of the fall 1st coded lockdown with some restrictions on movement remaining in iraq so close to worshippers this time the crowds are back the mosques islamic trust is still

instructing those going for prez to wear masks and maintain distance and so far israel is allowing only $10000.00 vaccinated palestinians from the occupied west bank to enter for friday prayers nonetheless for the old city's merchants and snack vendors there is hope that after a bleak year this year of those different. we will back into war welcome to life and. this will be a month to savor every force it outta 0 occupied east jerusalem. and over again the headlines on. era the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken says nato allies will coordinate it would draw the forces from of gonna stop the president biden is due to announce he will pull out all remaining u.s. troops by september the 11th that means pushing back a deadline set by his predecessor donald trump the police officer in a mania.