led to the french government banning the group. generation hate. part 2 of a special 2 part investigation on a. war in afghanistan was never meant to be a multi-generational undertaking. the us president joe biden says it's time to end america's forever war but promises that will not be a hasty exit from afghanistan. hello and welcome i'm peter dopping you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up oh well.

another nights of protest anger after a u.s. police officer was released on bail on a manslaughter charge for shooting an unarmed black man. the u.s. climate envoy john kerry is in shanghai it's all talks with china's leaders about reducing carbon emissions. also ahead of 5 years old and living with cancer a drug shortage in mexico is putting this boy's life and thousands of others at risk. after 20 years in afghanistan the u.s. and nato say the time has now come to end their military campaign leaders made the announcements on weapons day saying after 2 decades it no longer makes sense to keep thousands of troops in afghanistan white house correspondent kimberly halkett begins our coverage from washington. after a generation of war in afghanistan u.s.

president joe biden says it's time for american soldiers to return home we cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in afghanistan and hoping to create ideal conditions i'm now the 4th united states president to preside over american troop presence in afghanistan to republicans to democrats i will not pass this responsibility on to a 5th the withdrawal of u.s. forces begins may 1st and ends by september 11th the 20th anniversary of the attacks on new york's twin towers and the pentagon the u.s. invaded afghanistan in 2001 attacking al qaeda training camps where osama bin laden coordinated the attacks but biden says since then security threats have evolved osama bin laden was gone that was 10 years ago and my direction my team is

refining our national strategy to monitor and disrupt significant terrorist threats not only in afghanistan but anywhere they may arise and there in africa europe the middle east and elsewhere the united states has roughly 2500 soldiers in afghanistan as part of the nato alliance currently we have speaking from brussels the nato secretary general and now it's those forces will also begin drawing down may 1st we went into afghanistan together. we have adjusted over together and we all are united in leaving together who know america's longest war has been costly 2 trillion dollars more than $2300.00 american lives. why did travel to arlington national cemetery to honor those lives lost biden's decision honors the agree. for withdrawal put in place by his predecessor donald

trump both men have been criticized for ignoring pentagon advice to remain in the country the loss of the knitted daithi the u.s. presence in the coalition's presence could be a very a further destabilizing question on the ground in the region on capitol hill biden's conservative critics and some members of his own democratic party oppose the move arguing it will put u.s. and afghan lives at risk it undermines our commitment to the afghan people particularly afghan women senator jeanne shaheen said in a statement adding the biden administration must make every effort between now and september to protect the progress made the united states intends to keep a diplomatic presence in afghanistan what is less clear is just how many clint destine forces and u.s. security contractors will remain to monitor and meet future threats can really help

at al-jazeera the white house. well when the us to go to war in afghanistan its object to overthrow the taliban and to weaken since then the taliban has made something of a resurgence and become a key figure in the diplomatic talks with the united states and afghan governments but with no official ceasefire many feel the country could plunge into civil war has laura bush in miami. from the bookstore she runs in zainab drama and says the news that the u.s. will be withdrawing all its troops from afghanistan has left her with a feeling of dread. i as an afghan girl can easily study and work as the current government is in power but if the us troops leave the country and the civil war happens or if the taliban takes over i will not be able to study or work i won't even be able to go out. on the streets of the capital people have mixed feelings.

the americans have not fulfilled their responsibility to afghanistan their responsibility is to ensure a strong government the rule of law and democracy in afghanistan and ensure that people's concerns relate from terrorism drugs intervention by other countries. they failed to fulfill the promises they have made to the afghan people these forces are not useful to afghanistan because their presence has not changed the country's security situation president ashraf ghani has welcomed the move in a series of tweets he posted after speaking to the u.s. president joe biden he says afghan security forces are capable of defending their own people an official from the afghan peace negotiations team shares his optimism but in the past at least 2 years it has been our national security defense forces that has been fighting on the front line specially since february this being the.

international force on the ground the taliban who has been buying power since being overthrown by the u.s. in 2001 has welcomed the move. 'd the withdrawal of the foreign troops as our people's demand and this is something we fought for in the last 20 years this was always our objective at the end of the day the withdrawal must take place. the united nations says at least 44000 afghan civilians have been killed since the beginning of the war at least 100000 afghans have died overall but many now fear attacks by the taliban. in the previous few months rights groups say there's been a rise in targeted killings of government officials civil society leaders and journalists although president gandhi has prepared a plan to reach a political settlement with the taliban with an absence of a cease fire the biggest fear for many is that the country could plunge back into

a new civil war of the people like for a month and all those affected by almost 2 decades of conflict only time will tell how the troop pullout will affect their lives nor about somali al-jazeera. to the states another night curfews in place in parts of the u.s. state of minnesota where demonstrators have rallied for a 4th guys in response to the fatal police shooting of dante wright officers have used tear gas and flash bangs to break up the protests earlier a former police officer kim possible was charged with manslaughter over rights killing less than 20 kilometers away the murder trial for the former officer derek chervin continued on whedon's day he's accused of murdering george floyd she has the reports now from brooklyn center. there are defense called a form of forensic pathologist who argued that floyd's history of hypertension disease on drug use but it couldn't be all good conclusively but the cause of his

death was being 68 by the officer and he's he's in a situation where he's been restrained in a very stressful situation. and. then creased he's fine. reaction and that. would be considered a homicide and you put all of those together it's very difficult to say which of those is the most. i would back to and unlike the prosecution which was to prove chauvinist guilty of murder or manslaughter but the fence just has to raise a reasonable doubt in at least one juror's mind the true will is responsible for floyd's death fall even suggested that carbon monoxide from the tailpipe of the police car a drink to floyd while he was being mel torme for almost 9 and a half minutes may have been a contributory factor to his death something the prosecution seized upon did you see any here monitoring data that actually would give you getting information as to

what amount of carbon monoxide it would have been and breathing so. you know because it was not tested it was a yes or no question you haven't seen it happen i have not seen you need it the prosecution suggested file that had misled the jury about the science of this fixation pointed out that followed made money out of his medical testimony probably himself is a controversial figure he's being sued by the family of a 19 year old black man in maryland who died after being smothered by police they accused him of helping cover up police wrongdoing i was the trial continued in downtown minneapolis i'm not like case of a black man killed in a police encounter this time 16 kilometers away in the suburb of brooklyn something 20 year old dante wright was shot dead. on sunday the officer who pulled the trigger kim was tried with 2nd degree manslaughter those representing the right family ridiculed the idea of a poster had reached for her gun thinking it was

a taser when you look at the fact that you didn't know when a 26 year veteran. if she did know in 26 years the difference in sadness and weight of a gun as opposed to a taste then how was she a veteran in police how was she even on the force that long paul has been released on bail and once again hundreds of protesters gathered outside brooklyn santa police station to register their outrage at the death of another young black man needlessly as a result of police escalation that just simply did not need to happen the response from the security forces help us flash bangs and the threats of arrest insureds escalation she every time see al-jazeera brooklyn sometime minutes later. ronald sullivan is a professor of law and director of criminal justice institute at harvard law school

he says the state has acted swiftly but not fast enough to ease the anger on the streets. let me be clear this this culpable negligence then storage is a homicide charge so homicide in the united states is graded so there are different gradations of homicide with the top count of homicide being intentional murder that's like you know hiding in a bush and jumping out and shooting somebody you know wanting to do it intending to do it and then the charges are graded down still homicide but the notion is that people are more or less culpable depending on what's going on inside their head so this is a lower level murder charge but still a homicide charge they immediately release the body warrant cameras and they charge this officer very quickly normally it takes a long time before the state will charge an officer what we're seeing on the screen

now is people are just simply fed up with the way in which black bodies are treated in the united states and the back to back to back homicides unarmed black people this was just i think another straw that broke the camel's back so you're seeing a lot of frustration but i think that show for the state is being fairly transparent with what they're doing and i think if they keep it up that will cool down the temperature a little bit. still ahead here on al-jazeera the corporate coalition taking a stance against laws restricting voting rights in the united states. the government promises justice for the victims of a fire school in egypt. it's

time for the perfect gentleman who went sponsored point qatar airways 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 reacts or central side you know it's quite sherry there's probably thunderstorms to be honest for the most part the sun is warming things up jerusalem's up to 28 for example ankara just on the edge of near wintry weather still in 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 this particular truth 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 c.-k. towns of 25 but that is both average and possibly get to sus day you could have got the heat out about 32 degrees beyond that is a mostly sunny picture the seasonal rains go a long way north i go to cooling down to madagascar. the. support cutoff at ways. i like of us in the south of india to find out how a tiny bass in this cave brought an extensive mining operation to a standstill coronavirus how he wept across the world with devastating impact and it's widely believed to be connected to the legal wildlife trade here in vietnam we believe that a rescue center for some of the world's most threatened animals and join the call for an end to the global wild wild hearing are thrives on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. and nato say that after 20 years in afghanistan the ending their military campaign in a speech at the white house joe biden announced all troops in afghanistan will be withdrawn by september the 11th. protesters and the police are facing off in the u.s. state of minnesota for a 4th night of the fatal police shooting of dawn to write an 8 hour curfew is now in effect in brooklyn center earlier the officer came potter was charged with manslaughter. also in minnesota the defense continued to make its case in the murder trial of the former police officer derek jovan

a retired pathologist has testified george floyd died because of multiple factors including preexisting heart conditions. the u.s. climate envoy john kerry is in shanghai to hold talks with chinese leaders is the 1st visit by a senior member of the biden ministration china's pledge to become carbon neutral by 2060 or the u.s. is expected to announce a new target for reducing emissions ben herskovitz is a research fellow in the school of regulation and global governance at the australian national university he says despite strained relations between washington and beijing they could find common ground on climate change. he comes with the imprimatur of authority of the bottom administration i also is quite a lot street is figure who had senior positions in the obama administration and has a lot of stature in beijing so it he would get seen your audience he will be welcomed there also be a lot of positive op tics around this visit because unlike

a whole host of really contentious issues in the china u.s. relationship climate change is one of those few bright spots where there is an alignment of interests and goals between washington and beijing so this is a significant visit it's the 1st seen. by ministration officials visit through beijing which is significant all in of itself after some very fractious meetings of way but i think we need to tamp down our optimism about this on a couple of fronts the 1st is that this meeting is essentially an effort to ensure that president biden's climate summit later this month gets up and is a success i suspect that in washington they're worried about whether she will be willing to be involved in that summit and whether there will be a positive chinese contribution to that summit and then the other key issue here is that even though climate change is one of the few issues where there is an alignment of u.s.

and chinese interests it sits in the foreground and in the background we have a whole host of incredibly 4 incredibly contentious issues and none of that is going away any time certain people on the caribbean island of st vincent are being warned to keep well away from a full kaino that still erupting flows of rock n hot smoking ash it destroyed crops and affected water supplies much of the island is covered in the thick layer of ash since the eruption began almost a week ago now more than 16000 residents have already fled. just and sure enough nobody entered the red zone because very hazardous. there are checkpoints at the monte young however we would actually iraq to ensure that force rules were in the red zone try to get to ensure that they get to the red zone and in the meantime or prevent imports from coming into the red sea. if the rebels in yemen say they've launched an attack using drones and missiles on the southern

saudi city of jism they say caused a fire at one target belonging to the oil giant aramco saudi arabia hasn't confirmed the claim but earlier state t.v. did say if a list of missile into explosive laden drones have been intercepted. the u.n. says women have been subjected to sexual violence in ethiopia's more than breach in the tick rate the conflict began in november when ethiopian soldiers launched an offensive against the regional government the un security council is due to hold a meeting on the conflict on thursday our diplomatic editor james bays has more now from the un. the current president of the un security council the ambassador of vietnam confirmed to me that the council have a meeting on to grab it follows a discussion they have over lunch with the secretary general of the united nations and the subject was raised during a security council meeting about sexual violence in conflict zones in the rebuilding mountainous regions of north and central to great we men and girls are

being subjected to sexual violence with a level that's beyond comprehension. ok we're ok documenting the new cases of rape and then rebuilding the spike there for your replies there and that's all but movement. and community mean operation we as a council must address. force military aspects. and reports of sexual. and refugee camps other nations it is the us that's called this latest meeting it's now almost 6 months since the start of the ethiopian military operation in that time the security council has been absolutely silent they haven't managed to agree a single statement on the subject. at least 20 children have died in a fire at a school in new jail officials say the pupils aged between 7 and 13 were trapped in

straw hot classrooms when the blaze broke out in the capital in the army the cause of the fire is now being investigated the prime minister promised to punish those responsible if it was started deliberately. as him to do this in the community if the file was criminal be assured we will find the perpetrators m we would do everything to ensure they receive a maximum sentence because this is not acceptable i don't the eve of ramadan to lose such young children is really sad and i expressed my condolences to the families of ukraine's defense minister has warned russia is preparing to store nuclear weapons in crimea and requested diplomatic help from the european union at an emergency nato meeting which discussed russia's increased military activity along the border with ukraine and smith has more now from moscow. russia's defense minister sergei show you says 2 armies and 3 airborne units have been successfully deployed to the western borders of russia those are the borders with ukraine he

says there are military exercises and those exercises will continue for another 2 weeks if there ever was any real threat of some sort of russian incursion into ukraine that has been significantly diminished by the phone call made on tuesday night from joe biden to vladimir putin in which president biden offered president putin to meet at a summit meeting later on in the year that is being viewed here in moscow as washington blinking 1st in the standoff over the ukraine it's called a very important step according to the chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the upper house of russia's parliament and the kremlin spokesman says the offer of a summit will be started although vladimir putin is out already cold finland's president finland hosted the last summit in 28 teen between russia and the u.s. that was between president donald trump and vitamin puts. armenia's prime minister says he'll resign later this month to allow snap elections nichole pasha has faced

growing calls to step done since armenia was defeated in last year's war with azerbaijan the country lost parts of the disputed i'm going to cut about the territory of which it has controlled more than 25 years the fight over voting rights in the us is being backed by some of the world's most powerful corporations amazon google and general motors are among the companies calling on states to stop making it harder for people to cast their ballots and agalloch the reports from miami. casting a ballot in the u.s. isn't shrine does both a right and a privilege one activists across the country say is under attack last month georgia republicans passed a sweeping bill that imposed new idea requirements reduces the use of drop boxes and bans mobile voting vans laws that are now being challenged in the courts and by local leaders that is terroristic legislation that is

legislation that is laser focused on. taking the brown and black voter. out calm down the backlash from what many see as laws making it harder for communities of color to vote was immediate big corporations in the state spoke out against voter suppression but with similar legislation being proposed in more than 40 states the coalition of big businesses has grown the number of companies now numbers in the hundreds part of the statement reading voting is the lifeblood of our democracy and we call upon all americans to join us in taking a nonpartisan stand for this most basic and fundamental right to all americans legal experts say their stance is an important political shift but i do think what we're seeing is potentially a longer term realignment where corporate interests law i may no longer be. so strong with the republican party and conservatives so that's

a that's the space i think we're going to have to watch in the coming months and years republicans say the new laws are aimed at making elections more secure and corporations shouldn't get involved there's nothing about what the georgia law does that by any objective standards all my complaint about the the c.e.o.'s. a riddle down bill politically pivotal states like arizona texas and michigan proposing laws similar to those passed in georgia critics say it's a reaction to former president trump's false claims he lost because of widespread voter fraud here in florida too there are moves to restrict mail in ballots and make it illegal to hand out water to voters this is now an all out battle with big business caught in the middle what began in the neighboring state of georgia and now looks set to spread across the entire nation at stake the right to vote and shape the destiny of an increasingly divided nation on the gallacher al-jazeera

miami florida. the coronavirus pandemic is exacerbate seeing a medical supply crisis in mexico health experts say is putting stuff of lives at risk including children manuel republic reports now from mexico city. 5 year old adam is sort of has been battling cancer for almost 3 years his mother pi's says a nationwide shortage of medicine has made it difficult to guarantee timely access to his medication yes when they are you arrive one day for the chemotherapy and it turns out there's no medicine they tell you to go back home and come back tomorrow to see if they restocked unfortunately enemas is case is far from isolated in mexico. dr marcus about that says the messages she received from colleagues in other parts of the country are heart wrenching she received one text that reads patients are dying like flies because we don't have anything to treat them in

a moment then added to their families at the net the moment we run out of medications things become complicated i say this as a doctor and i can speak on behalf of many of my colleagues because we've been the ones who've had to show face on behalf of government authorities you know so just legal experts say that while medicine shortages. not a new phenomenon in mexico the problem was made worse after mexico's president nationalized the country's drug purchasing agency for his part president lopez over the top has promised to and drug shortages adding that the decision to centralize drug purchases was aimed at reducing corruption by big pharmaceutical companies by the health observers say that with the corona virus outbreak drug shortages have only grown and so have protests and lawsuits demanding access to lifesaving medicine and at the end whatever the length of those mean this in a way september $29000.00 was when parents 1st protested outside the health

ministry because of a lack of chemotherapy sexual diversity groups also demonstrated against a lack of hiv treatments and some parents have gone beyond protesting last year load in a 2 year old son evan lost his battle with cancer due to a lack of medical treatments she has since sued the government and accuse the mexican president of murder i am speaking out and will continue to so that more parents will speak out and not stay silent another president cannot give me back my son but i at least want to avoid one more child missing a single chemotherapy sishen and medical treatment. earlier this year doctors told us that her son's cancer was in remission but recently discovered a new tumor and at mrs side she says the thought of dealing with drug shortages has multiplied her worries it's estimated that more than 1600 child cancer patients died in 2020 alone with some health experts suggesting

a direct link to drug shortages across the country. al-jazeera mexico city. south africa's drugs regulate says a local study on the johnson and johnson covert 19 vaccine showed no major safety concerns but it still decided to suspend the jobs use over concerns raised in the us that it could be linked to blood clots and single was the only vaccine being administered in south africa that does have other doses on order from pfizer. just gone for 30 g.m.t. i'm peter davi here in doha let's update your top stories for you the u.s. and nato say after 20 years in afghanistan they're ending their military campaign in a speech to the white house the u.s. president joe biden announced all troops in afghanistan will be withdrawn by september the 11th protesters and the police having a face off in the u.s. .