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of protest anger after a u.s. police officer is released on bail on a manslaughter charge for shooting an unarmed black man. the u.s. climate envoy john kerry is in shanghai to hold talks with chinese leaders about reducing carbon emissions to follows heated exchanges between both countries in alaska just a month ago. plus 5 years old and living with cancer a drug shortage in mexico is putting this boy's life and thousands of others at risk. let's get going 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 the white house correspondent kimberly

hellcat 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 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 baby 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 an overnight curfew in place in parts of the u.s. state of minnesota where demonstrators have rallied for a 4th violence in response to the fatal police shooting of dawn to write officers have used tear gas and flash bangs to break up the protests earlier former police officer kim possible was charged with manslaughter over the killing of rights less than 20 kilometers away the murder trial of the former officer derrick cho been continued on weapons day he's accused of murdering george floyd she has returned to reports from brooklyn center. there are defense called a form of forensic pathologist who argued that floyd's history of hypertension disease on drug use and it couldn't be all good conclusively but the cause of his death was being 68 by the office and he says he's in a situation where he's been restrained in

a very stressful situation. and. then creased. 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 any have 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 porter was tried with 2nd degree manslaughter those representing the right family ridiculed the idea of a porter had reached for her gun thinking it was a taser when you look at the fact that you didn't know what

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 but to simply did not need to happen the response from the security forces hapless flash bangs on the threats of arrest insureds escalation she every time see al-jazeera brooklyn sometime minutes later. 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 bike not ministration china's pledge to become carbon

neutral by 2060 while the u.s. is expected to announce a new target for reducing emissions for more let's cross to katrina you who's in shanghai 1st day katrina hi there might this be seen as a chance for both the u.s. and china to be in exactly the same place on the same page before the big event later this year. it will be and this is a significant meeting this is the highest level visit from a u.s. official since joe biden became president and john kerry is here at the invitation of beijing and he's meeting with his chinese counterparts. and it's crucial that these 2 countries work together to combat climate change because the 2 of them account for movement of the world's greenhouse gas emissions and china accounts for about one 3rd of it just on its own and both governments have made it clear that it is a piracy but will be looking for slightly different things out of this meeting this week in shanghai john kerry has made it clear that he wants to push china to impose

more stringent reduction targets on its called an emissions and china for the u.s. to pledge mourn invest more in help in developing countries transition to a new energy china also is looking very much at the optics of this meeting china wants to be seen as an equal to the u.s. it wants to be seen as a leader when it comes to combat same time climate change and this is really hoping it's going to get that from this and it seemed generally as a positive engagement but this has received in the context of the relationship which is which has been deteriorating for months if not years the last time u.s. and china officials met was in alaska at the end of march and this was a very unproductive. no breakthroughs were achieved and there was a very frosty exchange which underscored the unfriendliness or even hostile nature of the current bilateral relationship john kerry has said that one of his toss is to try to make sure that climate change is seen as a separate issue to the other issues in which both sides just agree such as taiwan

and. china as we know katrina very keen to stress the point is doing its best to go green and to move away from that reputation of being a gas guzzler being a manufacturer all for you know coming up with. global warming statistics so what needs. to kind of show that as being yes this is the direction we're heading in. china is very aware of this reputation as you mentioned and it's trying to do its best to move away from that so it's set what many of seen as quite ambitious targets in that direction so by 2060 china wants to become completely called neutral and it won't have peak called the emissions by $25.00 in the government's last 5 year plan climate change was quite essential feature of that plan and the top levels of government have off all local governments here in china to submit an agenda to peking call that emissions now

that being said we're yet to see a detailed road map as to how china intends to achieve those goals but on the whole there have been a lot of moves by beijing away from polluting heavy industries for example china has been investing a lot of its best and high tech industry it wants to become less of a manufacturer that relies on exports less of the world's factory and also they've been investing a lot the green sector particularly renewable energy such as solar power and when it comes to electric vehicles china is the biggest market for that there have been a lot of government policies encouraging not only the individual ownership of electric vehicles but also of the use of e.v.a.'s in public transport now there is a big caveat to all of this it is quite a big but and that is that the energy sector here in china makes up about 90 percent of all of the country's carbon emissions china is simply struggling to wean itself. off the use of coal and of the world's coal is here in china

and a lot of governments at the small level the provincial level are still struggling to move away from the reliance on coal in terms of their economic profits and many people. in the coal industry is in china's infrastructure is also quite rigid preventing it from transitioning to those clean energy sources so we're still waiting to see exactly if china will impose more policies to make sure that that transition to cleaner energy is is properly for the next 3 years thank you very much. from shanghai. still to come on this program the government promises justice for the victims of a fire at a school in egypt. plus the culprit coalition taking a stance against laws restricting voting rights in the united states.

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 site 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 anchorage just on the edge of near wintry weather 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 get to see a cigar certainly wasn't these red areas indicate higher than average temperature this particularly true down the coast in the movie and into the northern cape or south africa wall this space on the coast of libya hits

a new record by several degrees as bit of a heat wave going on here hasn't reached cape tangy say cape town the 25 but that is above average and by some to get assessed day you could have got the heat to about 32 degrees beyond that is a mostly sunny picture the seasonal rains a got a long way north angola cooling down to madagascar. xenophobia violent and beating the drum for an ethnic civil war in the heart of europe for a generation identity was at one time a foster's growing far right organization on the continent now watch the investigation that led to the french government banning the group. generation hate . part 2 of a special 2 part investigation on a. visit

. to. welcome back let's recap the top stories for you so far this half hour the u.s. and nato say after 20 years in afghanistan they're ending their military campaign in a speech at the white house the u.s. president joe biden announced all troops in afghanistan will be withdrawn by september the 11th. protesters and police are facing off in the u.s. state of minnesota for a 4th night over the fatal police shooting of dawn to write an overnight curfew is known in fact in brooklyn center earlier the officer composite was charged with manslaughter. the u.s. climate envoy john kerry is in shanghai to hold talks with chinese leaders china's pledge to become carbon neutral by 2060 while the u.s.

is expected to announce a new target for reducing emissions is. ok let's return to the u.s. and nato has withdrawal of troops from afghanistan america's original objective was to overthrow the taliban and al qaeda fighters but since then the taliban has become a key player in the diplomatic talks with the u.s. and the afghan government however with no official ceasefire there's always a chance the country could slip back towards a full civil war laura burton manoli has the story. 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 used for traffic against them 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. 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 and 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. has the rebels in yemen say they've launched an attack using drones and missiles on the southern saudi city of san basic cost of fire at $1.00 target belonging to the oil giant around co saudi arabia has confirmed the claim but earlier state t.v. set a ballistic missile into explosive laden drones have been intercepted. the un says women have been subjected to sexual violence in ethiopia is northern region of the great the conflict began in november when ethiopian soldiers launched an offensive against the regional government the un security council issues hold a meeting on the conflict on thursday that the massacre to james space has more now from the un. the current president of the un security council the ambassador of

vietnam confirmed to me that the council will have a meeting on to grow a 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 remailer mountainous regions of north and central to great we might influence our grievance the object of sexual by letting me be a level that would see beyond comprehension ok we're ok documenting no cases of rape and when we begin this part of the of your replies there was an attack on but movement. and community mean operation we as a council must address what are its. military abstract. and reports its actual. refugee camps other nation

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 need or official say the pupils aged between 7 and 13 were trapped in straw hot classrooms when the blaze broke out in the capital niamey the cause of the fire is now being investigated the prime minister promised to punish those responsible if it was started deliberately. if the file was criminal be assured we will find the perpetrators i'm we would do everything to ensure they receive a maximum sentence because this is not acceptable and on the eve of ramadan to lose such young children is really sad and i expressed my condolences to the families turkish diplomatic sources say the u.s.

has cancelled the deployment of 2 warships to the black sea they were due to arrive this week the u.s. embassy in ankara notified turkey's foreign ministry of the decision but didn't provide a reason russia's navy has started military exercises in the black sea and us want washington to stay away from the area. the fight over voting rights in the united states 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 and i 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 or. taking the brown and black voter. outcome 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 of where those corporate interests lie and they may no longer be. so strongly ally 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 written 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. armenia's prime minister says he'll resign later this month to allow snap elections nicole paasschen yon has faced growing calls to step done since armenia was defeated in last year's war with a bunch on the country lost part of the destruction of territory which it has controlled for more than 25 years. the coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating a medicine supply crisis in mexico health experts say is putting thousands of lives at risk including children manuel de paulo reports now from mexico city. 5 year old adam mistletoe has been battling cancer for almost 3 years his mother pies 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 are 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 there that has promised to end drug shortages adding that the decision to centralize drug purchases was aimed at reducing corruption by big pharmaceutical

companies. 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 to them but the length of those mean this in a way september 29000 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. some parents have gone beyond protesting last year load in a allowed his 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 and speaking out and will continue to so that more parents will speak out and not stay silent and now the president cannot give me back my son but i at least want to avoid one more child missing a single chemotherapy session 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. up on the al-jazeera mexico city. south africa's drugs regulates says a local study on the johnson and johnson coated 19 vaccine showed no major safety concerns but it still decided to suspend the champ's use of the concerns raised in the u.s. that it could be linked to blood clots the single dose job was the only vaccine being administered in south africa but it does have other doses onoda from pfizer people in the caribbean island of st vincent are being warned to keep well away from people kaino that still erupting the flows of rock on hot smoking ash have destroyed crops and affected water supplies much of the island is now covered in

a thick layer of ash more than 16000 people have already left the area we are just and sure enough nobody emptier the red zone because it's very hazardous. there are checkpoint at the monte young however we would be actually iraq to ensure that courcelles. were in the red zone trade to get to ensure that you get the red zone in the meantime or prevent him from coming to the ritz. updating your top stories so far today here on al-jazeera the u.s. and nato say after 20 years now afghanistan they're ending their military campaign in a speech at the white house the u.s. president joe biden announced all troops in afghanistan will be withdrawn by september the 11th protesters and police are facing off in the u.s. state of minnesota.