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china it's all carbon emissions at a time of strained relations between the superpowers. 5 years old and living with cancer a drug shortage in mexico is facing size and people at risk. but the 20 years in afghanistan the u.s. and nato say the time has come to end their military campaign leaders made the announcement on wednesday saying after 2 decades it no longer makes sense to keep thousands of troops in the country a white house correspondent kimberly reports from washington d.c. . 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

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 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 they're in africa europe

the middle east and elsewhere the united states is 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 history together and we are united in leaving together who know america's longest war has been costly 2 trillion dollars more than $2300.00 american lives. bided traveled to arlington national cemetery to honor those lives lost biden's decision honors the agreement 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. already 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 that's appearing in filio contra footie she joins us now live from kabul with her though the picture from the u.s.

and from nato partners but how is this a 1000000 cement to withdraw foreign troops being received where you are. well you know this is an announcement here in afghanistan we've been waiting to hear for quite a while. it would be an understatement to say that basically everybody here was holding their breath to see what will president biden decided. yesterday and i have to say it's not exactly what people were expecting to hear on the ground just because for all this time everybody was talking about that condition space was droll and what we heard yesterday it's about it would roll will be on conditional we've seen. a statement from president body which was very simple very solid and he thanked the united states for what they've done in this country is that they

will the government will help or move transition towards the next phase of. this chapter and also hearing you to read it that the afghan security forces are fully prepared to defend that country now if you talk to our. there are very different ideas about what they think about this announcement there is a lot of anger a lot of disappointment a lot of them feel betrayed because they're asking why is the united states after 20 years just leaving us like this when there's no peace agreement in place and all this is how putting just as all the diplomatic efforts seem to be stalling and while some certainty has been brought us through right now we do know when foreign forces will depart there's many many other questions as to what will follow

next for afghanistan as this is the completely new chapter back to you. there live for us in kabul thank you. bill. for the 1st time since the start of the pandemic india has recorded more than 200 thousands you cases of coral and virus in a 24 hour period there break there has been getting worse day by day for weeks no it's not the 2nd worst affected country in the world by total cases and the worse by daily infection numbers for all ages say the surge has been partly fueled by super spreader events including a major hindu religious festival as well as political rallies where we can curfew in the capital new delhi has just been announced several states say their health systems are overwhelmed many reports in shortages of oxygen more in our former

india correspondent elizabeth purana she joins us now live from new delhi liz we're hearing alarming reports there of a health system under strain just give us a sense of what the covert situation is like where you are right no. where we are once again here in the kinds of reports and seeing the kinds of scenes that we did last year during the height of the 1st wave during the peak of the 1st wave and because of that we've had the state of the capital delhi chief minister arvind kejriwal announce the closing down of all morals bars restaurants bars and gyms restaurants will only be allowed to do deliveries he's also a bounced of weekend lockdown for delhi's more than $20000000.00 people where they will only be allowed to go out for work or to get essential supplies he said that there is no shortage of hospital beds in delhi but at the same time he has asked

hospitals to requisition hotels and banquet halls to add more beds for covert mine 10 patients there are 7 overstretch is already in place and the worst affected state from wednesday night it's 125000000 people. to go out hardness it's for work or to get essential supplies and we have states imposing such restrictions because there are many reports of a shortage of hospital beds model has a critical shortage of oxygen supply seeing reports pictures of long lines of ambulances with carrying patients waiting for hours outside hospitals that in. because of the shortage of unfortunately of bodies piling up outside hospitals in the state off check this go that has a disproportionately high death rate with long lines at crematorium and at burial grounds. at least given the pressures that the country is facing

is the government taking action. brings in the vents that kids become super spreader events. well at the moment religious and political gathering seem to very much be the exception to any restrictions we have india's largest state. which recorded more than 20000 cases wednesday with cases arising breath with its leader chief minutes to go to nothing is one of those who tested positive on wednesday yet they are going ahead with local council elections on thursday with 30000000 people are eligible to vote. not far from the position the state to cut and who had millions of hindu programmes gathering for the festival the core of the poem festival bathing in the ganges there's no social distancing very few mosques they were at least 1000 cases reported. all the 2 days and that

accounts for more than half of the cases in the state. despite promising that in the morning and many health officials saying that the wave that we're seeing in india right now is because of law gatherings because people weren't following close the 19 protocols he himself has been leading political rallies in the station west . which is currently where there are elections taking place and we have heard from daily wage earners who have lost their jobs because of restrictions being abolished in places like maharashtra and delhi why they are paying the price when politicians including prime minister modi himself violating code in mind guidelines kayla's 1st per annum bring us all the very latest therefore needs early thank you very much indeed. for the u.s. centers for disease control has the latest decision on the future use of the johnson and johnson code with 19 facts seen it temporarily suspended administering the shots over its possible links to blood clots the c.d.c. says it needs more time to collect information before it recommends further action

6 blood clots cases were reported among the 7000000 people in the u.s. who received the johnson and johnson vaccine. an overnight curfew is in effect in parts of the u.s. state of minnesota where protesters rallied for a 4th night in response to the fatal police shooting of don't say rights earlier former police officer kim potter was charged with manslaughter months losser overwrites killing 20 kilometers away the murder trial for former officer derek shorter and continued on witness day he's accused of murdering george floyd she returns in reports from brooklyn center. 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 officer and he says he's in

a situation where he's been restrained in a very stressful situation. and. that creased. type of reaction and that could. 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. 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 knelt on night in the hope that it's 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 if any 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 trials 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 what

a 26 year veteran if she didn't 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 male lead this lady as a result of police escalation but to simply did not need to happen the response from the security forces pepper spray flash bangs and the threats of arrest insureds escalation she every time see al-jazeera brooklyn sometime minutes later. so i had to on al-jazeera brazil's president faces an inquiry over his government's

pandemic response the number of deaths in brazil continues to soar. and the corporate coalition taking a stand against laws restricting voting rights in the united states. it's time for the perfect janet. sponsored play qatar airways. with the exception of greece everywhere in europe now is recognizing winter is as the new season spring is taking a backward step we see temperatures drop a great deal as all the air came in from the arctic now has been modified it's got spring sunshine but typically we've got temperatures into single figures from many places and just into will think is further west madrid's 16 so moscow b.c. but athens is hanging on to 20 this is the warmest bits of europe where it is cold it's snowing it's snowing in southern poland in the czech republic probably beats

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a single day 1st time around the just say the surge is partly being fueled by super spreader events including religious festivals and political rallies. and protests and police have been facing off in the u.s. state of minnesota for a 4th night over the fatal police shooting of dawn today writes an overnight curfew is no place in the suburb of brooklyn center. the u.s. and china are the world's 2 biggest polluters now climate envoy john kerry is in shanghai to meet chinese leaders the visit is to make the varmints an area of course or collaboration between the 2 is the 1st trip to china by a high ranking ministration official china wants to become carbon neutral only 2060 u.s. is also expected to announce you target for reducing emissions but really you have small. while the thought of relatively low expectations for this meeting but

it is seen as a positive step in the right direction both the u.s. and china seem to sincerely want to work closer together to fight climate change and that's crucial because these 2 countries together count for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions and china just one on its own but despite that both sides want something little different from this meeting in shanghai this week john kerry wants tighter to impose more stringent reduction targets when it comes to carbon emissions and beijing is going to be asking for washington to pledge to spend more to help developing countries transition to a new energy china is also looking at the optics of this meeting it wants to be seen as an equal to washington and it also wants to be seen by the international community as a leader in fighting climate change but at the same time they are skeptical that they'll be able to rise above the differences because the last time u.s. and chinese officials and that was in alaska at the end of march there was

a very frosty exchange between the 2 underscoring the unfriendly or even hostile nature of the bilateral relationship at the morning but john kerry has said that he's determined to separate the climate change issue from other issues over which the future i disagree such as taiwan and hong kong. brazil's supreme court is a learning a senate inquiry into the president's handling of the pandemic to go ahead. critics say he bungled brazil's response say he's being unfairly blamed monica you know reports from rio de janeiro. the pandemic is changing the demographics in rio de janeiro and 11 other large brazilian cities in recent months they've been witnessing more funerals than births yet another tragic statistic in a country that already has the world's 2nd largest school been 1000 death toll and was late to started spec's in nation campaign. from the start president

has been accused of downplaying the coronavirus and of setting a bad example by not wearing a mask nor respecting social distancing rules but on wednesday as brazil surpassed 360000 deaths by covert 19 widespread criticism of both and out of the actions took a serious turn the supreme court authorized a congressional inquiry into the brazilian president's handling of the pandemic a scene if you didn't slow the probe is a blow to both sonari because it'll put the spotlight on the government's mistakes which for many the president will have to explain why he had no national plan to fight the pandemic and why he fought the governors who try to control the asp right on their own bomb posing lockdowns or importing back saying he's. also not a reacted by saying that the crisis caused by the pandemic has turned brazil into a powder keg and blame the restrictive measures he opposed for increasing poverty

and hunger in brazil beso follicle do with them up brazil is at its limit people sasha take action i am waiting for the people to give me a son because the hunger the misery the unemployment to their. but while many in brazil slums are crying out for help and food in the hospitals doctors and nurses are at their wit's end they're running out of drugs to treat the increasing number of patients fighting for their lives in intensive care monika inaki of all just sera rio de janeiro. the coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating a medicine supply crisis in mexico health experts say is putting thousands of lives at risk including children up on the reports from mexico city. a 5 year old at mistletoe has been battling cancer for almost 3 years his mother baez 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 animists 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 the neck of the 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 into the embraer 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. beyond protesting last year loading a yell out his 2 year old son 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'm 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 was discovered a new tumor in 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. turkish diplomatic sources say the u.s. has canceled the deployment of 2 warships to the black sea there were jews who arrived this week the u.s. embassy in ankara notified turkey's foreign ministry of the decision but didn't provide a reason washington and they so have been alarmed by the buildup of russian forces near ukraine and in crimea russia's navy has started military exercises in the black sea and has warned the u.s.

to stay away from area with the rebels in yemen say they've launched an attack using drones and missiles on the southern saudi city of jesus and they say it's caused a fire at one target belonging see oil giants around co so the arabia hasn't confirmed the claim but earlier state television said a ballistic missile and 2 explosive laden drones had been intercepted. yes democrats say they're investigating the sale of $23000000000.00 worth of weapons to the united arab emirates the biden administration had approved the trump era deal after a review it includes advanced f. $35.00 aircraft armed drones and other equipments democrats overwhelmingly voted against the agreement when it was 1st raised over fears it would fuel the saudi led military campaign in yemen at the fight over voting rights in the u.s. has been backed by some of the world's most powerful corporations amazon google and

general motors are among the company's cohen states to stop making it harder for people to cast their ballots and to go to her as the reports from miami. casting a ballot in the u.s. is a 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 black voter. outcome down the backlash from what many see as laws making it harder for communities of color to vote was immediate the 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 to do ga law does that by any objective standards or 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 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. this is al jazeera here are the headlines for you now the u.s. and nato say they're ending their military campaign in afghanistan after 28 years president joe biden announced all troops in afghanistan will be withdrawn by september the 11th. or.