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bodycount footage is be released of a police officer chasing a 13 year old boy down an alley but basically shooting him as he raised his hands. capturing an unprecedented year images that one of the hard to judge just this year's world press photo competition. u.s. president joe biden has called on russia to deescalate after he imposed fresh sanctions against moscow for alleged election interference and cyber attacks and prompted warnings of retaliation from the kremlin but biden says there's still room for the 2 countries to work together now what house correspondent can be healthy with this report. there are some of the most punitive u.s. measures taken against russia in years today. expulsion.

several russian officials just days after a phone call between u.s. president joe biden and russian president vladimir putin to secure a u.s. desire for a predictable relationship the united states announces surprise russia's sanctions we cannot allow foreign power to interfere in our direct democratic process with impunity more than 30 russian entities are being targeted at least 10 russian diplomats will be expelled from the united states and some tech firms are being punished for allegedly providing support to russian intelligence the sanctions also put in place rules banning some financial dealings involving russia's sovereign debt to choke off lending and inflict economic harm we want a stable predictable relationship and russia continues interfere with our democracy i'm prepared to take further actions to respond. the white house says the sanctions are retaliation for russia's alleged aggressive actions including the occupation of

crimea interference in u.s. presidential elections and last year solar winds hack that infiltrated the computers of thousands of u.s. businesses and government agencies. the sanctions also respond to unconfirmed intelligence alleging russia offered bounties as high as $100000.00 for killing u.s. soldiers in afghanistan intelligence officials haven't confirmed the russia bounty program still the white house says we have course will not stand by and accept the targeting of our personnel by any elements including a foreign state actor this information really puts the burden on russia and the russian government to explain their engagement here earlier this week both putin and biden pledged to meet to potentially work out their differences they've agreed to a summit at a 3rd party country but so far no dates been worked out the sanctions come just days after u.s. intelligence. deferred russia as one of the most serious threats to the united

states and officials warn that sanctions may not be the only retaliation suggesting clint destine actions may still be yet to come can really help at al-jazeera the white house how did your caster joins me now live from washington d.c. for more. joe biden announced these sanctions but he's also saying officials are working on setting up a summit with proofs and what's going on there. yeah what you're hearing there can is the u.s. administration trying very hard to strike a balance in these actions that it's taken we heard president biden saying that he needed to show russia that the will of the u.s. was willing to make the russian government pay for its alleged attack on u.s. solvency but meanwhile he wants to keep the diplomatic channels open and the 1st example of that of course is this proposed summit that may happen in the coming

months somewhere in europe earlier in the day of course it was biden who signed those executive orders that do inflict some of the most severe sanctions against russia in recent times that includes economic sanctions against those 32 russian individuals and firms as well as the expulsion of 10 russian diplomats who the us say were intelligence officers working undercover as well as the clandestine unseen activities as kimberly was talking about this of course is the u.s. retaliation for what for the reports of the of the russia interference in the 2020 presidential election in that solar winds hack and trump excuse me biden president biden was quick to say that he did not want this to be seen as a surprise move by russia he detailed the phone call he had with president putin and 2 days ago in which he warned the president of russia that coming action from

the u.s. was on the horizon and he said that even in january he had vowed that the u.s. would take action if it was proven to the president that it was russia that interfered with the 2020 election and that has been the conclusion of the u.s. intelligence community and of course again president biden saying that there could be further sanctions to come against russia all right thank you for that update there how did your castro lie for us in washington d.c. . america's top diplomat is in afghanistan to reassure the government of continued u.s. support despite a full withdrawal of troops by september the secretary of state says they'll be a new push for diplomacy but there are questions over whether the country's institutions and security forces are up to the task fairly or contraflow reports from kabul. there's afghans are going about their daily lives as usual but they know afghanistan is heading for an uncertain future and many are angry the united

states failed to bring them what it promised peace but not for that was we did not see that peace in fit in security increased after they announced the peace process the security situation is very bad the shopkeepers cannot operate at night people cannot go to their home when it gets dark because they are afraid if the americans are leaving now they should leave responsibly. in an unannounced visit to kabul hours after the withdrawal announcement secretary of state anthony blinken assured afghan politicians that the united states remains committed to their country the united states will remain afghanistan steadfast partner we want the afghan people countries in the region and the international community to know that fact. it's also a very important message for the taliban to hear but with violence rising across afghanistan in the absence of a peace deal between the government and the taliban it is not clear what this

commitment will look like for the 1st time in 20 years and foreign troops leaving afghanistan will have to defend itself alone and many people are questioning whether it would suit her or the forces can do. president said afghanistan's security forces are fully capable of defending the country. and did its combat operations over 5 years ago and the afghan security forces conduct over 95 percent of all combat operations yet they still heavily reliant on u.s. airpower and are trained by nato troops when a few months will also be gone the taliban insists that the u.s. sticks to the may 1st deadline saying in a statement that if it doesn't problems will be compounded some afghans are optimistic. that the are leaving afghanistan

this is good people. good security forces are able to the country fears of a civil war and a taliban takeover are high especially among afghan women who are bori whether the gains they've made in the last 20 years will be protected i feel a little bit frightened to be honest also other women that i've spoken to today and yesterday who are leading women's activism. to congress actually today and women are very frightened they feel that they don't know what's going to be happening and there hasn't been any prime interest set on women's rights and the future of women in this country but the u.s. military says it hopes to leave afghanistan with a chance for peace and the 1st sign of this will be just days away. if it's able to convince the taliban and the government to sit at the same table at a peace summit in tokyo police are called to free our jersey or kabul. the former

policeman accused of murdering george floyd has decided not to testify their children invoked the 5th amendment the right to remain silent as the defense rested its case closing arguments in jury deliberation are expected on monday. i have advised you and we have gone back and forth on the matter would be coming to understand so those. are after the meeting. last night we had some fun discussion. and have you made a decision today whether you intend to testify or money one time to invoke your 5th amendment which. i will invoke my 5th amendment privilege today. which one hindrance been following the trial and is live for us in minneapolis john tell us more about what happened in court today and i'm also wondering if there's been any response to their children's decision not to testify.

well in day 14 since the opening arguments in that trial we've had a lemon days of prosecution witnesses 3 days of defense witnesses and now the defense has rested there you had derek chauvin a little earlier saying that he was going to invoke his prostitution all right not to testify that's because the constitution allows you not to incriminate yourself that was answering a question that has been a long anticipated in the 3 weeks of this trial now what happens is the judge is giving them a long weekend 3 days and then on monday they come back and they listen to closing arguments from each side and those arguments essentially say 2 opposing things the prosecution says that derek chauvin was not authorized to use the force that he used on george floyd and that he directly contributed to floyd's death by putting his knee on his neck the defense will argue completely differently that the whole show when used was authorized and trained by police and that. george floyd died

of a combination of basically everything else that they could throw in there. drugs in his system heart trouble previously and then he even yesterday we heard that it might have been carbon monoxide that added to his death coming out of the squad car so they'll argue that should have been didn't do it and that george for died of other causes but meanwhile minneapolis is boarding up in anticipation of what ever this ruling is fearing that possibly white have a resurgence of the kind of social unrest that happened after george floyd's death on may 25th john ok to just stay with us for a moment as we have some developments from chicago where you usually based and officials there have released body cam footage of a chicago police officer face lee shooting a 13 year old boy last month some of us will find the following footage disturbing

and we've chosen not. to show the moment of death it shows an unidentified officer running after adam to later in an alleyway in the early hours of the morning the officer is heard telling toledo to stop and to raise his hands the teenager appeared to races hands right before a shot was fired efforts to save his life with c.p.r. were successful. probably not grab the. parts for greater number of. i don't obviously as we said there we haven't shown the moment of that teenager's death but that footage has been released by all thorazine it's harrowing to watch and wonder what's the response being. it is and there's been a very very animated response in the streets of chicago adam to lay to it 13 is the

youngest person shot by chicago police in years and his family says at the time that he was shot you can see his hands up there was a gun found behind the fence behind him so the family argues that he had turned his back to the officer dropped the gun turned around and then within a 2nd of when that officer said hands up he fired. the family also argues that even if he had a gun in his hand clearly the fact that his hands were up suggests he was trying to comply with that officer now there was also a 21 year old man who was allegedly with adam to late oh he has been charged with gun charges and in danger ing a minor. lou while the streets of chicago have been filled with what has so far been peaceful protests but the city was already boarding up in anticipation of the ruling in the derek shows in case and if you combine the adam to later case the

outcome of the derek children trial and then nearby about 15 kilometers away you have the death of another black man at the hands of police that is done to a rice in brooklyn center minneapolis minnesota so all of that has really combined to raise tensions and to remove the trust that people had previously had in many cases at least in the police all right thank you for that john hendren and non-trust in minneapolis. still to come here on al-jazeera brazil's supreme court makes a final decision on overturning criminal convictions against former president lula da silva. france reports more than 100000 deaths are covered 19 coming in the world to suppose that number.

once again was time for big thunderstorms on the gulf coast and there they are with these yellow flashes lightning they were big storms they produced hail and flash flooding from the amount of rain and it's not unusual we are talking about spring weather but this unusually cold up in colorado in wyoming and that cold that snow has moved across into nebraska the cold air sinks south and we tend to get this meeting of minds of the the gulf air coming up and the cold the 2 together produce big thunderstorms a repeat performance quite likely on friday a name move east was into florida and certainly through georgia that string saturday but this time the snow has faltered but the cold distil that not as cold as it was admittedly is warming up steadily we're talking about spring sunshine after all and when these fronts leave the u.s. a can often build bigger showers for the bahamas hispania in puerto rico and that's the last from that it the line is still visible and it stretches invisibly back towards kind of our costa rica where the heaviest rain is like to be in fact mexico

is looking quite dry the temperatures in eastern mexico quite on the high side 40 in monterrey a bit early in the for the telling in south america yes there are a few showers in paragraph i maybe in the southeast of brazil but the heavier ones a lot further notice. when i enter the ring i feel on top of the world i don't want that feeling to go away when the show ends the final on court in retirement and i follow my laugh line watch the laugh line meet the form a circus performers gracefully supporting each other on the stage of life going less you got a broken bone every minute of it was beautiful witness presents off to circus on and just that's face to face show patience is still must go on.

your challenges there are reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president joe biden has called on russia to deescalate tensions to impose sanctions against moscow for alleged election interference and cyber attacks biden insists there's still room for the 2 countries to work together. to form a policeman accused of murdering georgia florida has decided not to testify show of and invoke the 5th amendment the right to remain silent as the defense rested its case closing arguments are expected on monday. officials have released body cam footage of a chicago police officer fatally shooting a 13 year old boy last month chose an unidentified officer running after adam to do

in an alleyway in the early hours of the morning the teenager appeared to raise his hands right before shots fired. stay with police shootings in the us and the police woman who fatally shot a young black man in minnesota has appeared in court for the 1st time 20 year old stunted reich's was shot on sunday after being stopped for a traffic violation police say officer composite shot right accidentally having mistakenly drawn her gun instead of a taser she's been charged with manslaughter and released on bail a day after turning into a batch the death has set off several laws about rest. ya see the difference this is a case that this is the gave birth but no money if you will kill with. ugh law

these 2 are hurting our pardon our blood has been in all we the police he didn't his name please help us to go here and get something done on a conviction something. there's a move in the u.s. to fundamentally change the supreme court democrats are looking to increase the number of justices from $9.00 to $13.00 comes off the republicans filed 3 supreme courts are filled father 3 supreme court vacancies under former president donald trump political hate has more from washington congress has done it before and congress must do it again we must expand the court a move to remake the u.s. supreme court now solidly conservative so democrats are announcing a bill to add justices to tilt the balance in their favor now this legislation wants to increase the justices to 13 from the 9 the currently sit on the bench and

there's nothing in the constitution that says they can't do that in fact congress can change the number the problem is they have to get at least 10 republicans in the senate to agree and that's not going to happen and even democrats aren't all on board it has been done before and the history of our country a long time ago and a growth of our country the size of our country the growth of our challenges in terms of the pan i'm a cetera might necessitate such a thing but. question i have no plans to bring it to the floor the bill sponsors believe that will change over time as the court comes down with the decision is destructive to a woman's right to choose as they come down with decisions destructive to to the climate as they come down with the convention with their decision is destructive of civil liberties i believe that speaker pelosi and others will. come along republicans say they will fight this the threats or the point

the hostage taking is the point i'm responsible people across the political spectrum have an absolute duty good enough for us. but it is mitch mcconnell's actions the democrats are reacting to when president barack obama announced his nominee for the supreme court about 8 months before the 2016 presidential election mcconnell blocked america arlin from getting a vote saying the voters should decide. that wasn't the case when president donald trump nominated amy kone barrett she was voted out of the court just days before the last election well this bill is unlikely to become law anytime soon the issue isn't going away president biden has appointed a commission to study the issue looking at everything from adding members or setting term limits for the justices pedicle al-jazeera at the u.s. supreme court. brazil's supreme court has confirmed its decision to end no criminal

convictions against former president alluded to silver last month the cold rolled but the note was not treated fairly in a series of corruption investigations justice common to see a reversed her earlier position to bring the court's 5 judge panel in the disfavor that is now eligible to run in next year's election against the current president. well want to have joins us now live from rio de janeiro for more monica explain to us how maajid this is and also have we heard from linda. well. it all started with one justice from the supreme court saying that moola had been tried convicted and imprisoned. by a court that had no jurisdiction over his case a court in the south of brazil and the judge there was judge's mortal the judge

that was in charge of investigating the carwash scandal that what this justice said was that moves should have been tried in brasilia of brazil's capital that does not go to say that rule is innocent it just says that he was tried in the wrong place so it's a technicality and today the supreme court ratified this decision it said that it's true he was tried in the wrong place so what this means is that he can still be tried in brasilia but it also means that he is no longer a felon therefore he can run in the 2022 presidential election and people from his party have said that. he's been vindicated it's what he have been saying all along that he was slide unfairly and also that the next year's elections contrary to the 2018 elections. will be fair elections because in 20 team he was

banned from running although he was the person that was leading all the election polls he was the favorite candidate and also not a was elected and partly because lula was not running for the election because he was unable to do so so 2022 he could run more lives than saying that he's still not talking about being a candidate because there are many problems that brazil still has to face and address and basically the pandemic which has been mishandled and there are over 360000 deaths here which makes brazil the country with the 2nd largest death toll after the united states all right thank you from the monarchy in arc of in rio de janeiro. india has reported more than 200000 new covert 19 cases that's the highest rating tally in the country style the 2nd worst affected in the

world of already looking to import oxygen levels that run dangerously low and stricter measures are being imposed as elizabeth brunt of reports from new delhi. this has become an increasingly common sight on the streets of india's capital long lines of people waiting to be tested for covert 19 the countries facing a 2nd wave with cases of rising much more rapidly than the 1st labs are overwhelmed and the waiting time for results is encreased from a maximum of 12 hours to at least $24.00 and often longer the minutes imap mutable since the past 3 days i've been running around for my report where's my report here the officials have no answers for me asking me to go from one place to another if i am ill if i am sick where should i go what am i supposed to do like many indian states of delhi has been recording its highest number of cases since the pandemic began its leader announced new restrictions for the capital's 30000000 people from

friday those cases but they got here every day cases are increasing to control the situation delhi government has taken some decisions today we had a meeting with the you can and governor of delhi and we have decided to impose a weekend curfew in the capital. and all morgues gyms and spas must close and restaurants will only be allowed to do deliveries the state wants to avoid the shortages of hospital beds oxygen supply and health care workers being seen in other places like maharashtra and. the numbers are rising and it's anybody's guess this number to stop. all kinds of activity still happening across the country will lead to. these numbers in the coming days despite the rise in cases of political and religious gatherings that can. in many places more than 3000000 hindu pilgrims have bathed in the ganges river in the town of hudud while this week for the festival and millions voted in local elections in the state of the day despite it

recorded more than 20000 new cases the day before as the suspensions of employers in some places and not others dollars have lost their livelihoods are angry many days way to the asking why all the attention for a minute there and a more i still allow to hold large rallies about they aren't allowed to earn a living elizabeth brand of al jazeera. france's coronavirus death toll has surpassed 100000 making it the 8th country to reach that number it's been struggling to contain a new hour break 1st with localized lockdowns and now with the national the country is ramping up its vaccine rollout from saturday jobs will be available for many government workers aged over 55 france has recorded more than 5000000 cases since the beginning of the damage. from the pandemic to america's racial reckoning 2020 has been

a momentous year photograph is 10 story towers who documented some of the most striking images of the past 12 months of being on it at the world press photo contest this photograph showing a nurse embracing a care home resident in brazil was selected as photo of the year it was taken by the photographer nissen earlier we spoke with madison he believes this image shows hope at a time of crisis for the world. i mean it's been substance significant yes it's a significant time in history so to receive the prize and this year specifically that it's an amazing honor its it's amazing to be able to write or or come in you like over all human history together. and i think this does speak to really trying to pay tribute and respect to to the millions of victims of the of the cockpit crisis i also photograph the cemeteries the hospitals the ambulances in personal

that where because the show is one of the countries that it's been mostly affected by this crisis very much due to the president also not who's been one and it from the very beginning so those images are important however i also think these images that is bringing in a bit more hope and that maybe is you know is kind of showing the other side of it or maybe showing a way out of it i think with an image that can show you compassion hope solidarity to read shows a way out of this crisis it at least it's it's it might be a path and that's also what i want to tell with this image that yes we are in tremendous a crisis but there's also a way out of it and that is by. protecting one another protecting the people we love protecting other people and standing together.

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