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has been released of a police officer chasing a 13 year old boy down an alley and fatally shooting him as he raised his hands. capturing and on precedented year images that one of the hogs judges this is world press photo competition. u.s. president joe biden has called on russia to deescalate to him post fresh sections against moscow for alleged election interference and cyber attacks it's prompted warnings of a retaliation from the kremlin but biden says there's still room for the 2 countries to work together and wattles correspondent can be healthy. there are some of the most punitive u.s. measures taken against russia in years today you know i've been through several steps including expulsion of 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 announced surprise that russia 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 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 identified 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 let's bring in richard wyatt's he is a security expert and analyst at wiki strata global consultancy he joins us from allington virginia thanks for your time what is all of this say to you about the u.s. strategy when it comes to russia. i think the bind administration if we take into light days thanks ins but also yesterday's phone call and some an invitation and the earlier statements measures are going to pursue this dual track policy of cooperating with russia where we can and the areas they discussed in the arms control nonproliferation cases like india north korea perhaps terrorism and

dealing with covert 19 and other biological threats and perhaps even climate change but also confront russia where it was cooperation is not possible and russia is behaving and then i'm checked in a way and this includes ukraine and includes interfering u.s. elections include cyber attacks and other measures so i see a balance trying to nudge russia towards cooperation but preparing to hedge against possible conflict how bending think russia might respond. well the u.s. has an asymmetrical advantage it can impose sanctions on russian energy russian finances the russian currency and russia really can't retaliate in kind the russian economy is more dependent on the u.s. dollar and u.s. national institutions and vice versa so i think what they will probably do is retaliate with the diplomatic expulsions where expelling 10 russian officials from

the united states i think they will reciprocate with that there may be other measures but they won't be nearly as effective how much of a real world impact do you think the sanctions will actually have on russia. that's the great question and the challenge the united states not their countries of space is that when it comes to these kind of behaviors it's not clear that we're putting a knot of a negative balance so when the russian policymakers calculate whether to do something whether they still think the gains outweigh the costs that seems to be the case the hope is that the u.s. will nudge them more towards avoiding further cost yes the sanctions leave open a lot of potential for escalation but my my general thinking is the relationship is going to be main very poor very troubled for several years at least and probably not until there's a change of government in moscow all right thank you for that for your analysis there richard wants there

a security expert an analyst thank you. the face of former minneapolis police officer doubt shall have and will soon lie in the hands of a jury his defense lawyers rested their case on thursday arguing chosen should not be convicted of murdering told floyd john hendren has our story from minneapolis. your honor at this time the defense rests with that testimony ended in one of the most highly charged u.s. civil rights trials in decades i have repeatedly advised you that this is your decision your decisional mom i wrecked. the defendant former police officer derek chauvin will not testify i will invoke my 5th amendment privilege today that ended weeks of speculation on whether chauvin would take this stand which would have opened him up for aggressive questioning from prosecutors now after a long weekend the lawyers will go before the jury once more for closing arguments on monday then the jury will be sequestered that is isolated until they render

a verdict that could take days weeks or even months the judge said when packing hope for short plan for long. over the 1st 11 days the prosecution presented a damning case with medical experts in this case mr george george floyd die from a cardio pulmonary arrest. it was caused by low oxygen levels and those low oxygen levels were induced by the prone restraint and positional asphyxiation that he was subjected to then there was the police chief who finally jovan the day after he was seen for 9 minutes and 29 seconds kneeling on floyd until the life out of him that in no way shape or form is anything that. is by policy is not part of our training and it is certainly not part of our ethics are values and there were emotional interviews with

a murderer he showed. how to treat a mom in. he he just he loved her so dearly it's been 9th i stayed in. a palace in. the palace. for not doing more in not. physically interacting in. his life the defense spent just. 3 days to make its case arguing that show ven did nothing wrong i thought the show biz interactions of mr floyd were following his training. following current practices in policing and were generally received. in that floyd died from a combination of a drug overdose heart trouble and maybe even car exhaust your opinion mr show

anyway impacted the structures mr ford's. know did not. know the city that erupted into turbulent riots after floyd's death waits anxiously and fearfully wondering if the verdict will reignite the fiery civil unrest of the long violent summer of 2020 john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis. officials have released body cam footage of a chicago police officer fatally shooting a 13 year old boy last month while some viewers will find the following footage disturbing and we've chosen not to show the moment of death it shows an unidentified officer running off to adam to ledo in an alleyway in the early l's of the morning the officer is heard telling to later to stop and races hence the teenager appeared to raise his hands right before a shot was fired efforts to save his life with c.p.r.

were unsuccessful. but. talking about the. parts of court i'm going for help for an automatic is a former united states federal prosecutor he joins us live from chicago via skype thank you for your time so this civilian office of police accountability is investigating the use of force and the officer is on administrate of duty for a month tell us what will be going on now from a legal perspective. well on one side of things cocoa which is that offices just spoke about will be determining whether or not the there is a reason for just an area action be brought against the officer and then at the same time states turning soft school to be made you dissemination returned charges if they haven't already meet such determination so there will be potentially you

know parallel proceedings real criminal proceedings as well as potential action before and it's you know it's not clear to me at this point that rich were. ok it looks like this young man will boy a 13 year old boy dropped the gun or a gun he was holding apparently over the fence before he raised his hands that he raised his hands empty. what does that say to you about the likelihood of charges being laid in terms of what police protocol says that the officers should have done in that moment. i don't see how anyone can possibly justify shooting this boy i watched the video through the moment of death more of the showed on the air and i don't think it could be justified in any way we when i saw it was a boy running from an officer he appeared to slow down or stop the ops are demanding that he put his hands up he did and then the shot i don't really know how that can

just by legal you morally. you know we don't in the in this country or any country at least that i know of you know summarily shoot people when you're not from running away we don't we also. we also don't shoot people if there are i'm fine with police instruction cell very hard for me to understand yes i understand he had a gun previously but it's also the facts but i can't tell you i've prosecuted cases someone of that when i was federal prosecutor where a strong police partner would see someone with a gun they throw it over a fence and the officer would run after that person at random i've never i've never seen a situation where the option then after the gun is armed tossed and proceeds to kill the person and was unarmed and putting his hands up says wouldn't i thank you karen i says i will have to leave it there for a time or not tomorrow i'll take their former united states federal prosecutor.

still ahead on al-jazeera brazil's supreme court makes a final decision on overturning criminal convictions against former president bill . there is no military solution to the conflict that that remains here. the u.s. secretary of state pays a surprise visit to afghanistan president biden announces the final drawdown of troops there. it's time for the perfect jan and the winter sponsored plan qatar airways this is the time the if a spring rains we should look at that sort of development typically well they are there as significant thunderstorms drifting sasuke met through hong kong with larger ones inland but what's happening over japan a bit ragged but we got

a feed in from the pacific and there's cold air aloft which you can see the 2 come together and you get the spring rains returning now says like to 3 days ago it was pretty heavy rain honshu it is helping to spring melt it all by itself fairly quickly so expects of flooding from this both in the rain and from the melt beyond that is fairly dry and find what has been fairly sundry weather has gone through still potential of snow in north korea by the look of it yeah the coldest around but in seoul i think we'll just see a shower or 2 new hang on to about 15 degrees it will feel colder as the showers go through. much of the energy in the atmosphere in southeast asia is really in the western pacific it's pretty obvious this thing is becoming a typhoon it'll be the 1st one of the year but it should stay out over the water and takes all the showers away from eastern indonesia and it indicates the northward motion of the rain is going up into the bay of bengal is in the southern part of india as well and there's some showers in the north which is helpful for new delhi sundry with the improved equality.

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president joe biden has called on russia to deescalate tensions after he imposed sanctions against moscow for alleged election interference and cyber attacks biden insists there is still room for the 2 countries to work together. to form a policeman accused of murdering george floyd has decided not to testify derek chauvinist invoked the 5th amendment the right to remain silent as the defense rested its case closing arguments are expected on monday. the fish will sever least body count footage of a chicago police officer facing the shooting a 13 year old boy last month that shows an unidentified officer running after adam today due in an alleyway in the early hours of the morning the teenager appeared to raise his hands right before a shot was fired. staying with police shootings in the u.s. and the police woman who fatally shot a young black man in minnesota has appeared in court for the 1st telling 20 year

old was shot on sunday after being stopped for a traffic violation but they say officer kim potter shot right accidentally having mistakenly drawn her gun instead of a taser she's been charged with manslaughter released on bail the day after turning into that the death has set off several months of unrest. ya see the difference this is a take. this is the gave birth but no money if you was killed with a big ugly law. these 2 are hurt our part in our blood has been yours and all we the police he didn't is name it please help us to go here and get something done on a conviction something. the united states climate envoy john kerry has in

china the 1st visit of its kind by a high ranking biden administration official kerry arrived in shanghai for a 2 day trip the u.s. hopes tackling climate change could be an area of cooperation between the 2 nations china wants to become carbon neutral by 2060 the u.s. is also expected to announce a new target for reducing emissions sometime this month. america's top diplomat has been in afghanistan to reassure the government of continued u.s. support despite a full withdrawal of troops by september secretary of state says there will be a new push for diplomacy but there are questions over whether the country's institutions and security forces are up to the task feel called to food he 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. for that was we did not see that peace if that insecurity increased after they announced the peace process the security situation is very bad be 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 in 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 so with foreign troops leaving afghanistan will have to defend itself a lot and many people are questioning whether it security forces can do that president said afghanistan's security forces are fully capable of defending the country ended its combat operations over 5 years ago and the afghan security forces conduct over 95 percent of all combat operations yet they still heavily rely on the 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 foreign ports are leaving afghanistan

this is good people. good security forces are able to the for the country fears of a civil war and a taliban takeover are high especially among afghan women who voice 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 promise 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 turkey. al-jazeera kabul. at least one person

has been killed by a car bomb in baghdad the explosive went off in a market in the city district in the capital east 17 people are wounded brazil's supreme court has confirmed its decision to a no criminal convictions against former president lula da silva last month the court ruled that the law was not treated fairly in a series of corruption investigations just as common to see a reversed her earlier position tipping the court's 5 judge panel in lucas favor who is now eligible to run in next year's election against the current president jaya boss in our marquee an arc of has more from your dish narrow. it all started with one justice from the supreme court saying that moolah 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 judges more to 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 tried unfairly and also that the next year's elections contrary to the $28.00 team 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 not a was elected and partly because lula was not running for the election because he was unable to do so. india has reported more than 200000 new covered 19 cases that's the highest daily tally in a country that's the 2nd worst affected in the world authorities looking to import oxygen as levels one dangerous thing no constricted measures are being imposed as elizabeth brought 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 has encouraged from

a maximum of 12 hours to at least $24.00 and often longer being than say map 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 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. 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 good. numbers are rising and it's anybody's guess

. to stop. all kinds of activity still happening across the country which lead to. these numbers in the coming days despite the rise in cases of political advantages gatherings are continuing in many places more than 3000000 hindu pilgrims have bathed in the ganges river in the town of hudud while this week for the coup made a festival and millions voted in local elections in the state of the predation on thursday despite recording more than 20000 new cases the day before as the specials of and. as in some places and not others those who have lost their livelihoods are . many day a way to the asking why all the attention on the mother in the morgue i still allow to hold large rallies about they aren't allowed to earn a living elizabeth bron and 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 outbreak 1st with localized lockdowns and now with a new national law the country is ramping up its vaccine rollout from sash day jobs will be available for many government workers aged over 55 france has recorded more than 5000000 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. from the end pandemic to america's racial reckoning 2020 was a momentous year photographers and storytellers who documented some of the most striking images of the past 12 months i've been on as the world press photo contest this photograph showing a nurse embracing a care home resident of brazil was selected as the photo of the year it was taken by photographer mads nissen earlier we spoke with madison he believes his image shows hope at a time of crisis for the world. i mean it's been subsurface significant years it's a significant time in history so to receive the prize and this year specifically

it's an amazing honor it's it's amazing to be able to write or or come in you like over all human history together. and i think this is big to really try 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 to let's end it from the very beginning so those images are important however i also think these images that is bringing 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 comes to 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 and tremendous of 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. it's not just there and these the top stories u.s. president joe biden has called on russia to deescalate tensions after him post sanctions against moscow for alleged election into ferentz and cyber attacks biden insists there's still room for the 2 countries to work together. i was clear with president putin that we could have gone further but i chose not to do so to be i chose to be proportionate united states is not looking to kick off a cycle of escalation and conflict with russia we want a stable predictable relationship and russia continues to interfere with our

democracy i'm prepared to take further actions to respond it is my responsibility as president it's.