like other such boats can be washed and produced the design that we've come up with is ethical sustainable and it's hardly made in the u.k. it looks like based mostly because of many people's lives at least in the short term whatever can't be where they're being urged to consider where it comes from and where it will end up. after slapping new sanctions on russia u.s. president joe biden says it's time for deescalation if the 2 cultures to work together. either give it all this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. i will invoke my for the privilege today. there are children the former police officer accused of killing george floyd has chosen not to testify at the trial. and in chicago body

comfort it's just been released of a police officer chasing a 13 year old boy down an alley and fatally shooting him as he raised his hands. following a coronavirus driven contraction last year china's economy is tipped to grow in the double digits. u.s. president joe biden has called on russia to deescalate after him post fresh sanctions against moscow for alleged election interference and cyber attacks prompted warnings of a retaliation from the kremlin the biden says this still work for the 2 countries to work together and white house correspondent kelly health that report. there are some of the most punitive u.s. measures taken against russia in years today through several steps including 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 announced a surprise russia sanctions we cannot allow foreign power to interfere in our 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 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 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 well richard watson is a security expert an analyst at wiki strength global consultancy he says russia will retaliate with diplomatic expulsions. i think that biden ministration if we take into light today's thanks and that awful yesterday's phone call and some an invitation and the earlier statements and measures are going to pursue this dual track policy of cooperating with russia where we can and the air is a disgusting for the arms control non-slip ration cases like india north korea perhaps terrorism and dealing with coke at 19 and other biological threats and perhaps even climate change but also confront russia where it was cooperation is not possible in russia i am 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 off the conflict the us 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. financial institutions and vice versa so i think what they will probably do is retaliate with a 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. face a former minneapolis police officer derek shove and will soon lie in the hands of the jury his defense lawyers rested their case on thursday arguing shove and should not be convicted of murdering george lloyd john hendren has the 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 petered levi's do you think this is your decision your decision on mom i correct the defendant former police officer derek children 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 about and there were emotional interviews i believe when a murder he showed. how to treat a mom in. he he just he loved her so dearly it's been 9th i stayed in. a policy 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 vun did nothing wrong i felt. his interactions. 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 business in any way impacted the structures of mr ford's no. no he did not. now 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 fall some viewers will find the following footage disturbing and we've chosen not to show the moment of death the video shows an officer running off to adam to nato in an alleyway in the early hours of the morning the officers had telling to later to stop and breaks his hands teenager appeared to raise his hands right before shots were fired shots to save his life with c.p.r. for unsuccessful. police. talking about the. parts how frightened i am for her. local reports suggest a lady who had a gun at one stage and possibly threw it over a fence before the officer stopped him former u.s. federal prosecutor an automatic l.t. says even if that were the case the police response was unjustified. i don't see

how anyone can possibly justify shooting of 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 slow down or stop the ops are demanding that he put his hands up he did and then the answer to shock and i don't really know how that can be just pride or you're morally wrong you know we don't in that 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 hear you also. we also don't shoot people if they're complying with police instructions so very hard for me to understand yes i understand he had a gun previously that he talks over the past but i'm going to tell you i prosecuted cases some wanted out when i was federal prosecutor where the struggle police department would see someone with a gun they rode over

a fence and the officer would run after that person and apprehend them i've never i've never seen a situation where the then absolutely gone is already been tossed and proceeds to kill the person own who's not armed and putting his hands up it's just disturbing footage of city. saying with police shootings in the us and police woman who facing the shelves a young black man in minnesota has appeared in court for the 1st time 20 year olds don't have rights was shot on sunday after being stopped for a traffic violation police say offset composer shot right accidentally having mistakenly drawn her gun instead of a taser she's been charged with manslaughter and released on bail and day after turning into that the death has set off several months of unrest main floor how do . ya'll see the difference this is a case that this is

a caver but no my nephew was killed with their i'm glad. these 2 are her. heart my blood has been and always the police. please help us to go ahead and get something. still to come here on al-jazeera brazil's supreme court makes a final decision on overturning criminal convictions against a former president. capturing i'm president of year images that one of the hearts of judges the world press photo competition. it's time for the perfect gentleman. 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 significant thunderstorms drifting sasuke through hong kong with larger ones inland but what's happening in 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 homeshare it is helping to spring melt it all by itself fairly quickly so expects of flooding from this burst 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 in iran but in seoul i think we'll just see a shower or 2 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 will be the 1st one of the year but it should stay out over the water and takes all the showers way from eastern indonesia and it indicates the northward motion of the rightness going up into the bay of bengal is in the southern part of india as well and there are some showers in the north which is helpful for new delhi sundry with the improved air quality. sponsored poll qatar airways capturing a moment in time. snapshots of other lives. other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else as well out. in the world god the threat the stability of fight the dollar and inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. i am the voice we are the voice witnesses on al-jazeera.

georgiades there a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. president joe biden has called on russia to deescalate tensions after he imposed sanctions against moscow for alleged election interference cyberattacks biden insists there's still room for the 2 countries to work together. to form a policeman accused of murdering george florida has decided not to testify their children invoke the 5th amendment the right to remain silent as defense rested its case closing arguments are expected on monday. officials have released body count toward each of a chicago police officer fatally shooting a 13 year old boy last month shows an officer running after adam tomato in an

alleyway the teenager appeared to raise his hands right before shots were finally. china has released record economic growth figures gross domestic product growth surged to 18.3 percent for the 1st quarter of this year the international monetary fund says china will drive global economic growth for at least the next 5 years it's while the rest of the world recovers from the pandemic contribute joins us now live from shanghai katrina so obviously this is huge growth in the midst of a pandemic talk us through the numbers how did china manage such a bounce back. that's right give it's kind of that a figure 18.3 percent that's the highest a level of quarterly worth recorded since 1903 when reports began here in china and really it's actually quite spot on the what economists were predicting we spoke to a number of them they were predicting a range between 16 percent to 20 percent so that's definitely in line with

expectations but we do have to keep this in context this time last year china posted a historic contraction of almost 7. percent so we all looking at the growth rate of 18 percent that's coming from quite a lower jumping off point but still it is quite significant last year when we had the contraction china had all about come to a standstill because it was in the forward of the quoted 900 pandemic and now we've had this steady recovery in very few outbreaks relative to other countries just small clusters you're in there but no major lockdown since about mid last year now there's of course this contraction last year did set the stage for this dramatic rebound 18.3 percent and economists would like to also said that china largely made up the gave the losses that made last year from early in the year around mid mid last year and some of the september point on it kind of gone back to the middle point and continued to grow and so we had overall in 2020 economic growth in china

of 2.3 percent which was the lowest for china for some time but it was difficult because china was the only major economy to post worth during the pandemic now we have to keep in mind that economic growth in china has been quite an even a large pos of it is thanks to a very strong industrial sector a lot of exports as china has been exporting many products around the world as other countries have been affected by lock downs and also by state to lead infrastructure building where we haven't seen so much of a rebound in modest strongly down i see in retail consumption which has remained quite worth relatively for the last year and definitely in the last few months we are expecting the chinese to continue growing but it's not going to have the same momentum we're not going to see a figure of about 18.3 percent as the year continues that's going to slow quite a bit due to a number of reasons people i haven't really recovered the same levels of confidence that they had prepaid debit is still holding quite tightly on to that post strings

have been quite conservative with their savings and china is still trying to tackle this last couple of not only debt but also wealth inequality and regional inequality as well and because of that we've seen the chinese government point post quite a relatively moderate projection of economic growth for 2021 that is just above 6 percent thank you for the country to you in shanghai. a group of pro-democracy activists in hong kong will be sentenced in the coming hours to taking part in anti-government protests in 2019 some of them spoke to media outside court media tycoon jimmy law is among those being sentenced he's already behind bars in connection with a separate case of 2900 protests was spurred by beijing's tightening squeeze on freedoms promised to hong kong upon its return to chinese rule in 1997 brown joins us now live from the court there in hong kong adrian what kind of sentences are these activists facing. will claim

potentially they are facing sentences of between 2 to 3 years 2 for a single charge 3 for multiple charges but in theory the prosecution could object and this case could be moved to a district court where they could receive a higher sentence mouth the outside of this court kim is a familiar sight to our viewers around the world so many trials have taken place here since the protest in 2019 but this trial this sentencing feels a little bit different it involves the veterans of hong kong's pro-democracy movement these are people you know i used to interview when i 1st came to hong kong in 1988 they include people like martin lee who helped to cope warfare on kong's many constitution the basic glories 82 years old he was trained in britain also alongside him another problem legal figure margaret on and as you mentioned in your

introduction. the hong kong media mogul who's been denied bail since he was arrested on another charge under the national security law last december he's now in court now awaiting to learn his fate now the defendants are all accused of participating and organizing and their. and straight should in august 2019 the group almost 2000000 people now police say this was an unauthorized protest and that those who took part you exactly what they were doing and of course these prosecutions clearly come at a time as china is seeking to restore order in hong kong through its new national security law and security national security is really being drilled into people at all levels here right now ok thank you for that adrian brown live for us outside

the court in hong kong. japanese prime minister here she has arrived in washington to meet with the u.s. president joe biden it's the 1st time biden has met with a world leader in person since taking office in january china is expected to dominate the talks both nations have condemned military exercises near taiwan and human rights abuses and hong kong. the global economy is now the focus of the talks between biden and silva the 2 leaders are concerned about a while the wide shortage of semiconductor chips on penalty. semiconductors are at the heart of the devices many of us use every day from phones to game console household electronics and medical diagnostics to name just a few but now there are a shortage of the vital silicon chips in my 30 year career i've never seen a. demand exceeding supply to the extent that we have supplies were

tight before the pandemic hit but during the global lockdowns demand for more networking and more devices has skyrocketed now we're in a multi-year cycle where the demand is really outstripping the supply the crunch is crushing the u.s. auto industry at the beginning of the pandemic demand plummeted and automakers cut back production drastically but they underestimated how quickly demand would rebound when they raced to put in more orders late last year they were turned down by chip makers committed to supplying other industries when those orders got cancelled immediately got back filled by other areas of the market that actually stayed very robust recovery things like you know p.c.'s in person electronics all these anything work from home starting from home play from home demanded an incredibly resilient so that that immediately got back to the name of the auto guys came up at a back way recently general motors the largest u.s. auto maker announced it would cut production even though demand is high if you look

across the board i mean a shot a lot of factories are closed down shots for a lot of their popular crossovers as well so it's definitely hitting you know hitting the market the u.s. leads the world in semiconductor design but manufacturing is heavily concentrated in taiwan south korea and japan recently president joe biden called for strengthening u.s. manufacture. capacity as a matter of national economic security top administration officials are meeting with leading chip manufacturers in the meantime are reaching out to our allies semiconductor companies and others in the supply chain to ramp up production to help us resolve the bomb mix we face now increasing ship capacity will take time and it won't be cheap a single semiconductor plant can cost $20000000000.00 to construct robert oulds al-jazeera los angeles. brazil's supreme court has confirmed its decision to a no criminal convictions against former president the desilva last month the cold

rule that there was not treated fairly in a series of corruption investigations nearly as now eligible to run in next year's election against the current president jaya both and our want to have has more from rio de janeiro. 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 moolah should have been tried in brasilia of brazil's capital that does not go to say that lula 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

the highest daily tele in a country that's now the 2nd worst affected in the world authorities are looking to import oxygen as levels run dangerously low and stricter measures are being imposed as elizabeth prada 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 country is 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 mince 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 where they got there 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 job numbers are rising and it's anybody's guess this number 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 of 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 predation on thursday despite recording more than $20000.00 new cases the day before as the structures of employers in some places and not others dollars have lost their livelihoods and many daily way to the asking why politicians and i'm going to be in the minority tell our to hold large rallies about they aren't allowed to earn a living elizabeth brown 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 the national one the country is ramping up its vaccine rollout from saturday will be available for many government workers aged over 55 france's record of more than 5000000 cases since the beginning of the pandemic. and from the pandemic to america's racial reckoning

2020 was the mentors year photographers and storytellers who documented some of the most striking images of the past 12 months i've been on it 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 photographer mads nissen and this set of images was chosen as a photo story of the year antonio don't go documented love story set against the backdrop of the israeli palestinian conflicts. there are these other top stories u.s. president joe biden has called on russia to deescalate tensions after him post sanctions against moscow for alleged election interference and cyber.