up to date with what's happening on the ground in the wood and in the land now more than ever the world needs w.h.o. making a healthier world for you. to everyone. the air. members opposition groups come together creating a national unity government to challenge military leaders to control of the country in a coup. my. fellow that i'm home he's in and this is al jazeera my friend doha also coming up shocking body camphorated reveals yet another u.s. police shooting officer gunning day in a 13 year old boy. on khan's high profile for democracy activists await sentencing

over their wall 2900 protesters and the u.s. through sweeping sanctions on moscow over its role in election interference and hacking russia warns of retaliatory action. a group of political parties from myanmar have joined forces to form a national unity government outside the country as part of the ongoing resistance to military rule hundreds of civilian protests as have been killed since the coup at the start of february the unity government is made up of ethnic minority leaders and it's a promising to anne's people's suffering. joins us now live from bangkok in neighboring thailand scott what war can you tell us about this latest development and what does it mean for protesters are on the ground right now.

paula well i think you could look at the situation that the protesters will be happy with this movie because a sense you what it is it's a parallel government you know there's been a parallel structure made up of a lot of the lawmakers who were ousted in this coup and those who live outside of myanmar that have been in action over the last several weeks if not maybe a month and a half so this is more kind of a formal step by them to form this national unity government and what it is is they are looking for recognition right at this stage they have created this parallel government themselves so they're looking for recognition by parties in their national in the international community that's the kind of political leverage and recognition they need they feel to really fight the joints and the joints power in myanmar right now what does it mean to those protesters on the streets the military still in control of me and most of myanmar so right now what does that mean of those who want to go back out to the streets in protest like we saw 4 or 5 weeks ago that's not necessary going to change because the joint is still in control of

the main cities what's interesting about this unity government and as you mentioned that there will be ethnic participants in the cabinet level there are leaders of the ethnic groups inside myanmar now this is something that's been a challenge for peace in myanmar for decades so the approach to this unity government is to involve all those ethnic groups and this they say the organizers will be the way that they can actually push back and fight the army fight the army politically but it needs to be said a lot of these ethnic groups also have their own armies that have been who have been fighting the central army the tatmadaw in myanmar for decades as well so this is their kind of next step i guess the best way to put it so they can formalize this this parallel government this national unity government and hope that they'll get national recognition to national recognition and they can use that as political leverage but again you know the protest movement will most likely continue the way it has been it has to be good news for them too because this means there's going to

be a more formulated opposition and hopefully they'll get international recognition of this this new government that they have formed parallel government that they have formed case that bring us the latest from bangkok thank you scott. police in the united states are facing more furious protests this time over the fatal she scene of a 13 year old latino boy the incident happened last month but the newly released video from the chicago police department appears to show adam toledo turns officers with his hands in the air before he was shot castro reports the video you're about to see is incredibly disturbing it's 2 30 am and an officer wearing a body camera arrives at a black and latino neighborhood of chicago a police or valences gym had detected gunshots nearby and the investigating officer runs after a person down an alleyway. probably

not but. that person was 13 year old adam toledo chicago police had at 1st called this an armed confrontation with the police claiming the boy had been holding a gun and the video released 17 days later appears to tell a different story as to lead a lays crumpled his empty hands still raised in the hands of position fall next to his body with an earth stay with us they wake their wake. i'm going to start c.p.r. i'm not. at him during his last 2nd of life did not have a gun in his hand. the officer screamed at him show me your hands adam complied turned around his hands were empty when he was shot in the chest at the hands of the officer. it had taken intense public pressure to convince chicago police to release the video toledo's mother had spoken to her son in early april.

good students. are up in the air. the civilian office of police accountability is investigating and the officer identified as eric stillman and obviously shaken immediately after the shooting is now on administrative duties the chicago police department was cited by the u.s. justice department in 2017 for civil rights violations aimed at minorities and a white officer who shot a black man 16 times in 2014 was convicted of murder we live in a city that is traumatized by a long history of police violence and misconduct so while we don't have enough information to be the judge and jury of this particular situation it is certainly understandable why so many of our residents are feeling it all too familiar surge

of outrage and pain chicago's mayor and the toledo family have issued a joint call for calm in the city acknowledging the painful footage will elicit an emotional response from all who view it the last moments of a 13 year old who according to his mother had dreamed of becoming a police officer himself now dead at the hands of one heidi jo castro al-jazeera. a former us police officer who shot dead a black motorist in minnesota has been charged with 2nd degree manslaughter don't say right after he was stopped for minor traffic violation in the city has spoken see a witness he says police said no immediate medical care she had reports. brooklyn center police have only released a few seconds of body count footage from just one of the officers involved in the shooting of 20 year old dante write the criminal complaint against officer kim

potter says she fired quote one round into the left side of the victim the victim then stated that he shot me and the vehicle sped away for a short distance before crashing into another vehicle and coming to a stop the victim was pronounced dead at the scene off to medical intervention was unsuccessful. carolyn hanson lives opposite the crime scene she rushed out of the house when she heard what was happening and she was quoted in media accounts discussing the aftermath for example in this article in the minneapolis star tribune carolyn hansen said she saw offices pulling out of a car and perform c.p.r. a passenger who got out of the vehicle was covered in blood she said the person. hanson told al-jazeera that she was misquoted she alleges that the official account does not report that a significant amount of time passed between the car coming to arrest and dante wright being given any medical care they waited at least 4 minutes before the. car

they got her out of vehicle. right away and i feel that if you shot him and you recognize. and you should have done that then why is it your number one priority to go in and try and save his life why are you doing hanson began filming minutes after she arrived you can see rights white car between the police vehicles no one is attempting to help right she says only a minute and a half off the she began. filming the receiver right being given c.p.r. having been pulled from his car hanson also says officer post did not immediately attend to right after having shot him only after a backup arrived was anything done that we should be the 1st person there dragging my heart and doing anything she could to do it because she made a mistake if it was a mistake then that's what she would done the lawyer for rights family says this is another argument for more transparency from the police there's pros we need to see

all the body cam video from all the offices to see the police officer has rendered aid a mediately for dietary right back at a possibly saved his life we asked brooklyn center police to speak to us but they've yet to respond question why does it appear it took so long for them to give down to write any medical assistance. the al-jazeera brooklyn's and. there are multiple casualties after a shooting in the u.s. city of indianapolis it happens at a fed ex facility and so far at least 8 people are confirmed dead as police i've been holding a media conference and they say the government to kids own life officers responded to reports of shots fired at the fed ex center after just after 11 pm vocal time. a group of pro-democracy activists in hong kong are being sentenced for taking part

in antigovernment protests and 2019 among them is veteran campaigner martin lee he helped launch the city's longest largest opposition party in 1900 media tycoon jimmy law is already behind bars in connection with a separate case he's also being sentenced will the $21000.00 process whispered by beijing's tightening of freedoms in hong kong let's go to brian in hong kong who has all the latest. protests from both supporters and also opponents of the activists now in west kalimantan straits cold behind me this coat of course has become a familiar sight to our viewers around the world because are being so many trials here garnering international attention during the past few months now what's been happening today is that the defense lawyers for the activists have been presenting their mitigation police are trying to get more lenient sentences but that's been

going on now for around about 6 hours we're still hopeful that there will be sentences you know before the end of the day but i have to remember that you know just a few weeks ago a court case here went on for more than 27 hours that's not expected to happen this time but it does give an indication that the time say can be quite a lastic if they need to be now the activists who are awaiting sentencing who are all arrested just out just almost a year ago in fact and they have been some of them have been on bail 5 of them 2 others have been denied bail including jimmied life he was actually brought to the court from the jail ways now awaiting trial on national security charges and of course that means he's facing the prospect of life in prison on top of whatever sentence he will get here today there have been a wave of prosecutions of calls during the past couple of months since the ending of the process that began in 2019 and those prosecutions have had the effect of

restoring you know a semblance of order in hong kong you don't get the protests that you had back in 2019 beauty that small ones as is happening now outside the court. china has released record economic growth figures as it rebounds from the pandemic cute schools domestic prozone g.d.p. grew by 18.3 percent for the 1st quarter over this year compared to the same period last year the international monetary fund predicts china will drive global economic growth for at least the next 5 years katrina you has more from shanghai 18300000 incredible think of course especially given that we're in the middle of a pandemic not the biggest quarterly growth they get that china has posted since records began in 1903 so we have to remember that is it is a somewhat skewed figure because we're coming off a very low base this time last year china posted historic contraction of almost 7

percent that really did set the stage for a dramatic rebound that we've seen so this 18.3 percent there a very large figure was in line with what many economists were expecting now we have to look at this in terms of the context of china getting back to normal life last year we had china close some quite draconian measures to control 19 and because of that we saw this outbreak controlled relatively early compared to other countries from mid last year it started to make up for those losses economically and from september it's odd it had kind of made up for those losses and continue to grow and so we actually saw in 2020 china's economy grew by 2.3 percent and it was the only major economy to do so so that's important but what is key to remember though china's economy economic growth has been robust it has been on even a lot of it is thanks in large part to a strong industrial sector a lot of these exports going to other countries especially those still affected by

lockdowns and also this state led infrastructure building in some moderate stimulus as well is to thank for that worth. still to come on al-jazeera. the attack on pot began on the 24 weeks later some family violence trying to areas i'm not. telling you before. and capturing it unprecedented here the images that won over the hearts of the judges at this year's world's press photo competition. for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways however it remains disappointingly cold across much of europe with members signs of slightly warmer weather coming into western parts as we go into the early part of next week

it's cold because we've got this area of high pressure drawing in the cool moldea northeasterly winds down across much of europe at present we got some rather wet weather added times wintry weather over towards they say eastern areas into ukraine into western parts of russia just around belarus the rash of shower some of them wintry in nature in the slot a little further south let's as we go through the remainder of friday we still got some showers across the western side of the mediterranean of right of course have a low there is still a little bit of snow there just around the alps i saw them catch a snow flurry here well so weather will gradually make its way into the northwest of here up across a good part of olland and scotland as we go on through the next couple of days as signs of that which was starting to push its way that the western areas scott is saying that some of that western weather by the end of saturday a little further race much of eastern scotland out across the british isles should be fine and dry dry too by this stage into a good parts of france more showers just around that western side of the

mediterranean whether they're coming in across the balkans and that's some snow that america. sponsored by qatar airways jump into the story there is a lot going on in this and julian and global community when i talk about the my central mission i think we are more afraid than we are aware be part of the debate don't ever take anybody's one word because there's always a difference when no topic is off the table we have been disconnected from our land we've been disconnected from who we are and would love to hear from you and each week be part of today's discussion this streamed on out is there a. this

is al jazeera quick minds are on the top stories this hour a group on political policies for me and maher has formed a national unity government outside the country as part of the resistance to military rule hundreds of protesters have been killed since the coup at the start of february officials have released body comforters of a chicago police officer fatally shooting a 13 year old boy last month adams aledo appeared to raise as hands just before shots were fired. at a group of for democracy activists in hong kong is being sentenced for taking part in antigovernment protests in 2019 among them is fashion campaigner martin levy who helped launch the territories largest opposition party in the 1990 s. . now the u.s. presidents called for dialogue with the kremlin after signing off a new sanctions against russia the broad sanctions on its punish russia for

interfering in last year's u.s. election and orchestrating cyber attacks and other hostile acts moscow denies the accusations and says it will respond in kind now is the time to deescalate the way forward for dialogue and. the u.s. is prepared to continue constructively to move for that process my bottom line is this regime interesting united states to work with russian we should and we will russia seeks to violate the interest united states we will respond. let's get more now from paris smith the choice be life for moscow that has to be the only reaction yet from politicians in moscow. are expecting later today to hear from the kremlin's spokesman in his daily press briefing and so a lover of russia's foreign minister is having

a press conference with his serbian counterpart later on friday where we were we may well hear more russia hasn't said explicitly what he's going to do yet in response to the u.s. sanctions but almost certainly we know that the u.s. is going to expel 10 russian diplomats will almost certainly russia will at the very minimum reciprocate with that there is a long list of course of american complaints against russia from allegations of interference in presell presidential elections cyber hacking the jailing of opposition politician like cena violate the occupation of crimea and a host of other what the americans call malign acts of russia denies any part taking any part in all of this and the 1st response we had was from the foreign ministry spokeswoman there is a her over and she says that biden sanctions contradict his desire is it 10 is stated desire in a phone call on tuesday night with

a lot of the putin to normalise times she says this aggressive behavior will receive a decisive rebuff now economically russia's ruble recovered some of the losses it had suffered ahead of the announcement of sanctions and that's because it's believed that the restrictions placed on dealing in russian debts are not a severe as they might have been but there's more the americans could yet do. ok parents with their bring us up to date from moscow thank you baronets. here is president joe biden will hold his 1st meeting with the world leader in person since taking office japanese prime minister your shahid this has arrived in washington for talks china is expected to dominate the discussion the u.s. and japan are concerned about chinese military exercises near taiwan and human rights abuses in cincy on and in hong kong. the global economy has another

focus of the talks between biden and suka that's who leaders are concerned about a world wide shortage of semiconductor chips brennan says more. 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 workers that cancelled it 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 like tronics all these anything work from home starting from home plate from home demanded an incredibly resilient so that that immediately got back on 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. manufacturing. pasadena as

a matter of national economic security top administration officials are meeting with leading chip manufacturers 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. bring you some breaking news now out of hong kong the 1st sentences are being passed and in that trial we understand that media tycoon jimmy lie has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for unauthorized assembly cheering the 21000 protests and the veteran democratic activist martin lee has also been sentenced to 15 months in prison so that is 15 months from arson me and 15 months for jimmy law i will bring you more on that story as it

comes in. a brazil supreme court says confirmed this decision to a no criminal convictions against former president alluded to suva earlier last month the court ruled that lou was treated unfairly in a series of corruption investigations justice common to the cea reverser other position in the courts 5 panel judge and little less favorable he is now eligible to run in next year's election against president joe here votes are not 0. the un's world food program says almost a 1000000 people are facing severe hunger in northern mozambique you know the 700000 people have been displaced by fighting between government forces and armed groups since i saw around 2600 people have died since the conflict started 4 years ago. reports from a camp in a couple don't go out of province. zubair are marsh says 3 months ago

dragged him into the forest saying they were going to chop off his head when he tried to escape they shot him. dead irony. one of. they kept shooting at me and i kept running but i hid in the bush for 3 days and 3 nights i was weak and i lost a lot of blood somebody found me and carried me to a place where boats were rescuing other people from my village that is how i survived. to get. an armed group calling itself al-shabaab with links to eisele is behind this attack in fact they've been wreaking havoc in the region since 2017 their attacks have left at least 2600 people dead and uprooted nearly 700000 people. is one of them he now lives in a camp for internally displaced people is one of several in mozambique kabul

daugaard a province thousands of people now have no source of income and rely on humanitarian aid many of them they have seen directly their relatives being killed. either by shooting or by ticket potations. many of them they don't know where their ethics are and they don't know if they are alive and there's no way for them to know because they don't have communication voices know that you can call by cell what are you are still alive so it's just they don't know. another thing is also the living conditions like you can see here it's very very small houses where sometimes you have 8 to 10 people living there. a few kilometers down the road there is another even bigger camp this one was set up only a few months ago. the last thing paid up by the government in december last year counted nearly $50000.00 people living in the camp since then attacks in towns and

villages have grown in size and frequency humanitarian workers say many more people are now living here as well as an other camp in the problem the the most recent attack was in parma in march weeks later families are still arriving at reception centers desperately looking for food and shelter some of them could end up joining thousands of others already living in camps not sure if it will ever be safe enough for them to go back home. al-jazeera out of province mozambique. from the pandemics to america's racial reckoning 2020 men to skeer photographers and storytellers who documented some of the most striking images over the last 12 months have been on the world press for 2 contests this photograph showing a nurse embracing a care home residents from brazil was selected as forto off the year was taken by

the photog from it all down to syria he believes his image shows hope as a time of crisis for the worlds. i mean it's been subsurface significant years it's a significant time in history so to receive the prize and this year specifically that it's an amazing honor it's it's amazing to be able to write or or come in you like our own human history together. and i think this does speak to really try to pay tribute and respect to to the millions of victims of the of the cockpit crisis i also photographed the cemeteries the hospitals the ambulances in personal that where because this shows 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 in a bit more hope and maybe it's you know it's 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 jimmied 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. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines a group of pro-democracy activists in hong kong of being sentenced for taking part in anti governor.