consequences that might come from whatever verdict. reached they will now begin to deliberated that verdict and just before the judge issued his their actions that to the jury we heard from jerry blackwell who was making the last 3 bucks all to the defense's closing statement. effectively telling jurors to use their common sense. riginal you heard of and in. the trial people commented on how we were implications that we were. that we were. was one example that we were creating hollowing stories was another example that these were stories and that was repeated comment. still that we misrepresented facts and put words into dr baker's mouth

that we made several statements that they put forth a stories after the court instructed him to use the stop using were stories he clarified and it's just fabricated facts and so there were multiple references to the. that we were shading the truth i mean again so multiple objections this is sensually governed by our state versus mcdaniel in the final argument to the jury a prosecutor is governed by a unique set of rules which differ significantly from laws governing council and several suits and even those governing defense counsel and the very same criminal trial the special rules follow directly from the prosecutor's inherently unique role in the criminal justice to justice system which mandates that the prosecutor knock act as a valid advocate for criminal punishment but as the representative of the people in an effort to see justice for example that when a prosecutor argues that a difference is meritless you're not belittle the defense either in the abstract

you are suggesting that the defense was raised because it was the only difference. there's lots of on this your honor essentially these comments. comments constitute prosecutorial misconduct although for the record that they overruled the 1st objection was to blackwell use the word story because it was isolated and in its context it did not seem to me to be blue beetle little however the continued use of it i did sustain the ultimate objection that counsel made to the use of the word stories and instructed the jury to disregard it also shading the truth that i sustain the objection and instructed the jury to disregard it i'm not making any findings as to whether it was the type of prosecutorial misconduct that would result in a mistrial i think it was adequately addressed by the court's instruction to disregard right with regard to other matters we have i think there are some bench conferences that you want to that are fairly historical that you wanted to moralize

but also a new motion based events this weekend mr nelson your honor as the court is awareness prior to coming into you aren't this morning for our closing arguments we had in chambers discussion of auckland's this weekend specifically reference referencing the elected official united states congress person who is making what i term pretty good to be i think reasonably interpreted to be threats against the sanctity of the jury process threatening and intimidating jury demanding that if there's not a guilty verdict that the father. further. from the problems and given the fact that this jury has not been sequestered that's been my position all along throughout the course of this case that history should have been sequestered. jury has not been continue. that's not been

continually. told to stay away from media only media about this case there's a high probability that that members of this jury have seen these comments are familiar with these comments and things that have happened throughout the course of this trial i mean it's unfortunate that there was another situation that that occurred during the course of this trial but obviously your honor we also as i mentioned previously to one of the jurors lives in the city reconciler as i recall although i think that is the alternate we just dismissed i do not believe so i believe if i was but go ahead now i'd have to go back and double jim i'm not sure and i just think that the sum total of this trial happening in such a public contacts number one number 2 while this all of this and the media attention is profound the middle east in away from 99 percent of it but that has

required me to stay away from all me. i mean this case is made. i mean it's found its way into even fictional television around the world to i was invited to television shows in the course of the past few days specifically involved references to this particular case and the reactions of the characters in these stories to this particular case this jury has has despite all best efforts has been bombarded with information relevant to this case it is impossible to stay away from unless you literally shut off your farm or you shut off your t.v. shut off your computer and no such instructions have been given during the course of this trial to be fair the last few times i've advised them i told them don't watch the news pure and simple but if you can even watch your favorite thursday night television rocker and it comes out in this this is this is the problem and

why i have felt that this jury should have been some class. from the very beginning i understood that clear and so i had moved this on that this again for a mistrial this the idea is this is a public trial i think the court has accomplished that but the media attention is so profound and is such a mean it is such a modern comparison i mean it's such a modern problem to have where literally i walk from this court room into the car where i've been permitted to to stay during the course of this trial i've received literally thousands and thousands and thousands of e-mails so much so that i don't even look at that particular e-mail and so. on but my phone gives new alerts on things that just happen i mean you can't avoid it and it is so perfect pervasive that it is i just don't know how this jury it can really be said to be that they

are free from the taint of this and now that we have u.s. representatives. threatening acts of. violence in relation to this specific case. it's it's mind boggling to. well gave you the waters may have given you. something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned but what's the state's position. position 1st and foremost and this is a concern a reason the beginning of the proceedings you know to jury selection is that we can't allow statements like this big statements to be considered a part of the record on appeal if there is a specific statement that a specific u.s. representative. there needs to be some sort of formal offer of proof with the exact quotes of the exact statement or some kind of

a declaration and i'm sure mr nelson can do that if he thinks that that's something that's appropriate. i don't know that this particular representative made as specified threat of violence and i know what the context of the statement i also don't know what television shows. mr nelson is referring to in terms of in this and so i just don't think that we can money the record with the allegations as to things that have happened without very specific evidence that's being offered before the court as a practical matter through the jury selection process the court has provided instructions has determined whether or not there are any outside influences the law presumes that the jury follows the judge's instructions and the court has instructed the jury instructed the jury today that they're not to let any outside influences or public opinion swear sway their deliberations in the law presumes

that they will be capable of doing so without. any sort of specific. offer of proof or information in the record without any specific evidence that this particular juror juror was influenced in any particular way i believe that the defendant's motion should be denied. and you're making i make my comments i mean in the context of this is all such an evolving situation you see i spend my weekend preparing for closing closing remarks and i certainly can supplement the record with news articles i can supplement the record with the storylines of the particular shows that were brought to my attention so there's i'm making it to know the record at this particular point and i can certainly supplement that you know you can supplement the record with whatever media reports i'm aware of the media

reports i'm aware that congresswoman waters was talking specifically about this trial and about the unacceptability of anything less than a murder conviction and talk about being confrontational but you can submit the press articles about that this goes back to what i've been saying from the beginning i was elected officials will stop talking about this case especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch of our function. i think if they want to give their opinions they should do so in a respectful and in a manner that is consistent with their oath to the constitution to respect a co-equal branch of government. their failure to do so i think is a horror and but i don't think it has prejudiced us with additional material that would prejudice is jury they have been told not to watch the news i trust they are following those instructions and that there is not in any way. approaches to the venom beyond the articles that we're talking specifically about the facts of this

case a congresswoman's opinion really doesn't matter a whole lot. anyway so most for mr ailes tonight. with regard to there was a report that calls were made aware of a few days ago that the germy have been talking to a major media ellett we checked with the major have been it's it appeared great for the beginning that was 3rd hand hearsay telephone game that media outlets in fact took it very seriously did a nationwide contact of all of its reporters and staff to check out any veracity and their parents he is none whatsoever nobody from this major media outlet made any contact and i find that credible and so just for the record i passed that a lie now i think we still have the. memorialization but we also have to talk about obliquely wavering yes. sir

a couple of things in terms of the memorial was a sham. signed ours and jock's yes. we had previously provided it suggested that we provide our memorandum of junctions to france i mean ours. i am going to propose rather than just simply reading through seeking hours time that we submit jackson's writing. consultation. we did not believe has to include just essentially a stipulated pleading that sets out what the objection was what the court's ruling there is no need to repeat what the arguments were the only thing that you and we have been listening to that there is. a where the judge has instructed the jury to begin deliberations in the murder trial of the former minneapolis policeman there chosen we also just heard from eric nelson the defense attorney attorney mentioning

at to the judge just how much media coverage and attention there has been on this case the trial of course and the death of george floyd prior to that and how that might affect the jury let's go live now to ship a town see who is in minneapolis for us jets outside the court following developments was very interesting wasn't in that exchange exchange between erica nelson for the defense and the judge just about the media coverage in the intense attention everywhere in the world really but especially in the u.s. of this case has had. 2 arguments from the defense trying to try to have a mistrial the 1st was on was based on an allegation of prosecutorial misconduct on the part of the prosecution the defense claiming or directing to the prosecutor's use of the term story during the closing arguments suggesting effectively that the

defense had been fabricating evidence that was overruled but then yes this idea that there's been so much media attention the jury has not been sequestered the costs good all the time there will be no were during the trial there how they could watch the media they could read the newspapers even though the george residents of you know he's been telling them not to read not to read the news not to watch the news so the defense that's a. how can anyone be impartial when you have all this information about the trial flying around and all these opinions and then specifically they were discussing a comment from a democratic congresswoman maxine waters this is what she said i hope we get a verdict that says guilty guilty guilty and if we don't we cannot go away we've got to stay on the streets we've got we get more active we've got to get more confrontational we've got to make sure that they know that we mean business so that was much the waters statement on the suggestion down from the defense as well. that

sort of basically saying look if you don't get deliver a guilty verdict there's going to be real real trouble it's not about could be you have a unnecessary influence as a jury is trying to make an impartial decision on their tribe until. the judge the judge said look to be fair i did tell them not to read the news she called the cole and off elected officials of orange but once again did not declare a mistrial i was as the judge suggested that some of these these objections that were just raised could become relevant in the event of an appeal if there is a guilty verdict for now they've just been put on the record for future reference. and shit just stay with us let's listen back to defense lawyer eric nelson who said that there was a lack of evidence to prove chauvin is guilty beyond reasonable doubt he also asked the jury to consider a different show been acted reasonably as

a police officer. the standard is not what should the officer have done in these circumstances it's not what could the officer have done differently in the sight circumstance the standard is what were the facts that were known to this officer at the precise moment he used force and. considering all of the totality of circumstances and facts known to the officer would a reasonable police officer. what would a reasonable police officer have done. eric nelson for the defense there well every bussing to the fence his closing argument prosecutor gerrie blackwell told the jury that common sense was the trial's 46th witness commonsense will continue talking with you all the while because while you've heard hours and hours and hours of discussions here in the closing ultimately it really isn't that

complicated and what it is you have to decide with respect to the excessive use of force and the issue of causation the fact it is so simple. that a child could understand it in fact the child didn't understand it when the 9 year old girl said get off of him that's not simple it was get off of him commonsense. and just the news coming in from the court that it is now in recess until the judge will hear from the jury well let's just remind you of the 3 charges that there were chosen faces now the 1st is unintentional 2nd degree murder with a penalty of up to 40 years in prison prosecutors have to prove that his conduct was quote substantial causal factor in george floyd's that and show been was committing felony assault at the time now sure it is also facing

a 3rd degree murder charge that means his actions cause floyd status with recklessness and that this regard for human life and there's also 2nd degree manslaughter which requires proof that show haven't caused floyd's this through negligence well the jury is a diverse mix of 15 people 9 who are white 4 are black in 2 of mixed race 3 other former officers have also been charged over floyd's death jay alexander king thomas slain in toto but they will not go on trial and till august let's go back to sheer brutality who is outside of court for a so we've just heard that the jury has now been sent to deliberate court is in recess until the judge hears from the jury of course is no way of telling how long it's going to take it will be very interesting with the verdict is on each of those 3 charges. right the jury will now be sequestered we

understand they will have a lot of hope will be. a video evidence there was some analysis that all from the poll is taken to be early on as to whether there is a you know even with susan at this stage in which case obviously we will get a judgment sooner rather than data but really clearly there's no way of knowing what will be happening but it was interesting yes you were talking about those is ugly but i think it's fair to say that these closing arguments one of a lot longer than we would have expected. but juror in the course of those arguments as you mentioned we've got core arguments from the prosecution that this is common sense believe your eyes remember that video which is so so horrifying in some ways. that clearly is a big part of the prosecution believe your eyes believe what you're seeing it doesn't take it doesn't take a huge leap of the imagination to think that what director open is doing to george bush had

a major cause and effect on his that he didn't it wasn't coincidental the prosecution is saying that the average derek show been was kneeling on george floyd that suddenly all of these preexisting conditions decided that it was time to make themselves felt and george floyd died however the the defense is saying look there's a great deal of discussion of reasonable reasonableness both reasonable doubt and what a reasonable officer would do in the situation to show been found himself in and the defense at one point said look if any of the evidence that we presented unreasonable. we mentioned i'm paraphrasing that space aliens suddenly came up came down and landed on earth and said a thing like that always saying is george floyd had plenty of preexisting conditions from his own heart problems with hypertension his drug use it was a tailpipe running which was spewing carbon monoxide apparently perhaps every sure

about that we still don't know whether the car was actually on but these are all of these are all things that were going on at the same time is it reasonable to suspect that maybe some of this had some contributory factor is it reasonable that an officer in a in an area downtown would be concerned about what others would be doing around him what the reaction of the crowd would be given given history isn't it reasonable i mean you know that this was this is about reasonableness and all but the defense has to do is raise this issue of reasonable doubt and at least one juror they don't have to prove anything they just have to say is it reasonable. floyd craven was not the substantial causal factor in floyd. as was i think. the prosecution saying look we're going to use your common sense a trial could seem that something was very very wrong and told 7 to get off boy boy that would be the constant reference to the trial victory if there is

a if there is a guilty verdict that could actually be serving gets a longer sentence than perhaps he would have otherwise because then there's this issue aggravated factors and what are grating factor is committing a crime in front of a trial so that isn't entirely necessarily true i mean those are very. very powerful you argued point but actually also might have abramoff occasions for before a character has been down the line if you has found guilty. chip or tennessee with the latest there outside the court in minneapolis for the moment she had thank you and let's speak now to ronald sullivan a professor of law and the rector of the criminal justice institute at the harvard law school he joins us now by skype from newton in massachusetts sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera an interesting final day closing arguments perhaps longer as she was just mentioning that some people were expecting lengthy. holes at the end the defense even asking for

a mistrial did anything surprise you about what came out today both i guess actual issues that were brought up but also the way that everything was handled. no i don't think there were any surprises i do agree that both sides were a little long winded and by this time in a trial jurors are ready to get going and ready to to start deliberating they've heard all the evidence the closing argument should be summative that is just sum up all of the information be as pithy as possible and then let the jurors go and deliberate but you know having tried hundreds of cases i certainly understand from the lawyers perspective you want to be sure that you get everything in because otherwise you feel just awful if after the verdict the jury since one of just heard this one thing my view may have been swayed it was interesting when the judge was sending the jury out to deliberate in fact leave giving them directions they also

said that they must not consider the consequences of their decision to remain away easier said than done when we think of the enormous attention that this case has had. their true that is part of what we call the structural divide between what the judge does what the lawyers do and what the jury does so the jury has the complete. auteur unmitigated ability to determine the facts that is their problem problems and they pronounce judgment they have nothing whatsoever though to do with the penalty that's the judge's face so the judge will say listen don't don't regard anything else you might hear any consequences it was also a hit to the potential of social unrest all of those things are called extra judicial extra judicial outside of the court ruled the only thing

a jury is supposed to consider is what happens in the courtroom evidence that the judge has allowed to come before them. it was interesting eg gann that when jerry blackwell gave his final statement he sort of said you know trust your common sense common sense is the 46th witness for minding everyone of that shocking video that of course everyone had seen before the trial even even started i mean throughout the trial did you hear anything that you think would be enough to sway minds when it comes to reasonable doubt. well sure there is information there to sway reasonable doubt the prosecution did a good job in terms of what their strongest points were they want the jury to look at this in totality and think my goodness i cannot think of anything else but this 9 minutes and 29 seconds causing the death of george floyd

if the defense is successful they will have convinced all of the jurors that you can't just look at this as one lone tape but rather you have to look at moment by moment from the perspective of a reasonable officer to see what was going on and the defense chopped up the tape chopped up the video anough to suggest that it each of those points in time the officer was behaving reasonably or as a reasonable off officer would because of all of the totality of circumstances in forming the decision so there certainly and nuff there for reasonable doubt what's more likely is that there is enough there for the defense to hang the jury meaning that one or some jurors vote for acquittal and the rest of what for conviction but all you need is one in

a jury is hung and we are we're back here again and have to do the trial over again . ronald sullivan the rector of the criminal justice institute at the harvard law school sir always good to talk to you thank you thank you barbara. well coming up on this news hour from london russian opposition leader alexina rounding is transferred to a prison hospital amid a growing international concern for his health chaotic scenes in new delhi ahead of a 6 day lockdown as india reports almost 274000 new covert infections and tottenham sakit just say moody no we'll have the latest in sports with general . 11 news cuba's governing communist party has elected me. to succeed role castro as its 1st secretary the as has already served as president since 2018 and now

takes on the most powerful position in the country this accession marks the end of 6 decades of rule by the castro brothers feed ellenborough who led cuba's 959 revolution the cuban government is currently under increasing pressure especially from younger generations to make reforms well let's go live now to ed augustine who joins us from have on that so ed what this is appointment actually mean for cuba is it likely to lead to any changes. i think the major changes that there's not going to be a castro a somebody whose name is castro is the most powerful person in cuba for the 1st time in 6 decades which is a phenomenal symbolic phenomenon and one last must remember that love them or hate them both feet castro and to a lesser extent kustra have enormous political capital on the island because they successfully kicked out. u.s.

backed dictator who ran the country and cahoots with the mafia opening hotels like anyone who's ever seen the godfather part 2 will have seen reference to successfully repelled us invasion by the pigs anniversary which took place 2 days ago that's coincided with this handover of power which is the only time in history ever in which a lot of american army has repelled a u.s. planned invasion a new one ever so that speedo and raul castro's legacy and it's understood as such on cuba in cuba may go disco is younger doesn't have the charisma of his older brother doesn't have the reputation of role so really that's it it means that for the 1st time a song without the cachet of a castro is ruling the country a very very difficult time interesting to see how it develops for the moment ed augustine that live from havana thank you. the russian authorities say opposition leader alexina me has been moved to a prison hospital they describe his condition

a satisfactory the kremlin critic has been on hunger strike for 20 days in protest that not being allowed to be treated by his own doctor is russia rejects the growing foreign concerns about the valleys health and warns his supporters that the protests they are organizing will be considered illegal or not smith has more from moscow vladimir region prison hospital number 33 were alexina volley has been transferred. the lawyer for the 44 year old opposition leader says after 20 days on hunger strike drinking only water his client situation is only getting worse or bits and he looks sad so sad he's getting finner vinod and he used to be he walks with difficulty he has no strength alexei is one of these doctors he's not been allowed to seize patient but going by his latest record says no valmy is at risk of kidney failure received charles lewis his health is already in higher then or now

and every day the risk increases the longer person stays on hunger strike the deeper the metabolic disturbance has become and the harder it is for them to get back to normal because a long hunger strike list to damage of all their bodies organ functions is serving a 2 and a half year sentence for embezzlement that he says is trumped up he was arrested in january after returning to russia from germany he spent 5 months there recuperating after almost being killed by what the germans say was poisoning with a banned nerve agent his cases added to moscow's international isolation. russian diplomats have been expelled and the us and e.u. have imposed sanctions the allegations of cyber hacking election interference of spying and the occupation of crimea we are very much worried about the health situation unleashed in the valley yesterday we issued in a statement of behavior the 27 member states asking to russian authorities to

provide. the health care he needs and they are responsible for their safety net and he says he'll stay on hunger strike until a prison or far it is allow him to see his own doctors alexina supporters have asked people across russia to come out and demonstrate on wednesday evening the square in moscow is supposed to be one of the places where they're going to gather and it's already being fenced off russia's police have advised people not to come out and protest burning. al-jazeera moscow. a ukrainian soldier has been killed by separatists in the country's east fighting has escalated in recent weeks undermining a ceasefire agreed last year russia backs the separatists and has been building up its military along the border however even foreign ministers meeting in brussels didn't respond to you crane's calls for new sanctions on russia stratford sent this update from. near the front line ukraine's foreign minister dmitri labor called an

e.u. member states to impose new sanctions on russia to try and prevent a further escalation of fighting in eastern ukraine but it seems as if those demands have been denied the chief diplomat in the e.u. joseph borel said there were no new sanctions planned for the sign being nor were there any new plans for more russian diplomats to be expelled but he expressed deep concern about the troop buildup the russian troop buildup on the ukrainian border the russian military buildup in the u.k. any rule is very concerning it is more than 150000 russian troops massing in deucalion borders and engage in creamier the risk of further escalation it said didn't. we have to commend ukraine

for its chris trained response and we should rest here to discriminate and to diffuse dench you see early evening here in the town of the town about a kilometer off from the front line and what you can hear there is the sound of shelling the shelling started i suppose about half an hour ago we're not sure whether it's incoming or outgoing but it's fair to say that there are many people in towns like this right the way around the frontline that are very concerned that violations like this of a cease fire a cease fire that was silent signed in 2015 and which both sides of being accused of committing there are concerns here by people of these violations spiral out of control in the specially in the context of such a huge russian military build up on the ukrainian border 20 check embassy employees who were expelled by the russian government have left moscow there were

ordered out in response to the check expulsion of 18 russian staff over explosions and arms that post 7 years ago the government said it suspected russian intelligence to be behind the attack in particular installed to have involved the 2 russian operatives accused of a nerve agent poisoning in the u.k. there is being shock and outrage around europe after 12 of the top football clubs from england italy and spain announced plans for their own european league it's been condemned by politicians sports executives and fans as a move fueled purely by greed the super league would guarantee them qualification and hundreds of millions of dollars but as naved barker reports it could hurt the spirit of the game. hours after some of the continent's richest clubs threaten to split european football into the sport's governing body in europe you wafer hit

back hard saying you were expelled the clubs players from future european championships and world cups i can't stress more strongly at this moment. in the footballing world stand united against these graceful self-serving proposals we have seen in the last 24 hours from a select few clubs in europe that are fuelled purely by greed above all else on sunday night 12 of the continent's richest clubs revealed plans to form a european super league rivaling you a 1st prestigious champions league pass alone we are madrid and athletico have agreed to join in spain in italy both ac and into milan have signed up alongside eventis and 6 clubs from england's premier league also want to join manchester united city liverpool chelsea arsenal and tottenham the managers of the teams have been dodging quick questions let's be honest i'm employee of this club and i trust

this club and my chop is very clear so i'm maybe not the right person to ask the internet already i'm just a manager and i'm prepared to coach my players under any circumstances the plans enough unprompted this intervention from the british prime minister we're going to look at everything that we can do with the football authorities to make sure that this doesn't go ahead of the way that it's currently being proposed so far no teams from france or germany including the current european champions by munich plan to join the new league but 3 more clubs are expected to sign up or set to pocket more than 400000000 dollars when they do it a project funded by u.s. banking giant j.p. morgan seriously the midst of a pandemic an economic crisis football clubs at national league level going bust nearly furloughing players clubs on the edge in league one and 2 and these lobbied assume calls about breaking away and basically create more great. joke the super

league clubs want to start as soon as possible but the premier league league and syria all joined us in condemning the move so too have many fans competing clubs face being booted out of their domestic leagues several television broadcasters were also refusing to abandon you a for a national league to join the new project but if it does go ahead football single sporting pyramid from the lowest grass roots teams all the way to the top might never be the same again leave barca al-jazeera. a 6 day lockdown has begun in the new delhi region to prevent its health system collapsing as india continues to set new records for daily covert cases scientists are studying a new variant with

a double mutation to see if it is behind the rise in infections or just 2 weeks ago the country recorded almost 97000 cases a day around the 1000 under the country in september of last year a week later infections had surged to 168000 a day and now india has reported nearly 274000 confirmed cases in the last a day and more than 1600 deaths victoria beef reports. india is in the grip of the 2nd wave of 19 and nowhere is that being felt that it is hospitals there are shortages of beds oxygen supplies and medicine adult to say this time they've seen a change in who is being admitted to hospital what we're seeing and this is all an . experience is there are younger patients who are being admitted to hospital.

and are most strict then the type of disease that young patients usually have makes this might be a modern. india reported 275000 new cases a monday that's the highest daily tally in a country that's now the 2nd worst affected in the world. scientists say a new variant with a double mutation may be driving up infections in most cases we've only seen one area of the virus mutating from the original virus in this case we have 2 separate me taishan sites which is really concerning because as you know you know every time that we have a mutation we're worried about increased transmissibility increased threat of death and lack of ability of our back seems to work despite the rising cases political and religious gatherings are continuing in many places last week 3000000 hindu

pilgrims bathed in the ganges river for the camelia festival and millions more voted in local elections in the state of utter pradesh i think the guard was let down our just by indians but by indian leaders massive election rallies were held. and subsequently the matter of him don't pester will of whom all want to be ordering 2 words massive storage in the city of ghaziabad the creditor awful so some families had to cremate their relatives on the street and with a new variant with a double mutation to contend with india faces many mood difficult days ahead victoria gave him the al-jazeera. human rights watch says china is committing crimes against humanity against the we go population in xinjiang province in a new report drawing on data collected by rights groups and journalists it says

that as many as a 1000000 people have been arbitrarily detained in so-called political education camps pretrial detention centers or prisons the detainees are subjected to torture indoctrination and forced labor outside the tension that report says the chinese government imposes a preventative system of mass surveillance controls on movement and then force the disappearance of her kids muslims the report to highlights cultural and religious eradication zz saying 2 thirds of marxists mosques in xinjiang have been damaged or destroyed even family life is under threat fishel regularly stay overnight at the homes of turkish muslims a practice that authorities say promotes ethnic unity and children whose parents have been detained or put in orphanages or boarding schools if any other government the world was committing crimes against humanity on

a scope and scale we would probably already be well on their sale to the kind of independent investigation that we're calling for. and i think it's it's. that the chinese government no longer extracts. the european union has announced new sanctions on members of me and mars' military is new evidence of the junkers brutality emerges the e.u.'s top diplomats as the saying sanctions will hit 10 individuals and 2 corporations belonging to the military it comes as a political prisoner monitoring group in me and maher appeals for stronger international action it's worried about the alleged torture and murder of antique protestors it follows the broadcast on state television over images of 6 young detainees bearing obvious signs of abuse. chad's army says it's repelled an attack by

a rebel group in the north of the country it comes as early results from the election 8 days ago show that president be heading towards a 6th term in office the opposition boycotted the vote after many of the potential rivals were prevented from running as morgan reports now from the capital they're calling for a cease fire and dialogue. this is what chaps government says is the aftermath of fighting between its forces and the armed group known as the fund for change and concord one day 300 of its fighters were killed and at least 100 captured in the northern province of am about 300 kilometers from the capital and jim may now be able to show for the sort that as you can see we've stopped the rebels and we've captured some of them others of fluid but we're not combing the region to get them the government says 5 of its soldiers were killed and dozens more injured the latest fighting between the 2 sides comes just a week after the group attacked

a government position at the border on election day it was formed in 2016 and says it aims to remove longtime president idriss deby who's leading an early election results debbie has been in power since 1900 he's faced new or school attempts and rebellions mostly in the east the capital and to may now was overrun twice by different rebel groups in 20062008 chat's closest ally france provided its military with logistical support and intelligence while the u.s. u.k. and germany called on their nationals and nonessential staff to leave the country chad the government says that decision was premature and the armed group itself insists it was not necessary. we assure all residents of the city of and gemini and around including diplomatic staff united nations agents partners and ex-pats working in chad to stay calm and avoid unnecessary travel outside the city we call on all essential state workers on duty in the kemo region in particular in the

medical service not to desert their positions and to continue normally with their public service for the population. in the capital one people panicked opposition leaders who want to be 11th elections condemned by the rebels at least 15 groups have called for a ceasefire and imaginal dialogue on 2 of the country's opposition they've opted for talks away from violence but the front for change in concord which has chosen military action says it will continue to pursuit of toppling debby's government despite its recent losses people more going on to theory. the mayor of cape town says firefighters have contained the fire that's ravaged the slopes of table mountain strong winds had fanned the flames and prevented emergency crews from using helicopters to fire fighters were burnt while tackling the blazes from the ground buildings have been destroyed at the city's university and residents

were evacuated from suburbs under threat fires often break out in this part of south africa during periods of drought germany's green party has named its candidate to succeed angela merkel in september's election as the ruling conservatives remain locked in a power struggle over who they will choose i don't mean a bare ball will be the left leaning party's 1st candidate for chancellor in 40 years the former champion trampoline is the became an m.p. and just 33 support for her party has risen over the past year with recent polls showing it 2nd behind merkel's union bloc many germans say their 1st straighted with the government's pandemic response was that from the echo has more on this from berlin. it really is the end of an era when it comes to german politics chancellor angela merkel who has run this country for 16 years will no longer be in charge of her september's election the will seem to be somewhat already coming off

when it comes to her ruling alliance a lot of back and forth between 2 men one the leader of the c.d.u. are mean it and markers so who runs the c.s.u. both men wanting that post but it's down to the parties to decide and so far even though they've set themselves a deadline of sunday that hasn't been agreement as to who may be the candidate now certainly seems to have more popular support but the main party the c.d.u. so that support behind. in contrast really the greens the green party has given in the name of their candidate in a far calmer easier decision it seems annalyn a bare boat she's 14 years old that was announced on monday and also the greens have been getting more support over the last few years in particular when it comes to the managing or recently mismanaging so to speak of the corona crisis when it comes to the ruling alliance they've been losing points of the big question will be

what kind of a role will the greens be playing in any new government some will say that there is a small chance of them even being able to get the chance to ship. it's a trip no helicopter has ever made before and now such a craft called ingenuity has made the 1st successful flight on mars it's the 1st time that engineers on earth flown an aircraft on another planet and as laura burton manley explains they had to overcome huge technical challenges. all 10 of our data. on. the excitement from these nasa scientists and engineers was clear as they made space flight history these still images from mars show ingenuity the 1st how to cope to ever to fly on the other planets and then came the video it's granted at 1st and then shows us covering our 3 meters above the r.c. surface and then touching back down is amazing brilliant we're going to be making

your i guess your crater mars is not yet over isn't just a referee like. the united nations take a moment on how to best approach the world and more from our. ingenuity took off from the dusty red surface of mars this desired crater early on monday but the data took several hours to reach a milestone for space flight that nasa scientists compared to the 1st flight on earth by the wright brothers in 1903 technology demonstrations are really important for all of us you know it's really taking a tool that we haven't been able to use and put it in the box of tools like they said they'll go for all of our missions going forward at mars if we really want to explore the red planet explore possibility of past life present microbes and things like that under different conditions. we're going to need to travel quite

a distance which a helicopter like this with absolutely allows. flying a helicopter or drone is a seemingly simple task on earth but engineers aren't used to flying them on mars. the flights can be affected by many things the martian atmosphere is very thin and so it's more difficult for the helicopters one point to me to retrieve plates to lift itself up. in its test flight on earth scientists had to create conditions similar to mars the ingenuity weighs 1.8 kilograms on earth but only 0.68 kilograms on mars its batteries can also be affected by temperature on mars that's an average of minus $53.00 degrees celsius. ingenuity isn't alone it hitched a ride to the red planet on nasa's perseverance rover which touched down in

february and will soon begin to explore the mars surface ingenuity is expected to conduct more flight tests with the hope that one day it can travel further as part of nasa quest to find any signs of life on mars. the al-jazeera. well gemma is here now with this forward and the latest on that massive story of a so-called super league yeah well there is only one place to start bar with that story that has rocked european football 12 top teams of signed up to a breakaway simply competition and it's prompted a very strong response from governing body away for president alexander severin has vowed to stand against what he describes as a disgraceful and self-serving proposals he confirmed that players involved in the super league will be banned from competing for that national teams at world cups and european championships and is branded football chiefs involved snakes singling out to manchester united executive ed woodward and eventers chairman and rarely

ellie. it's personal betrayal to the other claps they were promising the other swe are improving we will do this and that and they didn't i mean i said before i spoke with the c.e.o. or or whatever he's at manchester united that would work on thursday he called me he says great reforms i fully supported. only financial fair play let's speak in the future but fantastic great he was happy he looked happy. i heard him happy. i spoke with danieli i think 20 times in the last days the last time on saturday when i said i hear rumors about some super league and he says no this is a lie don't believe it i will call you back in one hour and he turned off the phone so it's hard to believe the level of emotion the of some people i mean.

i'm i'm very surprised and all my colleagues are surprised and when we speak to the claps they're shocked they dick wouldn't believe it so we have what we have and football will not be so sold to 2 i call them dirty dozen. those teens that sephora refer to as the dirty dozen a spanish clubs around woodridge boss lane and athletic a major is in italy a very small and clubs and eventis and the 6 from the english premier league a manchester united city liverpool chelsea arsenal tottenham but liverpool at $31.00 all with leeds in the premier league on monday night in the leeds players 14 shots in protest of the super league during that woman and an airplane also you flew over the elland road stadium with a bama reading a hash tag say no to super league liverpool manager yog and club spoke before the

game and confirmed he's against the idea and clarke was unhappy to see that some liverpool fans hung bombers outside their ground is urging supporters to get behind the players and not blame them for boardroom decisions but their anger is clear to see. what was a complete and football's about sometimes we need to stop trying to get there yet they won't stop when they want to or because i'm 40 and it's disgraceful it's discourse and i will fight for you from where'd you know it's you know. but we'll leave the final word on the safe play get to former manchester united great eric cantona who posted this to his instagram page a short time ago i want to say something about the europeans very since one of them we have seen games and t.v. the best clubs you know well the best players in the world and it was so boring and so boring because of the sounds of there the sounds being supporting

that james so the fans are the most important thing. so they have to be respected did speak. to the fans once they saw about this idea no unfortunately in the same. one of the breakaway super league teams tottenham have sacks their head coach jay is a marine you left the club's training ground for the last time on monday arriving home to his flat in london with his hands full of memorabilia from his 17 months at the club a 7th in the premier league a sports correspondent rob harris explains where it all went wrong for the portuguese boss yeah he's lost any 17 months in charge of a familiar picture a play a feud and various disputes within the club really escalated through this season a season when at one point it looked like they could be on for the title there in

top 1st place in december but they've completely collapsed also accepted the f.a. cup the europa league and now like 7th in the premier league but green years exit comes just days before yours due to potentially with habitable is going to chance to end top of the trophy drought going back to 2008 and has missed out the chance to take home runs to city in the league cup final and chairman daniel leaving levy recognising this be a difficult period for jason marino and tottenham join the pandemic of the last year or so but ultimately he goes out having failed to restore tottenham to even a position they were under show patino and he lays one of the shorts as the shorter spell of his manage a new career since the early days of it and that wraps up what was a very busy day for us thoughts on monday definitely was gemma thank you very much and that is a to our for this news hour to stay with us still going to be back in just a few minutes with more of that these things thanks for watching.

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