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but on a cloud of this is and is there a line from doha also coming up. on the verge of the obese yes floods fires and droughts the u.n. confirms 2020 was one of the hottest on record despite carbon emissions dropping during the pandemic. and why some of the world's best footballers face bans if their clubs join a breakaway european competition. so after 3 weeks of witness an expert testimony jury deliberations have begun in the trial of the former police officer accused of killing george floyd as after final arguments were made on monday now the prosecution asked the jury whether floyd

would have died without today or been kneeling on his neck for 9 and a half minutes they argue this was murder not policing. he begged george floyd begged and till he could speak no more and the defendant continued. this is salt. when he was unable to speak the defendant continued when he was unable to breathe the defendant continued beyond the point that he had a pulse beyond the point that he had a pulse the defendant continued this assault 9 minutes and 29 seconds. when the ambulance arrived but ambulance was here. and the defendant continued he stayed on top of him well the defense says the show even acted the way any reasonable police officer would have in a difficult situation 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 with a reasonable police officer. what would a reasonable police officer have done in their rebuttal the prosecution argued even a child could see it was shavings actions that led to mr floyd's death well for more let's go to see every time the who's the forests in the city of minneapolis she have multiple charges on the table there's a number of ways that things could play out in what has been a trial under intense media scrutiny. right i think you're summarize the arguments well that not only did the prosecution

say a child could understand what was going on they said the child did understand what was going on a 9 year old child was present bad told derek show them to get off george floyd the prosecution saying that call them sense should be the 46 witness in this trial to that the jury should believe their eyes the 9 minutes and 29 seconds of direct show been kneeling on george floyd as as george floyd pleaded for his life the defense however talking a great deal about reasonable reasonable doubt because the only thing that they have to do is instill that reasonable doubt in the mind of one juror and the defense saying look nothing we've said is unreasonable we haven't invoked space aliens we've just said that there are all these superseding causes joad floyd's health problems his drug addiction is hypertension his heart problems even perhaps carbon monoxide from the tel pipe of the police cruiser and yes

9 minutes 29 seconds makes for uncomfortable viewing but given the circumstances that show been found himself and he was acting as a reasonable officer would do it may not be attractive the defense said but it was allowed they said and the guidelines that showed when it was working. and it be no protests tensions throughout the trial right now we have protesters on the streets outside the court in minneapolis and we don't know how of course how long these deliberations will take but whenever they come the verdicts will shape what happens or not on the streets. and we've heard that the white house has been in touch with authorities around the country we know various states and jurisdictions of hold for national guard help potentially we know just in this state the minnesota governor has just declared a peace time emergency which means that hole in the security forces from neighboring states from ohio and the brusca to come to minnesota and police the

streets we should also remember that there have been demonstrations on a nightly basis for a case unrelated to george floyd's death for the for the killing of dante writes a 20 year old who was killed the police came because a police officer mistook a taser. gun we have seen the protests because of that clearly that's feeding in to the to the of discontent because of george foot already but this is what the minnesota governor had to say just want to go we must acknowledge to troops we cannot allow civil unrest to descend into chaos we must protect life and property but we also must understand very clearly if we don't listen to those communities in pain and those people on the streets many of whom were arrested are speaking a fundamental truth that we must change we will be right back here again. it's interesting to hear the governor say that we've been monitoring him going to

the protests for a week now and it didn't seem like the security forces who have amassed in brooklyn center about 16 kilometers north of the center of minneapolis well that's not really that was actually defines it seemed really from the security forces gathered that even to the one point going to lose lives matter flag which suggested that they weren't really listening to the pain and i'm discontent that we were seeing on the streets each night as a often the case as a moment where the security forces seem to snap and just indiscriminately firing tear gas and pepper spray and smoke bombs but perhaps now the governor is saying we should we should perhaps have been listening but more we will to know just actually that the media has been targeted on many of these in these nights we ourselves were detained at one point but the governor saying that the media will not be attacked but we did wonder what they were so keen for us not to see so we'll we'll find out whether this is this this this is more conciliatory approach from the governor will actually benefit. yes she had thanks for that she ever tansey live for us in minneapolis russian opposition leader he has been moved to

a prison hospital his doctor says he could be near death while prison authorities describe his condition is satisfactory the kremlin critic is in his 3rd week of a hunger strike and its myth has more now from moscow vadim a region prison hospital number 33 is where 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 bichon he looks sad so sad he's getting finner vinod than he used to be he walks with difficulty he has no strength alexei alley is one of his doctors he's not been allowed to seize patient but going by his latest records says novelli is at risk of kidney failure received just released 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 the body's 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 u.s. and e.u. have imposed sanctions for allegations of cyber hacking election interference spying and the occupation of crimea we have very much worried about the health situation unleashed in the valley yesterday we issued a statement of behavior the 27 member states hosking to russia on the side it is 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 prisoner forages 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. a ukrainian soldier has been killed by separatists in the country's east fighting is escalated in recent weeks undermining a cease fire agreed to last year russia backs the separatists and has been building up its military along the border moscow has rejected calls to pull back saying it's free to deploy troops within its own territory. the head of european football's governing body says plans for a rival european super league is a spit in the face for european football 12 of the continent's top clubs including mentions united and real madrid announced plans to join the new multi-billion

dollar project in barca as this. was after some of the continent's richest clubs threatened to split european football into the sport's governing body in europe you way for hit back hard saying you were expelled the clubs players from future european championships and world cups i cannot 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 in 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 in prompted 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 sent to pocket more than $400000000.00 when they do in a project funded by u.s. banking giant j.p. morgan seriously in the midst of a pandemic an economic crisis football clubs at national league level going boss

nearly furloughing players clubs on the edge in league one and 2 and these lobby to soon 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 in condemning the move so too have many fans competing clubs face being booted out of their domestic leagues several television broadcasters are also refusing to abandon you a for a national league to join the new project but if it does go ahead football's single sporting pyramid from the lowest grassroots teams all the way to the top may never be the same again nieve barca al-jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera cuba turns the page on the castro here and choose a new communist party president to lead the country. and a foreign and south african landmark is under control we look at how much

destruction it's caused. how there the weather looks very unsettled across florida at the moment we got some very heavy rains sliding across the deep south through the panhandle states pretty wet here for a time the mcgrath you see things are quite a dance this area of high pressure starts to have an effect further north we've got this cold front that's sinking its way further south with cold northerly waynes arctic winds pushing some snow yes know into central parts of the u.s. across the plains just 7 celsius there for kansas city 3 degrees in chicago to the east of that is fine warm and sunny 23 in d.c. a 20 for new york not too bad we'll see that so when she makes started to push its way towards the northeast as we go on into

a wet and stay dry down towards the southeast i'm pleased to say i love the drive across central pasts and it is temperatures starting to recover kansas city getting up to around 11 celsius no such issues for the west it stays warm to the up towards pacific northwest seattle still getting up to $21.00 degrees celsius that's 70 in found high slushy dry across the caribbean meanwhile some pleasant sunshine coming through here of course we have got some wet weather just coming in across the gulf of mexico some showers into central america we could see some lovely downpours all the way down into panama. coveted beyond land. taken without hesitation forgotten died for our. power defines our law and all those little babies were toilet i did it look. it's

like let the babies to death people in power investigate exposes and question the use and abuse of power around the clock. on now to c.n.n. . but again you're watching his or her mind about top stories this hour and after 3 weeks of witness and expert testimony jury deliberations have begun in the trial of the former police officer accused of killing george floyd itself the final arguments were made on monday. activists are rallying in front of the minneapolis courthouse calling for shavings conviction minnesota's governor says protesters

have a right to be angry demonstrations cannot be allowed to descend into chaos. russian opposition leader lazing around the has been moved to a prison hospital his doctor says he could be in their death but authorities say his condition is satisfactory the kremlin critic is on a hunger strike of a what he says is a lack of medical treatment. so former minneapolis police officer derrick shaven faces 3 charges the 1st is an intentional 2nd degree murder with a penalty of up to 40 years in prison prosecutors had to prove his conduct was a substantial causal factor in george floyd's death and shaven was committing felony assault at the time he's also facing a 3rd degree murder charge that his actions cause ford's death with recklessness and a disregard for human life there's also 2nd degree manslaughter which requires proof that show even caused floyd's death through negligence so let's take this on let's bring in susanna blumenthal she's

a co-director of the program in lore and history at the university of minnesota also partly residential fellow at the center for the advance study in the behavioral sciences at stanford university joins us via skype from palo alto in california susanna welcome to the program now your expertise is in substantive criminal law that is what the government must prove to convict a person of a crime what elements of this case stand up for you in that regard. well there are i think some very clear questions before the court here that cross all the charges having to do when the question was asian that's going to be an element of asa charges and then the question of reason has to be use of force that is obviously turning quite a liability and so what glenn's of all is that it's a set of questions and that's what their lawyers have been tending about today and

there was an r.v. right in the beginning to the defense case was to put george floyd's drug addiction on the stand was an. well i think they try very hard to relocate the cause of death in georgia floyd that often happens both in the sense that we see prosecutions for police brutality and even more so on the civil side when we see damage suits one of the key moves it's made in defending against lived only for these kinds of actions on the part of these officers is to say that it wasn't a police officer back in the closet back that was something that in hearing he there in the person or in the actions of the victim and it's very poisonous a crime in various ways to be located in the cause of death and then whether the of his resistance or through existing conditions what they had to do with this part or with his drug use and i guess the scent which that was the only one we'll have to wait to see justifying the use of deadly force as a legitimate weapon to

a potentially dangerous suspect how hard is it to prove. to prove what to prove it to justify the use of deadly force as a as a weapon to potentially to become a potentially dangerous suspect. well they've tried very hard to demonstrate that there was active resistance that was a key move made today in the area this century weighted in nelson's closing time and they have a start that used to sort of suggest how you and what you can respond with in terms of course now and the answer they were trying to establish he was in the zone of something more than passive resistance indeed active resistance insofar as he could be using to get into r. and under that definition the suggestion was that their champions behavior in response was justified all the way up to the kind of restraint that what i'm him in having been a prime position but that the prosecution's witnesses across the board. living in

minneapolis the instruments she'd. be given that he had gone beyond the operates use of force plane policy and law for that matter and so i think that the strength of the evidence presented on the side of the prosecution. was was probably the difficult thing for nelson to surmount in his closing of those attempts to do it different uses of the video that he made which i found quite striking in which he used the video that is so. alarming and has ties to the international outset right the thing is that the jury has to decide on 3 charges we don't know how long it's going to take for them to deliberate in the point is it only takes one juror to disagree. yes there is there is some from the beginning i think. so if kind of challenge that was presented to the prosecution was articulated by

keith ellison you general of the state and i'm just going to have a rare it is to get a conviction in a case like this and part of that is because of the presumption of innocence and beyond a reasonable doubt standard but put on top of that the special nature of a prosecution that leaves office or in a country that has located so much discretion in police officers what we see in this moment so dramatically is how much power and authority he located in police officers to make decisions about when and whether to use force and i think if this he shows us nothing else it shows us how much how are we as a country located in these ups as a matter of course but what is important to emphasize is that the police officers. in minneapolis in this particular these are and have articulated those as he gave you that is not going to make their own lives. we really appreciate your expertise

and perspective on the science very much indeed thank you thank you. in a new report the united nations has issued another stark warning of the state of the global climate top u.n. officials say the world is on the verge of the abyss with global temperatures moving dangerously close to the cap set by the paris agreement james bates reports from your headquarters in new york. 2020 was the year that for many normality stops the covert 19 pandemic meant many factories and offices across the world closed commuters stayed at home and airports were largely empty as the global and networks were reduced to skeleton schedules you might think the resulting drop in carbon emissions had a discernible effect on the environment didn't the year which saw the largest ever wildfires in california and colorado and global sea levels rising was still one of the warmest 3 years on record the dates in these reports should

a lot i'm as old. 2020 was 1.2 degrees celsius hot then pre-industrial times we are getting dangerously close to the 1.5 degree celsius limits that was set by the scientific community we are on the verge of the obese so why did the slowdown caused by the pandemic not have a more positive effect on the environment according to the secretary general of the world meteorological organization because the effects were temporary carbon dioxide levels have been building up over many decades last year for about a 2nd person propane for it mr speaker so very. best in their field our best consumption of. service gas as it were a story you haven't seen him back in the real atmosphere this grim report the u.n.

says is something every world leader should read many prime ministers and presidents will be attending a virtual summit organized by president biden on earth day this thursday the u.n. secretary general says he wants to hear promises of action from countries rather than just more words james pays al-jazeera at the united nations. the european union has announced a new sanctions on members to minimize military is new evidence of the joint is brutality emerges the use top diplomat says the sanctions will hit 10 individuals and 2 corporations belonging to the military it comes as a political prisoner monitoring group in myanmar appeals for stronger international action. cuba has marked the end of the custer era with the transfer of power to a new leader. can succeed. communist party chief the most powerful position in cuba. has been president since 2018 the succession moxy and of the 6

decades rule by raul castro and his brother fidel who led cuba's 159 revolution a lot in america too soon human as more from chinese capital of santiago. information about what transpired in the closing session of the cuban communist party's congress is beginning to trickle down now that will castro confirmed that president began b s can and who is 60 years old will take over as the 1st secretary of the all powerful party master said that this was not the result of something that was improvised but rather of a careful selection of what he called young revolutionaries who had shown that they had the characteristics needed to be promoted to higher positions in the party the politburo will be made up of many of the same names as before the defense minister the interior minister the foreign minister even the president of the national assembly estefan last so who is 77 years old but one name that will not remain is

that of my child and buddha he is 90 years old a hard liner and he was until now the 2nd secretary of the party perhaps the most interesting thing about the whole thing is that it was carried out under absolute secrecy this was unusual not even in the opening speeches of the inaugural session or broadcast on cuban state television only a summary of what had transpired several hours later. what we do know though is that raul castro did criticize or rather mention the growing dissent on the island which you seem to attribute at least in part to social media he said that there was fake news circulating and that the whole point of this he. it was to try to bring about a social uprising on the communist island and this perhaps may be an indication of what's to come which could be further restrictions are already limited access to internet in cuba. the mayor of the south african city of cape town says the

firefighters have contained a blaze on table mountain strong winds from the flames for more than 24 hours destroying buildings including parts of university robert adams as. overworked and exhausted these are just some of the 250 firefighters we've been battling the fire on the slopes of title mountain despite. the destroyed knowledge of the university of parts of its collections of centuries old literature so that it is oldest and only working when mo. dating back to the late seventy's hundreds was also a casualty by monday afternoon city officials declared the fire mostly under control. of the u.c. . to watch it and 3. of the 4 year experience for your fight to stop the fire uses to do with.

more than $400.00 pictures of lead an investigation is underway to determine its cause but it's been confirmed one suspect has been arrested accused of arson. this is stuck at the bottom of table mountain or do you think it's just little bits of smoke at the moment firefighters backing up getting back to base. on monday packing up this stuff it was smoke everywhere it was pretty chaotic. as some people flee to safety others chose to whiten out. the incident of 40 years mohamad simon says he's seen his share of mounting violence. ok the last fire was massive it was more than a fire but this one is more when. donations from the public in big business have been reeling in full firefighting crews and those displaced by the fire have been

taken in by people nearby. there is no city like the motor city when we have a crisis in this city no other city in south africa response like this no other city has this kind of here's where you will see these kind of donations and volunteer activity and outpourings of contributions and assistance this is a thing of the mother city and we're very proud that people are willing to come forward and make these kind of contributions now the hope is that the winds will subside and they won't be any further flare ups and the fire could be extinguished in the coming days adams al jazeera. says these are the top stories and after 3 weeks of witness an expert testimony jury deliberations have begun in the trial of the former police officer accused of killing george floyd that's after final arguments were made on monday activists are

rallying in front of the minneapolis courthouse calling for a show of ins a conviction i mean he said his government says protesters have a right to be angry with demonstrations cannot be allowed to descend into chaos. we must acknowledge to troops we cannot allow civil unrest to descend into chaos.