a desperate situation the indian government set up a new commission to monitor sources of and pollution across 5 known for india the state's health experts and environmentalists have been wanting for months for the easing of the lockdown would lead to an increase in television and the impact that would have on dogs in the car the 19. chance army says president idriss deby has died of injuries suffered while leaving soldiers on the front line his son the army general will be interim leader. he was one of the region's longest serving leaders the army says one of his sons will take over but many questions linger over chad and the region. as a whole rob your child has their own lives my headquarters here in doha are also coming

up western nations tell russia to stop threatening ukraine and wallah gates moscow's plans to close parts of the black sea to foreign ships the jury's out in the murder trial of derek trayvon the former minneapolis police officer accused of killing george floyd. welcome to the program chad's army has announced pro-drug president idriss deby has been killed the army says he was leading soldiers fighting rebels on the frontline that he had just won reelection and was one of africa's longest serving leaders be begins our coverage. this was chad's president idriss deby campaigning last week provisional election results indicated he'd won a 6th term in office the debbie had reportedly joined his son and other soldiers on saturday to repel an attack by a rebel group in the northern province of can in. the border with libya according

to the military he was severely injured it says it will now create a transitional military council led by debbi son and has suspended the constitution or union for a transitional government will be put in place the new republican institutions we put in place to facilitate the transition and by the organization of free democratic and transparent elections following the spirit of sacrifice that the marshal of chatted for for all his life right up until his last suffering idriss deby was a former military officer who came to power in 1990 he faced numerous coup attempts and analysts say he had a reputation for ruthlessness the electoral campaign was very violent and just i think something we in the small and we remember that interested me and. so rounded the home of an opponent and killed his mother the rebel front for

a change in concord great wanted to remove debbie as president it attacked a government position at the buddha on election day on april the 11th chats closest ally france provided its military with logistical support and intelligence it seems like the removal of debbie has not changed the military situation and as long as the military remains largely loyal to his son which seems likely to be the case given that he used to be the commander of the presidential guard and the chinese best units he's a 4 star general is only 37 years old. if you can keep that loyalty then there's no way the rebellion can can take advantage of that any more than they could have under his father. more than 300 rebel fighters have reportedly been killed in the fighting over the past few days the president has now died in the fighting has shocked the nation and made the security situation in the whitish hell region even more fragile. morgan is following developments from child

scotland and says the army was quick to implement a military council so soon after. the 1st thing that the military announced following the announcement that has come with injuries is that they are suspending the constitution as well as the government and the legislative assembly or the parliament so all those institutions that were in place prior to president are no longer in place and now we have like a 7 year old. who is a 4 star general who was the 2nd in command in the chaldean intervention in northern mali so he does have a certain degree of military experience which is which looks like what this military or the transitional military council is looking to leave the country during this crisis that is formed due to the death of president now we also look at members of the transitional military council level members of them from the army

from various ethnicities and tribes that is something it looks like the army has studied very well there has been concern that there will be division. amongst the military in a country where security has always been top priority that is something we heard a repeatedly from people here during elections saying that they're concerned about the security but it looks like the army does very well during the period where suffering. and make sure to come up with a transitional military council. neighboring nigeria says support for military action against rebel troops will be missed by regional leaders. he is no stranger to leading his troops on the battlefront last year he was on the shores of lake chad leading the troops and ducked help in ousting book or routing them from territories and then he made an announcement a controversial announcement that recently was later was later clarified by the

child you know authorities he said well he has dealt with the problem when he stared treats up to the neighboring countries to deal with the problems like you doesn't want to see is that them reluctant big odds and then the book quote unquote is and i saw fighters. streaming back into child again later on he met with the regional leaders and they discourse and there was some progress to such an extent and we've seen an uptick in the movement of charge in forces in the region which of course helped to deal with the problems now the conflict is raging we've seen how book or time has succeeded in attacking military formations occupying briefly some towns and cities in the north east of the country and cameroon is also dealing with its own problems now these countries will definitely mean it greece debbie's. contributions in this region and not not only in the elected we can we're talking about the hell but can a fossil molly countries like france which also relied on the expertise and the experience of child and forces in dealing with the crisis in the region these

countries will definitely miss that experience. well more than 20 russian warships are taken part in military exercises in the black sea that's according to russian media the move comes as the u.s. pushes back against moscow's plan to block foreign ships from parts of black sea for 6 months washington says the move is an unprovoked escalation it fears russia will restrict access to ukrainian ports in the sea of as often that it marks another attempt by moscow to destabilize the country conflict between kids forces and russian backed separatists in eastern ukraine has been escalating the use top diplomat says russia has deployed 100000 troops along the border well earlier i spoke to births within moscow on the tensions of the condition of jailed kremlin critic alexina valley. there are some recently published satellite images showing what is a very serious buildup of military hardware in and around crimea and ukraine we've seen pictures of fighter jets lined up on

a runway in crimea we've seen pictures of air borne troops armand units attack helicopters smoke generators. jamming equipment reconnaissance drones and a military hospital and the e.u. and u.s. estimate this between 82100000 ground troops along the ukraine russia border russia says all of this the defense minister sergei sure is because nato and the u.s. are indulged provocative activities in waters and airspace around the black sea he doesn't say what those provocative activities are exactly and he says these are long planned military drills of course but another story that we keep very close eye on in russia developments in the health of the kremlin critic alexi the different voices saying different things about the state of his health what's happening with him or people who have seen him or all generally united in the view that he is in

a very bad way his lawyer was one of the last most recent to see him last night he says he's now been given a glucose drip but as an indication of how ill alexei navalny is it said 3 nurses made 6 failed attempts to find a vein to put that drip in and only on the 7th the time where they able to put the drip in he's now in a solitary ward in a prisons tuberculosis hospital no indication he's got tuberculosis. i. the jury in the murder trial of former minneapolis police officer during chervin is holding its 1st full day of deliberations the 12 jurors are considering 3 weeks of testimony from 45 witnesses jovan sickies day of killing george floyd after kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes president joe biden called george floyd's brother on monday so long as what the president say to you

what did you say to him and what was that like in general. it was just his collar. he no it is the to lose a family member and he knows the process of what we've gone through so he was just let them know letting us know that he was praying for us and hoping that everything will come out to be ok. yes yes basically. well childhood dream is following the trial for minneapolis and joins us now to the 1st full day of jury for the jury deliberates the trial itself it really is just a waiting game isn't anybody watching. it is it indeed and president joe biden just talked about that phone call is well he said that he was praying for the right verdict he said the evidence was overwhelming in his eyes but he stopped short of saying that there should be a guilty verdict and he pointed out that he waited until the jury would sequestered

are isolated for their deliberations before making public that conversation but as the jury is deliberating in they've been doing so for 3 hours today on their 2nd day of deliberations security and engines are pretty high here in minneapolis if you look at the building behind me back there you can see those high gates that is normally a road that goes through the courthouse and it's closed off now we've got national guard troops in the streets here in minneapolis along with police but it's not just here this is also happening in washington d.c. where they already had 2300 national guard troops lingering since that attack on the capitol in january 6th and in chicago there are a 125 national guard troops that have been called in by governor j.b. pritzker there so really you've gone and you're curity across the country and of course as because people were very concerned that there might be a recurrence of the kinds of protests that also mingled with riots and arson last

summer after the death of george floyd so tensions and tempers are all high indeed we'll keep monitoring the situation with you and minneapolis john who did that for us. still ahead here on al-jazeera 1000 migrant workers rushed to leave the indian capital ahead of a weeklong curfew as a surging coronavirus cases threatens to overwhelm parts of the country and the british government threatens to pass new laws to stop some of its top football clubs joining a breakaway european competition those details after the break. it's time for the perfect jenny the weather sponsored point qatar airways the rains gathering again in china and it will probably keep gathering in moves in unusual direction because of disruption to the system just coming in to the bottom

your screen says super typhoon is off the edge of the philippines now in the forecast it stays over open water to get dangerously close to some of the smaller japanese islands and to taiwan but it does mean that temporarily there's no rain in the korean peninsula or in japan the sun is out to warm things up and here's the progress of the next bit of rain out of china and it does go to china to the yellow sea and probably heading towards the korean peninsula for the weekend the same time so the game is over open water but you can imagine the swell hitting the eastern side of taiwan the town south of all this and the rainy season looks like it's coming to a close the raw showers in indonesia and malaysia but not that many to be honest the forecast chop shows precious few dark blue top the rather more obvious in sumatra peninsular malaysia and maybe bits of thailand and arguably the rains trying to get into the bay of bengal but it's taking a step back off over the last 4 days and apart from a few showers and karen scattered elsewhere india is fairly dry quite hot in the

north and still has quite a few showers still to affect danny. qatar airways. out just a year ago this beneath the waves with a team of women determined to save the day old friends we all share the same responsibility they need it is i think clearly by that time a thing adding by using a variety of scientific techniques to bring to study their behavior we can monitor that and therefore they're both old photos and behavior we're able to how they're adapting to their new environment women make science dolphin sanctuary on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me so robin reminder of our top stories the army and child has announced that president idriss deby has been killed while leading soldiers on the front lines that he had just won re-election it was one of africa's longest serving leaders his son general idriss deby has been named as the interim leader of an 18 month long military transitional council the army says democratic elections will take place after the transition period. the u.s. has called russia's plans to block parts of the black sea to foreign ships as an unprovoked escalation washington says it will be another attempt by moscow to destabilize ukraine. bus and train stations in india's capital have been over world does thousands of migrant workers flee the city the latest restrictions to curb the spread of krona virus see many daily wage earners losing their jobs

india is struggling to stem the world's largest rise in cases elizabeth parata reports from new delhi. just hours after dolly's local government announced a weeklong curfew thousands of migrant workers rushed to bus and train stations they squeeze their way onto buses climbing on top of each other and onto the roofs the closing down of all but essential services has seen many workers lose their livelihoods i've been getting there the chief minister said that nobody needs to leave delhi ask him where would daily wage earners like us go what will we do they earn and eat the same day if they don't earn in the day they can't have a meal it night where will we go if not home these are the same questions which were asked during the nationwide lockdown a year ago that it led to 100000000 migrant workers returning to their home states after losing their jobs. millions had to go hundreds died on the journey there's

some law is that the laws that were. completely dispensable. for the government for the middle class and for the rich and i think this was a very alarming with what we have begun as a. mother is petitioning the supreme court to force the government to provide basic services to daily wage earners delhi's high court has asked the local government to divert hundreds of millions of dollars of public money to ensure workers who've lost their jobs don't go hungry it said both the central and state governments failed in their responsibility to protect daily wage as last year and asked why they haven't made plans to do better. the high court also said the capital's health care capacity is at the stage of imminent collapse health experts say it's likely the double mutant variation of the virus which has been found in india that's

causing infections to rise much more rapidly than last year we've seen systematic increase give across india more or less to most of the thing i'm suggesting that what might be happening is that something that is more transferred between people is very rapidly moving through the population of people who are yet to contract infection and therefore spreading faster. the world health organization and governments around the world among trend what's happening in india as concerns grow about the spread of this variant elizabeth pradhan al-jazeera new delhi. the europe struggle asia has found possible links between johnson and johnson's covert 90 vaccine and rare blood clots but the european medicines agency says the benefits of the vaccine still outweigh any potential risks johnson and johnson stock roll out of its one dose job last week after recommendations from u.s. authorities 6 cases of unusual blood clots were identified amongst people who were immunized with the job the delay has halted vaccination efforts in the. well next

month holds the promise of a resumption of a national unity government for palestinians want instead of 2 governments representing the west bank and the gaza strip this will be the 1st time in 15 years that palestinians head to the polls to vote in legislative elections but isn't going to report from garza they're already down so the election will actually take place the last time palestinians voted in a legislative election facebook and twitter were months away from being launched a global in the year was 2006 they couldn't have known then they would spend the next 15 years with a divided government and no chance to elect a new one didn't look that into about 15 years without an election and we're facing a miserable situation as a mother i wish it will happen and things change for the better. an election for the palestinian legislative council is scheduled for may but already there is

widespread expectation palestinians won't be rushing to a polling station headed in to have acted not that they'd have one of these elections only for a new in the legitimacy of palestinian leaders and to continue to rely on foreign aid but in the long term it will not serve the palestinian people israel has yet to approve voting in east jerusalem but how has splintered and both fight that and how lost are worried about losses in their only basis due to disaffected voters. professor a high morale boost says recent polls show hamas would be lucky to get 25 percent of the vote in gaza but it might be able to get a bigger share in the west bank where people are fed up with the palestinian authority but maybe after the elections we might see a new or different kind of coalitions but that would probably be

against the would of the international community which is still classifying hamas as a terrorist organization and also israel and which doesn't want to see a mass in any form of a palestinian government so united or unified government between hamas and fatah is unlikely how must spokesman. says the organization is pushing for the election to take place as scheduled and that palestinians are primarily frustrated by the israeli occupation not their leaders. yes about the world and the international community should help us choose our leader and to take our rights back we should be living in a good situation like all the human beings in this region. a generation of palestinians has come of age living with a divided government and no way of changing it at the ballot box the question people are asking is will this year mark long overdue change which natasha

al-jazeera. ters won the support of germany's conservatives in his bid to succeed angela merkel as chancellor in september will be the joint candidate for the governing christian democratic party and the christian social union in federal elections later this year anglo-american is stepping down after more than 15 years in power surge heard also been buying to lead the center on law but has not conceded the race stephanie decker is in berlin with more on that. he is the premier of germany's biggest state he's been a staunch ally of angola markel throughout his political career he is pro europe he's pro immigration he stood by her certainly when merkel open the borders here in 2015 to hundreds of thousands of refugees that called her a lot of grief he was very much her ally on that but he comes at a time when there are challenges challenges also to him his stance on coronavirus

he wanted to open restrictions already last year at a time when it was seen as controversial so he's been seen as being a little bit back and forth on that and also at a time when the party the alliance is polling very low around 27 percent and this is because of the handling of the coronavirus also because there's been some political scandals when it comes to some politicians having made money in deals and when it comes to acquiring mosques for the virus they've stood down but certainly it has damaged the alliance really an alliance that's that's that's been at the at the center of german politics since 19891 contender is the green party and they announced their candidate yesterday a 40 year old woman and alina bear a lot of support there and they're nipping at the heels of this alliance so he's going to have to do some damage control but certainly now that they seem to have agreed on who the man will be that could potentially be germany's next chancellor they can at least focus on the election campaign and try and convince voters that they should remain in power. the government has agreed to

a parliamentary vote on whether to expel the french ambassador it's part of a deal it reached with political. demonstration a nationwide strike some pay as it's known has been blocking routes into major cities in protest french depicting the prophet muhammad. from the pakistani capital. but parliament took up that issue. and. the speaker of the national assembly saying that a committee should be form so that both the government and opposition members can reach some sort of a. that of course had not happened yet some of the opposition parties even boy courting. the parliament on. friday. what instrument. going to be giving

a press conference tomorrow. and not today. because there was. no individual or group. of that date however the opposition is blaming the government for not taking them into. the issue it is going to be important to see where the date is going to be some sort of a breakthrough but for the time being the relief on the street ted in pakistan because they're. threatening to wage countrywide protests marching on it. happening for the moment but they did indeed a crucial issue and a critical issue that has to be dogged. cuban president. has taken over as the head of the governing community and he replaces the strong who stuff but. will remain influential only important decisions.

in the lead role castro passing on his post as 1st secretary of the all powerful communist party to 60 year old president we give the scan is an image that is supposed to signal the end of the castro era although not quite a year ago that comrade there are all 4 legitimacy and because cuba needs him will be consulted on the most important strategic decisions for the destiny of the nation. while billboard's hailed the communist party as the soul of the revolution its 8 congress transpired behind closed doors cubans waited to hear if a much promised generational change would finally take place. we expect positive changes because the younger generation is more modern in accordance with our times and open to changes that we need especially in the economy. but when the

names of the new politburo were finally announced on state media 4 of the 14 members were 77 years old and the rest between 50 and 60 fidel castro was 33 and old 29 when they took power more than 6 decades ago by neural like troll castile the us can and will also hold the position of president of cuba at a challenging time. ana me is collapsing and dissent increasing opponent across media fiat says the communist party will change the most barbequing families are struggling in your money diary an escape crisis and the other side of the regime has been more repression more violence in their case you have to this light is often in. meehan's for dan it will their absolute power. and that isn't that they don't want you. to this communist

party is one of only 4 in the world that remains in power and describes its future as one of continuity guaranteeing that continuity with a more in bold and younger generation of cubans may no longer be so easy to see in human al-jazeera. britain's prime minister says he'll consider legislation to stop english football clubs from joining the proposed a european super league boris johnson gave the english football association his unwavering support in its attempts to stop the breakaway competition 12 of europe's elite clubs plan to join the new multi-billion dollar project if barker is in london outside chelsea's ground at stamford bridge he has more on the growing backlash against the super league. there are a whole load of voices getting involved in this heated debate the backlash has been gathering pace over the past couple of days we've heard from politicians pundits players managers and even royalty all joining forces to condemn plans to create the

super league but we've heard from pep guardiola manager of manchester city in the last hour or so saying that he didn't feel that the super league was a sport at all because there are no winners and losers referring to the fact that you can't be promoted or relegated boris johnson the british prime minister has also got involved he was very quick to say that the government would do everything possible to review their plans and possibly adapt them if not council them completely he's been holding talks with representatives from the football association and the premier league we don't know what's in the government's arsenal to be able to fight this attempt to create this league there is some suggestion that they may well look to competition laws to stave off any kind of perceived football monopoly over further afield as well we've heard from the french president emanuel micronor he has said that he would do everything possible to defend existing competitions so far no french teams have signed up to the proposal e. former us vice president walter mondale has died at the age of 93 he served

alongside president jimmy carter in the late 1970 s. and in 19 eighty-four he ran against ronald reagan to the white house becoming the 1st nominee from a major party to pick a woman as his running mate but he lost by a landslide after declaring that he would raise taxes if he won. you're watching al jazeera with me has the whole robin remind of our top stories the army in chad has announced that president idriss deby has been killed while visiting soldiers on the front lines he had just won reelection and was one of africa's longest serving leaders his son general about kaka is expected to be the interim head of state the army has now implemented a curfew and shut the borders it says democratic elections will take place following a transition period to them orgon.