it in taking you into a place that you might not visit otherwise and to actually feel as if you were there it's a very bleak picture for a lot of americans out there white supremacy impacts all of our teachings your plan even more money into the hands of some others taking money out of the hands of other workers their own goes to their camp it becomes us versus them this is the deal about constraining your nuclear program the bottom line the big questions on out is there. a song the scene in minneapolis where a murder conviction for the killing of george floyd has prompted a probe into police culture and hopes for a change i feel better feel relieved actually went to sleep for like 5 miles.

but on the clock this is al jazeera life and also coming up a bloody war between 2 drug cartels intensifies in southern mexico we have an exclusive report from ground 0 of the fighting. the thousands of people across russia defy authorities to protest against an jailing of opposition leader alexina found. that one child is not an american success story uruguay is now battling record coronavirus infections and deaths. we going to start with breaking news is syria says israel is carrying out strikes on an area near damascus which hosts a military airport the strikes followed large explosions in israel which were felt in jerusalem and other areas in central israel will bring you more on the story as it comes in to us here at al-jazeera.

now a move to change police culture in the united states is being treated with great to see following directions conviction for murdering george floyd the justice department is conducting a sweeping investigation into policing in the state of minnesota where floyd died almost a year ago is being held has a step towards cleaning up systemic abuse in the force john hunter has more now from minneapolis george floyd square has transformed from the crime scene to memorial to his summer site of celebration there's a feeling of hope that there was a big turn yesterday. you know we. just came back to celebrate take some time out. you know to grasp the moment grasses with having these last couple months saying no this. is really not as really what it is

as many who have been demonstrating for 11 months felt buoyed further by the announcement on wednesday that the u.s. justice department has launched a sweeping investigation into whether the minneapolis police department engages in discriminatory or unconstitutional practices building trust between community and law enforcement will take time and effort by all of us but we undertake this task with the term a nation an urgency. knowing that change cannot wait on capitol hill a bill named after george floyd would ban racial profiling in police chokeholds we must remain diligent in our efforts to bring meaningful change to police departments across the country to reform practices and training and the legal protections that grant too great a shield to police officers guilty of misconduct here were floyd spent his last

moments of life many said the verdict against former minneapolis police officer derrick children is a start the people we've talked to here at the site of george lloyd's murder say this movement isn't over with the conviction of derek chauvin or the other officers involved they say it will when they no longer have to say that black lives matter for the floyd family knowing the children won't get away with using his badge to justify murder brings a long awaited release i feel better i feel relieved actually went to sleep for like 5. dollars great and that offers hope and perhaps change to the next generation of black americans john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis celebrations over the george floyd verdict had been tempered by growing i think the police killing of a teenage black go police have released a video showing and officers shooting the girl as she appeared to try and stop another go with a knife protesters have marched in the city of columbus expressing outrage the

city's mess says an independent investigation into the death is underway we don't yet have all of the facts but we do know that a 16 year old girl child this community tragically died last night. we released the officers by want camera footage as soon as possible will release all other information that we can as soon as we can. we also need to be careful about not compromising the investigation. let's return to our breaking news that syria is confirming strikes by israel on an area near damascus that's off the large explosions were felt in jerusalem and other areas in central israel let's speak now to of course want to hurry forsett who joins us on the line from west jerusalem scant information at the moment what more do you have

. well yesterday the 1st reports came through after this large blast being reported in southern israel in the negev desert close or at least not far from the dimona nuclear facility of israel in that area so of course that is given the stream the high tensions that are currently ongoing between iran and israel the iranian nuclear program and israel's attempts to prevent that program and indeed prevent. or at least. a return to the iran nuclear deal the kind of shadow conflict that's been going on at sea among other places this was very quickly something that has been linked to that in some quarters however what is being said by the israeli military is that this was a surface to air missile that being an anti aircraft missile that was launched by syrian air defenses during an israeli air strike and that this missile over flew

its intended target and it came to came to ground in southern israel now this is not if this is what did happen it is not an entirely unprecedented event there have been similar such events in 2017 when a syrian air defense missile was intercepted by israeli anti missile systems and in 2019 when such a missile ended up in northern cyprus so that is what the israelis are saying at the moment they have been carrying out strikes on syrian defense batteries in response to this. air raid sirens that sounded in this southern area no reports yet of casualties inside israel but the military for now is saying that this was not some kind of deliberate targeted attack near its

nuclear facility near israel's main nuclear reactor but rather an added sense missile would want to stray from syria tell us more about the context of this given the recent attack on the iranian facilities in the town. well indeed it was just 10 days ago was. the day after iran announced that it had. started conducting more advanced centrifuge work happen a tent city that the. power grid to that facility the separate highly defended underground cow grid essentially blew up the reports were the last had ripped through it damaging a large number of centrifuges in the process it was very white be briefed in the israeli media that this was an israeli attack and there were very few attempts by the israelis to try to disguise that so most. reporters most analysts

and certainly as far as the iranians are concerned that was an israeli attack as well as that we have had these various attacks on iranian shipping and by reports that there have been attacks by iran on israeli shipping as well that there have been these these sort of tense. sort of terror. shadow military actions being going on on both sides so there have been concerns that could be more obvious and direct attacks from either side most analysts have been saying that neither side especially given the progress that's been reported that the vienna talks for a return to the iran nuclear deal that neither side at this point is seeking an all out conflict but that the level of tensions mean that a miscalculation could always lead in that direction and that remained at danger as

i say the initial idea that there was a direct military strike close to israel's nuclear reactor in dimona. could have led to a situation along those lines or at least the people to believe that such a thing might have happened however the message coming from the israeli military is that this was not a deliberate targeting of this area but rather a response to an israeli airstrike ongoing there are many strikes that israel carries out inside syria both against syrian and indeed hezbollah and iranian targets inside syrian territory that this was part of such a response by the syrian air defense system and one part of that response was a missile that went over its intended target acted more like a ballistic missile and ended up in southern israel we wait to hear more details along those lines and david perry thanks for that in the meantime back with you as we get more of that. russian president vladimir putin is one the west not

to interfere in his country's security interests the leader insists he wants good relations with other countries but that his response will be quick and tough if they do ukraine's foreign minister has asked you're for protection from moscow but its methods this report russia's president says his country has red lines that he hopes no one will cross. annual state of the nation speech came as moscow amasses tens of thousands of troops in a ukrainian and western countries impose sanctions over allegations of cyber hacking and spying and election interference. we want good relations with all participants of the international dialogue and really we don't want to go on bridges but if someone mistakes our good intentions for indifference or weakness and intends to burden or even blow up as great as themselves they should knowledge russia's response will be a symmetrical swift and harsh. hootin speech was dominated by domestic issues

particularly the challenge of the pandemic and russia's slow vaccination rate. but there was no mention of another challenge opposition politician alexina valmy his supporters held nationwide protests on wednesday despite a police ban to draw attention to novell knees ailing health thousands marched through moscow riot police blocked access to main squares so the crowd kept moving thank you mcglenn you how could i not come catastrophic changes for the worse are happening to the country by every measure social and economic previous undoubtedly supersedes the of ip i came to express my story there are 3 with the opposition because we have no alternatives all the time we see bureaucrats stealing and authorities don't care this was a body of all stock in russia's far east there were reports of detentions of protesters in at least 82 towns and cities across the country in a vile me a foreign impute inside for the past decade is seriously ill in hospital after 3

weeks on hunger strike now could soon get even harder for me and the supporters to have their voices heard on monday prosecutors are asking a moscow court to declare the valleys and the threat from foundation an extremist organization putting it on a level with al qaida that could mean even stiffer penalties voice supporters and finances and even harder jail sentences bernath with al-jazeera moscow. still ahead here in algeria china has pledged to fight climate change despite its reliance on coal as its main source of energy but researchers say its plan is not realistic. it's time for the perfect jen and the winter sponsored plan qatar airways the spring rains you might expect to see in both china and japan change shape

a little bit for the next couple of days they're becoming north science line rather than the southwest northeast down in the destruction also at the bottom end reveals a typhoon this one is currently battering the east coast of the philippines bringing pretty high waves but it's basically going to stay over water it does so we'll throw a big swell towards taiwan and will affect the small japanese islands but basically it's over water and the range you see is also over water the east china sea the yellow sea leaving a dries own in eastern china the former more rain gathers and you've had a couple of dry warm days in japan and the korean peninsula take yours the weekend so we're going back 24 hours this is just disappearing off luzon there's a flood risk certainly and the danger to fisherman on the eastern side of luzon otherwise it goes out of the way but it shows where there is seasonal rain is all the way from potential malaysia's northern sumatra up through southeast asia much of indonesia now is much drier than inflates rapidly becoming no longer the wet

season. it's still there quite stormy in the finals of both pakistan and india most places dry in the pretty monsoon heat is showing. sponsored by qatar airways in the fire thailand's of home in mesopotamia where the 1st settlements formed the cradle of civilization iraqi people who've depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries can no longer make a living on rivers blighted by and pollution al-jazeera world reveals how the manmade decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments is leaving its people struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers. order.

how to get you watch out sara remind of our top stories this hour and israel says it's targeting missile facilities in syria in retaliation for a hit on its territory it says a missile fired from syria and landed in southern israel near the dimona nuclear facility they the reactor was not hit. the u.s. justice department is enough to the investigation into the minneapolis police department and its use of force comes less than a day off to form off the dirt shaving was found guilty of murder in cold for. a russian president vladimir putin as well that moscow will respond harshly to any foreign provocations putin is warning regions warning comes as thousands rallied across the country demanding the release of legs in a valley at the kremlin's biggest critic. now the southern miss can stay to

mature con has become a battleground for bloody drugs war between 2 major cartels ground 0 has been a good it's potentially lucrative mines and drug routes have made it a prized target journalists have been able to reach the town since fights intensified chilled john holdren and his team made it in this al-jazeera exclusive . this is the only route into the town at the heart of a war between 2 cartels image work and southwest mexico. no journalists have been here since the whole new generation called to advance to take the land around it we've been told to take this dirt track over the mountains to get in but it's not simple we just seen in quick succession a checkpoint that we had passed. by the side of a road. trip and then the letters the initials of police going to generation cartel actually scrawled on the road itself is no real bad about his territory

where. when we pass the 2nd checkpoint they want to talk to us. we don't have any necessity to rob with drug traffickers it's true that we're having a fight a struggle but we're fighting for the rights of each of us and for the people. there on the propaganda push to go with their advance into this territory they say the let through civilians who dared to travel. finally we make it to the town they're fighting for i get. on the outskirts it looks like a ghost town. it might well be one soon thousands of fled the violence and isolation here those left have no one to help them we didn't see a single policeman on my way or a soldier despite the fact the army actually has a barracks in the town residents say they've really patrolled. near the center the signs of life. has been serving the village for 2 decades but many

a confederate says it's hard to keep it going. because. it's affecting us a lot everything's got more expensive it's really hard to bring in supplies that's because the main road to the nearest city parks and gun has been closed by another group of needles they're fighting the highly skilled cartel and have the area under siege. petru has to be smuggled in the carriage is out of action gas is scarce so is medicine water from a say they can't get their crops or cattle to market and the seed has had other course when danniella and gabrielle is grandad had a burst stomach ulcer they couldn't get him to the hospital on the other side the blockade he was i felt so helpless because we couldn't do anything it was out of our hands and angry too it's not right that when living like this and he wasn't the only one at the same time and lady had a miscarriage because she was trying to get to the hospital and couldn't we heard

more stories townspeople killed in the crossfire between the cartels on the road or in the town itself is a nightly soundtrack here. you can probably hear that the sound of gunfire just outside of a church no it is only just full and they start shooting here. and where the authorities absent say the townspeople until a surprise visit by the governor last week just as election season began when a teacher day to protest to him he did this. and embrace many and when we visited the governor to demand one thing. number one free transits on the road from. to a passing gun and security for those traveling the state security minister also came by while we were visiting promise just that but he didn't talk to the people of i guess instead he held a press conference outside the town the media he brought with him we joined and i

asked him repeatedly if he was aware of the criminal checkpoints he said to me this isn't done well if you tell me where if you pass me the coordinates when we finish he denied knowing of them. the next day we tried to leave passing burnt out empty towns a sign perhaps of likely is future but we couldn't get through to a putz a gun it's not even 24 hours since this secretary of public security came down this road and said that it was now open and there would be free transit we just tried to get down there already that is the surroundings go back to how we were going to. eventually the police filled in the trench that one of the gangs had dug across it that night the criminals dug it out again the highways closed once more the siege and suffering continues john home and how does it or i get a year. it's been praised as

a haven of covert 19 control in the region ravaged by virus but now your goal is facing a major surge in infections and with the highest number of daily cases per capita in the world health care workers say the struggling a lot in america at its embassy in yemen as this report. normally sedate or appliance protest by banging pots and pans they blame the government for allowing or of why to transit from the success story to the country with the highest per capita infection rate in the world and in just a few weeks the small south american country which is sandwiched between argentina and brazil had been hailed as the exception in a region of pandemic turmoil but now the bubble has burst. we must take care of ourselves those who don't get vaccinated will die simple they're going to die if they get infected they die. with a population of only $3500000.00 or require

a seeing more than $3000.00 infections per day by far the highest per capita in the world and also the 5th highest death rate the government has never ordered lockdowns or enforced other measures calling it a matter of principle but this has led to a blahs a attitude among citizens even though health experts warned that the more contagious variant of the virus from neighboring brazil wouldn't affect them quickly a bucket of water. until the dead are your dead he will think whatever you want until it happens in your family it's difficult for people to become aware. of the latest wave of cold it is breaking new records every day in latin america in colombia deaths are surpassing more than 420 daily. hopes his wife won't be one of them as she waits for an i.c.u. bed at this maybe you know hospital they put their david on them a great sense of helplessness because what can you do as

a human being you can't do anything. the pan american health organization says no region has been harder hit more than 3000000. and really. happened right here in the america. back in europe why hospitals are running out of sedatives needed for using respirators in critical care units a painful reminder that in this pandemic overconfidence is a dangerous thing. out jazeera. european union has reached a provisional deal to make the $27.00 nation bloc climate neutral by the year 2050 the agreement sets an initial legally binding target to cut at least 55 percent of emissions by 2030 compared to 1911 it comes ahead of a virtual climate summit of major economies being hosted by the united states on thursday well china is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and

president xi jinping has pledged to fight climate change but the government continues to build new coal plant one of the leading sources of carbon emissions some fear moving towards greener sources of energy could risk jobs and economic recovery katrina you reports now from joe chang in shanxi province. plumes of toxic smoke leaking from power plants and factories is a common sight in santee the northwest importance has for decades powered to china's economic growth primarily by burning coal. it's contributed to the nation becoming the world's top pollution responsible for roughly one 3rd of global carbon emissions. the coal industry employs most of the people who live here. pollution has been polluting for decades if they shut down all the factories what are we going to do everyone who works for the factories. last year this region produced

about 1100000000 tons of coal ton is reliance on burning coal as its main source of energy is its biggest obstacle to lowering carbon emissions the government is struggling to find ways to curb coal without affecting jobs or harming economic growth pollution caused by burning fossil fuels regularly shrouds the capital and heavy smoke has pledged to carbon emissions by 2030 and eliminate them altogether by 2060 but it's yet to detail how exactly plans to achieve this it's not only about commitment is all about what we actually do right in the next 5 years we expect or china can include more concrete policies and to give us a more clear roadmap of how they're going to achieve these 2 carbon targets increasing the use of renewable energy sources is crucial china is already the world's largest producer of wind and solar power it's also the biggest market for electric vehicles the government has tightened regulations to pressure can make it

into transitioning away from gas but many say that's not enough us climate and boy john kerry was in shanghai last week trying to convince authorities to do more. for a big country with 1400000000 people. some countries are asking china to do more on climate change are the free this is not very realistic researchers say china must close down more than 500 coal fired power plants in the next decade to meet its climate pledges but it continues to approve new ones at a faster rate than anywhere else in the world the government is planning to close down some old. factories here and build what it says greener more efficient whole facilities for some parts of china at least it seems the road to clean energy will be long and small between e.u. says she targets china. 10 of the 12 members of european football's proposed new

super league have now officially pulled out of the controversial project just 3 days after it was announced the chairman of eventis one of the driving forces behind the breakaway league says the project is now on standby if parker has this from london. saying his. side arsenal's emirates stadium satirizing the super league. england's riches clubs to face days of fury against wealthy owners many feel have put profits 1st for these fans the league's collapse feels like a win to sport the people they started from. the start as a working class and since then i mean it's maintained that kind of integrity. and if the owners don't realize. i guess their days are numbered really funds players

and politicians of all spoken out against the league including britain's prime minister i welcome the decision taken by the 6 english football teams not to join the european super league the announcement was the right result for football fans for clubs and for communities across the country. this is where it all began to unravel and the moment chelsea fans got what they wanted. the club was the 1st english side to confirm it was drawing up paperwork to leave the league other rebel english teams followed and soon an exodus of all 6 sides manchester united bunch to city tottenham and liverpool i want to apologize to all the fancy tours of liverpool football club and the disruption i caused to past 48 hours goes without saying but it should be said. the project put forward was never going to stand without the support of the fans the collapse followed 2 days of protests from angry

supporters and on field demonstrations from premier league players managers and team captains declared they were against it but the dust settling on the ruins of the league now a period of soul searching one of the 6 premier league english sides to join the league now admitting that it made a very big mistake the fans are questioning whether now is the time for many of these clubs to start rethinking their very business of football. that could mean giving fans a great to stay cold and say in how their clubs are run. some players and supporters are calling for the teams to be punished stripped of points even kicked out of tournament those behind the super league said the project was designed to say football for many supporters the formation of a new rival competition felt like a trail of europe's football family leave barca al-jazeera london.

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