these are huge refugees are terrified that they may be forced to return to me and mark. a somber scene in minneapolis where a murder conviction for the killing of george floyd has prompted a probe into police culture and hopes for change. i feel better i feel relieved i actually went to sleep for like bottles they are way. better than a club this is out 0 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. hundreds of people across russia were detained by police during protests against jailing of opposition leader election of around them. and it is the world's 2nd biggest polluter doubts about u.s. president joe biden's big plans to cut emissions. so a move to change please culture in the united states is being treated with great urgency following to show even conviction for murdering george floyd the justice department's conducting a sweep investigation into police in the state of minnesota where floyd died almost a year ago is being hailed as a step towards cleaning up systemic abuse in the force $100.00 has more now from minneapolis. george floyd square has transformed from crime scene to memorial site of celebration.

in the grass. with. 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 can 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 with 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 feel relieved actually went to sleep for like 5. dollars a crate and that offers hope and perhaps change to the next generation of black americans john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis the police killing of another black

man as i could protest in the north carolina city of elizabeth crowds have been rallying calling for justice after andrew brown jr was shot and killed during a search warrant on wednesday police have not yet released details but witnesses say that brown died while trying to drive away from police. and there's growing anger over the police killing of a teenage black girl in ohio police have released a video cam. video i should say showing an officer shooting 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 mayor says 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 childish 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. this enough and derrick johnson who's the president and chief executive of the national association for the advancement of colored people and double a.c.p. he says a bill being considered to help combat police misconduct could be an important step in the right direction we have to pass a law so that police officers can be held accountable they're not so they won't be able to use their badge as a shield from accountability secondly you have to go to some of these agencies and figure out how to root out the cancer culture you have a set of individuals and being of the agencies who build and how to operate above the law when it comes to african-american and other communities that need to be addressed immediately courtroom in minneapolis we have

a very strong police chief and he's going to work hard i'm sure with the ministration to clean up that department he's an excellent job to the point that there was some state law requires that tightens hand now it's better government on the and he can be more effective of cleaning up the problem in the minneapolis police department when you have law enforcement officers patrolling in areas that don't have to admit you where they don't have any cultural sensitivity and they see the citizens in all areas as less than human and you always have these problems and so much of what needs to happen immediately is we've been out some of the bad apples supporting the remaining police officers but providing training to deescalate scenarios and be more it's really mine to have more police officers that live in the communities or comparably community which the opportunity. the southern mexican state of michoacan has become a battleground for a bloody drug war between 2 major cartels a ground 0 has been the town of agree it's potentially lucrative mines and drug

routes have made it a prized target no journalists have been able to reach that town since fighting intensified until john holdren and his team made it for this exclusive report. this is the only route into the town at the heart of the war between 2 camp tells me to account southwest mexico. and the journalists who've been here since the new generation called 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 valleys going to generation cartel actually scrawled on the road so it's not real bad about who's 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. they want to 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 fountains 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 rarely patrol. near the center as signs of life. has been serving the village for 2 decades but many a contest says it's hard to keep it going. by countless i don't think 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 or parts in a gun has been closed by another group of needles they're fighting the honeysuckle cartel and have the area under siege. petru has to be smuggled in the garbage 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 sea has had other course with danniella and gabrielle is grandad had a burst stomach ulcer they couldn't get him to the hospital on the other side the blockade. is 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 towns people 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 the gun probably just outside of the 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 but went to teach it day to protest to him he did this. and embrace many and when we visited they gathered 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 promised just that but he didn't talk to the people of agony 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 possibly the coordinates when we finish

he denied knowing about them the next day we tried to leave passing burnt out empty towns a sign perhaps if i get to use future but we couldn't get through to a putz and gun was not even 24 hours since this extra public scene here it's a plane down this road and said that it was now open and there would be for in transit we just try to get down there already that is the surroundings go back down as we're 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. israeli army says a syrian anti-aircraft missile has missed its target and has exploded in southern israel near a nuclear facility the blast was felt in jerusalem and other areas in central israel the missile was fired during strikes inside syria israel says it's now

targeting missile batteries in. western. us this was a sizable blast that was heard here in jerusalem nearly 100 kilometers away from the site of this missile close to israel's dimona nuclear reactor in the town of or near the town of crane that there were air raid sirens there the israeli military concerning those pretty immediately after the explosion and of course with the context of what's been happening in recent weeks the very high tensions between iran and israel over iran's nuclear program and the attack ascribed to israel sun 10 days ago on the iranian what's hance enrichment facility there were immediately concerns that this could have been potentially the next step in that shadow conflict a very dangerous and escalatory one however the israeli military says what took

place was a syrian anti-aircraft battery targeting. the incoming israeli ordnance which overflew its target and went all the way over israeli territory and exploded in southern israel that is something that there is some precedent for those similar events in 2017 when such a missile was intercepted by israeli air defenses and other incidents in 2019 when a missile ended up in northern cyprus so that is something that has happened to thaw in response israel has continued its strike operations on syrian territory targeting syrian anti-aircraft batteries so for now the israeli military saying this was not a deliberate attack near this very important site rather an accidental. the un was told says iran has replaced damaged machines it is the rainy enrichment plant with more advanced equipment and explosion power outage at the natanz plant this month damaged and unknown number of centrifuges the international atomic energy agency

says that they have been replaced with more advanced centrifuges for the breaching iran's nuclear deal with major powers and the united states says disagreements between the u.s. and iran persist after the latest round of indirect talks on reviving the deal the state department official says the u.s. has laid out the kinds of sanctions on iran it's willing to lift in exchange for terence return to compliance under the 2015 accord and discussions are expected to resume in austrian capital of vienna next week. still ahead here and others are once hailed as the success story of latin america europe was now facing record coronavirus infections and they're. all and a nation divided why chad's opposition is calling the formation of a military council a coup. it's

time for the perfect gentleman 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 and the destruction also at the bottom end if reveals a tie sue this one is currently battering the east coast of the philippines bringing pretty highways but it's basically going to stay over water if it does so will 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 in the yellow sea leaving a dry eyes 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 sort of just disappear 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 through southeast asia much of indonesia now is much drier than of late rapidly becoming no longer the wet season . it's still there quite stormy in the finals of both pakistan and india most places are dry and the pretty monsoon heat is showing. at ways from the al-jazeera london broke out to people in thoughtful conversation i can be in my culture i can still raise my voice against bigotry with no host and no limitations the pandemic actually exposed the injustice in our societies to of as mccarney and has an ak at inhospitality we have protected these men who are violent and bully studio unscripted on al-jazeera.

and again you're watching out 0 remind of our top stories this hour and the u.s. justice department has announced an investigation into the minneapolis police department and its use of force becomes a day after former officer terry sheridan was found guilty of murdering george floyd. a bloody war between 2 major drug cartels has left towns completely cut off in southern mexico despite promises from authorities people in the state of michoacan say they are living in fear without access to basic necessities the israeli army says the syrian anti aircraft missile has missed its target in 6 pages in southern israel near

a nuclear facility missile was fired during israeli air strikes inside syria. now russia's president has warned the west not to interfere in its security interests in the threat from vladimir putin comes as ukraine's foreign minister asks europe for protection and inside russia protests against jailing of opposition leader and takes you know around the a growing despite the detention of more than $1500.00 supporters but it's myth as 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 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 broaden or even blow up this group as themselves they should know it

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 the valleys 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 so there it is with the opposition because we have no alternatives all the time we see bureaucrats stealing and authorities don't care this was a lot of awestruck in russia's far east there were reports of detentions of

protesters in at least 82 towns and cities across the country an avowal me a thorn in put inside for the past decade is seriously ill in hospital after 3 weeks on hunger strike now could soon get even harder for the supporters to have the voices heard on monday prosecutors are asking a moscow court to declare itself from foundation an extremist organization putting it on a level where. that whole thing even stiff of penalties voice supporters of finance is an even harder jail sentences but it's with al-jazeera moscow. health care workers new york was say they're struggling as the country faces a major surge in cope with 19 infections and despite nearly a 3rd of the population getting vaccinated critics say the government has failed to build in its early success in containing the virus a latin america to see a new and has 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 surpassed. 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 and but they do get around in 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 the b 1000000. and really. happened right here in the americans 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. in human out 0. then markets lift the restrictions faster than expected but mainly for people with the so-called corona pass a restaurants conserve customers indoors but they must show that they are vaccinated or have a negative test result cafes bars and museums of open for the 1st time in months their marks infection rate is prominent since he looked on december and a boost in testing the u.s. envoy to yemen says escalating violence in the city of marriage is the single biggest threat to peace talks yemen's government forces have been fighting for control of the oil rich region since who the rebels launched an offensive in february the u.s. and the u.n. have increased diplomatic efforts to reach a cease fire the opposition in chad has denounced what it's calling an

institutional coup that's after the son of slain president idriss deby was appointed as leader of the military has promised elections in a year and a half but unions are threatening to strike and rebels are planning to march on the capital of a morgan reports now from in germany. it is that he was president of chad for 3 decades on the day of the news of his death it was announced his son mohamed will lead the country for the next 18 months as head of the transitional military council abderrahim yunus the head of the government was a party says there are reasons for the military to take charge. it's understandable that the constitution says the speaker of parliament should be in charge but it's also understandable why the military is the one in charge what needs to happen now is a dialogue to bring other parties and groups to form a joint military civilian council to lead the country to democratic elections idriss deby who left the country since 1990 died from injuries sustained while

leading his soldiers against the rebel front for change and concord group in the northern region of based in libya the group launched an attack on a border position on april 11th days all fighting to push them back left more than 300 of the rebels that almost 150 captured the group says there's no way they'll accept as chad's leader. is not a monarchy they can be no dynastic devolution of power in our country the national resistance forces from the front for trained and concord in chad or right now on their way towards. with confidence but above all with courage and determination at $37.00 mohammad an army officer is now the youngest leader in the african continent 14 of the military officers are also in the council which stated that a transitional government to will be put in place and that they're not seeking permanent power so. we wanted to reassure the public that the members of the

transitional military council will hand over power to civilian government after free and democratic elections within 18 months. chats constitution which has been dissolved by the military council states that the speaker of parliament is to lead the country in the. event of the death of the president so some opposition parties are calling the formation of a military council a coup. it's not only political parties that are split over the idea of a transitional military council leading the country following the death of. well early election results showed he'd won nearly 50 percent of the board in the weeks leading up to be election hundreds in the capital demonstrated calling for change and many boycotted the election that ended with debbie winning a 6th term with debby's death chats residents are divided between mourning him and denouncing the council that's replaced him. the military council says it's going to form an interim cabinet in the coming days and has called political parties and armed groups for dialogue it's not it clear who's going to agree to be president at

any talks more going on to their own. the european union has reached a provisional deal to make the 27 nation block climate neutral by 2050 the agreement sets an initial negli binding targets a cut at least 55 percent of emissions by 2030 compared to $990.00 levels it comes ahead of a virtual climate summit of major economies being hosted by the u.s. on day or president joe biden is expected to reveal plans to cut u.s. emissions but leasehold off by 2030 but america is the world's 2nd largest polluter and not for say that biden's climate policies do not go far enough to meet that goal what house correspondent can be how could this report. it's not uncommon to find oil and gas companies operating right in the middle of communities. this is the would tell a formula is pumping for oil using a controversial process called fracking environmentalist like one flora's want band

. has become a. vital people. because they know that their lives their livelihood. fracking is a process of drilling uses high pressure water to. force oil and gas out of rock deep in the earth environmentalist say the process pollutes water releases methane gas into the atmosphere contributing to climate change but banning the practice has divided president joe biden's democratic party and be clear. and i know it always comes up we're not going to ban fracking but others in the party like congresswoman alexandria ocasio cortez and senator bernie sanders are pushing for a federal ban we don't need fracking in america but republicans are in favor of fracking some members of biden's own democratic party including senator joe manchin

representing the energy producing state of west virginia also support fracking. and even in liberal leaning states like california where a fracking ban have the support of the governor legislation has so far failed due to lobbying by the oil and gas industry. jobs without a doubt growing small towns across america boil gas and chemical companies spent more than $100000000.00 lobbying last year including on political ads like this one that aired during the 2020 presidential election campaign to push back on efforts to ban fracking in this last 4 years activists are angry and say biden's efforts on fracking are simply a half measure he suspended new oil and gas drilling on federal lands but that accounts for less than a quarter of total u.s. oil production fighting claims he never promised an end to fracking but activists

like one florist say that's exactly why he worked to get biden elected she has to remember in the she. was one of the promises he's got in we were holding accountable. president biden is expected to make big promises during his climate summit but already some activists say it won't be enough can really help him out 0 washington. this. 0 these are the top stories the u.s. justice department has announced an investigation into the minneapolis police department and its use of force it comes less than a day off to form a officer shave it was found guilty of murdering george floyd it's growing anger over the killing of a teenage black girl in the u.s. state of ohio police have released body cam video showing an officer.