in legacy media. she. meets with night al jazeera investigation. on al-jazeera. the u.s. justice department launches an investigation into policing in minneapolis after a former officer is convicted of murdering george floyds. this is our sara live from doha also coming up the search for a missing in the nation's submarine focuses on an oil slick north of bali.

the. protesters in russia demand the release of opposition leader who's in a prison hospital. and plans for a controversial european super league collapse after 10 of the 12 football clubs pull out. a move to change police culture in the u.s. is being treated with greater urgency following derek show conviction for murdering george floyd the justice department is launching an investigation into policing in the city of minneapolis where floyd died almost a year ago it's being hailed as a step towards cleaning up systematic abuse in the force john hendren has more from minneapolis. george floyd square has transformed from crime scene to memorial to his summer site of celebration there's

a feeling. that. yesterday. came back to celebrate. in the grass. with. this. relief 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 terminations and 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. the reform practices in training and the legal protections that grant too great a shield to police officers guilty of misconduct here where 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 floyd's murder say this movement isn't over with the conviction of derek show over nor even with the other officers involved it will end 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. relieved actually went to sleep for like 5 hours. of those great and that offers hope and perhaps change to the next generation of black americans john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis. police

killing of another black protesters in the north carolina city of elizabeth crowds have marched through the streets calling for justice after. shot and killed. a search warrant on wednesday but he's yet to release details of the incident but i would say he was killed while trying to drive away from police. and there's growing anger over the police killing of a teenage black girl in ohio police ovaries released video showing an officer shooting the girl as she appeared to try to stop another girl with a knife got some live pictures of protesters marching through the city of columbus expressing their outrage the city's mayor says an independent investigation is underway. we don't yet have the facts but we do know that a 16 year old girl child this community. tragically died

last night. we release 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. johnson is the president and chief executive of the national association for the advancement of colored people and a scene pain 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 b. of the agencies who build and how to operate above the law become 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 the department he's an excellent job to the point that there was some state law requires that tightens hand not federal government connie and he can be more effective of cleaning up the crowd in the minneapolis police department when you have law enforcement officers patrolling in areas than half a 1000000 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 providing training to deescalate scenarios and be more it's really mine to have more police officers that live in the communities or compromise truth which they are trying. israeli army says

a syrian anti aircraft missile has missed its target and 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 israeli strikes inside syria israel says it's not targeting missile batteries in syria and its allegation of force it has more from west jerusalem. ready. yes this was a sizable blast that was heard here in jerusalem nearly 100 kilometers away from the site and this missile fell close to israel's dimona nuclear reactor in the town of or near the town of claim that there were air raid sirens there the israeli military confirming 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 before in response israel has continued its air 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 one. there's

still no sign of an international submarine that went missing with $53.00 sailors on board a k r i 402 is taking part in the training exercise around 100 kilometers north of bali when it missed a shed early morning reporting call on wednesday let's get more from jessica washington she joins us live from jakarta and just given these a military has been releasing some information what's it been saying. well laura more than 24 hours since this vessel last contact information is still limited just in the past few minutes we did hear from indonesia military authorities confirming some of the facts of this case they did confirm that the vessel was around 96 kilometers from the island of bali from the island's north coast when it lost contact now the crew on that ship requested permission to dive into deeper waters as part of that training exercise and shortly after that is when

authorities lost contact with this vessel they say that they last had contact with this submarine around 4 25 am so in the early hours of wednesday morning here in engine eja now what we do know is that a huge search operation is underway in the waters to the north of barly we know that there are 5 vessels involved in that search as well as a navy helicopter and authorities are looking into what appears to be an oil spill in the area north of bali but at this stage they say it's too soon to tell whether that oil spill or whether what appears to be the smell of fuel in the area is linked to this submarine we do know that help is on the way from international neighbors singapore and australia have offered their assistance in this issue singapore has already sent a submarine rescue vessel however it could take around 2 days to arrive we also know that indonesia is sending what is called an ocean hydro oceanographic vessel

that has underwater detection technology and that vessel was used recently in the search of the java sea after the sri with air crash in january so this is an ongoing operation we don't know at this stage how much oxygen the crew has on board but as time passes as it's been more than 24 hours since this submarine lost contact concerns are growing here in indonesia. many things but will come back to when more information becomes available. still ahead on al-jazeera a bloody war between 2 drug cartels intensifies in southern mexico we have an exclusive report from ground 0 of the fighting. and once held as the success story in america why is now facing record coronavirus infections and deaths.

from. their winter is reluctant to leave both count and the u.s. and the recent cows come right down to texas and arkansas giving and usually late frost damaging frost and bring in potential for some snow with it this is the temperature contrast it doesn't look huge but you get the idea that the blue is always down here meeting its was normally a feed of of gulf air and when the 2 together come together this is where we produce these spring storms where a good day or 2 off to be honest not a huge contrast here not a huge change we can see the gathering of showers in the plains states running across to missouri as well and this is where they start to develop this is jury in friday the same time any remaining winter has been blown out of the northeast or on to up to 50 new york's back up to 61 small but these storms are pretty obvious right down to the gulf coast again just to the weekend and the last from the came

right from the u.s. this is the forecast means showers in the bahamas a few in cuba and you could have otherwise talking much drier than the last couple of days and in south america there's a good scattering showers through brazil maybe one or 2 for the south and paragraph the biggest ones recently and possibly redeveloping earn the pampas now of argentina is a big hail out of those showers. but . i'm alike. in the south of india to find out how a tiny. brought an extensive mining operation to a standstill coronavirus have wept across the world with devastating impact and it's widely believed to be connected to illegal wildlife trade here in vietnam a rescue center for some of the world's most threatened animal and joining the call . very early on al jazeera.

is there has a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. justice department has not said investigation into the minneapolis police department and its use of force comes the day after form office a dark 7 was found guilty of murder in george floyd's. israeli army says a syrian anti-aircraft missile has missed its target unexploded in southern israel near a nuclear facility a missile was fired during israeli air strikes inside syria. and the operation is underway for an operation that went missing with $53.00 sailors on board.

taking part in training exercise north of bali. police in russia have rounded up more than 1400 people demonstrating in support of alexina volley a kremlin critic has been on hunger strike and protesters want the valleys only doctor to treat him but despite the major rallies president vladimir putin's made no mention of during his state of the nation address but a smith reports. 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 ukraine 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 story 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 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 an avowal me a thorn in put inside for the past decade is seriously ill in hospital after 3 weeks on hunger strike now it could soon get even harder for the supporters to have the voices heard on monday prosecutors are asking a moscow court to declare the threat from foundation an extremist organization putting it on a level. that would mean even stiffer penalties for his supporters financier's and even harder jail sentences. al-jazeera moscow. the southern states of mexican state of michoacan has become a battleground for a bloody drug war between 2 major cartels ground 0 has been a town of. as potential tension looks of mines and drug routes have made it a prized target journalists have been able to reach the town since fighting intensified and till john homan and his team made it into this exclusive report.

this is the only route into the town at the heart of a war between 2 cartels michu a kind southwest mexico. the journalists have been here since the new generation called the bones to take the land around it we've been told to take this truck 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 the road. truck and then the letters in issues at least going to generation cartel actually screwed on the road itself is not a real bad about his territory where. when we passed 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 a year 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 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 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 carriage is out of action gas is scarce so is medicine. pharma say they can't get their crops or cattle to market and the seed 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 he has 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 a 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 go just outside of the church no it is only just started shooting here. where the

authorities absent say the townspeople until a surprise visit by the governor last week just as election season began but when a teacher dared to protest to him he did this. and embrace many and when we visited they gave it to demand one thing. number one free transits on the road from. 2 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 pass me the coordinates when we finish he denied knowing of them. the next day we try 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 the sex trade public security came down this road and said that it was now than there would be for a transit we just try to get out of it already heard that it's both so we have to go back to the. victory the police filled in the trench the one of the gangs that dug across it that night the criminals dug it out again the highways closed once more the siege and suffering continues john home how does it or. health care workers and save us struggling as the country faces a may just surge in cavan $1000.00 infections and deaths despite nearly a 3rd of the population getting vaccinated critics say the government has failed to build on its early success and containing the virus in america as an asean human

reports. normally sedate or appliance protest by banging pots and pans they blame the government for allowing or a guide 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 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 thank 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 and but there's a good 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 people.

and really. happened right here in the america. back in europe why hospitals are running out of senate it's needed for using respirators in critical care units a painful reminder that in this pandemic overconfidence is a dangerous thing. in human out 0. 10 of the 12 members of european football's proposed new simply have now officially pulled out of the controversial project just 3 days after it was announced the chairman of the event says one of the driving forces behind the breakaway league says the project is on standby to reports from london. side arsenal's emirates stadium a sun satirizing the super league saga. england's richest clubs

a face days of fury against wealthy owners who many feel have put profits 1st for these fans the league's collapse feels like a win to sport the people that 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. 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 the 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. all 6 sides manchester united

bunch to city tottenham and liverpool i want to apologize to all the fancy porters at liverpool football club for the disruption i caused over the past 48 hours. without saying 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 the 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 securing the league now with missing 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. the european union has reached a provisional deal to make the 27 nation bloc climate neutral by 2050 agreements legally binding targets 55 percent of the missions by 2030 in 1900 and environmental campaigners. to tackle the climate crisis and it comes just ahead of a 2 day summit being hosted by the us climate change that explains what's at stake . this virtual summit is a u.s. administration saying we're back in the fight after 4 years of donald trump

ignoring the climate crisis for the world leaders have been invited including those nations responsible for 80 percent of global emissions and as you can see the top of that list is china and then the united states itself the 2 world's biggest polluters and together they account for nearly half of the world's emissions and that's why i joe biden special envoy for climate change john kerry was recently in china seeking an apparently getting a commitment to cooperate from chinese leaders but he knows much more is required at a moment ago no one nation no one nation. can make the difference here if if trying to went to 0 tomorrow we still have a problem unless the other nations are also reducing but the point of the purchase agreement was everybody accepted the goal so the summit's aim is to delve in eyes nations much greater ambition ahead of a crucial un climate conference in glasgow in november to limit warming to one and

a half degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels remember right now we're already at 1.2 degrees celsius and the effects of even that have been catastrophic from ice melt to wildfires to droughts and floods to local swarms and super storms costing billions displacing millions up until this week national commitments to cut c o 2 have pointed to a reduction in global emissions of just one percent by 2030 the experts say we need a reduction of at least 40 percent by that time the world is banking once again on u.s. leadership. this is al jazeera these are our top stories the u.s. justice department has announced an investigation into the minneapolis police department and its use of force comes the day after former officer derek 7 was found guilty of murdering george floyd's. his radio.