we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take a. breather news and current affairs. down to 0. the u.s. justice department launches an investigation into policing in minneapolis after a former officer is convicted of murdering george floyd's. hello there are more kyle this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. protesters in russia demand the release of opposition leader alexina valmy who's in a prison hospital. a bloody war between 2 drug cartels intensifies in southern

mexico we have an exclusive report from ground 0. 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 shoguns conviction for murdering george floyd the justice department is launching an investigation into policing in the city of minneapolis floyd died almost a year ago is 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 the crime scene to his site of celebration.

as many who have been demonstrating for 11 months felt buoyed further by the announcement 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 determination and 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 floyd's murder say this movement isn't over with the conviction of derek show over nor even with the other officers involved they say 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 better 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 the police killing of another black man protesters in the north carolina says here then

there's a bus. through the streets calling for justice. police were serving a search warrant on wednesday. details of the incident but eyewitnesses say he was killed while trying to drive away from. his growing anger over the police killing of a teenage black girl and ohio police a video showing an officer shooting the girl as she appeared to try to stop another girl with a knife processes have been watching in the city of columbus and outrage as he says an independent investigation 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 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. the israeli army says a syrian anti-aircraft missile has missed its target and exploded in southern israel near nuclear facility the blast was felt in jerusalem and other areas in central israel the missile was fired during israeli air strikes inside syria israel says it's now targeting missile batteries in syria in retaliation for said has more from west jerusalem. yes this was a sizable blast that was heard here in jerusalem nearly 100 kilometers away from the site of 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 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 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. there's still no sign of a submarine that went missing or $53.00 sailors on board a car a longer. possible training exercise. when it most essential early on in reporting call on wednesday jessica washington has this update from jakarta. what we do know is that a huge search operation is underway in the waters to the north of barley 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 barley 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 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. russian police have rounded up more than 1400 people demonstrating in support of alexina vali the kremlin critic has been on hunger strike and protesters want vollies own doctors to treat him but despite the major rallies president vladimir putin made no mention of the joining his state of the nation address but as 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 masses tens of thousands of troops in the ukraine and western countries impose sanctions over allegations of cyber spying and election interference. we want good relations with all participants of the international law and really we don't want to go on bridges but the. someone mistakes our good intentions for indifference or weakness and intends to burden or even blow up his creatures 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 draw attention to the volleys 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 and avowedly a foreign impute inside for the past decade is seriously ill in hospital after 3 weeks on hunger strike now it could soon get even harder for me and his supporters to have the voices heard on monday prosecutors are asking a moscow court to declare the current from foundation an extremist organization

putting it on a level with al qaida that could mean even stiffer penalties for his supporters and finances and even harder jail sentences burnous with al-jazeera moscow. physician in chad has denounced what it's calling an institutional coup of the son of slain president was appointed as leader in the tree which announced very sudden death on tuesday has promised elections and a year and a half but unions are threatening to strike and rebels are planning to launch on the capital of the morgan reports from n.j. maina. 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. 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 of 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 change and concord in chad or right now on their way towards. with confidence but above all with courage and determination at

$37.00 mohammed to be 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. 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. early election results showed. in the weeks leading up to be election hundreds in the capital demonstrative calling for change and many boycotted the elections that ended with

derby winning. chats residents are divided between mourning him and denouncing the council. 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 clear who's going to agree to be present at any talks. still ahead here on out india steps up protection for oxygen supplies of hospitals treating coronavirus patients from danger. and why research is a china's pledge to fight climate change is far from realistic. it's time for the perfect journey. sponsored point qatar airways ferry quite with around the arabian peninsula at the moment there's been

a big drop in temperature around the levant several degrees as the breeze comes on shore and that's true of northern parts of egypt the breezes coming down the north of the red sea you know through the series and the last remaining showers in north and turkey are on their way through to the caucuses then we're left with quite conditions not especially hot there were 3808 but only 33 in doha and there's a little bit of cloud in the sky but even the potential of showers in the western mountains of saudi that's disappeared about tommy get to friday and on saturday proffer what's happening in western turkey what have you got to say a nice shower to iran otherwise it's fine and dry and reasonably warm there is actions are dishonest just developed and this is within the last 24 hours this tropical cyclone job or now it's heading towards the african coast you might think mozambique is the obvious destination but this one looks as though i can't guarantee it is heading towards the coast of tanzania not many cyclons hit the

coast of tanzania so that could be quite down she is not a particularly huge storm but it is unusual in his position beyond that much of southern africa is fine and wall but not the eastern cape here it is wet. frank assessments on. what exactly happened and what major taking what a situation might not be you could ever get informed opinion is the u.s. thinking military positioning in the middle east or is it just a simple act of reorganizing ministry us and this is a message to the region the united states is rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the day school ople headlines inside story on 00.

0 again you're watching us is there has a reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. justice department is nuts the investigation into the minneapolis police department and its use of force becomes a day off to form off the dark 7 was found guilty of murdering george floyd's. israeli army says a syrian anti-aircraft missile has missed its target some exploded near a nuclear facility in southern israel the missile was fired as israel carried out as strikes inside syria. and a search operation is underway for an nation submarine that went missing with 53 sailors on board the k.o.i. 9 garner for 02 was taking part in a training exercise north of bali. at least 4 people have been killed in a car bomb attack at a luxury hotel in pakistan explosion ripped through the serene hotel's carpark

inquest a couple of baluchistan province 11 people were injured in pakistan taliban says it carried out the attack china's ambassador to pakistan was staying at the hotel but wasn't when the bomb went off. a southern mexican state of michoacan has become a battleground for a drug war between 2 major cartels ground 0 has been the town of its potentially lucrative lines and drug raids have made it a prized target journalists have been able to reach that town since fighting intensifies until john heilemann and his team made it in for this exclusive report . this is the only route in taiga the town at the heart of a war between 2 cartels a michu a kind southwest mexico. no journalists have been here since the hell is going new generation cartel of bands to take the territory around them but we've been told that by this dirt track over the mountains we can get in. that's holy school cuttle

turn to when we pass the 2nd checkpoint they wanted to talk. we don't have any necessity to rob we're drug traffickers it's true that we're having a family to struggle but we're fighting for the rights of each of us and for the people. they're in a propaganda push to go with their advance. finally we make it out of the hills and into the town they're fighting for i believe you're. on the outskirts it looks like a ghost town thousands of fled the violence here and the isolation. the main road to the nearest city a patch of gun has been closed by another group cartel is reduce their fighting the holy school cartel and have the area under siege. petru has to be smuggled in the carriage is out of action gas is scarce stories medicine bottled water pharma say they can't get the crops or cattle to market. and the sieges had other costs when danniella gabriella's groundout had

a burst they couldn't get him to the hospital on the other side the blockade he dogs want to leave but then i thought so helpless because we couldn't do anything it was out of our hands and angry it's not right that our 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 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 there's a nightly soundtrack here. you can probably hear the sound of gunfire just outside the church no it is only just they start cheering. the police and authorities are largely absent here but the state security minister did drop quite a promise to get the road open it's election season here. the day after when we tried to leave we struggled to get through to a party got a gang who dug up the road just hours after the minister left with the highways closed once more the siege and suffering continues john home and how does it i

guess. the u.s. has imposed sanctions on 2 more state owned businesses in manama it comes as the military crackdown continues this video shows protesters fleeing security forces and our way washington is banning potentilla imports from 2 major firms linked to the. us have also been frozen on 700 people have been killed since the coup in february. india has reported the world's largest daily increase in corona virus infections since the start of the pandemic more than 314000 new cases were registered taking the total to almost $16000000.00 many hospitals of one the dangerously low on oxygen with only a few hours of supply left at least $22.00 coated 19 patients died after a leak cause their oxygen to run out is a problem reports from new delhi. the leak of an oxygen tank

outside this hospital in nashik maharastra coast clouds of dense white gas. the tankers supply oxygen needed by patients inside the 700 bed facility if they were to do a leakage occurred while refilling the oxygen tankers and a lot of cover 90 patients at the hospital who were on the ventilator support died you could cut an oxygen supply. more than 20 patients died 31 were transferred to another hospital the incident happened as many indian states complain of shortages awful accident supplies which have led to deaths. i brought my wife here in the night and she was well and was talking to me but only to him in the night she told me that she was not getting oxygen and the hospital is not providing it to her i spoke to a few officials everyone said we are checking and we're checking but nobody was checking in in the morning i was told that my wife is dead. shortages in the

capital led to delhi's leaders pleading with the central government to send more oxygen urgently independent health experts say the government should have anticipated this so unfortunately it seems to be the case that the lessons from last year perhaps were not registered adequately the recognition that those who need admission certainly need oxygen and if that number of cases were admitted would increase exponentially as we are seeing right now that there would be a possibility of started of oxygen this would have been something that policymakers and health systems would have thought through. the government has now restricted the supply of oxygen and india for medical purposes and there's a ministry of external affairs has been tasked with enforcing 15000 metric tons of oxygen for hospitals using double the amount they were last year and with carbon cases rising at the current rate that demand is only. even more and this is one of the al-jazeera. denmark is lifting restrictions fast. than expected but mainly for

people with so-called corona poss restaurants can now serve customers indoors but they have to show their vaccinated or of had a negative test result afaik bars and museums have also opened for the 1st time in months and months infection rate has plummeted since it imposed a lockdown in december and boosted testing capacity protests have been held in the german capital where politicians have approved so-called emergency break rules to tackle the pandemic the new law allows school closures and nighttime curfews in areas with high infection rates critics see it as an attack on their freedoms even as germany battles a 3rd wave of cases. 10 of the 12 members of european football's proposed new separately. pulled out of the controversial project just 3 days after it was announced the chairman of the event one of the driving forces behind the breakaway link says the project is on standby.

in. side arsenal's emirates stadium 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 winter sport that people 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 6 sides manchester united bunch to city tottenham arsenal and liverpool i want to apologize to all the fancy porters at liverpool football club for the disruption i caused to past 40 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 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 the 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. london. the us is hosting a 2 day. climate change at least 40 countries are taking passing clues in china as the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases present. to fight global warming some family moving towards green as sources of energy could risk jobs and economic

recovery training who has this report. of toxic smoke leaking from power plants and factories is a common sight in santee the northwest importance has for decades powered china's economic growth primarily by 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 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 china 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 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 to continue. to approve new ones at a faster rate than anywhere else in the walt the shanshu government is planning to close down some old factories here and build what it says. more efficient coal facilities to some parts of china at least it seems the road to clean energy will be long and slower. and china. with. top stories the u.s. justice department announced an investigation into the minneapolis.