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hospital beds and oxygen. funeral services begin for a young black man shot dead by police we live in the u.s. city of minneapolis. u.s. president joe biden is pledging to cut america's greenhouse gas emissions by more than half by 2030 he made the announcement at the opening of a virtual white house climate summit that has brought together leaders from 40 nations all in an effort to speed up global efforts and the verge a looming crisis by the invalid america will not wait to act and the cost of doing nothing is only growing. by maintaining those investments and putting these people to work the united states sets out on the road to cut greenhouse gases in half and

half by the end of this decade that's where we're headed as a nation and that's all we can do if we take action to build an economy that's not only more prosperous but healthier fare and cleaner for the entire planet you know these steps will set america on a path of net 0 emissions economy by no later than 2050 but the truth is america represents less than 50 percent of the world's emissions no nation can solve this crisis on our own as i know you all fully understand all of us all of us and particularly those of us who represent the world's largest economies we have to step up the white house correspondent kimberly how it is following developments from washington d.c. . u.s. president joe biden is reclaiming america's leadership role when it comes to combating climate change one that he believes that his predecessor abandoned and

that is putting not just the united states but the planet at risk so this is a moment of peril the u.s. president said but also a moment of opportunity and to that end the u.s. president making that bold commitment that is up from the commitment by president obama when joe biden was vice president but there is a challenge in all of this well it is ambitious there is also this aspect of this there are many in the united states that are questioning whether or not this is really something that can be achieved and whether the time to do all of this is now given the fact that the united states is recovering from a global pandemic and there are many critical of joe biden's green energy plan and green economy that this will cost jobs so the u.s. president doing a lot of convincing on the international stage but also his message was one

addressed to a domestic audience there are so many in the united states that are not only skeptical of the message but not willing to make the hard changes in terms of their personal lifestyle whether it is taking public transit instead of driving or cutting back on their or mediates amazon shopping purchases that have gone up in the global pandemic. china is the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases in his speech to the summit president xi jinping pledged to phase down coal consumption by 2030 china has committed to move from carbon peak to carbon neutrality in the march shorter time span than what might take many developed countries and that requires extraordinary hard efforts from china supporters been given to encourage peking pioneers from localities sectors in companies we were strictly control coal fired power generation projects we go strictly limit the increase in coal consumption over the 145 year plan period and phase it down in the

15th 5 year plan period katrine new has more now from beijing. this wasn't about details for china this moment is about the optics they want to send a message to the world that china takes this issue very seriously wants to transform its image of just being a world pollutant to being a sort of proactive leader when it comes to fighting climate change and another important message she jinping sent was that china also wants to set aside or it's willing to set aside the tensions that it has with the u.s. to work on this issue now we've been watching all day chinese state media talk about this and there has been quite a lot of suspicion if you will about the u.s. return to leave this climate change effort a lot of tabloids a lot of the state media channels have been saying can the u.s. really be relied on because as we see you know according to who too who are at the helm of the u.s. they haven't really been consistent in their message and china converse they want

to send the message that they are reliable and can be looked upon as a leader certainly as an equal to the u.s. and we saw she didn't ping actually join another climate summit last week with angela merkel the leader of germany and then you will knock on the leader of france to talk about china's climate pledges and working with europe and also u.s. climate and boy john kerry also came to china last week to meet with his chinese counterpart and discuss working together on that front but there are disagreements that china believes that the u.s. needs to do more when it comes to helping poorer countries invest in cleaner energy and transitioning into renewable energy there and the u.s. for its part wants china to do more to cut its carbon emissions and implement more stringent targets russia has ordered its armed forces to withdraw from its shared border with ukraine ukraine says it's now model drawing the situations in the eastern regions tensions have been rising between the 2 after moscow amassed tens

of thousands of troops on its border with ukraine but it's with us more from moscow . this was a shy jeweled withdrawal of troops and russia's defense minister 2 weeks ago said the day the exercises that they were conducting on the border with ukraine they've always called them exercises would end and true to his word he is ordered the troops back to their bases within russia it was of course an enormous vast exercise in terms of manpower in the build tree and the build up of military in crimea occupy crimea and along the border with ukraine was pretty much president for an exercise russia says it was in response to provocations from nato from nato members but they did say this was an exercise that exercises comes to an end today and those troops will be going back to their bases over russia nothing this is nothing out of the ordinary however what does begin on saturday until the end of

october is a restriction to naval passage passage for naval vessels through the courage strait this is the strait that separates eastern crimea from western russia and it gives access to western ukrainian ports russia is saying that it will allow merchant shipping through the strait but from saturday the 24th they'll be no access to naval vessels either to ukrainian naval vessels or to knesset vessels invited by ukraine 3rd party countries now there is a treaty between russia and ukraine the says both parties are supposed have equal access to this area russia says it's closing access off until of 30 'd 1st of october for exercises but that's a very very long time for exercises to take place chance transferred has more on the ukrainian reaction from mario paul. the ukrainian president to me is alinsky

has tweeted i'll read out what he says he says reducing the number of troops on our borders proportionally reduces tensions ukraine is always ready but welcomes any steps to reduce the military and deescalate the situation and don't bash ukraine seeks peace and thanks its international partners despite a tweet like that from the ukrainian leader who we've seen in recent weeks appealing to the international community and nato members for support in the face of what a he describes as a russian provocation there is still great distrust in this country. you know you speak to people on the ground close to the contact blind certainly on this side of the contact line where we've been for the last few days and you witnessed some of the shelling as well we saw the shelling in the town about. 3 or 4 days ago i mean this escalation and people are very distrustful of anything that russia says and

bear in mind that there is still no lasting political settlement that has been agreed upon and we are now entering the 8 year of this conflict india recorded more than 300000 new coronavirus cases on wednesday the highest single day rise seen in the world and for the 2nd day in a row more than 2000 people died from the disease the rises led to shortages of hospital beds and oxygen supplies in many cities elizabeth khurana reports from new delhi. sitting outside new delhi's biggest car that mine hospital this man has been told all 1500 beds are occupied but he is refusing to leave his ambulance driver says they traveled for 3 hours to come to the hospital only to be turned away baldinger but a lot of people may generally we were told that only if you have approval from top authorities only then they will admit the patient and allow the m.b. . it's inside they denied us admission straight away now where do i take the

patients and the oxygen in the ambulance will finish soon. hospitals and india's capital a full of people arriving ambulances cars and. pleading mission but even the family members of those inside. this. was admitted a week ago he says he's only been able to speak to her. situation is very grim here no one is paying attention to patient hospitals open in the city and the chief minister isn't giving. this crisis if he called over to help line no one on to those people going to even get. my question is that my mother has been admitted. to who's taking care of. his sister is also distraught and the. people are going inside the hospital and there that bodies

are coming in there was a baby and they denied him admission saying they cannot allow the child inside. delis health minister called a shortage of intensive care beds and oxygen supplies in the capital a grave crisis he's asking the central government to help create more beds this woman has come here like so many others after being turned away by other hospitals we have seen patients arriving at hospitals all day struggling to breathe being carried by desperate family members. of the central government to send oxygen supply to the capital urgently it's judges say the lives of thousands of people are at stake and let's ask the government why it's not waking up to the situation. the government says it's planning to import all and and sure it's uninterrupted delivery throughout the country. states are converting sports stadiums and halls

and to close the 19 care centers but not fast enough to match the world's biggest surge in cases. after waiting for an hour this man was one of the lucky ones his daughter convinced the hospital to admit him most others were turned away elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi. still ahead of al-jazeera the race to find the missing indonesian submarine the military says oxygen for the 53 people on board will run out by saturday. the missile strike on israel from syria will have all the latest as an investigation gets underway into what happened. hello there let's look to the middle east where things are starting to heat up

after having cooled slightly we've got temperatures in iraq edging up to 40 degrees same story in kuwait and in doha there by the time we get to saturday temperatures will have dipped down to the early thirty's that's come from the change of wind will have a bit of dust kicking around and plenty of hazy sunshine for much of saudi arabia things are looking hot and dry those isolated showers we saw seem to have dried up and it's a similar story for iran where temperatures in toronto be going to be hitting 30 degrees the plenty of hot dry weather so we have to the horn of africa we've got those thundery showers rolling across the ethiopian rift valley affecting parts of somalia and kenya but the unusual weather story is this tropical cyclone off the coast of tanzania we've only had 2 of these since record began so going to be keeping an eye on that it's expected to bring some strong winds and heavy rains to dar es salaam though it is weakening as it makes its way to the coast elsewhere in

southern africa things are looking relatively warm and dry temperatures have dipped down slightly with cape town at 21 degrees. year investigation into the program i believe it would be to god if we were going to. reveal secrets he was visiting out there will be by our date going to make. a connection some don't want to expose in legacy media. glare shield. documents night al-jazeera investigation how to sell a massacre on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap those headlines president joe biden opened the global climate summit with 40 world leaders by pledging to cut in half the coal and petroleum fumes the u.s. pumps out the summit takes place says earth day is marked around the world most of the marches and rallies that usually take place have been canceled because of the pandemic. russia has ordered its armed forces to withdraw from its shared border with ukraine ukraine says it's now monitoring the situation in its eastern regions closely tensions have been rising between the 2 countries after moscow amassed tens of thousands of troops on the border. india has reported the world's largest daily increase in corona virus infection since the start of the pandemic more than 314000

new cases were registered and hospitals are warning that dangerously low on oxygen . now days after former police officer derek chauvin was found guilty of murdering george floyd the funeral of another black man killed at the hands of us police started in a nearby neighborhood an officer shot and killed 20 year old dante write earlier this month during a traffic stop in brooklyn center near minneapolis friends and family of right along with several civil rights leaders attended a public viewing on wednesday let's go live now to john hendren he's in minneapolis how is that funeral shaping up now john. well sammy the mourners are inside and the proceedings haven't begun but it is a significant crowd that we saw going inside there the reverend al sharpton the civil rights leader will be giving the eulogy we'll also hear from benjamin crump

the lawyer who represents the family of don't take right and also the family of george floyd so there's a pretty high profile crowd in there many of them had been here for the derek show trial in in any case right rather sharpton says that he's going to start out talking about the life of dante right and the man this is a 20 year old father of 2 and he was shot my a police officer a white woman who says she thought she was using her taser and on the badge camera of the police officer she did yell taser taser and then fired a shot and said oh i believe i shot him. right was climbing back in the car had been stopped apparently for expired tags on these are stickers on his license plate and the police say he they had a warrant out for him and when he climbed back into the car that officer says she

felt threatened in any case she quit the next day and has been charged with 2nd degree manslaughter so we expect sharpton to talk a little bit about the life of dante wright and then about the civil rights issues here with african-americans in the united states being shot by white police officers. this is all coming as you mentioned off of the show how is that. impacting the mood and the expectations in a case like this. well for one thing it brought a number of very high profile dignitaries to town they were already here at the time of the dante wright shooting and as i think we'll expect to hear a little later the issue there is that we couldn't even get through a month long trial of a black man who died at the hands of a white police officer when a similar incident occurred in brooklyn center not far from here we are in downtown minneapolis where the funeral is taking place and that. is that this happens with

such frequency there have been other incidents as well in. a much more complicated situation there were 2 young women who were involved in a confrontation one of them took out a knife and a police officer 'd shot her there in columbus ohio and these stories tend to get lumped together despite the often very different circumstances that occur but the reverend al sharpton says one of the things he's going to talk about is how that derrick show really has not ended the problems with black people confronted by white police officers he says this is round 2 and we have to win this round as well . now the israeli army says a syrian anti-aircraft missile missed its target and exploded near

a nuclear facility in southern israel the blast was felt in jerusalem and other areas in central israel the missile was fired after israel carried out air strikes inside syria israel israel's military then launched more rockets at syrian missed all batteries for the syrian government says most of these were intercepted perry force it has the latest from west jerusalem. israeli military says an investigation is underway into what took place in the early hours of thursday morning when it says an errant syrian air defenses misao missed its target an israeli jet and flew across israeli territory to explode in mid-air close to the nuclear reactor add to murder about 30 kilometers or so away from that very high value target the israeli defense minister benny gantz as said n s a 5 missile did indeed miss an israeli jet that is ready defenses tried to shoot it down but failed to do so he said normally such outcomes are different indeed there

have been precedents for this kind of thing happening before as recently as 2019 a syrian air defense missile was found to have set fire to territory in northern cyprus having again missed an israeli jet and ending up there however this location is very different and the timing is very different these are tense times between iran and israel especially just 10 days or so after that attack on the iranian nuclear facility at natanz which iran ascribed to israel in there was pretty considerable briefing apparently by israeli intelligence sources here to the israeli media saying that israel was responsible for that as well now of course at such times of heightened tensions miscalculations misjudgments can lead to dangerous escalations the israeli military says that this was not such an instance that there was no deliberate attempt to attack the nuclear facility at dimona nonetheless there are questions for it to answer given the high value status of

such a target and given the fact that it being recently strengthened in terms of its defenses in recent weeks. indonesia's navy chief says a missing submarine with 53 crew on board who will run out of oxygen supplies by saturday k r a i mangle a 4 o 2 lost contact during a military exercise on wednesday a search and rescue operation is underway were an oil spill has been spotted off the coast of bali from jakarta jessica washington has this report in indonesia this rescue operation grows more urgent as the hours pass 53 people were on board the karen and ghana 4 o 2 when it went missing somewhere in the waters near the island of bali the submarine has been in service for 40 years its crew was taking part in a training exercise when it lost contact in the early hours of wednesday morning. until now we still have not had contact with a submarine. while the 3rd is being done in dense of. indonesian authorities

requested help from the country's nearest neighbors. assistance from neighboring countries include singapore in the form of the swift rescue ship it's a submarine rescue ship malaysian soldiers are on board a rescue vessel and expected to reach indonesia in a few days and this trillion government has also offered to provide assistance. it is not a submarine the destroyer operates submarine classes is quite different but whatever we are able to do we have undertaken to do indonesian military personnel spotted an oil slick in the sea which officials say could indicate a fuel leak time is now at a critical stage in the rescue operation. the oxygen in a blackout condition can last for 72 hours or 3 days so that of contact was lost at 3 o'clock oxygen will last until saturday 3 o'clock authorities say the submarine

was in good condition suitable for combat it underwent refitting in south korea and was returned to indonesia in 2012. this is the 1st case of a missing submarine for indonesia but fatal accidents involving military equipment are common make a right angle of fortune was built in the late seventy's in germany and has been in service in indonesia since 1981 defense experts have long called for a major overhaul of some of the country's aging military equipment. indonesia is looking to expand and upgraded submarine fleet in coming years but experts say the task should be treated with urgency. i'm not saying our maintenance is not good but accidents have happened here many times especially when it comes out all the military equipment as the search continues investigators are asking how routine drill turned into a major crisis for injured asia's navy just a washington al-jazeera jakarta. hong kong investigative journalist has been

convicted and fined for charges linked to a documentary exposing police misconduct during the 2019 protests speaking outside court troy described the ruling as heartbreaking he called it a dark day for the territories press freedom choice produced a programme showing police officers delaying their response to a mob attack against commuters protesters at a train station. i believe those who have watched the episodes have already be a living proof of the value of documentary assault. even though i was so. guilty i don't see journalism as a crime and i hope to in the street can find ways to. pursue our high speed of journalism in the long run. to me go polonaise in hong kong she says about choice case sense concerning precedent for journalists in the city. you can

hear the support of outright after she leaves the court on the charge handed down the murder and said that she will not serve jail time there was that relief particularly amongst the media community here but there is a lot of concern as to why this case even made it this far merely due to the fact that the methods i was using for the talking men treat him question is widely used in the investigative journalist to cross the world she access data for information from a public database. to use under false pretenses about freud it's a prolific journalist she's a well known investigative journalist and also known for her investigations against police tactics and actions during the 2019 pro-democracy and antigovernment protests here. china is warning australia could take what it calls retaliate

reaction after camera cancel the series of projects linked to beijing's belton road initiative china wants to build a network of global trade routes and the australian state of victoria was involved but last year australia brought in new rules allowing the cancellation of any agreements with foreign countries if it believed it could threaten national interests china says relations between the 2 could be seriously harmed by the decision we will always act to destroy its national interest to protect destroy but also ensure that we can advance our national interests of a free and open indo-pacific and i world that seeks a balance in favor of freedom of the u.k.'s apologized for failing to properly recognise black and asian soldiers who died in world war one the war graves commission found that as many as 350000 soldiers from minority groups weren't commemorated by name due to pervasive racism of course in libya has

adjourned pretrial hearings in a corruption case until may the fish rots scandal was 1st exposed in a documentary by al-jazeera as investigative unit revealed corruption in the country's fishing industry implicating the country's top politicians and officials from either miller has more from johannesburg. what we're seeing in court is pretrial proceedings so it may be some time before we see the start of the actual trial the case which involves former cabinet ministers and local businessmen is likely to be a long drawn out court battle it's alleged that the suspects received more than $7000000.00 in bribes from a foreign fishing company now in today's court proceedings the court was expected to decide if the matter is ready for trial and which judge will be appointed to preside over the matter occurring that last court appearance documents containing witness statements were leaked to the media and this time around there's been an

application that's our ask that the suspect statements not be published but that court that has been lost now this is a very sensitive case for the namibian government with the president hog again gob who too was implicated in the scandal issuing statements denying any involvement this is just one of 20 high profile cases the maybe as anti corruption commission is reportedly investigating courts been adjourned and those accused remain in custody until the next court appearance in may. i am. just take you through some of the headlines now u.s. president joe biden has pledged to canterbury because greenhouse gas emissions by more than half by 2030 maybe announcement the opening of a virtual white house climate summit that's brought together leaders from 14 nations it's all in an effort to speed up global efforts.