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a final farewell to 20 year old dog tell you right the black man shot by police during a traffic stop. russia announces it's pulling its troops from the border with ukraine after what nato calls an unjustified military buildup. it could be the world's moment of peril all moments of opportunity the declaration from joe biden as he pledges the u.s. will be a global leader on climate change the president kicked off a virtual summit on thursday by committing to an ambitious reduction in carbon emissions but critics are dismissing his plans as costly and ineffective our white house correspondent kimberly health reports. a virtual global summit convened by

u.s. president joe biden and invitation to world leaders to combat climate change collectively sharyn are mistaken shying is undeniable at the cost of going to action is key. united states is awaiting where resolving to take action by denounce the us would cut fossil fuel emissions by up to 52 percent by 2030 the earth day pledge renews america's commitment following 4 years of inaction by predecessor donald trump it more than doubles america's target under the 2015 paris climate agreement that trump withdrew from that biden rejoined when he took office . this just bursting into. song 40 world leaders participated including american adversaries russia and china china is the world's biggest emitter of

greenhouse gases president xi jinping pledged to achieve carbon neutrality by $26.00 to adding this jab at the united states china has committed to move from carbon peak to carbon neutrality in a much shorter time span than what might take many countries just weeks after the u.s. and russia leveled sanctions against one another ask elating tensions russian leader vladimir putin said he takes international commitments seriously like hero and paris hinting the united states does not russia st used its greenhouse gas emissions to greater extent than many other countries. but biden faces domestic challenges implementing his green economy or oil gas and chemical companies spent more than 100000000 dollars last year lobbying u.s. lawmakers to keep fossil fuel vehicles on the road speaking virtually before

a congressional panel swedish climate activists gratitude back out to hold lawmakers accountable if they don't change i don't believe for a 2nd that you will actually do this because i'm a crisis doesn't exist in the public debate today and since it doesn't really exists and the general level of awareness is so absurdly low you will still get away with continuing to contribute to the destruction of presence and future living conditions president biden's announcement of a new u.s. goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions is ambitious but what it lacked are specifics including a legislative plan a budget or any kind of proposal for meeting biden's new climate target kimberly help hit al-jazeera the white house david wallace wells is the author of the on the inhabitable i'm the editor of launch at new york magazine he says many believe

adapting to carbon neutral systems is the more lucrative option. it's an incredibly ambitious target even if we totally zeroed out our emissions from the power sector we will be able to get there and then we also have to cut from transportation infrastructure industry i recall tripping these are very tough targets to hit and without a sort of concrete plan for how to get there i'm skeptical nevertheless i think it's an incredibly lot of a step forward for the country that has produced the lion's share of the world's stark emissions to say that this is a very serious issue we need to be moving immediately and trying to take a retake a leadership position on the issue that they have and in the us i think there's a growing economic consensus all around the world that in fact the cost is negative that countries will be better off the faster it moves and i think that's why we've seen so many new ambitious pledges being made over the last year from the e.u. from south korea from japan and especially from china these are not pledges that were made on the occasion of the summit they were not pledges that were made in the context of international negotiations they were made because these countries are

short term benefit in decarbonising i think the us is the same logic which means look to holistically we will be better off the faster move on climate and slower remove that will. now at least 13 coronavirus patients have been killed in a hospital fire in western india the blaze destroyed an intensive care unit about 70 kilometers north of mumbai and for the 2nd straight day in there is reporting the world's highest daily tally of cases of more than 332001 major hospital in new delhi says run out of oxygen the next hour. the foreman joins us now live from new delhi a hospital for the last thing that the health system very needs already struggling with the situation. absolutely sammy unfortunately hospital fires are accidents at hospitals aren't uncommon in india

this is just the latest where 13 patients who were in the intensive care unit off this hospital in the western state of maharashtra died when a fire broke out at about 3 am local time and this is happening just 2 days after another accident in the city of nashik in maharashtra which is the worst affected state with a leak in an oxygen tank that was supplying oxygen to covert patients led to the deaths of 24 after they oxygen supply was disrupted now oxygen supply is one of the biggest issues in the country at the moment on friday morning we had one of delhi's biggest hospitals say that 25 of what they call this patients have passed away in the last 24 hours with sources saying that that is because of low oxygen pressure the hospital director has said that they've only got 2 hours of

oxygen supply left that it needs to be airlifted to immediately that 60 lives at stake there are many hospitals in delhi where we're seeing a similar situation saying they only have a few hours of oxygen supply left and so the air force has now started investing oxygen to different places this is after delhi's chief minister the state leaders said that transporting oxygen by road is taking too long this is because of the number of hospitalizations which have increased so much with hospitals using double the amount of oxygen which they were last year. it's also quite distressing elizabeth reading reports out of places like iraq now where they're saying we knew we know of course there's been a problem with cremations but we talk about things like cremations on sidewalks i mean how desperate must the situation be. and

that now and in many other places around the country at the moment we are seeing people promoted outside of kramatorsk ams and that is because of the incredibly long lines outside kraemer tauriel and burial grounds in a country where funerals are held as soon as possible because of custom because of the very hot temperature because of a shortage of freezes now states like karnataka are freeing up public land to cremate people and this is all because of the number of cases for the 2nd day in a row more than 300000 cases more than recorded anywhere else in the world during the pandemic it's why the prime minister met in the more he held a meeting with the leaders of the worst affected states on friday morning and he's also going to be holding a meeting about the oxygen supply and we've had the supreme court ask the government to present a plan immediately for how it's planning to deal with the situation including the

critical shortages of oxygen of vaccines of antiviral drugs like when does appear because high courts have been hearing these issues on a local level in the supreme court said that it needs this has to be a national plan because it is a national crisis. finds. a funeral stream held for don't tell you right the 23 year old black american shot dead by police during a traffic stop emotions run high and coming just 2 days and a few kilometers from where a police officer was found guilty of murdering george floyd john hendren has more from minneapolis and the warning you may find some of the images in his report to be disturbing. to the family of dante to meet hughes right it's become an all too familiar american scene a family gathered to mourn another black man killed by a white police officer my son had a smile that was worth

a $1000000.00. 20 year old dante wright pulled over for an expired license plate on april 11th was shot by a police officer who says she meant to fire her taser but drew her gun instead. that officer kim potter now faces a manslaughter charge don't say wright was killed in the midst of the trial of derrick chauvet the white police officer convicted on tuesday of murdering george floyd so this funeral drew many of the same dignitaries that attended that trial and 2 days after she opens conviction floyd's family was also here joining the right family in mourning all of minneapolis is that they are going to print up brooklyn sent. me going to pass the george throwing justice in policing act as federal law we are going to make it against the

law oh no over this country to keep bringing us to a few rules for our young prince. dante right to life. the right family lawyer ben crump who also represents the family of george floyd was introduced as the attorney general for black folks they became part of a fraternity that no family wants to be a part of. right left a 2 year old son in a name that will now be added to the long list of black men in america who died at the hands of police john hendren al jazeera minneapolis. all still ahead of al jazeera. violence between palestinians and israelis in occupied east jerusalem during the month of ramadan and we meet south korea's multipurpose robot helping to fight covert 19.

you might think of the middle east as always being hot and cold often is hotter than average with these temperatures on 1st sites you think well that's about right this time of year is cool down levant but actually on closer inspection terror on a $32.00 is above where it should be the focus for terror on does take the temperature down a little bit but this is the average it's $21.00 this time of the year the record is $33.00 so we're not that far away from the average and it's not the only faces hotter than the norm there's a little red blob here over iraq and down towards q 8 again 41042 you might think it doesn't look extraordinary it's 6 or 7 degrees above the average all the same for the rest of us fairly quiet weather 33 in doha or humid one of the there aren't that many showers as

a hint maybe that will grow in the back fence of western yemen and the breeze isn't extraordinary anywhere as we hang your answer of $29.00 degrees for example of jerusalem which is dull particularly hot but we're still at 42 in baghdad here's some unusual weather for you a tropical cycling ok we've had them before is the right time the but this is a long way north and is heading towards tanzania expected landfall probably middle of sunday what's unusual is it's probably only the 3rd to make landfall in living memory. in the 1st thailand's of mesopotamia where the 1st settlements formed the cradle of civilization iraqi people who depended on the tigris and euphrates for centuries can no longer make a living on rivers blighted by and pollution al-jazeera world reveals how the manmade decline of one of history's most famed ancient environments is leaving its

people struggling to survive iraq's dying rivers. to news. you. back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our lines the u.s. has pledged to have its carbon emissions by 2030 on the 1st table global solid some crackling climate change china says it'll phase out its use of coal from 20 to 26 dozens of world leaders have joined business chiefs activists for the 2 day meeting . at least 13 coronavirus patients have been killed in a hospital fire in western india and for the 2nd straight day the country is

reporting the world's highest daily tally of cases with more 332000 new infections. a funeral has been held in the u.s. state of minnesota for a black american man who was shot by a police officer during a traffic stop the officers resigned and is facing manslaughter charges. israeli forces have stopped jewish anti arab activists from confronting a group of palestinians in occupied east jerusalem. stun grenades and water cannon we used to keep the groups apart at one of the main entrances to the old city how to force it reports from outside damascus gate. this is benighted considered racial tension here in occupied east jerusalem you can hear those stun grenades still going off in the background even now some time after this all began what we have is a group of jewish youths largely on one side of the roundabout behind us close to

damascus gate an occupied east jerusalem they have marched to this area some of them chanting death to arabs organized we understand by an anti arab group called the hover and they're here to confront what has been pretty much a nightly occurrence since the beginning of ramadan just over a week ago of clashes relatively minor ones between palestinian groups and israeli security forces what they say has spurred their decision to come here this jewish group is that they have seen videos posted on social media of young palestinian men attacking jewish people filming it putting it on social media and since those videos have been posted we have seen sporadic. more more standardized now going over on the palestinian side of this protest people scattering once again and so this is where most of the. clashes between in the skirmishes between palestinians and the security forces have been going on in the sort of amphitheater

area just down there with the smoke is in front of the damascus gate as i say that's been going on to one level or another for some days now the difference with this night is that they have been confronted here by jewish anti arab groups and the the security forces have been trying to separate them with some mixed success with there have been injuries there have been these ongoing clashes throughout the evening. all russia is set to begin moving its troops away from its border with ukraine in the coming hours it amassed tens of thousands of soldiers in the region leading to tension review crane and its western allies moscow maintains it was a military exercise and says forces will return to their bases but some equipment will be left behind for another drone later this year nato and ukraine's president welcomed the move but say they remain vigilant need to give of the ad is a country risk analyst specializing in russia chess market she says the threat of

more sanctions could have prompted moscow to act i know that some analysts would argue that sanctions do not work but sanctions do work they work slowly they don't necessarily deter russian actions immediately but they do have constraining factor so there are things that russian are doing the russians and russian business is do care about and all the surveys would suggest that their living standards are far more important than all these military engagements prices are rising in russia and job losses during the pandemic have not been recovered real disposable incomes are falling ruble has become under pressure because of these sanctions because of the threat of the conflict these are all downside risks for doing russian economy and didn't vote in frankly cannot afford to have to attack its economy as its imagine

from a recession and 2020 so the sanctions went necessarily to too strong to severe however there were a signal from the west that they can be tightened and i think that they also had a role to play in this deescalation. the u.s. is sending our craft to help find a missing indonesian submarine which ran out or will run out of oxygen by saturday they lost contact during a military exercise this week president joke over dodo has ordered an all out rescue efforts singapore malaysia of also sent vessels to help graham on web is a research fellow at the rajaratnam school of international studies at nanyang technological university he says by its very nature the submarine will be difficult to locate so because of the design meant to be. designed. not. only for 2 weeks straight

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is because the submarine question who is. very far more more than. probably wrong. which is a challenge for such a scheme trend which is why. foreign leaders of began arriving in chad ahead of friday's funeral for president and 3 stay with despite warnings from rebels to stay away french ambassador chants new leader general mamata drees no he's the late president's son was appointed after his father was killed fighting rebels in the north francis thrown its support behind the generals military council which is now in charge of all the $130.00 migrants are believed to have drowned off the coast of libya after the rubber boat capsized that's according to the french rescue agency s.o.s.

mediterranea which says it's responded to a distress calls from several boats in the area the un's migration agency says it's saddened by the tragedy it's called on states to redeploy search vessels in the mediterranean argentina's health minister says the country is facing its worst moment of the pandemic its health care system is buckling as the country's death toll so passes 60000 restrictions have been reimposed but now it's for things strain on an economy already in crisis throes of a report from one of us. it's become an all too common scene on the streets of one of us. health care workers demanding better wages in the middle of the 2nd wave of the pandemic. cassidy says everyone's exhausted. we really can't take in more in the 2nd wave of infections nurses are at the front

when it comes to the pressure being put on the public health system in this pandemic without sufficient salaries and without recognition today nurses paid below the level of the basic food basket it's an outrage. infections are on the rise once again in argentina. deaths from the virus neared $60000.00 on wednesday and there is an average of around $28000.00 new infections every day the p one or man hours variant is already circulating in many jurisdictions in the country. health minister carol he saw the says this is the worst moment of the covert pandemic for argentina the game is you will abandon me on this bill. this is the riskiest time since the beginning of the pandemic because even though we have a stronger health system even though we have health workers who are there we also have an increase in the number of cases which threaten to overwhelm the health sector and we have concerning strains circulating which raise the risk of infection and day. last week argentina reimpose restrictions to

prevent the spread of disease there's a curfew in place from 8 o'clock in the evening and a suspension of school classes in many areas in the province of one of scientists last year the government imposed one of the strictest lockdowns in the world and because of it experts say the country prevented its health care system from collapsing the situation is different this year the government is trying to prevent the economic consequences caused by a total lockdown and that's why this time experts are concerned that the health care system could be compromised so you know. it is difficult to know whether the measures are enough or decisions are difficult if we don't shut down everything we'll have to extend the restrictions again and then again like last year it would have been better to do a strict lockdown this is what we will have to do until we have enough vaccines.

like most developing nations argentina struggling to access vaccines to inaugurate the population. so far around 6000000 doses have been applied in a country of 48000000 among them russia sputnik v. and china sign a farm much more are needed to prepare the population for the difficult months ahead. that is how will. this. the u.s. has recorded a drop in daily vaccinations for the 1st time since february in the past week about 3000000 doses were administered each day and 11 percent decrease from the week before that's despite every american adult being eligible for the shots the slip in demand coincides with the surgeon infections in some states mike hanna is in washington d.c. with more on what's behind the decline. there's a number of theories about that one of which is of course the pores in the supply of the johnson and johnson vaccine which

a board will be deciding on whether to resume vaccinations using that later this week but this does not account for such a massive drop and experts are concerned that this is now reaching a tipping point where the supply of vaccine far outstrips the demand now the simple answer to the question is that those who want to be vaccinated have been vaccinated at this particular point some 25 percent of americans are now fully vaccinated close to 50 percent have received at least one shot but polls indicate that there's as many as 35 percent of americans who are either adopting a wait and see attitude or are simply not going to get the vaccination for political or other reasons there's been a significant surge in a number of states many of them in the deep south and there's no there's a correlation clearly between the amount of people vaccinated and the surgeon infection but another reason for the surgeon infection is the variants that are now

creating the majority of new cases each day there are some 4 and a half 1000 deaths over the last week alone so there is a massive surge in and knowledge number of states once again these tend to be republican dominated states because of the lack of vaccination and also because of the lack of mitigating measures which has been an issue throughout the the entire pandemic but the issue of the variance certainly playing a major role in creating what is a significant increase in the number of cases of covert. if you're not following covert 19 rules at a south korean hospital expect a telling off kimi the robot can detect if people are too close to each other or not wearing a mask properly from mcbride met the rebels in youngins just south of seoul. don't let those cute rolling eyes for you this robot is basically a pandemic policeman wandering the corridors taking the body temperatures of

anybody it passes and if it sees a group of people too many people congregating together then he is straight in there. keep your distance he says and it doesn't stop there he can detect if you're wearing your mask properly or not and will tell you to put it straight and in this it seems he will not be thwarted. told you yes all right to kneel to the machine and when he's not busy keeping an eye on us he's off busy disinfecting the hospital day or night sweeping surfaces with these ultraviolet light rays it's all part of using the latest in technology to make our hospitals as safe as they can be and that could become the norm for the future. as this robot uses 5 g. vision technology developed by us which can detect

a mosque wearing and social distancing to provide a safer environment for patients and visitors and integrated with a centralized hospital wide smart system that can tell him where problems might be occurring such as people unwittingly gathering in numbers once more than he's off again in hot pursuit on his next bust. perseverance rover has achieved another 1st in space exploration by producing breathable oxygen on mars is converted carbon dioxide from the martian atmosphere making enough oxygen to keep an astronaut breathing for 10 minutes developing a sustainable sources seen as crucial to any future manned missions to the red planet. let's take you through some of the headlines now the u.s. is pledging to have its carbon emissions by 2030 on the 1st day of a global summit.