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understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter. which is iraq bringing the news and current affairs that matter to. al-jazeera. the former minneapolis police officer of an os for a new trial off to being convicted for the murder of george floyd. my money this is al jazeera life and also coming up. israeli forces attacked demonstrators in occupied east jerusalem as protests continue over the evictions of dozens of palestinians from homes there lifted for generations. more than
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$20000000.00 coronavirus cases in india and an escalating death toll the government insists the curve is flattening. mexico's west train accident in decades leaves 24 people dead and raises questions over the safety of one of the world's busiest metro systems. the former minneapolis police officer derek chauvinism all skiing for a new trial sizing multiple grounds including jerry misconduct last month jovan was convicted of 2nd and 3rd degree murder as well as man source of the killing of george floyd show event was filmed kneeling on the unarmed black man's neck for more than 9 minutes during a boat arrest last may the incident led to huge protests around the world let's go to our correspondent mike hanna is live for us in washington d.c. so mike talk us through these multiple ground cited in the appeal.
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well 1st of all it's make clear that legal experts point out that this motion was not at all an expected in fact it had been predicted that there would be an attempt by the defense to declare a mistrial in this particular case and the 4 page protest from the defense team basically hones in on 3 important issues one it criticizes the judge for failing to change the venue of the trial saying that it lead to a tainted jury pool secondly it complains about the publicist around the case and certainly in the main points that the defense makes the judge failed to sequester the jury for the entirety of the trial making them open to public comment or public issues on the better that they were adjudicating on so those are the main points that are brought up in the. proclamation made to the district court of
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minneapolis the defense also contends that there was jury misconduct in that the jury felt intimidated says the complaint it also maintains that the jury did not fully consider the instructions given to it by the judge in terms of defining between the 3 various charges that were laid against eric show than but at the same time the complaint alleges that the judge himself did not correctly brief the jury in terms of the procedures and in terms of the specific charges that were brought before the court so it is a multiple series of complaints which has now been submitted to the minneapolis district court it's now up to the court to decide where to go from here it must be pointed out that the attorney general's office has already issued a statement saying that the court has already addressed many of these issues and
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has found none of them to be valid and the. attorney general will constand continue to resist. any attempt to change what has been the attorney general contends a complete trial might this what this was such a high profile case the verdict was so consequential not just for the family but for the country as a whole has there been much reaction yet to this appeal well at this particular stage no and because of the fact that it had been predicted that this was going to happen it's not unusual for a defense. using losing a trial like this to bring in a request for a retrial to bring in some kind of protest against a verdict against them so at this particular point it is something that was expected it is not coming as a surprise to many although some of the public may be concerned about the fact that
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they are attempts to subvert this particular decision it's now up to the district court to decide whether or not to proceed with this or whether or not to leave the judge as he continues with his deliberation over sentencing which is due in june. many thanks for that mike hanna there for us in washington d.c. . israeli forces have attacked demonstrators in occupied east jerusalem and stopped other protesters from entering the area videos show a woman being forcefully detained in the occupied shaikh jarrah neighborhood protesters what was said thrown to the ground there is anger of a court ruling forcing several palestinian families to leave the neighborhood despite them having lived there for decades. most of a bug is the sexy general of the palestinian national initiative he says israel is committing a crime against humanity. what's happening now in jerusalem is very dangerous
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because actually this is a process of ethnic cleansing that the israeli army and the israeli government is conducting in their lap but also in other parts of the. practical. work right i guess the population of humans on this act of ethnic cleansing there's nothing quite an action on the racist policy. that is very nice followed and the system. consolidated not funded levels of them. and then it isn't just now underway for us this is the popular nonviolent resistance which is happening now and sell in shares arac in particular but all in all but it was a little this number. actually nonviolent resistance is gone by and with. the national level. including. transferring
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the clearest possible that. that national criminal court because what we believe is that the process of criminal act here and the world community must interfere and pressure is there to stop the process of ethnic cleansing this is not a new thing but it's part of our system i pick up roach that the governments have been following. that annex in jerusalem to eliminate the palestinian. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has run out of time to form a new government putting his political future in question netanyahu has been meeting opposition party leaders in an attempt to secure enough votes to form a coalition president driven rivlin will now decide what to do next israel has gone through 4 inconclusive elections in the past 2 years kerry forces has moved from west jerusalem. benjamin netanyahu has spent the last few hours of his mandate the
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period during which he's officially entitled to try to form a coalition government by making increasingly urgent you might say desperate appeals to fellow right wing party leader naftali bennett to rule out joining a so-called change bloc in the israeli parliament the knesset that wants to see an alternative government not featuring benjamin netanyahu and commit himself to forming a right wing coalition then you know has already offered bennett the opportunity to go 1st in a rotational prime minister arrangement if he agreed to such a deal however even if that happened there are real doubts that the 2 men could form a coalition featuring the $61.00 knesset seats required for it to be a functioning stable government equally there are doubts that if bennett joined the change bloc there would be enough seats on that side either so now the next public decision belongs to the president of israel riven rivlin he has 3 days to decide
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whether to give the next mandate to who is the opposition leader and has the next highest number of seats in the knesset after netanyahu or give it to bennett or simply decide to throw it open to the knesset more generally that would mean a 3 week deadline to form a coalition government and if none resulted from that it would trigger an automatic 5th election all of this leaves that you know in the most endangered position he's been since the start of this 4 election 2 year political crisis however he is far from out of it even without the mandate he could try to maneuver behind the scenes to try to get a coalition government that favored him he could try to obstruct anyone else from forming one potentially blaming them for leading israel to a 5th election and even if he were forced out and into opposition there's no guarantee that a government that would have to be made a very disparate elements would survive all that long so there would still be the prospect of another netanyahu come back. india has now exceeded 20000000
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kovan 1000 cases since the pandemic began half of those were in the past 4 months the government says new infections are beginning to slow but testing has also dropped the opposition is calling on president and the modi to impose a national lockdown elizabeth purana reports from new delhi. for the past few weeks in the indian capital funeral pyres have been burning day and night and around the country mass cremations have become the norm 105 going to have a raid going to get out. at least 5 to 7 hours before getting a chance to cremate the bodies the bodies aren't even being cremated properly because that only 45 police will performing the rituals even though the bodies are being cremated quickly there's a still a long queue of ambulances carrying bodies of cord 19 victims outside the crematorium and he is recent surge of the virus has seen the official death toll climb above 200000 though the actual number is thought to be much higher the
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government has faced criticism for not preparing for a 2nd wave and allowing large political and religious gatherings to go ahead ignoring the basic precautions including mosques and social distancing and as people die from a lack of hospital beds and oxygen there's anger at the government for continuing its expensive project to build a new parliament and prime minister's residence we're in new delhi where there was a very strict lockdown in place and only essential services are allowed but the construction of the government's multi-billion dollar rebuild of the central city is going ahead despite objections from opposition parties and activists architect. is one of many people who filed petitions against the project last year saying it was unnecessary expensive and violated all environmental regulations. a little. insensitive to.
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mention in such a rush you know a war. for political purposes i don't think that's actually playing a development. medical experts say the government's entire focus should be on getting the pandemic under control i've been speaking to some senior policymakers. and many of them have a mental model that this will all turn around. and i have been trying to say that everything goes very well. things will be horrible for the next several weeks. international aid has been arriving in india for nearly a week but 6 states including delhi say they get to receive any of it a children's hospital in the capital of the latest to say it only has a few hours of oxygen left elizabeth brannon al-jazeera new delhi. still ahead on al-jazeera. 1.4.
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140000000. which is. this is why many in india say no government is indifferent to the plight of politician speaks to al-jazeera. 6 months since ethiopia is taking a region became a battleground fighting an atrocities ongoing we'll speak to refugees about their experiences. how there was say some very nasty storms recently across southern parts of the u.s. but a little clutch just storms are rolling through the southern plains all tied up with this area of low pressure which will bring some more heavy downpours sweeping through the architects easing for the race was through the appalachians the middle
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and states seeing some pretty wet weather as we go through wednesday and that's churches are pains in new england eastern parts of canada but kwacha weather is going to come back in behind you we got a few showers just around the place just rolling off the the rockies there but clear skies warmer weather comes back in behind illinois indiana could see a shower or 2 years ago through thursday east of that fine and dry cooler than of late for d.c. in around 19 celsius but as it sunshine nevertheless levy will see some rather wet weather there into florida not too much wet weather over towards the western side of the constants although. weston sort of kind of that we'll see some clouds and rain and clouds and rain so into southern parts of mexico over the next a day or 2 some rather heavy showers will gradually here as we go on through wednesday and on into thursday easing across into quite a model not just central america seeing some wet weather but push across the audience that's the price to pay the skies lots of warm sunshine a lower chance of what to us for trinidad and tobago.
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frank assessments on the government needs to watch what exactly happened and what measures now taking for a situation like a man not to be repeated ever again informed opinions is the u.s. with 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 fears are rethinking its military posture in-depth analysis of the day school ople headlines inside story. it watching out their minds off our top stories this hour. the former minneapolis
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police officer dared show even is asking for a new trial citing multiple grounds including jury misconduct last month and was convicted of 2nd degree murder as well as manslaughter for the killing of george floyd. israeli forces have attacked demonstrates is an occupied east jerusalem and stopped all the protesters from entering the area there was a court ruling forcing several palestinian families to leave the shaikh jara neighborhood. india's official count of coronavirus infection since the start of the pandemic has the past 20000000 with more than 220000 deaths in cases has been blamed on government mismanagement and more contagious coated 19 variants. well saying with india my colleague pizza dubey spoke to sudan hsu mittal a senior leader in india's governing body janata party or b j p as its more widely known he insists the government has done well and
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shouldn't be blamed for the crisis. the extent of the mic would not have been there . anybody. who would wait because the long view of the situation has everybody given the fact that yes it's a huge population i thought if they were actually just concerning. everybody in recognition but right now. who would and how it is affecting people exactly something we are all facing a solution i think is a study of if you were you are going to see when you look at our population which is 1600000000 the solution lucky if you become ok can i just thought you then for a 2nd sir if i made 2 points point number one india has not done everyone when it comes to vaccinating your population that is simply an untruth that you are repeating that you think that hang on stop point to point number 2 point number 2
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when it comes to mr modi the prime minister mid to late april he goes on national television he says it is under control he says normality is just around the corner but was never ever going to be the case firstly you said that. about 1.414 solution how did in 40000000 vaccinations. which is the decade of exploration program as a percentage of the population as a percentage of the population so you are not it doesn't matter if you are not you are simply not at the leading edge of vaccinating a population like you have not been let me finish the point so you have not been not nor are you because you are you are running out of vaccines. so i really got a vaccine because you go to believe this you want to. back that up rightly which
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he infrastructure has successfully done before team missions and you think that's something that sort of accomplishment i mean i am amazed that what they the mindset of if you want to find the president i mean india should be applauded for the fact that white vest of good has. 5 of the solutions also i don't want them to fight over the solution. one of. these vaccinations lights used this morning exactly mung this. but only good looking people mice these parameters but that's the part we have. this challenge as you said that the prime minister say if you think it's going to was not looking because yes there was a time because look this is a. deeply not yet reading of unfamiliar to decrease.
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in this is that. now today one of mexico's worst train disasters in recent years the president is demanding answers at least 24 people have been killed after an elevated metro line collapse sending a train crashing down on 2 cars. the president on the emanuel lopez obrador said the investigation should be done quickly and that nothing should be hidden from the public let's go to money who is live for us in mexico city this is such a horrific disaster so many lives lost including children what is the latest from the scene. truly a tragic accident and what you see behind us is what remains of the wreckage crews emergency crews have been spending the day lifting at removing parts of that wreckage the president of mexico has ordered 3 days of national mourning for the 24 lives that were lost during this this horrible accident take
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a look emergency workers in mexico city have been working overtime to clear the wreckage of a metro rail train that dropped 3 collapsed bridge onto a busy freeway family members of possible victims want answers. and when i. was on his way home because the shift ended at 8 30 pm what happened is that from then on we haven't heard from him and learned about the accident we came to see they haven't given us any information call them we don't know anything about his whereabouts when. mexican political leaders including president offered their condolences. and ask. for that their. honest i mean yeah this house in syria embrace to the families of the victims and we send all our support to the injured we will continue to treat them to save their lives so that we do not have any more deaths. in mexico city's mayor claudio promised
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a transparent independent investigation. this is what we have as the attorney general to make a thorough investigation into. so there will be consequences for those responsible at the same time we're hiring external investigators to help us look at how the line was operating and to view the structure with the best and. mexico city's metro system is one of the busiest in the world more than 4000000 people use it every day. we're at the scene of the accident where you can clearly see that section of rail line that's just collapsed above that busy boulevard it was a tragic accident and one that's raised many questions over the safety of mexico's metro rail system metro workers are now threatening to strike the pointed to other possible infrastructure problems around the city and see they're not being listened to. you know talking about the backlash that we've seen since in
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the wake of this accident that took place on monday night if you look at mexican twitter you're seeing people pointing and the uploading many photographs of alleged cracks and problems and infrastructure failings along different sections of the of the rail line all across mexico city people very much outrage that authorities did not pay attention to this sooner especially given that there were several instances of neighbors and people putting specifically to rail 9 number 12 that's the real line right behind us right now as having problems having been damaged due to the 2017 earthquake there were even reports as early as october of last year when people posted photos saying that they were worried of an imminent collapse and now we're hearing for of a possible strike of of thousands of metro workers saying that authorities have not paid enough attention to their concerns over possible failings in the infrastructure regarding specifically the metro lines across the city so we are we
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know that many people are grieving many people are in mourning there's been the announcement of a 3 day mourning nationwide by the president but people are also very much outraged that this tragedy happened at all. many thanks for that money there for us with the very latest from mexico city. where leaders are calling for calm in colombia after another day of violent protests against president even do case economic policies the u.n. the e.u. and the u.s. have warned the government against the use of excessive force soft another 5 people died in the latest round of confrontations dozens of people have been injured since the demonstrations began almost a week ago over a tax reform proposal it's been 6 months since ethiopia's government began an offensive in the northern tier a region more than 60000 refugees have fled to neighboring sudan al-jazeera as has been reports from hyundai yet which is in cazalet state near the border with
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ethiopia. semite it remembers the evening when she used to prepare coffees for her family in her hometown of ethiopia's to grade region she says when the conflicts reached she and her family sought refuge nearby but 2 months ago she left to seek refuge in sudan's guess at a state. we left off which is also a gray but when the new administration started issuing a temporary dentity cards it didn't bear our identity as a grey and i became uncomfortable the card identified us as i'm horribly twin not i felt they were raising our identity so when i got mine i used it to move to the border and then fled to come here with my unborn child leaving the rest of my family behind that new administration was put in place a month after the to great conflict began in early november between the ethiopian government and the regional to great people's liberation front or laugh more than $20000.00 refugees are now here at this reception center in castle a state more than 63000 have arrived in sudan since the start of the conflict many
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say they feared for their lives despite the government declaring victory over the t.p.a. left in late november. was a sunday schoolteacher in his town of integrate he says he witnessed if the european forces arresting people simply because they were to gray and. we saw them arresting more than 60 people at once as someone who works for the church i went to the prison to talk to them and found more than 100 others arrested some were beaten some were badly hurt and it was clear they had been tortured or heard the soldiers accuse the prisoners of being spies and some saying they were arrested because of their ethnicity when a friend told me they may come for me i ran away to great. since the start of their arrival many have reported witnessing people killed and say many have been targeted because of their ethnicity their fear to ground refugees arriving in sudan each day than when the conflict began but the stories of the horrors there witnessed
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continue as the scribes what's happening in parts of the great as ethnic cleansing a charge to my but if you have his government says it's willing to work with international experts to investigate any claims of human rights violations some refugees have been relocated from this camp to neighboring states but authorities say not all are willing to leave here. some say they won't go to the new camps despite dwindling services here they're holding on to the hope that the conflict and soon they can return home but we're protein the rainy season and this place is going to be cut off to providing them with aid will get more and more difficult summer it says even if the conflict ends she'll wait to see all those who've been identified as i'm here as recognized as the grants again she says if not she'd rather her child live as a refugee in sudan but with his real if mid-city recognized he will morgan al-jazeera one day it from the sudan ethiopia border. now to thailand where a protest leader has been on a hunger strike now for 15 days. has been detained since february on charges of
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insulting the monarchy and judges have rejected multiple bail requests scott hartnell reports from bangkok. for the 10th time a request for bail was submitted at bangkok's criminal court and for a 10th time pro reform protesters gathered outside. there there to support a product known as penguin and the movement calling for reform in the government and monarchy. has been detained since february and faces multiple charges of defaming the monarchy or less majesté each count carries a 15 year prison sentence one of those in the crowd is chief mother. i want to ask the president of the supreme court to direct the general or anybody who has power. to police i'm saying explained a real reason to dismiss why my son doesn't get bell. the 22 year old has been on hunger strike for 50 days his personal protest against the court rejecting
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barrow i spoke to a defiant in january just a few weeks before he was arrested he was not concerned about less magistrate also known as article 1121 you know i think. lesmond just a is something that is written on a piece of toilet paper nobody stuff is disloyal no matter how hard they're trying to enforce this law it won't have suppressed criticism of the monarchy. the human rights group amnesty international believes the strict law has been weaponized by the authorities nearly 80 people have been recently charged including 6 children. the reason that they do not get them get the coast watching it with the top are working just like this has always seen as one off the political tool to put. one of the latest complaints filed against followed this protest in front of a pharmaceutical firm owned by the king she was accusing the royal family of using
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its influence for the selection and manufacture of coded 1000 vaccines there's a section of society here that strongly supports the monarchy and they see this movement calling for reform within the market as an attack on the foundation of type culture to know that. even though there have been many role families without a monarchy tolland would no longer be thailand and be a different country and i believe that the law isn't used to bully people who think differently it's based on facts. they're also health concerns for another protest leader. known as wrong she's been on hunger strike for more than a month after being denied bail 5 times. and what appears to be an attempt to keep protesters off the streets of stories continue to deny bail for the program former leadership i'm not but the move is having the opposite effect giving protesters a reason to gather scotland al-jazeera bank.

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