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continue over the evictions and dozens of palestinians from more than 20000000 current of ours cases in india escalating death toll. but the government insists the curve is flattening on mexico's west train accident in decades. leave 24 people dead and raises questions over the safety of one of the wealth. busiest metro ah, the former minneapolis police officer derek shaven, is asking for a new trial, citing multiple grounds including jury misconduct. last month shaven was convicted of 2nd and 3rd degree murder as well as manslaughter, for the killing of george floyd. show that was found kneeling on the unarmed black man's next more than 9 minutes during a board to rest. last may. the incident of course, led to huge protest all around the world. as katy correspond, mike hannah,

who is my 1st in washington, d. c. mikes, they took us through one of these multiple grounds that have been cited in the appeal well, derek sherman's lawyer has submitted a plea off some 10 points to the minneapolis district court. now the major point that's the defense lawyer makes is that the judge failed to change the venue of the trial contaminating the jury pool says the defense. secondly, the plea contends that the amount of publicity surrounding the trial did not allow their children to get a fair and honest hearing. and the other important point, according to the defense lawyer, is the judges failure to request the jury. in the course of the trial, they worst requested when deliberating, and that you took some 10 hours. so these are the main points in terms of what the

defense is claiming. there has been a response from the minneapolis attorney general's office, which says that the judge has already dealt with most of these complaints in the course of the trial and even before in relation to the refusal to change of venue. the legal experts say that the plea is not surprising. one expert saying that what would be surprising is that the defense did not file a plea like this. okay, mike hannah, that 1st in washington, dc. many thanks. let's get a little more analysis on this. we can speak to mary maureen. see, it was a former hennepin county chief public defender in minneapolis, minnesota. she currently teaches at the university of minnesota law school speaking to us via scott. many thanks for speaking to sarah. is there any merit to any of the ground cited in this appeal? as was said, almost all of the grounds have already been raised throughout the trial some multiple times. and so there really isn't

a lot new there. one thing that is new is they are alleging germ misconduct and that is very vague. in fact, the, the defense asked the judge for more time to develop the points that they've made here because some of them are so vague, they're hard to know what they're specifically referring to. but one of the reasons they're bringing up term is conduct is because one of the jurors has been getting interviews publicly and had talked about going, or he actually hadn't talked about. it did participate in march in washington dc in august. and when he was asked on the questionnaire or whether he had participated specifically in any protests over police brutality, he said no. so that may be one of the grounds, although i don't think that has any merit either. but this is a standard motion that defense lawyers would typically make after a conviction at trial. this was of course, such a high profile case. the verdict was so consequential, not just for the family,

but the, for the country. the whole. is that something that the judge would take into consideration when examining this appeal that he has to take into consideration? and if you look at the, the grounds itself, it talks about the judge abusing his discretion. and so trial judges have a why i way to make decisions. it's not just if they got it wrong, it's if they abuse their discretion. he's already ruled on almost all of these motions. this was a really intense trial. it took many days to do jury selection. there just isn't any way that the judge is going to grant a new trial, but one of the reasons the defense is doing this is to lay out the grounds that they want on appeal to our appellate court. so talk about that a bit more what, what does that mean? exactly. so we have the trial court,

and that is the judge who, who saw the trial, who oversaw the trial, but in appeal goes to what is called our court of appeals. that is a number of judges who will only be looking at the transcript. so a written copy of what's what was said at trial. and so that's one of the reasons why the defense is asking for a hearing about jury misconduct. so they can make that part of the record. if it's not in the record, the appellate judges won't look at it. and so what happens at appeal is the judges look at the record and they see if there were errors and did they affect the outcome in the trial? and that's another important thing here to the evidence was overwhelming. and so typically the appellate court, even if there weren't years, a trial will say that they were harmless because the evidence was overwhelming. mary many thanks for explaining that to us. mary maria, a former hennepin county chief public defender in minneapolis,

minnesota. many thanks. thank you. india has now exceeded 20000000 coven. 19 cases. since the pandemic began off of those were in the past 4 months, the government says new infections all beginning to slow, but testing has also dropped. the opposition is cooling on president miranda moody to impose a national, looked down, and is with per on and reports. now the new delhi for the past few weeks. and the indian capital funeral pyres have been burning day and night and around the country . mass commissions have become the norm, want going to have a great going to get back and we'll probably will have to wait for at least 5 to 7 hours before getting a chance to clean the bodies, the bodies on even being limited properly. because there are only 4 to 5 police who will performing the ritual, even though the bodies are being committed quickly, there is still a long queue of ambulances, cutting bodies of over 19 victims outside the crematorium. and the use recent sir

to the virus has seen the official death, told climb above 200000. though the actual number is thought to be much higher. the government has face 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, this angle at the government for continuing its expensive project to build a new parliament. and prime minister's residence in new delhi where there was a very strict lockdown in place and only essential services are allowed, bought the construction of the government's multi $1000000000.00 rebuild of the central city is going ahead by subjection from opposition. parties and activists, architect unordinary vasqua is one of many people who fall petitions against the project last year saying it was unnecessary, expensive,

and violated all environmental regulations. we can look at this time, totally insensitive to the entire nation as a logical intervention. in such a rush, you know, full aren't for all online for political purposes. i don't think that's actually the purpose for any medical expert. so the government's entire focus should be on getting the pandemic under control in speaking to some senior policymakers in india . and many of them still have a mental model that this will all turn around in the next few days. and i have been trying to say to them if everything goes very well, thinks will be horrible for the next several weeks. and national aid has been arriving in india for nearly a week. but 6 states including delhi, say they get to receive any of it at children's hospital. and the capital is the latest to say, it only has a few hours of oxygen left. elizabeth pran,

him al jazeera, new delhi israeli forces have attacked demonstrators and occupied east jerusalem and stopped all the protesters from entering the area and was seen fourthly, detaining people and the occupied shaped jar, a neighborhood registers was thrown to the ground. that's been a court ruling forcing several palestinian families to leave the neighborhood despite having lived for decades with stuff a bog booty is the sexy general, the palestinian national initiative. he says israel is committing a crime against humanity. what's happening now in them is very dangerous because actually this is a process of ethnic, cleansing, israeli army government is conducting in ships but also in other parts of it. this is a, practically what to try and get the population of them and do

this mclinden because nothing about the nation of races policy and that is there any following? and this is consolidated my funding and then when you wait for us to call friends, this is a non violent house which is happening now and in particular. but this action is combined with the national level and including good trans, stating the case also for the criminal court. because what we believe is that the process of criminal act here and there was committed, you must interfere to stop the process of ethnic cleansing. this is not and you think about it, this might be approach that the governments have been following that

annexing used to them trying to eliminate the palestinian still ahead on algae era times out. foes ready, prime minister benjamin netanyahu. the bid to form a new government 6 months since if europe is t gray region became a battle ground fighting and a trustee often ongoing will speak to refugees about the experiences. ah, ah, it's time for the journey to winter sponsored by kettle airways. hello. we got the right in clouds now gathering for japan as we go on through the next couple of days, some very heavy rain coming through here. that wet weather has been trundling across central and eastern parts of china. so shaky with this weather front here,

that'll sink a little farther south, which and east was, but it runs right up for q. she honju march of japan, seeing some very heavy rain by the end of wednesday. and what a 2 spots could well see, maybe 4050 millimeters of freight and that could cause some localized flooding. and then it clear for the brightest guys come back in behind. so we will see things improve and quite quickly for the 2nd half of the week. try whether they're into the current peninsula. i want to to showers up towards the far north. china wanted to shout into central and southern parts of china as well as those shouts. it is stretched their way across indo china and west, whether they're into possibly a non through allow using across into a thailand. southern pass a thailand seeing some live fish out and see usual spread showers really through a good part of south east asia, probably the heaviest of which will be across northern parts of smarter. joining up the showers that we have through the intimacy pushing over towards lanka, some very heavy showers, once again into the northeast of india behalf sinks and heavy down pools pretty went to for good part of bangladesh and the poor sponsored

cut on airways. well, if we can have pallets dina, my government was certainly not allowed britain to control french, palestine would be and then we need to find another solution before we come to blows. 100 years ago, britain and france made a secret deal that would influence the shape of the middle east or century to come . and so now we can draw sykes because the lines in the sand on our o the me,

you're watching out there are mind if i top stories this, our former minneapolis police officer derek shaven, is asking for a new trial sizing multiple grounds, including jury misconduct last month shaven was convicted of 2nd, and 3rd degree murder was closer to the killing of george floyd. india's official counts, a current of ours infections from start to make, has to pass 20000000. with more than 220000 debt surgeon cases has been blamed on government mismanagement and more. contagious. coven. 19 very israeli forces, have attacked, demonstrates, has been occupied east jerusalem, and other protesters from entering the area. there is a court ruling for several palestinian families to leave the shake jara neighborhood, which is at home. is there any prime minister benjamin netanyahu has run out of time to form an u governance, putting his political future in question netanyahu's been meeting opposition,

party leaders in an attempt to secure enough boats to form a coalition. president reuben river then will now decide what to do next. israel has gone through for inconclusive elections in the past 2 years, hurry forth, it has the latest from west jerusalem. benjamin netanyahu spent the last few hours of his mandate, the period during which is officially entitled to try to form a coalition government by making increasingly urgent. you might say desperate appeals to fellow right wing party lead enough tele bennett to rule out joining the so called change block in these really parliament that can i said that wants to see an alternative government, not featuring benjamin netanyahu, and commit himself to forming a right wing coalition that 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 were real doubt that the 2 men could form a coalition featuring the $61.00 can asset seats required for it to be

a functioning, stable government. equally, their jobs that have been joined, the change block, there would be enough seats on that side either. so now the next public decision belongs to the president of israel, reuben river, and he has 3 days to decide whether to give the next mandate to ya. pete, who is the opposition leader and has the next highest number of seats in the connected often at yahoo. all give it to bennett or simply decide to throw it open to the kinetic more generally. that would mean a 3 week deadline to form a coalition government. and if none results from that it would trigger an automatic 5th election. all of this leads that, you know, in the most endangered position. he's been since the start of this for election to 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 assist 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 they would still be the prospect of another netanyahu come back. not one of mexico's was trained dissolved as in recent years. the president is demanding answers. at least 24 people have been killed, often elevated metro line collapse, sending a train, crushing down onto the cars below the president andre manual look is open the door, said the investigation should be done quickly and that nothing should be hidden from the public as good to maneuver apollo, who is nigh 1st from mexico city, this is such a riffing disaster, so many lives lost, including children. bring this up to date with the latest from the scene. it's a real tragedy and people continue to show up here is the see just to kind of take

a look at what we're seeing behind us here. what you see, this is as close as authorities are allowing us to get to the scene of that. that accident on monday night involving that train car that collapse onto the freeway below the president of the country and that is one i. lopez has ordered 3 days of national morning in honor of those 24 lives that were lost through the rhythmic accident. take a look at emergency workers in mexico city have been working overtime to clear the wreckage of a metro rail train that dropped the re collapsed bridge onto busy freeway. family members of possible victims want answers coming up. okay. who's on his way home? because his shift ended at 8 30 pm. what happened is that from lynn on, we haven't heard from him. we learned about the accident. we came to see. they haven't given us any information called him. don't know anything about his whereabout mexican political leaders, including president lopez over

a lot offered their condolences and i stood rational for that. there are no scenes here. familiarity is al sincere 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 depth or you. mexico cities, mayor claudia shane bomb promised a transparent, independent investigation. he's looking for lucy tunnel, if he's going, this is what we have as the attorney general to make a thorough investigation into the metro line. 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 engineers in mexico. mexico cities 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 to laugh above that busy boulevard was

a tragic accident in 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 say they're not being listened to you know, talking about the outrage of that sort of manifested in the wake of this disaster of this tragedy here in the mexican capital over the course of the day when we looked on mexican social media, what we did see was a lot of people posting images, posting photos of what they say or other structural failures, possible infrastructure problems along the different rail lines of mexico city. and many of them pointing to the fact that this specific real line line number 12 has many people have reported a structural problems dating back to 2017. during the earthquake of reports of a possible structural failures, as early as october of, of just last year with many of the neighbors here thing that they reported these

concerns to authority. saying that they feared and imminent collapse of a rail line on line. a number 12 could be possible, and now we're hearing from a unionized metro worker saying that they could potentially go on strike. we're talking about thousands of workers affecting upwards of 4000000 people who use the, the metro every single day. one of the busiest metro's metro systems in the world. so apart from the morning, what we're seeing, people coming out here to sort of see the clean up effort that continues to go on the emergency crews, the 1st responders that we see continuing to walk around these, these grounds. but what that's really morphed into at this point is outraged people asking questions wanting answers and wanting to know why such an unavoidable tragedy happened in the 1st place. money over apollo, their 1st live in mexico city. thank you. well, leaders according to common columbia after another day, yvonne and protest against president even to case economic policies for you and you

on the u. s. a war, the government against the use of excessive force bounce off to 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 if europe has government began and offensive in the northern te gray region or the $60000.00 refugees have fled to neighboring c dawn. i'll just there is have a morgan reports from honda yet and casela state near the border with cemetery when a good amount remembers the evening when she used to prepare coffee for her family in her home town of adela. it's c o b s degree region. she says when the conflicts reached or though she and her family thought refuge nearby, but 2 months ago she left to seek refuge in for dance. catherine est long and i don't know why we left our for shire, which is also in t grey. but when the new administration started issuing his temporary identity

cards didn't bear our identity as t gray and i became uncomfortable. the card identified as, as i'm horror, which we know, i felt they were raising our identity. so when i got mine, i used 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 to to great conflict began in early november between the few government and the regional to grip people's liberation front or t p l. f. more than 20000 refugees are now here at this reception center in castillo state. more than 63000 have arrived in sudan since the thought of the conflict. many say they feared for their lives. despite this, the government declaring victory over the t p. i left in late november, we'll get to as it was a sunday school teacher in his town of basset integrate. he says he witnessed european forces arresting people simply because they were grand all near cache. unable to answer him. don't been a flash 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 a 100 others arrested. some were beaten, some were badly hurt, and it was clear they had been tortured. i heard the soldiers accuse a prisoner 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 tea grey. since the thought of the arrival, many have reported witnessing people killed and say, many have been targeted because of their ethnicity. their fear, the grand refugees arriving incident each day than when the conflict began. but the 3rd of the horrors of witness continuing the years describe what's happening in part of cigarette as ethnic cleansing. i charge denied by the government, which says it's willing to work with international experts to investigate any claims of human rights violations. some refugees have been relocated from discount to neighboring a lot of faith, but authority say not all are willing to leave here in the you know, some say they won't go to the new camps despite dwindling services. here they're holding onto the hope that the conflict and students they can return home. but

we're approaching the rainy season and this place is going to be cut off to providing them with 8 will get more and more difficult. summer it says, even if the conflict ends, she'll wait to see all those who've been re identified as i'm harass, recognized as the grants. again, she says, if not, she'd rather her child live as a refugee into dan. but with his real f, mrs. he recognised he but morgan august 0 home, day it from the sudan. if you appeal border french far as leader marine, the pen has been acquitted of breaking hate speech laws. the pen was charged in 2015 off the she posted islam of state atrocities on a twitter account. a lawyer say the verdict is a victory for freedom of expression. opinion polls show le pen as a possible challenger to present emanuel macro and next year's election. on wednesday, facebook will announce whether it's suspension of donald trump's account will continue. the tech firm found the former us president 4 months ago after he was

accused of inciting supporters to attack the capital building on january the 6th. from praise the decision of the keys, a company of censorship, and applying double standards to world leaders. whether as we've been reporting, india is struggling to get current of our cases under control. so let's take a moment to look beyond the politics and trauma of the catastrophe. across the country, indians, innovating fundraising, and collaborating to keep that people alive, charlotte bellis explained. i shall commis, works for a pharmaceutical company and move by. but it's on the street where he thinks he can save more life. he's been working since he was the same age as many of these children. he wants to help them right now. that means handing out masks. so for me that i go to see children and adults indifferent costumes to spread messages about corporate awareness. today,

i have the joker joker is known for happiness. but we live in such times as coven 19 chokes, india. it is the humanity of indians. often strangers keeping its people alive. on the outskirts of new delhi, seek volunteers to sit up this free oxygen camp. and you, patient arrives every 20 minutes wave and we believe that no one should die due to the lack of oxygen. it's a small thing, but nowadays is the one thing everyone needs in every city, village street corner, the healthy nurse, the sick in po, pearl mohammed, jarvis, con, witness children carrying the parents on the backs to hospital. so he sold his wife jewelry and turned his ritual into an ambulance mood. liana, critically, your patient cannot be brought to the hospital with talk surgeon support. so i thought why not to my 3 wheeler into an ambulance, its not as spacious as an ambulance,

but it can surely save lives. shannon was shake, gave up his vehicle, selling it to buy oxygen for strangers. in the last year he supported more than 4000 people and by many given level, i decided to sell my car to raise funds to buy oxygen and provide oxygen to people who are unable to find the hospital. so their lives come and same thing. one of those lives is acid is mel combs, mother was shanna was, has helped me a lot. he has already given me 2 cylinders, things to him and my mother is able to stay home and breathe with the aid of oxygen . in a country of nearly 1400000000, its people are increasingly working as one unified and they fight for collective survival. uncut is an organisation of dozens of teenagers trying to fill india's gaps and health care. crowdsourcing medical supplies through social media. i work

from 11 o'clock in the morning, which goes on in midnight. the wedding one swat ha, has her exams coming up. but for her and many others, the real taste, finding a way to keep their people alive, charlotte bellis out to 0. and you can find out much more on this story and others on our website al jazeera dot com, do check it out. aah! is algebra? these are the top stories. the former minneapolis police officer dark shaven, is asking for new trial sizing, multiple grounds, including the jury. misconduct last month shaven, was convicted of 2nd, and 3rd degree. murder is what is manslaughter for the killing of george floyd. my county has the latest from washington dc. this motion was not at all and expected. in fact, it had been predicted that there would be an attempt by the defense to declare the

trial in this particular case, the full page.