crazy but in indonesia one group of revolutionary supporters has taken a stand against male aggression with a carnival list display of peace and you take. the funds you make for old truism angels on al-jazeera. former minneapolis police officer derek show of an office 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 their homes. all than 20000000 coronavirus cases in

india and an escalating death toll but the government insists the curve is flattening. and mexico's worst train accident in decades leaves 24 people dead and raises questions over in safety of one of the world's busiest metro systems. the former minneapolis police officer derek chauvinism asking for a new trial citing multiple grounds including jury misconduct last month show than was convicted of 2nd degree murder as well as manslaughter for the killing of george floyd chauvin was filmed kneeling on the black man's neck for more than 9 minutes during a botched arrest last may the incident led to huge protests all around the world as a correspondent mike hanna joins us now live from washington d.c. mike so this appeal was expected wasn't it.

very much so in fact it was very prized seeing that this motion has been filed the defense having suffered a defeat in the court the next step will be to appeal the case so in this particular motion to ask for a mistrial to be declared now the defendant's lawyers quote some 10 examples of what was wrong with the trial principally they argue that the judge failed to change the venue that's contaminating the jury pool secondly the lawyers argue all the publicity that surrounded the case ensured that their it show them did not achieve a fair trial another point that is made is that the judge failed to sequester the jury during the trial he did sequester them during deliberations which lasted all of 10 hours but the defendants are arguing that he should have sequestered the jury

throughout their also comments of. problems with the jury however the defendant's lawyers don't really explain this a are so judge for more time to get more details about this particular fact but bottom line this was not an expect to motion and also the attorney general's office has already responded to the motion saying that the judge has already dealt with many of these points before the trial during the trial and after the trial so the attorney general does not feel that these state has anything to answer for in terms of these complaints submitted by the defendant's lawyers mike this was 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 the filing of this appeal. very little reaction apart from within the legal fraternity who've had their

opinion about this and the reason for this very simply is there. it was not unexpected the lawyers were always going to bring some kind of peel following the guilty verdict the fact that they would have been asked to declare a mistrial is not surprising to legal observers who had predicted this was going to happen from the moment that guilty verdict was handed down on all 3 charges legal experts saying as well that on the face of it this motion is very unlikely to see it succeed for that very major point that the judge has already ruled on a number of these factors we'll wait to see what the defendants come up with in terms of problems with the jury whether they can provide further details which may give them more ammunition to get a mistrial declared but it is very very rare for such a scenario to happen a mistrial being declared and certainly not to legal experts argue on the basis of this particular motion mike hanna there for us in washington d.c.

mary moriarty is a former hennepin county chief public defender in many outlets she currently teaches at the university of minnesota law school she has more on what this appeal means. 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 juror misconduct and that is very vague in fact 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 their the civically referring to but one of the reasons are bringing up misconduct is because one of the jurors has been giving interviews publicly and had talked about going he actually having talked about that did participate in a march in washington d.c. in august and when he was asked on the questionnaire whether he had participated

specific lee 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 and it has now exceeded $28000000.00 kovan $1000.00 cases since the pandemic began half affairs 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 new random o.t. to impose a national lucked out and it's been a problem reports now 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 debate going to go about that. have to be put at least 5 to 7 hours before getting a chance to cremate the bodies the bodies aren't even being cremated properly

because there are only 45 police were 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 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 of looting 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

vast the law is one of many people who fall petitions against the project last year saying it was unnecessary expensive and violated all environmental regulations. insensitive to. 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 mets. international aid has been arriving in india for nearly

a week but 6 states including delhi said they're yet 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 branom al jazeera new delhi. syrian state media is reporting the country's ad offenses have intercepted an israeli attack on several more western areas including the coastal city of latakia a series of explosions were heard along the mediterranean coast as well has recently hit targets inside syria where iranian backed fight is a based israeli forces have attacked demonstrators in occupied east jerusalem and stopped other protesters from entering the area they were seen forcibly detaining people in the occupied shaikh jara neighborhood protestors what will so thrown to the ground this anger over a court ruling forcing several palestinian families to leave the neighborhood despite having lived there for decades. on recent months the shaykh jara

neighborhood has seen a series of sit ins by palestinians protesting against an israeli court order to leave their homes palestinians have described it as a continuation of the ethnic cleansing that began with the nakba or known as a catastrophe back in 1948 last march a course in occupied east jerusalem would 6 palestinian families in shape jara to vacate their homes in order to make way for a settlers the same court also ruled that another 7 families should leave by august the 1st israeli settlement groups say the families built their homes on land owned by jews before 948 and that they now must move out most of a by who sees this actually general of the palestinian national initiative he says israel is committing a crime against humanity. what's happening now in jerusalem is very dangerous because actually this is a process of ethnic cleansing that the israeli army and the israeli government is

conducting in there. 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 under lecturing on the racist policy. that is very nice followed and the system of. consolidated not funded your most of them. and their citizenship now under way for us to this is the popular nonviolent resistance which is happening now and sell in shares arac an article by paul noble who was a little this number. actually nonviolent resistance is gone by and with. the national level. including. transferring the clearest possible that. that national criminal court because what we believe is

that the process of going to mañalac to you and the world community must interfere and pressure is to stop the process of ethnic cleansing this is not a new thing this part of our system i pick up roach that the governments have been following. the annex in the use of the terrain 3 to eliminate the palestinian. still ahead on al-jazeera time's up for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been to a new government. faces in madrid re-elects a lockdown skeptic of the conservative party's rising star. the perfect gentleman. with

a strong suit point qatar airways. hello we've got the rain clouds now gathering for japan as we go on through the next couple of days some very heavy rain coming through here that western weather has been trundling across central and eastern parts of china with this weather front here that will sink a little further south what's the swiss but it runs right up through q issue honshu much of japan seeing some very heavy rain by the end of wednesday and what its spots could well see maybe 4050 millimeters of rain that could cause some localized flooding and then it closely prices cause come back in behind so we will see things improving quite quickly for the 2nd half of the week dry weather there into the korean peninsula i want to show i was up towards the fall north china want to showers into central and southern parts of china as well as showers they do stretch their way across india china some western weather there into will and possibly through our leasing across into what thailand southern costa thailand seeing some lively showers unsee usual spread of showers really through good parts of southeast

asia probably the heaviest of which will be across northern parts of somalia joining up with a shower was that we have through the andaman sea pushing over towards lanka some very heavy showers once again into the northeast of india because seeing some heavy downpours pretty wet too for a good part of bangladesh on a pool. at ways from the al-jazeera london broke out fantastic t.v. special guests in conversation when societies declined when we know the title the only thing that benefits from this contract in south unprompted uninterrupted is the 1st one scared girls are those who are who don't work for him or in his satisfaction means well he's saying casual like to think that there's nationalism is not as ugly as someone else's nationalist thought to be unscripted.

you're watching al-jazeera mind of our top stories this hour a former minneapolis police officer darvish open is asking for a new trial slicing multiple grounds including jury misconduct last month shogun was convicted of 2nd degree murder as well as months or so of the killing of george v. wade. india's official count of corona virus infection since the start of the pandemic once the past 20000000 with more than 220000 deaths a surge in cases has been blamed on government mismanagement and more contagious covert 19 variants. israeli forces have attacked demonstrators in occupied east jerusalem and stopped other protesters from entering the area there is anger over

a court ruling forcing several palestinian families to leave the shaikh jara neighborhood. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has run out of time to form a new government putting his political future in question as you know who's been meeting opposition party leaders in an attempt to secure enough votes to form a coalition president reuben rivlin will now decide what to do next as well has gone through 4 inconclusive elections in the past 2 years are a force at all from western recent. benjamin netanyahu spent the last few hours of his mandate the 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 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 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. now i want to mexico's west train disasters in recent years the president is demanding ounces at least 24 people have been killed often elevated metro line collapse ending a train crashing down on to the cars below president on dreamliner lopez obrador also the investigation should be done quickly and that nothing should be hidden from the public money a republic reports from mexico city 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. you know and when they're coming up i was on his way home because his shift ended at 8 30 pm what happened is that from then on we haven't heard from him we learned about the accident we came to say they haven't given us any information call them we don't know anything about his whereabouts when he was a. mexican political leaders including president lopez obrador offered their condolences and i sort of irrational. and out there mostly said oh. yeah this our 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 deaths. in mexico city's mayor claudio promised a transparent independent investigation. 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 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 that busy full of art 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 say they're not being listened to. al jazeera mexico city. 5 more deaths have been reported in colombia as protests against president event in case government continues to rage

anger over tax hikes has now turned into a wider movement against the president's performance the united nations and the european union are raising concerns about the heavy handed tactics of security forces more than 20 people have died and dozens more have been reported missing alessandra what i'm here to report from bogota. another terrifying night in colombia's 3rd largest city cali video shot by residents of 2 working class neighborhoods apparently show the police shooting indiscriminately against protesters. during the morning after the scenes of destruction around mistake of the mayor said at least 5 people were killed and 33 injured we condemn in the absolute way any expression of wine and send expression that puts the life and the gritty and property of the men and women of this risk the western city of cali has become the epicenter of the ongoing protests against the social and economic

policies of president. on tuesday the united nations and the european union condemned the excessive use of force and part of colombia security forces to try and contain the unrest we are deeply alarm at developments in the city of in colombia. where police opened fire where night on the menstruations protesting against tax reforms reportedly killing and injuring a number of people we express our profound shock at the dance there and stress our solidarity with those who have lost their lives as well as the insurer and their the white house also issued a statement urging the most restraint by public forces and asking the government to investigate any human rights violation but colombia's defense minister responded saying colombia's forces respect human rights and blamed criminal gangs for the violence our national police our army and our navy act in strict compliance with

the law these vandals that we have already denounced acts systematically deliberately and are financed by criminal organizations and they have the objective of destabilizing certain regions every day they change their objectives yesterday if you objective was the police orders to shoot our police officers the spike the violence the demonstrations will continue with started the protests against tax hikes has billowed to a nationwide cry against inequalities and now police brutality is major unions have called for another nationwide day of demonstrations on wednesday while cities like cali are bracing for what could be another night of terror a listen to al jazeera but what. has been 6 months since ethiopia's government began an offensive in the northern take away region more than 60000 refugees have fled to neighboring sudan al jazeera as have a morgan reports from hyundai yet in state near the border with. 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 density collets it didn't bear our identity as a grey and i became uncomfortable the card identified as as we're 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 say they feared for their lives despite the government declaring victory over the t.p.o. left in late november. was a sunday schoolteacher in his town of integrate he says he witnessed if the opium forces arresting people simply because they were to agree and. when i 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 teach. 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 would. be as the

scribes what's happening in parts of ethnic cleansing a charge to my butt if the 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 recognised as the grants again she says if not she'd rather her child live as a refugee in sudan but with his real ethnicity recognized him. from the sudan ethiopia border. faces in madrid have returned the right wing government to power in regional elections conservative and pause he leda isabel diaz

a uso defied pressure from the national government to impose kevin lockdowns and kept open the vote saw a record turnout despite the pandemic under schip our ports. were awarded for her defiance disability absolute so leader of the right wing popular party has won madrid's regional elections the p.p. has been in charge of spain's wealthiest region for 26 years oh m.p.'s i never got to today's the beginning of a new chapter in the history of spain because today from madrid from the starting point we regain our pride s.n.p. mend it and in our you so defied the left wing national government of prime minister peter sanchez consistently resisted pressure to impose coppa 19 lockdowns on the tell you why not here she has been brave when we had to face the pandemic she didn't hide like others did she made a stand she defended those who were unsafe also the people that had to go to work

and earn money in the end we have to go on living in the something that i did before i think we need to enjoy life not clothes ourselves in our homes like the socialist want us to take to the popular party need to win and long live value so here you are using them to take care of her she campaigned on a simple slogan freedom which appeal to those with coded the team simple messages tend to get very well be lectured by. the what the popular party. which is to say really much anybody from the center right. the right way which is not all that's a sector of the electorate. after of resoundingly defeat the leader of the left wing pajamas party public place yes says he's quitting politics altogether he resigned as deputy prime minister to stand in the madrid election. to be kept. some of the loose just restrictions in europe 6 bars and restaurants have remained open despite infection rates far above the national average the drug has the highest

percentage of occupied i.c.u. beds country nearly 45 percent. 3 years after a corruption scandal brought down the last popular party led government it remains the 2nd largest party after the ruling socialist tuesday's victory is likely to boost the party at a national level and influence locked up rebels far beyond the dreaded. al-jazeera . the french far right leader marine le pen has been acquitted of breaking hate speech laws the pen was charged in 2015 after she posted islamic state atrocities on a twitter account the lawyers say the verdict is a victory for freedom of expression opinion polls show the pen as a possible challenger to president in monument hall in next year's elections on wednesday facebook will announce whether its suspension of donald trump's account will continue the tech firm ban the former us president 4 months ago after

he was accused of inciting supporters to attack the capitol building on january the 6th some praised the decision while others accuse the company of censorship and applying double standards to world leaders. what's more on this story and others on our website the address for that is that al-jazeera dot com check it out. this is al-jazeera these are your top stories the former minneapolis police officer is asking for a new trial citing multiple grounds including jury misconduct last month sherman was convicted of 2nd and 3rd degree murder as well as manslaughter for the killing of george floyd mike hanna has the latest from washington. this motion was not at all unexpected 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.