to stick and bury the dead aah! on al jazeera. from the villas of correct so the battle fields around most of our job is to get to the truth and empower people through knowledge. let me know police officer jerry jovan a sentence to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of george floyd whose death sparked a global outcry against racial injustice. ah, you're watching al jazeera, like for my headquarters in del hi. navigate. also a heads presidential donnie as well comes at the white house as the taliban is a warning about us plans to keep 650 troops in afghanistan. strong winds and rain

hamper rescue efforts after thursdays, building collapse and florida nearly 160 people are still unaccounted for. the u. k. the new aircraft carrier sales towards the asia pacific and the largest deployment of its kind in decades angering china. ah. hello, thanks for joining us. the former minneapolis police officer during jovan has been sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison. for the murder of george floyd, judge peter k, hills had chosen inflicted particular cruelty to floyd before his death. the video over kneeling on floyd's neck for 9 and a half minutes sparked worldwide protest last year against racism and police brutality. john henry reports from minneapolis for derrick jovan, his drawn the longest sentence for

a convicted police officer in minnesota history for the murder of george floyd. as for one, the court committed the cause of the commission of corrections for a period of 270 months as to $70.00. that is, that tenure addition to the presumptive sentence of $150.00 pounds. this is based on your abuse of a position of trust and authority and also the particular cruelty shown to george floyd. the $22.00 and a half years sentence was well under the 40 year maximum. but a decade over the state guideline of 12 and a half years, but floyd's family says it's still too short. we got justice, but not enough justice. the sentence marks a historic deterrent that civil rights leaders called a down payment on justice. one does not call a criminal justice problem. the united states credit must show the same courage. there's jury show at home,

police accountable inside the court room floyd's family spoke of their loss. when you ask about him, what are you asking about or how my day is okay. do you wish that he was still here with us? la, rushing through his spirit. yes. what were you thinking? what was going to you? well, you had me on my brother's neck. the family's called for a maximum sentence was answered by sho vins mother. when you sentenced my son, you will also be sentencing me when he is released, his father and i most likely will not be here. shelven himself spoke briefly

but still facing an appeal and federal charges for violating floyd's civil rights said little. i want to get my goals as a for the family hours before the sentence came down. the court denied jovan request for a re trial. under minnesota law, 22 and a half years doesn't really mean 22 and a half years. jovan is expected to spend 2 thirds of that time. 15 years in prison . by that time he'll be 60, he spends the rest on parole. federal charges could add additional time and is expected to spend much of his time in prison as he's been spending it. in solitary confinement. the case began with a bystanders viral video of a black man dying under a white police officers. ne, launching a protest movement that erupt it across the united states, sometimes violently revealing a deep cultural divide. the murder trial, that accelerated the black lives matter movement has ended. the but in the streets

of minneapolis in cities across the us, demonstrators said the movement goes on. john hinder, and al jazeera, minneapolis or us president joe biden has met his afghan counterpart ghani at the white house. as us troops prepared to leave afghanistan after 20 years. of war biden says, washington support for i've got a son is not ending despite the troop withdraw. ghani is unhappy with the move, but says he respects biden's decision. rosalyn jordan reports in less than 2 months. the last of the us combat troops in afghanistan will leave for good at the white house, a promise from the american president to his counterpart. withdrawl does not mean farewell partnership between afghanistan and united states is not going to be sustained. and you know, our church maybe leaving but support graph can stand is not in need of support and

maintenance of their helping maintain their military as well as economic and political support us government officials reassured us tuscany and his delegation. the embassy and cobbled will stay open. they also announced billions of dollars a new humanitarian and security spending, to wit, $3300000000.00 us dollars to help the afghan security forces protect their country . i am confident that as resolute support began to wind down. we will make the translation to a new relationship with afghanistan, forces one that continues to help you meet your responsibilities to your citizens. while golly accepted the offers the fidelity and financial aid. it's no secret, he's not happy about the us troops departure piece talks with the taller bond still haven't lead to a final power sharing deal. and militia groups still hold power in some parts of

the country. but in this relationship between the us and afghan, a stan cobble doesn't have the final say. and connie knows to make president vitamins deficient, has been a story, is made everybody recalculate and be considered. we are here to respect to and support on capital hill. afghanistan has become a code word for how the u. s. can help modernize another society that you know, in our country, there is interested in the future of women and girls in afghanistan had, i think that progress was made. i saw it myself and my 9 visits to us can extend the advancement of women and girls and your country. thank you for your leadership, but all the money invested in girls education and in economic development won't be enough. if the afghan civilian government falls from power,

raising questions about why the u. s. spent 20 years there in the 1st place, rosalind jordan else's era, washington. a fear is mounting for the 159 people still missing in florida after a building collapse on thursday morning. the official debts all stands for. it's a risky and complicated rescue operation as carry him had dad's reports from source side, florida. as they search for survivors after the collapse of the champlin towers, the sombre reality on friday of the magnitude of the destruction and emotional devastation overnight emergency workers con, several bodies from the rubble, the number of potentially missing people dramatically increased. but officials are hopeful that more survivors who are trapped beneath the wreckage will be found. unfortunately, this has been a tragic night. we are working around the clock to find people and bring them out safely because that's what our rescue team tells us. they are doing,

they have hope, and we're standing with them. they are working tirelessly. they are passionate about this. they are dedicated to finding people in the rebels. the mayor also says more than 100 people have been accounted for at least 30 rescue throughout the night. family and friends of those still unaccounted for have been flooding this family reunification center desperate to find any news on their loved ones. so we're hoping that she is one of the hospitals. we just don't know when we're going to hear from among the missing or dozens of citizens of latin american countries like argentina, venezuela, and paraguay on friday. but i was the 1st lady, savannah lopez. mo data traveled to florida. her sister and other relatives are among the missing surf side is also home to a large orthodox jewish community. at least, 20 of its members are believed to be missing as well. search and rescue efforts

have been hampered by bad weather and flooding. get the side of the wreckage. one of many factors complicating the identification of victims at the family reunification center nearby loved ones are being asked to submit d n. a samples. hoping to facilitate the process. authorities on the scene say the priority remains, search and rescue. once that concludes the investigation into what may have caused the collapse will begin in earnest, do we've had people working down in surfside, search and rescue non stop all through the night? it's a very, very difficult situation. the st spoke with president joe biden earlier. the president offered whatever federal assistance is needed and also emotional support to the families looking for answers. it's a tough, tough time. there's so many people waiting, are they alive, will they be, will have to. this are heart goes out to them. as the rescue mission continues,

the question remains how long before this becomes a recovery operation? kenny had that as he had a surf side, florida, i think to william kirk, him who's the director of the master of civil engineering program at the university of kansas. and he's also worked for over 20 years as a structural engineer and design condominiums in surfside, florida. thanks for speaking to us. i know that you've seen the video that's been circulating online that was shot from nearby the building where it shows the center of the building collapsing 1st, and then a section which was nearest the ocean teetering and coming down seconds later when you look at that video what do you think and what are your thoughts? yeah, my 1st thought when i look at that video, of course i'm, i'm saddened by the tragedy itself. and my heart goes out to the victims and their families. but when you look at the video, you see, you see the different floor is coming down almost like there's, they remain aligned with each other. so there's still

a space between them and then they start to start to pile up at the bottom. so what that tells me is something happened at the bottom floor that caused the building to start to come down. it wasn't something at the top that pushed it down. so what makes buildings like bees like this particular one vulnerable to collapse? well, it could be several things for this building. it, it, it is close to the ocean so. so there were some discussions about maintenance issues, about water, possibly getting in if it got in and it probably cared some salt. salt is very bad for concrete because it causes the rebar to corrode. so corrosion is a possibility. another possibility that's been mentioned is settlement. the discussion has been settlement in a matter of millimeters and then a few millimeters. a settlement is not going to cause a problem, but if parts of the building settle at different rates than other barge,

that puts a force on the beams in the columns. so that could cause the beams or columns to fail or if the ground wasn't supporting it evenly. so yeah. and the only possibility is it was maintenance going on, so we don't know if something they did mean may have caused it to collapse. well, i was just going to ask you a fewer investigator right now. what would you be looking for? right now i didn't, i would stay out of the way and let them look for the victims. but when they get to the bottom of the rubble, i'd like to see, i'd like to see some specimens, the reinforcing bar from the bottom and some the specimens of concrete at the bottom. see if there was any corrosion. and it might even be worthwhile to take samples of the part of the building that's still standing because at least there we

know where the parts are going to be difficult in that pile of rubble to know whether we're really sampling rebar from the, the lower floors or not. okay, thank you so much for joining us on al jazeera. my pleasure. just a reminder of the top story. this our, the former u. s. police officer. jerry jovan has intentions to $22.00 and a half years jail for the murder of george floyd. just peter k. hill says job and abuse his power while in a position of trust that the 40 george roy family has welcome the sentence. they say that it brings us one step closer to healing. they're calling on congress to pass to police reform bill named after floyd. us presidency matters off gun counterpart, ashcroft, connie, of us troops to pass the leave of going to sign up to 20 years before gone. he said he respected joe by the decision and that the partnership between the countries is entering a new phase. but the talk to come after the u. s. reveal $650.00 if its troops

would be remaining in afghanistan. president biden had promised to complete withdraw by september. the 11th, and in an exclusive interview with al jazeera as a summer, been job aids. the taliban spokesman to hail shaheen said that would breach previous agreements. this us troops, station 650 of their stay behind. are the taliban going to attack us troops now? yes or no. if they stay here, then i think it is a kind kind of continuation of the patient and that they have why lated and we have a fully right to job that's asked me to on our summer, he's a non resident senior fellow. they atlantic council and an advisor tom de la de la, the gun leader of the high council for national reconciliation. he's joining us from washington. d. c. thanks for speaking to us. we'll get to the meeting between biden connie and just a moment. first. can i get your reaction on what the taliban spokesman said?

that the u. s. would be breaching previous agreements? if it left $650.00 troops in the country. what will you see? this is a picnic allergies actually get some medical issues. if the united states, the size to maintain a security force within the embassy compound in cobble, as most embassies in crisis written countries do, then that is a sovereign us decision within sovereign us territory. and i'm not sure if it's all the one i understand that, but it's something that is allowed by law and their job is not to be involved in anything beyond the parameters of the embassy. so if that is an ace, then somebody needs to clarify this motor, itala bon, and then maybe the united states can can try to fight this as well to the rest of

that kind of thing. okay. and on the shelf, the meeting between the president of ghani in the u. s. president. what assurances it's connie seeking from the u. s. president. and did he get them well, mister gunny was in town in washington. basically, as you said, to get to see how much, how much more actually i can get me on what was whatever. and he inviting decided the couple of months ago that the us troops would be withdrawn by september. it could actually be sooner than that. and so he always is looking, look at us troops remaining or the schedule change. i don't think the schedule is going to change unless something dramatic happens. but this, again, is looking for maybe other insurances, such as more money, maybe with the horizon protection,

any type of military protection of the cities, something that would be very controversial in some ways. he's also looking and trying to say that the americans are involved in are going to back the african government and provide assistance with african people beyond the withdrawal to assure the african population that the money coming and assistance. i mean all of this at the time when obviously as you know, this all on as i leased a series of attack and the situation is very fluid, but i just point, right? so how worried is the president himself, with the latest us intelligence analysis that says that his governments may fall within 6 months after us forces leave the country? do you believe that the government, it's just a matter of time before the afghan government falls with the gains that the taliban

is making in the country. whether the different book now speaks about this, people have different views about it. it's interesting that about 3 years ago in an interview with the 60 minutes, the president himself said that if his administration is government stopped receiving us aid, us funding us assistance that it would fall within 6 months. that was his own prediction. and now intelligence services are saying that under today's conditions, this could happen. i, you know, i will be honest, it could be sooner, it could be later. nobody knows. it depends very much on what is happening on the ground in that, on his own. and whether actually the total is to take all of our cars or is to take problem because that's in itself creates new complications. or is it kind of a strategy to push to a certain limit?

and then they were now to see if we can talk and negotiate about it, but it is a settlement. i hope that the political settlement route is going to be a better option. and that everybody is going to focus on that instead of taking the war, which will lead to civil war on a sunday unfortunately. and could be devastating. ok, thank you so much. mar salon for speaking to us from washington d. c. thank you. now the u. s. vice president, commonly harris says the biden administration is making progress in countering the sharp increase in migration across the southern border with mexico. harris's speaking on her 1st visit to the border after being tasked with controlling the influx of migrants by president biden. ronald has more from the border time off el paso, the vice president commonly harris, his 1st visit to the us mexico border since taking office lasted just a few hours. she responded to criticism for not making the trip earlier. so i was

the plan to come here. harris went to the el paso del north de port of entry on the us mexico border. it's one of the countries in the busiest pedestrian crossings with thousands of people passing through legally every day. but when it comes to illegal entry, harris said earlier that poverty and crime are the reasons for surging numbers of people from central america seeking refuge in the u. s. and when they do, it is usually for one of 2 because they are doing some harm or because to stay at home means that they cannot satisfy the basic needs to stay. after the motorcade arrived at the us border patrol station under a blistering son, harris spoke with staff and senior officials and inspected technology upgrades. off camera she met with 5 migrant girls from central america ages 9 to 16

republicans are strongly critical of the by the administration handling of the migrant influx describing it as a dire national crisis, which the administration has bungled badly. the crisis, the mess we have in the border debate because there was no forethought, no planning. former president donald trump, who made immigration a center piece of his single term in office plans to visit the border later in june . passive is the place where the trump administration 1st rolled out. it's very controversial family separation policy back in 2017. so part of ferris's visit year is to make the political point of contracting the harsh policies of the trump administration. with what the bible ministration says is its own more humane approach. but democrats and immigrants rights advocates are pressuring the

administration to ditch at trump era rule that allows officials to deport would be asylum seekers immediately without allowing them to file an asylum claim. harris said immigration cannot forever be a political football. this issue cannot be written politically we're talking about. so we're talking about man, we were talking about buffering. and our approach has to be thoughtful and effective. president joe biden has given harris the enviable task of dealing with the complex and politically charged immigration issue. it's a mission that could also have a big effect on her political career. rob reynolds al jazeera el paso, while rob, hello sent this report from a migrant cam, but the l chopper route. border crossing in the mexican city of towana. that's just across the border from southern california. we're out in chapparal in the one

mexico. this is a port of entry, one of many that you'll find along the us mexico border and what you see all around us is a migraine camp. human rights groups estimate there to be around 3000 people living in this camp. many of them are children living in unsanitary conditions, precarious conditions, and a majority of the folks that you'll see at this camp or from central america. countries like hunter, guatemala and l. salvatore. many of them growing desperate to have an opportunity to plead their asylum cases, to us official. now, apart from desperation, there's also a lot of hope at this camp that changing immigration policy in the united states will mean that there were silence cases could still be heard. now, despite the fact that the bite administration has been phasing out trump era, immigration policies, specifically the so called migrant protection protocols and morse, many asylum seekers to wait in mexico while there are some cases were heard there still title 42, which sites the ongoing coban 1900 health emergency. now this is probably the main

reason why we're seeing so many people. thousands of people still stuck here on this side of the border helicopter carrying colombian, president, ivan has come under fire or the border with venezuela. 2 cases, several gunshots were fired while he, members of his cabinet, were flying over the counter timbo region. no one was injured. there has been no claim of responsibility, but several armed groups operate in the area to k said the attack wouldn't deter him fighting drug trafficking, terrorism and organized crime. and he got that all, but is he in seattle? the presidential helicopter was the target of an attack, the defense interior ministers, a governor and myself, both the aerial device and the capacity of the aircraft helped to prevent something lethal happening. what's clear is that this the cowardly attack, again, very clear instructions to the entire security team to go after those who shot at the aircraft. but the message is, the columbia is always strong in the face of crime. at least 3 aid workers from

doctors without borders have been killed in ethiopia as conflict cheaper i region. their bodies were found near their vehicle on thursday. they were among at least 12, a workers killed in tech, rice, and fighting broke out between the military and armed groups. in november, the conflict has killed 1000 on displaced more than 2000000. but you case new aircraft carriers heading towards the asia pacific on a mission that's been described as the most significant deployment. if it's kind in decades, the move has anger, china, which sees it as an intrusion into the south and east china seas. and as rob mcbride reports from the south korean port city, a boose on the mission is feeling debate among asian nations on building their own carriers when it comes to aircraft carriers in the vast expanses of the indo pacific. that is traditionally been only one major player. the giant vessels of the u. s. navy, projecting power towards friends and foes alike. but here at the defense industry

show in the port city of booths, and the commander of the u. s. navies, pacific fleet inspects what south korea hopes will be, its 1st carrier being cooperation of smart technologies combined with more sophisticated jets mean a new generation of small. a carriers is now within reach of more navies. kids which shall take off and landing jets. carriers don't need technology and you know, they can operate in old japan is converting to helicopter carriers to carry jets. but the biggest carrier expansion has been by china rapidly acquiring its 1st to with perhaps 2 more under construction and heading in east asia direction on its 1st major mission, the newly built queen elizabeth from the u. k. hoping to promote the latest and carry a technology to customers, eager to acquire it. it sends a very,

very clear message that they like minded nations wanting to work together the able to operate together. but for many, it's a message that has echoes of a bygone colonial era. why have they should come to this part of the wood? totally nonsensical. did remind me of some kind of gun, but the gunboat diplomacy of 900 century. and where the south korea needs a carrier is highly controversial. in spite of assurances the expenditure would benefit ship building and defense industries. main and south korea has no experience in building an aircraft carrier yet. but in the course of developing technologies to build one, we would be generating thousands of extra jobs. supporters of the project goal. so say the price tag is justified because if your neighbors have them, you've got to have one as well. but if face is widespread opposition from many

political quarters and the skeptical public at south korea continues to debate, whether to take the plunge, robert ride al jazeera boost on south korea. it's been an emotional day in minneapolis as you've been hearing where derrick jovan has been sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of george floyd. the video of his killing sparks worldwide protest against racism and police brutality. we leave you with some of those powerful images. take a look at the read the job made

i've been working with you to discuss the division correction for a period of 270228 half years. seems to me guidelines that seem to be not the war. never be a witness. ah . the headlines on al jazeera former u. s. police officer, jerry jovan has been sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of george floyd. the 46 year old died after children knelt on his neck for 9 and a half minutes last year.