police are trying very hard friends. the scenario that happened last week when thousands were rioting and sitting across the latter, after some protest to start the proven stones. and that's enough for your work. police on horseback moved in to clear the area. ah . the court committed the cause, the commissioner of corrections for a period of 270 months. the former us police officer derek, showed in his sentence to $22.00 and a half years for the murder of george floyd, whose family says it's a step towards healing. one's in my office for the family. shipping address sees the floyd family for the 1st time, but stopped short and apologizing, the killing him. ah,

well come on, peter w, watching al jazeera life from headquarters here and also coming up, coming through the rubble in hopes of finding survivors after building collapse in florida. at least 159 people are still unaccounted for. also ahead of ghana stones, president tales the start of a new chapter with the u. s. as american troops begin that with roll bringing an end to washington's longest war. i sold the minneapolis police officer direct should it has been sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for the murder of george floyd, the judge said, sure been inflicted quotes, particular cruelty on floyd before his death. the video of sherman kneeling on floyd's neck for 9 and a half minutes in may of last year, sparked worldwide protest against racism and police brutality. john henry reports

now 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 the one, the court committed the cause to the commission of corrections for a period of 270 months as to 70. that is a tenure addition to the presumptive sentence of a $150.00. 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 or 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, reading through his spirit. yeah. yeah. what were you thinking? what was going to you? well, you had to neil my brother's neck. the family's called for a maximum sentence was answered by sho vins mother. when you sentenced to my son, who will also be sentencing me. when he is released,

his father and i most likely will not be here. children himself spoke briefly, but still facing an appeal and federal charges for violating floyd civil rights said little. i want us in mike and also the for the family hours before the sentence came down, the court denied job and 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 the bystanders. viral video of a black man dying under a white police officer's knee. 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. well staying with that story j window. gordon is a trial attorney from baltimore, maryland. he says that the chance shop and sentence could be reduced. i think the maximum sentence was merited. in this case, i don't know of any cases, far more egregious than this one that was caught on motion pictures. so at the same time i understand and it does bring closure to the family. so i am satisfied with that. but when you commit a crime and you create a disaster that is irreparable, such as taking someone's life, your lives should be taken, as well as substantial part part of that. a mere 22.5 with your probably only

14.85 to 15 years. so no matter how old he is today, he still has life. no, george floyd is gone forever. so in terms of me jumping up and down, it's celebrating the sentence, you won't get that over here. a lot of times when convicted or condemned people go to jail, they get the paper and pen and they start writing letters. so he's going to write a letter about what was going through his mind and how regretful and remorseful he is so that he can present that to the a copy of it to the parole board and 15 years of so and help him reduce his sentence. he's going to talk about how he felt, how he was, how he was brought up, how he didn't act, and accordance with the dictates of his upbringing is growing for the 159 people still missing in florida after building collapsed on thursday morning, the official death toll stand at 4. it's a risky and

a complicated rescue operation. as kareem had our reports now from surf side, florida as they search for survivors after the collapse of the champlin towers, the somber reality on friday of the magnitude of the destruction and emotional devastation overnight. emergency workers called 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 rebel. 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 in one of the hospitals. we just don't know when we're going to hear from among the missing our 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, remain search and rescue. once that concludes the investigation into what may have

caused the collapse will begin in earnest, we've had people working down in surfside, ab search and rescue non stop all through the night. it's a very, very difficult situation. the santa 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 this, our 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 surf side, florida, and the us president joe biden has met his afghan counterpart as ref, ghani, at the white house. and as american troops prepared to leave afghanistan up to 20 years of war, mister biden said that despite the withdrawal, washington would not end it's partnership gone. he said,

he respected biden's decision. and the relationship between the countries was entering a new phase was jordan has more now from washington. this was a visit of reassurance. so you basically saw almost every key member of the u. s. government and engage in a meeting with our shop. connie, a members of his delegation on thursday and on friday. and basically there was this overall recognition that what the united states needs to do is to basically step up its engagement with afghanistan in a number of other areas, except for direct military involvement. there will be some $3000000000.00 spent on security assistance this current year. the administration wants to increase that by about $300000000.00 for next year, but it is important, as joe biden said, during his meeting with our staff, connie, that the relationship moved from one of ongoing military presence to one that is

civilian to civilian government, afghans are going to have to decide their future what they, what they want, what they want, but it won't be for lack of us. being helped in the sense of violence has to stop, but it's going to be very difficult. but we're going to stick with you. and we're going to do our best to see to and you have to in addition to the all going security assistance, which will help the afghan national security forces protect their country. the u. s . is also promising emergency financial assistance to help up can a sam deal with the covert pandemic as well as with its ongoing humanitarian problems. and that includes housing and education and food for internally displaced people africa and chairman of the high council for national reconciliation, who attended that meeting with the us president joe biden out here with white house correspondent, kimberly healthcare sat down with abdullah abdullah afterwards to discuss what's

next for afghanistan, dr. bella, thank you for joining us. you were just wrapped up this meeting with the us president. what security assurances did he provide you? prison biden assured ass, the president of upon the sun and all of us and the delegation. that while their troops will be leaving new trying and it will be completed in a few days time or a few weeks time. near hammock mentors about of afghanistan, national defense and security forces will continue. but given the taliban gains, are there going to be enough numbers in terms of security support? i see that those gains will not be per minute. i'm sure about the diff taken advantage of the gap temporarily and that that will not, that will not sustain itself. we saw when the soviets withdrew and the country

descended into civil war. how can you be so confident that won't happen again? it was a completely different context. the soap with it all in the soviet themself disintegrate . afghanistan was isolated from, from the rest of the world. we were fighting against my nana dash, which should provide the opportunity for taliban to dig to take advantage of it. today, we have millions of people who have received district ations. they are aware of their rights. they have exercise different, different way of life. taliban will be faced with, with that sort of situation and then to, to suppress the whole nation will not the bus. do you see of worrying science, particularly when it comes to the power sharing negotiations? when will be oblivious, if it is not concern, and the concern in the back of my mind was that perhaps talib are not thinking that

we go there, be talk, and then they will, will withdraw. and then we come in and come back by force. so we're seeing this, thee, science of that type of and added to it is not, is not promising. it is bullying, but that should not be to shutting the doors for negotiations. what sort of arrangement have you worked out with us? rough ghani, to ensure that cohesion, moving forward, there are suggestions that perhaps you need to set aside your own political ambitions in order to see. absolutely, absolutely. this is the time the people of atlantis, sun expect us to do. it's not known was time to day. it's the south could times enough on the stuff in, in the sort of situation sir. everybody has a responsibility to look beyond person and i'm bishops still come here on al

jazeera, the us vice president makes a 1st visit to the mexican border and ones that immigration can't be a political football forever. also ahead have human shape, close encounters with extra terrestrials the u. s. government reveals what it knows about you f o r g i. it's time for the journey with sponsored by capital airways. hello. nice to see. we're talking about a blast of heat for western areas of north america, and this is a heat tome. so when we talk about a heat term, we'd have hot air rising, but because of atmospheric conditions, it's shoving it rate back down and heating it even more. so this is a result, kamloops, 40 degrees when you should be about 26. this heat also for the pacific northwest. in fact, we could see 300 records broken more than 300 in the days to come. and this includes

for portland, where your all time temperature record is $41.00. and we've got you in for 44 on sunday. let's talk about the active whether we do have the risk of flash flooding through the midwest in these storms flaring up. we'll certainly not help draped across into the southern plains on saturday, off to central america. and we are also tracking the potential to see some tropical development here just off the coast of southwest mexico. it's about 200 kilometers away from acapulco now it's going to throw a lot of rain toward the southwest of mexico in the days to come after south america or heavy. it's rain will be ecuador through colombia and venezuela on saturday. but i want to take you further to the south because we do have some rain hanging around southern areas of brazil into northern areas of argentina on saturday. sponsor cut on airways. india has been devastated by the covey. 19 pandemic. the one when

a makes the frontline work risking their lives to treat the seeking and very the one i was 0 when the coyote 1910 demi kids in board is closed. i think there is a brand new bar from home one 0 one east investigate. has some has been abandoned out of side and out of mind on al jazeera. ah, ah, the me. welcome back. welcome. if you just joining us, you're watching your life from your top stories. the former us policeman direction has been sentenced to 22 and a half years in jail for the murder of george floyd,

the judge said sherman abused his power in a position of trust and authority. floyd family, welcome to sentence. they say it brings the us once that closer to healing as congress to policy police reform bill named after george floyd. one of the store, the u. s. president has met with africa counterpart regarding as american troops prepared to leave afghanistan up to 20 years of war gone. he said he respects job titles decision and the partnership between the countries is entering a new phase a helicopter, carrying the colombian president even decay has come on the fire, close to the border with ben as whaler to case said. several gunshots were fired, while he and members of his cabinet were flying over the counter timber region. no one was injured. there's been no claim of responsibility, but several groups do operate in that area to case that the attack wouldn't keep him from fighting drug trafficking, terrorism and organized crime. and he got it all. but if 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? i've 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. in the us, vice president commer harris says the biden administration is making progress, encountering the sharp increase in migration across the southern border with mexico . harris was speaking on her 1st visit to the border after being tasked with controlling the influx of migrants by president biden. rob reynolds reports now from the border time of el paso, the vice president commonly harris's 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

planning 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 and 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 us. people don't want to leave. and when they do, it is usually for one of 2 because they are swing some harm or because to stay at home is that they can satisfy the basic needs. after 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 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 to be 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 . a passive is the place where the trumpet 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 contrasting 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 a 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 even, politically we're talking about and so we're talking about family 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. robert olds, al jazeera el paso to the occupied west bank, where a funeral procession has been held for an outspoken critic of the palestinian president mahmoud. abbas news are by nat, died on thursday after being arrested and beaten by palestinian authority. security forces stephanie decker reports from the protests that followed his funeral. in

hebron i leave leave abass. not often heard chance aimed specifically at the palestinian president. several 1000 came out to bury news or been out here in hebron. one of the palestinian authorities most prominent critics the physical didn't and his prime minister state. if you think there will be just it just just the request. 7 for the resident everyone that the finance is up

but now was fiercely outspoken against the p a and it's senior leadership, accusing them of corruption, human rights violations, and being a so called sub contractor for israel. he had recently called on the european union, the largest supplier, a foreign cash, to stop sending funds after president abass. again, council long awaited elections and very disappointed the international community is not putting any push out on the be a good option and it's, it's operation against its own people, but not died after around $25.00 members of the palestinian authority, security forces came to detain him. in the middle of the night and severely beat him according to his family, human rights groups who carried out a preliminary autopsy set his body showed signs of bruising on the neck, head, chest back and legs. and some ribs were also broken. the palestine liberation organization has issued a statement saying there will be

a transparent and impartial investigation. a recent poll shows that the palestinian authority is facing a great deal of criticism from its people. everyone here has told us they are fed up. many tell us they want the death of our burnett to become a turning point, but they also say it will be very difficult, dangerous to achieve real change by taking to the streets in large numbers. stephanie decor old. is there a hebron in the occupied westbank along the way to us government report into u. f. o. 's makes at least one thing clear. the truth is still out there. investigators didn't find extra terrestrial links. in reviewing $144.00 sightings of aircraft, or other devices, apparently flying at mysterious speeds or trajectories, but they couldn't rule it out. even the report said, more date that was required. the subject of u. f. o is of course, a strong serious study from the pentagon and other intelligence agencies, the best part of a couple of generations. now, let's bring in malcolm davis. he's

a senior analyst at the australian strategic policy institute. he joins us from cambra. malcolm, good talk. you again here on al jazeera. so basically what we're talking about here is some sightings that cannot easily be explained. that's correct. i think your lading was, was spot on in the sense that the report does not in any way explicitly or implicitly suggest that there is an extraterrestrial explanation for the findings. so i do think we need to put a t family in the background and leave it to one side and think about what we can explain through more simpler explanations. there's. ready a saying that usually the simplest explanation is usually the truth. i think we really do need to apply that here. secondly, we need to keep in mind the. ready light call seconds was that extraordinary claims required extraordinary evidence. and so we're not seeing extraordinary evidence the

fact that these things are alien. so we need to push that one aside. what does that leave us when it leaves us with technology calls, sy hanes, that really can't be easily explained by our current understanding our areas i believe. ready that required to study, and the most interesting thing, i think is the possibility that these may be manufactured by foreign adverse rate. but gathering intelligence on the united states. but i guess the, the relevant agencies anywhere in the world perhaps would like to shop that conversation down if it implies, or if we can take away from those studies at some point in a couple of years, say that either the united states has got secret weaponry that nobody knows about, or an adversary of the united states has got secret weaponry that nobody knows about because it moves its speeds and it moves in

a way that we're not comfortable with. well, the interesting thing about the report is it doesn't support. and it does, it's explicitly, it does not support the suggestion that this is somehow a us government black project and then it goes on the site. well, there's no evidence really, that it could be a part of the best re ivr. but then in the next breath that says, we need to study these things. there are 2 at the time where they are part adverse recap abilities. so that to me, to get there is some doubt in the minds of investigators as to whether this could be something foreign created or something that's being created inside black projects in the us. that needs to be savvy. and i think you're right there will be an attempt to try and suppress any information that comes out in the future. because the us certainly doesn't want like project information out in the open. and there's a reason why the black because it is highly classified. and i think that would be

a concern also to admit that a country like china or russia had advised aerospace really that was. ready generations that have what the u. s. is flying. so both of those and i, as i think i guys be contentious and controversial briefly, malcolm, forgive me if i son flippant, why is it when aliens make themselves obvious to mankind only ever happens to a guy called chad, or chuck with a single syllable name was driving a truck was broken down in arizona. they never ever walk up and down the high street. yeah, that's i think that's a very good point. i mean, i'm a firm believer that we are not line in need of us. i think it would be a high perfume, an arrogance to suggest that we the intelligence civilization galaxy or beyond. but i'm not seeing any evidence to the to that is sustainable or believable that extraterrestrials under. ready the planet and you are right in the sense that always seeing blurry, fuzzy pictures of dots in the sky,

or maybe i witness reports that are not that sort of convincing. i think these reports in this investigation would you please is interesting because they are from hobby trying protocol. but as i say, we need to actually determine what can be explained by more sort of established and easy explanations. i think we need to go straight to areas. i think that we should be putting back in the background and living organizations like research for extra casual intelligence city. get on with a more scientific approach for finding extraterrestrial law. and we've been waiting so long malcolm davis there and can be good to talk to malcolm. thank you very much . thank you very much. the me touch off the off past the out. it's update your top stories.