in this thing has become a dangerous business one or one east and those who refuse to be silent. now says 0. i was a mistake. and i all for my sincere apology. us is meant to kill civilians instead of iso finances in its last air strike. and i've got his phone. ah, i'm have them i have. and this is al jazeera, lies from joe home, also coming up. france recalls at some passengers from the us district. here, there's an ongoing rise. you pacific security alliance, putting pressure on warring sites in the field, the us,

the records sanctions that violence continues in the t gray region. and nowhere else to go. 10 size limitation migrant rough in a tiny texas border time. ah we begin though with breaking news l g areas longest serving presidents. abdul aziz, which is speaker has dies. the 84 year old struggled with health issues for years after suffering a stroke in 2013. he stepped down more than 2 years ago under pressure from mass protests and the army national hall. barbara reports april the 2nd, 2019 algerian president of the law. these beautifully designed following weeks of nasty street protests rail. unable to walk or talk,

and rarely seen him public following astro, his suffered into a 1013 which bound to prussia from protest, the and the army chief. this is the moment he resigned and handed over power to the senate speaker, who became the enter him head of state. an undignified exit for the man who played crucial role in algeria is more than history, which is considered a national hero by his porters who fought on the battlefield. during algeria as will be independence from france, then served as 40 minutes until 1979. in the early 19 eighties, he was accused of corruption and went into self imposed design. the charges were later dropped and at the end of the civil war in the late $990.00 that claimed the lives of $1001.00 an election with the backing of the military. their

position said the vote was ragged with a flicker one praise for restoring stability that led to an economic boom and major development project nationwide. the also managed to hold the country together. during the spring, there were protests in january, 2011 against poverty and unemployment. the government responded by creating thousands of small business opportunities with generous incentives to young entrepreneurs, reducing food prices, and ending a decades old state of emergency. despite the initiative bias continued after winning a 2nd mandate in 2004 with a fleet changed the constitution to run for the term. and despite deteriorating health, he changed the constitution once again to secure a 4th term was the leader considered him an important ally of the fight against

groups in north africa. but if i had 0 tolerance to was ty than others, he had handed this link to that approach is blame for costing civilian lives in 201330 foreign workers were killed when would leave the order of the army to storm a gas plant in the algerian desert, the aim was to rescue hundreds of hostages, held by an armed group affiliated to alti. the critics said the president could have saved lives, had he negotiated a safe exit for the hostages of plan. the counter attack, more carefully with a fleet as grip on power started to slip when he announced his bid to run for the 5th term. in february, 201900, the thousands of jury as poured into the streets in the biggest demonstration scene

since the independence in 1962 for 5 weeks. the protest, the demands of the president and his allies resign would have a 1st try to locate, protested by reversing his decision to stand again and postponing the election, saying he'd stay on until a new constitution was adopted. but it wasn't enough to stop the reward. the protests continued. disease with a fleet, as fate was sealed when the army chief stepped in, forcing algeria the longest serving president from power us officials have admitted that a drone strike in campbell last month mistakenly targeted civilians. instead of, i saw k fighters an investigation signed the strike on august, the 29th killed an age worker along with 9 members of his family, including 7 children. it was one of the us military is final lack sin of canister

on for ending 20 years before i am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to 7 children, were tragically killed in that strike. moreover, we now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with isis cape or were a direct threat to us forces. i offer my profound condolences to the family and friends of those who were killed. the strike was taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces and the evacuees at the airport. but it was a mistake and i offer my sincere apology as the combatant commander. i am fully responsible for the strike in his tragic outcome of before the us admission a senior leader of the taliban on us. how connie told al jazeera the us drones targeted innocent people in combo. upon the said, the taliban condense,

these actions and there are no arrangements with us to carry it any operations on african soil. for now, mother was suddenly but violating the agreement is like inviting war. this doesn't help with peace and prosperity. it is misusing piece in a wrong way. now that piece has come to this country. if they continue to behave like this, the world should understand that they want war, not peace, and that you will have to stay with the santa gala jones is no law firm, washington, d. c. and i think that's a stunning admission of error from the americans, especially as they were so confident of success initially. yeah. stunning admission, if not for the fact, but within hours of the georgia tech taking place on august the 29th. that will almost immediately report that they had targeted the wrong people that was followed up by investigations by various us newspapers. and this is being getting reported

on for the past couple of weeks. but they simply got this wrong. but this admission is something else. this is general mackenzie saying, look, we believe that was an imminent threat. we followed this call for 8 hours. we saw the driver putting explosives into the back of a car and we saw him stopping at a terrorist safe house and we got that wrong. so what they did, and what they admitted to today was the death of mister armada who was an aide worker for about 15 years and 9 members of his extended family. initially the pentagon said, look, that was a 2nd explosion when the drone attack happened, when the hell far missile hit the car, proving that there were explosives in the car that turned out not to be true. but this has huge implications of the u. s. has now withdrawn because one of the key strategies is what they call over the horizon operations. in other words, using drones to strike various targets that are a perceived threat to the united states found out that's now been called into question the u. s. military say they will carry out to the investigation,

but the remaining that members of the modern family say they were all due to come to the united states on various phases because they had been helping the us. and now they're living under a cloud of suspicion potentially from the taliban. but they are in fact connected to organizations like ice. ok. now we're, as you said, 10 people killed altogether. 7 of those with children. the youngest had them was to ok and together her their reporting live from washington d. c. and d. thank you. will run casner as a former explosive ordinance disposal officer and is currently a senior crisis advisor from the international crisis response team. he joins us now from buffalo, new york, good to have you with us on the program. the. the u. s. is the message that this drawn strike was a quote unquote mistake. how coleman are these types of mistakes? unfortunately, they're extremely common and was really different about this strike is not that it

was unusual and that it killed the wrong people, whether to kill the civilians killed children. what's unusual about this strike is that we know so much about it because it happened in cobble, while the eyes of the world were on the city and why there was so much media in the city covering withdrawal of the united states. when these kind of strikes happen all over rural afghan, stan or in syria or an iraq or somalia and libya, there's just not that kind of media attention. and so amnesty international and other groups we try to investigate these strikes, but it's much more difficult. and so unfortunately, yes, this is a pattern that we've seen all over the world for the last 20 years since 911. how difficult is it to investigate? and i hate using this word mistakes, but that, that's the word that the us are, are using. how difficult is it to get into these places because as you point to, the world was watching enough canister over the last 4 to 6 weeks. but the normal

was there. so when it's happening, when rural hospitals are bombs, when rural families are targeted, how can you tell? right, so we have to investigate from afar. sometimes we can get to the location. sometimes we can dig in the crater and we can talk to the families. but often as you say, for example, in somalia in areas that are controlled by all. sure, bob, it's impossible for anyone to get there. so just for comparison, we came out with a report, i was one of the authors in 2019. it took us an entire year to investigate 5 of these strikes and prove that the u. s. military killed civilians rather than eligible fighters. but many of the circumstances are going to look familiar. in one of the strikes, the americans killed 3 farmers. they were sleeping under the tree or under a tree next to their fields in the middle of the night. but it takes a long time through satellite imagery, through remote interviews,

to really meticulous work. and really the, the huge frustration that i and other groups have is that we're doing the us military's job for them. and in this case we and the other journalists, did the us military's job for them. do you think they would have admitted the error of this strike today? if it weren't for all of the reports that had come out the last few weeks, do you think that moving forwards the signals, perhaps a change in attitude from the u. s. military or willingness to hold their hands up when they have done something wrong and killed innocent men, women and children. or do you think they were just caught? i think they were caught, and i wish i could say that they would change their tune. but unfortunately, i've had meetings with that for a common sun. com for years. and when they get caught, they apologize and say many of the things they did today all there was this circumstance and there was that circumstance. but you know, our process is really very good overall, but the process never changes and these kind of strikes keep happening. and i think

something general mckenzie said today was really important that they were going to try to provide payments to the families. but they weren't sure how this was going to happen because there is no us soldiers now canister in. this is not a small problem. the u. s. military do not pay a single dime of compensation in 2020. they still have not compensated any of the families in somalia, for example, and cases that they've admitted to. and because they don't, they literally don't know how to deliver the aid. and so this is not a small problem and it's going to keep justice from happening for the family. and just finally quickly, if you were, it was kind of impacts the sort of strikes half of the communities on the grounds who are less literally to pick up the pieces right off. and the bride warner is killed. i mean, it has a very long term impact for these families. and as your report said, it's not just the death of those family members is that they are often looked at buys, as with suspicion by their neighbors or by the government. the wonder is what's really going on. and so we've documented over years, there's really long term,

many long term issues with these families. ok, brian casner great toes. he thank you so much for joining us here on. i'll just, sarah, we appreciate it. thank you. was more so hands on al jazeera guineas, military, religious talk, tough as west african leaders, demands a return to civilian rule. and as regional leaders meet in mexico, we look at the future influence of the us and the balance, ah, ah, i again, here's her headlines for the america starting into a saucy, on 3040 agrees. i want to show you the 3 day forecast here because it's cloudy on saturday, but once we get into the sun on sunday, we'll crank your temperature up to 38, even warmer, still 39 degrees on monday,

the south end of south america. we've got our storms through the amazon basin a white day for me, announced with a high of 34 degrees. also wet across parts of central america. say pretty much from the gulf of mexico rate through to mexico, pacific coast, affecting acapulco us gulf states. ok. we still need the umbrellas here because we've got this wave of moisture moving across some heavier falls can be found through alabama. we may have something tropical trying to develop india by and take care. so here it is on saturday. i'm going to press play. let's see where it goes on sunday, looking like it could crash into newfoundland. this is about a week after we just were dealing with a hurricane there. so something we are watching carefully in time for the west or moisture late in systems spreading brain across british columbia. trying to get into alberta $31.00 degrees in regina, but that what whether also seeping down into washington, oregon and northern portions of california. or of course we've got the colder and dixie wildfires, so this rain desperately need it. the

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it says al, just a quick reminder, all the top stories for you know, i'll june the longest serving presence of lindsey's will to speaker has died at the age of 84. he's that done more than 2 years ago under pressure to mass protests of the army. us officials have admitted a drones joint can comp, last month to stay can be targeted civilians instead of also case pointers. an investigation find that an aide worker was killed along with 9 members of his family, including 7 children. frances recalling it some passages from the u. s. and strangely, as parts of the tips of magic backlash against the new security packs in the pacific on the deal astray, leo will be able to acquire nuclear power submarines. but it means a multi $1000000000.00 agreement to buy submarines from france has been cancelled. the alliance between the u. k, the u. s. and strictly,

as widely seen as an efforts to cancer china's influence in the pacific class. but again, phil laval, in washington, d. c. for walkie thomas. while we've just heard from the americans, it's not an apology, but it's probably the nearest that piracy is going to get towards that direction. anyway, the american saying that they regret this decision by the french and they will engage in the coming days to resolve differences. clearly they are aware just how lifted president micron is here. they're trying to lower the temperature somewhat. that's probably a more muted response compared to some of the language we've heard out of paris over the last few hours last day or so. where it's like and i quote here, betrayed, tried, awful partnerships, ruins, dab in the bag, lack of coherence, angry and bitter. and then the real punch hair towards joe biden, the foreign minister of foreign minister saying this brutal and unilateral decision resembles a lot of what trump is doing. of course, nobody here in washington dc in the white house wanting to be competitive in any

way to the former president of the united states. but we know here the president macro is absolutely furious. this is coming straight from the top. the official line is that these on bus, it is a being recalled for consultation. that means that they're not walking out, slamming the door, saying that never coming back. this is merely the making a point. they are saying that they are not happy. they are showing that they are not happy. this is the 1st time france has done this in modern history. and we know that there are a couple of other things that the french are doing as well to show how angry they are. we know that they've cancelled a reception at the french embassy. they have scrap that participation and a naval commemorative event with the americans, because this is about more than just wounded pride. the french are going to take a huge financial hit here. this was worth some $65000000000.00 and france thought that they had this in the bag. they thought it was sewn up. they've been talking to the australians for 2 years. they be germany, they be japan. and in harris's eyes, the americans and the british have got together,

they colluded and they've swooped in on the effectively stolen this from the french . so obviously they are very, very angry about this. now we know that said the, there is rumors not confirmed by the respect relation, the president biden, a prime minister, boris johnson, discuss this at the g 7. obviously, only those 2 men will really know what they talked about behind closed doors. but we do know that prime minister boris johnson is coming here to washington d. c. this week, of course, for him. this is a big photo opportunity because post breaks it borrows johnson is really trying to cement the case position is trying to show that that. so called special relationship that the americans and the british always talked about is still standing even after donald trump, even after the last government that they are still fairly on the same page. but we now have this triangle of trade. we have the australians, we have the british, we have the americans, the french though not invited. they are to quote the magic phrase, persona non grata. ok. fill of l. the life of washington,

d. c. feel. thank you. the u. s. is threatening more sanctions against the war in size in ethiopia as t gray region. new executive order opens the door to sanctioning members of the philippine and retreat governance, its ego people's liberation, france, and the horror of regional government. the conflict has left thousands debt, almost 1000000 people living with famine like conditions she pretends he has more. this is not the imposition of sanctions, but another threats of sanctions. president biden's executive order empowers the state department and treasury to be able to sanction those seen in the future to be standing in the way of negotiating peace in the future on all sides. but no deadline has been announced if the government of ethiopia and the 2 great people's liberation front, take meaningful steps to enter into talks with out preconditions and allow unhindered humanitarian assistance. the united states is prepared to mobilize

assistance for ethiopia to recover and revitalize its, its economy, and build a future for its people. wow, the state department officials say they fair prime minister abbey ahmed will want to declare a victory over the crow and people's liberation. france, when he sworn into office on october the 4th. they also fed the t p. and i will do all it can to prevent that. the u. s. does have a great deal of leverage over the therapy and government that so far it hasn't used much success in the past has been in terms of trade. it's industrial parks are occupied by america, not multinational. it's benefiting from this tax benefit, those that introduced 2 decades ago. and there was a fear that would be withdrawn. but that did not happen. and there's a release in the sub a just my, the presence in the administration of those 9 to be open to us interventions that samantha power at u. s. id. it hasn't imposed punishing sanctions on the if you can government. and let's say there are multiple reasons for washington's caution.

ethiopia is the u. s. s main ally, and the strategically and one of africa and key to its projection of power across the region. ethiopia is also important to us as war and tara, an important component against our bob in somalia. now that us troops officially withdrawn permanence, abbey ahmed is also deregulating and privatizing economy. after decades of central planning, which is beneficial for us multi nationals. and perhaps most importantly, even as if you're pure, received hundreds of millions of dollars from the u. s, it's a key trading partner and investment destination for china. and as the biden administration is clearly demonstrated, this is not a white house that will take a further integration of out of our bay. jing, well, she, every time see al jazeera washington guineas military leaders say they will not yield to pressure from the west. african economic dog echo off to the post president of the convey to leave the country a delegation from echo and is in guinea a match. the military leaders on friday. the board has already impose sanctions and

demanded selections be held within 6 months. the u. s. insists in a challenge to its influence over the rest of the americans. representatives of the 33 member community of latin america and caribbean states which excludes the u. s. are meeting in mexico city on saturday, and they're planning to move ahead without their powerful northern neighbor or latin america just to see in human reports. 10 years ago, the community of latin american in caribbean states, or lack, was officially launched. it was the brainchild of brazil's former president, lucy, not to let the silver and business whalers now to see. we were chatting goals to create a region block that excluded the united states and canada to compete against the oldest inter american alliance. the organization of american states, or only yes, which is based in washington that i'm considering what are some i don't we must

create a superior force to raise consciousness to realize that this past has been only with its differences and diversity is unlikely. oh yes sir. lacked accepted communist cuba with open arms that he does give me the exercise of self determination and sovereignty of people and the quality of inalienable principles of the one decade on sir lac plans to go a step further. mexico was hosting a regional summit, was the aim of actually dissolving the oh yes, lawyer not was, it gives you money for mentally. that means you on the organization of american states can't continue being an instrument intervention. our president explained it in his speech. heard a lot of a lot in america and in washington medical good by i s with your interference and meddling. we need to create a new organization in agreement with the us that reflects the reality of the 21st

century. it is a bold challenge to the united states from its closest latin american neighbour years. the oil, yes, has been accused of being a puppet of us interests. it's not given that there will be regional consensus discrepancy last year. brazil withdrew from sherlock, put an edged failure to protect democracy. but there will soon be many elections in latin america leading to a possible swing to the left in the region. again, all of which could threaten the future of the 35 member or yes, founded 73 years ago as tentatively to promote inter american cooperation. how to see and human al jazeera uses thousands of migrants gathering under a bridge between northern mexico and the u. s. state of texas, the waiting to be process for us immigration, local authorities, estimate of intent fans and people are saying at the mix of camp us board regents

say they're providing basic services. many more people are expected in the coming days. john holman, has more from mexico city men of del rio has said that this could be a historic crisis, is saying that they need more help to deal with this huge camp that sprung up so quickly under the bridge on the us techs inside of this crossing the governor of texas has called for the board to be closed at 6 different points to stop people getting a cross. and we've been speaking to local journalists on the mexican side who said that basically this has been a point in the river in which people have been crossing for some time because it's so low, so they can get across. but lately, over the last 2 or 3 weeks, they've been a sort of massing of haitians on the mexican side of the border. and then going across to then try and off the asylum in the united states. what we've been told by those local journalists as people are going across, getting a ticket that means with a number on it,

which means that they put their place in the line to be processed by american authorities. and then heading back across to mexico because there is no food in much of the camp and sort of using the river almost as a foot crossing between those 2 countries to get what they need. mexico and the state attorney for what we love, which is the neighboring mexican state, has said also that they're going to ask for the national guard to try and process people in an orderly fashion. because it's a moment, it's a bit of a free for old and their town on the other, on the mexican side of this aconia can't cope with it. there's been as wayland says, cubans amongst these people, but the majority of them off from haiti. now these are people, a lot of them have come into south american, have just had a pretty horrendous trip to get this far up. there's a place called the duddy and gap which is basically an area of jungle between columbia on panama, and some move from things happening there. right now. rate murder, robbery of a lot of the people that head through there. it's just a bit of a lawless area, then they've got to get through central america, mexico,

where obviously they've gangs and cartels operating suffolk, quite a bit to get this thought. an expert's panel advising drug regulators in the us sense reject since government plans to lead co with 19 booster shots to all americans age 16 and older. if i had a lack of safety data on extra doses and doubts about the value of mass boosters, but it's endorsed to extra funds or by own tech shops for people age over the age over 65 and those severe risk, high risk rather of severe disease foreign fighters in the us are battling several large wild farms threatening ancient trees in california. cruise had been wrapping far resistant blankets around trees and flames. tear through the sequoia national park. a 2000 year old tree known as general sherman is among those at risk worlds. is on a catastrophic pathway towards a hopes of future,

unless governments take more ambitious measures to cuts emissions than the assessment of us actually general antonio terrorist, just weeks before crucial climate talks. kids time to ring the alarm bell. if you take the commitments made until now by member states in the so called national determined contributions, we will still get to the end of the century. we then increase the temperature to 2.7 to 2.9. so we are on the verge of the abuse. and when are you out on the verge of the abyss, you need to be very careful about what the next step is. ah, this is al jazeera and these, all the headlines on julius longest serving president was these were to figure as died at the.