ah oh oh, guilty of manslaughter as u. s. court rules, in the case of a white police officers shooting a black man dead at a traffic stop in minnesota. ah, hello, almond is the for autumn, and this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up, the u. k. government says the all the crime variant of color 19 is less likely to overwhelm hospitals that concerns remain as infections rise across europe. vladimir putin puts nato and his size. the russian president blames the alliance

for creating tensions. plus the dollars are changing lives. i'm with the modem box on and i'll tell you about the efforts to cultivate more of them. ah guilty, that's the verdict of the manslaughter trod of a former u. s. police officer and the state of minnesota. kimberly porter shot and killed a 20 year old black man dante wright, during the routine traffic stop. in april, a 12 member jury reached the verdict. after 27 hours of deliberation during the trial, prosecutors argued that pasha who had pled not guilty, betrayed her badge. and flouted years of training by mistakenly drawing have firearm instead of her taser the moment that we heard guilty of manslaughter, one emotions every single emotion that you could imagine just running through your

body at that moment. i kind of let out a yelp because it was built up in the anticipation of what was the calm when, while we were waiting for the last few days. and now we've been able to process it . we want to thank the entire prosecution team. we want to thank community support everybody who's been out there that has supported us in this, this long fight for accountability. well, correspondent, john hendrix. joining us live from minneapolis and rick conviction john of a police officer in the us. what's the, the reaction there, especially given the protests against dante rights shooting? elizabeth, it is rare, very rare that a police officer is charged here in the united states with killing some one wall on duty, but its rarer still that they are convicted. now for the 2nd time in less than a year, that's exactly what happened here. and today it happened twice. kim potter was

convicted of 1st degree manslaughter, and 2nd degree manslaughter in the april killing of john j. right. this was a very closely watched trial here throughout the united states. because dante wright was shot during the middle of another trial of a white police officer who killed a black man. that was a police officer, derek chauffeur, who knelt on the neck of george floyd. ultimately killing him, and in this case, jim potter stood, was almost impassive, simply lowered her head when each of those verdicts was read. she now has been taken immediately into custody and is already at a prison here in the state of minnesota. her lawyers fought to try to get her to be able to spend that time at home on bail, but the judge said, i can't treat this case any differently than any other, and there will be no bail. so kim potter is now in prison. convicted of 2 counts of manslaughter. and john, what can we expect in terms of set sentencing,

given pasha has no criminal history? well, the maximum charge for the 1st degree, manslaughter is 15 years at the maximum sentence that she could get. and 10 years for the 2nd degree, but there are state guidelines that recommend substantially lesser and to complicate things even further here in minnesota, if it's just one act that you have committed even if there's more than one sentence generally or only sentence on the higher of those crimes, bottom line is she faces probably up to 7 years in prison if so, if that judge follows those guidelines, but in any case, because there are mandatory minimums and says she is almost certain to spend years in prison. we'll find out all of that on february 18th. that's when her sentencing is set for and i should mention that outside of the court yesterday was the family of john j. right? you heard that one quote a little earlier, but also there were several people there listening to the verdict from his family

and they burst into cheers when the guilty verdicts were called out. john, thank you for that. that is john henderson with the latest live and minneapolis. thank you. will call for systemic changes and policing and criminal justice in the u. s. have been rolling in recent years. they grabbed global attention to the murder of george floyd last year. in april for the minneapolis police officer, derek shows and was found guilty on all counts employed death. according to mapping police violence, despite only making up 13 percent of the population, black americans and $83.00 times more likely than whites to be killed by the police . and an n p r. investigation revealed that police officers have faithfully shot at least 135 black men and women from 2015 at least 75 percent of the offices. why then to 5 as wide. let's get more on the malware. joined by debbie hines, former baltimore city prosecutor. i am currently illegal adolescent,

she's joining us live via skype, from baltimore in the us state of maryland. miss hines, great to have you with us on al jazeera, so judge to fact the jury saying i am proud of you. and without civic minded citizens, like you, a system of justice could not function. there was one black person on the jewelry, i believe 9 white jewels and 2 ations is this guilty verdict significant in light of the makeup of the jury. yes, because really, to be quite honest, i was shocked at the jury, came back with a verdict of guilty when the highest count basically and slightly because of the makeup of the jury. i mean, it's difficult enough in any case that you've outlined when there's been a white police officer who was killed a black person. but then when you enter into the court room and you only have one black person, in this case, one black woman, one the jury, it just doesn't look like it's going to end well. and that, coupled with the fact that the jury was out so long,

they were out like over 20 hours. it just didn't seem like it was going to end up with a, with a guilty bernie. but this dream was meticulous in terms of reviewing the evidence and going over everything to come to the conclusion. and the verdict that they did come to, which was a just verdict. and of course, it's just a few months off the, the, the verdict and the child of derrick show them dante wright, for short, just 16 kilometers. from where derek show, it was on trial for the killing of george floyd. i mean, do you think that we are seeing would you say that these a meaningful changes that we're seeing in the justice system? i think it's too early to tell. i don't think we can say that by 2 cases while i am, you know, my heart is feeling good tonight because of the verdict, but i just too early to tell. i me out of all the media as you quoted all, any people who are killed by police officers and it's rare that police officers are even charge. what for a killing, let alone convicted if they are charged for it,

killing, and then even after being convicted it even rare still that they get any significant jail time for the conviction. so it's just too early to say that after several cases that the trend is changing, i don't think there will know that for a while, and i don't think the trend will change until we have police reform in this country . it's not going to change by the jury verdict. i don't think that any police officer tonight to be quite honest, the scanner concerned because cam potter was convicted of manslaughter. i think that where the change will come about, it's not going to necessarily be in the court. it has to be through police reform in this country. and that leads to my next question because the attorney general keith ellison actually said after the verdict that we have a degree of accountability for dante's death. it's it, but accountability is not justice. so what does justice look like? that does is, is that police reform so what justice looks like is people like

dante wright would still be living today. he would not have been stopped and killed because he had an air freshener hanging above his window in his rear view window. and his car, that's what one of the things that justice looks like just as looks like police will not be get you to re when they stop the black person for basically anything and then ends up killing. now just look like when police are basically treating black people the way they would treat a white individual because most of these cases where people end up dead, the best race disproportion numbers are black people. so there is a long way that we have to go before we have justice in this country because justice means what they are and what is just and that's not what's happening right now. but that has to happen systemically throughout the police departments within this country. and through police reform that we can even have when the federal level, which that appears to be also lacking in this country. so it's not just about the court system,

it's about what needs to be done throughout the whole systemic system of criminal justice in order for black people to actually feel that we are that we received justice in the criminal justice sabrina. ms. hines, thank you very much. for your time, that is debbie hines. joining us live from baltimore, maryland. thank you. now friday marks one months in south africa. and as the 1st case of the colona virus variant known as on a crown and scientist now are developing a clearer picture that's dangerous. so far, the doctor and the u. k. suggest that it is milder than previous variance because it's significantly more infectious. it could still cause serious pressure on health systems. name barker reports on how europe is being impacted by on the chron health services across europe on a war footing. taking the fight to arm across by giving booster vaccinations to

hundreds of thousands of people a day. the variance fueling a new wave of infections across europe. in the french capital, long queues formed outside pharmacies and coven testing centers in the run up to the christmas holidays. elsewhere, french police increase their checks on people's health passes, allowing for now at least the cities restaurants to remain open. president emanuel micron took to instagram to urge people to avoid spreading the virus. and for me, you want honey. we say this year, once again because of the virus, i asked you to have a lot of vigilance. this means continuing the protections against viruses. you not, marcus, regularly washing hands, respecting, distancing, ventilating rooms regularly with fresh air, in isolating, and testing ourselves. as soon as we have symptoms more, lucas will do some b, u. k. health security agencies, the latest body to crunch real world data on the severity of the disease.

concluding that summer with omicron is as much as 70 percent less likely to be admitted to hospital. but because the transmitter ability of our microns very high infections could rock it to the point, large numbers may still end up in hospital. we do know with only crime that it does a spread a lot more quickly, is a lot more infectious than delta. so any advantage gained from reduce risk of hospitalization needs to be set against that. and when we know, for example, if her, if a much smaller percentage of people are at the risk of hospitalization, is that a smaller percentage of a much larger number? there could be still significant hospitalization. our best way to, to deal with this, the best way to protect ourselves is through vaccinations and in particular the booster program. it is now even more important to come forward and to get boosted. the analysis also concluded that 2 doses of a covert vaccine are not enough to offer strong protection against omicron a boost as vital and reducing symptomatic infection and serious illness. although

data suggests protection starts to wayne after just 10 weeks. 3 jobs also don't stop people from contracting and spreading the disease at an alarming rate. despite no new official coping restrictions in england, london's christmas markets, a quiet footfall as down hawkish, british government ministers want clear cut evidence of a risk to the national health service before backing any new restrictions. evidence that may take days to become clear in the hospital data. what happens in the british capital where alma cron cases are at their highest will sound the alarm for the rest of the country. and given the numbers here, the rest of europe to leave barca, al jazeera london, because one of our cases in new york have risen 60 percent in the past week. 12000 you infections reported on wednesday. health officials say more testing science

have been open, hospitals and jails have implemented restrictions for people visiting. my bill. de blasio hasn't yet decided that the annual new year's eve celebration in time square will be canceled. gabriel, alexander has more from new york. new york city has become right now at this very time. the national epicenter in the united states of the pandemic, all 50 states in the us have proven some cases of army grant. but here in new york city, it is worse than anywhere else in america. the big issue is testing. there is not enough testing here in the city or state to meet all of the demand. this is a state of 20000000 people and about half of which live here in new york city. and with the cases rising so exponentially over the last week or so, there is a huge demand for testing. as you can see at this test site that we're at here on

42nd street in midtown manhattan. the lines have been at times hundreds of people. they've stretched for blocks in some parts of the city. and you can see that it's not just right here at this testing site. but they're trying to open testing site all over the city as fast as they can. in fact, if you look down a block here, you can see another one there just a block ahead. all of these sites just have opened within the last 48 hours or so. and even beyond that, another block, there are more testing sites, but simply not enough. many of the sites that were open during the height of the pandemic. here in 2020, were closed down after new york thought that the pandemic was over. well clearly, that is definitely not the case. now, hundreds of women have marched and sudanese cities off allegations of women were raped during anti military protests last week. ah,

the united nation says it received report that 13 women were raked or gang raped by security forces on sunday woman attending this march. and on the month, the military wants to frighten protest and stop them from pouring on to the streets . now still ahead on the bulletin, we look at the secret to cuba. success for that fight against calling the 19 how the poor tiny island was able to vaccinate 90 percent of its population. ah hey there. here's her headlines for the americas. nice to see. we've got a lot of rain through california. we could set some daily rainfall records for not only los angeles, but also palm springs toward the u. s. southeast. it is as settled conditions here, lot of sunshine coming through tallahassee with the hiv 21 degrees and also for

eastern portions toward the northeast. things looking fairly settled here are getting blasted. those still with snow and when for newfound lag, we do have a dangerous cold snap coming to western canada the pacific northwest on friday. not so bad. vancouver, 3 degrees. i'm going to put this several days out now and here we are. next wednesday, a painted on the colors, the dark of the purple, the lower the temperature, vancouver mine is say, look at that cold air across the canadian prairies, a prolonged stretch probably haven't seen a stretch of coal this long in about 50 years. central america, unsettled conditions across hispaniola. also in puerto rico on friday. and now for the top end of south america, we do have some pretty big storms north of rio de janeiro, south of salvatore in the forecast for you on friday. you know, for patagonia textures here are running a of average contour urena sat, 18 degrees and commodore aretha davia in the sunshine with a hive 27 on friday. enjoy that,

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it's good to have you with us on al jazeera reminder of our top stories. the sour a jury in the u. s. has found formal, minnesota police officer kimberly porter guilty of manslaughter and the fatal shooting of a black man 20 year old dante of i to died off to potter shops. him do you have routine traffic? stop in april. the u. k. is how security agencies as people with on the crime, a 50 to 70 percent less likely to be admitted to hospital than those with delta, the country reported nearly 120000 cases on thursday. just a day of your recording more than 100000 infections for the 1st time. and provo, nevada's cases in new york have was in 60 percent in the past week. almost 12000. do infections have reported on wednesday. hospitals and presidents have introduced could visitors to control the spread of the virus. now, cuba has vaccinated more of its people against climate 90 and than most of the world's wealthiest nations. it is the milestone that will make the poor communist

one country a test case. as on the crock continues, it spread at augustine has more from the capital havana. cuba says, as now vaccinated over 90 percent of its population with at least one dose of antique hybrid vaccine through it means that of all the countries in the world of the population of over 1000000 only the united arab emirates now has a better record. now there's no way of independently verifying the state spigots. however, they do have the ring of truth. back in august of the peak of upon demick, the states said about 910000 people a day were coming down with it. right now the infection rate according to the state is less than $100.00 a day. so that's less than one percent of this summer's peak and living and reporting here in cuba, over the summer on you, plenty of people that came down. okay, that are new people that died from david right now. reality has been transformed. i don't know anyone with it. and when i asked friends neighbors, i didn't know anyone. they also don't want my son that invariably comes back is no

. cuba, the spring became the smallest country in the world to develop its own code. vaccines and distribution for them has been relatively easy. it's elaborating sometime and also the other important medicine is free at the points of use and the country has the highest doctor to patient ratio of any country in the world. the roll out happened at a very, very quick clip with international services. finally, returning the communist party, i got into national tourism on the revenue associated with it will be able to drag cuba drag this country out of what is a very, very deep economic crisis. now at least 5 people have been killed and more than a dozen injured and several explosions. the capital of nigeria is born on a state that happened near a base in my booty with president mohammed google hardy was scheduled to land for an official visit. the city and surrounding area had been at the center of a 12 year conflict with an armed group vocal. her palestinian authorities have

said a village in northern occupied westbank has been attacked by israeli settlers. it comes off demonstrations earlier in the day in boca turned violent as israeli soldiers use tear gas against palestinians harry full. so it has moved from west jerusalem. this is an extremely serious incident in the northern part of the occupied west bank in and around the village of burka, which has been exceptionally tense. in recent days, the municipal government of the biggest close town nablus has said that hundreds of israeli settlers attacked the village under cover of night, the dozens were trying to get into individual homes. as part of that, that a cemetery was also attacked. stones were thrown, dozens of palestinians injured, a significant number of those also injured by rubber coated steel. bullets were told, there were clashes between is ready, soldiers, and villages. during the course of the day, all of this happening in the hours after a major rally by settlers near the illegal outpost of homage which was very close

to berker or we could go there. there was a shooting attack attributed to palestinian islamic jihad in which a part, a jewish settler was killed. his family leading this rally at which some 15000 people it's estimated were in attendance. most of them going home as the rally came to an end, but a significant hard core staying on. and it is from that number. we understand that there was a significant attack on this village. no ethiopians, government says it's eliminated potential threats from to grind rebels from the north of the country. it's a turnaround of events after declaring the state of emergency last month, when rebels were gaining ground. ethiopia has been fighting to grind rebels since november last year to grow people's liberation fund hasn't responded. douglas, and i can look directly at the monroe, the national unity campaign launched by prime minister abbey. archimedes has

completed its 1st phase and has successfully achieved its goals as the afar and i'm horror regions were recaptured from the t great front or so any future threats that terrorists might post. ethiopia, him have been removed, the us government forces will remain in the positions until further notice is absolutely now military attentions between russia and the nato alliance have featured prominently in president vladimir puritans and of the a news conference. speaking to about 500 journalists in moscow, person rejected the idea that russia should provide security guarantees to the west . he says nato should be the one giving assurances because it's created the tensions whole brennan reports. it's a cold cold christmas in terms of russia. nato relations, as evidenced by these russian troops undertaking, firing exercises near the border with ukraine. and of all the topics covered in president putin's annual news conference. it was the questions about ukraine and possible nato expansion, which saw him visibly bristling,

whereby bold guarantee you are sure. would we have made it explicitly clear that further later movement eastward is unacceptable. what is unclear about valley to go? are we putting missiles next to the united states borders unique knows it is the united states that has come to us with their muscles. they already on our doorstep, him a yes. need your good 100 and their response to a question from a u. k. news channel, he highlighted the historical context of the grievance. certainly been a should i give yard? no, we're doing. we're no worse talk because one inch to the east is what we were told in the 900 nighties. and what happened? we were duped. we were brazenly trick that there were 5 waves of matrix sagel. that's what we're talking about. you have to understand, it's not us who are threatening and we didn't come to the borders of the u. s. or the u. k. u came to us ukraine gained its independence from the soviet union in 991, although it's cultivated close ties with europe. some parts remain deeply connected to russia by history and language in 2014, when you are my dad protest,

ousted ukraine's pro russian president, russia swiftly annex the crime in peninsula and supported pro russian separatist groups in the eastern region of dumbass. but ukraine's express wish is membership of nato and the european union. and i'm bishop reiterated this week by president lensky. my browsing them all. yet we want to unblock the don't best piece process as soon as possible to return crimea to gain membership of your opinion an upcoming years. and to get a very clear and very specific timeframe from nato. and we want to get it in 2020 to the kremlin, has tabled security proposals, which would effectively block ukraine's nato ambitions. russia has also deploy tens of thousands of its troops near to the ukrainian order diplomats from the united states and russia. we'll meet to discuss the proposals in january. nato is in awkward position here, an attack against one nate, her member is considered an attack against all. so while defending ukraine's rights to freely apply for nato membership,

the alliance knows that granting membership could bring nato troops face to face with russian soldiers across the battlefront. instead of these ukrainian soldiers practicing with us supplied javelin miss off, it could be american troops firing them for real. and russian soldiers firing back pull brennan al jazeera now and olive tree planting project is helping to provide much needed jobs in one of the poorest areas of northern pakistan. the government holds that will pull people away from groups and also bring down the cost to food. some of the java reports from the district of by george high in the hindu kush mountains near the african border. these trees as slowly changing lives in budge or district alone. there are millions of wild olive trees. but some old science and new interests are being grafted or joined with more than varieties. these mostly european type of volumes produce more quantity and better quality

olive oil. in 3 to 5 years, the new variant of wild trees becomes a source of revenue for local tribesmen. had very few prospects in these remote areas of pocket sun. by georgia is one of the poorest districts, and many people migrate to largest cities to look for jobs. the rugged terrain is unforgiving for most crops, but it's right as being able to successfully draft 10000 while trees in just what 10 years. he has written books to educate farmers and also established a small nursery to help others around him improve their livelihoods. logo, hey mob. now many of the people who went towards milton, so did so because we had no jobs, no perimeters here. nobody knew we a blizzard got given resources. and if the government take serious steps, we can have enough work here that people from other countries would come to us. economists believe locally produced oil can bring financial relief to the country. spike assignees consume an estimated 24 kilograms of oil every year. olives are not

just providing opportunities, but are also meant to bring down the import bill of a cash strapped economy and enable plantation in areas where there's very little water. government nurseries give out saplings and seeds to promote polio farming. but critics say these initiatives, lack awareness, have insufficient facilities, and mostly rely on imported seeds. the wide olive tree project offers more live with over pos on i'm a do our main focus for the olive plantations is the marginalized lands, especially the tribal areas. a jo are north and south, was here stand. these were militancy hit areas where people were jobless and faced extreme poverty. but now this all of initiative will bring prosperity to their lives. the minister says home rule olive, cultivation and production will save $3000000000.00 a year on imports. ah, it could also had prepay some of the $100000000.00 debt, had been focused on in italy. in recent years, 9000000 fees have been planted by cust on his 8000000 acres available for olive

trees. that's larger than spain, the largest producer of olive oil, government officials, environmentalists and farmers agree, and the positive impact growing olives can have on the economy, deforestation, and jobs. yet pakistan still spends billions of dollars a year to import commodities, which can potentially be produced at home from a job without a 0 badge or northwest like a stun. ah . hello again. i'm elizabeth bronman, doha, with the headlines on al jazeera, a jury in the u. s has found formal, minnesota police officer kimberly potty guilty of manslaughter. and the fatal shooting of a black man. 20 year old dante wright died after part a shot him during a routine traffic stop and april. the moment that we heard guilty, i'm the.