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the monkey box i break is declared a public health emergency in the us, freeing up more money to fight the virus. ah, robinson, this is audra 0 alive from doha. also coming up for you as police officers are charged for their roles and the shooting aubriana taylor, a black woman killed in our home and a botched rate. china has chosen to overreact and use the speakers visit as a pretext the u. s. is slums, china for launching live missiles near taiwan and angry crowds attack suspected illegal miners in south africa after 8 women are gang raped. ah,

ah, the u. s. is declared the monkey pox i break a public health emergency. the official designation means more money in facilities to fight the virus. on tuesday, u. s. president joe biden appointed to federal officials to coordinate and national response that are more than 6600 cases in the us. so far, almost all of them are among men who have sex with men. vertical haine has more from washington, dc to say, put in perspective the by the administration has been hearing from doctors across the country saying that they were simply just running out of time. if they had any hope of containing this outbreak. so now we've seen them make this declaration, it's a public health emergency and another declaration. and as you mentioned, that frees up funds. what that does is it allows the federal government to work with manufacturers to a speed up testing speed of vaccine production and also get some good testing on the market is what they did with cove it so basically lowers the standard for the f

d a to approve these things, it also allows them to hire people so that those people can go out and distribute all of these critically needed supplies. now the con, the call today, the center for the center for disease control said that they had 1100000 vaccines distributed across the country. that is not even close to enough. if you look at the cities that have been really impacted by this, you'll see lines really long lines of people waiting to get this vaccine. and it's just simply running out, and testing is a big concern. so there's been almost 7000 cases and that's considered to be a huge undercount because they admitted on this call that they've only been able to put out 8000 tests a week. and the numbers are rising dramatically. so just under $7000.00 cases, but it's doubling every 8 days. so there is some urgency to this. caitlin jolena is an epidemiologist, under system professor at the university of texas. she says, dealing with monkey box in the us is more difficult because the health system

doesn't have enough money. the united states right now is somewhere in the middle between being prepared and being unprepared, just like coven 19 the monkey pox outbreak in the united states is really highlighting our neglected, are under funded, and our really fragmented public health system in the united states. it desperately needs fixing like data like communication, like bureaucratic coordination, like trust and fixing this is complicated, it's expensive and more importantly it just takes time. it cannot be fixed overnight regardless, it has been very difficult to watch, but i think it's important that we're not starting from scratch. we spent the last 30 months, creating systems building capacity. and we really need to reactivate these or adapt to these efforts to pivot towards monkey pox. we also really just need to be more aggressive or at least faster than the federal sponsor. we can no longer have this

wait and see method in the united states. for us police officers have been charged over the killing of brianna taylor, a black woman shot dead in her home during a botched police rate. it's been 2 years since the death of a medical technician that led to mosse protest was developed into the black lives matter movement. muslim jordan reports, i heard i heard i a moment of celebration for the family and friends, abriana taylor for current and former louisville police officers have been arrested on federal charges in connection with taylors killing in march. 2020. yeah. like what we been saying. it was the truth that they shouldn't have been near nab riana didn't deserve that. taylor was killed when lowville police stormed her apartment, looking for a drug dealer. her boyfriend said police didn't announce themselves, and so he fired his gun at what he thought were intruders. police shot back 22

times, hitting taylor in the chest. federal prosecutor say police knew they didn't have the evidence to justify rating taylor's home, but they did so. anyway. earlier today, i spoke with a family of brianna taylor. this morning, they were informed for the justice department is charged for current and former level metro police department officers with federal crimes related to ms taylors death. those alleged crimes include civil rights offenses, unlawful conspiracies, unconstitutional use of force and obstruction offenses. the officers are also accused of plotting to cover up their behavior if convicted they could get up to 20 years in prison for obstruction and 5 years for conspiracy and line oh, along with the killing of george floyd and may 2020 taylor's death lead to protest across the united states,

against both racism and police brutality. the lawyer for taylor's family called there is days arrest a product of speaking out because we don't fight our children, like brianna taylor, who will fight for the city of louisville, paid brianna taylor's family 12000000 dollars to settle a wrongful death lawsuit. on thursday, tamika palmer said the rest are just one more step in holding the police accountable. today's overdue. but he still has a recognition that all the legal success in the world won't bring her daughter back . rosalind jordan else's era a jury in the u. s. has ordered a conspiracy theorist on broadcaster to pay more than $4000000.00 to the parents of a boy killed in the 2012 sandy hook school massacre. alex jones repeatedly called the shooting a hoax. 20 young children and 6 adults were killed. he hosted the far right website

infill wars, and he was sued for defamation by the parents of 6 year old jesse louis. they said they were harassed and received death threats because of jones claims. the us national security spokesman john kirby. he says he expects china will continue to react to u. s. house speaker nancy pelosi, his trip to taiwan beijing is not conducting live fire drills around the island of taiwan, even though pelosi has left the island by one says chinese naval ships on military planes are moved to several times into its territorial waters and aerospace, united states is prepared for what beijing chooses to do. we will not seek, nor do we what a crisis. at the same time, we will not be deterred from operating in the seas and the skies of the western pacific. consistent with international law. as we have for decades, supporting taiwan and defending a free and open indo pacific. the chinese ambassador to the urines described

policies triple manic, irresponsible and irrational. and we hope that the united states will draw a lesson from such a situation that at nearly day they should honor their commitment on the one china principle and not to support any i tear my independence attempts. and so we hope they will stop doing. i'm the st further under my in china. so frontier territory integrity and that i think the message is where a clear china's military drills are focused on 6 exclusions owns that surround tar $13.00 zones overlap areas which tie one says are part of its territorial waters. and aerospace in some places are just 20 kilometers of pi ones. shores. the drills include long range live ammunition shooting into the taiwan strait. china's warned all vessels to avoid the area for 72 hours. nearly half of the world's container

ships travel through these waters. every year. japan's defense ministry says it believes that for chinese missiles flew over the capital city. taipei, taiwan is president citing. one says the island will firmly defended sovereignty and is national security in hen. don't go that however, dolby in kinky today, china has conducted live fire exercises around taiwan. this deliberate and continuous increase in military threats missile launching on the world's busiest shipping lanes is not only against taiwan, but also against the international community. these are irresponsible actions. now our army has strengthened its combat readiness. the army will keep a close watch on all surrounding military movements. we are also in close contact with our allies and work together to prevent the security situation from escalating in the region bottle. she tony chang has more. what's been happening a day after leaving type a u. s. house speaker, nancy pelosi,

but the speaker of south korea is national assembly. and so she appeared unfolded by the controversy sparked by her visit to taiwan and spoke warmly of the military and economic relationship between south korea and the united states. a relationship that began from urgency and security many years ago has become the warmest of friendships but pelosi left troubled waters in her wake. chinese military helicopters, fly over the taiwan strait of pink turn in southern china at the start of live fire exercises that effectively surround the island. chinese state tv broadcast video of missiles part from the mainland into target areas close to territorial waters. taiwan claims as its own, with its pointed jets in the air, in combined exercises designed to show china, is incomplete control. caribbean, you know, the purpose is to show that the people's liberation army is capable of controlling

the taiwan island. a great to turn to talents, independence, secession is forces none. the less, china's foreign ministry lamed escalating tensions. firmly on the united states. you are, it is the local area. if these countries really cared about pace and stability in the taiwan strait, they should have persuaded the united states not to engage in dangerous, reckless and irresponsible provocations against china. before policies visit to taiwan, they pretended to be deaf and silent, but now they jumped out to criticize china's just actions exposing their hypocrisy and ugliness we. china's life fire exercises are expected to continue for the next few days. possibly, even until early next week. by that time, nancy pelosi will be back in the united states, but the impact of her visit to taiwan will be felt here. some time to come. tony cheng al jazeera, still ahead on al jazeera,

made on you're responsible and balanced on brickley griner some his to 9 years in prison in russia for drug possession. and we had to baghdad city divided by the tigris river and by political loyalties. ah, here's your weather in a minute 15, thanks for joining him. we're beginning in south america for so this vigorous system swept through that certainly knocked down the temperature in porto lay gray to just 15 degrees on friday enough at the top end of south america. okay, still persistent, rain locked into that pacific coast of columbia and waves of re moving across the western areas of brazil into bolivia and peru on friday. central america really concentrated rain. we can also find as we look toward hunter as snicker. rog,

we're costa rica and panama, and we have had flood watches and warnings in play around missouri. that's now shifting in to kentucky, which is certainly not good news. after the recent flooding that we saw, there, storms will do little to break the heat across the great lakes region. so toronto at 28, but it's really feeling closer to 40 those storms now, making their way closer at that east coast of the u. s. the north east. now for the west coast, it's starting to dry off for western canada. the pacific northwest. big drop in those temperatures across the canadian prairies and same goes for montana as those winds have now shifted around. flood, watch in play for parts of california and nevada. we've got some mon sooner moisture and storms here in the forecast on friday. that's it. that's all, sir. ah. in a post colonial world, the scars of european imperialism run deep. nowhere more so than in the democratic

republic of congo, where her history still shapes the president of visceral, yet intimate insight through the eyes of a whistleblower and a patriotic military commander. witness presents this is congo on a geneva? oh oh, you're watching or does he get a reminder of our top stories? the sour b u. s. has dictated the monkey pox outbreak of public health emergency. the official designation means more money on facilities to fight the virus. but more than 6600 cases in the u. s. so far,

beijing's conducting live fire drills around the island of taiwan to show of military force comes off to the end of a visit to the island by u. s. hospital nancy pelosi, a visit, which has infuriated china for current and former u. s. police officers have been charged over the killing of brianna taylor, a black woman shot dead in our home during a botched police rate. it led to mass protests which developed into the black lives matter movement with tamika. mallory is the co founder of the unto freedom of movement and has been i'm the advocate on behalf of brianna, sailors, family, since of fatal shooting. and she's joining us live from louisville, kentucky fires. very good to have you with his mom on i'll just, you know, thank you very much indeed. and was their confidence at all stages amongst the family and their supporters that these charges would be brought? i wouldn't say confidence 1st of all, thank you so much for having me. i wouldn't say confidence. there was hope shortly

we prayed and we had faith that something would happen, but confidence was certainly low. because in order to have competence, you would have to believe that the system wouldn't back protect not just black people, but particularly black women. and we know that the history has shown that that is not the case. and so certainly hope but confidence. now, i wouldn't say, given the fact that the, the cases are now being brought, has that changed to do you think the view of the way the system will deal with cases like brianna? why think what it does say and, and indicate for us that elections matter, and we hope that people around the nation, especially folks who are rightly discouraged by how slow it is and how difficult it is, how much we had to do in order to keep brianna's hail is name a lie, people are frustrated,

they want to see more of this. they want to see more accountability for law enforcement officers. but we do know not that if this had been under a different administration and particularly the previous administration, the trump administration, we would not have seen or would not be seeing a charges like this. and to this degree being brought against the ease officers. it is not all that should happen in this case. there are other officers who are there who were involved and we believe the charges should be brought against them as well . but what we see today and what happens a day is an important step in the right direction in terms of. busy getting justice and again to go back to the original point it is because people fought long and hard to ensure that we change the administration in this country in terms of our presidential administration of federal government. and to support the 1st black

woman to be the head of the department of justice civil rights division. and that is kristen clark. former detective brett hung his and i believe for 10 shots during the incident. he was acquitted by a jury earlier this year given that circumstance. and i don't want to go particularly into that. the details of that case. how confident do you think brianna taylor's supporters and her family could be that these current cases could lead to convictions? well, this is one important detail. i know you said we're not going to go too much into it, but there is one important detail. those charges were not for murdering brianna taylor . the charges work was shooting recklessly at a wall and the endangerment to neighbors. brianna tale is neighbors. these charges are specifically about the civil rights violation of brianna. busy taylor and the

fact that she lost her life because lies were told on a, on a warrant. and that's, that's where a lot of this begins. the warrant that was obtained and signed by the judge was full of lies, lies about brianna, lies about packages going to her home, or all types of lives that were told on in order to be able to pursue this search or this, this no not warrant that they had applied for and, and that's important because we know that in this situation, not the walls, not the neighbors who thankfully, were not harm. but there is a woman who was dade, as she was, she was killed that night and i think that the feds bring in these charges. these specific charges will return convictions because i don't believe that they would have put forth such strong charges if they did not believe they have a case. the other important piece here is that one of the officers arrested today

and charged is a woman who has now she took a plea deal and she told the truth about what took place. so this is a situation where you don't just have speculation and ideas. you actually have someone who is corroborating the and at the facts of the city of the matter and coming forth so that she could save herself to mcmurry. we really appreciate your being with us on all deserve on. thank you very much indeed for your time. thank you. the largest and most influential gathering of u. s. conservatives is being held in texas. the conservative political action conference is being held just 3 months ahead of mid term elections. former president donald trump is expected to speak and the final day hunger is national as prime minister victor or ban has already addressed the meeting, or she have returns. he's joining us live now from dallas. so we are just a couple of months away from those mid term elections. what's the mood like and the whole the jubilant rate is

sent to the mid term elections are going to be routes off the democrats and the even moving ahead, looking towards 2024. if donald trump does, does declare that there is some speculation that perhaps you'll depend on saturday . we don't know. we know that the truck likes to keep, keep everyone guessing. that said that he said he's a very good position. and one of the reasons is, joe biden is complete on popularity. even democrats. yeah. majority of democrats now don't want him in to run. there's a sense that he's, he, out of the democrats of blue that they, they miss that opportunity to really, really speak to some of the issues at all from is to speak to even though he did mention of already delivered. but you know, about sort of looking for about the establishment, the establishment being against us. it's time for change. i mean obviously build trucks to make it cheaper. the 2 trillion tax tax code for the, for the top one percent. but you still feel that your sample from outside or where

the democrats face of the old truck went with, but most establishment person they could possibly get. and now we have the economy and so on. and in fact, so that's jubilation. about even though they, we suppose have shown a certain resurgence and the democrats moving into the mid terms in part because of the supreme court. just the judgment on, on abortion, but still remember a long way away. one issue is different from a range of issues that confidence, but also, and as you said, trump is going to speak on fast, but that sense of he's also offended off all the challenges from within the policy as well. the established republicans from january 60, maybe he's still going to show that he's very much in charge, and that's exactly what people here are completely behind. she had thank you very much. indeed. she talked to talking to us from dallas, us basketball or brittany griner has been job for 9 years by a russian court. the sentence comes nearly 6 months south to moscow, airport security stuff, find vape cartridges containing cannabis,

oil and luggage. because my hand reports from washington d. c. the u. s. as describing the building is a miscarriage of justice. in the courtroom greiner listen, does the judge handed down her sentence? that's not going to. the doctor says it is 9 years imprisonment and the fine of some. $16000.00. earlier greiner told the court, she had no intention of breaking any russian law, made honestly say. and i hope that in your ruin that it doesn't, in my life, the bite and administration remains adamant that grind was wrongfully detained, and the president immediately released the statement off to the judgment, saying, it's unacceptable. and i call on russia to release her immediately. so she can be with her wife loved ones, friends and teammates. negotiations are and a way to secure grind his release and that of another american citizen who the us says is being wrongfully detained in russia. poor whelan, we have pro, made

a serious proposal to the russians to try to get brittany and paul whalen, who is also wrongfully detained home, where they belong. and we urge the russians again to seriously consider that proposal to act on it. and let's get these 2 americans home where they belong. this is a russian being held him, us who could be part of the exchange, victor about to serving a 25 year sentence for arms smuggling and supplying weapons to columbia as far movement, which is classified by the us as a terrorist organization. the russian government has been reluctant to comments we still think that any information exchanges on this theme should be discrete. megaphone diplomacy, st exchange views won't lead to the results. we're at a time in history where the u. s. in russia have very bad relations. that doesn't help, but even in spite of that in may, there was

a prisoner swap between the us and russia, where trevor reed was held in russia was brought home in exchange for a russian prisoner. so there is precedent for it happening and i think it will happen here to brittany griner is led away to begin her sentence with a message for those waiting at home. mike, hannah, out 0, washington. residents of the south african township of beaten a group of men suspected of being illegal. miners, please say at least one person has been killed crowds and cussing khaki, so on the outskirts for crystal or pav, target of the so called illegal miners. after age women were gang raped by armed men last week, police of arrested more than a 120 suspects residency. the miners are responsible for higher levels of local crime from a da miller has more from hockey. so his situation here in khaki. so in the wasteland of dad is what is quite volatile. i just behind us is

a large group of community members. we've also seen a sales team. people, they needs to be illegal minus zamiah's amazon. they're known here. they say not only are they mining illegally at disused mind sharps trying to find gold, but they're all so according to the people who are terrorizing the community, they accused these illegal minors of killing people in the area of raping women. here. people here say they're not safe and now they've come out and you see a number of police vehicles. they've had to use done grenades and tear gas to drive disposed people. but a lot of these community members have come out. they say they've had enough. and because police, according to them are not doing enough, they are taking matters into their own hands. or robert's port silos have collapsed . the northern block of silos fell to the ground. on the 2nd anniversary of the massive blast that destroyed much of the area exposure was triggered by

a stockpile of fertilizer that caught fire. more than 200 people were killed. iraq's influential lead and looked out of sudden is demanding the dissolution of parliament and alley elections. rival factions have been unable to form a government 9 months after parliamentary elections to get a wave of popular protest from baghdad, dosage a body reports, and how those who don't support solder, a coping with a crisis. this is a city divided not just by the tigris river, but also by its political loyalties. iraq hasn't had a functioning government for 9 months. it's affected every aspect of life for millions of people here. some of those are part of the minority sunni's who mainly live in the central neighbourhood of the capital, known as at the mia. 33 year old mustafah assad says his shop has been badly affected by the recent demonstrations and political upheaval. thought a wide item has had 3 quarters of people are not buying anything here. the streets

are empty. it reminds me of the days of the curfew during the pandemic. it's very bad. 80 percent of the businesses have been affected. he says he stopped voting a long time ago because he no longer believes in the political system or it's politicians. those sentiments are not confined to those in the capital. many come from different regions to find work in the northern province of our bill, which is home to iraq's kurdish minority. they are also feeling the effects of what they say is an ineffective central government in baghdad. on the commonwealth and out the holly and i came here from cur cook to work as a taxi driver. the situation in baghdad is scary, especially after 9 months or so with no government formed. this has a direct effect on the economy. there were lots of people here from baghdad, also because of the security situation, the, the hockey and the situation in iraq is miserable. people are afraid to buy new stuff. they don't know what will happen in the future. the country is going towards

the unknown political parties just believe in quotas. i have a family of 5 and wish i could go abroad. back on the streets of the capital. signs of neglect and lack of public spending are visible. despite the state making huge profits through oil sales, 11500000000 dollars last month alone, no budget was pass this year. meaning most of the surplus cannot be spent on those who need it most. this is me as a, me, a neighborhood in eastern baghdad and just across the river. west of here is the push on the sheer area of the mia. the latest crisis is group, yet again, it is the people who suffer the most when there's political division and unrest, even if it's resolved, it's unlikely to do the law for this country to buy alcera baghdad, onlookers to be making their way to the volcano that you're rubbing in iceland just south west of the capital right.