u. s. john hendern has more from chicago. the fate of kim potter, a white police officer accused in the racially charged killing of a black man will soon be in the hands of a jury. members of the jury in highly anticipated testimony in minneapolis, courtroom potter took the stand in her own defense, breaking down, saying she meant to pull out her taser. but the former police officer who was a 26 year veteran says she accidentally drew her gun instead and fired, killing 20 year old dante, right. as he drove away from police, it's just one chaotic it and then i remember yelling, teaser taser taser and nothing happened. potter was supervising another officer when he pulled right over for offenses. she says probably did not merit a traffic stop. right. had expired registration tax and an air freshener dangling from the rear view mirror. both technical violations that are often overlooked. an air freshener to me is not just an equipment violation. and during the cove at times of the high cove at times the departmental motor vehicl

u. s. john hendern is following the trial from chicago. this was a divisive and highly anticipated case, and it came at a crucial time. it came in the middle of the trial of derek shaven. he's the police officer who was ultimately convicted for killing george floyd by kneeling on his neck. now during that trial, kim potter was a police officer in the neighbouring suburb of brooklyn's center. she was with another officer supervising him as he stopped a car. and in the course of that, she pulled what she says, she thought was her taser, which was on the left hand side. instead, she pulled her gun. she fired after yelling kayser taser taser. and she said, that's when she discovered she had actually killed a man. here's a little of what she had to say. it's just, it's just one chaotic, a it and then i remember yelling, teaser, teaser teaser and nothing happens. potter is charged with 1st in 2nd degree manslaughter. now legal experts say under minnesota long, they probably have to prove that she acted with some level of consciousness that she k

u. s. ban on imports foundation john region. calling the ban deplorable. the u. s . senate unanimously voted on the ban because of the treatment of muslim week is anxious. john produces must prove that forced labor wasn't used in the manufacturer of goods. china's ministry of foreign affairs, as the u. s. is making up excuses to control exports, may vomiting, keep you, angel put on to you and the us, the price is chinese enterprises and companies buy every means such as severely violating the market principle and international trading roles seriously harms the interests of chinese institutions and companies we deplore and firmly opposed that we use the us to correct it's wrong doing and we will take all necessary measures to uphold the rights and interests of chinese institutions. and companies and a diplomatic appointment was delayed to allow the week of forced labor act to past alan fisher has more that from washington dc. so the u. s. senate has no confirmed jo biden's nominee to be the new ambassador to china. he is nicholas boncey as a veteran diplomat, but t

u. s. influenced or u. s. lead accord. this is actually these 2 countries getting together with us by john and say ok, we can make this step. did that come as a surprise to us or. busy as the u. s. been involved in any way. well, i don't think it's a surprise at all for the united states, and i should clarify that i was very actively involved in the 2009 process. when i was the u. s. mediator which are by john in armenia, and at that time president brock obama was strongly encouraging the reconciliation . this time the united states hasn't played that role effectively has well, really lost a lot of its significance in the region over the course of the last couple of presidencies. but especially since a year ago in july when they were military clashes along the us or by john armenia border before the 2nd time about war. and the u. s. wasn't really involved at all in the mediation with russia and turkey. that, that, that filled a diplomatic vacuum. so i know that the president biden supports the reconciliation of our up turkey and armenia. and i know that the actual johnny government, as richard was just saying, would like t

u. s. government that's after the tech. john suspended more than 3000 accounts of 6 countries, including china and russia, over alleged state sponsored information operations. twitter was acting in partnership with the u. s. sponsored thinktank, the goal is to serve the public conversation and advance shared understanding of these critical issues. we have partnered with australian strategic policies to choose that providing independent analysis today is common knowledge that trusts in conventional media is falling. you know, when you ask someone where they get their news on late reply, i don't watch tv. i'll do my own research or get money's off social media. that's fair enough. that least with normal news, you tend to know who's sponsoring it, be it's a government or corporation. and you can make your own conclusions. but when you see who's behind an organization claiming to be independent and non partisan draft are in to help provide independent analysis to stop social media manipulation. well, anyone would have a few question

u. s. government's bidding of to the social media. john collaborated with a washington funded thinktank. and suspending, more than 3000 accounts from 6 countries for alleged state bank propaganda. in avenues the u. k. is ra, college of midwives apologizes for new inclusive guidelines describing bothers as post natal people, former and interest nurse told us a vocal minority has hijacked the conversation. this is yet another example of stonewall going in with diversity offices and telling people how to reset the thinking of bad memphis. and in a landmark ruling, a woman born with a spinal defect wins her case against the doctor who 20 years ago failed to advise her mother properly about having children august debate the case because what i do now is medicine. now, in 20 years time, we made george my actions. the doctor has called the wrong. but there is something rather bizarre about somebody saying, and i mean this in a sensitive why. i wish i would never been born ah hi, that very good afternoon to great to have you with me here on anti i

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u. s. semiconductor manufacturer that has apologized for angry the chinese government after it call that it suppliers to avoid goods and services and vision. john region, the company set, its intent was to comply with the new u. s. law. the united states, the european union and other countries, have accused china of a brutal crack down on the muslim, weaker minority, and the use of force labor camps. and john, now for more on this, i'm joined by our correspondent ins corda in new york, now yen unto has apologized, they said, and i quote that it isn't their own intention or position to ban products from sion . john, but are those just empty words given that intel does have to abide by this law? well, i mean, it clearly is diplomatic tip toeing at this point. and i mean the us senate has just passed a bill in the last week. so we really have to see how the companies will deal with that in practice. so it's really a bit to, to, to tell if it's just empty words from him. tell how difficult is it for american businesses to cut this entire region from their supply chain? well, i mean, the radically, the bill says that when you can prove that no fores

u. s. climate envoy, john kerry, was in shanghai trying to convince authorities to do more the eager to 3 in agree bigler. 44 big country with 1400000000 people that these goals are not easily delivered. some countries are asking china to do more on climate change. i'm afraid this is not very realistic. researchers say china must close down more than 500 coal fired power plants in the next decade to meet its climate pledges. but it continues to approve new ones at a faster rate than anywhere else in the world. the ssion, she government is planning to close down some older factories here and build what it says. oh, greener, more efficient whole facilities. some parts of china, at least it seems the road to clean energy will be long and slower. katrina, you al jazeera says she, province, china now think new zealand. what comes to mind the all blacks rugby team? it's mallory culture and it's picturesque landscape. and yes, it's exceptional handling of the pandemic, but it's also been known as a leader in the field of economics. back in 1989 new zealand central bank was the 1st to commit to

u. s. russian bilateral discussion in john, january 10, anita russia discussion on january 12 and then the conversation of the organization and security corporation, europe, which would bring in everybody. so that seems to be the main use out of this i. so the question still remains are, at the end of the day, the russians put forward some very ambitious proposals. many elements of which are non starters. are they prepared to let that go off to the side and then negotiate on some of the issues that are much more realistic? and we don't yet know the answer to that. just can you remind us of those a non starter proposals from the russian side? sure, i mean, in both in the draft nato russia agreement and the draft u. s. russia. treaty, russia basically once needed to say, we will no longer enlarge. and the concern on the russian part here is about enlargement to include ukraine. now, there's no enthusiasm within nato. now to put ukraine on a fast track from membership, but nato, i believe, is not going to lead reduce to reverse policy and close we call the open door. the idea that ukraine can

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u. s. as unpaid step in 50 years, john, why we even call a debt? debt? has the u. s. engages in their debt, financing of their economy is money printing, it's not debt. what it's, let's, let's just erase that this part of the problem that we have here is that people are, if you keep on calling it that, it's not that it's just money printing. if it was debt, then there would have been a default, right? by didn't just raise the quote, debt ceiling. there is no debt sailing. john is perpetual money printing. that's why i ran. that's why there's inflation. that's never been deflation. i mean, i, again, i get to my, to my question here you have government officials staring into the camera and lying directly to people in a treasonous banner. john, well, i will accept your definition of what they're doing as treason that's, that's, that's very reasonable. and they should be done with as somebody who's committed treason. and we are full in full on m m t. like you said we're, we're doing monitor or modern monetary theory right now. it's not telling anybody about it where we

u. s. and then malik john pick up off the back. here we go. sure. on that you got, we are telling the united states that the chinese government is unwavering and its determination to defend national sovereignty, security and development interests. we are unwavering in our determination to combat violence, terrorism separatism, and religious extremists forces. we are unwavering in our determination to oppose any external interference in chin. jones affairs are china's internal affairs. the perverse actions of the united states cannot destroy the overall shape of shing jan's. development, stop china's progress or reverse the trend of historical development. we urge the u . s. to immediately withdraw the relevant wrong decision and stop interfering in china's internal affairs and harming china's interests. if the u. s. ox recklessly china will take effect of measures to strike back resolutely. oh, johnny doesn't sound like china a's acknowledging any of the external pressure that is being applied regarding the treatment of the week as in a sentence, sw

u. s. mediator between us or by john and armenia, and at that time, president brock obama was strongly encouraging the reconciliation. this time the united states hasn't played that role effectively has well, really lost a lot of its significance in the region over the course of the last couple of presidencies. but especially since a year ago in july when they were military clashes along the us or by john armenia border before the 2nd time about war. and the u. s. wasn't really involved at all in the mediation with russia and turkey. that, that, that filled a diplomatic vacuum. so i know that the president biden supports the reconciliation of our boss of turkey and armenia. and i know that the actual johnny government, as richard was just saying, would like to see reconciliation. armenia with both officer by john and with turkey, you know, as a john, armenia and russia. i've all signed agreements calling for the reopening of all transit routes between armenian or by john armenian turkey, and also including russia. so and i think armenian press a prime minister nichol passion. yon has also wanted t

u. s. is a good example to follow with almost a quarter saying it never has been a song freedom campaign, or john reese says that supporting democracy in other countries doesn't mean the u . s. is doing the same at home. i think it's remarkable that especially on human rights day that the judges in this case should have found that it would be safe to extradite union assigned to the country where it security service the cia has previously been threatening to kidnap or kill him. the problem with many modern states, they're all for democracy and freedom of speech in a free press in other people's countries, but not necessarily in their own. and until we get past that hypocrisy and understand. but freedom of the press is a universal human right? because it's part of freedom of speech, we will be making very much progress without saying some of the weekends developments on the way for you, powerful tornadoes have been wreaking havoc across the central and southern united states was left dozens dead, many more injured. and it's going to be on next story when we come back. ah, what we've got to do is id

u. s. law that restricts imports from sion. john saying it violates violates international law. president biden signed the measure thursday. it prohibits you as businesses from importing goods from the chinese region unless they prove forced labor was not used. beijing denies complaints of abuse against the weaker month muslim minority and john russia has find google $98000000.00 thing. the company repeatedly failed to delete material band and the country. later on friday, a court in moscow ordered facebook's parent company mehta to pay $27000000.00 for a similar infraction. it marks the 1st time russia has find the companies based on a percentage of their russian to turnover. now the climate crisis is changing the landscape and stains a bro delta where rising sea levels are threatening to swallow up, lie low lying areas. the government solution is building sand dunes to hold back the sea environments. environmentalists are in favor of the plan, but the rice farmers who rely on the land are not. they are fighting for their livelihoo

u. s. and russian presidents are spoken for the 2nd time this month. in a bid to deescalate tensions over ukraine. j barton told vladimir putin, the u. s. would respond decisively if russia invaded ukraine. john 100 reports jen, saki press secretary for president. joseph biden has put out a statement in that she says, president biden urged russia to deescalate tensions with ukraine. he made clear that the united states and its allies and partners will respond decisively if russia further invades ukraine. president biden also expressed support for diplomacy, and it goes on to say, the president reiterated that substantial progress. and these dialogues can occur only in an environment of de escalation rather than escalation. friday marks 2 years since china informed the w h. i. earth and pneumonia type illness, and has since become known as coven. 19, the city of shia is currently battling the biggest community outbreak. the country has seen this year. the u. s. has condemned the killing of at least 4 protesters. i security forces ins to dawn. there was shot in on dorman, with thousands of people rallied against the recent military takeover. a group of wrangler refugees who spend days at sea in

u. s. in the back sliding category. assange freedom campaigner john reese says that supporting democracy in other countries doesn't mean the u. s. is doing the same at home. i think it's remarkable that especially on human rights style that the judges in this case should have fine, but it would be safe to extradite union assigned to the country where it's security service leave. cia has previously been threatening to hit that old, kill him, the problem with many multiple sites. they're all for democracy and freedom of speech and a free press in other people's countries, but not necessarily in their own. and until we get past that hypocrisy and understand that freedom of the price is a universal human right, because it's part of freedom of speech, we will be making very much progress more than 70 people are thought to have died after parts of kentucky were devastated by the worst tornadoes in the states history with fears that the overall death toll could exceed a 100 before the end of the day. storms tor across parts of the central and southern us with the kentucky governor declaring a stat

u. s. in the back sliding category, assange freedom campaigner john re says that supporting democracy in other countries doesn't mean that the u. s. is doing the same at how i think it's remarkable that so especially on human rights day that the judges in this case really should have found that it would be safe to extradite julian assigned to the country arm where it security services sleep. cia has previously been threatening to kidnap all kill him. the problem with many modern states. they're all for a democracy and freedom of speech and a free press in other people's countries, but not necessarily in their own. and until we get past that hypocrisy and understand, but freedom of the press is a universal human right? because it's part of freedom of speech. we will be making very much progress. now another news her attention to the ukraine are running high with russia, slamming the wes feeling. the escalation and voicing concern at ne tase actions in the region. oscar has warned that they could potentially lead to a large scale conflict. a course has been set to draw ukraine into nato. such ir

u. s. baton and ports because of the treatment of the muslim weakened minority. the u. s. senate unanimously voted to force goods manufactured emission john region to prove forced labor hasn't been used there. the ministry of foreign affairs in beijing says the u. s. is making up excuses to control chinese imports. may vomiting g yandell pulled my shirt on. thank you. and so the u. s. surprises chinese enterprises and companies by every means, such as severely violating the market principle and international trading roles as seriously harms the interests of chinese institutions. and companies. we deplore and firmly opposed that we urge the u. s. to correct its wrongdoing, and we will take all necessary measures to uphold the rights and interests of chinese institutions. and companies and a diplomatic appointment was delayed to allow the weight of forced labor act to pass. alan fisher has more on that from washington dc. so the u. s. senate has no confirmed jo biden's nominee to be the new ambassador to china. he is nicholas boncey as a veteran diplomat, but the whole process was essentially on hold, because a number of republican senators

u. s. in the back. sliding category. assange freedom campaigner john reese says that supporting democracy in other countries doesn't mean the u. s. is doing the same at home i think it's remarkable that especially on human rights stays at the judges. in this case, i should've fired, but it would be safe to extradite union assigned to the country where it's security service leave. cia has previously been threatening to hit that old, kill him, the problem with many multiple sites. they're all for a democracy and freedom of speech and a free press, you know, the people's countries but not necessarily in their own. and until we get pass back and forth for see and understand, but freedom of the price is a universal human right? because it's part of freedom of speech. we won't be making very much progress. devastating storms and parts of the central and southern us with the most damage in kentucky, joe biden said it might have been the most disastrous tornado outbreak in us. history. rescue workers have already found more than 40 missing people amid the damaged buildings. but there are concerns th

u. s. in the back sliding category songs freedom campaign. and john re says that supporting democracy in other countries doesn't mean that the u. s. is doing the same at home. i think it's remarkable that especially on human rights day that the judges in this case should've fine, but it would be safe to extradite julian assigned to the country where security service, the c i a has previously been threatening to kidnap or kill him. the problem with many modern states, they're all for democracy and freedom of speech in a free press, in other people's countries, but not necessarily in their own. and until we get a proper see and understand. but freedom of the price is a universal human right? because it's part of freedom of speech, we will be making very much progress in other news tonight, more than $50.00 people, a thought have died after kentucky's worst ever tornadoes with is that the overall death tell could end up twice. that number kentucky governor has declared a state of emergency. we are nearing the end of the most severe tornado event and kent

u. s. wanted, we've taken that john products out and we've apologize to you. so please everybody love me. right? i'm definitely trying to, to walk the middle road here and, and, and keep everybody happy. this points up to why the question that's going to affect us all now i gotcha. i phones i games console. as i laptops, laptops the on board computers are cause they all depends on china. they're either built in china or they depend on the rent that the china is, is a commanding the, the market. and so, so that leaves us all vulnerable. it does, and we've famous, especially throughout the pandemic where global supply chains have been really caught in the cross areas of lock downs of, of different and bottleneck issues. and we've seen just how interconnected these markets are. and we've also seen that through trade wars where suddenly you can get products from china, you can't get them from the us. so we definitely are really at the mercy of different economies. here i would say where metals are definitely a big concern because china does have be a vast majority of the market there. the u.

u. s. semiconductor manufacturer that has apologized for angry. the chinese government offered call the suppliers to avoid goods and services in the john region, the company set, its intent was to comply with the new u. s. law. the united states therapy in union and other countries have accused china of a brutal crack down on the muslim, weaker minority, and the use of force labor camps. and john, now for more on this, i'm joined by our correspondent young corridor in new york. no yen until has apologize. they said, and i quote that it isn't their own intention or position to ban products from john . but are those just empty words given that intel does have to abide by this law or? well, i mean, it clearly said diplomatic tip toeing at this point. i mean, the u. s. senate has just passed a bill in the last week. so we really have to see how the companies will deal with that in practice. so it's really a bit to, to, to tell if it's just empty words from him. tell how difficult is it for american businesses to cut this entire region from their supply chain? well, i mean, radically, the bill says that when you can prove that no forest labor is use, y

u. s. and russian presidents are spoken for the 2nd time this month, and a bit to deescalate tensions over ukraine. j barton told vladimir putin, the u. s. would respond decisively if russia invaded ukraine. john hunter and reports jim.

john thomas. certainly glad to have you with us . are now during last summer's u. s. troop withdrawal from afghanistan. many were moved by scenes of desperate parents passing their babies to western soldiers in a last ditch attempt to get them out of the country. one child was lost in the chaos at cobble airport, but now fortunately there's a possibility that that baby boy may have been found parties mccarren picks up the store for us. the hasty us decisions are poor trips out of afghanistan. as a taliban gained a tight grip, so a wave of panic in the capitol as thousands desperately tried to flee. amongst the chaotic scenes that cobble airport were merged, commodity and his wife sariah and the 5 children and the pushing and shoving the parents fit that tiny baby would be crushed and so handed him to a us soldier who offered to help. but amid the crowds of people struggling to enter, it took them over 30 minutes to make it through. and once they did, the hail, the baby was nowhere to be found for health parents who are now in the united states and still desperately t

u. s. very shortly, but 1st we go to john hall for a view of the situation in europe. soaring in the u. k. jonah no further cove restrictions in england before the new year, despite the rising number of cases it that's right. good news, of course, for business and hospitality, and those who want to go out and celebrate new year's eve in big groups. the prime minister's decision based on an examination of the data with his chief medical and scientific offices, that data pretty watering. really a 113000 new infections on christmas day alone. but i think the overall sort of cautious approach indicated he will feel, by the fact that hospitalizations whilst rising, rising with anything like the same trajectory and deaths of remained fairly stable and they'll be looking as well. of course, at data that has come from south africa, a lot of it corroborated here that suggests that if you get on because you're less likely to be hospitalized, if you are hospitalized, you spend less time there and that i see use he there. and in this country 10 now to be full of people who are unvaccinated, so the

john, in the u. s. she have a, you have some great news coming from different parts of the country. she's, she's saying basically that the country should be bracing for tough, few weeks, 2 months. and then you have places like maryland, where the surge infections is going into something like a 150 percent if same trend, which is in places like new jersey, same trend in places like new york. what's the problem here? what, what is the failure here? what, what does it come from? i think it's been mentioned a few times in this, in this debate, is that it, i think it really comes down to politics and it comes down to people's appeals attitude is that is i think most studies have shown is that the high rates will come from that way, i'm getting the low rates of vaccination where people are reluctant to even have the mosque mandates. so i, i, you know, even in hong kong and see we had a community case of kind of it for about 2 or 3 months yet. so everybody goes round wearing masks even outside in doors, because, you know, we had this experience with size and we don't see it as being a, lik

u. s. and russian presidents have spoken for the 2nd time this month, and a bed to de escalate tensions over ukraine. joe biden told vladimir pierson the u. s. would respond decisively if russia invited ukraine. john hendrick has the latest from washington. jen, saki, the press. secretary for president, joseph biden has put out a statement in that she says, president biden urged russia to deescalate tensions with ukraine. he made clear that the united states and its allies and partners will respond decisively if russia further invades ukraine. president biden also expressed support for diplomacy, and it goes on to say, the president reiterated that substantial progress. and these dialogues can occur only in an environment of de escalation rather than escalation, global current of ours cases of hit a record high in the past 7 days. with almost a 1000000 detected on average each day, the u. s. is the worst effected accounting for nearly one in 3 cases in the world. south africa has announced that it's midnight to 4 am. curfew will now be lifted. as the countries believed have passed the peak of its 4th corona virus wave. the u . s. has condemned the killing of at least 4 protesters by security force

u. s. has been pumping and military aid, they've been pumping into ukraine. this is effectively from the u. s. side. this is corporate welfare. this is what john mccain's job was. while he was senator, was to look for opportunities and markets where they can channel a product in there that's paid for by the us taxpayer for all these defense contractors. now that job is taken over by senator tom cotton, marco rubio, and people like this. they've taken that torch. so there's that. plus there's this kind of nato's a having an existential crisis. we all know it, everyone's talking about it. even donald trump remarked on this in his own way in his own bull she way. he remarked on this during his presidency, so it is kind of an alliance. it's an organization that doesn't really, it's not attached to its original purpose at all. everybody kind of knows this, and i think it's, it's good that russia has gone for this reset right now. and that's going to really bring this into the light of day where you can have this proper discussion internationally. and then maybe the media might join in this discussion. you know, heaven forbid that they might actuall