that story later in the program. ♪ as president joe biden has described the gun violence as a stain on the country. this comes in the wake of the latest mass shooting in which eight fedex workers died. the gunman was later identified as a 19-year-old former employee. [siren wailing] reporter: another corner of america the scene of yet another mass shooting, this time at a fedex facility in indianapolis. a gunman, opening fire late thursday night, killing workers outside the car park, before going inside to kill others, and that himself by friday morning. , police were. still trying to piece together the motives of the gunman details remain scarce. >> he got out of his car and pretty quickly started some random shooting outside of the facility. there was a confrontation with anyone that was there, no disturbance, no argument, he just appeared to randomly start shooting and that begun in the parking not. and then he did go into the facility for a brief period of time. reporter: overnight, workers' families gathered and waited too. united with relatives on shift. compounding the anguish,

it has been enough to get joe biden's attention. the u.s. president contacted the ukrainian premier leader. >> it is pictures like this that has got the government in p.m. concerned. -- in kiev concerned. kiev is accusing russia of expanding its military presence in the separatist control regions, as well as the border with crimea to the south. on thursday, ukraine's foreign minister called on moscow "to immediately and unconditionally reaffirm its commitment to political and diplomatic settlement and a cease-fire regime." president joe biden has spoken with the ukrainian leader. the white house says he affirmed the u.s.'s unwavering support for ukraine's sovereignty in the face of russia's ongoing aggression. >> we discussed the situation in detail. president biden assured us ukraine will never be left alone against russia's progression. andrew: russia's foreign minister says -- with the nato defense alliance saying it is concerned about a russian buildup, moscow says the real threat is nato sending troops to ukraine. >> undoubtedly, such a

president joe biden has called on global leaders. he laid out how the u.s. will achieve the target of cutting carbon emissions and half by 2030 which he announced on thursday. he invited advisors and business leaders to flesh out what he believes is a valuable economic opportunity of tackling the crisis while creating new jobs. among them was bill gates who urged leaders to work together. >> we need to develop and deploy through technologies that allow us to eliminate emissions throughout the physical economy. we need to tap the power of markets to deploy these innovations back finding creative ways to finance technologies and by leveling the playing field so they can compete with fossil fuels. third, governments and corporations need to adopt policies that will make it faster and cheaper to meet the transition and leaders will need to reward those who take difficult steps. >> other stories are following u.s. -- construction of a pipeline in memphis. some have called the proposed project a case of environmental racism. our reporter joins us from memphis, ten

with the change of the government there isa kind of a bi than hope they had a speech of joe biden during the campaign and we know of his government is a major in that they want to change the name migrant immigration issue and a biden says. he want to change to 2 words i wonder woman tyrion policy and one of the key of this of human touch in the new policy i'm in the new human tendency are the treatment of the of the non accompanied my nerves or or people who argue see traffickers is mahler's to send their children from of honduras from little or whatever to california to texas and this is a big crises because they migrants increases the amount in the last 2 months the smaller side of the only who are winning with the situation this is have the tremendous humanitarian crisis because involve many governments. are people from the roof remake whether from colombia to central america central america and a course in mexico i'm in the border a many people are waiting 20000 or 25000 in mind yours in their war there's the elephant excess in one month and this is terrible. still ahead on al-jazeer

biden when he said he wanted one. vaccinations it is force 100 days it looks as if we may get 3 times that figure by the time he hits 100 in the white house ok allan thank you so much for that update from washington d.c. let's break down the findings with our next guest who is stereo moskos he is joining us from newcastle he's an associate professor in cellular and molecular science it sciences that northumbria university thanks for your time let's look at this so pfizer is saying it's shot is 91 percent effective and still offers high protection after 6 months so this is longer than the initially thought 90 days of protection what do you make of that particular finding. i think it's really good news that we see that this particular vaccine is actually able to protect individuals up to this 9095 percent of a sentence which ever way you look at it the way this is about it is basically people who come out of the succession programs on they say. infection they dared to show who showed symptoms to get tested and then but

president joe biden has old at the pentagon to remove some military elements and forces in the gulf this is according to a report in the wall street journal the u.s. has reportedly removed at least 3 patriot anti-missile batteries including one from a base in saudi arabia this at the same time as of course riyadh continues to face attacks from across the border in yemen american officials say an aircraft carrier and surveillance systems are being diverted to answer military needs elsewhere around the world it's we're going to talk to mark jacobson about this former advisor to the u.s. secretary of defense currently the assistant dean in the washington programs at syracuse university's maxwell school of citizenship and public affairs i think that's the longest title i've ever read on and nice to have you with this. simple question 1st of all why why would why why this and why now i actually think that this is a fairly routine matter even though it's understandable that the saudis may see this or interpret this as being some sort of signal by the administration and frankly the u.s. central

biden and his administration's policy in terms of engaging with iran so if these if these incidents continue yet we still don't know who's behind them definitely could anger the iranians and make those negotiations far tougher than they already are back there for us in tehran the iranian capital thank you so much us and well let's now cross over to harry for search and westerly stand for us harry no doubt there's already been some discussion about iran during this visit but it really has been about re-offending time is for mr austin said to go to israel. well certainly that's the public facing impression that both he and his counterpart here benny gantz the israeli defense minister were trying to protrude a jury in the news conference after the 1st meeting here on sunday both of them talked about the long term nature of the israeli u.s. relationship and indeed plans going forward in terms of military acquisitions of course united states gives in a $4000000000.00 a year of military assistance to israel as well as that talking about the nature of the relationship going forward and the

president joe biden says he's willing to rescue a deal abandoned 3 years ago by his predecessor donald trump that is if iran comes into compliance with the deal in my view without a doubt this is definitely not a coincidence and one thing you need to remember well it is. israel is the usual suspect in these events over the last few years one must be mindful that there are many opponents in many different corners to the resumption of their joint comprehensive plan of action not the least of which is from within iran itself tapper and has been steadily moving away from the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal since the u.s. pulled out the blackout happened a day after iran unveiled at fancy rein him centrifuges at the facility but iran had previously made clear the negotiations in vienna are on the right track. well we have harry forth that he's in westerly slam and we'll get israel's reaction from him in just a moment 1st let's speak to acid bank he's in the iranian capital now as an iran is clearly pointing the finger at israel what more are we hearing from the leadership by that. well the f

biden says he's willing to risk the deal that was abandoned 3 years ago by his previous as a donald trump that is if iran comes into compliance with the deal there's now been 2 attacks against in the towns nuclear facility in the space of a year and israel has also been blamed for the assassination of iran's nuclear scientist and last week's attack against in the rainy ship in the red sea this latest incident has get again raise questions about the country's ability to protect its facilities iran has always boasted about its nuclear chief and some capabilities leverage it wants to use in negotiations. just days ago state television aired a music video promoting its nuclear program but for now it's unclear how much damage has been inflicted and how far back the program has been set. we haven't had much details in terms of how much damage sustained at natanz but in a strange incident yesterday the spokesperson for iran's atomic organization tweeted out that he had had an accident at that very facility and he had broken his foot and his head now we couldn't quite understand what was ta

our community from the white house president joe biden also made clear his frustration we were all watched and i assume his idea of the film which is fairly the body cam which is fairly. clearly graphic question is was in an accident in which an intentional every man is to be determined. by whom on investigation don't you right called his mother as it was all happening the call ended when she dialed his number again his girlfriend answered and said he was dead in the driver seat like a minute later i called in his girlfriend answered with the passenger in the car and that even started shooting acted like tender on an already volatile situation hundreds took to the streets to protest overnight but some of those protests turned violent it's been reported 20 local businesses were looted what's been described as a chemical attitude was used to disperse the crowd which was growing in numbers and frustration police here guarding the local station have a to face off against angry protesters they've brought in state troopers and the national guard to bolster their numbers have even brought in conc

some protests turned violent overnight with several businesses knutson damaged president joe biden has called for peace and calm question is was it actually. intentional every man is to be determined. by what i see. but in the meantime i want to make it clear again there is absolutely no justification. for looting the 1st black mayor of brooklyn center has expressed his shall we are in pain right now and we recognize that this cannot happen at a worse time we recognize that this is happening at a time when our community when all of america indeed all of the the world is watching many are expecting more unrest in the minneapolis suburb and the states of emergency has been declared. so to hide it. all still ahead here on al-jazeera a fairly coronavirus wave in thailand puts a damper on its new year holiday and plans to reopen for tourists. a volcano on the caribbean island of st vincent explodes and its biggest eruption yet. and may just both teams in minnesota call off their games after the fatal police shooting of a black man dante writes. all the recent early spring warmth is being sq

some protests turned violent overnight with several businesses knutson damaged president joe biden has called for peace and calm question is was it actually quite intentional every man is to be determined. by what i see geisha but in the meantime i want to make it clear again there is absolutely no justification. for looting the 1st black mayor of brooklyn center has expressed his shock we are in pain right now and we recognize that this cannot happen at a worse time we recognize that this is happening at a time when our community when all of america indeed all of the the world is watching many are expecting more unrest in the minneapolis suburb and the states of emergency has been declared such a height of you know. well let's say to john hendren now he's in minneapolis for us john looking at those pictures another night of tear gas and rubber bullets talk us through the mood that you were seeing on the streets that. that's right last night despite a curfew that went into effect at 7 pm local time midnight g.m.t. here in minneapolis in neighboring st paul and in the suburban area that

some protests turned violent overnight with several businesses knutson damaged president joe biden has called for peace and calm question is does it actually was intentional every man is to be determined. by what i see. but in the meantime i want to make it clear again there is absolutely no justification. for looting the 1st black mayor of brooklyn center has expressed his shall we are in pain right now and we recognize that this cannot happen at a worse time we recognize that this is happening at a time when our community when all of america indeed all of the the world. as watching many are expecting more unrest in the minneapolis suburb and a state of emergency has been declared. we can speak now to kenneth williams is a professor of law at these sites texas kohut of law and joins us now from houston street to have you with us on the news this trial the jury trial is ongoing but the package we have just shown this recent police shooting accident or not shows a so very much a hot button issue in the united states right now given all of this what impact is this likely to have on the t

president joe biden and vladimir putin the russian leader the white house press secretary gentz psaki not disclosing who initiated that phone call but we do know that the call resulted in the leaders agreeing to meet at a later date for a summit in a 3rd party country those details still being worked out so a very busy white house press briefing in terms of news headlines there absolutely is to stay there for us can believe sports it's a scar in the minutes but of course the crew virus. issues so very much to the forefront of people's mind right now let's speak. she is standing by for us i'd say the u.s. food and drug administration in silver spring. patty this polls of the the johnson and johnson vaccine pretty much where a lot of people's minds just give us a sense of what you know about how the polls has been introduced and what kind of impacts will bond have on the wider u.s. vaccine. well the biden ministration says the johnson and johnson johnson and johnson vaccine was the 3rd vaccine approved it's being used less than the other to the pfizer and they say they've seen no red fl

where president joe biden has decided to withdraw all remaining american troops from afghanistan by september the 11th a u.s. official says biden will announce the plans on wednesday will around 2 and a half hours and u.s. troops are still in afghanistan down from a peak of more than 100000 in 2011. decision would miss the may 1st deadline for the withdrawal agreed with the taliban by the trumpet ministration september the 11th this year is the 20th anniversary of the $911.00 attacks by al qaida which led to the u.s. invasion of afghanistan and america's longest war the afghan. government says it respects any u.s. troop decision stating that its forces have recently conducted close to 98 percent of operations independently but it's also been announced that turkey will host a high level peace on the in istanbul later this month to to jumpstart efforts to try and end the war the taliban has already said they won't be taking part and let's cross to mike hanna now in washington so mike do we have any more details on why the you know why the by administration plans to delay the troop withdrawal fr

president joe biden has condemned the shooting and says there must be a full investigation. done today right here in minnesota. colorado. shooting the breeze no result is dead. and in the midst of an ongoing trial attorney george for you know it was what's happened based on what byrd will it will be here. and his vice president commented harris says law enforcement must be held to the highest standards of accountability she said don't a right should be alive today folks will keep dying if we don't fully address racial injustice and inequities in our country from implicit bias to broken systems . the united states says it's going ahead with the sale of a $23000000000.00 worth of weapons to the united arab emirates the biden ministration confirm the deal that includes advanced f. $35.00 aircraft drones and other equipment that's despite the president freezing the trump air agreements one week into his tenure democrats overwhelmingly voted against it when it was 1st raised fears it would fuel the saudi led military campaign in yemen. iran plans plans to start enriching uranium

to withdraw its troops from afghanistan by next month being delayed in a few hours president joe biden is expected to announce those forces will now leave by september the 11th under a deal signed with the taliban they were set to pull out by rather 1st now at the peak of the war in 2001 there were more than 100000 americans nearly 10000 foreign troops from 36 countries a still serving as part of a nato mission the u.s. contributes the most followed by germany and its defense minister says that she will meet with officials from the u.s. from u.k. and from france to coordinate their exit now a delay in the withdrawal raises questions about talks with the taliban and the afghan government which is set to resume in turkey the taliban has said it won't. take politan to who foreign troops leave will stephanie decker is in berlin and will have more in germany's presence in afghanistan just a member 1st let's go to our white house correspondent can be how could in washington so kimberly 1st up how will this u.s. decision impact coalition forces also in afghanistan as we await the official ann

to withdraw its troops from afghanistan by next month are being delayed president joe biden is expected to announce in a few hours time that those forces will now leave by september the 11th under a deal signed with the taliban the troops were to pull out by may the 1st. and at the peak of the war in 2001 there were more than 100000 americans nearly 10000 foreign troops from 36 countries are still serving as part of the nato mission the u.s. contributes the most followed by germany and its defense minister says she'll meet with officials from the u.s. u.k. and france to coordinate their exit or delay in the withdrawal raises questions about talks with the taliban and afghan governments which are set to resume in turkey the taliban has said it won't take part until foreign troops leave we have stephanie decker in berlin will stuff a new bring us more on germany's presence in afghanistan in just a moment particle han is outside the u.s. pentagon for us about 1st we'll bring in our white house correspondent kimberly halakhah to talk to us more about this decision and we do expect the presi

to withdraw its troops from afghanistan by next month are being delayed president joe biden is expected to announce in the next few minutes that forces will leave by september 11th now under a deal signed with the taliban the troops were to pull out by may the 1st at the peak of the war in 2001 there were more than 100000 american troops nearly 10000 foreign troops some 36 countries are still serving as part of a nato mission and the u.s. contributes the most followed by germany and its defense minister says she'll meet with officials from the u.s. u.k. and france to coordinate their eggs. well a delay in the withdrawal raises questions about talks with the taliban and afghan governments which are set to resume in turkey b. taliban has said it won't take part until all foreign troops leave but some bring in karen hawkins she's our white house correspondent kelly and we are waiting for the president to speak any moment now on the troop withdrawal. that's right as we await the president we've had a little bit more of an understanding about the process for this new deadline because of cour

president joe biden as he looks to close the book on 2 decades of military involvement in afghanistan in a speech at the white house c.n.n. ounce that all ssri $1500.00 u.s. soldiers still in afghanistan will start to withdraw on may the 1st and. all of left by september 11th that's the 20th anniversary of the attacks that sparked america's longest running war it's cost the lives of $2400.00 u.s. service members and an estimated 2 trillion dollars. we cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in afghanistan hoping to create ideal conditions for the drawl and expecting a different result now already have service members doing a duty in afghanistan today whose parents served in the same or we have service members who are not yet born when our nation was attacked on 911 or in afghanistan was never meant to be a multi-generational undertaking we were attacked we went to war with clear goals we cheve those objectives nato allies have also agreed to withdraw troops from afghanistan alongside the u.s. from may 1st around 7000 on american forces from mainly nat

president joe biden announced his timetable to end america's longest war a white house correspondent kimberly how could reports from washington. after a generation of war in afghanistan u.s. president joe biden says it's time for american soldiers to return home we cannot continue the cycle of extending or expanding our military presence in afghanistan hoping to create ideal conditions i'm now the 4th united states president to preside over american troop presence in afghanistan to republicans to democrats. i will pass this responsibility on to a 5th the withdrawal of u.s. forces begins may 1st and ends by september 11th the 20th anniversary of the attacks on new york's twin towers and the pentagon the u.s. invaded afghanistan in 2001 attacking al qaeda training camps where osama bin laden coordinated the attacks but biden says since then security threats have evolved osama bin laden was gone that was 10 years ago and my direction my team is refining our national strategy to monitor and disrupt significant terrorist threats not only in afghanistan but anywhere there. and there in afr

president joe biden says that he wants to rejoin the agreement but that iran must reverse its violations 1st iran wants u.n. sanctions lifted 1st discussions have been progressing but are under the shadow of an attack on iran's main nuclear facility until ron says that it will begin enriching uranium at even higher levels in just a moment we'll go live to our side baker who's in tehran but 1st let's bring in the barber who is in london the european signatories to the nuclear deal saying about all of this. well agent 1st of all the perhaps the strongest words as you were hinting came from the u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken saying that the announcement by the iranian government that it would further enrich uranium to a high level saying that that was a provocative announcement and calling into question in his view the seriousness of the iranians in these talks which resumed on thursday after last week's meetings similarly on wednesday there was a statement put out jointly by the united kingdom of germany and france in which they said they had a grave concerns over this announcemen

president joe biden says he wants to rejoin the agreements but iran must reverse its violations so iran wants u.s. sanctions lifted discussions have progressed but have been over shadowed by an attack on iran's main nuclear facility on sunday to iran says it will begin in rich a new rainy and even higher levels as a bag has moved from tehran. what iran hopes to be achieved is all those sanctions to be lifted for the united states to return to that deal and then iran says that they will come back into compliance with that 2015 nuclear deal in fact this morning president has been rouhani has been speaking and he said that iran has the capability to enrich to 90 percent now that's weapons grade but he did add that iran's nuclear program is peaceful and that iran doesn't want a nuclear weapon he pointed to the united states without mentioning them he said is you who have nuclear weapons and store them and iran return to that 3.67 percent enrichment level stipulated by the 2015 nuclear deal if those sanctions are lifted now one of the head negotiators for iran has been speaking and what he h

biden held a phone call with vladimir putin where the to discuss the ongoing challenges to the united states russia relationship and both pledging that they wanted to move forward and work through some of those differences so it is surprising to see these sanctions so quickly after that call but the reason the united states says that it's doing this is in retaliation for the attack on the source solar winds hack as it's called penetration by the russians allegedly on a number of u.s. government agencies and their computer systems also for the ongoing occupation of crimea by russia and as well for the alleged bounties that were paid on u.s. soldiers heads for their fighting in afghanistan no again russia denies all of these charges being leveled by the united states one more i should point out that is election meddling and add that to the list but again the reason for all of this is that the united states says that it will always defend its interests. let's hear from ben smith who is in moscow with more. the u.s. has a long list of complaints against russia from interference in preside

just one final point in that news conference that joe biden just had president biden he also mentioned ukraine of course russia is amassing troops on the russian ukrainian border now ukraine is not a member of nato so the u.s. would have to be involved if it didn't have to you but how much all of an escalating factor do you think that could be anyone could joe biden make all these comments and then just stand by if russia does end up invading ukraine. well if russia invades ukraine i think all bets are off in terms of our relationship i don't think the us would go to war there is no nato commitment you know president biden would have to go to congress and try to explain to the american people why the u.s. is going to war with a nuclear power i think that's very unlikely and most european countries certainly don't want that either but it would require i think extraordinary can all make sanctions certainly would be no summit you know the u.s. and europe would have to respond in a fairly tough way so this is something which no one wants to happen most people believes that putin is posturi

president joe biden will hold his 1st meeting with a world leader in pakistan since taking office prime minister yoshihiko suga as arrives in washington for talks china is expected to dominate the discussion the u.s. and japan are concerned about chinese military exercises near taiwan and human rights abuses and shanghai and hong kong. the global economy is another focus of the talks between biden and suga the 2 leaders are concerned about a wode wide shortage of semiconductor chips as well brunell's reports. semiconductors are at the heart of the devices many of us use every day from phones to game console household electronics and medical diagnostics to name just a few but now there are a shortage of the vital silicon chips in my 30 year career i've never seen a. demand exceeding supply to the extent that we have supplies were tight before the pandemic hit but during the global lockdowns demand for more networking and more devices has skyrocketed now we're in a multi-year cycle where the demand is really outstripping the supply the crunch is crushing the u.s. auto industry at the begi

president joe biden says that dialogue is still possible now is the time to deescalate. the way forward for dialogue and diplomatic process. the u.s. is prepared to continue constructively to move toward that process my bottom line is this will is an interesting united states to work with russian we should and we will russia seeks to violate the interest united states we will respond. from our serious part of smith to moscow. russia's president appears to be in no hurry to announce what measures he will take any to counter the sanctions imposed by the u.s. on russia on the expulsion of 10 russian diplomats from washington d.c. kremlin spokesman dimitri prescott says any concrete steps will depend on a decision by putin he also says that the sanctions imposed on russia won't. affect russia's domestic economy but he welcomes comments from president biden that both leaders see eye to eye on the need to deescalate tensions between russia and the us a long list of complaints against russian activities is interference into u.s. presidential elections widespread acking the occu

merrick garland has been informed of this and inevitably president joe biden will be informed as well this is the 5th mass shooting in the u.s. in as many weeks and despite the fact that the pandemic kept people indoors throughout much of the past year 2020 ended up being the most violent year for gun violence in about 2 decades many thanks dan john hendren let's turn to chicago. a fatal police shooting that of excess 10 year old boy has sparked nationwide outrage disturbing bodycount video of the incident has only just been released weeks after the incident it appears to show adam 10 to offices hands raised before being shot by an officer caster has this report. the video you're about to see is incredibly disturbing it's 2 30 am and an officer wearing a body camera arrives at a black and latino neighborhood of chicago a police are valences jim had detected gunshots nearby and the investigating officer runs after a person down an alleyway. 3. children but. that person was a 13 year old adam toledo chicago police had at 1st called this an armed confrontation with the police claiming th

president joe biden calls for action to fight the epidemic of gun violence following another mass shooting in indianapolis. a rights group says facilities on the us mexico border been pushed to the limit because so many migrant children are sharing up. a change of the gods time in 62 years cuba will not be led by a castro and the how much in sports vancouver's hockey team is out of action again he cannot to play has been delayed indefinitely after more than 20 players tested positive for corona virus. russia appears to be following through on the promise of action against the us off to washington an ounce to a set of sanctions and other measures against the kremlin president joe biden announced on thursday for what he says is russia's election meddling and cyber attacks well in the past few hours foreign minister sergei lavrov said he would aust 10 u.s. diplomats to leave the country and he says russia is looking at painful measures aimed at u.s. businesses. about it smith who is in moscow for us but it we're getting more information now on who is going to be banned from russia as part of

president joe biden has described gun violence as a stain on the country which passes the soul of the nation a statement came in the wake of the latest mass shooting in which a fed ex workers died in the city of indianapolis the gunman who also died was later identified as a 19 year old former employee christian salumi reports. another corner of america the scene of yet another mass shooting this time at a fed ex facility in indianapolis a gunman opening fire late on thursday night killing workers outside in the car park before going inside to kill others and then himself by friday morning police were still trying to piece together the motives of the gunmen details remain scarce he got out of his car and pretty quickly started some random shooting outside the facility there was no confrontation with anyone that was there there was no disturbance there was no argument he just appeared to randomly start shooting and that began in the parking lot and then he did go into the building into the facility for a brief period of time so overnight workers families gathered at a nearby hotel and

the many americans struggling to understand how tragedies like this continue to occur later president joe biden issued a statement saying too many americans are dying every single day from gun violence it stains our character and pierces the very soul of our nation we can and must do more to act and to save lives. this latest tragedy coming just weeks after mass shootings in atlanta colorado and south carolina drawing further attention to what's been described as a deep seated epidemic of gun violence christian salumi al-jazeera eritrea has admitted that its troops all fighting in ethiopia's northern to grow region it's the 1st time the horn of africa nation has explicitly knowledged its role in the conflict eritrean forces are reportedly dressing as members of the ethiopian military both governments have previously denied their presence contradicting contradicting testimony from aid workers refugees and residents the u.n. says the eritrean forces have committed atrocities. well the u.n. says that hundreds of children were separated from their families. because attacked by a group last mo

president joe biden recommitting to stop illegal deforestation in the amazon by 2030 years climate envoy john kerry responded urging immediate action be taken to back up the pledge brazil has appealed for several millions of dollars in international supports to meet that goal. he was going leader raul castro has called for respectful dialogue between cuba and the united states he expressed a willingness to build a new kind of relationship with the u.s. as he presided over his final congress of the communist party of cuba on friday castro also confirmed he was handing over the leadership to a younger generation ending 6 decades of rule by himself and older brother fidel. i 3 astronauts been on a joint's russian american mission have safely returned to earth the expedition cancer and ends when the soyuz spacecraft landed in counseling stan astronauts had been on the international space station for about 6 months that's an awful long stay. here on al-jazeera we've got the sport coming up after the break where major league soccer it's open better times are ahead of the new season kicks off l

president joe biden rican this ng to stop illegal deforestation in the amazon by 2030 u.s. climate envoy john kerry responded surging immediate action be taken to back up the pledge the sale has appealed for several millions of dollars in international supports to meet the goal well sharon georgia's course director of environmental sustainability and green technology kill university she says actions by the prison governments are at all and with its promises to stop the forestation. last year we saw is it the brazilian rainforest that we saw the waste disappearance was the highest that we've seen for over a decade and it's not just the defunding station it's also the degradation of the remaining forest that we're concerned about the roads the pasta and and the the staining at the trees and the remaining far east is also an impact and that will switch a far east from being a cop and same thing to a cop and so forth so eventually the forest will become part of the c o 2 emissions rather than absorbing which is then poured to well that i play for all of us right now we've just

president joe biden has called the situation at the southern border with mexico a crisis and says he's reversed his administration's policy on the number of refugees allowed in the country each year is no longer sticking to 15000 a year i think a set by donald trump and then up held by biden but he's not said what the cap will be raised to castro is in washington any further details heidi. maryam there is the mind splitting reversal the speed of the changes coming out of the white house of course it was just yesterday morning here in washington when the biden white house announced that it would keep the trump level cap on refugee admissions to the $15000.00 which is the historic low that was breaking the promise of biden made on the campaign trail and stated as early as february that he was planning on raising the refugee admission cap to some 62500 and it was greeted with widespread criticism coming from democrats who said that the move in the broken promise to refugees was quote shameful and then we saw it quickly just hours later the white house reversing course is not saying that t

president joe biden says alexei volleys treatment in a russian prison is totally unfair and inappropriate only this week the u.s. impose new sanctions on muska for the detention of the kremlin critic as well as for election interference and cyber attacks involving now into his 3rd week of a hunger strike in prison and according to his personal doctor close to death. in afghanistan young people with disabilities face many challenges in getting an education the says not stopped one school from continuing to give hope and opportunities to deaf children failure contro 40 reports from kabul. on the road the words here are silent but the classrooms are full of life and for these children just coming here during a war has not been easy. i hope there will be peace in afghanistan once so be peace the situation will be better and will be coming to school without any fear to continue our studies. and afghanistan one of the poorest countries in the world people with disabilities are stigmatized most of the time there simply shunned support and education services are extremely limited so schools like

president joe biden says he's declaring the entire state the disaster zone. there is hope sustained temperatures above freezing beginning saturday. the u.s. wants rusher of consequences if kremlin critic alexei navalny dives a prison. a diplomatic standoff up to the czech republic implicates russia in an explosion and finds a mic with 2 men charged for poisoning a tank in the juke a. hello again i'm come out santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera 8 people killed almost 100 others.

president joe biden said 200000000 doses by his 1st 100 days we are see. production ramp up and it really depends on which state you're in which county or in which city and how quickly people are being vaccinated but the president said by may 1st everyone 16 and up should be able to sign up for the vaccine and some states are making progress to that goal certainly great news for the united states patti cole hain thank you so good news but the battle against covert obviously isn't over yet india is expanding its covert 1000 vaccination program to everybody over the age of 45 as it struggles to stop surging infections tens of thousands of people got their job on the 1st day of the country's biggest push yet against the virus vaccines were previously restricted to people over the age of 60 and others with serious health conditions the government wants to inoculate 300000000 people by the end of july authorities reported more than 72000 cases on thursday that's the highest spike in 6 months. everyone should get vaccinated it's absolutely safe as the vaccinatio

president joe biden has ordered the pentagon to remove some military assets and forces from the gulf and that's according to a report in the wall street journal the u.s. has reportedly removed at least 3 patriot anti-missile batteries including one from a base in saudi arabia american officials say an aircraft carrier and surveillance systems are also being diverted because of military needs elsewhere. jacobson is a former advisor to the u.s. secretary of defense he says it's a reminder to saudi arabia that it's not an indispensable u.s. ally in the middle east. i actually think that this is a fairly routine matter even though it's understandable that the saudis may see this or interpret this as being some sort of signal by the administration and frankly the u.s. central command the middle east i think a very steady vision of what they would like in saudi arabia there's no imminent threat from iran right now it's pretty natural to want to rotate or move troops out when there's not an imminent threat and frankly i give more weight to concerns the u.s. may have over a lack of air defen

president joe biden has ordered the pentagon to remove some military assets of forces from the gulf but according to a report in the wall street journal the u.s. has reportedly removed at least 3 patriot missile batteries including one from the basis are to arabia american officials say their craft carrier and surveillance systems are also being diverted because of military needs elsewhere. now russia has denied accusations of intimidation as a builder of its forces at ukraine's border prompts concern among skiff and its allies the u.s. has cautioned russia against provoking its neighbors unverified social media video appears to show military equipment moving towards areas bordering ukraine including russia annexed crimea russia has warned that any nato troop deployment in ukraine would raise tension and you just want to talk or you know the united states addresses ukraine through the lens of geopolitics ukraine close to russia makes russia great russia lift without ukraine is of no global importance i'm leaving the truthfulness of these ideas on the conscious of people professing them

well you can hear the helicopters arriving to take joe biden off for the easter weekend holiday here in the united states he has been speaking in the last 20 minutes but didn't make any comment about the latest developments on iran you remember that when he was running for president he said that he was going to enter back into the iran nuclear deal and we know that there have been talks over the last couple of months between the u.s. and the iranians but there could never be sequencing agreed to get the iranians to pare back on richmond of the your rhenium and there was no agreement for the u.s. to lift the sanctions that were put in place when donald trump drew the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal but like me 2018 so where are we now well there's been talks between intermediaries a say and they never quite got close to having talks but now it's been agreed that in vienna next week there will be talks at official level no someone close to one of the senior diplomat at the u.n. said that the situation is very fluid at the state department in a statement just in the last couple of hou

biden's phone phone calls are vladimir putin last week offering a stark summit the view here seems to be that the threat of invasion immediate threat of invasion of ukraine has gone away if there was a threat of that happening however russia continues to show that it exercises its freely in that area around ukraine and it's almost daring the navy or the ukraine or foreign power to challenge russia's decision to close particularly back straight ok thank you so much bernard smith for that update from moscow. bus and train stations in new delhi have been overwhelmed by thousands of migrant workers fleeing the city as a weeklong cove in 1000 lock down goes into effect it's a reminder of a similar exodus during a nationwide lockdown last year india has reported more than 200000 new cases for a 6th consecutive day and on tuesday it reported a record number of deaths from the virus more than 17 hundreds. i'm leaving because a lot down has been imposed nobody house is in lockdown not the government and definitely not the rented house owner but we have to pay everyone we are far from home and

to show that it is showing that it's in control of that region yeah ok and we'll speak about joe biden with kimberly harkat from the time being bernard thank you so much for that update from moscow kimberly hi there so you heard us talking about joe biden in that phone call he had with the russian president what more do we know about this and what the u.s. is saying about the situation. well the u.s. sending out a statement through its state department that is really very clear in terms of the actions of russia that it is not happy in fact saying it has deep concerns about the planned blockage of 4 naval ships in the black sea they say that this is just adding to the list of what the united states calls russia's aggressive actions they consider this an unprovoked i ask a lady sion and that is this really undermines the sovereignty of the ukraine which the united states respects not only in terms of sovereignty but also its territorial borders and as a result the united states has once again set out a statement reaffirming its support for ukraine reaffirming its territorial sovereignty

biden called george floyd's brother on monday so long as what the president say to you what did you say to him and what was that like in general. it was just a scholar. he no it is the the lose of them a member he knows the process of what we've gone through so he was just learning no lynas no he was praying for us in hoping that everything will come out to be ok. yes yes basically. 100 is following the trial for us in minneapolis in the schools it's the 1st full day for the jury as deliberations a delay it's it's more or less the way to game is that for those of us that a change is waiting. that's right the jury has been deliberating for about 6 hours over 2 days and tensions in security are high you can see the big fence in front of the courthouse way down the road there and the national guard is manning the streets here in minneapolis but it's not just here it's also in washington d.c. and chicago that you've got uniformed military manning the streets and buildings being boarded up because of all the concern about what's going to happen when this verdict comes out and it was almo

biden called george floyd's brother on monday so long as what the president say to you what did you say to him and what was that like in general. it was just a scholar. he no it is the lose of them a member he knows the process of what we've gone through so he was just learning no lynas no he was praying for us in hoping that everything will come out to be ok this is basically john 100 is following the trial for us from minneapolis and john really is the 1st full day for the jury to deliberate really what's going on and it's a village bit of a waiting game in a tent city and a tense country waiting for the verdict. that's right security is high and tensions are even higher as the entire nation waits for this verdict there is a kind of eerie calm here in minneapolis for the moment somewhere the jury is deliberating in isolation buildings are boarded up schools are closing for the rest of the week and until this verdict comes down the city's in a kind of suspended animation if you look behind me you can see the gates there that tall building at the end of the road that's the courthous

the verdict resonated in the white house where president joe biden called floyd's family we hadn't seen since the civil rights era in the sixty's protests that unified people of every race and generation in peace and with purpose to say enough is enough enough of the senseless killings today. today's verdict is a step forward the legal system had to operate behind barricades manned by national guard troops in a city that border that business isn't closed schools in anticipation of a ruling that ended months of demonstrations with celebration. the case that began with a fake $20.00 bill and ended with a nationwide movement might have gone unnoticed if it hadn't been for a viral video taken by a 17 year old girl is excruciating to watch as it was to re watch over and over again throughout the trial of a man treated with dignity speaking his final words to. crowds of man the streets of minneapolis and the nation since floyd died on may 25th as they leave the courthouse square they insist the movement will continue. john hendren al jazeera minneapolis while marches on van jones have been he

president since joe biden took office she is one of 40 world leaders by the invited to the event after officially returning to the 2015 paris agreement washington beijing relations have been tense particularly because of china's crackdown on dissidents in hong kong and its treatment of muslim weekers inching jang. volcano has been erupting for all than 2 months now plumes have caused a slight consolations and lava flows have destroyed crops and spot wildfires and as michael repeller explains residents are considering evacuating as the molten rock continues to spread the limbs of the ass and a river of molten rock from guatemala spec keno now stretches for more than 3 and a half kilometers it's been erupting for more than 2 months but if they'd been single there for a little like the the activity has increased since the 5th of february it increased with strong explosions with an abundance of ash that led to the closure of the aurora international airport for 2 days due to the amount of. buckeye is one of guatemala as most active volcanoes but the lava flow today is the largest produced

biden about harris for not coming down here and there's a lot of consciousness and awareness that joe biden i'm going to last for a very long time took a great deal of credit for giving huge amounts of money to the police for the cost of the state would boast about their law and order records so they always say look you should come down here make up for that now they're more what was the term they used to be a lip service to be on the having more relatives cry on your shoulder about you know that empathetic president that we have now joe biden and i actually do something and start actually coming here and that even if the shaving about it was read to me you know the fatal shooting of a black woman what more do we know about that case we know those details actually as the just a half an hour before the verdict was was announced apparently the shooting happened and now a new feature actually i suppose of police shootings the body count video was released rapidly clearly there's a real awareness now from police or police forces about what they have to do i think one of the reasons was th