with its deadliest phase of the pandemic and police charge a white gunman with killing 8 people in atlanta georgia 6 among them were women of asian descent. tanzania's president john mcafee has died at the age of 61 he hadn't been seen in public since february and there had been plenty of speculation about his health for vice president sami a son who hasn't announced his death on television a few hours ago. were citizens today on this date march 17th 2021 that 6 in the evening we lost our leader president of the republic of tanzania the honorable dr john pandey jaysus michael fullilove he parted this life from heart complications in hospital in dar es salaam. wonderfully was one of africa's most prominent covert 19 denying its effect he said last year tanzania had eradicated the disease through national prayer. looks back at his life. soon after taking office in 2015 president john palmer mughal fully made a name for himself across tanzania as a leader committed to fulfilling his promises of reform many people called him the bulldozer because of his no nonsense approach to fighting corrupt

and a cab county which is a metro atlanta county and it's our leaders in that county my elected a district attorney herself making a public statement encouraging those who are experienced in these types of threats or acts of violence or incident to come forward and be reassuring to those communities that if they do come for they will be heard and and something will be done and those claims will be taken seriously it takes our asian american and our age an immigrant community is to also to rally together to comfort the community but also encourage and stand by one another as we big sure that these incidents are brought to light and whether our asian or not i believe that it is the community as a whole that needs to come together around this issue we know that. that the most of the victims in this case were in fact asian women but if you're not asian more woman it doesn't mean that this does not affect you so as a community and i'm proud that my state i'm seeing now they're coming together and they're wanting answers they're wanting justice all relations are still strained between 2 superpow

and still ahead on al-jazeera police charge a white gunman with killing 8 people in atlanta georgia 6 among them were women of asian descent and iraq is struggling to feed their families as politicians bickering over the national budget. it's time for the perfect. sponsored point qatar airways how i once again the weather set fair across japan and the cherry blossoms starting to come out nicely now it's going to stay fine and dry for the most part over the next diode say well so weather will be a little further south and west was so shocked by this band of cloud this stationary weather front juicing rain across central parts of china to run over towards shanghai as we go on into thursday japan stay fine enjoy 18 celsius not too bad but have an 18 in seoul as well cools off a little as we go on friday for turkey but it warms up a touch in so i'm going to say some rain sleet and snow moving towards beijing hopefully that will help to clean the air here after a recent sandstorm heavy showers continue across central parts of china down towards the south is largely fine and dry not dry wea

still little is known about the 8 victims killed in the atlanta asian spa shootings only that 6 were asian women police would not say wednesday whether they had worked at the spas but did say that the suspect 21 year old robert aaron long had targeted the businesses he does claim that it was not racially motivated he apparently has an issue what he considers a sex addiction and sees these locations as something that allows him to to. to go to these places and into temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate police a long has confessed to the shootings and is scheduled to appear in court on thursday atlanta's mayor says there is no evidence the spas were cover for sex work we certainly will not begin to blame victims and as far as we know in atlanta these are illegally operating businesses experts say the stereotype of asian spas doubling as brothels is another facet of the anti asian racism growing in the united states the group stop a.p.i. hate formed in response to the rise in xena phobia since coded has collected nearly $3800.00 reports of hate incidents toward asian americans

against hayes joe biden and vice president spoke after meeting asian american community leaders in atlanta their visit that follows a mass shooting in which 8 people were killed including 6 women of asian descent carol is under reports now from washington d.c. trying to console the nation president joe biden said on friday evening that hate crimes against asian americans needs to stop too many asian americans have been walking up and down the streets and were waking up each morning the past year feeling their safety the safety of their loved ones are at stake they've been attacked lame scapegoated harassed they've been virtually assaulted physically its own killed the comments came in a previously planned stop by president biden and vice president camila harris in atlanta where on tuesday 8 people were killed 7 of them women 6 being up asian descent the alleged gunman a 21 year old white man was arrested in charged with the murders investigators have so far resisted calling the murders a hate crime but on friday vice president harris herself of asian descent as her mother was born in india

well in atlanta biden stopped at the headquarters of the centers for disease control and prevention or c.d.c. to thank the officials there it was meant to be a celebration of sorts as the u.s. has distributed over 100000000 vaccines with the president saying he expects to reach 200000000 in the next couple months president biden and vice president harris planned a political rally on friday night in atlanta but decided to cancel it and instead met with members of the asian american community in the wake of the tragic shootings gabriels andro al-jazeera washington the weather next to 0 then on average. which is. every drop counts we look at why zimbabwe's blood banks almost didn't take. a long dormant volcano springs into life the iceland's capital the area's 1st eruption in nearly 800 years. now this is disappointing still all the clouds coming down from the north the north is always cold temperatures are below where they should be for this time the if the most of europe to be honest we're in single figures really from central france all the way to the east and long way south as well wh

so had fully on the program major league baseball gets political stripping atlanta of its style game over a new voting law in the state of georgia and the family is going for the victims of friday's trying to crash in taiwan is prosecutors seek an arrest warrant for the owner of the truck rolled onto the tracks. but. we've got spring start with a forecast across many parts of europe over the next couple of days we've got a cooler wind coming into central and even down towards southeastern parts that will be some snow rolling in across the balkans some west of weather little further north was but fun and trying to central and western parts at the moment some as in the sunshine if a little of the cool side but the really cool weather that's further north you go this arctic blast developing that role when driving rice across the precious scholls through a good part of scandinavia down through the low countries that way some wintry weather coming in here talking in in across the good parts of germany and down to the outs because the some snow too into parts of the british isles where so

here atlanta georgia the 117th u.s. congress is beginning its work democrats kept control of the house of representatives said november's election and the balance of power in the senate will be decided by 2 runoff elections in torture on tuesday. let's take a look at the numbers. at the moment republicans have 50 of the 100 senate seats and democrats have 48 so this is what makes these 2 undecided seats in georgia so important republicans david to do and. running against democratic candidates john are soft and want to if the democrats take both seats the senate will be split $5050.00 vice president carla harris would be the deciding vote giving democrats control republicans only need to win one of the seats to hold on to their majority let's go live now to the task a name who isn't atlanta georgia natasha let's talk 1st about leaks to all of donald trump has what's the fallout been so far. president trump said during that call i don't want to shake up the whole world but he has certainly injected drama into this high st

not have to be another vigil in this seemingly never ending speech of hate against even the well in atlanta biden stopped at the headquarters of the centers for disease control and prevention or c.d.c. to thank the officials there it was meant to be a celebration of sorts as the u.s. has distributed over 100000000 vaccines with the president saying he expects to reach 200000000 in the next couple months president biden and vice president harris planned a political rally on friday night in atlanta but decided to cancel it and instead met with members of the asian american community in the wake of the tragic shootings gabriels andro al-jazeera washington will get a weather update next to 0 then. the one which is. every drop counts will look at why zimbabwe's blood banks almost empty. at a long dormant volcano springs to life iceland's capital the area's 1st eruption in nearly 800 years. but. has still raining on a daily basis and surprisingly in malaysia and indonesia this is what has happened this is satellite picture it's reflected in the forecast but there's a change up. here in laos in vi

defiant a day of protests in myanmar is the military accuses a top diplomat of treason treason and atlanta police investigate why a suspected gunman shot 8 people dead 6 of them women of asian descent. how i once again we have severe weather warnings in force the parts of eastern australia lots of clouds showing up on the satellite picture here and we see some very heavy downpours we have been on the show a breeze dragging showers into that eastern side of new south wales can see had $192.00 millimeters of rain it would be 6 hours beating the monthly average which is around $165.00 millimeters for the entire month of march and the weather is set to continue further heavy downpours coming in across the eastern side of new south wales in fact because much of that eastern side of australia will also see some rather wet weather up towards the kimberley coast for the southwest is fought in try perth at $38.00 celsius that's $100.00 in found high for the southeast and try to in melbourne at around $26.00 degrees and not too bad here in fall and try to for much of new zealand with some pleasant s

well in atlanta biden stopped at the headquarters of the centers for disease control and prevention or c.d.c. to thank the officials there it was meant to be a celebration of sorts as the u.s. has distributed over 100000000 vaccines with the president saying he expects to reach 200000000 in the next couple months president biden and vice president harris planned a political rally on friday night in atlanta but decided to cancel it and instead met with members of the asian american community in the wake of the tragic shootings gabriels andro al-jazeera washington the weather next here on al-jazeera then american and chinese diplomats wrap up a tense round of talks in alaska we'll tell you more on the long dormant volcano springs to life by stuns capital the area's 1st eruption and maybe 800 years. it's time for the perfect gentle. sponsored plan and ways. the last few days have been grossly disappointing i have to say for we approach we actually have reached the spring equinox it should be feeling warmer but no because the clouds coming down from the north suggests that normally when th

kimberly burrows dobro who's joining us from atlanta georgia says she is a senior assistant district attorney in the dekalb county district attorney's office thanks very much for talking with us on al-jazeera what do you take away from the president and vice president's message when they visited atlanta thank you for having me i definitely believe that it is reassuring as los comforting to see our nation's highest leaders in government stand with not only us as americans but us as a nation community what do you say to those who had said when this crime was committed this hate crime they said in fact it's not a hate crime when the police had said this is down to sexual addiction. well i will say that it's still early and so as a prosecutor i very well understand that there must be an investigation that takes place and i trust that one course not deserves and those who are partnering on the state and federal it levels are going to do a thorough job but this looks very much like it was motivated by hate and if so i'm glad to know that now georgia is one of. the state in the country that

you so much for that update from santiago chile still ahead on al-jazeera the deadly shootings than atlanta have exposed are in there is an american community as police struggle to establish the alleged killers motes of a statement morial is held for south africans who coon after his death lost him. hello there we have severe storms clearing away from the southeastern corner of the united states now you see this massive cloud little bit of a adult bordello rolling through large trial on this system and severe storms and we have seen possibility wanted to tornadoes as this system continues to make its way further east was into the eastern seaboard so some west of whether that will push through as we go on through friday clearer skies come back in behind it's got to be fresh temper just now higher than around 4 celsius in new york on a similar value that for toronto much of north america and canada a lot across the u.s. looking fine and dry but i would say was the northwestern corner we have got some rain sleet and snow tumbling in to the west assata kind of through the pacific northwest acro

still ahead on al-jazeera the deadly shootings in atlanta have exposed fear in the american community as police struggle to establish the alleged killers notes. we'll look at who's been celebrating some big gains in the dr letson as mark writes begins talks to form a coalition government. it's time for the perfect gentlemen. sponsored point qatar airways how i once again know whether i'm a sloshy set for japan make the most of it because we do have some unsettled weather on the way as we go on through the weekend high pressure in the process of getting squeezed out of the way at present central areas of china saying a band of clouds and rain some towards the northeast where we're seeing the change coming through and that's going to just make its way further east which is we go through friday 13 celsius in beijing that'll clear the air we're seeing the recent dust and sand storms blowing out of the gobi desert the korean peninsula fine in try friday a lovely day there in japan but as we go on into saturday that system makes its way across the yellow sea erhart across the korean peninsu

alan fischer atlanta georgia let's just pick up on what alan was saying there the end the 117th u.s. congress has begun work democrats kept control of the house of representatives and november's election but the balance of power in the senate has will be decided by the 2 runoff elections in georgia on tuesday here's a look at the numbers at the moment republicans have 50 of the 100 senate seats and democrats have 48 so this is what makes these 2 undecided seats in georgia so important republicans david purdah and kelly loffler are running against democratic candidates john also off a raphael warnock if the democrats take both seats the senate will be split $5055.00 president comma harris will be the deciding vote giving democrats control the republicans need to win only one of the seats to hold the majority in the name reports from atlanta. there is a real concern among republicans that trump's repeated and baseless attacks on the electoral integrity in georgia will depress voter turnout in the state of georgia and in fact during that now infamous call trub reference the election say

to be another vigil in this seemingly never ending speech of hate against asian americans while in atlanta biden stopped at the headquarters of the centers for disease control and prevention or c.d.c. to thank the officials there it was meant to be a celebration of sorts as the u.s. has distributed over 100000000 vaccines with the president saying he expects to reach 200000000 in the next couple months president biden and vice president harris planned a political rally on friday night and it led to but decided to cancel it and instead met with members of the asian american community in the wake of the tragic shootings gabriels andro al-jazeera washington. turkey's president has pulled the country out of a global treaty aimed at preventing and combat in violence against women present berber the one issue the presidential decree ordering would draw from the 2011 stumble convention $45.00 countries have signed the agreement it's a promise by governments to take tougher action on domestic violence marital rape and female genital mutilation critics of the treaty and damages family unity encoura

well alan fischer jones is there live from atlanta . another tape from the oval office but this one seems quite remarkable does it not . just when you think that donald trump doesn't have the power to surprise or shock you anymore. that really has people gasping at the audacity of it not just that the president was on the call to a public official argin him to find votes and to use a team that want to find votes after an election has been certified but the fact that is chief of staff and also a legal advisor from his campaign more on the call as well that we're looking at parlor which many people regard as the right wing version of twitter and they are people see nothing wrong with what the president did that he outlined his theories that he gave his evidence any the secretary of state to do his job but the difficulty of course that the president has is that a lot of the conspiracy theories that he quotes like dead people voting have already been investigated there were 2 some of the things he says that dominion the voting machine compa

to harris would then get to cast the tie breaking vote well fisher joins us from the state capital atlanta alan what's the turnout like there. well of course we had to 3100000 early votes cast and we're told that there are no problems with the voting system here across georgia that comes from the secular state but raffensperger a name you might have herod over the last 48 hours he's in charge of the elections here in georgia he says that the average wait time is about 2 minutes no one waiting more than 30 minutes there's a few issues with some of the voting machines in and around atlanta just a couple of them early this morning but that was very quickly sorted out so things going very smoothly indeed certainly some republicans are a bit concerned about the tar note in rural areas no given that there was $3100000.00 early votes and most of them seem to come from areas that would be considered democratic leaning the republicans really need to get the rural voting out and the fact that the tonneau there is down from where they were top is certainly a concern but they still think their own $50

the 1st school came on tuesday evening local time they'd been a shooting north of atlanta at young's asian massage parlor then and now later another this time in atlanta at gold's spa as police responded a 3rd cool came in reporting gunfire from across the road at aroma therapy spa the crime scenes were all message policies and majority of the victims were women of asian descent yesterday with a tragic day. across our state and as many of you all know there were several victims i'm who were tragically killed on yesterday. and our thoughts and prayers remain with phil's families police have arrested a 21 year old and charged him with killing 8 people they are investigating to see if the shooter was specifically targeting asian americans which would make it a hate crime and increase the charges south korea's foreign ministry confirmed that 4 of the victims were of kareem to seemed i know that many we've received a number of calls about is this a hate crime we're still early in this investigation so we cannot make that determination at this moment he made indicators that. he has some so

so that for you on the program major league baseball gets political stripping atlanta and its all star game over new in the state of georgia . and families grieve for the victims of friday's trying crash in taiwan as prosecutor seek an arrest warrant for the owner of the truck that rolled on to the trunk. the weather slushy set fair across much of australia but i'm a fighter to have more wet weather in the forecast for queensland over the next few days a little area 5 pressure down towards new zealand and around a hybrid drew or in the way in the sand from the ocean and that will face some rather heavy showers into eastern parts of queensland as we go on through sunday some heavy rain there just around the sunshine coast brisbane could catch some rather wet weather that could lead to some localized flooding as we go on into monday out west the weather if anything becoming a little more expansive so right along the coastal fringes we are in for some rather wet weather the ground saturated of course from the previous weeks of very heavy races that could cause some localized if not flash

off the shootings in atlanta strike fear and hate crime. and a police patrol in central mexico and if one of them was to attack some office since 20. ally once again has been fired in warm and sunny across much of the middle east even biassed than disable see temperatures well above the seasonal average going to 33 here were done on friday but we've touched 38 for the last couple of days losing the influence of the warm southerly wind further north in toowoomba to we've had race sleet and snow across a good parts of turkey and that's a one tree mix that will continue to drive this way further east which as we go through sas day around the caucasus you can see some snow there coming into georgia maybe into armenia possibilities rain sleet and snow to into afghanistan took many stand pushing up towards as backstop as well down across southern parts of the finnish overstays fine and dry then 32 celsius in doha as we go on into the way can see better told him not to across central parts of africa we have got the usual showers now just around th

carmel harris would then get to cast the tie breaking vote joins us live from georgia's capital of atlanta. important votes of course so we're getting an idea of how it's shaping up. well it certainly it seems that we could well go into a 2nd day of counting votes the man who runs the elections here suggest that that is a very reasonable suggestion but at the moment they're publicans ahead but they still have to count a lot of the ele votes that were cast in the cap county which is a suburb of atlanta and historically that tends to go democratic in fact in the presidential election that was around 80 percent democratic and that would mean the number of votes that still have to be counted and they reckon there's probably somewhere in the region of $170000.00 if you take 80 percent of that that would be enough to push the democratic challengers into the lead but there are still some other republican counties to have to put together their final voting tallies although those votes are more likely to run into the hundreds rather than the thousands now we know that the democrats are watching thi

live alone and asian american community is on a lower tough test several shootings me atlanta stoke fear of hate crimes. a meeting between the united states and china aimed at reducing tensions has got underway with a frank exchange of views or is supposed to be a short introduction at the start of the talks lasted for more than an hour china has won the u.s. to stay out of its internal affairs while the americans told the chinese beijing is threatening international order a diplomatic editor james bays reports from anchorage alaska. this is a meeting that will shape future relations between the world's 2 biggest powers relations that are currently at a low point good afternoon. and welcome normally opening remarks at events like these a brief and polite but the u.s. side were told to list the specific concerns and sions wrong hong kong taiwan cyber attacks on the united states economic coercion toward our us the chinese response was long. and just as frank the foreign minister wang ye said you don't welcome guests with sanctions a reference to the blacklisting of 24 chinese and hong kon

and major league baseball strips atlanta of the all star game as the backlash widens against new voting laws in the state of georgia. so lisa 5 more people have been killed in miramar in the latest crackdown on protesters more than 2 months since the military deposed the civilian leadership security forces shot and killed protesters in 3 different cities on saturday despite that demonstrations are continuing in major cities including young girls and nuns lay at the military has also issued arrest warrants against 18 prominent online critics. and 10. major armed groups representing ethnic minorities are throwing their support behind the anti coup movement through groups . condemning the use of life against protesters and the rebels control large areas mostly along mia most voters speak to tony chaney joins us live now from bangkok in neighboring thailand and he will come on to the group represents the major represents the ethnic minorities in a 2nd because we're just gives it an update situation on what the latest is. was you mention. in the protests are still ongoing they have been pret

well in atlanta biden stopped at the headquarters of the centers for disease control and prevention or c.d.c. to thank the officials there it was meant to be a celebration of sorts as the u.s. has distributed over 100000000 vaccines with the president saying he expects to reach 200000000 in the next couple months president biden and vice president harris planned a political rally on friday night in atlanta but decided to cancel it and instead met with members of the asian american community in the wake of the tragic shootings gabriels on doe al-jazeera washington times and ins have been paying their respects to their late president has been held for john michael fully who died at the age of 61 crowds came out today to bid farewell to be buried in his hometown next week vice president sam yes and the who haasan was sworn in as his successor on friday she's the country's 1st female leader cotton so it has more from neighboring kenya. today was a very emotional day in tanzania i had of the burial of the late president john paul the mughal fully on the 26th when he's a rural home of chatte

after the shootings in atlanta stoke fear and hate crime. and let the countdown begin more signs the took your olympics or will go ahead with a state of emergency about to be lifted. china has warned the u.s. to stay out of its internal affairs as top diplomats from the world's 2 largest economies hold talks in alaska chinese foreign minister also says it's time to repair relations with the u.s. which are us an all time low it's the 1st high level meeting between the superpowers under president joe biden's administration u.s. secretary of state anthony being can say as they will discuss a wide range of human rights issues including taiwan hong kong and the crackdown on weekend muslims and. who cares as china of threatening the international order of china retaliated by pointing out that the us cannot speak for the rest of the wild c. volume. with the judge by population scale or the trend of the world the wisdom world does not represent the global public opinion so we hope that when talking about universal values or international public opin

alan fischer atlanta georgia. let's cross to undergo lets me use an associate professor at the department of political science at emory university joins us live via skype from atlanta in georgia so what's your view here what degree do you think that the results will shape the success or otherwise of a biden presidency well what's at stake here is the potential to have a unified party control you know between the legislative and executive branches for the next 2 years and any president would want to have members of their own party in charge of the legislative branch it does not guarantee smooth sailing for a president's legislative agenda but it does make it easier the other thing that's actually really important for president elect biden is the senate has the advice and consent power so they are the ones who get to approve judicial nominations and cabinet nominations and so we'd expect that under a republican controlled senate that president elect biden would have a harder time getting some of his high level polit

salt holds a slim lead over david perdue but it's still too close to call as all official reports from atlanta the outcome will decide the balance of power in congress. the results so close the stakes so high as the world waits counting in georgia senate runoff will continue for a 2nd day more than 3000000 voted early on the day polling stations reported a steady stream of voters and no problems with the running of the election when you want a final outcome we will know the outstanding number of ballots if i'm a betting person which i'm not i would say it could be a couple days anticipate it will be a close race one where the other heavy early voting favor democrats republicans are just their supporters to turn out on the day for many they'd like the focus to finally move away from their state. but no machinery when they come normally. the 1st victory is good news for joe biden but he really needs both seats without it he won't be able to push on with his agenda and address issues he believes have been neglected over the past 4 years like climate change health care and racial injustice georgia

associate professor in the department of political science at emory university and joins us now from atlanta georgia good to have you with 0. support for the u.s. military is a fairly normal parses an issue in the united states so why do you think trump pick this finds. there were components of the bill that president trump objectives you in particular he wanted this act to include a provision that would not give protections to tech companies in terms of making treating them like media companies it's a rule called section $230.00 he wanted that repealed and that wasn't included in the authorization and he's tech companies so you know right now when he makes claims that are questionable or baseless on facebook or twitter they put disclaimers on there saying that this is you know that this is false or misleading information and so he doesn't like that there was out there just a provision in the defense authorization at to create a commission to rename bases in the south that were named after confederate generals so there were controversial pieces of the bill it leased and president trumps mine

alan fischer al jazeera atlanta georgia. let's hear from birth find constitutional lawyer and former us associate deputy attorney general who says quite simply trump broke the law in that phone call his threat to criminally prosecute mr raffensperger if he did not alter the vote that is exercise his official powers in a particular way is extortion under federal law the crime of extortion also his incitement to mr raffensperger to find 100000 votes or 10000 are many to shift the outcome because he was a good republican. is the crime of incitement he's encouraging someone else to commit a crime namely to falsify the results of an election so their true criminal violations that i believe are flagrant open dettori is an undisputable in that conversation i also believe that these these efforts here are exactly what alexander hamilton described as impeachable offenses in federalist 65 an abuse of the public trust and here we have a president saying his own character's ation he's relying upon rumors rumors that things are happening

and atlanta others have rightly been support there demanding justice for all the unarmed black killed by police in recent years kristen salumi was at a rally in new york. where demonstrators have been gathering in the plaza behind me since the verdict was announced this location where i'm at brooklyn in the heart of new york city has been a centerpiece of the black lives matter movement demonstrators have come here often in the last year in fact you may recall that after george lloyd was killed protests in new york city became almost a daily occurrence in all 5 boroughs of the city demonstrators gathering for rallies like this for tox chanting the name of george cloyd and other people who have died at the hands of police new york itself has a long history of tense relations between the minority community and police officers as well so people here gathering expressing their feelings of relief i would say this is being seen as a victory but only a 1st step as we just heard a lot of the people i spoke to tonight not all of them support abolishing the police i've heard views on both sides

it appears that there are thousands of votes left to be counted in dekalb county that's part of the atlanta metro area and it is a democratic heavy area a standard or former senator produce his term ended released a statement earlier this morning saying that he believed he would be victorious and that his campaign would exhaust every resource and legal measure necessary to ensure all votes have been counted but it's looking in from the democrat supreme spec to as though years of intense voter mobilization efforts targeting african-americans have paid off with the democratic showing in these a senate runoff following biden carrying the state as a democratic presidential candidate for the 1st time in 20 years they were really keen to show that the biden win was not a one off and really this victory is also about what i would call the c.c. abrams a fact and a victory for the army of grassroots organizing organizers who worked for as i said years targeting african-americans it was estimated there were about 200000 african-americans years ago who were not participating in elections and c.c. abra

senate house of representatives and the presidency the trash has more from atlanta . the seismic shift for the democrats in georgia reverberated and was celebrated across the united states but the historic victory of reverend raphael warnock was perhaps best savored in the neighborhood where he preaches at the famed ebenezer baptist church a well being and the welcome that that. had no shortage of representation in washington for the 1st time in 20 years georgians are sending not one but 2 democrats to the senate warnock made history by becoming georgia's 1st african-american senator and only the 11th black senator in u.s. history. after taking voters for putting their faith in him warnock wasted no time addressing the nation's codein health and economic crises we are dealing with folks who are facing eviction. people who have been waiting for months for relief and they saw politicians play the same old game last week we should have already passed this $2000.00 stimulus check and i can't wait to get to work. solemn and represent the people's concerns in the united sta

and asian american communities on alert after deadly shootings dear atlanta stalled fear of hate crimes. u.s. china talks a jew to wrap up for the closing session in the coming hours after a fiery start on thursday sitting across the table from each other in the u.s. state of alaska the 2 sides traded barbs in a pointed display of how tense relations remain diplomatic editor james bays reports from anchorage. this is a meeting that will shape future relations between the world's 2 biggest powers relations that are currently at a low point good afternoon. and welcome normally opening remarks at events like these a brief and polite but the u.s. side went on to list their specific concerns and wrong hong kong taiwan cyber attacks on the united states' economic coercion toward our allies the chinese response was long and just as frank the foreign minister wang ye said you don't welcome guests with sanctions a reference to the blacklisting of 24 chinese and hong kong officials in the hours before the meeting his senior colleague politburo member yang jiechi was clearly unhappy. well i think

this is to can seem to he's lost repeating unfounded claims of fraud alan fischer reports from atlanta georgia. from a president who insists without evidence the election was stolen from him pressure on a tough election official to find votes to help form overturn a result the audio of the hour long call from the oval office to george's secretary of state was 1st obtained by the washington post and captures donald trump even warning of big legal consequences if you didn't do something i here's one of what i . $11780.00 loans which is one more that we have because we want to say it's a move that may create legal problems for the president he's pressuring an elected official to change the result of an election already certified by the state president trump claimed again without evidence he'd won georgia by hundreds of thousands of votes he didn't the state went for biden and he raised other conspiracy theories all dismissed by brad raffensperger well mr president determines that you have is the data you have is wrong donald trump refused to accept the 2020 presidential election congress

yeah that's right this trip was planned before the shooting there to atlanta and it was supposed to be a celebration of sorts a celebration of the u.s. reaching more than $100000000.00 vaccinations the passing of the covert relief that would put more than $1000.00 in the checking accounts of millions of americans that are in need and there was a planned a rally a political rally by the president on friday night however that was canceled because of these vents and the president and the vice president meeting with community leaders of the asian american and pacific islander community meeting with the mayor and other elected officials there really trying to to console not only the community but the nation as a whole because so many asian americans have been coming under and receiving violent threats for over a year now and this terrible shooting that took the lives of 8 people as you mentioned 7 being asian americans 6 women the president spoke but even before the president the vice president did speak and she said that racism is alive and well in america racism is real in america and it

president joe biden says he supports major league baseball's decision to strip atlanta off the prestigious all star game it's because if a new voting law in the state of georgia critics say the new measures signed off by georgia's republican governor limited access to the ballot box specially for people of color the all star game was originally due to take place at atlanta's troost park on july 13th but baseball's bosses are now searching for a new avenue and this move by baseball has put pressure on arguably georgia's most famous sporting event that's the masters golf tournament at augusta the 1st major of the season is due to start on thursday one civil rights group one's goals governing body the p.g.a. to cancel the event and is calling on players to boycott it until the voting law is repealed people are demonstrating in the several u.k. cities against a bill that would give police more powers to break up protests. the bill was drafted after the so-called extinction rebellion environmental protest in 2019 it would let police set time and noise limits on rallies even individual demonstra

alan fischer al-jazeera atlanta georgia. or trance refusal to concede has led to speculation he may even deploy the military to hold on to power it has prompted 10 former u.s. defense secretaries to warn against the use of the military in election disputes this is part of the open letter they wrote our elections have occurred recounts and order have been conducted appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts the time for questioning the results has passed efforts to involve the u.s. armed forces in resolving election disputes would take us into dangerous unlawful and unconstitutional territory or from gabriel elizondo. this letter is remarkable on several levels but number one is these 10 former secretaries of defense are all from different political persuasions donald rumsfeld dick cheney both staunch republicans signed this letter as well as robert gates william cohen and leon panetta all former secretaries of states that were secretary of defense excuse me that work for democratic presidents and also jim matti

alan fischer al jazeera atlanta georgia. hi stem across and chair of the highest intelligence committee adam schiff to see this about the recording trumps contempt for democracy is laid bare once again on tape pressuring an election official to find the vote so he can win is potentially criminal he added it's another flagrant abuse of power by a corrupt man who would be a despots we will not allow him let's get more from gabriel elizondo who's in washington d.c. for as. far reaction there from adam schiff. one of others been saying about this. yeah the reaction has been far and wide here in washington as you probably can imagine go through ist of a few top lawmakers that have. said something about trump's comments jerry nadler the chairman of the house judiciary committee a democrat said that trump might have subjective himself to criminal liability based on what he said in those tapes amy clover sure a senator from minnesota has said that trump's actions were his words in those tapes could be could have potentially be break

and vice president camel harris are visiting the state of georgia after 8 people were shot dead in atlanta on tuesday they've been offering their control condolences to the asian american community 6 of the victims were women of asian descent adding to existing few years from a surge in racially motivated attacks which started all got worse during the pandemic the white house says the president wants to offer support and hear people's concerns or biden says violence against asian americans as been underreported for too long. tracked. harassed verbal physically or killed. document that is against the hate against asian americans have seen a scar rocketing spike over the last year alone and once it happened never get reported hate and violence often hard in plain sight it's often met with silence that's been true throughout our history but that has to change because our silence is complicity we cannot be complicit as of biden speaking there were several protests have taken place since the shooting in atlanta and many asian americans are saying they've had enough and also now here they go bac

president joe biden says he supports major league baseball's decision to strip atlanta of the prestigious all star game and because of a new voting law in the state of georgia critics say the new measures signed off by georgia's republican governor limit access to the ballot box especially for people of color the all star game was originally due to take place at atlanta's jurist park on july 13th but baseball's bosses are now searching for a new venue and this move by baseball has now put pressure on r.g.p. georgia's most famous sporting about the masters golf tournament. the 1st major of the season is due to start on thursday one civil rights golf's governing body the p.g.a. to cancel the event and is calling on players also to boycott it until that voting law is repealed. and that this is al jazeera these are the headlines millions across europe are set to mark easter sunday under a new coronavirus restrictions fronts begins its 3rd national lockdown on saturday and is a return to stricter measures after a surgeon cases the dba has this update for us from london.

alan fischer al jazeera atlanta georgia has david to for you know an international lawyer and former adviser to the obama presidential campaign he says it's hard to know exactly what the legal implications will be. he said there are some laws on point and it is a federal crime to interfere with election results or try to keep. to change election result results in a way that is not proper under the election rules and laws there are also crimes that could be relevant with respect to brought blackmail he certainly was trying to coerce this election official in the doing something that his state official responsibility suggest he should not do he followed his responsibility and now president trump is trying to get you to go outside of his fish hook in order to overturn the results and president trump had a veiled threat basically saying there could be criminal implications for you if you don't return this election so those are 2 laws that could be on point that could suggest this is illegal of course this could also be grounds for impeachment it sounds strange to talk about impeachment w

massage parlor then an hour later another this time in atlanta at gold's spa as police responded a 3rd cool came in reporting gunfire from across the road at aroma therapy spa the crime scenes were all message parlors and majority of the victims were women of asian to st pierre really nice girls and they just do great massages they do great massages out here so it's just unfortunate they had shot 3 ladies of them in front of them i thought were 9 in front of them 5 back in the fight you know and then you had a body. but he was saying he hadn't passed away and they need guys in our federal police of a race to 21 year old and charged him with killing 8 people they're investigating to see if the shooter was specifically targeting asian americans which would make it a hate crime and increase the charges south korea's foreign minister confirmed that 4 of the victims careened to seemed nothing's going to be ruled out will conducting a homicide a multiple homicide investigation so were the evidence leads us that's where they investigated the train driver that's where i'm here you've got a lot

when you went to school, the 1st go through j gentleness, epsky, our atlanta equalized just before the break. thank you. melinda d. r, but a winner from fed that he cookies. i gave you vent as a to one victory, as well as the 14th copper italia. and a 1st trophy, he bent his head coach. andrea paid a little hard to not the whole day was exciting. it was a good result for the day. it was important to return to the stadium, the atmosphere, the 2 goals. the victory was the icing on the cake. it was returned to normality. not quite the pre coby normality is the local government ordered an overnight curfew. cutting the party short, but a step in the right direction. as far as football fans in italy concerned, join against raska al jazeera. now the top 2 diplomats from the us in russia has struck an optimistic tone after their 1st face to face meeting and the blinking and so a lot of ra, spiking on the sidelines of the arctic council summit in iceland. the secretary said repeated warnings against what he called aggressive russian actions. russia, foreign minister, for his part said there wer

let's get more on the story what caused by alan fischer who's following about this for us from atlanta and it does seem that the democrats are one step closer to their long term goals. exactly raphael warnock has had a slight lead over john or softs vote total for a lot part of this evening he was set only on course to win declared victory probably just about 90 minutes ago before it was actually official still still a number of votes to count kelly loffler repeating a phrase that we've had a lot recently saying that she was still going to stay in the race until every legal vote was counted and still believes she had a path to victory but in the end it's clear that she doesn't and a number of organizations know coaling the race for raphael warnock he becomes only the 11th african-american senator in u.s. history and the 1st from georgia as for john also if he's been telling his votes probably just slightly less than raphael warnock it's an odd thing when it's a statewide vote and people would have been presented with a ballot form in the choices that they can make for both of them but