if. you have. hello i'm barbara starr this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes jury selection begins in the trial of the former minneapolis policeman facing charges for his role in the death of george ford. in myanmar protests continue against an increasingly brutal regime one

senior official describes his dramatic escape following the february 1st coup. his corruption convictions have been overturned but the political future of brazil's former president now rests in the hands of the country's supreme court plus. these cherry orchard may look innocent or not but they're part of a mounting debate here in chile over chinese investment and possible control over this country's most important and strategic industries. i'm john ash with the sporting including more poles that japan's set to shots out a.b.c.'s fans from the olympics this year it comes as yet another test event is counted in tell you here because of the pandemic details coming up this hour. a day later than planned the court in the u.s. says begun the process of choosing

a jury in the trial of the former police officer charged with killing george floyd but the process has already run into difficulties george floyd died in may last year after a white police officer derrick chauvin knelt on his neck for nearly 9 minutes floyds then. prompted mass public protests and calls for racial justice the court has set asides 3 weeks to choose the jurors but people have already shown too much knowledge of the case well a higher court could cause more delays well john hendren joins us live now from minneapolis this is cases in day 2 and jury selection has begun what's happened at this early stage. well they've gone through half a dozen or so jurors and they have selected one so far interestingly 2 of the people who were not selected were hispanic and and betsy interesting in this case because

the prosecution is going to want people of color on that jury because those people might be more likely to have an understanding of the kind of interaction between people of color and police that his come up in this case the big question is did derrick show over and the police officer murdered george floyd. did he know knowingly do so and you know essentially. what were his motivations here and they've got a few charges one is murder 2 the other one is manslaughter in 2nd degree murder the question there is there's no question of premeditation but it's whether he had the intent to kill george floyd well the prosecution is trying to get another charge levied against him and that would be degree murder a lower charge that essentially means the officer acted with a dupré vengeance action in this case that they're waiting for

a higher court decision on that so meanwhile they're going through the jury there and they're asking a lot of questions about what they've known really every juror that we have seen so far has known about the case and the judge is trying to determine whether or not they. judge the case and each side is allowed to dismiss a certain number of jurors 15 for the defense 9 for the prosecution and then they can dismiss other jurors for cause but they have to state what that cause is and this could go on for a while as you can seasons we've only got one juror most of the way into the 1st day of jury selection and after that the trial itself could go for about a month or so. of course the death of george floyd to set off protests around the world riots. across the us you've reported on some of them just remind us what's at stake in this trial. well after george floyd died. the video came out and incensed people in the street particularly

in the african-american community where he died here at the city's about 20 percent black the jury pool however is the county surrounding it that's about 10 percent black so. this city went up in flames chicago went up in flames los angeles other cities as well had peaceful protesting but also some rioting some property destruction where protesters were just angry about to repeat one after another incident of african-americans dying in confrontations with police and in this case you can see behind me there is a sort of prison style temporary fence that has been put up there across the street from me buildings are boarding up right now we're seeing some protesters but not the kind we expect to see later on in this trial because it's just jury selection but as that trial goes on we expect to see some pretty massive protests and here

and if derek chauvin is not convicted of a crime i think it's highly likely that you'll see some very animated protests here in minneapolis and across the united states or the concern there is just how walkers those protests get john hendren with the latest there from minneapolis john thank you. well judas ground they are in this is the executive director of advancement project a national office along profit organization that focuses on racial justice issues she joins us now via skype from washington d.c. madam thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera says starting with the choice of jurors how crucial do you think it is that the jury will be racially representative and how confident are you that it will be. it's very important to have what we call as the jury of your peers and that means a diverse jury who has had diverse experiences with the police people of color are

going to be critical to be sitting on that jury because what happens is that they will bring a different set of eyes to the other and they will look at the evidence through their own experiences and be able to determine whether or not those who testify. in police officers are credible or not what their experiences have been with the police and they won't rush to a quick judgment of oh please protect us we should let them go but they will be more critical of the evidence that is put before them and so that is very important now whether or not there will be people of color or the jury is a different question because we know that 1st of all we start off with the jury pool that usually is under represented people color under represented in the pool then we move from there to the kinds of questions that prosecutors put before them and discharge them for duty because they know the case to my joy they have certain

feelings about policing and so some of them will be excused the one thing we do know is that as we saw this morning to let you know jurors being dismissed is that the prosecution is already on the job making sure the jurors are not being excused because of race and so they didn't challenge the dismissal of those jurors and we should continue to see that as we move forward in the defense may try to get people of color struck from the jury a lot of one of the things you mentioned in other cases knowing about the case too much is a drawback now in this particular case the video of david and me on george floyd's neck it's literally being seen around the world of course everyone knows about the protests how do you think the fact that this was such a high profile case i do think that will impact the trial. well i mean the the defense is going to want to probably strike everyone from the jury that knows

anything about the case and ever laid eyes on the video the problem is they're going to run a potential jurors pretty quickly because as you said most most people who grows the globe have seen that video and so the question really isn't whether or not you know the question is whether or not you can apply the law to the facts and that's what they really should be focused on there's so much riding on this trial as we were mentioning at beyond the jury duty and i guess you know as we've seen that's going to be a pretty big stumbling block in itself but beyond that what else do you perhaps worry about the way that this trial will become a sort of new media circus in the wrong way detracting from the issue at stake obviously the core of justice being done well i think the thing that i worry about is that a conviction here or my give us accountability for this one officer but that's not work gives us justice justice goes beyond this individual officer to

a total transformation of the way that public safety happens in this country and so the thing that we cannot do is that we cannot put all our eggs in the basket of this particular case in this particular prosecution because we also know that the laws in the united states were created to protect police officers and so that is something that we're up against and so the the fight to transform public safety is the thing that we have to be focused on regardless of the outcome of this particular case. ok judith brown day and this executive director of an advancement project national office madam we're going to leave it there for now but i'm sure i hope that will be talking about this trial again thank you for your time thank you so much. still to come on the news hour stripped of immunity from prosecution catalonians former president and 2 other ministers now face possible extradition to spain the government in the ivory coast wins

a parliamentary majority but opposition parties claim ford and germany's world cup winning coach will quit after the upcoming euro was that's coming up with gemma in sport. the u.s. says it's repulsed by the use of lethal force against protesters in me and why this comes after hundreds of protesters were freed after being cornered by the military in young go on for several hours an official from democratically elected leader on salads and cheese party has become the latest person to die in military custody when than 60 people have died in nearly 2000 detained since the coup last month well a senior official from the team leader on south who she's party has spoken to al jazeera about his dramatic escape from me and maher after last month's coup dr

sassa has now been chosen as the special envoy of the committee representing the country's elected government for his safety dr sassa spoke with our diplomatic editor from an undisclosed location. where myanmar's election was held in november the campaign manager for unsung cheese national league for democracy party was dr saw so in an interview with al jazeera he tells me that when the will of the people was subverted by the military in a coup on the 1st of february he like other leading figures in the party feared for his life got up early morning of. over realize that all our fault was that we can all make me cold. we're lies there on television and every signal was that of course it was scary in the way because we don't know what's going to happen we don't know we are dying so it was a very dark i call my mom called me and even ing and say are you dead or alive and

says that crying tell us how you got out of the country i know it was she would text driver to have that kind of things and i was against taxi driver and you know it was tough it was tough and after that and a motorbike and it was 2 times i lifted my motorbike and we got tape as. the middle of through the night i can of feel it in my face i can of fuel my hand i thought i would die of that situation because it was extreme situation after do we did 3 days and 3 nights another lady 3 in a safe place he tells me the military have underestimated the bravery and stamina of the young people of the country and he's now detecting signs the military may be splitting as so many police forces have rather well today also we have to report as

some military officer have defected and d.d. and movement that shows to us if you provide us where we are calling to international community to help our strategy to deliver for the people of myanmar he praised me on mars u.n. ambassador john moore turned here who spoke out bravely against the coup last month and he's now going to be working closely with him because dr sources are has been named as the global envoy of the committee representing the democratically elected politicians of myanmar james pays out 0 at the united nations. after more than 3 years as a political outcast to the man once hailed as the most popular politician on earth is poised for a comeback now brazil's former president will have to wait a little longer to see a fresh electoral hopes could receive a 2nd shot in the arm the country's supreme court has suspended a vote on whether to throw out evidence against lula da silva

a day after overturning his corruption conviction his legal team says the original judge rules not impartial and the court is reviewing case records that verdict blocked him from running for a 3rd term a path that's now open to him unless there is a retrial he would likely become the leading rival against current president variable so narrow in next year's poll. while the new twist in this complex legal battle centers on a man called said joe morell he launched the massive anti corruption investigation which became known as operation car wash it would sweep up millions of dollars and several high level figures including lead the silva who was arrested in 2018 laura then oversaw lula's trial upon conviction he sentenced the former president to 12 years in prison for corruption and money laundering well lula's legal team says that said your model was not impartial in his investigations the supreme court will

vote on this on tuesday so it's good monica. in rio de janeiro's so it is tuesday what happens now. well what happens now was that the court was divided as brazil is divided the supreme court has 5 judges to have said that the savage a mortal who has not been in partial one of those 2 has said that this is the biggest judicial scandal in brazil's history to others say that that he has been impartial and the 5th the judges says he's very new as the supreme court judge in need needs more time to read through the documents and vote but this does not change the fact that the law can now run for presidency next year if he wants it's true that he can be retried since this vote has not eliminated all the charges

against him all the evidence. and he can so he will be able to be a candidate next year he may be really fried this is something that will take time and some statute of limitations may expire meanwhile so yes it is a comeback and more than that i think it will feel sort of vindicated because he has been saying all along that he has been he has been he is a victim of persecution and now things are not that clear cut as they seem to be i think it would definitely be a vindication a form of all of this goes ahead but politically speaking and for the country it is unlikely that he will is it that said that he will try to make a return to the political stage and how does all of this this latest vote potentially affect those plans. well yes he is person that will always be center stage in politics he was silence

because every time you mention his name it would be like the convicted former president now he's no longer the convicted former president so he can speak more freely whether he'll be a candidate himself or not he can make a comeback like for example. in argentina former president cristina kiersten her did not run again for president but she ran as vice president to. the president now all better for them this was also itself a left wing government so there are other ways but he will be a center figure for the workers' party which is which is that but also he represents the other extreme of this government of the average right wing government so it also gives. facing the pandemic and has been accused of mishandling it and then of need to punch its like i am the only man that can defeat the law from coming back and that's what he repeated if you have 28 campaign when

lho was banned from running. even though there's a nato will be touching base with you for updates as they come in for the moment thank you. catalonia is former president and 2 of his former ministers have been stripped of immunity from prosecution catalyst for the month fled spain after the clearing the region independent in 2017 the group came protection as members of the european parliament but they could now face extradition and to jail time at home as the baba reports all of this isn't going to be straightforward for them. it's a move that's rekindling the debate over the future of spain's catalonia region and its independence movements the results of the bruising session of monday ph of march european parliament has removed the immunity of colors which demands for a catalogue president and to associate all of whom have seats in the assembly they fled abroad in 2017 following the independence referendum and subsequent

declaration of independence which the spanish government deemed illegal it is a sad day for european parliament. we have lost our immunity but their opinion parliament has lost more than that. and as a result european democracy to. this is a clear case of political persecution. the decision could help madrid's bid to extradite the trio colors courage to mont tony come in and color ponce said he had been charged with sedition in spain which to monton kamin are also accused of misusing public funds but ponce 30 who's based in scotland told our jazeera they're confident of winning an appeal we will go test these media and do them justice because. news that these are the go persecution and as such. should not have believed it. that. they sometimes bury its own government and

struck hopes that we were on the heel the 2017 independence referendum stoked major tensions between the spanish government and the leaders of catalonia an autonomous region of 7 and a half 1000000 people the bitterness of the debate has diminished since socialist prime minister president sanchez came to power in madrid in 2018. but in last month's regional elections separatist parties gained 4 additional seats in the catalan parliament they independent the if parties who compromised our right to attend the club left so there are all kinds of political opinions in the independent the inst party if they want this majority a couple in parliament told this process that we still have their ballots on in the whole meanwhile a belgian court recently rejected spain's request to extradite another former catalan cabinet member and it's far from clear how authorities here and in scotland

will cooperate with madrid now the de barber al jazeera. official results show the government won parliamentary elections in ivory coast but the opposition is maintaining allegations of fraud the party of president. more than half of the $254.00 seats up for grabs opposition groups took more than $100.00 including several contentious seats where protests were expected the president won another term and the poll last year which solved violence in the more than 5 people. says the election and that is expected to last contentious. just a few minutes ago. by the election officials and the seats for you. so from indications now the governing party of.

the seats in parliament in fact the projections that the party has won 100 seats in the west to the other political parties now. this is the official statement so far . and we expect a formal statement from the election commission. this. has been. by the respective. project. because. the opposition to the presidential election is. its performance in subsequent elections and. right across i because. the world health organization says violence against women remains devastatingly pervasive and

starts alarmingly young this is the dire assessment of the biggest ever reported to the issue based on they said between the year 20020188 says one in 3 women worldwide this subjected to physical or sexual violence in their lifetime that 736000000 women and girls a number that hasn't changed over the past decade intimate partner violence is by far the most prevalent globally a quarter of young women who've been in a relationship will suffer violence at the hands of a partner by their mid twenty's the highest rate of violence are in poorest areas where almost 40 percent of women are affected and while data was completed before the pandemic w.h.o. says that covert 19 is increased women's exposure to violence due to lock downs and disruptions to support services. dr claudia garcia moreno from the world health organization says everyone has

a role to play in raising awareness. well i think the lens is not mean there's no single cause it is really the result of. a deep set as a factor is you know from individual experiences of having grown up with violence or being abused as a child to the social context in which this violence is normalized and seen as acceptable and women themselves sometimes accept these normality of these issue. i think we receive at the same time on the positive side we do see a growing awareness and we do see more young people. talking about consent talking about you know new challenging some of the gender stick styria types and we definitely need more action and more urgency we need to have school based programs that are addressing this issues. we need to have you know stronger

economic opportunities and educational opportunities for women and girls and more conversation really about some of these power and balances at the community level at the family level. this is the news hour for long then the still ahead debate heats up at the world trade organization over waving a vaccine that patients in a bid to get the global pandemic under control and the race for the own distro feet an international sport is about to get underway jemma will look ahead to sailings america's cup. but. how i was looking rather stormy across central parts of the mediterranean a little area clad him moving across italy into the balkans see some lively storms

on this one more of that to come over the next couple days as some wet and windy weather coming through here with some large hail and this some rather wild weather all coast pushing up across the northwestern corner pushing across the british isles as we go on through the next 24 hours where to stay that's like a really wet day across much of the british isles a cloud of rain will sweep through gale force winds potential for damaging winds and some heavy rain at times what's the weather will make its way in scandinavia really tiny snows it hits the cold air also over the top temperature one degree celsius not as cold as moscow mind you temperatures here no higher than minus 10 in the heat of the day cold even for moscow this time if you will some wintry weather then just around the balkans pushing across. into remain you're still a few showers live fish i was there rumbling away across greece but clear skies come back in behind this because one in 2 with the day fog in truck us western side of the med stormy alive it was the eastern side of the med and the northeast looking very unsettled as well while snow coming into scandinavia into the baltic

states and then heavy rain through much of germany france and northern spain. frank assessments the world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure is that a fair assessment it would be a catastrophic failure to twice as valuable back saying informed opinions should we be buying bit coy ultimately it will be sovereigns and governments who are buying this that is the direction this is all headed in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines inside story on out just 0. when the news breaks supposed to be considered the popular support when people need to be heard. and the story told to struggle for justice they with their lives to start over with exclusive interviews and in-depth reports

a mile big appear to be the place that you start not a place for you and al-jazeera has teams on the ground but climate change is changing all of that right to bring you more award winning documentaries and life means. the welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on our a jury is being chosen for the trial of derek chauvelin be a former american police officer accused of killing an unarmed black man george story but jury selection has already run into difficulties with people who are aware of the case the future political hope so brazil's former president lula da

silva could get another boost as the supreme court votes on whether to throw out evidence against him the court overturned this corruption conviction on monday and 3 catalan separatist politicians that face extradition to spain have to be stripped of their immunity former regional leader careless freedom long time 2 others were charged with sedition for declaring independence. a group of developing countries led by south africa and india says that intellectual property rights for corona virus drugs and vaccines should be temporarily waived they'll represent their case at a 2 day summit focused on covert 1000 vaccination production arguing the transfer of knowledge to developing countries will ramp up manufacturing and save lives but it is a divisive idea drug companies have argued that waving patients will jeopardize investment and innovation making the world more vulnerable to other diseases but

access to medicine activists a point out covered in $1000.00 vaccine developers received about $10000000000.00 in public and nonprofit funding opponents say the 2001 bill had the clear ration already allows the member states to waive ip intellectual property rights without the license owner's consent in extreme emergencies this followed a 3 year battle by south by south africa to remove peyton barriers for hiv aids and treat retroviral drugs the patient experts warned the procedure is lengthy complicated and and would be met with political resistance. well brooke baker is a professor of law at northeastern university and joins us now from boston sir thank you so much for joining us here mean we've all seen how really getting out of covert is all about the vaccines and there is issues in developed in wealthy countries let alone many parts of the world that are probably not really going to see any kind of vaccination drive before 2022 so where do you stand on this idea of

the intellectual property of the vaccines being waived for now. well that the truth of the matter is that people in low and middle income countries are being left far behind. the vaccine manufacturers maintain intellectual property rights in the form of peyton's and trade secrets manufacturing know how biological resources and they keep that secret recipe to themselves and although some efforts are made to expand supply we're really not mobilizing that capacity that exists globally to rapidly ramp up in your factures so that people everywhere can be vaccinated so in the absence of company action in the act in the absence of equitable access in the face of massive efforts by rich countries to run to the from the line the resulting effort by south africa and india to waive the intellectual property

barriers that prevent technology transfer to other producers is completely understandable and should be supported by all countries let me just put a point to to. from the international federation of pharmaceutical manufacturers and association that they're saying that it's not intellectual property rights that is the issue they're saying that the bottlenecks are kept per city and that the scarcity over all materials and ingredients so it's that rather than the know how what would your answer be to those points well i'd say there are lots of issues to be addressed in scale up in some of those are and some of the upstream components but that does not mean that intellectual property is not a barrier and people typically think of. intellectual property mainly in terms of painting right but trade secret rights or or the secret you know recipes that that the companies are protecting and again that's the complex manufacturing know how

the formulas for the regions the actual biological resources themselves. producing the vaccine products so the companies are partially right but mainly wrong the upstream capacity certainly has to be mobilized it's a lot of factors to be brought to bear there are needed investments to expand it repurpose capacity but at present what stands in the way of really mobilizing those additional sources of supply where the intellectual property rights the crown jewels that the companies insist on not keeping control of me and i suppose you know who may not know that the details behind all of this this who just seem an issue of money i mean a lot of these companies will of course be making a lot of money from what is the intellectual property of the vaccine that mean again what would be i suppose your argument in trying to convince them other than all truism which is you know don't get me wrong obviously a good thing but perhaps not as convincing as other arguments what would you say.

well i would say one they already stand to make tens of billions of dollars just in 2021 on sale of vaccines to their preferred rich country markets and to to adopt the waiver does not mean that there might not be some provision to compensate them for their costs of engaging and deep technology transfer to new producers the government should step up to that up to the plate they should invest to make sure that we have existing new capacity for their covert pandemic right now but also capacity for future needs and there's simply an inadequate supply of manufacturing capacity in the low end of countries they need regional supply hubs it will increase global health security to in fact have capacity that's distributed globally and so that countries can more readily access health technologies including vaccines when they need them the was

a partial success in this kind of issue when it comes to treatments for a child and they could that be seen as a precedent and if not what are the inherent differences between those treatments and covered $1000.00 vaccines. well most of the anti-retroviral medicines were small molecule medicines and there were existing capacity in generic producers especially in india but elsewhere to make those medicines and so that the main problem was overcoming the pat rights and then getting the price to go down because of generic competition 2 additional things that we've learned in the in the covert crisis in addition to unreasonable unreasonably high prices and you know profiteering is that when the right holders control the intellectual property rights they control manufacturing who manufactures in the us we have artificially restricted supply they also control in a way we didn't see before distribution and they preferentially give access to to

rich country buyers and so that means that poor countries are left behind so we have critical problems of supply and will distribution that are even greater in some ways than they were in the aids crisis when the main issue was actually to bypass the patent rights so we could have generic competition it greatly reduced prices. brooke baker professor of law at northeastern university joining us from boston sir thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us thank you so much and of course vaccine distribution is an issue in many wealthy countries too when a european 1st $10000000.00 doses of the russian sputnik vaccine will be produced initial production is set to start in july with the order completed before the end of the year russia wants to expand production across more nations with deals made in the spain france and germany it's further evidence of unhappiness with the slow

progress of the joint european union vaccine purchase scheme fewer than one in 10 italians have been given the jab at the sputnik facts scenes not even being approved by european regulators. restrictions are said to be tightened in jordan after coming close to recording a daily high in new cases the government plans to extend the night curfew that currently begins at 9 pm and close businesses such as night clubs there's been a surge of cases over the past 2 months blamed on the fast spread of the variant 1st identified in the u.k. and meanwhile in the occupied west bank health workers are facing intense pressure in their fight against the coronavirus hospitals are so overwhelmed that they're turning kovan 1000 patients away even abraham reports from ramallah. we're standing here in one of the main governments of the hospitals with covered 900 patients and the hospital officials have been telling us that they're turning away tens of

patients every day who need medical attention we're here in front of the emergency room and we're seeing patients waiting for their turn to get a room inside this hospital. staff told us that she is a priority when there's a vacancy they would move her immediately i know that they're doing their best given the circumstances. the doctor told us she has to sleep in the hospital but we can't keep waiting in the corridor my mother in law is tired she's 92 years old people's concerns were confirmed by the palestinian prime minister the fact that the hospitals are gearing pull up here plenty even though the government has doubled the i.c.u. the part of the pandemic he says that this is the government with one thing because those are and for social distancing and wearing masks but people have been this type of spied with the government they say that not only did this government not compensate people for the consecutive closures over the past year but also some of

the few 1000 arrived in the occupied west bank have been given to them their families which is raising a lot of concern for many people about the integrity of any future vaccine program . china has a growing financial interest in china and it's raising concerns about the country's economic independence now a group of bipartisan politicians is proposing limits on foreign participation in key and strategic industries the sea and human reports. from the $1000000000.00 accusation of one of the world's largest salmon companies to the purchase of copper in lithium mines to wineries and fruit fields. china has set its sights on chile it may be a small country but it has a very long and strategic pacific coastline and lots of resources that the agent giant needs but that's not the only attraction the most important thing for china

is. window shop in. their region. to say. you know you here we are in. america but while chile's economic growth owns a great deal to china members of congress are warning of an aggressive investment offensive not from private capital but from the chinese state yes you're not really orla if you don't regulate the participation of reforms light in your economy that economy could be nationalized not by our own country but rather by a foreign state that's why we've presented a bipartisan bill to level the playing field for everyone because we're facing an offensive by the chinese side the wants to take over strategic sectors of the economy the congressman has called drafted a proposal that seeks to regulate farm state ownership in strategic and

geopolitical sectors of the economy on the top of his list is the chinese state's majority control of electricity distribution in chile cherry orchard like the one you see here may not seem to fit that description but chinese companies are increasingly buying more and more agricultural land like this farm to produce one of chile's prime exports fruit especially cherries and that's raising concerns that china may be moving towards producing packing and exporting its own fruit eventual eliminating the chilean entrepreneur altogether. 6 weeks ago at the height of peak season $1000000000.00 cherry exports to china ground to an abrupt halt and probably not my job. it's very suspicious exactly when we started buying this bill in congress the social networks in china who will now controlled by the slight began denouncing that our cherries had traces of coated 19. chiles foreign ministry

refuses to entertain the notion of foul play at least publicly but nevada girl is not alone in suspecting that china was sending a veiled message that there's a high price to pay if chile decides to limit china's economic influence you see in human al-jazeera. a global shortage of computer chips is hurting high tech industries from the makers of game consoles to cause the man for something the whole world is come to the pentagon has highlighted the dominance of just 2 countries bribe reports from seoul. between them south korea and taiwan have a near monopoly on the world's production of processing and memory chips it's a dominance in a strategic commodity that's been developing over years but now making itself felt as the world becomes increasingly technology driven but from here on out it's going

to broader considerately to 8 ships with everything modern fighter. it's not. your electric vehicle if your car's going to have it and retrieve it it's getting old like other car makers this general motors plant outside seoul has been experiencing delays because of a global shortage of chips it's been a wakeup call for many world leaders but the investment of time and money needed to become a chip maker means south korea and taiwan will maintain their lead for years to come it's a global shortage that's been made worse by the pandemic when car factories ramped up production again late last year it coincided with a surge in demand for consumer goods also needing chips and a move towards online activities requiring greater data processing that needs yes ever more chips frank wang is the founder of one of taiwan's chip manufacturers

whose business has grown as the island has come to dominate the sector this is a burning portal with a one continual sub why a bell in the porch opinion of the state and other you know we a country that one is so buying toys in the. process if we have a problem in the war or have a problem it's this indispensable that works well right now taiwan's chips are also indispensable to mainland china providing it with the so-called silicon shield against beijing's expansion in the region but also raising the stakes in the increasing comp. tition between china and the u.s. semiconductor is strong taiwan is strong but it's becoming so strong and so we need to be careful so is the better to keep it neutral because if semiconductor all silicon shield you know distress is being used as a weapon taiwan will get involved it will that was the conflict between us the and

china and that is a dangerous area to protect you if you're not getting increased action talk with great if you're going to. extra to renegotiate your page by trying hard conflict in competition south korea isn't taiwan's production mastery of a tiny component that makes any potential conflict in east asia a matter of global concern rob mcbride al jazeera sold still to come here now busy around in sports and nothing is impossible barcelona believe they can come back against the recent run of champions league.

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now to a story about the love of literature it's set in iran where the spied the ongoing tension between the u.s. and iran the popularity of western books continues to grow a set bake has more. book lovers students and avid readers all come to center of the rant to look for the latest releases and it's here in a quite back street where one publisher translates western titles he's just finished his 5th edition of former u.s. presidents barack obama's promised land we don't you hope this. you know there are severe sanctions laws big american publishers don't get themselves involved in a situation that can be dangerous for them getting involved with the run and risking the sale of millions of copies of their books they say they can't get

involved with the running publishes we can't have cultural relations with americans or a financial relationship not even to receive a simple permission stuff here say obama's book was sold out in 2 days people don't like to know about everything that is going on in the world and of course america is one of the important ones so people are interested to know outside on the streets there's an appetite for western titles. i've read hemingway's old man and the sea and now i'm reading tolstoy's resurrection this famous iranian bookstore has western titles in both english and farsi the books are printed inside the country and not authorized by the original authors or publishes the exception is american academic noam chomsky who iranian publishers say gave permission for his works to be translated and printed. you can find books on u.s. president joe biden here michelle obama's becoming and the book and former u.s.

president donald trump and fury all in farsi consumed by iranians but there is a downside to an authorized publishing especially for authors trying to make a living. british author found out his book the good immigrant had been translated and published after that i thought it was great as it's an international reach mazing thing for. what i originally envisaged as a small project but i also thought. that the right is should be compensated because you know these are all writers who got paid money food to read your book that's kind of the shame of this that we didn't have any certainly we didn't and we don't have any say on how it's been translated host remarked the publishers we've spoken to say they'd like to be a part of the copyright convention it would increase translation standards and reduce the number of publishers allowed to print a book but u.s.

sanctions mean many companies don't want to engage with iran missing out on reaching a country with a population of more than 80000000 people a big al-jazeera the iran it's got some support though here is gemma thank you barbara is there thing more more likely that there will be no overseas found taken in picks as organizers look to curb the spread of coronavirus one japanese newspaper said last week the government had already made up its mind and that's now also being reported by the country's a coyote a news agency a formal decision is expected before the torch relay which is due to stop behind closed doors on march the 25th it's also been announced that a gymnastics test event and take a has been canceled because of covert 19 travel restrictions it was supposed to start on may the 4th and feature athletes from around the world but instead it will now be replaced by a local event but only japanese gymnasts. the subject of fans that will no doubt be discussed when the international olympic committee meets on wednesday and that's

also when i.o.c. president thomas back is set to be reelected unopposed this is him taking over from asia rock in 2013 and he'll now stay in charge and till 2025 british for adam p.t. is one of the top gold medal prospects to take he's the defending champion in the world record holder in the 100 meters breast reich petey's aiming to go faster than ever in japan and he disagrees with 23 time gold medalist michael phelps who says the pandemic disruption will result in fewer world records some countries have been able to train some haven't so much been offered of so we're going to really see i think we are going to see a huge kind of difference or i think you see lives as well so the impacts are feeling the effects and. i think some people just find out for months they were what they were definitely no doubt you will recall very many after 15 years in

charge of germany's world cup winning national football coach will step down after the european championship of its took over the job after the 2006 world cup and led the germans to the 2014 title along the way he's also won the fifa confederations cup and reached at least the semifinals in 4 other major tournaments yuri's a set to take place in june and july germany's most prominent manager yog and club has to cut himself unavailable for the job the 53 year old he's been in charge at liverpool is since 2015 when the premier league last season but they're currently on a terrible run of form with 6 home defeats in a right. if i were able for the job. for the benefit of coach of the german national team because i want no somebody else will do the job and i'm pretty sure with them on the free to good german managers in the moment and that only if able to find a good solution. clock face is another gem the manager in the champions league this week i'll be leipzig. he too says he hasn't considered taking the national team job

and has nothing but praise for love has done in the row on a good amount of time venders is in germany we have a lot of young talented players thanks to him he made the important choices at the right moments which weren't easy and which he was criticised for but he had a great stint as manager and i hope it will have a glorious ending i'm excited to see where he'll go next let's update you on the champions league games are going on right now in bristol dortmund heading into the quarter finals to an up against severe both of their goals from erling holland who else he's become the quickest player to reach 20 goals in the competition doing it in just 14 appearances the german side 53 up on aggregate in extra time on his eye and 2 goals for federico as how event as a baton a 1st leg deficit against porto this one they $30.00 on aggregate and heading for extra time barcelona in action on wednesday night with

a very tough job ahead of them they know less in his team mates need to overturn a full one defeat by paris action on the 1st like if that's progress the 2nd leg is in paris the boss occasional came and is convinced his side have the ability to bounce back. but i'd be done we're still alive we're team that always tries to win regardless of where we play and we always great chances to school so if we manage to be clinical nothing is impossible that france's rugby team returned to action in the 6 nations this week after their cave in 1000 outbreak 11 players tested positive which saw their last game against scotland to spend. it was cleared of any wrongdoing despite leaving the bubble to watch his son play rugby in france insists he was not patient 0 this week the ref against england at twickenham looking to make it 3 wins from 3. the outbreak is change nothing in the group whether it's between the staff or the play is the atmosphere remains the same and we get along

very well on this side it's changed nothing until now to the informed player in the world of golf right now the big hitting bryson the shambo the american won the arnold palmer invitational last week in france to incredible shots like this 370 are dried he says the presence of fans helped boost his performance so he's pleased they'll be a 20 percent crowd pasty at t.p.c. sawgrass in florida this week the pressure on the ship is the biggest tournament of the season so far which is known as golf's 5th major. the fans are what create some momentum for players and for me i know that was done for the case last week and will continue to do so they were always coming. by little. or using it say or helping improve my performance with office there's no doubt about it you know winning in detroit last year in the one in the u.s. open it was just it was weird it was a weird feeling to win and i have friends there the race for the oldest trophy in international sport finally gets underway later in new zealand as sailings

america's cup begins racing was delayed by 4 days because of a current of arson lockdown in oakland but now defending champion team new zealand will go up against challenges luna rossa and the best of 13 contest team new zealand a clear favorite say and now to a shock in the tennis at the cats are open in doha south african qualifier lloyd george harris has knocked out the 3 time grand slam champion stunned everything to the 24 year old and now heads 3 to play a lot of fish of it in the last 16 roger federer makes his comeback from injury at the tournament on wednesday. and that is all you'll sport from me barbara demick thank you so much. and that is it for this news hour as well do stay with us i'm going to be back in just a few moment with the latest on the all of the day's news and of course our top story it is the beginning of the jury selection the trial of david short and in

the boy george floyd if you watch about. to take over. as chaos on the streets one on one east is on the ground investigating means for the future of the southeast asia. on out you see. the 1st major legislation for president joe biden is getting the pandemic under control with a battlefield exaction of money we bring you the stories and developments that are

rapidly changing the world we live in now while the pandemic has devastated many industries to give it a huge boost to the videogame sector counting the cost on al-jazeera israel's vaccination drive has been the $1.00 unqualified success in its often criticized response to code 19 the aim is to vaccinate everyone over the age of 16 by the end of march prime minister benjamin netanyahu is promising israelis that this will be the 1st country in the world to emerge from the pandemic of he's persuaded pfizer to commit to an excel aerated supply of its vaccine in return for israel being used as a data rich testbed for its efficacies palestinians living in the eastern half of jerusalem the only known israeli citizens getting israeli procured vaccines the palestinian foreign ministry says israel is neglecting its obligations as an occupying power by not providing vaccines to the 4500000 palestinians in the west bank and gaza while ready a clear gap has emerged between rich nations and poor ones when it comes to vaccinating

their populations israel's own program has outpaced even the richest countries but that's only made stock of just how much the palestinians have been left out of the process and how far they've been left behind. my. heavy security as jury selection begins in the trial of the former policeman facing charges for his role in the deaths of george floyd. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming out in myanmar protests continue against an increasingly brutal regime one senior official describes his dramatic escape fall when we 1st coup.