coronavirus appears far wider than anyone thought. and i'm told stories from asia and the pacific i'm out to see their. hopes of reopening the serious canal a massive container ship is partly refloated after blocking the busy waterway for days. you want you all to sterilize my headquarters here in doha also coming up the trial is to begin of the police officer accused of murdering george floyd whose death sparked protests around the world. hundreds of skate the 5 day siege in nor the

mozambique but there are fears dozens of others have been killed. in the war of words over cotton heats up as china was foreign companies not to mix business and politics. welcome to the program the container ship has bought the service canal for nearly a week has been partially refloated but it remains unclear whether the ever given will be able to continue its voyage the giant vessel ran aground in one of the world's busiest waterways costing billions of dollars in trade every day alexey o'brien has the subtitle. she is of celebration in the so is canal and horns blaring. as the every given finally appears to make a move back your eyes are bad the days and despite a multinational rescue effort the vessel has hardly budged now finally it's been

partially refloated. waged across the suez canal the scale of the problem has dwarfed the machinery seen as a solution. ages and degas have removed thousands of cubic metres of say into from underneath the giant container ship and a team of at least 10 tug boats has been trying to dislodge it for days since it ran aground to tankers in the cargo ships carrying oil gas and grain have stacked up at either end of the canal delaying global trade and costing billions of dollars every day around about 70 percent of the world's oil trade goes through the series canal arm and it can't any any ship has the choice of taking the longer route round the south of africa takes around 2 weeks longer obviously cost more because of the additional i'm shipping cost so ships are having to make their decision do they whites are in that queue of $300.00 or do they take the a longer trip the crisis is

a weary having an impact on syria the authorities forced to announce a few rationing of supplies from iran a stock the news coming out of syria is deeply deeply worrying the country was already heating crisis point with a comic collapse hitting syria and the daily lives of syrians and now these delays to fuel shipments will make an really bad situation worse there had been fears an operation would be needed to lighten the ship which is $20000.00 containers on board requiring a crane and other equipment that's yet to arrive but it appears a flotilla of tugboats and a higher tide may have deemed that unnecessary alexy o'brian al jazeera. egypt's president of the for the r.c.c. has hailed the success of the operation so let's take a close look at what's happened so far of the 400 meter long vessel was wedged across the canal since tuesday but owner said high winds and

a sand storm pushed the ship sideways but egyptian authorities say could have been human or technical error early on monday after days of. and with the help of at least 14 tug boats those working on the salvage operation manage to turn the ever given in the right direction their next move is towing the container ship to a wider part of the canals other vessels can pass the blockage has disrupted global supply chains and hundreds of cargo ships oil tankers have been delayed sea pogs is the director of seaport freight services he says with the number of vessels waiting another congestion is expected. we've got 20 consigns on board and the cargo ranging from line a few lower incidence so it starts. potts one course our clients are very concerned and they get they could spend time. this is very good news small niche in the release it's a smart we might think that it's nonperishable it's not that we'd call or say

that's that's not really a problem but if anyone has got parish records on matter then a suppose i could be a problem because she was cute or oh i don't need extent this good friday and i can't really see her writing for who least not a step and maybe to 14 days i have checked her structure or the best of going to be released more or less of once and they're all going to be arriving in europe. round pads the same time so there is my theory on the band not the congestions child congestions this has never happened before i think the last time the sewers was close was in 9067 during the 6 day war so yeah i mean this this is really never happened the whole mess was like getting larger and larger and it's a very very narrow can out. of the era nothing can match or or turn to go around the cape in africa really isn't any i think any incident do

just goes to prove how fragile the supply chain a's and i were destruction like this which just came out that the loop can have such an effect on ground on the chance of goods. national civil rights leaders in the us a calling for justice for george floyd but how the press. before the start of direction on this murder trial later on monday. minneapolis police officer is accused of killing floyd in may last year by kneeling on his neck for almost 9 minutes. is charged with murder if convicted he faces a maximum of 40 years in prison the 45 year old is also accused to manslaughter and to get a conviction prosecutors will lead to prove that trayvon created an unreasonable risk of death or bodily harm george floyd died last may in the u.s. city of minneapolis the 46 year old was arrested for allegedly using a fake $20.00 bill to buy some cigarettes and was filmed leaving old floyd snake

for the 89 minutes for he was later pronounced dead in hospital john hendren how small from minneapolis. george floyd's death reignited the u.s. civil rights movement and set off a racial revolution in american streets. it energized the black lives matter movement in harden the country's racial divide now the trial of the police officer accused of floyd's murder could either close a bitter chapter in american history. or rekindle the arson fueled riots of the summer of 2020 across the united states and moving will be similar to what took place when this happened you know we felt it all the way in chicago. you know people are angry. but in their frustrations will say they know how the murder trial of fired police officer derek children is perhaps the most anticipated civil

rights case here in the u.s. in the 21st century it will mark a test case of racial justice in 2021 in the case of a black man who died beneath the knee of a white police officer who held him there for 8 minutes in 46 seconds. that jury was. the show than in this disturbing video as floyd cries out for his life at the bridge. we don't take anything for granted we have to keep our eyes on the prize to make sure that he doesn't get away with murder as so many other police officers have done to people of carla and america not since the racially charged trial of the white police officers charged in the 1991 beating of rodney king has one legal case so captured a moment in american racial history. when a largely white suburban jury found the defendants not guilty the streets of los angeles a rock did in violent fury in black america police are now often seen in the darkest

light now people are not viewing the police as a welcome presence in the commuter rather as an unwelcome presence as it's been referred to over the years and that you plan on or. as minneapolis anxiously boards up for new demonstrations many fear what could happen if children is allowed to walk free people gonna be outraged because it again has proven that the system is not protected and fellow i think people gonna be upset and down while all right we have 15 this time a racially diverse jury of $12.00 and $3.00 alternates 9 white 4 black into mixed race will decide the fate of another white police officer. and that could set the direction of the american civil rights movement for years to come john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis. me about its military has its current state with

more and strikes false and thousands of people to flee their homes they were told saying the current national liberation army the ethnic group is one of the dozens finds if equate to autonomy as tony chang reports. ethnic korean villages hiding in the jungle off the jets attacked their homes overnight thousands fled after a force launched a series of attacks at the weekend that left several people dead many are now too scared to return fleeing across the border into thailand. last night we were not aware that the jet fighters were coming and they randomly bombed all of a sudden and then left late at night the jets came again and afterwards we heard gunshots we heard that the jets will come again. thailand is tighten border security in expectation of a flow of refugees from myanmar but as violence has flared in the citizen border areas over the past week or thor it is fear that could become

a flood. many refugees are expected we have prepared an area for them to stay 1st that they cross over we can talk about the numbers later we are not going to talk about permanent shelter yet we are not there yet. the groups have long feared attack from the air their basic weaponry is eclipsed by a professional armed force with high tech from china and russia and now it seems they have the ability to attack at night. and it's not a fair fight elsewhere either protesters on the streets of yangon defending their homes from the security services facing soldiers armed with machine guns with bows and arrows like david facing goliath. tony chang al jazeera. police in indonesia discovered explosives related to sunday's suicide attack on a cathedral in the city of macassar offices conducted raids in several locations

including the home of the bombers 19 people were injured in the blast just a washington has more from jakarta. we know now that the 2 bombers were in fact a married couple who only been married for 6 months before they carried out this attack on a cathedral in the city of mecca we also know that these 2 individuals belonged to the local chapter of a militant organization known as j 80. dollars that is a militant organization in it in asia that has a violent history of targeting churches and also police stations it's the same organization that was responsible for the church bombings in the philippines in 2019 and also church bombings in sort of buying into in 28 this is an organization which has launched these small scale attacks and the style of yesterday's attack in terms of involving 2 spouses is quite characteristic of this organization now in terms of the security landscape in into the asia the situation

has really changed in these type of bombings did not happen at the same sort of frequency that they did 15 or just 10 years ago but this organization as a result of the pressure from security forces has resulted to these small scale attacks and often wholly planned attacks if the intention of the bombers was to cause a huge amount of damage and a high number of casualties. well still ahead here on al-jazeera england begins to raise quote a virus restrictions but a 3rd wave gets worst amongst its continental mavens and we look at the impact of quote a virus on the illegal wildlife trade and why many fear it may only get worse those stories after the break. it's time for the perfect gentleman. sponsored point qatar airways

it's been about a month's worth of the more than once was a rainy and honshu recently not a frontal system as it went through but it has gone through now and we leave behind largely fine weather we slowly rising temperatures is an area of high pressure here but this is one to watch i think is the start of spring rains really so that's like develop in the next day or so over central china it's over the yangtze valley this is of course where you might expect to find the heavy rains north of that things are slowly warming up air quality is not a moment in beijing with temps around about 21 rises to 23 as rain trying to come slowly up into this part of china but we leave the korean peninsula and all of japan in the sunshine with temperatures rising for example in tokyo 45 degrees was hit in sindh province in pakistan typically we are above 14 a good part of this part of india as well and that hint of a brown streak suggests quite windy weather coming through the next day or so got

to be good news for delhi where air quality has been suffering as you know all winter and certainly does give a windy forecast for wednesday and says euphoric rather quietens on friday clearly a good surface wind for the right direction a clean direction would improve your equality it may go bad again on friday. sponsored paul qatar airways. frank assessments the world is on the brink of a catastrophic model failure is that a fair assessment it would be a catastrophic failure to twice a 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 our.

you're watching officer of the cell robin a reminder of our top stories the container ship the spot the serious canal for almost a week has been partially refloated authorities warn it could still take days to clear the backlog of hundreds of ships going on either side of the canal. over the arguments in the trial of the former minneapolis police officer accused of killing george floyd begin on monday. could face decades in prison if he's convicted footage of him kneeling on george floyd's neck last year sparked protests across the u.s. and beyond. also mere miles militaries carried out more airstrikes targeting separatists fighters in the qur'an states thailand is preparing for a flood of refugees as thousands flee across the border. most are big

some militaries say dozens of defenseless civilians have been killed after an armed group took over a town there a major gas project on wednesday among the victims are 7 civilians who were ambushed as they tried to flee the hotel foreign nationals are once those caught in the violence between security forces and an armed group hundreds of people have been evacuated terrible tosser has more from harare in neighboring zimbabwe. there's still a communication blackout in mozambique army uses this little pockets of resistance fighters from this school operating in. evacuations are still ongoing but occasionally they need a bigger boat they need bigger helicopter to evacuate thousands of people to safety people are asking how did the attack happened the players have the mozambique an army there they have the police there that private armies the area but still the fighters from the armed managed to go in to parma we've been told that before the

fighters into the town there was some kind of disturbance out by the town so some security forces went in that direction and during the chaos and believe that some of these fighters from the armed groups then entered parma and blended in with the local population now mozambique's army does have a strong point but it's known or it's been reported that there is a low morale in the army they don't have enough manpower and they don't have the equipment when it comes to the fighters from the armed groups people will tell you no one really knows much about the fighters people don't know who they are and what they actually want but analysts say that they seem to have strong intelligence and they seem to have to get the equipment and that time they have managed the entire town to soldiers of the. military. according to officials to the assailants were also killed during the raid on the base and. no group has yet

claimed responsibility. on the base previously. 13 soldiers were killed. the u.s. is hoping to secure $10000000000.00 from international donors at a conference in belgium to support syrian refugees the 2 day meeting is being co-chaired by the european union and to the un hundreds of thousands of people are being killed is areas decade long war more than 10000000 have been displaced our a response by hysteria covering both refugees in neighboring countries and syrians inside their own country is the biggest one we've ever had for this crisis we're trying to raise moment $10000000000.00 and it's bigger this year than ever because the the crisis is worse there's a particular huge impact of the global economic contraction and syria's own economic problems on malnutrition and on and declining elsevier some like the

country last year we raised $5500000000.00 i would like to be able to raise more this year we'll see what we don't stray able to do most of the don't know as i know are going to say there are obviously it's well known as one of 2 unfortunately you caves that back but we hope people will act in a way that reflects not just a need to be generous to the syrians but also reflects the national interest of other countries because we don't keep these problems are going to spread. the u.n. special envoy to syria has told all jazeera there are worrying the size it is trying to gather strength in the desert of diplomatic editor reports from the united nations. they created their own defacto state carved out of parts of syria and iraq and ruled in a most brutal way justifying their actions with their own interpretation of islam.

2 years ago president trump declared eisele had been defeated that after a long military operation some of it human rights campaigners say also carried out in a brutal manner involving kurdish fighters the iraqi military american special forces and u.s. bombardment from the air. now their former capital racker lies in ruins but experts say eisel may be slowly rebuilding themselves in the deserts of syria and what we've witnessed in central syria in particular is a robust and growing isis campaign that is applying pressure on the military and oil infrastructure that is actually forcing the russians the regime and the iranians to respond and try to figure out how to stabilize the security situation is such talk a lot missed not according to the u.n. special envoy for syria pederson you should or should be worried about what you see

as increased the harsh activity is in order and in certain areas of syria and i have never before as you know members of the security council now we need a collaborative effort you're fired the kurds are still active in syria i mean. i'm going to be. on top of this there's another problem related to isolate the world is not confronting there are thousands of prisoners some of them foreign fighters but mainly women and children being held in camps in northeast syria in the largest camp i'll hold there are nearly 30000 children the conditions a grim they risk being alienated and further radicalized james pays al-jazeera at the united nations. now the president of chile says that he'll ask congress to perspire in next month's election because of

a. coronavirus cases sebastian pinera was the vote for an assembly to write a new constitution to be moved to may chill a scene a new wave of covert 19 infections and the end of the summer holiday season last month and on sunday the government announced new lockdown measures to curb the spread more than 962000 people are infected and over 22000 have died the australian city of brit's been is going into a 3 day snap lockdown after 4 new locally transmitted corona virus infections were detected queensland state premier says the cases of the highly infectious u.k. strain and under the new restrictions people were only be allowed to leave home for essential work shopping care duties or exercise schools will also be closed. the 1st batch of astra zeneca vaccines from the us backed kovacs scheme have arrived in kosovo the $24000.00 doses will be used for health care workers and the elderly kosovo is the only country in europe that hasn't started inoculating its

population it has nearly 88900 cases a more than 1800 deaths. england is now allowing the small dog gatherings as it enters the 2nd phase of its lockdown easing outdoor swimming pools tennis court stalls courses and sailing clubs are also reopening britain has just passed a milestone for giving the 1st vaccine doses to more than 30000000 adults but it's a different story across the channel in continental europe where restrictions are tightening due to a surge in infections journal hole has more from the british capital. a hyper cautious approach though being followed here in england in particular to the lifting of lockdown also in the other nations of the u.k. all following a sort of gradual stage by stage lifting of lockdown there's none of the sort of gung ho rush to freedom that characterized past lockdowns for 3 weeks now in england the schools have been open as of today as you said there people can gather

outdoors and in private gardens in groups of up to 6 in another 2 weeks time the pubs and restaurants will be allowed to serve people outdoors only but it's all being undertaken with great care the overriding sense is that this should be the last ever locked down but of course the real problem that people here are very concerned about is the looming specter of 3rd wave hitting countries in europe the idea that there may be variants there are variants circulating there that could then be imported back to the u.k. and threaten that enormously successful vaccination program as of monday 57 percent of adults have had their 1st job the government expects that by july all adults will have been fully vaccinated and that is a program and progress that they are desperately keen to protect so much so that the latest government messaging coming out on monday to accompany this next stage of the lifting of lockdown includes advice from a psychologist aimed at people who may be tempted to go further and break the

remaining lockdown restrictions perhaps under pressure from their peers it says set your boundaries be assertive and say no. foreign companies are being told not to mix business with politics if they want to keep operating in china the warnings come from a spokesman function jones regional government at a news conference where he was asked about the use of ethnic leaders and forced labor to produce cotton and a growing number of western retail giant. thanks in a boycott in china for voicing their concerns entering brown as in hong kong he says sheen jans officials are warning the world should not mess with china. the message was quite simple and it was basically this don't believe what the western media is saying about the situation changing it bears no comparison with reality where's the evidence of sexual violence against women in these so-called vocational training centers which human rights groups call labor camps where is the evidence

of forced labor in the cotton farms and cotton mills and cotton factories where is there evidence of of people being repressed when it comes to religion there is no evidence and that was the message that came through loud and clear and there was another i think theme throughout and it was this don't mess with china we've had you know years decades of being humiliated by the west we're tired of the smears we're tired of the lies the media who were in attendance were actually invited to go to shin jang to see for themselves but of course as we've seen from the past when the media go to shin jang they tend to be heavily chaperoned so this was an attempt also by the not just the shin jang government but also by the the central government to respond to the sanctions that have been placed on china those targeted sanctions by the united kingdom the united states canada and the e.u. because of the well documented repression they say is taking place and changing of course china in the last few days has responded with sanctions of its own so this

media conference was part and parcel of that. in the galapagos islands of rescued 175 endangered baby tortoise instrument trafficker and they've been wrapped in plastic and put in a suitcase and simply they were being brought to the mainland before being shipped elsewhere now the reptiles can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars on the black markets and the divine is an associate director of the wildlife conservation society she says it's going concern that the illegal wildlife trade is a driver of virus transmission. the wildlife trade is very complex and multi-factorial for sure there is the removal of wildlife from protected areas and natural lands to be consumed as food to be traded long distances to be sold as pets sometimes to be sold illegally to collections and soon it is it's a it's a large problem because there are

a lot of different. components of the trade we also need a lot of different ways to address it but enforcing the rules that are in place and continuing to engage both with governments and have pressure from the public to end the practice is really critical moving forward yes the wildlife conservation society has been working on addressing wildlife trade and trafficking and also the health risks associated with wildlife trade per couple decades now and the kind of practices that we see in the wildlife trade especially wildlife moving for human consumption as food but also for pets we see the trade in a lot of mammals a lot of birds both groups of animals that can harbor viruses that could infect people as well and spillover to domestic animals and or human populations and become a pandemic as we're seeing today with kobe 1000 we're not talking here about the

consumption of wildlife and local communities for food as it has been consumed for generations but more about the trade the commercial trade the buying and selling and the long scale transportation of wildlife that's where you have the opportunities for different species to mix for viruses to spillover across species and also for animals that are moving through this trade being very stressed therefore producing more virus and then coming into contact with domestic animals and humans. thank. you're watching over there with the whole robin a reminder of our top stories the container ship that's brought these series canal for almost a week has been partially refloated or thirty's warning it could still take days to clear the backlog of hundreds of ships came on either side of the canal. over the arguments in the trial of the form of minneapolis please.