but her resolve is unshaken. need to devil lives without. witness on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. this is the al-jazeera news out live from london coming up. a minneapolis court hears from key witnesses on day one of the trial of derek chauvet in the form of police officer accused of killing. a container ship in the suez canal is finally freed but it could take days to clear the backlog

. fleeing as strikes back home but not welcome in thailand the reality for thousands of 1000000 more refugees trapped on the border. and claims of forced labor in china's cotton fields beijing warns western retailers not to mix business with politics. and i'm santa how much now have all the sports well saw a guy with a bell says he's prepared to join a collective boycott of social media after members of the well squad that were targeted online with racial abuse. the. it was a death that marked a turning point in race relations in america and ignited mass protests across the world now the main suspect charged in the killing of george floyd has gone on trial in minneapolis 10 months after the black man lost his life while being held down by

police officers the case is being broadcast live and is likely to have far reaching consequences across the u.s. prosecutor gerrie blackwell described how white policeman derek shogun knelt on freud's neck or he and his fellow offices ignored floyd saying i can't breathe at least 27 times where the jury was shown the full video of the event but sherman's defense says he was simply following police procedure and that floyd's drug use contributed to his death. a 2nd main a look at the main elements of this trial derek chauvinist charged with 3 offenses the 1st is unintentional 2nd degree murder which could get him up to 40 years in prison prosecutors must prove or show evidence conduct was a substantial causal factor in floyd's death and that the officer was committing a felony assault at the time is also facing a 3rd degree murder charge shavings actions must be found to have caused floyd's

death while being reckless and without regard for human life and this 2nd degree manslaughter which requires proof that shaven cause floyd's death through negligence that created an unreasonable risk the pool of jurors who will decide his fate is a diverse mix of 15 people including 9 who are white 4 black and 2 of mixed race they were otherwise remain anonymous nearly $400.00 witnesses could eventually be included and evidence is expected to be presented for up to 4 weeks 3 other former officers have been charged over ford's death i was on the coon thomas lane and 2 tower but they won't go on trial until the 23rd of august. the court trial in minneapolis so talk us through what happened on that. very good afternoon to you from minneapolis minnesota where it's a little bit after 4 o'clock here local time and this trial is now very much under

way the 1st day of this trial for derek show of and as you said it started off with both the prosecution and the defense giving their very important key opening statements these are the times this is the moment that both sides can pretty much lay out for the jury how they plan to proceed with this trial as you mentioned we got a sense of it from both the prosecution and the defense prosecution essentially saying we are going to show over the course of this trial that it was derek show when the police officer who killed who killed george george floyd by placing his knee on his neck for more than 9 minutes and they showed that very graphic video to the jury of course the defense then come back came back and said there's more to this than simply that video and they said that there's were other circumstances that led

to george floyd's death let's hear a little bit more of what both one of them the prosecutors and one of the defense attorneys had to say. the force that mr chavez was using was lethal force it was force that was capable of killing a human or putting his or her life in danger. the evidence is going to show you that there was no cause in the 1st place to use lethal force against a man who was defenseless who was handcuffed who was not resisting. learn about crowd control medical intervention deescalation procedural justice crisis intervention and the human factors of force that is what happens to a police officer or any person when they are involved in a high stress use of force situation. and you will learn

a direct show when did exactly what he had been trained to do over the course of his 19 year for. the use of force is not attractive but it is a necessary component of police. now the trial is continuing right now in this government building there that you see behind me and they are now on their 3rd witness of the day critical witnesses the 1st person of the day called by the prosecution was genesis curry a woman who was a police dispatcher on the day that george floyd was killed why the prosecution called her because she was watching live feeds of cameras that were in that very area as derek show vun had his sneak up on george floyd's neck and as a police dispatcher she was so concerned she told the jury that she actually called

her supervisor and said something is not right here and she said i was she said that she actually thought that the video has had frozen because chauvinists knee was on george floyd's neck for so long so the prosecution clearly called her as a witness because she's someone that works within the police department as a dispatcher was watching a live feed from the police headquarters of the intersection where all of this was taking place and she was very very concerned and said something was not right. after that we heard from a young 23 year old eyewitness elisa euler a young girl that worked in the building across the street that shot some cell phone video not the cell phone video that was. that we see a lot but the one that was a new one that was from across the street they could see from

a 2nd story building they could see down below the whole scene that was that was transpiring she was young she was clearly very nervous giving testimony but the key aspect of her was that she shot more than 5 different clips of video that she then posted to social media and that is why prosecutors called her because they wanted to get that video so that the jury could see it then the defense also cross-examined both of these witnesses who was trying to sort of punch some holes in it you know on the on the dispatcher they give defense was saying basically like you know all you were doing was seeing some some some live feeds you weren't necessarily getting a full picture of the situation that offense was telling the other eye witness who was shooting the video from across the street his oiler basically saying you couldn't really see what was going on because you were a little far away trying to bunts punch him like uncertainty in their testimony

right now on the witness stand is a man named donald williams he's interesting and he was called by the prosecution and he's being questioned right now because he was an eyewitness he just happened to be right there as this was going on and what's interesting about him is his voice is heard in many of the videos pleading with the officers pleading with derek shoaf and stop stop he can't breathe you're hurting him please get off of him this is donald williams' young man testifying now what's interesting about him and this is very interesting is he has a mixed. martial artist athlete so he is very used to doing chokeholds and there the prosecution is asking him about this he knows what it it's like to be in a chokehold and he knows so much about it he says i know the difference between an air choke hold and a blood choke hold you know when it's an air choke hold you're just trying to cut off the air when it's a blood choke hold you're trying to cut off the blood circulation of the head

bottom line here is he's an interesting because when he was watching this he's testifying that essentially he could tell how bad this was hurting george floyd because as a mixed martial artist person he knows what it's like to have a pressure being applied to his neck and he and he was right there as an eyewitness so he's testifying now we'll have to see how much longer the the judge will allow testimony to go on today a little after 4 10 pm here local time we think it might go on another half hour perhaps another hour it's pretty much up to the judge but bottom line is there has been a lot of action in that courtroom so far on this monday and this could be a case that goes on for some time and it's interesting how many people seem to be nigh witnesses and that the volume of evidence that that was collected from the scene. there is a lot there are a lot of eyewitnesses there's lots of video everyone of course now has

a cell phone videos and they're taking video from very different standpoints it's not just that very dramatic and graphic video that that we all of unfortunately had to witness where you know you can hear george floyd saying i can't breathe i can't breathe that's the key piece of video but there's other video from a block away half a block away from various different angles there's closed a security camera footage that the that the dispatcher was looking at so there's a lot of different angles to this that will be presented to the jury. over the course of this at least month long trial and as you mentioned certainly the hundreds of potential witnesses that could be called keep in mind what the prosecution is doing now is just setting the stage for the coming days and weeks none of the witnesses they're calling today are going to make or break this case what they're doing is slowly introduce seeing this scene to the jury and that's

what they will be doing the prosecutors over the coming days as they get deeper into this that is when they will start bringing in more expert witnesses and that's where it will get a little bit more complicated this trial but right now they're they want to get emotion into this and they want to grab the jury's attention they want to do that early in this trial the prosecutors and that's why they're calling these witnesses initially here to the stand on this opening day of the trial. gabriel is on to thank you very much indeed. prior to the trial joel troy's family was joined by a civil rights activists and their legal team outside the court where they knelt for more than 9 minutes after the amount of time form a police officer showman had his knee on floyd's neck attorney ben crump says the trial will show how far the u.s. has come in the fight for equality on the family called for justice for all black

people killed by police offices. this trial. is going to provide evidence over where the we were in the for me. where we say we hold these truths to be self evident that oh are pretty equally that they're down by their creator with certain inalienable rights that among our might in liberty in the pursuit of happiness will america that made black people into america that me your current. civil rights activist reverend sharpton said it's not just shaven on trial in this case make no mistake about it shape it is in the courtroom but america's own trial. america's own child to see if we have gotten to a place where we can hold police accountable if they break the law the law

is for everybody police were not above the law police were to subject to the law and gas was going on in this court room and that's why we hear. this is the executive director of the advancement project a nonprofit focusing on racial justice she joins us from washington d.c. by skype thank you very much for being with us or what would you say the wine to significance of the trial is. well i think 1st of all thank you for having me it's very important that this child be put in perspective dirt chauvinism on trial but this case is about much more because this isn't the 1st case that we have seen of a police officer killing a black person in the united states and so i think to reverend sharpton point is that the whole system is on trial and that it's important that we understand that

that the way that these cases have worked over time is that often the fleece officers walk away and that their family does not get justice and so it's important to put it in perspective because at the end of the day the kind of chance for mation we need in this country around public safety does not hinge on this case but people are hopeful that finally our system will work so that someone will have to be held accountable for killing a black person and for killing them with i mean this is an reasonable force on every level not people who are witnessing that the tribal people that have been spoken to in the street outside have said that they could they you know they've called for a change after it happened and they they don't know if change has actually happened what what would you say has there been any kind of substantial changes in the way policing is carried out that would make this not happen in future. well you know i

do think that the movement to battle has been bubbling up across the country has called for accountability and significant change what has happened as a result is that we do have a bill that is pending in congress called the justice in policing act it's called the george floyd justice and policing act we have several places across the country where communities and come together and move to make their local city councils cut funding to policing and put that money into the supports for communities and so while i think we're not going to see change very quickly we are seeing change because america has had a hold up a mirror to itself and understand that for many communities especially the black community that police do not keep us safe and they cannot be trusted and so there is a question right now in this country around the legitimacy of the police and what is the true role in our communities so what would the reforms you think would be would

be necessary to for the police as an institution. well one of the things that were missed the play out in the show than trial is around use of force because the defense is going to argue that they use reasonable force when he put his foot on the neck of a black man they will say that that was reasonable and what we will also see is that they will say that he was just playing by the book this is the way he was trained and so those 2 things we know reasonableness and what we call qualified immunity is the shield against accountability and so those are 2 things that we have to change in this country and then there's culture because the other thing is we don't understand the dark chauvinism not just a bad apple but it is the whole tree that is infected with racism is your impression that a lot of this will focus on the cause of death i mean they seem to have already the

defense of brought up the fact that he was had to consume drugs is that something that you think will be a key factor in deciding this. well i think it's it is the defense's case because what they are what they need to do and will try to do is to plant seeds of doubt with the jury about whether or not he died from some other cause other than oxford and so they will go to whether or not he had frozen a system of cetera but i think anybody can see that no human being should be treated the way that george floyd was treated on may 23rd thank you very much indeed judas brown tanusree appreciate you talking to sinatra there thank you. in other news ships sailing again through the suez canal one of the world's most important waterways after the giant container ship blocking it for 6 days was

finally moved. these are the scenes on board one of the tug boats that shifted the 200000 ton ever given with the help of a high tide queues of more than 350 vessels have grown either side of the canal a since it ran aground last tuesday and actually o'brien has been. finally on the move the ever given being towed to down the sewer was canal after being stuck for almost a week. celebrations began before dawn as the massive container ship was 1st partially refloated. the backyard of that a despite an international rescue a fit the vessel had been waged across the waterway which is one of the busiest in the world. since tuesday dredges and diggers have removed thousands of cubic meters of sand from underneath the ship and

a flotilla of tugboats has worked on dislodging it it's forced tankers and cargo ships to queue at either end of the canal delaying global trade. each day that passes there's about $7.00 to $8000000000.00 worth of goods which would usually pass through the canal so a week later you're talking $4550000000000.00 of delays really as much of the thing will catch up and some of that but there will be ongoing place it's hard to put a figure on it and of course some carcasses may perish because they were time critical they'll be in no doubt some big insurance claims going in the crisis is having an impact on syria the authorities a ration in fuel is supplies from iran a stack some vessels are carrying livestock cotton from india for coats and auto parts from china. well we've got 20 confines on board and the cargo ranging from one of your and so it starts. parts. of very concerned not only get the goods she wants you to write and it extent this good

friday and i can't really say or write an least not step and maybe 14 days experts say the blockage raises long term questions about the canal sustainability i think what's happened is that container carriers have got larger quite rapidly. and so i think this particular accident was really waiting to happen it's going to be a lot of head scratching and thinking not only about making supply chains more resilience but i'm sure the series can our authorities having a good heart think as well about how to make the the canal itself more about despite the progress the salvage company warns there are still challenges and even with they have a given underway canel thora he say it will take days for the backlog to klia alexia bryan al-jazeera. activist groups say thailand has forced back more than

2000 people fleeing astra. strikes were targeting the karen national liberation army the armed ethnic group is one of dozens fighting for greater autonomy 20 trying reports. ethnic korean villages hiding in the jungle off the jets attacked their homes overnight thousands fled off the 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 has tightened border security in expectation of a flow of refugees from myanmar but as ballance 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 up 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. members ethnic armed 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 chiang al jazeera. arsal is claiming responsibility for the attack on the city of palmer in mozambique in which dozens of people are being killed and thousands more still missing several

witnesses say bodies are lying in the street with many beheaded the government says it's working to restore order which also has more. now say in the port city of pemba people who survived the attack on palmer say the unlucky to be alive anxious relatives and friends have been waiting for them to arrive fighting between mozambique's army and an armed group that calls itself has been going on for days in parma. missing there's no communication there workers left guards they left they come by on trucks machines i don't know what a little they came just with these clothes south african adrian was killed trying to escape the father of 3 was traveling in a convoy which was ambushed by the group his father and brother hid his body in the bush until they were able to make a to safety. and then

a very. in an acceptable way. we were just loving joyful and. it's good that while. we're. on monday i still claim responsibility for the attack on palmer commodore got a province in northern missouri and beak is where most of the major gas discoveries have been made in recent years but has been wracked with violence i don't think that mozambique trying to defeat the insurgency that we are seeing in modern muslim because most in government has managed to do so nigeria will be i don't know how many times richard and was a big it has to not been able to. eliminate.

it just the not been to eliminate the surgeons the niger delta region so i think we shouldn't dream that mozambique. current is to what is probably going as evacuations continue security forces say they are trying to secure parma the exact number of people killed injured and unaccounted for is still unknown humanitarian workers warn the numbers will rise as fighting continues in parts of northern lights and the. out of there police in indonesia say they have made 13 arrests and discovered more explosives in raids following sunday's suicide attack on a cathedral offices searched several locations including the home of the bombers america people who are part of a group said to be aspired by eisel they were the only people killed in the attack in the city of mecca which injured 19 people jessica 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 love that is a militant organization in indonesia 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 misa in $28.00 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 engine asia the situation has really changed and 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 resorted to these small scale attacks and often holy planned attacks if the intention of the bombers was to cause a huge amount of damage and a high number of casualties so i had this news out. on the talk about the just outside paris of frogs as facts and they seemed so as the country exonerates immunization campaign and a lucky rescue for nearly $200.00 endangered baby turtles being smuggled out of the galapagos islands. and as for the scope for celebrating his 1st we'll go for a championship title. for the perfect german. sponsored plan cuts and ways they have

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northeasterly wind this is the big picture for wednesday then and look at that bottom right hand corner that's a cold wind developing across the bosphorus the sea of mommer so 10 degrees in istanbul and quite windy through the gin and into the eastern med for a couple of days. sponsored paul qatar airways. legal country onto the pitch is a special moment for any footballer to do it as a palestinian woman is a remarkable achievement. footballing legend and a continental introduces honey saga who broke through social and political barriers to inspire a generation of female players across the middle east. football rebels that's their way. on al-jazeera. news welcome to doha from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the

scenes. so you can relax and enjoy the perfect breaking news. and when you leave with a smile we know law day's work is done qatar airways welcome to our home. and we're going to run to the top stories here now to 0 the white police officer charged in the killing of george troy has gone on trial in minneapolis prosecutor gerrie blackwell described how derek show been knelt on floyd's neck while he and his fellow officers ignored floyd saying i can't breathe at least 27 times showbiz

defends says he was simply following police procedure and that ford's drug use contributed to his death. the suez canal is open again after a giant container ship that was blocking it was finally moved 220-0000 ton ever given ran aground last tuesday in a sand storm with 350 vessels have been forced to queue outside the compound. interest groups say thailand just forced more than 2000 people fleeing asked me in march the strikes were targeting the karen national liberation army an armed ethnic group fighting for greater autonomy in. the corona virus was most probably transmitted from animals and it's highly unlikely that it was leaked from a lab that's according to the draft of a joint report by the world health organization and china's government obtained by the associated press before it's released on tuesday in january

a team of experts visited rouhani the chinese city where coded 19 was 1st detected they want to establish the origins of the corona virus the draft says the virus was most likely transmitted from bats to humans through another animal which hasn't been identified yet and it all but dismisses the possibility that the virus escaped from a lab in wu han a theory that was promoted by former u.s. president donald trump and others it says such accidents are rare and the labs in a well managed but the drop was inconclusive on whether the outbreak began the 200 markets which recorded one of the earliest clusters in december 29000 the discovery of other cases before the market outbreak suggests it may have started elsewhere the u.s. is concerned about chinese influence on the report and the independence of its findings our white house correspondent kimberly halkett has more. there is a lot of interest and skepticism about an imminent report by the world health

organization and china that is expected to be released that concludes that the virus covert 19 did not escape from a lab but instead from a bat and then to another animal and eventually human transmission of the reason that there is skepticism about this conclusion is that the former c.d.c. director robert redfield has said that he thinks that in fact this did escape from a chinese lab in han and that he believes that there may be a coverup on the part of china given the fact that when the united states offered to send investigators to help determine the origins of the virus china refused u.s. assistance so there is a lot of anticipation about this report the white house press secretary says a wide array of science experts are reviewing it and next steps will be discussed

based on those conclusions but that leaves in question what those next steps might be given the fact that there are already very frosty relations between the united states and china and given the fact that there have been more than a 1000000 americans killed by covert 19 there is a lot of anticipation not only about this report but the consequences the united states may take as a result of its findings u.s. president joe biden is promising to a 90 percent of all american adults the 1st coronavirus job within the next 3 weeks speaking to reporters biden also called on the public to remain vigilant after a 10 percent increase in coronavirus cases over the past week our work is far from over we're going to cromer 90 days far from won. this is deadly serious we share the sentiment of dr molinsky the head of our center for disease control and prevention the c.d.c. expressed earlier today this is not a time to lessen our efforts as

a she said we could still see a setback in the vaccination program and most importantly if we let our guard down now we could see a virus getting worse not better. french president emmanuel mccoy scaling up his government's coronavirus vaccination campaign after a slow start the government is mobilizing more health workers and opening mass vaccination centers for the 1st time but some doctors are warning it's too late to slow a 3rd wave of reports from outside paris. france is because covert vaccination center the national velodrome in sac alternate paris where the french cycling team is training for the tokyo lympics the elite athletes are an unusual destruction for those waiting the elderly are being prioritized in the country's vaccine rollout the began in december people like monique who hopes that being immunized will allow her to resume a more normal life

a burden this the idea is to have more freedom it's my 1st choice after the 2nd hopefully i can look after my grandchildren in the school holidays an average of 2000 people are vaccinated each day but cycle times men says the operation will be soon scaled up with a drive in facility and more staff the new virus variants are placing actual pressure on us because more people want to be vaccinated and fast you says people are scared cases in schools are going up before the pressure is rising dozens of mass vaccination centers like this one are being prepared around the country after french president about all mark or promise to accelerate the country's immunization campaign levick synastry vaccination is a national priority there are no public holidays no weekend for the vaccination campaign we have to vaccinate as much as possible in all of acceleration centers open at the national level or maximum mccraw has stepped up the sense of urgency that was lacking at the start of the vaccine campaign so far one in 10 people has

received a 1st dose in frogs compared to hall for britain's adult population the government has blamed pharmaceutical companies for failing to deliver enough doses to the european union now some doctors say that a lack of facilities and bureaucracy. could hinder progress. the priorities having enough doses must be easier and simpler to take appointments and we need to offer explanations not just the next you know drums but more locally to make it easier for everyone to find a vaccination center macro wants 30000000 people immunized by mid june with every adult offered the possibility of a job by august the president is gambling on a major facts seem push to avoid another national lockdown but with daily infection cases rising fast hospitals in many regions saturated it's likely to be a challenging race to the finish line natasha butler al-jazeera cycled out on evening england is now allowing small outdoor gatherings of 6 people as it enters

the 1st phase of relaxing lockdown restrictions outdoor swimming pools tennis courts golf courses and sailing clubs are also reopening on sunday the u.k. confirmed more than 30000000 adults had received their 1st vaccine shot but it's a different story across the channel in continental europe as we heard where restrictions a tightening because of surging infections turner how has more from london. 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 lockdown but of course the real problem that people here are very concerned about is the looming specter of 3rd waves hitting countries in europe the idea that they 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 would 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.

reportedly resigned to get enough vaccines. joe was a major critic of china and vocal supporter of former u.s. president donald trump some lawmakers say that's damage brazil's chances of receiving more vaccines from the chinese government and the biden and ministration of 300000 people have died in the country. chile's president sebastian pinera says he'll ask congress to postpone an election for a new constitutional assembly until may because of coronavirus concerns chile has one of the fastest vaccination campaigns in the world but cases are still rising not in america to understand human has more. i'm in southern chile in the city of a move which is under total lockdown that's why you see soldiers behind me trying to enforce these restrictions and many others that have been in place here for more than a month as a most of the country and yet cope with 19 infractions continue to soar out of control and that is why the presidency of us. has asked congress to approve

a bill to a tool to allow the postponement of elections that were due to take place here in chile on april 10th and 11th instead is asking that they be postponed until the 15th of may at the moment hospitals are 96 percent full the air force is having to medivac patients from one side of the country to the other in search of critical care beds and so while the opposition had been vehemently opposed to postponing the elections up until now it seems that everybody is now on board and believes that politics are less important than saving people's lives. cool mexican police officers are being investigated after a woman from el salvador died in their custody on saturday an autopsy confirmed her neck was broken after a female police officer was seen in a video kneeling on her back as in manila president or has promised that those responsible will face justice. be dirty i spit on salazar

a woman victoria esperanza salazar from el salvador with stop jude by the police elements of the police she was brutally treated and murdered it's a factory things are going up ok and shame i want to say to her family members to salvadoran and mexican women to the women of the world to all men and women that those responsible will be punished they're already in the process of being prosecuted in o.b. no impunity. thousands of workers at an amazon warehouse in the united states are voting on whether to form a union in what could be a historic decision if the workers in the state of alabama vote yes the 1st of the companies 800000 employees in the u.s. to unionize amazon is the 2nd biggest employer in the country but has a long history of fighting union representation for its workers. china has told foreign companies not to mix business with politics if they want to keep operating their spokesman vision john's regional government issued a warning during

a news conference where he was asked about cotton allegedly produced using forced labor by muslim wages adrian brown reports from hong kong. has now become a sensitive issue for china's consumers western clothing and sportswear companies who've raised concerns over the use of force labor in the province's cotton industry are being punished as shoppers respond to calls to boycott some of the biggest brands in the world and i'm doing here we are boycotting them because of the statements they've made if what they've said is true then we are willing to accept the situation but that's not the case that's why we boycott them but you know what i think at the heart. person so at least for now i want to buy anything from these brands the u.s. government says the boycott is the result of a state led social media campaign but it also coincides with a deepening diplomatic row between china and western countries over human rights

and on monday a government spokesman had a message for brands like sweden's was why you cannot also seen on the internet that no one is going to age in stores now so what are the results can you survive in the chinese market can you still make money from the chinese you can't earn a penny. china's government has repeatedly rejected accusations that forced labor including tens of thousands of ethnic weaker muslims is used in its cotton industry that accounts for around 20 percent of global production the united nations wants to investigate that as well as other world documented evidence of repression we have asked for the human rights i commissioner to be able to have a visit in china without any limitations in the excess this is being negotiated at the present moment between the office of the eye commissioner and the chinese authorities while human rights groups remain skeptical about the prospects for a meaningful visit with unimpeded access in china the u.n.

secretary general says for now he remains hopeful and agree with can be reached adrian brown al jazeera on call. gunman have killed a policeman and an elected official of india's ruling b j p party in the disputed region of kashmir another b j p councillor was also wounded police have blamed rebel fighters for the attack but none of the armed groups fighting against in general has claimed responsibility yet kashmir is divided between india and pakistan but claimed by both countries in its entirety at port staff in the galapagos islands have rescued 175 endangered baby talk says from a wildlife trafficker they'd been individually wrapped in plastic and put in a suitcase it's believed they were being brought to ecuador before being shipped elsewhere the reptiles can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars on the black market amanda fein is an associate director of the wildlife conservation society

she says there's growing 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 w.c.s. the wildlife conservation society has been working on addressing wildlife trade and trafficking and also the health risks associated with wildlife trade for a 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 were seen today with covert 19 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. still to come on out there this news hour in sports and major blow for one of the world's most feared footballers who's had a pretty dramatic last 10 days.

or. more. time to support his son. thank you very much lawnmower welsh football star gareth bale says he would join a collective boycott of social media by international sports toss it to protest against racist abuse online it's one year old this current li with

a well squad that they're paying for their well cup qualifier against the czech republic on tuesday his comments came after his team mates ben cup angulo and robbie. were racially views on instagram after wilson's one nil 0 win over mexico on saturday bale is currently on known to english premier league toughen him up from riyadh madrid to word there's been a wave of racial harassment of social media in 2021 and on the show i think if kind of if everything came together i think and the side it's a kind of as i said a kind of boy cause social media to make a statement if everybody did it maybe not just one or 2 people but if we had kind of a campaign with. a lot of big influential influential people in sport in other forms of life came off social media to make this statement then yeah i definitely think it could it could help and in a 1000 cases i'm obviously over the. in the last few days arsenal legend

took action himself he quit social media to protest online abuse saying that people in power need to tackle racism but with the kind of figure they use for copyright infringement well it's a comedy platform where much of the views as has been happening say it's working with authorities to address the problem and in march the english football association called on social media platforms that to stop identifying culprits of abuse all been speaking to football righted towards a star. who says previously communications officer to ante racism in football advocacy group a kick came out he says a collective boycott by play is it would have to be long and sustained for there to be any impact. now the point where you see you have a blackfoot may have missed a penalty or scored an own goal or missed an important charmes your storm expecting

that to be online races to be an organization like kick out who you know i used to work for they have been campaigning on this issue for a number of years and you know even as 2050 they looked over and tie a season at the abuse across various social media platforms and found you know sort of 135000 discriminatory posts and they believed that to be the tip of the ice and that was only premie or you have to look at the the social media companies sells and to put it simply i mean they really just have not done enough and overly there doesn't seem to be a lot of concrete action and i think the problem with a boycott is that. the question is how long would you do it for how many people would you get involved if put aside about we're going to you know boycott for a whole season batton it might make social media companies take it more seriously but the same time i don't think it's on you know i don't think it's my place or anyone's replace really to say what those. you must give up your platform give up

your voice is a good stand because you know it's not necessarily that social media is that a very important sense. of modern life what us and lots of those it's a great weapon a gauging with that the supporters and the. stuff outside of. it was painted as a last minute goal to secure their 1st win in a world cup qualifying for next year's finals in qatar they came from behind to be georgia 2 on our sunday for a smile puts. this team 1000 fans were allowed into the stadium in georgia's capital tbilisi. all hoping to see the home team cause an upset against spain and the side ranked 83 places below spain had their chances to continue actually after losing to sweden in their opening match a goal just before half time set georgia up with a chance of a famous victory. somewhere spain were aiming to maintain their record of not

having lost a world cup qualifier for 28 years manchester city's ferran torres scored an equaliser early in the 2nd half. in stoppage time danny almost grabbed the winner and with back spain back on track with 4 points from 2 games. yes i am worried very worried ahead of the course of a match but we need to find a solution a matter what if we are missing accuracy clarity the players are tired we must win with our head or heart but spain must be in the next world cup and we are not thinking otherwise lovely job by blasio after being held to a draw in their 1st group game against ukraine france were 2 no winners against kazakstan the reigning world champions are back in action on wednesday a wing to bosnia herzegovina. 2870 finalists england have made it 2 wins from 2 captain harry came open the scoring against albania with his 1st international go

in more than a year away chelsea's mason mountain wrapped up but to nail when england next space a far tougher task a home game against poland in 2 days' time if we want to deliver then we've got to have really high standards to think we can get better. pleased with the win you know they should enjoy it we always begin with. but i think we can improve. and germany maintain their perfect start to qualifying 4 time world champions are top of their group after this one no win over running an outbreak remained the only go so far is smile al-jazeera. after all the drama over his involvement are all but live and asking will now miss poland's while cup qualifier away to england the one say the striker damaged leguminous and his right need to impose on and 3 male win over under on sunday in which he scored twice it's a major blow for the poles who were forced to sweat over 11 dos this inclusion in

the 1st place his club by munich had initially refused to release him but he was later given the green light of following confirmation that he wouldn't need to quarantine for 2 weeks upon returning to. and american billy horse has claimed his 1st wald golf championship title or sell made on the one birdie in the championship match against competitors. in texas but he was still able to go on and claim it in a one victory in this match play event the 1st p.g.a. tour title since 2008. and that's it for me i had to back to large. son i thank you very much indeed and a quote of mine i can always catch up with our website address for that is al-jazeera dot com and you watch us live by clicking on the orange live icon. as if

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