district just this. the the in. emotional scenes outside the courthouse as the trial of george floyd's alleged murder of began its. either i missed or as you tell you this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up sweeping changes of the top of brazil's government what prompted presidential abelson are is a sudden cabinet reshuffle. celebrations at the suez canal as that massive container ship finally floats free and traffic begins moving again. and survivors of an attack on the town of palma and ways to

beat make their way to safety but there are warnings the death toll is likely to rise. what it was a death that sparked america's latest reckoning with racial injustice and it dies in mass protests across the wild now the man charged with murdering george lloyd has gone on trial in minneapolis minnesota prosecutor gerrie blackwell described how white policeman derrick shaven knelt on for its neck while he and his fellow officers ignored floyd saying i can't breathe at least $27.00 times the jury was then showing the full video of that incident but sherman's defense says he was simply following police procedure and that freud's drug use contributed to his death in their opening statement prosecutors argued the derek 7 broke his oath as a police officer in the way that he treated george froid. you will learn that on

may 25th of 2020 mr barrett shaaban betrayed his badge when he used excessive and and reasonable force upon the body of mr george voice. that he put his knees upon his neck and his back grinding and crushing him. until the very breath no leisure gentlemen until the very life were squeezed out of them who show vns defense team argue that the fact is not seen by the cameras all the public forced the police officers to act as they did. learn about crowd control medical intervention deescalation procedural justice crisis intervention and the human factors force that is what happens to a police officer or any person when they are involved in

a high stress use of force situation. you will learn the direction of indeed exactly what he had been trained to do over the course of these 19 years. the use of force is not attractive but it is a necessary component of peace. who before that trial began joins freud's family were joined by civil rights activists and their legal team they knelt outside the court for 8 minutes and 46 seconds that's the same amount of time former place of the event held his name on floyd's neck attorney ben crump says the trial will show just how far the u.s. has come in the fight for equality while the family calls for justice for all black people killed by the police and. joins us now live from the protest in minneapolis by really imagine that emotions are running pretty high that. they are we're right outside of the courthouse some of the streets are blocked off

court has been adjourned for the session for the day and there are a couple 100 protesters out here all calling for justice for george floyd emotions are high most people watched all of the trial if not parts of it and everyone is here that we spoke to in the last few minutes all gathered right after the judge did this session for the day and it sure. the courtroom that they're all just wanted to be here to voice their support for george floyd and his family this was the pressure prosecution's 1st day to really lay out some of their witnesses. they laid out 3 they called 3 witnesses and they were all very strong one was a police dispatcher who was watching a live feed of the incident as derek shove in show of and had his knees on george floyd's neck and she was so concerned she actually called her supervisor and

said something is not right they also called another 23 year old young woman that videotaped some of the incident on her phone they called her to the stand so they could bring some of her video in to show the jurors and then they called a 3rd person donald williams a young african-american man who was a witness there when the at the incident who can be heard on many of the videos saying pleading to the police officers pleading to derek children stop he can't brief stop he was also called to the witness stand also gave very strong testimony as well this was the day for the defense as well to lay out their opening statements they were basically saying that george floyd did not die at the knee of derrick chauvelin that he died of other preexisting conditions and they say they will show over the course of this nearly month long trial that that there is more

to this story than simply that video bottom line though is. motions very high here in minneapolis came in on the streets of minneapolis for us thanks so much kate let's now bring in ron sullivan he's a professor of law and the director of the criminal justice institute at harvard law school he joins us now from new son in massachusetts professor this trial einstein is taking place just a few miles from his pen to the ground and it really fails from the witnesses that we've had from so fond of the prosecution really wants to take the jury to the same really have them experience that moment. i think that's absolutely right and robert i also teach a class called trial advocacy and i tell my students that you have to paint a word picture paint a word picture of what happened so these are people who weren't there and to the extent that you can take them on a mental journey to that place in time when it happened that's a good thing and they did a really good job they the prosecution did

a really good job of that this morning and from the defense we were hearing there from from our correspondent there there is a sense as well that the greatest emphasis from their case will be on the exact cause of death is that the main focus what that appears to be the case that that's what they're going to focus on when they haven't really gotten to that yet so right now what they've tried to do with each of the witnesses on cross-examination is to say it is the suggest to the jury that but you didn't have a full picture of everything that happened you were not there for the entire encounter so so they're trying to suggest that only you only saw a snapshot of it and this ties into their theme from this morning that common sense and reason common sense and reason and what they're going to argue they're going to try to tie that up by saying that that mr floor was resisting that

he got into this state of excited librium and this is plus the drugs this is what caused the death so so they're setting it up right now well this is obviously with a really charged moment and one of the most sensitive parts of this trial took place already the jury selection that took almost the amount of time is expected for the trial itself i understand and this is a great pitcher is that $3.00 to $10.00 that to be even more divest than the city of minneapolis a tough. yeah and that's a that's a that's a good thing for this case so the jury selection is the most important part of any trial you have to have a good jury there if you want any chance of winning so the constitution requires that you have a jury of your peers and the jury has to be what's called dispassionate that doesn't mean that they can't know anything about the case nor does it mean that they have not formed any opinions what it does mean is that the jurors swear that

they can set aside any opinions that they may have here and they can set aside any conclusions that they may have drawn and they can listen to the evidence. and evaluate the evidence as instructed by the judge so that's what those 14 juror said that they can do and we'll see well speaking of opinions this is also the trial that's being live streamed on the internet and i say today it ended a little earlier than planned because of technical difficulties how might the cameras here affect things going forward. well that's a great question so with respect to what's going on inside the courtroom every study available shows that after the 1st couple hours everyone forgets that the cameras are there so the lawyers are behaving for the cameras the witnesses tend to forget that they are there and people behave in the way that they would normally behave the difficulty is exposure by the jury so right now we have we live in

a world where you can pick up your cell phone you can pick up your tablet you can turn on your computer or you can turn on the television there are so many sources of information now and with this being live streamed all over the world the likelihood that a a juror will turn on some device and see a headline about this case is extraordinarily high now i know that the judge told them don't watch the news but that seems insufficient when you pick up your phone you get these these suggestions of what you should read in these articles pop up so it's going to be it's going to be tough in the jurors are under a duty to report if they hear something about the case so we'll see what happens there but that's going to be to struggle with this case being broadcast all over the world and we'll continue watching very closely here indeed gone on television

and will have a. great take at your thoughts here on out is there again thanks so much for being with us thank you noah. now moving on and brazil's president has unveiled a major cabinet shakeup as he faces growing pressure over the country's spiraling coronavirus pandemic foreign minister and nestor our widow is among the 6 ministers replaced his attacks on beijing was seen as harmful to brazil's attempts to secure chinese rule materials to make vaccines and also in a surprise departure both in ours defense minister also stepped down let's get more on this now from one of the camp she joins us from rio de janeiro monica 6 ministers replaced within the space of just several hours what's going on what's prompted all of this. well yes there's increasing pressure on the president because of the mishandling of the pandemic. brazil has over 310000 dead from the pandemic. the health

minister which was a very loyal general was already replaced because of this pressure and then all eyes were on the foreign minister the foreign minister is a. he's devoted to donald trump as is president. so they had that same speech that they were against china. china was a he asked china talking about the community was as if it was a virus spread by communism and so relations weren't good with china which is brazil's largest economic partner at a time when the rest of the economy isn't doing well because of the pandemic so there is pressure to oust him and he had he ended up resigning but both and i didn't want it to look they could you know he had caved in to pressure so he fired to the defense minister who was

a moderate military who was. who was stood up was against the radicals that would say something like well maybe we might have to decide all the supreme court or congress because they're not respecting the popular vote and he would always say that the army was would not let the army be involved in this. want to have given attentions on this have we had anything from belsen our himself on a list do we expect to. well no not yet. 8 pm here in. brazil so this has been it's been an ongoing news from the beginning it started out with with the one resignation that ended up with the. defense minister leaving as well and then when we then it was a whole ministerial shuffle so everybody is expecting there is a meeting between commanders of the armed forces but just to evaluate what's going

on so we might hear something in the next year hours or not we're just standing by and wait. there with all the latest for us from rio de janeiro thanks so much monica now ships once again sailing through egypt suez canal one of the wilds most vital waterways on monday a giant container ship blocking the canal for 6 days was finally emerged. with a javelin sans onboard one of the dredges that helped shift the 200000 ton ever given with the help of a high tide a backlog of 350 vessels forced to queue outside the canal is expected to take around 3 days to clear brian has this report. 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 mess of container ship was 1st

partially refloated the a few hours of that despite an international rescue effort 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 on some of that but there will be ongoing place it's hard to put a figure on it and of course some carcass may have perished 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 are rationing fuel is supplies from iran a stack some their cells are carrying livestock cotton from india for clothes and auto parts from china. well we've got 20 confines on all and that can go ranging from one q. loring's so it starts. transfer of very concerned not only get the goods on she wants you to rely on it except this good friday and i can't really see your writing least not 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

resilient 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 canal thora say it will take days for the backlog to klia elixir brian al-jazeera. are still ahead here on al-jazeera we'll have the latest on the investigation into the suicide bombing of a cathedral in indonesia. and we take a look at the impact of the krajina virus on the need for wildlife trade and why many faired may only get one last. look. the last of the showers on this very active cold frontal system

just drifting through florida there is no longer a tornado risk for the stars but sunny for a couple of days well it's got a messy shot but this here's the thing to look at this is wintry weather still quite a significant snowstorm blowing through central canada and the cold links all of the cascades in the rockies cross the plain states just watch a couple of places for the temperatures to change they do come down and you get that contrast between the cold and the gulf was full of moisture when the 2 come together i was the same place again on wednesday we have a potential problem all the way once more from are supposed to easy ana up towards kentucky beyond's flooding in kentucky is to the potential for more tornadoes in the same place as the last 2 systems want to watch very carefully i think. i think in the trade winds across the caribbean means rather more frequent showers are like ones passing ones for the smaller islands for the bigger ones bigger showers could

develop must include cuba but the concentration of rain is probably in costa rica little bit in panama most of mexico looks fine and dry for the time big which is probably a pleasant change. from . the system turned human rights activist the day her brother is locked in a notorious goes back to desert prison. her fight for his freedom exiled savannah and betrayed by those closest to her. but her resolve is unshaken. only the devil lives without her. witness on al-jazeera. the the old.

hello again i'm the stars your tender heart let's remind you about top stories here this hour the white police officer charged in the killing of george floyd has gone on trial in minneapolis prosecutor gerrie blackwell described how derek showed the notes on floyd's met while he and his fellow officers ignored floyd saying i can't breathe at least 27 times sherman's defense argued he was simply following police procedure and that freud's drug use contributed to his death. major cabinet shakeup is under way in brazil with president i am also replacing 6 ministers he's facing growing pressure over his handling of the country's coronavirus pandemic. and the container ship that's blocked the suez canal for nearly a week has finally been set free and is on the move or the already has warned that

it could still take days there is a clear the backlog of hundreds of ships that have been showing up on the inside of the canal. now eisel is claiming responsibility for an attack on the town of palma and mozambique which left dozens of people dead and thousands still missing several witnesses say bodies are lying in the street many of them the headed the government says it's working to restore order. now safe in the port city of pittsburgh 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 avi and an armed group that calls itself al-shabaab has been going on for days in palm. because missing there's no communication because i left because i live to combine trucks missions i don't know what i lived i came just in. south africa adrian was killed trying to escape the father of 3 was traveling in

a convoy which was ambushed by the armed group his father and brother hid his body in the bush until they were able to make it to safety in pemba. and then they're very barren. that way. we were it's just such. a joy. to. work. on monday i still claimed responsibility for the attack on palma commodore got a province in northern mozambique 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 was a big kind of defeat the insurgency that we are seeing in modern muslim because no

single government has managed to do so nigeria will be i don't know how many times richard and was a big it has still not been able to. eliminate. it has to not been able to eliminate the surges the niger delta region so i think we shouldn't dream that mozambique. can find is the mission to what is probably going to 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 e.-man a 10 workers warn the numbers will rise as fighting continues in parts of northern lights and the. out of their whole place in indonesia have discovered explosives related to sunday's suicide attack on a cathedral in the city of macassar officers carried out raids are several

occasions including the home of the 2 suicide bombers 1000 people injured in that blast just to washington has more now from the indonesian capital 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 now french president among a scaling up his government's coronavirus vaccination campaign off to a slow start as the government is mobilizing will health and opening mass vaccination centers for the 1st time but some doctors are warning it's too late to sway with a wave about to reports now from outside paris. france's biggest kovac vaccination center the national velodrome in sacral town near 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 roll out the began in december people like money crew hopes that being immunized will allow her to resume a more normal life about this the idea is to have more freedom it's my 1st start after the 2nd hopefully i can look after my grandchildren in the school holidays an average of 2000 people are vaccinated here each day but cycle times men says the operation will be soon scaled up with a drive in facility and more staff new virus variants are placing actual pressure on us because more people want to be vaccinated and fast you says people are scared of 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 markhor 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 france compared to hof of 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 then it must be easier and simpler to take appointments and we need to offer x. nations not just a mix you know drums but more locally to make it easier for everyone to find a vaccination center macro once 30. people immunised by mid june with every adult offered the possibility of a job by august the president is gambling on a major facts seem pushed 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 said quarter on even now airport staff in the galapagos islands have rescued $175.00 endangered baby tortoises from a wildlife trafficker they'd been individually wrapped in plastic and then put in a suitcase and believe they were being taken to mainland ecuador before being then shipped elsewhere reptiles can be sought for tens of thousands of dollars on the black market amanda fine is an associate director at the wildlife conservation society and she says there's growing concern the illegal wildlife trade is the 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 students 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. thank you. thank you and that misses out.