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no probably lots of their stuff conservation their communities al-jazeera journeys deep into the rain forest to follow the scientist. to save the flora and fauna so precious in the region women make science ecuador's hidden treasure on al-jazeera. emotional scenes outside the courthouse as the trial of george for its alleged matter of to get us. there i missed all the attention mrs al jazeera live from doha also coming up sweeping changes at the top of brazil's government what prompted president i've also naras southern cabinet reshuffle.
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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 mozambique make their way to safety but there are warnings the death toll is likely to rise. now it was a death that sparked america's latest reckoning with racial injustice and ignited protests across the wilds and now the man charged with murdering george floyd has gone on trial in minneapolis minnesota and the opening arguments on monday the prosecution and the defense made differing narratives of the events that led to floyd's arrest and death john hendren begins our coverage from minneapolis her mother penalty of perjury the most watched civil rights trial in america opened with this stark accusation of murder mr gary sharman betrayed his badge
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when he used excessive and and reasonable force upon the body of mr george boy. 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 as opening arguments began in the trial of the police encounter that sparked a racial revolution in the streets the lawyer for the white former minneapolis police officer accused of murdering a black man named george floyd shot back you will learn a direction when did exactly what he had been trained to do over the course of his 19 year. the use of force is not attractive but it is a necessary component of least this morning about the prosecution's 1st witness
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a police dispatcher who watched on police cameras as officers knelt on the back and neck give george floyd then she did something she'd never done before she called the police on the police alerting a sergeant to what seemed to her like an unusual use of force floyd was on the ground so long she said she thought the video had frozen i don't know if they had to use force or not they got something out of to back up the spot and all of them sat on this man the central question in this case is this did show them kill floyd using unreasonable force as the prosecution suggests or did a combination of drugs covert 19 and heart trouble kill him as the defense contends those arguments are the beginning of what's likely to be a month from long trial filled with painful and potentially inflammatory testimony . with jurors watching new evidence and really watching that disturbing 9 minutes of video with george floyd using his final breaths to cry out for his life at the.
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minneapolis is boarding up and bracing for the final verdict and the possibility it could revive the riots of the long and violent summer of 2020. outside the heavily fortified courthouse floyd's family made it clear it is american racial justice that is on trial they say choice the system. they want us to trust the system. to show us. we can trust it with judge peter cahill says it's a police officer that's on trial not race but once the jury has its say in the racially charged case of a black man who died under the knee of a white police officer the crowds in the streets of minneapolis and cities across the u.s. will render their own verdict on racial justice in america john hendren al-jazeera minneapolis. gabriel is under is in minneapolis where supporters of george floyd and his family have gathered to watch the trial we're right outside of the
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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 adjourned. the courtroom and they all just wanted to be here to voice their support for george floyd and his family well moving on now and brazil's president jabal sonar has unveiled a major cabinet shakeup as he faces growing pressure over the country's spiraling coronavirus pandemic foreign minister and nestor i would go as among the 6 ministers replaced his attacks on beijing were seen as harmful to brazil's attempts to secure chinese woman terriers to make vaccines and in a surprise departure also known as defense minister also stepped down monaghan
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ahead as in rio de janeiro and has more on that reshuffle. 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 ashtray not talking about the community or is it was a virus spread by communism and so relations were 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
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there is pressure to oust him and he had he ended up resigning but also now didn't want it to look like you know he had caved in to pressure so he felt he fired to the defense minister who was a moderate military who was. who was good. who 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 he would not let the army be involved in this well let's not bring in rough pony he is a professor of public safety at the training of august foundation and he joins us now from sao paolo professor is this a punch or is this rather balsam are being backed into a corner. i think it's a little bit before for both of them i think most of that is very concerned by the
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way he's behaved in the pandemic his foreign minister was very he was of almost alone that psychologically very complicated as well when he was not doing any good for the president relationship on the flip side he was i think on the corner do we replace this foreign minister and he tried to fight back by firing the defense ministry who has been the protecting the president army for getting who if politics i think most of the other ones their army to get involved with politics but i doubt they would follow any kind of attempt of course for there to do anything complicated for the country but the foreign minister and sounds like as a casualty of how this pandemic has been really been responded to and there was the elections next year how is boston are himself regarded imbecile these days oh i think that one has one 3rd of a popular approval some people who still supports him some radical people but small
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for most of the brazilians are very happy about how to alarm is that if the pandemic we have over 300000 people who are killed by the pandemic we don't see the government doing anything in trying to protect the population like supporting lockdowns or really even the simple use of facing the masks face masks so the people are not very happy about it was a lot of what i think is realizing that it may be out of power sooner than he expected he might not be reelected so that's why he's trying to get the support of the arm of the military although he has some support of the bitter and don't see this will be prophetic for him even though him by even tried to do a coupe or something crazy like that oh that sounds pretty ominous saying do you think there is a chance then that this could escalate. i think so i mean i think if he had spread a few direct mates who were something like a military rulers of think but the question is if he has the most support from the
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people of the elite and also from the military but it may try to engage some loans for him and try to do later mazelike some military intervention but i don't think it will prevail but for brazil the 2 groups very right if you have a peaceful country that has always been brazil a country that has seized they not only did their ship about 30 years ago has not been vocal if this type of complicated political situation i think you will see a lot of the make a very profound damage to president reputation for dicom years well speaking of that professor by my count is now us up to his 4th health minister who is not replaced this time around how is that relationship going especially given the state of the pandemic at the moment in brazil or his kind of start to now the health minister but we don't see the question is it also the federal government engaging with the pandemic or doing the right thing but sedation is delayed he's not defending social control measures that depending even the use of facemasks so i
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think he's having a very bad damaging of the pandemic situation and he's been a popular price for that rafael alley company that from the jittery of august foundation speaking to us from san paolo great to get your thoughts here on al-jazeera thanks for being with us professor thank you. well ships are once again sailing through egypt so as canal one of the world's most vital waterways on monday a giant container ship blocking the canal for nearly 6 days was finally emerged. as were the scenes on board one of those dredges that helped to shift the true 100000 ton ever given also with the help of the high tide a backlog of 350 vessels that were forced to queue outside the canal is still expected to take around 3 days to clear the next year brian has this report. finally on the move the every given being told to down the sewers canal after being
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stuck for almost a week. the celebrations began before dawn as the mess of container ship was 1st partially refloated. 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 is 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 much if you think we 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 perish because they were time
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critical there will be no doubt some big insurance claims going in the crisis is having an impact on syria the authorities a ration in fuel supplies from iran a stock some vessels are carrying livestock cotton from india for clothes and auto parts from china. well we've got 20 confines on board and the cargo ranging from one of the lower incidence so it starts. what goes up plants very concerned not only get the goods it's on she wants you to write and 8 except this good friday and i can't really say or write and 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 got larger quite rapidly and so i think this particular accident was really
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waiting to happen is 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 canal thora he say it will take days for the backlog to klia brian al-jazeera. well for the hair ahead on out of there we'll have the latest on the investigation into the stores side bombing of a nation. it's time for the perfect gentleman who went sponsored point qatar airways to stop raining now in japan but that was
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a very active system as you can see now go off into west pacific where you can follow a tale from that into china this is the development of the law you buy you system the spring rains happens every year brings flooding and it's meant to 2 parts of central trying to polish out of the moment this is just big thunderstorms that will cause any significant flooding just yet but it's the start of it all and this might well curl up towards beijing no not actually getting there not part time we get the into wednesday anyway 23 degrees here the air quality at the moment is fine but it may not stay that way the biggest showers to the south that this is really sudden philippines has been in west papua there's a bit of a gap there still than daily basis but not particularly big through java through sumatra know the sumatra the andaman nicobar islands this i think you'll see some big showers here the main may not come any further north because it's dry part of the season but it is the pretty monsoon he building we've seen $4045.00 degrees in this part of india surat just down across and sin probably pakistan that's
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hello again i'm just as it happened that's right here our top stories this hour. a white police officer charged in the killing of george ford has gone on trial in minneapolis prosecutor gerrie blackwell described how derek 7 knelt on floyd's neck while he and his fellow officers ignored for and say i cannot for you at least 27 times servants defense argued he was simply following procedure and that freud's drug use contributed to. a major cabinet shakeup is under way in brazil with present day about some are replacing 6 ministers he's facing growing pressure over his handling of the country's coronavirus pandemic. and the container ship that's been blocking the suez canal for nearly a week has been finally set free and is on the move he's wanted could still take days there is a clear the backlog of hundreds of ships that have been curing up on either side of
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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 headers the government says it's working to restore order. now safe in the port city of pinball 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 al-shabaab has been going on for days in parma. there's no communication. a lift go live to the trucks. i did more to lift a kid just. south africa. 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
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in the bush until they were able to make it to safety. and then a very. that way. we were just loving joyful and all. that is good at what. they are. like but. on monday i sall claimed responsibility for the attack on parma 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 no single government has managed to do so nigeria will be i don't know how
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many times richard and was and big it has still not been able to. eliminate. it just you not been able to eliminate the surgeons the niger delta region so i think we shouldn't dream that mozambique. can find is the mission to what is probably god 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 most antique. out of their. place in indonesia have discovered explosives related to sunday's so aside attack on a cathedral in the city of la cosa officers carried out raids at several locations including the home of the chase so aside from the 1000 people injured in that blast
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jessica washington has won after 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 mock assad 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
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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 the u.n. is hoping to secure $10000000000.00 from international donors at a conference in belgium to support syrian refugees but today meeting is being curt chad by the european union and the u.n. hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and syria's decade long war more than 10000000 have been displaced. our appear i respond by miss you if the syria 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 dollars and it's bigger this year than ever because the crisis is worse there is a particular huge impact of the global economic contraction and syria's own
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economic problems on malnutrition and on growth and declining l. services like the country last year we raise $5500000000.00 are we going 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 there are obviously it's well known as one of 2 unfortunately you carried step back for we hope people will act in a way that reflects not just a need to be generous to the syrians but also reflects the longer term national interest of our countries because we don't keep these problems are going to spread . and prosecutors and deloris are starting an investigation into opposition leader just about managed to kind of skier on charges of terrorism she's been exiled and the through ania since last year when the disputed election victory of longtime president alexander sanka sparked mass protests she is accused now of attempting to
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stage explosions and arson attacks and the better russian capital minsk in recent days has spokesman dismissed those charges as absurd. prosecutors and the united states have added a sex trafficking charges to the case against british socialite maxwell the revised indictment also introduces a 4th alleged victim maxwell is accused of conspiring with her former boyfriend jeffrey epstein to sexually abuse counts the new york friends here killed himself in prison while awaiting trial maxwell could be jailed for more than 30 years if she's convicted. now england is 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 10 sorry more than 30000000 adults have received their 1st about the same shot but it's a different story across the channel in europe where restrictions are tightening
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because of surging infections toho has more now from. 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
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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 lock down restrictions perhaps under pressure from their peers it says set your boundaries be assertive and say no. well canada can now become the latest country to pause some use of the astra zeneca vaccine the country's medical watchdog has recommended that the shot not be given to people under the age of 55 for now it's related to concerns about red blood clots there's no proven link but europe's scientific agency says it can't rule out that connection scientists are warning that the loss of trust in that astra zeneca back scene could be very
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dangerous to efforts to end this pandemic and u.s. intelligence agencies have warned that the taliban could overrun afghanistan within 3 is if american troops leave prematurely it's one of many concerns for afghans and bamiyan the taliban destroyed a cultural treasure that in the central province 20 years ago saying does ravi reports. carved out of the rock by buddhist monks more than a 1000 years ago these caves and bomb your national park are now home to some of of going to stones poorest people the government says they're squatters. but those living like this say they have nowhere else to go. home and makes his living collecting scrap metal but it's barely enough to feed his family only once a day. jobs we don't have any other place and i don't have the means to build
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a house or the government to provide us with shelter and then a mission of daily life is grim. there are no toilets burning wood for heat makes it difficult to breathe and insects are ever present as is the fear the taliban might come back. from this i'm. not a little mist of the taliban is a problem for us there is fighting 24 hours a day and people are in trouble they're not safe and there's no security you don't know. her worries are valid these communities live near the site of the bombing on bhutto's giant stone carvings from of ghana stands rich previous slum it passed in 20016 months before 911 the taliban declared the statues an affront to islam and drew a line in the sand for the whole world to see. more. or
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less all of the statues of the buddha that once stood at this site in bomb young we're an estimated 15 centuries old and they want us to part of afghanistan history they were a part of human history many officials here in afghanistan say that their destruction at the hands of the taliban is also a part of history now and that they are best left in the past broken pieces of the buddhas still sit under lock and key with little hope of rebuilding but 20 years later a 3 d. projection helps afghans see the statues as they once were. on a song the demand of the afghan people must be included in peace talks such mistake and crime should never be repeated again any group that lives here should accept that these cultural and historical artifacts belong to the people history and culture of afghanistan. when the sun comes up the lights go down and the buddhas
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disappear once again. a grim reminder of the kind of violence fear could happen again if the total ban come back. on airport staff in the galapagos islands have rescued 175 endangered baby tortoises from a wildlife trafficking they'd been individually wrapped in plastic and then put in a suitcase and steve they were being taken to mainland ecuador before being shipped elsewhere reptiles can result in tens of thousands of dollars on the black market. however says out there these are the headlines the white police officer charged in the killing of george floyd has gone on trial in minneapolis prosecutor gerrie blackwell described how derek 7 knelt on floyd's neck while he.

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