bridge there's something else significant about this walk it represents and the visible dividing line between the wealthier and the poor from around the world the man who built on his neck his friend the week in the minneapolis courtroom with selecting the jurors to decide if he should be convicted of murder. emotional scenes outside the courthouse as the trial of george floyd's alleged murder against. hello there i missed on the a tame this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up sweeping changes at the top of brazil's government what prompted president also known as 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 in mozambique make their way to safety but there are warnings the death toll is likely to ryan's. when it was a death that sparked america's latest reckoning with racial injustice and ignited protests across the wild 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 offense the events that led to floyd's arrest and his death john hendren begins our coverage now from minneapolis or firm under penalty of perjury the most watched civil rights trial in america opened with a stark accusation of murder mr barrett shaaban betrayed his badge

when he used excessive and unreasonable force upon the body of mr george floyd. that he put his knees upon his neck and his back grinding and crushing him until the very breath no leisure gentleman until the very life. was squeezed out of them 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 directional indeed exactly what he had been trained to do over the course of his 19 years. the use of force is not attractive but it is a necessary component of policing that morning about the prosecution's 1st witness

a police dispatcher who watched on police cameras as officers knelt on the back in 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 chauvelin kill floyd using unreasonable forces 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.

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 a system. where this is a chance to show us. that we can trust the 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 how correspondent guy raz and i spoke with some of those protest at who gathered outside the court to show their support for george floyd and us. court has

been adjourned for the day and several 100 protesters have gathered right outside of the courthouse and they're all calling for justice for george floyd many people here say that they've been waiting a long time for this day for this 1st day of this trial to take place many watched the trial on monday and everybody here says that they want justice for george floyd and they wanted now and they're here to show their support for floyd and his family who watched the trial the 1st day on monday today what did you think. i thought that the video that was played by the prosecuting. team says it all and i don't think anything else has to be said it doesn't really matter what is said from here on out the video. so is that all why do you feel you need to be here as such a young guy right now out here on the streets just supporting just won the support

because it's my own blood these are brothers out here getting killed harmony how old are you. 11 a list 1211 almost 12 why are you out here today because i believe in bill b.l.m. in supporting. b.-o. and black lives matter yeah you're holding a sign of george florey a poster what does that poster mean to you. it means like well one else should get killed and it should just stop right here most people say they will stay on the streets until justice is done as more people come into minnesota to take part in these protests and this trial that's expected to last a month. when i last spoke to ronald sullivan he is a professor of law and also director of the criminal justice institute at harvard law school he says live streaming us added a new element to this trial. 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 hit line about this case is extra ordinarily 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 the struggle with this case being broadcast all over the world. and moving on and brazil's president has replaced 6 ministers and a major government shakeups their foreign minister and as tyler joe is the highest profile casualty his attacks on beijing have been blamed for hampering the country's access to cry and of us vaccines also himself has been under growing pressure over the country's spiraling coronavirus pandemic a lot of chaotic has and where does an era 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 he. 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 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 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. kind of pony who is a professor of public safety at the church of august foundation he says paulson are as unpopular and desperate to hold on to power. i think with all of these very concerned by the way he's behaved in the pandemic his foreign minister was very bad he was of almost all in the thick ideologically very complicated as well and he was not doing any good for the president later today on the flipside he was i think on the corner duty to replace the foreign minister and he try to fight back by firing that i think ministry who has been protecting the brazilian army forget the involved in politics i think most another once their army to get the vote this politics but i doubt they would follow any kind of

a tank to force another to do anything complicated for the country because of that it has one 3rd of a popular approval some people we do supporting some radical people but small for most of brazilians are very happy about the help of an army that if the pandemic we have over 300000 people who are killed by the pandemic we don't see the governments doing anything in trying to protect the population i like supporting lockdowns are really even this people use of facing masks face masks so people are not very happy about it was another one i think he's realizing that he may be out of power sooner than he may expect that he might not even be reelected so that's why he's trying to get the support of the army of the media terry although he has some support of the military i don't think this will be prevailing for him even though he might even try to do a coupe or something crazy like that. all ships are once again sailing through egypt so as canal on monday a giant container ship that's been blocking the canal for 6 days has finally

emerged and reports. after being stuck in a maritime traffic jam for almost a week this ship was one of the 1st to resume its journey along the suez canal on monday night it will take several days though before shipping along this vital waterway returns to normal. navigation resumed at 6 pm local time is from both sides within 12 hours 113 ships will cross in different convoys either from port side or from suez this means that within 3 days or 3 and a half days the delay will be resolved earlier on monday the stricken ever given which had been blocking the world's busiest shipping lane for 6 days was finally free. the much to the delight of the crew of the dredger who'd worked round the clock to clear thousands of keep it meters of sand around the giant container ship. 10 tug boats then pulled it out of the bank and into deeper water

it has taken as quick as possible to do this the high tides was hoped insulted jeffords as well as well but i think it's fantastic news full the suez canal so the suez canal authority needs chips i think a really good job has been delayed by all involved 12 percent of global trade normally passes through the suez canal between the red sea and the mediterranean while the immediate crisis is over experts say the ever givens mishap raises long term questions about the canal sustainability is going to be a lot of head scratching and thinking not only about making supply chains more resilient i'm sure a series canal thora who's having a good heart think as well about how to make the canal itself more about. the ever given is now in a wider section of the canal where it's being inspected for damage bringing an end to a crisis that's disrupted billions of dollars worth of global trade victoria gates

and be al jazeera isong is claiming responsibility for an attack on the town of palma in 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 washing to restore order has. now safe in the port city of pain by 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 there workers i left because i live to combine trucks. i don't know what i lived i came just. south african 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 hit his body

in the bush until they were able to make it to safety. and then a very. but . on monday ice all claimed responsibility for the attack on parma commodore got a province in northern mozambique is where most of the major gas discoveries have been made in recent years but has been racked with violence i don't think there was a big kind of defeats 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 and big it has to not been to. eliminate. it has to not been to eliminate the surgeons the niger delta region so i think we shouldn't dream that mozambique. can find its solution to what is probably got 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 had outta there. well still ahead here on out is there a reason their territory and their way of life palestinians mark latham's day as annexations that began decades ago continue. we take a look at the impact of the coronavirus on the illegal wildlife trade and why many

fear it may only get one us. it's time for the perfect journey. sponsored point qatar airways to stop raining now in japan and that is 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 my you buy you system the spring rains happens every year brings flooding and it's meant to parts of central trying to polish out of the moment this is just big thunderstorms that they will cause any significant flooding just yet but it's the start of a talk and this might well curl up towards beijing though not actually getting that not all 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 of

this is really sudden philippines has been in west papua there's a bit of a gap the still there and daily basis but not particularly big through java through sumatra know the sumatra yonder nicobar islands there i think you'll see some big shows 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 suraj across and sin probably pakistan that's a part of the year to get to $45.00 the winds picking up in the north america should be good news for delhi should improve your equity for the. airways. a survivor of the genocide there are people who beg me to kill them when they're suffering but i didn't have the heart to do who's dedicated his life to searching the woods for bones of the victims of the srebrenica massacre. you know in the here is the 2 of. you know hope of finally laying the past to rest and

giving peace to the victims' families because you need to if i could just find a think about i could bury him bone hunter on al-jazeera. hello again i'm mr let's remind you the 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 knelt on floyd's neck while he and his fellow officers ignored for it saying i can't breathe at least 27 times servants defense argued he was simply following police procedure and the

freud's drug use contributed to his death. a major cabinet shakeup is under way in brazil with president diables now 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 now has been finally set free and is on the move with already is one there that it could still take days to clear the backlog of hundreds of ships that have been tearing up on either side of that canal. now on tuesday palestinians commemorate land day when israel confiscated thousands of hectares of land in galilee in 1976 calling places minute trade zones and state land are among the methods used to take over palestinian property and to push locals out here to abraham reports. this is the only please get. a small village named tom saw in the occupied west bank she's been living here for more than 50 years now her

simple way of life is under threat last june israeli soldiers handed her an egyptian notice saying that this area was designated as an archaeological site. and if this is you are told the military that's him ever out of the block i live in a tent but that didn't answer to have to leave. justinian's here say israel has been trying to make life so difficult for them that their only option is to leave unwanted judith lives in the just click village in the jordan valley israeli military confiscated his tractors last year saying he used them on state lands he's been ordered to walk through to his call trees the lot of but though. i've been here since 2007 there's a shack that has been here for the past 25 years neither me nor the previous owners have heard of the term state land why no only one 3rd of land in the west bank was regulated before israel occupied it in 1967

a year after an israeli military order it suspended large regulation hundreds of hacked hours were registered as the clan before the occupation and israel has declared hundreds more through the years palestinians say israel used every trick in the book to strip palestinians of their lands closed military area as weapons ranges and nature reserves have all been used this means to control more lands and if the craft in the. door at gas has been documenting illegal settlement construction for 2 decades he says large areas of land designated as military zones are cultivated by israeli settlers it's about taking land from the palestinian local population and giving it israeli settlers but the story is very simple israel's government has defended its practice of confiscating land citing various

military or civilian laws that women hate and what the israeli aim is to tell palestinians that their presence here is illegal the main challenge is not legalities the truth as this people steadfastness get him upshot says the landscape around her has changed a lot through the years military bases and checkpoints as well as illegal settlements have been sprouting around her but she insists she's not leaving new deborah he alleges eda york your part west bank. england is now allowing small outdoor gatherings of 6 people as it enters the 1st phase of relaxing coronavirus lockdown restrictions outdoor swimming pools tennis courts golf courses and sailing clubs are also reopening and on sunday the u.k. confirmed that more than 30000000 adults have received their 1st vaccine shot but it's a different story across the channel and europe where restrictions are rather tightening because of surging infections french president about to embark on is now 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 that it's now too late to slow a 3rd wave and talked about the reports from just outside paris. france's biggest covert vaccination center the national velodrome in sac all time 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 rollout the began in december people like money who hopes that being immunized will allow her to resume a more normal life about 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 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 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 a vaccination 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 haul for britain's adult population the government is playing 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 us a nation's not just a mix you know drums but more locally to make it easier for everyone to find a vaccination center macro wants 30. people immunized by mid june with every adult offered the possibility of a job by august the president is gambling on a major fight scene push to avoid another national lockdown but with daily infection cases rising phone hospitals in many regions saturated it's likely to be a challenging race to the finish line new special butler al-jazeera cycle or even more canada could now become the latest country to pour some use of the astra zeneca vaccine the country's medical watchdog has now recommended that the shot not be given to people under the age of 55 for now it's related to concerns about these rare blood clots there's no proven link but europe scientific agency says it can't

rule out a connection scientists there warning that the loss of trust in the astra zeneca vaccine could be very dangerous to efforts to end this pandemic airport staff in the galapagos islands have rescued 175 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 shipped elsewhere the reptiles can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars on the black market is what amanda fein is an associate director of the wildlife conservation society she says there's growing concern the illegal wildlife trade is also 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 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. well that's it for this but us and i'll be back in a moment with the headlines but we'll leave you now with some of the sights and sounds from the opening day of the trial of the man charged with murdering george foy's. there will be no. this is the symbol of a moment. a little more well that american beer.

summit is the beer. tree you're actually. trying to. base a choice this system. we will is the justice system. this is your chance to show would. be good for us. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the white police officer charged in the killing of george floyd has gone on trial and minneapolis prosecutor gerrie blackwell described how derek show than nelson floyd's neck while he and his fellow officers ignored floyd saying i can't breathe at least 20.