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but her resolve is unshaken. only the devil lives without her. witness on al-jazeera. play an important role protecting it would. ringback face. truth 19 has being of heart remained the new word. and international pandemic treaty leaders from 23 countries back the idea of a global strategy to deal with future right breaks.
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time however he didn't and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up myanmar's military intensifies as cracks are in and thousands reports now that thousands of troops are heading towards positions held by corrent state rebels. c.r.'s president has been sworn in for stern our cause to adhere our faces a mammoth task of bringing stability to a country wracked by violence and data gets under way this hour in the trial of shove and former police officer charged with murdering george floyd. in a few minutes from now the world health organization and china will reveal their findings on the origins of the corona virus pandemic an international team of experts has been investigating what happened in war han where the virus was 1st detected
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meanwhile some of the world's leading scientists of warn that the world may have less than a year before current vaccines are no longer effective against future cool with me it's a calling on companies to share vaccine technologies that more people can be vaccinated and prevent other variants from emerging while the pandemic continues to affect all our lives the world health organization and leaders of 23 countries are calling for an international pandemic treaty to deal with future i breaks. the time to act is now the world cannot afford to wait until the pandemic is over to start planning for the next one we must not allow the memories of this crisis to fade and go back to business as usual. well we have 2 correspondents covering this report spy the job which is likely to be published any
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moment mary. barra here for us with reaction from washington d.c. some u.s. officials are expressing skepticism a birds the investigation but 1st let's go to katrina were you there is in a way for us. just how much we're waiting for this report obviously but how much like it's a really expecting this report to shades given the the challenges that investigators face swollen. that's right well according to a lead to version of the report there are no firm conclusions made according to the findings of the w. hates the main points are that it's very likely according to this report that 1000 originated from the bat or another animal and unlikely that it was from a imported for is in food product all very unlikely that it was lead in a wall hand lab the report also raises questions about the role of the one seafood
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market here in holland which was shut down after the 1st cluster of course in $1000.00 was and was identified there and it also says that there were cases of people who had symptoms of course 19 possibly as early as october 2019 that we're still waiting on those details as you just said but many scientists in the international community already frustrated by what they're hearing about this report a dozens have signed an open letter saying that they demand an independent investigation they've raised questions about the role the chinese government has played in the mission saying that simply the chinese government had too much say in the parameters of the investigation now some of the complaints that they have raised is that chinese officials reportedly had the power to veto members of that nation that china chinese foreign min. officials were present during the visits to various hospitals other animal welfare sites while these mission members were in talks with
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medical workers and then does of the public and also that while they were at a wall they were only there for a few hours and mission then this basically had to take the word of the sign chinese scientists working at that lab at face value they were not given that access now members of that team were here in khan had given conflicting reports themselves one scientist said that the chinese side was very cooperative another said that discussions became heated at times because chinese scientists refused to provide roald dahl's a about these initial cases of court of the 19 beijing for its part has continually deflected questions about independent access they've denied that they've been withholding any information about the pandemic and the chinese government has continued to condemn what they describe as the politicized ation of this investigation by other governments ok because you do you very large for.
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very much indeed let's get the view from washington d.c. with our white house correspondent kimberly whole. different team in the white house. but is there any indication the very going to be a bit more receptive to those still or report when it's released. perhaps their predecessors would have been. early indications are that there will be no conclusions made as a result of this report because the feeling is in the united states from a number of public officials that have been speaking here that this is sort of a hasty conclusion that often at times it takes much longer than the time period that we've already experienced in terms of accurately understanding the origins of this virus and so that's why there is what i would call a dose of healthy skepticism that is taking place across a variety of different agencies that are reviewing the draft of this report the
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white house press secretary jen psaki saying that in fact there are a number of bodies including the department of homeland security as the centers for disease control and the national institutes of health that are looking at this report add to that there are at least 17 different public health experts across the fields of everything from epidemiology to animal science and bio warfare that are reviewing this and so the feeling is that this may be an incomplete report that there is concern that china has not allowed u.s. officials access to independently look at some of the locations where they suspect this may have come from and as a result given the fact that there is in the view of the united states incomplete data there may be more delving that needs to be done the feeling from the public health official is this isn't about casting blame but making sure it never happens again. ok kimberly how could live for us from washington d.c.
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kimberly thank you. germany's sir capital berlin has suspended use of the astra zeneca vaccine for people under 60 years of age that says the country's drug regulator announced it's recorded 31 cases of people developing rare blood clots in the brain after getting the job is no proven link europe struck regulator has previously said it can't rule out a connection all but 2 of those cases were women between the ages of 20 and 639 of those patients die it's. tuesday marked the 1st day the astra zeneca vaccine was available for 60 to 65 year olds in madrid mass vaccinations are being held a local stadium with more than 500 people getting the job every hour some said they don't care which brand they gossamer just happy to gets their vaccination
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and industry or the city of brisbane's going into a 3 day snap locked in after more than a dozen new locally transmitted infections word to texas people will only be allowed to leave home for essential work shopping care tootsies or exercise schools will also be closed queensland state premiers said the cases are of the highly infectious u.k. strain we have had a lot of people now out in the community infectious so that's why we need this 3 day lockdown to get on top of all of the contacts of all of these positive cases and work out where they have pain and having everyone in their home instead of out and about in the community just helps us get on top of all of the context and minimize the risk of further sprayed. chile's health care system and burial services are under increasing pressure gizzi rising cool with infections there on
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monday were than 7000 new cases were reported for the 5th day in a row all cemeteries in the city of paris saw are being stored or store in forty's rather in containers with chile is under one of the world's strictest locked urns to curb soaring infections despite having the highest vaccination rates in latin america. breaking news out of me m.r. now for you qur'an national union an ethnic armed group in the southeast of the country say thousands of soldiers are advancing towards areas controlled by them there are also reports of airstrikes targeting one of their bases and a village thousands of people have already been displaced in current state after previous airstrikes over the weekend hundreds of people have fled to neighboring thailand let's get more now from florence louie she joins us live from kuala lumpur in malaysia florence this is something of an alarming developments is it not
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the me and more military moving troops towards ethnic groups. absolutely this is a very canny escalation of violence weekend of astronauts in areas helped by the current national liberation army which is resistance to the myanmar government now reports say that this could be a bridge palliation bowl and it's tracked by the qur'an the armed group armed areas how far on are the myanmar military post but this has. a clear escalation of violence following days of air strikes reports say at least 10000 people have already been displaced many thousands of flights across the country into neighboring thailand seek shelter and seek refuge we're also getting reports from activists groups saying that these 5000 people have been back from entering thailand. we know that people who have been wouldn't it have been klein's go into
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the country to seek medical assistance and dozens of them were allowed to go into the time the rich to seek medical assistance but clearly what's happening in myanmar is now extremely where it's not just the fact that there is now. the military is cracking on them protesters but it's very clearly also fartsy on areas house by ethnic groups ok flawlessly that life doesn't call him poor thank you florence. now u.n. investigators have concluded at least 19 civilians were killed in a french airstrike in central mali i can january or planes struck near the remote village of. witnesses say the attack kids awaits in possy attended by civilians but that is disputed by france who have rejected its the report's findings. isn't paris with more. the french defense ministry and the french defense ministry says
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that it stands by its version of events and even questions some of the work that was done in this investigation by the un mission on the ground in mali. the french defense ministry questioning for example the identity of some eyewitnesses who contributed to the report but the report by the un mission in mali says that on january the 3rd french airplanes dropped 3 bombs on what was a wedding party $900.00 civilians were killed now amongst that wedding party there were 3 members of an armed group linked to al qaeda were also killed now the french defense ministry has always said it's always maintained that it targeted. not civilians of course it targeted armed groups it said that it had detected that
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there was a large group of armed fighters on the ground and that is why it dropped these bombs it has never denied carrying out this airstrike but it is always said that the targets were armed fighters however in the days after the said strike it emerged we heard reports from eyewitnesses quoted by a local ngo who said that this was in fact a wedding party. still to come on al-jazeera china cuts the number of hong kong's to wreckless elected politicians and makes loyalty to the mainland essential for those contesting the elections. celebrations at these suez canal as that mega container ship finally for its free traffic begins moving one sitting.
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the sun is out in japan the cherry blossoms are out in japan south korea in particular and a good part of china but they may be spoiled by the amount of rain forming once again in the familiar areas pretty rocky did but it's part of the system it's starting to increase orange tops just the heavier items for his jan still snow at height of cotton is curling into was beijing doesn't get the are they to say this rain might just hit the far south of japan but mostly you're talking about a relatively warm settled spell their heavy showers in the philippines but they are concentrating in the suburbs and they're edging further west from west papua where they were heavy a couple days ago is that going back towards java sumatra been fairly rare recently and just the north the small islands in the bay of bengal that's about as far north as that where it's going to get there is quite a strong wind developing go up into bangladesh another pick up or add to the dust is being blown in across the north indian plain new delhi sees windy weather for
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a couple of days so it will ease off but it's hard to get to friday's $36.00 degrees fairly steadily it's hotter than not in russia status horse not in southern pakistan into $42.00 to $45.00 degrees territory this time of blowing down the gulf but it's weakening still quite a strong wind blowing down the red sea. welcome to down from every one of us. even those work. let's go live tonight see geneva who are experts from the world health organization are officially presenting their findings about the origins of the corona virus pandemic let's listen in and for. kept from that side data from surveillance systems of differences and diseases that could give us
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a clue about the possible the possibility of having earlier cases than. 721000 we also look at the markets where the 1st case were linked to the 100 series of seafood markets in one hand. and we also looked at. many studies that were conducted in the past few months in china on different animal species trying to fund. have a better idea of whether some animal species would be. harboring this virus. we looked at all these studies we received a lot of beta dates up process data result of studies and analysis done locally and we process that all that together with our chinese counterparts we also look at molecular and genetic data available to help us link all the other pieces together we look at and analyzed all the sick winces genetic sequences of the virus
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coming from different sources in december 19th and generate 2020. to try to give us a better picture of what we could find about the start of this of these events. in terms of key. data we looked at on the if you do many side we looked. to into. data coming out of different surveillance systems particular system looking at cases of fever cases of. species for pneumonia. resistance which are response recession syndromes that are picked up by different hits fertility is so we look at more than 76000 cases of these. symptomatic individuals in the months before this to try to look if anything there
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could look like cases that had not been picked up before but at the end of the day within find anything but this is only a 1st set of studies and among our recommendation is to look back in more detail into many of these data sets we also look at the data around the confirmed cases in december 21974 cases we know where a confirmed in at the time in one hand and there clearly during the 2nd half of this we could see a surge of cases course among the ones linked to the market but increasingly as we move towards the end of december increasingly cases not linked with the market indicating that the disease was already at that time spreading outside in in the different part of $100.00. and therefore the more we
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move into the 2nd half of this amber the less relevant the market itself becomes because then the disease is spreading around. if we also look at data from. the statistics states or to see could we see any excess mortality any sign of an excess number of deaths in the period before this amber 2019 in and around 100 and also swear in the province and we could not 'd there see anything happening before december. and clearly looking at the this type of data we could see that upsurge of mortality. in the numbers of this somehow in january. towards the start of january 2020. compatible with the fact that the number of cases was growing in the in the city
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and we also could see that outside. these increases in mortality came a little bit later indicating again that the event at least in the province started in one hand and then moved more and more outside outside to have. we also look a force of them back at the one and market we were in there and it's closed. now for more than a year but it was still very interesting to see the sitting to see the state of the physical environment in which these events unfolded more than a year ago and then. we also way bill to market their entire markets is huge market with more than 1500 vendors and shops and mapping all of them with a different type of product they were selling different type of meats tree seafood documentary meat etc and could think that we posed a positive environmental samples that were found in different surveys in the market
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but also with human cases particular in the early days of december and by putting all these data together to get at with the sequencing data we could we could show that. the virus was circulating in the in the market as early as the beginning of december 192-1000 but there were also cases not related to the markets outside the markets of one and markets slightly different differences in the in the genetic makeup of the virus these cases had showing that there was probably some relation in different parts of the city found related to to each other. and remember the cases we picked up in december $21000.00 when only the severe cases at the time a complete case was a case of syria. or the mild cases where missed because they were not at the time
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we didn't know that there was many cases or even as and 2 of the cases or all these other cases were never picked up and of course they could help us get the much better understanding of the start of the epidemic if we had access or could detect these these these cases we were also able for each of the interesting vendors in the market we were able to trace back their suppliers in particular the shops selling farm the way animals of of much interest in our work that we could we could detect or identify the suppliers they were using all the way back to the farms providing and raising these animals in different provinces of. ok so we've been listening there to the world the health organization mission leads or who has been lining some of the findings in reports and so the origins of
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the corona virus pandemic lot of technical detail in there but mostly they've just been outlining the data sets that they have analyzed presumably laying the groundwork for explaining how they have reached the conclusions they have quite a lot more to go on in that press conference it would appear so we're going to leave it for no because there is another live event bringing you and this is day 2 of the trial of a derek short when it's just got underway a quick reminder for you sure when he's charged with the murder of george florey is an event which of course which ignited worldwide protests against racism and police brutality let's listen in to the trial right now. that also caused your concern. career and what was no response from the officer so that was something that was also affecting how you were feeling about the answer that he girth and so then.
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that led into part of why you were raising your voice and in using terms you heard . when the were you present when the ambulance arrived there is. any time during this interaction did you see officer show intake is need. off of mr ford snack you know ok when the ambulance arrived does he do that though. and. and did you see a paramedic you know an ambulance personnel check for mr florence paul's. very heavy burden when the paramedics arrived did you continue to watch when the paramedics got out of the ambulance and check on mr foy it did or did you see if
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they checked for mr ford's polls. believe that they were attempting to go check of course. they need to. you still on top of. each other post. very very hard to remember they were in shit false. memory that. there is a response of that plane i think your answers your question thank you now when. paramedics loaded mr ford into the ambulance are you still there at the scene that is. and after that happened. did you see what the officers did well let me back up a bit at some point did you learn that there were more than. those 2 officers at the scene but if or when did you learn that. the lambs have arrived i did
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notice that there was more to it one officer more than 2 officers on the scene so where did you see or how did you see these other officers once they started to blow mr poole onto the strato to. not the technical name of it but they put him on to a little bit to your knee or stretch your herd yes you are right and and then when they did that you saw these other officers career where where had they been or were they come from they were on the bottom side of floyd. trying to get. to. the current. and you were then you were able to see them. and after mr ford is put into the ambulance and the ambulance left. did you stay at the scene for
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a little while that is for the right after the ambulance left did you see what were the officers went there heard were they still. proceed to. to the other side from the store which is 38 this way if you go towards 38. in proceed to go away from the scene. in review still in that same emotional mindset. yet so is. very lost at the moment in. there is in not knowing what to do. and did you in fact stay around to see him for a little while. at some point did you make
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a 911 call that is. called police on the phone. and why did you do that because. witness a murderer. and so if you felt a need to call the police and you got all these other pows there are police there right there or there are police there why don't you just talk to them about. this we just didn't have no connection you know i spoke to him but that only connection of a human being relationship. did you. believe that they were. involved. and so when you made that 911 call how long after the ambulance left was that. tyra gratian i don't know matter of minutes 1000000. to not slow
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very treats others are the procedure elise. and. prior to today if you had an opportunity to listen to a recording of that island what. can you please repeat that portion prior to coming to court today to replay for you a copy of that 911 call recording of it. when i say yes or no i cannot remember if it's ok if you heard that today would you be able to recognize it as the 911 call that you made that is heard we have now marked that as exhibit 20 and. your honor we would ask that it be or your offering it now or 6 of 20 and 20 is received all right so if we can spark the place of 20. 1.
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people. are reporter for the record. there are 19 badly. needed.

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