tried to get him to say that he was angry because of the things he was saying and mr williams said no i'm not angry i was i was being professional and he said he objected to what he had seen and then you've got the 1st of what we understand to be 4 juvenile witnesses people the age of 18 and as you mentioned come all that's why we're not seeing their faces or getting their full names but as you point out they are in the pictures that they self identify of themselves on the scene and these seem to be just the building blocks that the prosecution is trying to put together in order to say look for those of you in the jury who this 9 and a half minutes of the video there's not a whole lot else going on here your eyes aren't being deceived and you know that because these are the witnesses who were there at the time and they're saying that all of these things occurred just as they do on the video the defense is trying of course to poke holes in that to suggest that perhaps these bystanders have an axe

to grind. we'll hear more from the defense theory on what exactly was going on there when they present their case but right now in these cross-examination they're really not seeming to make a significant dent in the stories of these witnesses beyond saying that mr williams was angry and therefore that had some kind of ax to grind against the police. ok john stick around for me have just been told we've got another 15 minutes or so until things begin in the courtroom again just gone 1600 hours g.m.t. in fact which is 11 am in minneapolis as we continue with day 2 of the trial of the former minneapolis policeman derek accused of killing the black man george floyd i'd like to bring in ronald sullivan now our expert legal guest who's been very patient has been staying with us right throughout. this morning's coverage he's

a professor of law and director of criminal justice institute at the harvard law school so broad your take on what we've seen 1st of all with donald williams the witness who saw george floyd's being killed and who said that he was witnessing a murderous italy to john and he was. talking about this as well the fact that there was an attempt by the defense almost it seemed any time race came into it or angered to sort of paint him as a forgive my phrasing here an angry black man. rode your microphone is news had i'm sorry or no that's that's that's my my apology go ahead liam's was a great witness for the state here you have a person trained in the use of choko who is standing there simply eating with the police to let this guy up let him breathe and and i think

that was some powerful testimony and it's difficult to rebut now the theory of the defense is this that the conduct of the police is a function of an angry crowd that the police behaved in the way that they did that they could not move mr floor because the crowd grew angrier and angrier and angrier and donna williams a calling them bums and so forth was the was was the angriest you know that's their theory and that's really all they can go with the difficult thing is what i think most people will realize is that the police did not react because of what the crowd did rather the crowd reacted because of the behavior of the police they were watching an individual die before their very eyes and that's a tough situation to be in now that the the fit's is really really flux here with

respect to how to use race. there yet they're saying people were angry but they're not attaching race to it they have to be very careful therefore black jurors on here that the trope of an angry black man is tried and true in criminal trials all across the united states but they have to be very careful here they can't do that so they're just they're using generic terms like people were angry people were shouting but being very careful not to a show associate race with it. and now we see and we have heard i shouldn't say we see because we're not seeing them the 1st of these 4 minor witnesses people who it seems were bystanders who were filming on their phones i mean they're all going to say the same thing and they and they're it's all going to corroborate each other what is what is the defense do with that. that's going to be tough i mean you know this this is a study in contrasts it's like

a modern day thomas hardy knob or something like that it it you have these young right now these children african-american children they are standing on the corner unarmed versus officers who are armed to the teeth. exerting the power of the state on the citizen george floor and it's going to be tough for the defense to come back in cross-examine these people what they've done so far and what they must do this time is simply attempt to establish their firy through these witnesses and that is that the crowd kept growing and that the crowd was being very excited so you know if i were cross-examining these young people it would be very short you agree that you saw several people there there were many people there people got upset they got increasingly upset it got louder there as more people came the noise level increased people were yelling at the police right

and then sit down and argue the rest later that's really the only thing they can do in this situation in watching this trial ronnell and and i should point out that that's quite something in itself on live television that we are watching every moment of this there's 2 things i notice one is obviously there's a lot of detail there's a lot of procedure which is going to be a little dry sometimes and i guess people one always understand what's going on but there is also this extraordinary tension all the way through the answers which have been given it's almost like and i guess this is the lawyers job isn't it to try the elicit the out so they want and witnesses are being so careful in the way they say it and their lawyers are being very careful to stop them from saying certain things i know i'm being very broad here but it is quite fascinating to watch. so here is the issue here and it is fascinating so what you're saying it is what's called fact

witnesses fact witnesses can only testify to what they saw what they heard what they observed but they're not permitted to give opinions opinions about what they saw so you can say i saw officer chauvin put his knee in mr floyd's neck that's a that's something they saw i heard mr floyd say i can't breathe i heard mr floyd say i'm finished you can say that but an opinion goes further than opinion says and because of that i saw the officer killing mr floyd and this is what your audience is seeing some of the witnesses are going at it all too far into opinion and not with effect with mr williams he was a mixed witness he got special permission from the judge to testify as a quad zite expert because of his mixed martial arts experience so he was able to

give a limited opinions but he couldn't give an opinion as to cause of death that's what a medical professional and so forth so that's kind of inside baseball that your audience is seeing now that witnesses can only describe who what where when how. but the why question is more of an opinion and that's considered improper under the rules of evidence say this is why we've got you with us right now because you're explaining it so well for us right and some of the now legal experts as we go through day 2 of the derek unshaven trial will be back with you again ron thank you thank you. by my count we have about 7 minutes until the trial resumes so we will go through some of the news of the day and the world health organization has just released the 1st report following its fact finding mission in the city of work of course where covert 19 was 1st detected it does not pinpoint exactly where the disease came from

but the report says it is quote extremely likely that it was transmitted from bats to schumann's through another animal the team leader peter pan and barack also says it may not have originated from the infamous. market after all. during the 2nd half of the. surge of cases horse among the worms linked to the market but increasingly as we move towards the end of december increasingly cases knuckling with the market indicating that the disease was already at that time spreading outside in into different parts of. meanwhile some of the world's leading scientists of war and the world may have less than a year before current vaccines are actually no longer effective against future mutations of covert 19 and while the pandemic continues to affect all our lives of course the world health organization and the leaders of 23 countries have called for an international treaty to try to deal with future outbreaks well let's hear

from oksana has a coup is leading who is leading i'm sorry a global citizenship program on outbreaks of infectious diseases from the university college of london and she says the speed and the strategy of vaccinations worldwide really is critical. at the current rate 10 percent only 10 percent of little middle eastern countries will actually receive the vaccines that are off the target. speed of vaccine reloads that we have out very critically important but it also means that we have to share that and this is something that we all do for instance countries like the u.k. have me a large financial contributions were that it has become a situation where many high income countries are hoarding back and that's a short sighted view because it really creates the ideal conditions with the extra delays this extra last time for other areas the world will back to me very high

transmission because it pretentiously a little bit and then that is really where variants are more likely to emerge and what we see in countries like the u.k. for instance we have moved through the elderly the vulnerable and are moving into younger population now and what we should be focusing on is ensuring that we're protecting health care workers and health care systems globally but it's a politically difficult message already of course for me are working on a 2nd generation so it is likely actually that we'll see the population getting really backed me to other countries will have to wait 345 years or even get there 1st of. let's take you through the cover developments germany's capitol police has suspended the use of the astra zeneca vaccine for anyone under the eye just $0.60 on the drugs the company with the country's drug regulator i should say announced it has recorded 31 cases of people developing rat blood clots in the brain after

getting the astra zeneca jab there is no proven link but europe strug regulator has previously said it can't rule out of connection all but 2 of those cases where women between the ages of 20 and 639 of those patients died. spain and to the 1st vaccine was available for 60 to 65 year olds in madrid mass vaccinations being held in local stadium with more than $500.00 people getting the jab each hour some said they didn't care which brand they got they were just happy to finally get their vaccination in australia the city of brisbane is going into a 3 day snap lockdown after more than a dozen new locally transmitted infections were detected people will only be allowed to leave home for essential work shopping or exercise schools will be closed queensland state premier says the cases are of the highly infectious u.k. strain and chill a health care system and funeral services are under increasing pressure as coded

1000 infections surge the country record of 7000 new cases for the 5th day in a row on monday cemeteries in the city of valparaiso having to store bodies and contain is chile's under extensive lockdown to curb the soaring infection despite having the highest vaccination rate in latin america. and lebanon which is looking to the private sector to help speed up its bags and drive only a fraction of the population is fully in all connected and there are concerns that contracting out vaccination distribution might lead to nepotism and actually won't benefit those who are most in need so in horror as more from beirut. this initiative is supposed to speed up the coronavirus vaccination campaign in lebanon the government is allowing private companies to import vaccines to make sure the country's collapsed economy stays open a good book to do and i am so happy we are finally getting vaccinated because we work at the airport we are exposed to many people and we on the front lines we are

safe now for now vaccines can only be sold to companies unions institutions and n.g.o.s that are supposed to offer them to their employees and their families for free but many say they are concerned lebanon is notorious for corruption and vaccines are sold in hard currency which few people now have the minimum monthly salary is worth $60.00. us in the divine years those who can afford to pay i don't $40.00 did not see it which means today live on on it is this sort of 5 of the richest the poor will remain without vaccination officials disagree they say public health authorities and the private sector will work together the government or 'd the public money is very heavy again and of course immunization campaign is costly at its very course defect. however so if we can get the public sector involved then we can reduce the cost of the vaccination campaign we can speed up the vixenish in

campaign the nearly bankrupt government purchased vaccines using a loan from the world bank it also received help from the u.s. led program kovacs that assists developing countries so far the amounts are limited the vaccination rollout is in week 7 but it's been slow at present day fewer than 10000 people are receiving a job so far only one percent of a population of an estimated $6000000.00 people have been fully vaccinated. the private sector may reduce pressure on the government but it's giving politicians leverage some are promising to secure vaccines for people in their electoral districts for free and it would allow for private placement which is basically blocking off large quantities of sex scenes for specific populations that. when the campaign was launched officials insisted everyone would have equal access

to vaccines they are now being accused of by passing regulations designed to ensure that happens. to their beirut central african republic president. has been sworn in after his reelection last december he was reelected for a 2nd term in office got more than 53 percent of the vote in an election marred by violence december's poll was violently contested by a coalition of rebel groups more than 270000 people were displaced because he has been following the ceremony from capital. the election has been under very contested times there is a group of armed groups that once fought each other and united under an umbrella organization they call themselves the coalition for patriotic change they believe that did not win this election and they want to take over power now during his swearing in ceremony. addressed these armed groups he's calling for

a national unity dialogue what he calls a yellow clip in french which means republican dialogue calling all parties to let go of their arms and to come around the table and to discuss various grievances also in his speech when he was sworn in he said that he alluded to former president saying that politicians are trying to put their personal gains over the interests of the people well they'll be one that will have to face justice at one point or another. who's under u.n. sanction the former president is believed to be behind this coalition for patriotic change creating disturbance in the country where according to the u.n. 44 percent of the country is in their hands so. is starting this mandate in a country that he has very little control over and caught over this this tussle for power are the people of the central african republic. china's top legislative body

has unanimously approved sweeping changes to hong kong's electoral system the number of seats will increase from 70 to 90 but those directly elected by voters will be cut from 35 to 20 plans for a major overhaul were unveiled earlier this month during the national people's congress beijing's repeatedly said only so-called patriots can administer the semi autonomous region of on call for help citing for the laws are in line with the constitutional order the actual situation for hong kong and it also implements the concept of petrie it's administering hong kong this is a major exercise this will keep hong kong on the right track to implement one country 2 systems and keep us on the right path. to get updates on the suez canal now ships once again sailing through that passage to the giant container ship blocking the canal for 6 days was finally moved on monday united nations reckons it

will take up to 4 days to clear the backlog of marine traffic in the canal supporters from andrew chappelle. in the early morning start as these container ships try to make up for lost time maritime traffic is moving again on egypt's suez canal after being disrupted for 6 days about 140 ships are expected to pass through on tuesday the canal was blocked by a ship as long as new york's empire state building is tall dredger crews worked around the clock to clear thousands of cubic meters of sand around the vessel a fleet of tugboats then pulled it from a bank and into deeper water. egypt's president has held the rescue effort as a point of pride for the canal and its operators the government received more than $5000000000.00 in revenue from the channel last year fizzling collaborated with and as for what is said about alternatives and such no no this is a global waterway for international trade. $9000000000.00 worth of goods passes

through each day and delays to international supply chains will take time to clear while the immediate crisis is over experts say the ever given's 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 chain more resilient but i'm sure the series can now thora he's having a good think as well about how to make the come out itself more robust one alternative is they are along the northern coast of siberia that could possibly go but not which is now actually possible to sail around because of the gloom whatever the alternatives egypt's government recently expanded this waterway at a cost of more than $8000000000.00 banking on it staying the world's number one short cut between east and west enter schapelle al-jazeera. 3 female health workers have been shot dead in afghanistan the women were working for

a polio vaccination program in the eastern city of jalalabad the government says it's not clear who carried out those shootings earlier this month though 3 female journalists were killed in the same city and i saw had claimed responsibility for that attack. the youth driven protest movement in thailand fighting for reform of government and the monarchy is trying to regain momentum most of its leadership was jailed during a recent legal crackdown using a revived royal defamation law scotland has been speaking to the parents of those behind boss as this report from bangkok. defiant at their quarter rivals earlier this month protest leaders put it she would lock known as penguin. and upon the often a cool known as wrong. but they were hidden from the cameras this week police made certain to keep them out of sight as they arrive for criminal court hearings both face charges of sedition and royal defamation. at a tribute for the arrested protesters penguins mother she would lock is now growing

more worried about her 22 year old son but says she's staying strong for him. penguins been in jail since february 9th and 2 weeks ago started a hunger strike until they all was granted. he always tells us to be patient to make sacrifices and be proud of him no matter what happens to him he's not harming anybody only expressing his honest opinion to make his homeland a bit a place both penguin and wrong have been charged with multiple counts of insulting the monarchy and king corn each one could carry a 15 year sentence they've been denied bail repeatedly just last year prime minister said the king told him not to use the last majesté law but clearly that directive has not only changed as now the war of defamation law is being used to intimidate and scare protesters and their leadership around 80 cases have been filed since november. boun proctoring supports the monarchy and strongly believes

in thai traditions a mother herself she feels that parents need to take action if their kids are protesting for royal reform any. kids have to listen to their parents when told they shouldn't criticize the king it's a sacred institution of our country it's fine if you criticize the government runs parents and penguins parents really should have ruined their children. rooms mother city rotten a cool says she has some regrets for her daughter taking care of wrongs cats while she's away gives her comfort. like i will if i could go back in time i'd still give my daughter the same warnings i gave before if you want to involve yourself with politics they'll be consequences you may go to prison you may not be able to bail yourself out and you may lose your freedom and at this stage both protest leaders have traded their freedom for what they see as the battle of their generation deep reform of thailand's power structures it's got harder al-jazeera bangkok. to mean

maher and the ethnic group the current national union says thousands of soldiers are advancing towards areas it controls in the south east and strikes are also reported to have targeted one of their bases and a village of people have been displaced in current state following previous airstrikes over the weekend and hundreds of fled to neighboring thailand 4 and 3 as well from kuala lumpur in malaysia. the escalation of violence following days of action right reports say and 10000 people have already been sprayed many thousands of times across the country into neighboring thailand to seek shelter and to seek refuge also getting reports from activists groups saying that these 5000 people have been turned back from entering thailand. we know that people who have been wounded have been trying to go into the country to seek medical assistance and dozens of them were allowed to go into time from which to seek medical assistance

but clearly what's happening in myanmar is now extremely worrisome it's not just the fact that there is now. our military is cracking down on protesters but it's very clearly also that aren't seeing on areas how ethnic armed groups. as well and refugees in colombia are accusing their country's army of killing innocent civilians and 5000 people have fled fighting between the military and rebels in venezuela and sought refuge across the border and us under reports from the border town of akita. for did run media syndrome well enough families the pain is unbearable have not yet met. yet all. 4 of their relatives were killed last week during a military operation ordered by the venezuelan government security forces accused them of being part of a colombian rebel group and said they died in combat interrupting that report to go

back to minneapolis court back in session on day 2 of the derek chauvin murder trial he. stated. he had like this. cold look. he didn't care it seemed it seems that he didn't hear. what we were saying it in changing anything he was doing in response to what you and the other bystanders were saying did you see him do anything differently to the body of george floyd. can you really. well i'll just ask you the question yes in response to what they're probably doing to say did you see any deal that are on george floyd and which is incidently do you see mr shop in the courtroom. today could

you please point out. there. for the record has pointed to the shop vac. now you have some point told us that you were there when the ambulance came. to shop and get all of this to floyd but they handle us around. the. ambulance there's nothing actually having to live done. so the ambulance arrives and does an ambulance person get out right away and come over to ask mr shop to lift up or get something else happened before he checked his pulse wow something needs to remain on the internet. all right so paramedics checks his pulse with just a shock still on his neck then what happens after that. though there may be one he'll of a motion like get out. tell him basically known him to remove his knee his knee was

still here even making him even i didn't even understand him and is that did mr shop get up at that time you know. as you were serving the entire scene did you observe mr floyd doing anything that you felt was threatening to any of the police officers. did you see you do anything other than call out. no he's not. trying. to get more comfortable no. do you feel let me ask questions different. when you arrive at the scene you heard just a. little. at some point during that period of time he was august a shot and did you see him go unconscious. discussion about

whether or not he had in fact. did you have. when the paramedics came. they picked up his body to this body from the scene. they revive him there. did you ever see him conscious again. incidentally with the. answers. for the most part sphere on the sidewalk where they were living with various. head off into the of the specter all into the street was that all 1st of all telling them to get back. to. see that complied with what the officer was asking.

passable. good morning. thank you for being here. just a few questions for you ok. you testified that. when you 1st came to cut foods. you heard initially heard what was being said by mr ford right. and you said your cousin into the store and you never went into cups with yourself or.