that mr shaaban was putting more pressure on plates that. you can see. his foot. so when you say digging. are you talking about the position of mr sharp and. so. you come out to see. who looks unconscious to you what else here going on around here. says. and what happened at that point. did you did you see anybody. do anything. did you see mr sha'ath man or anybody else move or change or get up off mr foy.

did you. were you concerned. with. were you saying anything once you got into that. group of people. and after you said that. was there any response from any. move. did any of them address your concerns. that when you say. tell the jury what you mean by that. officer whisper that really. so was officer tao

interacting with the people on the street at that. is that i am. asking before you answer. that's ok and i do it. ok so officer taleb here. can you just describe. what he was doing that made you feel that way. he pushed. this is. all on to the side. and. do you know that person. did you see anybody being. any of those you said witnesses that any of those people on the curb with you or any of those people being violent or aggressive in any way . but you saw using the boy ok. so you heard people using their voices but some mr. being hostile.

what else did you see did you see any of the other officers who were there at that one moniker. and what about mr shot and you see. what did you. describe his body language at that point. the sat there. what he was doing with his body is. george. did you notice anything else about. mr and. reaching for a thing or touching his mace or anything like. started shaking. and . do you feel that. why did you feel scared. because

i didn't know what was going to have been. and were you scared. or scared of mr foy or something on. that flight that you. saw. going for his mace was there anybody in your group of witnesses or bystanders that were. violent or are attacking in any way. for me is. a should see that on your screen in front of you know. you see yourself in this picture. just circle yourself on that screen it's. your finger.

and do you see anyone out there. and. what is a listen doing there. and is that yourself she has you know this. what were you doing at this. news. because i think pushed. because i didn't know what was going to happen to anybody like fighting the cops. did you know donna that. did you learn his name. somehow after the fact

what about it. was there any fight that afternoon with any of those bystanders. were you concerned for everybody's safety. and some why didn't you see. that down did you see an ambulance arrive your lives and. what was going on at that point in time. to get out. and you just made a motion with your hands and you say signal. did you see a paramedic. that looked like a get out kind of motion. after

the paramedics. the 1st time that you. get off mr flight. and how did mr floyd. what his condition appeared to be. and was he. talking or anything. and i know this is tough to talk about and i know it's hard to take your time. what do you think. you're. feeling. based on what you saw and how. did he look dead to you at that point. and did you see anybody until the paramedics . any of the ass errors i can't hear around or her state or city are in any medical

how before. entering. a reminder that we are following the trial of derek show in the former police officer who is charged for the murder of george floyd the unarmed black man whose death sparked protests across the u.s. and around the world and we've been hearing just now from an under-age witness testifying off camera there was a brief sound dip there that they did to discuss something so that the jury couldn't hear it. and we were expecting the press the defense to cross-examine the under-age witness who was 17 or described in herring terms actually to ride in

a car and then witnessed george when he arrived on the scene george floyd was still alive yelling out for his mom and saying that he couldn't breathe she went out of the car and by that stage she said she saw george roid unconscious in other words she said quote he wasn't talking anymore his eyes were closed he wasn't moving and she said she saw the former police officer show been digging his knee into his neck more putting on more pressure so some strong testimony. there. so we will just. take a break said the witness. needed to that remembering that she seemed upset by. john hendren has been. pretty upsetting isn't listening to. a teenager essentially describing witnessing someone dying that's what she said and she by the time of them didn't know how to. quote

her. yes they all describe this feeling of impotence of being unable to do anything there and there's an irony here that's really truly remarkable and that is that these children are 2 young to be shown on camera and yet they witnessed what the prosecution describes as a murder. and they are clearly one after another upset by it we've seen a lot of tears on the stand today. including donald williams this you know a guy who is a martial arts fighter a security officer somebody who's trained to fight for a living and he was wiping tears out of his eyes he is one of the people that you heard there not

a teenager one of the people we got to see who is talking about. how he was trying to persuade the officers to get off of george floyd's neck and the defense did what it is done with one witness after another and that is to suggest that they were angry and that there were discrepancies in their stories but none of the discrepancies that have been pointed out so far really have seemed significant we don't know how they're going to tie this all together at the end when the defense presents their own case in the 2nd 2 weeks of this trial so they may be laying the groundwork for an argument here but. what they seem to be suggesting is that the police officers while they were on george floyd's back and neck and legs. were too preoccupied with what they seemed to believe was a growing unruly and hostile mob around them but that's not what we're hearing from these teenagers and others who are testifying in the pictures that we see of them standing on the sidewalk don't seem to show them threatening officers at all

although there was some harsh talk to the police officers through those 9 minutes and 29 seconds. of george floyd and one of the witnesses. but how much of that in a situation where. it would be an exceptionally dangerous thing and probably most people in their state they've got 3 officers keeping one man down and another one doing crowd control all of them are armed and they're witnessing what they perceive to be an abuse of police powers intervening. and that's. the end of this whole experience he called police the police and he was asked why he did that and he said

i thought i was witnessing a murder he. allegedly according to the defense threatened the police by saying if you did that to me i would slap both of you. explicit language . and he was asked did you say that and he said yes. he was angry he went on to explain but he felt a sense of injustice in this whole experience but very unlikely i think that anyone there would be able to physically intervene or they themselves would probably be taken down for resisting arrest. thank you very much and. thanks. let's bring you more now another of the stories we're covering this hour the united states and 13 other countries are expressing concern over the world health organization's report on the origins of covert 19 us goodwill from white house correspondent kimberly how could. the u.s.

is one of the countries that so expressed so this now that's right in light of a study that has been put forward by the world health organization a partnership with china there are some concerns that the united states is helping to lead in terms of the chorus of complaints about how this was done in terms of its methodology the white house press secretary talked about the concerns of the united states noting that there was an issue of transparency from its perspective as well as access and anti leanness that simply what it came to the some vested geisha it was delayed and those that were investigating the origins were not given the fettered access that the u.s. believes is necessary in order to adequately determine the origins of covert night take a listen the report lacks crucial data information and access it represents

a partial and incomplete picture there was a joint statement as i noted that was put out we also welcome a similar statement from the e.u. and e.u. members sending a clear message the global community shares these concerns there are steps from here that we believe should be taken there's a 2nd stage in this process that we believe should be led by international international and independent experts they should have unfettered access to data they should be able to ask questions of people who are on the ground at this point time enough to step the w.h.o. could take and can be more generally how much confidence does the u.s. have in the. well this is a really important point loren given the fact that the united states under donald trump said it did not have any confidence in the world health organization the trumpet ministration had pulled the united states out of that body said that it was too close with china this is something that joe biden rectified when he came to office and so it was important for the white house press secretary to note that

there is still confidence in the global health body as a whole what they are talking about specifically in terms of its concerns is the study itself and that's why they are looking forward to a phase 2 where there can be more transparency and more data in terms of how this is conducted what the united states is doing is essentially not trying to cast any blame but really to make sure that this never happens again in terms of the covert 1000 pandemic that has killed more than 2 and a half 1000000 people worldwide in more than half a 1000000 people here in the united states can me how could thank you very much indeed well as i can be was mentioning just over a year after the pandemic was declared countries around the world are joining forces to prepare for future outbreaks the world health organization and the leaders of $23.00 countries a calling for an international pandemic treaty to create better alert systems and ensure universal access to vaccines the time to arcot is now

the world cannot afford to wait until the parliament 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. a russian health official says a 3rd wave of corona virus infections is emerging in the country due to rising cases a deputy health ministers comment conflicts with president putin's belief last week that the country would reach herd immunity in the summer he predicted that restrictions would soon be lifted the latest figures showed more than 8000 new cases in 24 hours more than 4000000 people have received 2nd jobs. in australia britain is going into a 3 day snap lockdown after more than a dozen new locally transmitted infections were detected queensland's state premiers says the cases are of the highly infectious u.k.

strain people were only be allowed to leave home for essential work shopping care duties for exercise schools will be closed 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've been 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 spree. lebanon is looking to the private sector to help speed up its vaccination drive only a fraction of the population is fully inoculated and there are concerns that contracting out vaccination distribution won't benefit those who are most in need it harder has 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 frontlines 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 about seeing 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 being really heavy in the bin and of course immunization

campaign is costly and it's very cost effective. however so if we can get the public sector involved and then recover reducing the cost of the vaccination campaign we can the speed of the fixing the 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 each day fewer than 10000 people are receiving a job so far only one percent of a population of an estimated 6000000 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. just basically blocking off large quantities of the sex scenes

for specific populations. when the campaign was launched officials insisted everyone would have equal access to vaccines they are now being accused of bypassing regulations designed to ensure that happens. to their beirut when a man was biggest ethnic minorities is calling for international help as if it is an assault by government troops thousands of people have already been displaced in cairo and state after previous ass trikes over the weekend and the karen national union rebel group says thousands of troops are advancing towards the area with reports of more airstrikes many people have fled the region for neighboring thailand but say forces that $10000.00 of them away thailand's prime minister says they chose to return to me in march and his country is ready to shelter anyone fleeing violence largely reports from kuala lumpur she says there are growing

concerns about the situation on the border with thailand. clear escalation of violence following days of air strike reports say and 10000 people have already been sprayed many thousands are trying to cross 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 the time and that 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 clear you also aren't seeing on areas how quiet ethnic armed groups. amnesty international has condemned the killing of 3 female polio vaccination workers in afghanistan and they were shot dead by unknown

gunmen in 2 separate locations in the eastern city of jalalabad in one go hard province earlier as the shootings took place there was an explosion at the provincial health department headquarters which didn't cause any casualties no one has claimed responsibility several high profile assassinations of rocked afghanistan since peace talks between the government and taliban began last year. and sort of under. the we were unknown people attacked the martyrdom vaccinates are at the same time in the 7th district of jalalabad and outcasting shrine there was another attack on 2 more vaccinated unfortunately both of them were martyred in total free vaccinators were martyred. local media in mozambique are reporting that a rebel group now controls around half of the northern town of power after launching a deadly attack almost a week ago video from eyesores amec news agency claims to show dozens of armed fighters near the town which is close to the oil field dozens of people are thought

to have been killed when gunmen from a group known locally as al shabaab a siege the town thousands of fled north to towns near and south to the town of pember aid agencies say tens of thousands of people are feared to been displaced and more than 90000 people require food aid. what has happened in. empowerment is an absolute horror of being in treatise on civilians by an non-state armed group that is what i can say they have done horrific things they're still doing so we have reports this morning of continued clashes that is why we are talking about our expectations of thousands of more people moving out from district and towards other areas of the country and towards the border with. the president of central african republic has been sworn in for a 2nd term vowing to fight armed groups which threaten to derail last year's

election for stark orange to a hard won more than half the vote with his predecessor claiming fraud when he was barred from running more than 270000 people were displaced in the violence that followed the poll. france has rejected the u.n. report that says its military killed 19 civilians in air strike on a wedding in mali saying it only killed armed fighters human rights monitors say only 3 armed men were killed during the raid on the village of duty in the center of the country in january it says it came to its decision after analyzing satellite images visiting the site and interviewing more than 400 people the french defense ministry says the evidence is weak and is based on local witnesses aren't identified. now how do you stop another 200000 ton ship blocking the suez canal that's a key question for experts in egypt the vital waterway has been getting back to usual after the ever given was freed on monday after 6 days as under schapelle

reports that delay came with a big cost. 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 connected with and could see it on the list as to what is said about alternatives and such as no no this is a global waterway for international trade with $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 chains will resilience but i'm sure a series canal authours he's having a good think as well about how to make. the canal itself more robust one alternative means there are along the northern coast of siberia that could possibly go open up 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 chapelle al jazeera. i mean back in a moment with more on the trial of a former police officer over the death toll troy. that's it for me for a moment in

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