learned who that was, that george floyd. yes. so you saw them moving, mr. floyd, after you stopped recording this. so i'm going to put exhibit one back up. and if you would again show the jurors, you know where you saw them. well, if you would just put an x on here where you were part when you made that 2nd video, do you know what i mean? who are your dragon? ok. and then if you would show the jurors where you saw them walking, mr. floyd, after you stopped recording the story and so then at some point you started up your car and drove off out of the area. and can you show the jurors where you drove when you get that?

and so the record should reflect, you turned from 38th street to go. what would be southbound on chicago? correct. and the record reflect that you're indicating the officers walking. mr. floyd from the dragon walk corner. what would be north? not chicago, correct her towards the cup food store. now when you turned and went south chicago, had they already walked mr. floyd, front of you over to that or did you cut in front of them? you know, i mean, cross out, i'm not sure it was before i arrived, but one point you said earlier that you saw them putting them in a squad car or were did you see that taking place? so when you turned southbound is that when you looked at those

and have anything else to do with that scene that you are known for. the questions are in cross 3. mr. don't you think you are sober

or just been listening to the testimony of christopher belfry, another witness called by the prosecution. in the trial of derek sjodin, the police officer who is accused of killing george floyd in minneapolis. now we heard a lot of testimony there about what mr. christopher belfry saw, and what he filmed, and most of it relates to the police officers approaching the vehicle in which was mr. george floyd schedule, we take a lunch break. now we'll try and reconvene about 115. thank you.

let me just bring up to speed. what happened suddenly there we heard the judge there explaining that they're going to take a lunch break. and as i was saying, what we witnessed was the testimony of christopher bell, freddy describing the moments which he witnessed and some of which he filmed when the police arrived on the scene and how they approached with one, at least one police officer described by christopher belfries approaching the vehicle in which george ford was in, with his gun pulled, and mr. belfries expectation that something was about to happen that was worthy of filming. and we heard, of course, this is the prosecution's time to question their witness. so a lot of emphasis, we've heard there on how the police for a pro ching perhaps depicting the picture of,

of whether the police had approached initially this situation with appropriate or inappropriate level of force. we did see some video in which the police and i think this may be the 1st time we've seen this video, how they were trying to force george floyd out of the car. and it did seem to be, i don't say a struggle that the, it did seem that there was, there was some degree of force used to, to remove him from the car. it's going to be interesting to see how, of course, the defense come back. and cross-examine, this witness, and how they try to present the same video that we've seen and the testimony of this same witness. they've taken a break there their lunch, so they the judge. others have been need to take a lunch break. so i think we're going to come back to this. we may now need to,

we've got john hendren, he's following the trial for us in the napa verse and joins us indeed from there. so john, let's start with the latest thing we've seen since you and i spoke, which is of course the testimony of christopher belfry and the video as i was explaining of what that shows. this is quite significant for the prosecution to show how the police approached george floyd from the very beginning, right? yes, indeed, the police actually drew weapons on george floyd and we expect to find out a little more about theirs as that testimony goes on. but it just seems as if they were pretty aggressive from the start, particularly for a case that it did not involve any violence or a threat to anybody, but it involved a counterfeit $20.00 bill. that's the allegation that 1st george floyd's friend in

the car tried to pass a $20.00 counterfeit bill inside of the foods. that bill was rejected as counterfeit. and then floyd came in, had a pleasant. busy conversation with our witness a little bit earlier there, christopher and then left of bill martin later as the clerk of that store decided as a false bill came out to the car, repeatedly tried to persuade floyd to come in and talk to the manager. and then you have the police approach that vehicle and that is the beginning of the encounter that ended badly with george floyd's death in the end, after 3 officers knelt on his neck and at some point went unconscious. there's a dispute as to exactly what the cause of death was, but even the formal coroner's report concludes that the cause of death was a homicide. that is a death at the hands of another person in that, of course, is what the prosecution is trying to argue. in this case that the police came in

a hot, they were aggressive from the start over reacted. they knelt on floyd for far too long, according to the prosecution's. and that it was derek chauvinism. the that cut off the blood to his body and ultimately to the defense of course, challenges that story saying that it is a combination of 19 heart trouble and drugs, methamphetamine, and fenton all specifically the contributed heavily to the poor to know that the prosecution doesn't have to prove it, derek children was the only cause for george ford's death, just that it was eventually contributed. so by starting off with the aggressive police response from the beginning, the prosecution is trying to show we put him in far too aggressively in a way that was inappropriate for really a financial crime. and you're going to hear from the defense on this. i'm sure

cross-examine nation about their view of these events and why the officers responded way they did. all right, john, thanks for following things. we've got a lunch break going on there in the court for mobile. come back to john a little bit later for now. thanks so much right, time to catch up in some other news now on a breakthrough in covert 19 vaccine development. pharmaceutical companies finds a biotech say there vaccine has proven safe and effective in 12 to 15 year olds. they say trials involving more than 2000 adolescents demonstrate minor side effects . the dose is 100 percent effective at preventing disease. they hope to get emergency approval in the u.s. and begin in all the late in young people before the next school year. 112 year old participant says he's happy to do his part. it's definitely

a very special opportunity to be able to do something like this. because usually i'm just at home on doing online school, and there's not much i can really do to fight back against the virus pretty surprising in this trial and potentially helping other you kids to feel safe and want to get the vaccine in the future. one of the cons for locally available on my is really some when i can actually help our no, i mean, forrester soto is a very large estate, kill université. she says, although vaccinating children will be necessary down the line, vulnerable groups are the priority. most children are able to sort of shrug off credit are a little bit more easily than adults do. but that doesn't mean that we're not seeing evidence of what we call long bit in children. and that long it is having significant impacts on, you know, us a certain proportion of the children infected with credit risk. and so while

children are not necessarily as badly affected, we've got a nation. the idea is to really accelerate as much of the population as possible and in order to and that allows us to kind of protect everybody within the population. and if we don't vaccinate children, there is the potential that the virus may add at better to children. may cause most disease in children, although that in my opinion is probably unlikely, much more importantly, i think that there is a chance that you know children who drives them or transmission in the community. at the moment we think that children reflect the transmission is already on going in the adult population. but if you had a population that is mainly vaccinated, that it will likely be children who are not x. . and if you will drive that transmission, i think we should be trying to actually all the trinity from ripple adults 1st emma to keep those, you know, in their old age groups who are most at risk of having big coronavirus on their backs and eating the children is, you know, going to be an egg in the end would be

a fantastic idea because it can prevent and miss the days of school. and we're seeing a lot of evidence that you know, the mental health of children is suffering outside of the school environment. so i think, you know, both those things need to be balanced. but i think at this point there, the goal is to try and save as many lives as possible, which means vaccinating the clinic to vulnerable probably 1st. well, yemen has received its 1st supplies of coded 19 vaccines. it got 360000 doses of the indian manufacture of astra zeneca jab through the international kovacs program. it's set to receive $1900000.00 doses this year. humanitarian organizations say yemen's health care system has been crippled by the war. so far the country has reported around $4000.00 infections. but experts say the real number is much higher. still ahead on al-jazeera. why this year's appearance of the famous cherry blossoms has scientists worried?

it's time for the perfect gentleman who went sponsored point cut some ways how that the weather is still set fair across a good part of japan at the moment has a very warm sunshine to start the wait temperatures to support 18 celsius. the warmest march day on record here, many parts of japan have seen the warmest march weather on record as well. little further south and west. we have got this weather front, bringing some rather heavy right now to central and eastern parts of china. and that will slowly make its way towards q shoes as we go on through towards the weekend. so i said, what's the weather on the cots for some make the most of the sunshine there ahead of that. and with light winds, it really won't feel too bad as a high still in place 940. but wetter weather will creep across the east china sea,

the low say that will push its way towards a korean peninsula. as we go on through the weekend for the south, is fun to drive home call temperatures at 30 degrees celsius to dry by the stretching down across northern parts of the philippines. but for southern areas of the philippines, we could well see some very heavy showers, possibility of some localized flooding coming in here, schellas to across malaysia and indonesia. the shells for malaysia, they not say way up towards the nicobar islands. the out of an island want to show is 2 to the south of india just around kerala. but for much of india it's all about the hate temperatures again into the forty's. sponsored by a qatar airways. welcome today from every one of us. even those working quietly behind the scenes so you can relax, enjoy the perfect break in your journey. and

when you leave with a smile, we know our day's work is done. welcome to our home. back here watching our just 0 time to recap our headlines now. it's day 3 of former minneapolis policeman, derek chauvinists trial for the murder of unarmed black man george floyd. one of the witnesses where we've been hearing from so far is christopher martin. he was working in cop food store on the day of the incident. floyd was killed just outside

the store says it's vaccine is proven safe and effective in 12 to 15 year olds. they hope to get emergency approval in the u.s. and begin immunizing young people before the next school year. chinese state media say the country's been vindicated by the world health organizations report investigating the origins of the pandemic. a team of experts visited the 1st known location of the outbreak earlier this year. they found transmission from an animal was most likely the source. but critics of question, the credibility of the report, katrina, you more from the world health organization may be facing growing international pressure over its newly released coronavirus report. but here and with the pandemic, started, people are pleased with its findings. oh, has off already. western countries kept accusing china of causing pandemic. this

report shows chinese in the us and i believe the conclusions in the report, but i think it came out too late. china has suffered a lot from the virus. it shows china is not guilty. on tuesday, the un agency released a $120.00 page document detailing the results of a month long mission to china to study the origin of covered 19. the team concluded the most likely source of the virus was a bat, or other animal and the least likely was a leak from a government lab. the report also thanked the chinese government for facilitating the visit to conduct joint research with it. our goal is to reflect our openness and transparency, but critics say the mission was anything but and transparent. chinese government officials curated and tightly controlled, the visit chaperoning the experts at all times and controlling what information

they could access. jamie metzl says beijing also vetoed participants. on the mission. he drafted an open letter, signed by 2 dozen experts, calling for a new international inquiry into china. it wasn't an investigation at all. a 2 week study tour with very limited access to records samples and personnel is not an entire waste of time, but it's not even remotely close to the kind of. busy an unrestricted, international forensic investigation which we need. the u.s. and other countries have signed joint statement raising concerns about the report. w.h.o. directed general at 100 gay priest has issued his strongest criticism of china to date. same group, difficult to access and will hand ladley theory required more extensive assessment . the w.h.o. says they never expected the mission to produce a definitive answer about the origin of carbon 19. and the 2nd phase of research is

required. but as international criticism builds of the chinese role in the study, they may find a new one comes increasingly like this moment in the market walked off in between al-jazeera, a russian opposition leader likes in the valley says he's going on hunger strike until he receives proper medical treatment while he's in jail, but around the says he's suffering from acute back pain, and these are unable to use one of his legs. his supporters say they fear for his life, but only survived the poisoning attempt with a nerve agent last year. traced back to russia's security services, the shares government says the situation is under control after what it says was an attempted coup by soldiers at the presidential palace. i am. gunfire can be clearly heard on this video from witnesses in the

capital. now may, the attack comes just 2 days ahead of president elect, 100 bazooms, swearing in the assailants, reportedly came from a nearby military base, fled after the incident. a number of people have been arrested and an investigation is now underway. armitage greece has the latest from a vote in neighboring nigeria. the incident started around 2 o'clock g.m.t. . that's i don't we are close to 2 o'clock local to 3 o'clock local time and it lasted for nearly an hour before security forces put the rebellion down. it's not clear exactly who they call leaders want him to call leaders. but what we hear now from security sources is that several people have been arrested many of them military, they have been stepped up military presence in the capital niamey. we also understand that security has been stepped up across the borders, none borders in egypt, although the main airport in yemen has not been closed down. but we understand that

security forces are in fact looking for several individuals, many of them politicians and military officers who may be responsible for what we've, what we hear and saw this morning on wednesday. now the inauguration of president mohamed by the president elect obama to presume, is due in 20 in 48 hours from now. probably this was an attempt to prevent that from happening. and we don't know exactly what is going to happen whether this settlement it would be scaled down because of the incident this morning. or it will go with the pomp and pageantry that we used to see during presidential, you know, gracious in the ugandan rebels from the allied democratic forces of killed at least 23 civilians. the attack happened and then one yama village in beni territory. that's in democratic republic of congo's, north kivu province. now the international criminal court has

upheld the acquittal of the former ivory coast president laurent gbagbo. micro was cleared of criminal charges in 2019 over his role in post-election violence, 9 years earlier. he was charged with crimes against humanity. it was the 1st time a former head of state was tried by the i.c.c. to me and now a nation gripped by political unrest, bloodshed, and now a looming arms struggle in the southeast. thousands of men, women, and children remain this placed. the military has been launching air and ground attacks against the armed group, karen national liberation army. and there are warnings other rebel groups may soon be joining forces for they call a revolution if security forces don't stop killing unarmed protesters. there are at least 6 ethnic armed groups of now threatened to retaliate against the genter. the

caressed the ara can army, is fighting for autonomy in western rakhine state. 3 other groups control territory in the east from the shan state army in the south to the tieing national liberation army and miramar, national democratic alliance army. and in the far north, the kitchen independence army has also spoken out against the joint or supposedly attacked police and military posts in recent days. and the mean massive these peaceful demonstrations against last month's coup have been held in yangon. protesters continue to demand a return to democracy. despite 8 weeks of crackdown by security forces have been calling on the international community to act against the jointer and do more than condemn the violence. a local rights group says least 521 people have been killed and more than 2600 detained. scott hi-lo is following developments from bangkok

neighboring thailand. so when you look at armed conflict, it has been ongoing in the country, but what makes it very delicate now obviously is because of the post-coup activity because of the, the violent crackdown on the streets across myanmar. so you have these ethnic armies that have had their individual battles if you will, with the tatmadaw. some of them had been under ceasefire. some of them had been in peace talks. but now because of what's been happening since the coup on february, 1st, they're saying they want to directly go against the tatmadaw, the government forces because of what they've been doing, not their individual fight, their individual flight fight has been going on for quite some time. but one thing that has happened just over the weekend, that was something that we had not seen in quite some time. and that was in this career in area which is just across the border from here, thailand, into myanmar. there are air strikes and that's why we saw that flow of people coming over about 3000 coming over to thailand, fleeing that seeking refuge and medical attention. and the thais said that they are

there. so there are still about 550 here in thailand, thailand, territory. but the rest about 2200 were sent back tied. fishel said it's because the situation was safe. human rights groups say no, they were actually pushed back when they didn't want to go. but what we look at overall, the situation, yes, you have these ethnic armies that have been using their oh their, their forces for individual battles with the government forces in myanmar now say they're willing to kind of work together if you will, as they see that this escalation on the streets across myanmar and they believe that something needs to be done to stop that from continuing in. the nation. search crews have recovered the cockpit voice recorder of a passenger jet which crashed in january. it's hard to go provide close about what led to the crash, killing all 62 people on board. jessica washington reports from jakarta. a long search finally comes to an end. in january carrying 62 passengers crashed

into the java sea minutes after takeoff. search crews have since been looking for the cockpit voice recorder. was the last of searched by the ship. we're praying that hopefully we could find it. and thank god, last night on the last night of the continued, we found it. divers found the devices casing and beacon in the early days of this search, but poor conditions made it difficult to find the recorder itself, and there was no beacon signal to help the box was retrieved after mud was sucked up from the sea bed. now investigators can cross check its findings with that of the other black box, the flight data recorder. so, a message from the president is to be as open and transparent as possible to work out the reason so that similar incidents did not occur in the future. early findings from investigators found technical problems with the 26 year old. boeing 737500. the cockpit voice recorder is now safely in jakarta and in the hands of

indonesia's transport safety commission. it's up to them to investigate its data and work out what went wrong on flight s. j a 18. according to a preliminary report, problems with the automatic throttle created an imbalance in the thrust of the aircraft's engines. the cockpit voice recorder is expected to have recorded the conversations of the pilots that investigators will study. they need to know what the crew was doing, what they were in, what they were saying to each other. and from the conversations they can determine were there were encountered in problem. they didn't see what was coming. it will take around a week to analyze its data and the final report is likely to take months. it's a process that's not uncommon in indonesia that has one of the worst aviation records in asia. jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. now in japan,

cherry trees are a familiar side and people enjoy their bloom during the warm spring. but this year the bloom is prompting. concern explains japan's cherry blossoms are a national favorite, historically blooming at the start of spring. a perfect way to begin a new school year. crowds flock to tokyo parks in the 1st half of april to watch them grow. after state of emergency, under the pandemic was lifted in the capital and neighboring prefectures. last year i couldn't come here due to the state of emergency this year. i wanted to come again. so here i am. i've been job hunting online while attending classes online. i've stayed inside my house freely long. it has been such a long time since last time i went out with my friend watching cherry blossoms together with my friend is so refreshing. the problem is, it's too early for this to happen and most blossoms will be gone before classes begin. of course, and i thought when i was a high school student,

i think cherry blossoms were still blooming around the entrance ceremony season. in april. official records only go back 70 years. so researchers at osaka prefecture university, are searching for more data. poring through centuries of diaries and letters, written by emperors, aristocrats, governors, and monks, and kyoto. further south, the data they collected indicates a startling trend. it's the earliest, the cherry blossoms have bloomed in 1200 years. experts say it's an indicator of climate change and urbanization, and they're concerned the early bloom could jeopardize the future growth of one of japan's national treasures. the tree becomes weaker when it can't hype a night, well, come out of hibernation and we call this a life cycle. if it can't come out of hibernation, it won't be able to develop. and we have problems growing scientist say like a canary in a coal mine. the early arrival of cherry blossoms could signal something's not

right. and at this rate they'll become more vulnerable to spring freezes and changes in pollination cycles. al-jazeera. have us take you through some of the headlines here on al-jazeera. now. it's day 304, minneapolis police. and derek show vince trial for the murder of unarmed black man, george floyd, within hearing from witness christopher martin, who was working in cop food store on the day of the incident, spoke with floyd and sold him a pack of cigarettes. they believe floyd paid with a counterfeit note and that prompted the police to be cold. you saw you standing there with your hands on your head for a while, right? i was going through your mind during.