can you see that photograph no just her. you know i'm sorry this you see the photograph now yes is that the person you know to be maurice hall yes and can you just generally describe what he's wearing. pants and back only chair and that is up in the operating hand corner would you agree that that was the date of may 25th 2001. and that's the person. or if you and mr ford had previously purchased controlled substances from him. you know in january in february timeframe for you and mr floyd. clean and free from using opioids i'm thinking you'd be damn sure

in the january and february of 2020 timeframe that you and mr floyd were clean and sober in january barry yes we leave thank you a talking to each other but i know there's a man in ok so you've got you know we're on the break at that point right and then you reconnected sometime in march right. and was there an incident in march that required mr floyd to be hospitalized. and that was can you describe for the jury what that incident was. a days in march when he was hospitalized everything we went to that has been cut in the. he was hot hospitalized for a nick more extended period of time trying to yes that's the incident i'm talking to him ok i understand he went once because he had heard his hands like cut his hair not glass. and that was a shorter hospital stay but then there was an extended hospitals. can you describe

who what led up to that hospital stay. yes. i went to go pick up from his house that name. that i was seeing in newark he wasn't feeling is stomach really hurt he was doubled over in pain. just wasn't feeling well and he said he had to go to the hospital so i took him straight to the hospital. we went to the e.r. . and. they were checking him in the e.r. and it was getting late and i had to get home to my son so i left that friday night. you were in fact that was. due to an overdose.

you spent several days with him at the hospital. and did you learn what that or cause that overdose. you know. at that timeframe that you learned that mr ford was taking anything other than opioids. you do not know that he had taken here when at that time you know. now then in march of 2020 you got some pills right you remember describing. and can you describe what those polls were like. how. physically physically. well. they look different to me than. normal

faith. they think or. they were they uniform in their size they were. do they have markings on them yes they did. you and mr floyd both have those spells again and did you consume some of those pills i think. do they have the same effect on you. as your other types of opioid you've taken in the past what was the effect this time. different. usually. opioid. pain reliever it's something that is. you know kind of relaxing takes the pain away. the pill that time it seemed like a really strong stimulant i couldn't sleep all night. i felt very jittery

you felt was very cheery ok and so they were they were these were bills that. were not. i have a valid prescription for. these pills purchased from mr hall. when mr was this and with these pills before or after mr ford was hospitalized for . overdose. but you describe when you picked him up that night must have reconnected because you had kind of little bit of a break reconnected when you picked him up that night he was just in incredible pain doubled over right.

now. i want to focus our attention on. your statement that you gave. and again you had an opportunity transcript in its own right and you had an opportunity to answer questions of the process but the prosecution had a view regarding that statement late yesterday. never before right now that had made. the so i've not had an opportunity yet to ask you about some of the information in your statement. when you met with the f.b.i. . you informed f.b.i.

agents. so a quick sidebar happening in the courtroom in minneapolis the time 15 little after 1500 hours g.m.t. which is a little to 10 am in minneapolis day 4 of the trial of derek show over the killing of george floyd we have been hearing testimony emotional testimony at times from courtney ross who. was george floyd's girlfriend for 3 years prior to his death we've heard the prosecution attorneys taking us through that timeline of when she met him back in 2017 a 3 year relationship and establishing very early on that both she and george floyd did have opioid addictions for pain and now with nelson the 1st

defense attorney he appears to be trying to find out exactly. what level that addiction was. and what was happening not long before george floyd was killed we've heard that he actually did have an overdose and that it was from heroin not long before he died and the defense trying to establish whether she is girlfriend courtney ross knew what drugs he was on there and where they were getting them from what you're seeing right now just so you know is what you would call a side bar in court usually when the attorneys need to speak semi privately to the judge and they would usually approach the bench and speak quietly with the judge of course they can't happen on decoded so they pop the headphones on and now they take them off the audiotape gets muted from within the courtroom we don't have control over that really but now it sounds like it's back. let me back up a little bit. did you know mr floyd to spend

a lot of time with mr morris hall. up and they want to tell me he's. right and. would you agree that that was kind of from time to time but he would spend time with him. yes. and you didn't like that to. me i didn't like mary's a much no. with mr. mr floyd be honest with you when he told you that he when he was with him. all that is that sustain you know that if you know. if you knew mr floyd would purchase narcotics from mr reese or maurice well.

i don't. know that. i speculated want. to recall f.b.i. agents asking you did mr ford purchase controlled substances from mr maurice hall yes and do you recall saying yes. i did say yes i did not play with him at this point oh ok. now. the the pills that were purchased in march that you described. did you did you know that those were purchased from mr hall but not what the pills that you described in march of 2000 i didn't know. but those are the pills that kept you up you said all right then.

did those pills continue to be around from march through may i don't. recall the f.b.i. asking whether you were getting your same pelz from the same source from march to me. that i saw. would it refresh your record recollection to review a transcript. of . these or what you want you age 12. and. if you. didn't know

this or. do you know. i wouldn't. even know what i mean by some have been very sad there was no question of. who. were. the home over. another sidebar there as what the defense attorney was offering to call eros there

was an f.b.i. transcript so they could clarify exactly what she had said in her interviews this is centering on the issues of pills that were bought in march of 2020 from a drugs dealer now identified as maurice call. those pills as a sideboard in march and courtney ross george ford's girlfriend had said something was off with them she didn't feel that they were giving the same sort of pain relief that other opioids had in the past. and remember this is much 2020 so this is 2 months before george floyd was killed at a point when he did have. back now to the courtroom in many outlets an opportunity to review that portion of the transcript right in would you agree with me that the f.b.i. agents asked you from march to may if you continue to purchase those pills

from the same source they ask you that question they did and you responded well once in a while when we were agreed that it is sent. out because jackson's non-response ok. ok ok. and mr floyd's overdose that was at the beginning of march 2020 hospitalized march 6th agreed. 2020 he was in the hospital for 10 or 11 days something like 5 days. and when you took him to the hospital. did you notice foam coming from his mouth. i mean

i know this takes some kind of. invulnerability in the choir to. return our driveway substance. death. now i. will this live for. you were asked a couple of questions in terms of whether that overdose was caused by heroin do you recall that yes. and you said you didn't know i didn't remember telling the f.b.i. if the overdose was from heroin. i was speculating. do you recall telling the f.b.i. where or who the source of that heroin was and once again yes i do remember that the alice. was mr hall not sure want to help.

did you know mr floyd to purchase drugs from a cell as well now. do you recall being asked whether he purchased drugs from this your previously i don't know crunch the witness to what refresh your recollection to review a copy of your transcript. so this through 1st remember there will be no question before you that this problem. will go back in the us because.

you. never. know when you grow these are. you know page this again is true for sure mary so there's not a question before you that you did say. you. thank you. all really.

miss ross is that refresh your recollection yes but none of this indeed. you were asked do you know who the woman was that he would have gotten that from and your response was sure want to help get right. i was evacuating at the time i did not know that understood. and you were asked if you like giving drugs from her and you said correct that's what she said that. now. the same kills you all to me we got some of those same polls from march or similar polls in may of 2020 correct. leave that pills in may that remind me of the same feeling i don't know. i don't know where they came from ok so you had a 2nd experience. with those spells right or

a similar feeling to those girls i had a similar experience yes and that was approximately a week before mr ford's passing. and a similar experience. you. may recall telling the f.b.i. that when you have that you felt like you were going to die. i don't remember saying that but i i did see an intense get. and is that how you felt like you were going to die i don't mean. that that hadn't even seen. you you were in floyd mr ford excuse me i'm assuming way most couples have pet names for each other didn't and what was his name for you . i mean what were you safe when you straight or were you saved in his phone s.

. approximately a week prior to mr foy. you mr floyd purchased. from mystery maurice hall correct. i believe so. do you recall telling the f.b.i. . pills from mr hall one week prior to mr floyd yes but i wasn't there i wasn't there i didn't see anything happen yesterday when you met with prosecutors did you tell them that you were in the car i don't hotel when

those pills were purchased yes and you were on the phone with mr floyd at that time yes and you heard a voice in the background. and that was a voice he recognized to be from mr hall from him. and some of the tween mr hall mr floyd hospitalisation. through march in the corn and all of that march and april mr floyd had been clean during that timeframe . i mean i'm sorry if you know a minute i'm sorry i want to just again time frame becomes important and after mr floyd was hospitalized in march. you were quarantined together spending a lot of time together in march and may yes. for the majority of

that time mr ford was clean right. and it was your belief that mr ford started using again about 2 weeks prior to his death correct i mean does that change and. that's when you noticed the changes in his view. and you described some of those changes in his behavior in that time frame right. do you recall telling the f.b.i. that there would be times that he would just be up and bouncing around and then there would be times he would be. unintelligible. i don't recall that but. would you disagree if i said that in the transfer. if you.

did were you aware that mr. floyd was with mr hall on may 25th 2020 only and after that. no further question your. just. ok mr ross just a few follow up questions for you. you're trying to go in reverse order. counsel was asking you about. you know where they knew these pills were purchased from mr hall yes most recently and talk to you about the hotel incident. and just want to clarify for the jury you're not trying to mislead them or anything

what you're saying is you didn't personally see that said oh no i didn't you but yeah i just want to say what i thought but you think that's probably where those pills yes you know just you know i don't know if you just personally don't didn't see it and it definitely. hands. incidentally what. what did he call his mother which i did refer to her. income her mom and sue but it's just different though he said. it's. it's kind of hard to describe. so if you were to tell us if you were somebody my mother could mean is actual mother. just also and maybe called you if you were a mother to the. star. and

mr nelson read for you some things you said before but when you was asking you about the maypoles and how they made you feel similar to the march. but i wanted you to tell the jury your own words today you know why did you say that there were less than a similar reaction for you what was it about it in march you said the pills kept you up all night to get that the same reaction if it. and when you took that pill in march that seemed different. obviously you did not die for. him did you see yourself mr floyd taking one of those types of pills in march. so the pills that

we were talking about you obtained in march because you feel jittery you were different you also see mr floyd taking that kind of. we did not take him to get it . did you think that he had some of them for so if. he did not die in march. and the pill that give you a similar experience and may. yes yes did he have some of those pills did he take some of those pills in me yet. he died of a 425 to 2020 yes. when you saw those changes behavior prior to his. last 2 weeks.

one of the one of the legions. to have 3 years you're going with him how much he was huff how often he was using during his weeks. i can't i don't know. you're asked about your interview with the f.b.i. asked about statements you made in the f.b.i. as you recall ever ask you how did you know those drugs were from. mr hall when you told them he thought they were. it is. for.

the pills talking about it yes. you see mr ford taking in those shells yes he took. i'm sorry we did take them together at that time and when he took those obviously he did write you know he can. affect. a lot of energy. but he was ok after using them yes he is playing. now eating. and. a lot of basketball the best of this thing.

and so the audio dipped once again from the courtroom in minneapolis the voice you had been hearing excuse me was matthew franck who is prosecution attorney on a redirect at that point after we'd heard from the defense attorney. essentially i think what we've been seeing in the last well it's been an hour now is trying to establish drug usage essentially what george floyd used when he used it for what he used and at what point in the timeline. and i believe that was the judge saying that they would be taking a mid-morning break we do have

a schedule of when breaks are expected but i think the judge makes those decisions of when it's an appropriate time and after an hour of hearing from courtney ross the girlfriend of george floyd he has decided that will be a good point to take a break gabriel is on though is our correspondent in minneapolis today to talk through some of what we have seen in the last hour. i think. a lot of people are pains to point out that this is the derek chauvin trial derek chauvin is on trial not george floyd however in hearing from george floyd's go for in court eros for the past hour it has been all about george floyd and establishing a lot about his drugs usage can you take us through why. because this is the defense's main argument they said it in their opening statements the defense thinks that this trial for them will be won or lost on

how george floyd died everyone agrees he died everyone seen the video of. the needy of derrick chauvelin on george floyd's neck everyone's hearing this emotional testimony that we've been hearing all week from eye witnesses but the defense for them it is all about how george floyd died and the defense says they will continue to argue and will argue once they start calling witnesses that it was george floyd's drug use that ultimately led to his death and not derek show me now that is what the defense says so what's happening now the prosecution is calling. george floyd's girlfriend and the prosecution knows that this is going to be the defense's main argument so the prosecution is basically trying to preempt the defense's argument by addressing the drug use issue

straight away on the 4th day of the trial and that's why you see the prosecutor asking. did you see george floyd using drugs yes did you use drugs with george floyd yes they're trying to humanize it and not make it something that just comes out in the trial at a later when the defense decides to do it so they're trying to introduce the issue of drug use to the jury early on in this trial that some of what's a prosecution is trying to do this is going to be a key part of the trial and that's why you're hearing about it right now the defense treading very carefully as well. gabriel because well it's difficult to. the woman on the stand who regardless of how she lost her boyfriend she did her boyfriend of 3 years died the defense has to play this very carefully while still i guess making their point.

yeah they do and you saw in the prosecution the very 1st question she was asked when she took the took the witness stand very 1st question the prosecutor asked was how did you meet george floyd and she immediately within seconds had she started choking up and getting sad and she had regained herself a little bit she was crying this is an incredibly emotional trial. but the defense of course you're right the defense has to tread very lightly here. and listen it's no secret the defense is trying to shed some doubt on george floyd's character. is that appropriate i don't know that's left up to the folks in the courtroom the defense attorneys to deal with but listen it's all timidity going to be up to these jurors to decide and it but clearly the defense is using the drug issue or will use

the drug issue as a key part of this trial and we're going to be hearing a lot more about the drug issue in the coming days and weeks i guarantee you that from the defense ok gabrielle is on i will talk to you again later on after the next session so as i say we have been talking about courtney ross george floyd's gopher and all 3 years they met when he was a security guard at the salvation army in 27th st and a lot of what we heard and you can hear a bit of it now is how both she and floyd became addicted to opiates have a listen. both. are story it's. classic story of. how many people get addicted to opiates we both suffer from chronic pain. mine was in my neck in his blood in the back. and we both had prescription.

but. after prescription. fill it and. leave leave leave leave get addicted and and try really hard to. break that addiction many times. very pleased to have with us today professor. robert in marin short distinguished chair in law at the university of the thomas he's in minneapolis minnesota been listening along to all of this mark thank you so much for your time today what is your take on how the prosecution handled this today as i was saying with gabriel our correspondent before he was explaining this is what the prosecution had to do they could shy away from the drugs use they had to introduce it and almost normalize it quite early. yes i think they wanted to

present it as a human story and one where they would control the narrative andree was a prosecutor myself it's a classic technique and it's probably what they should have done what was really notable was what came out through the cross-examination and there were 2 big points from that and one was that it's likely that it is the defense will argue anyway that there were some uppers in what george floyd took. opioids were mixed with something like mask and that explains the energy that he seemed to show at times and the 2nd is that she was referred to as mama meaning that that may have been who he was calling out to a t. and. very good point because i was starting to wonder exactly is innocent in all of this what all relevance does this have to a man lying down on the straight face down with an officer is named on his neck but it all sort of weaves its way in doesn't it. it does and like i said it's

a very human story you know the point was brought in very subtly but you can expect that the defense will make a lot of it in the closing that in her his phone her she was identified as mama how important is the whole issue of i.p.o.'s addiction it is a huge problem in the united states is that the type of thing which maybe helps this sort of resonate with if not the jury and the public. absolutely i mean the opioid epidemic has been devastating in this country over well over half of the opioid consumed in the world are consumed in the united states and the number of dust by overdoses has risen to untenable heights so this is something that many people in the united states can identify with because they've had friends or relatives that have gone through this kind of addiction in stemming from the same kind of story that she told her they were both being treated for chronic pain

they were given this medicine and they got hooked on it and it really played a terrible role in their lives going forward. when we add this into the previous testimony of the last few days i guess the overriding thing has been the level of emotion that we've sane and this is what you would get obviously from eyewitnesses and people who were closest to george ford again i'm sorry i sort of keep asking the same question but how do you think that will play out how do you think it will affect people's minds. i think for the most part of course we've been hearing the prosecution's case it plays in favor of the prosecution it's saying that we're seeing play out over the last few days is this that. criminal trial lawyers know something very well and it's the debt. a big tragedy is built on top of a 1000 small tragedies this built on top of drug addiction it's built on top of what we heard yesterday from christopher martin the clerk at the store who had this

dilemma about whether to just take the 20 and cover it or call the police that is you know a decision that he's going to recent the rest of his life and tortured by that we heard from charles mcmillian yesterday a man who witnessed the death we heard from a 9 year old in one year old child who witnessed it so the levels of motion ality around this. really brings to the fore the depth of the tragedy now does it go to any of the elements the government has to prove maybe not as much as some of the evidence we're going to hear going forward particularly the medical evidence because that and this is a tricky period almost for the prosecution isn't it because again as i said to gabriel before this is the derek trial it's not the georgia floyd trial but we have to get past this but 1st. correct and one thing that we've seen the prosecution do to try to keep the focus on terror showmen is to show that video in the various

videos that they have over and over and over. and that's a technique that is well used here because it is what's at the center of people's minds as they think about this case. as our legal expert with us today from minneapolis as we continue with day 4 of direction of a trial and we'll talk to get them out thank you thank you. while we're taking a break in minneapolis we'll go through some of the day's other news the british prime minister bars johnson is acknowledging more needs to be done to tackle discrimination despite a recent report denying systemic racism it was commissioned by the governments at the height of the global black lives math a movement last year the report blames families social class and location for existing inequalities campaign as they're called the findings a white wash but prime minister johnson says the report doesn't necessarily reflect

government thinking this is a. a very interesting piece of work you know i didn't say the government who agree with absolutely everything in it but it has some some original ins and stimulating work in it that i think people need to lean into and to consider that are very serious issues that our society faces. a to do with racism that we need to address we've got to we've got to do more to fix it we need to understand the severity of the problem and we look at all the ideas that they put forward and will be will be making our response. to me and with the deposed civilian leader aung sun suu she is facing the most serious charge yet that of violating a colonial era official secrets act it carries a penalty of up to 14 years in prison also the military is now shutting down while the service is off to early a cutting mobile internet completely 2 months now protesters and activists have

been sharing images a bit defines online and they call for democracy the support is from scotland. with tears of blood painted on their faces protesters in yangon mourn those killed for demonstrating against the coup this is they mark 2 months since the military power grab that plunged myanmar into crisis and. we are very sad for our fallen heroes and protesters who are still fighting the military but we will never give up the legal team of the pows leader on song suchi thursday announced that she has been charged with violating the country's colonial era officials secrets act she's been detained since february 1st and has also been charged on 2 other accounts and has been accused of bribery it's a crisis that's now spilling outside its borders for the 1st time in more than 20 years myanmar military fighter jets attacked korean ethnic army held areas near the thai border those attacks during the past few days sent thousands of civilians

across the border into thailand seeking safety and medical attention it also prompted the strongest reaction yet from the thai government on the coup next door kind of square free troubled by the reports of more casualties among them in my people during this past week and. we were doing ok. for the exercise of utmost restraint the escalation of situation. and to violence and for the release of detainees. some of the ethnic army groups have denounced the coup throwing support behind the protesters and have even called for an increase in attacks on myanmar as military most have spent years fighting for greater autonomy the u.n. envoy on myanmar has warned of a civil war if the situation does not improve some feel that not only is there already a civil war in myanmar but on 2 fronts the streets and the ethnic territories what

we're at now is a situation or 2 civil wars one which is too much so and it's what the military. started when they they say stick so it's a civil war with the entire country and then a 2nd civil war which has been going up to 7 decades which is against a lot of these at the top don't i ses. as protesters in yangon burned copies of the 2008 constitution that gave deep powers to the military a parallel government has been set up by deposed members of parliament mostly from . former governing party they have called for a federal democracy that would include the ethnic armed groups. it's got harder al-jazeera. campaigners are also warning the intensifying crackdown is forcing some to join rebel groups the qur'an the national union for example which represents me and my ethnic minority along the border with thailand and what's self-determination for its people its military wing is for against the main the military finally 70

years the cease fire agreement was signed back in 2012 but hostilities reignited after febreze coup and the current national union is now preparing its fight its last week military jets launched airstrikes on its territory for the 1st time in 20 years the group has also been supporting the protesters by sending its fighters to protect them attacking military positions and cutting off their supply routes that say from a smile wolf regional director with the human rights organization fortify rights he told us the decision to turn to the ethnic groups for training is born out of frustration. this is a culmination of 2 months of brutal crackdown by the burmese military in me a momentary against civilians so it's not necessarily an unexpected development but it is concerning and i think the impacts are great in the sense not just in terms of whether the civil disobedience move in a protesters may start seeking to turn to more extreme methods to resist the coup

but also what we're seeing there is this sort of extension of the fighting out into the ethnic areas and you've seen that the sort of defacto or parallel government under the name of. before this constitution and it's really trying to seek to bring in the ethnic groups that have long had to be using longstanding tensions some cease fire agreements and they will lapse actually over the last few weeks this concern is as has been raised already that this may escalate and they will see increased fighting and that's going in in the ethnic areas but it's also going to have a severe impact on the safety and security of the of the wider population so this is an escalation from the military side the concern i think for the military will be that they could see themselves opened up on many different fronts and that is really is not just a concern as you say for the military but also for the entire population that's had before so there are a very deep concerns i think the military may not have predicted such a unified potentially unified response against the top model and this crew.

the latest coronavirus news now and pfizer biotech says its vaccine is quote highly protective against the south african variant of code 19 this is the strain that's caused concerns because of its resistance to some vaccinations pfizer's also released new data showing its vaccine is overall 91 percent effective even after 6 months the company seeking full approval for the shot in the united states currently it's only approved for emergency use more details from alan fischer in washington. initially people thought that the vaccine would be good for probably 90 days so the fact that pfizer came out and said no you get 91 percent protection after 6 months that is very good news and of course it extends the period that people can get vaccinated and then we need another booster with of also revealed

that children between the ages of 12 and 15 are 100 percent protected by their vaccine and as you see the big news is that they tested it for the south african variant and phoned that it was very effective there was worry that this variant may well cause problems for this vaccine that might be able to work its way around and meet people there saying no we've managed to sort that out we've tested it everything is good here and that's good news for pfizer as well because they can now go to the f.d.a. here in the united states and see we would want full approval for this vaccination because of course you'll remember that there are only operating on temporary american c. approval which was granted to make sure that they could get shots into people's arms and millions of people have received their vaccination this is good news as i say coming on the back of what was essentially bad news on wednesday that's when

johnson and johnson said that they were stopping shipments of vaccination to the united states that is because millions of doses of the drug were ruined at a factory in baltimore will stay in actually no we're going to have as much as 1st of all an associate professor in cellular and molecular sciences and often brain universe as well finds its results are encouraging more data is still needed on the other vaccines to really combat the virus. when it comes to clinical data it's open to present to. be made available for size 0 to show companies that are having to be 800 people it's not a sufficient number to say it definitely works but if the data show that the most they say 100 people was that developed the disease none of them. basically the south african variant on the box about the same time that's what they found would come out so you posted a link and it's about we need more data we always need more data in real consensus

if you allow me with the so-called brazilian variant of the p. wild variant and severity because we know that this is a little bit more tricky compared to the south african variant what we need to see now is states up with all the other merits but also with on the other vaccines where the protection continues i may transpire 6 months to a year from now we will need to get a boost of up at those with a vaccine that will cover all the variances so let's hope this will work because that will reduce the problem of course of viruses and. now we're going to stay in the u.s. because the pace of covered 19 banks nations there has dramatically picked up but distributing them to everyone has been a real challenge in bolton all black americans make up the majority of the population but they're the ones being vaccinated at a far lower pace than white people the story from how do you construct. inside this baltimore factory brews the viral vector that will train immune systems to

neutralize the corona virus truckloads of the ingredient leave the factory operated by emergent bias solutions regularly destined for faraway facilities for further processing into the johnson and johnson vaccine and eventually even further away places where arms are waiting that's despite plenty of people in need of the vaccine much closer to home right here in the middle of what you know is here but is not here. to me it mars will be about 2 miles away tanya gros lives just 2 kilometers from the vaccine component factory she's 56 years old and diabetic but she says she's getting nowhere in her search for a vaccine a man in a real hard time of been told in the round of different places they could help me in the sis me with it in bolton more city black residents are being vaccinated at less than half the rate of whites that is troubling in

a city where african-americans are the majority and as the johnson and johnson vaccine began its rollout in early march baltimore's mayor made a direct appeal to the drug maker to sell 300000 doses to the city where it was produced when you're talking about a city that has already before covered head to help this varies and probably just further exacerbated those in a city that is 60 percent african-american or people back to baghdad and they're making a vaccine of course people here should be the beneficiary of that is that simple to me but baltimore didn't get the extra doses that the mayor requested to order instead it's had to rely on the federal government to secure the shots and scott says the situation is improving we've seen opening interest you know now you know and that which is all part of this vaccination plan that we have that's very very. reaches us he reaches out people where we like here aboard

a mobile vaccine clinic operated by the baltimore city health department and med star health it's parked outside a community center in a heavily african-american neighborhood and nurse practitioner helli mccallum has been busy inoculating people all day coming to them in their neighborhoods in addition to show. faith and trust that if they can't come to bring things to them 79 year old joan smith a retired machine operator and cancer survivor just completed her vaccination a woman called martha that she got very sick and. she's in nursing so that he would know that he had meant that when he got an indoor cat now that both have been vaccinated a reunion is in order. castro al-jazeera baltimore maryland don't tunes in ecuador say their health care system has collapsed because of a rise in the number of covert 1000 cases hospitals are working beyond capacity

12000 and factions reported in just the past week in fact in one hospital in the capital quito patients are being treated in tents in corridors in the cafeteria and office spaces they mostly called lab so we have collapsed we're talking about a cemetery collapse in this hospital with a 150 percent usage of the spices resources and supplies that means we are exceeding all our capacities even the contingency plans is the most. because we are facing an important pick of cases that we consider to be the worst so far according to the dimia logical could have most likely cases will increase this is a very well formed snowball with an avalanche to come in the middle of the wife and it is collapsing the system. brazil has again hit a record number of coronavirus steps making march its worst month in the pandemic nearly 3900 fatalities recorded on wednesday alone extraordinary number of families

in sao paulo been forced to bury their loved ones in the dark as cemeteries work through the night. were passing through just sadness today no family and thousands of families in brazil and in the world this because our politicians can't find a solution to this problem we heard about vaccines but the poor people are the ones who are suffering today. officials in france are hoping the 3rd wave of over 1000 infections could pick in as few as 7 days thanks to new lockdown measures parliament's expected to approve plans to enter a 3rd national lockdown this weekend schools be closed for 3 weeks domestic travel is banned for at least a month daily infections are above $30000.00 and hospitals are at risk of being overwhelmed now. public health system is facing a growing crisis with some hospitals close to running out of ventilators they've been more than $20000.00 daily covert $1000.00 cases in recent days on monday officials warned the southern region of the city if there had only one ventilator

available for the region's 4 and a half 1000000 people patients now being flown to other areas one of the story for the us border patrol has released video showing children being dropped over the southern border by smugglers these are infrared pictures an adult can be seen dangling and then dropping a child from the top of the fence along the mexican border moments later they drop another and then appear to hold some supplies the children are sisters from ecuador and are now in care of authorities. as a political analyst at the national university of mexico and explains why so many asylum seekers are trying to reach the u.s. . with the change of the government there isa kind of a bi than hope they had a speech of joe biden during the campaign and even of his government is a major in that they want to change the name migrant immigration issue and

a biden says. he want to change the words i wonder woman tyrion policy and one of the key of this of human time in the new policy i'm in the new human tendency are the treatment of the of the non accompanied my nerves or or people who aren't you see traffickers is mahler's to send their children from of honduras from little or whatever to california to texas and this is a big crises because they migrants increases the amount in the last 2 months the smaller side of the only who are winning with the situation this is have the tremendous humanitarian crisis because involve many governments. are people from the roof remake whether from colombia to central america central america and a course in mexico i'm in the border a many people are within 20000 or 25000 in mine yours in there or

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