and we have just watched steve sly who from the prosecution. examine the witness david plugger now retired officer with the minneapolis police department he was the supervisor on shift on the 25th of may 2020 which of course is when george floyd died a lot of detail again of him showing up at the scene of the confrontation you know better just taking place a few things that particularly. struck me where he mentioned that the restraints on the restraint that show been and also some of the other police

officers were applying on george floyd and i'm quoting should have stopped when floyd was no longer resisting and was handcuffed so that said by david plugger there. the officer the shift supervisor who was on shift in here described the visit to the scene of the confrontation he then. also followed the events and was only told by quite a while later that actually when had placed his knee on george floyd's neck and didn't mention initially how long a force of area a compelling testimony and i have to say like many of the other witnesses you can really tell the emotional toll that it's taking. on the david cougar and other witnesses that we have heard before earlier on in the day we heard from 2

paramedics there and seth zachary brave in their paramedics who were part of the 1st responder team that arrived on the scene and by this time it was obvious that at the very least a george floyd lost consciousness potentially he might have been dead derrick smith one of the paramedics said i was trying to give him a 2nd chance at life because i thought he was. dead. so we've just had. just had that witness questioned by the special assistant attorney general steve sly here for the prosecution maybe time for the defense and now to ask him some questions in the meantime let's go to gabriel is on the life for us in minneapolis gabe obviously you've been following what's been going on inside the court there as well i have to

say i think this admission by the supervisor that the restraint should have stopped when george floyd was no longer resisting the officers and was handcuffed was quite a key part of the testimony we just heard. yeah it was i mean clearly based on this testimony george derek chauvin was in violation of normal rules of engagement by police officers by using that tactic of need to the neck it's only supposed to be done until for a reasonable time in his words until the suspect is under control and he or she is handcuffed well it was more than 9 minutes that george floyd was clearly under control because he was stomach down on the ground and he was in handcuffs even before he was initially taken to the ground so that was some pretty serious testimony there that clearly is going to undercut any attempt by the defense to

argue that the show of and was doing normal police tactics at the time that george floyd died so this is and it's and i will say it's not often you see police officers like this other officers called the witness stand like this that would give this kind of testimony but clearly. he was a chauffeur who was clearly in violation of normal protocols for the minneapolis police department. gave let's just go back to the trial now it does seem to be starting again. we are seeing. it stated kluger again the retired shift supervisor still being questioned by the prosecution so. there's nothing to review you would forward to it. if i were doing the 1st report i believe it would go to other anyway of course

reports you would simply also good interest credit if you review body work camera footage term and that use of force. might have been excessive. do you make a recommendation to enter yes in the case or do you have to contact internal affairs. i submit that. that's the trial and there it show been there a david plouffe still on the stand. we're just waiting to hear what the judge

says now. theories. will have a so we understand they're taking a break now we will return when they resume again let me just up some for you. what we have been seeing a we've seen special assistant attorney general steve sly here for the prosecution there. question david kluger who is every tired police officer for the minneapolis police department who was the shift supervisor on that night the 25th of may 2020 when of course the confrontation happened and george floyd. a lot of detail there he was effectively the senior policeman the ben went to the scene of the confrontation possibly one of the key elements that he mentioned was that in his opinion the restraint that was being applied to george floyd of course in this

case on his neck should have stopped when george floyd was not resisting anymore and had been handcuffed. ok let's just go back to the trial it seems questioning is starting again. you know just so if use of force is reported to you by an officer in those circumstances the use of force review occurs by the shift supervisor correct yes and the ship's shift supervisor would 1st and foremost report to the scene correct yes after that point you would interview the officers that were involved correct yes you may interview the person upon whom force was used right yes you may interview witnesses to the use of force if they exist correct yes you may review body more and camera as other evidence photographs whatever else may be a part of that process right yes and it is. much greater in.

it's a it's a limited but it's a bigger scope right yes. when are critical when the use of force incident becomes a critical incident however does your role change. do it use of force in a critical incident in order to do it if someone has suffered injury if they are handcuffed to cim. ok so in certain circumstances you would not be required to do that correct and also in addition your honor or surgeon. you did not do any of that use of force report review use of force review may 25th 2020 did you know you didn't speak with the officers in depth about what happened or act no you didn't interview any of the witnesses that were at the scene did you know and you didn't review the body horn cameras that night did you know

in preparation for your testimony were you given the entirety of the case file for this case no i mean do you have 50000 pages of police reports no have you reviewed any of the interviews from any of the witnesses. have you reviewed any of the statements that were given relevant to this case by any of the involved officers for them from those who did give say no our so in in in this case in preparation were you allowed to watch the entirety of all of the body worn camera. i think they did and that was in preparation or while you were being interviewed with the state prosecutors correct ok so in terms of the information you have you have a limited amount of information which would be limited to just

a review of the body care. yes and that would not be the normal force for sergeants use of force for. the decisions case of this. are very much for who gave. or gave of these. i'm sorry i had a hard time hearing i don't have. a critical in the past who need i don't need this is not use of force well there wasn't could you. see where i can your honor i want to just clean up one part of the record 1st in terms of reviewing the body work camera footage of the state i think the question was state prosecutors you didn't review them with the

state prosecutors where you have reviewed those with prosecutors current other prosecutors not associated with this particular case writings are right yes no. to answer the court's question in terms of whether or not you did the use of force review pursuant to the policy in this particular case you did not correct. you past the scene along with the critical incident policy you know pearlie critical incident is that right. however in the course of your duty shifts urgent you do force for that right yes you follow the policy in conducting supervisory reviews yes and if we can pull the. exhibit if you. 222.

if you go to the next fish leaves. in conducting a force review if you could please call out. roland. you conduct the contract the internal affairs can you know commander by phone if the force used appears to be unreasonable or constitute possible this conduct is that right yes so you make a threshold assessment of whether or not force is excessive or could constitute possible misconduct true true. and if you can go to the next page. call out. these. and again based on a totality of information available at the time if you as

a supervisor feel that the use of force may have been unreasonable or not within policy you can stay so in your supervisory force or is that right yes and that's the policy that you follow p.s. so your honor i don't believe that this is a lack of foundation he has clearly qualified to give an opinion in a limited that these are his preliminary review slows he believes that the restraint should have ended very shortly after mr floyd was taken of the ground. and no longer exists and that is the sum and substance of the opinion i tend to. follow. in this particular case the reason you called the lieutenant was because mr foy right. i would have called the lieutenant. first because forces used

it handcuffs results or those use researchers and coast records which caused internal figures that went up the chain naturally that way and then when mr ford died this use of force policy is replaced with a critical incident. so your honor i guess the issue here is this is exactly what the motions in limine they were designed to fracture this officer did not make this determination he has not done use of force review as he would have done in this policy he has not reviewed the entirety of the evidence in this particular case and while he may have seen certain body camera footage made some determination based on that limited information isn't seen everything else and so. it is not within his purview this is what the motion. designed.

that's. exactly what i proffered his opinion the for should have ended shortly after mr players on the ground handcuffed in a prone position. that one cause. of. this is probably going to be our last word. on another hot we can get it done half hour. of the articles.

ok we've seen a brief cross-examination there of david plugger by the defense david kluger of course a retired shift supervisor for the minneapolis police think the judge did say that we are now probably going to get one last witness for the day just waiting to hear who that might be in just a quick reminder of who we have heard in the past few hours like i mentioned david luger we also heard from 2 paramedics seth zachary vendor and derrick smith very much a part of the 1st responders team that arrived on the scene ok

we're seeing the prosecution ask a few more questions of david plugger let's go back and listen in just for additional one. africa resistance of the house years ago and. that was after he was handcuffed and on the ground and the walk. cracked thank you for the question. is announced. for the action is for thank you for being with us today. few questions and i had to

follow up with you. when a police officer under your command uses force are they required to immediately immediately notify it depends of the type of force ok are there certain circumstances where you may get a phone call or a radio dispatch immediately yes are there certain circumstances or situations where you may get a phone call or order use of force within 10 to 15 minutes yes are there circumstances where you may get a use of force report or from an officer from an hour or 2 later. not one that would cause me to have to go to the scene that would be more immediate it would be. subject right but it could happen within more than say 101520 minutes but you get that notification yes it would be fair to say that

in certain types of use of force there may be other or use of force cases there may be other activities that the officer needs to do after the use of force. yes so they may use force against suspect number one but then they have to apprehend suspect number 2 for example yes and they've used force a number one that they get number 2 detained and it takes some time then they are right yes or for example you an officer may use force on someone conduct some additional investigation whether be interviewing witnesses or gathering evidence and then calling you to report the use of force yes is there a policy within the minneapolis police department that requires an officer who uses force to do that through dispatched channels no they can call you on your cell phone yes they can send you a text yes basically they're requirement is that they need to reach out to you and

say hey we need you to come to the sea right. now. sure in your exhibit to 21. policy 5306 regarding medical assistance. what do the 1st 4 words after medical assistance read. reasonably

practical. hofstetter you got as soon as reasonably practical or they had an officer has to use or render medical assistance as soon as is reasonably practical right now are you familiar generally with the minneapolis are critical decision making. so essentially when a police officer is engaged in the situation would you agree that an officer is constantly taking in new information processing that information comparing it to what happened before and making decisions based on information as it comes in yes and information as an officer is dealing with the situation can change right yes and that information that they take in may change or modify the behavior in

response to the situation right yes so for example sometimes an officer may decide to use a taser or conduct electricity you know rant but then realize that that's not enough i better get my gun out based on the threat perceived big perceive right yes or vice versa they may have their gun drawn realize that's too much force put it away and take out a different tool that they have yes so officers are constantly assessing and reassessing a situation based upon the information as it comes to them agreed yes you've been and you are an officer for 27 years i think you said you've. arrested hundreds if not thousands of individuals during your career yes you've had to use force yourself yes and would you agree with the general process or premise that the use of force is not necessarily attractive yes sometimes

officers have to do very violent fans agreed. it's a dangerous job correct. have you. ever heard the term hold for. not answer says i held him for a mass. ok. so if you are involved in the use of force situation in an officer calls for maddux right is and honest straight that an officer decides to use the maximal restraint or the ha right but they've saw a medical emergency arises and they call for us we need to be consistent with the critical decision making policy to say i'm not going to hobble this person because

i know nasa is on the way here. so we were just watching eric nelson for the defense cross-examine the david girl who was the supervisor on shift on the 20th of the 25th of may 2020. and a lot of what eric nelson was question david plugger about was timing in his earlier testimony with the prosecution. he was talking about the fact that there is a guess and he implied it took a little longer than perhaps is normal to tell him about the kind of pressure that

he was putting on george floyd the ways in which he was trying to restrain him and for how long and eric nelson there questioning the former shift supervisor as to what a normal length of time would be but this really sort of fits into the pattern of the testimonies that we have seen over the past few hours of really trying to piece every part of the puzzle of what happened in the minutes and hours after. george boyd was taken away from the scene and taken to hospital let's listen to eric nelson for the defense again are going to use the maximum restraint technique at this point i'm going to hold the suspect in place tell your master. there is an officer is planning to use the hobble has a part on the suspect as a medical emergency to use them right yes. when when the

maximal restraint technique is applied. they are the suspect is essentially handcuffed behind their back and through a series of belts their legs are bent a kind of an upward angle and then connected to some sort of device right around the waist i don't like to bend back towards a bend where the only to keep a straight right but there's a tie between the ankles and the waist central cracked and if you mess is there way the restraint you've got to take that off and kinda lay medical care agreed. usually taking your review if if an officer uses the maximal restraint technique and e.m.'s has to come the officers have to remove that potential correct and back in the way medical treatment sure.

now again in your 27 years as a police officer have you had to deal with. crowds of people that form and watch your activity yes in your experience as a police officer especially in the more recent era have you been in a situation where bystanders begin to film you and your activities yes does that happen more and more these days than it did 5 years ago yes and have you been in a situation in your career as a law enforcement officer where the crowd starts to yell at us or becomes a little more volatile. as an officer does that cause you concern yes.

generally speaking as again an officer with 27 years of experience if you're dealing with one potential suspect and then a new perceived threat emerges but you know that person needs medical attention do you deal with the medical attention and ignore the threat or do you deal with the threat and then deal with the medical. i guess you have to deal with both. and that depends on the circumstances would you agree with that yes so for example if you were in a gun battle and someone was shooting at you and someone had a went into cardiac arrest you stop what you were doing to 2 minute gait the threat or in order to immediately perform c.p.r.

i'd. continue with the for. i did to get that threat. you've gone through all of the standard training of minneapolis police department yes you had to deal with suspects who've been rendered unconscious. where the minneapolis police department where the training indicates that need to be careful because when someone comes back out of consciousness unconsciousness they can become more volatile than they were before. you were asked a series of questions about what about the sergeants use of force review a force review yes and in

a force review there are certain things that you're required to do correct yes that would include having a conversation with the involved officer. that would involve potentially having a conversation with the suspect upon whom force was used yes review of the body worn camerons yes review any other evidence that may exist such as witness statements photographs phone records whatever it may be consistent right. it's not a huge very thorough investigation it's kind of a cursory look right correct and but there's more to it than simply watching a body cam yes. in this particular case when you arrived on scene. you initially spoke with officers king and lane and mr shulman was present in that scene. and he was listening

as officer king and laying told you what it just happened yes. now when in your experience as a police officer. when a supervisor's use of force strike that one off when one group of officers goes to a scene and a 2nd shows up to assist who is arrested is it the original officer or the assisting officers should be the original officer and so when you're reviewing us a circumstance is it going to be would it be your policy to talk to the arresting officers or the assisting officers 1st to find out what happened. as what care one way or the other has just told me the story. in if if one officer is responsible for going to go to that officer right and if 2 officers are going to

ask kurt and if all of the officers are standing around and they're talking about it that's what you need to do initially correct. now you are discussing again in this particular incident you were asked when you arrived on scene you asked. you kind of give some direction to these officers right yes and at the point that you arrived on scene knew it was a use of force incident but it was not what you call a critical incident agreed agreed because at that point mr floyd to the best of your knowledge was still a lot further. if you know what the answer to that is one more time. at that point that you were initially on scene you had no information that mr floyd was deceased. correct. now you then.

instructed the officers to do a few for us potentially talk to witnesses and then 2 officers to go down to the hospital with. us in their squad car yes our. that's we saw this video where you instructed officer show than to try to get some witness statements things of that nature right heres and. he had made the comment that he would try but the crowd seemed pretty hostile yes. officer showed when an officer towel ended up at the. hospital with you put in. an officer king and officer lane remained. yes at some point when you learned

that mr ford had died the use of force was no longer the use of force review was no longer reviewed by correct correct. someone and i believe even per policy if someone was a use of force occurred while someone was in handcuffs that policy required you to reach out to your superiors that's correct and if mr ford had not died you would have not conducted a use of force review correct correct he would have left the to the higher ups the people up the chain of command right since he sustained injuries. and likewise once when a suspect dies in police custody you don't do a use of force review. and you did not do a use of force review in this case did you know. and you talked about off

when it became a critical incident the officers and it up a room $100.00 down at city hall think you were knew that it was a courthouse but you thought in a city hall across the street yes that's a room that's maintained by the minneapolis police administration right now it's where any involved officers go. during a critical incident raid for officers who are involved or potentially witnesses to a critical it's correct and you understand that the 4 involved officers were each individually transported to room $100.00 right i believe. and you referenced. that at that point kind of the critical incident policy takes over and certain things have to happen pursuant to the critical incident policy right yes. a whole host of things have to happen right yes. you referenced interviews of officers you have no

idea if you interviews of officers occurred in room 100 on or about may 25th 2020 or may 26th or 2020 i'm not positive no that's one thing that could potentially happen right yes but not necessarily. you testified that kind of at the end of the night officer lay or was and of your involvement officer lane handed you a couple of pieces of evidence that pertained to the arrest back at 33. correct or the incident at 30th i'm sure yes do you recall what those items. i recall one for sure was a slip of paper with. a name for one of the parties in the vehicle that he got was

the do you recall the other being an identification card i think and do you remember the name of the person that was on the slip of paper i don't would it refresh your recollection to review your report that you did after that. first minister.

that refresh your recollection what was the name on the piece of paper. sure one day surely all the other item that he handed you was in either minnesota identification card correct correct with the name of william smythe. yes. no further questions your.

thank for your honor. sir you were asked whether you agree with the proposition that sometimes fleece officers have to do violent things and you agree that correct yes but sometimes police officers should not do violent things is that right yes you were asked about the critical thinking of a model that's used in the dr by the me atlas police department correct prayers and that's a model that requires officers to continually take in information evaluated reevaluated reassess and if necessary adjust their conduct correct you know. and as you stated under questioning by defense counsel sometimes the information they're taking in would cause the officer to need to take more drastic measures there yes but sometimes the information that the officer would take it would cause them to need to re-evaluate what they're doing and views less drastic measures.

yes some of the information that might be relevant is whether or not this is. whether or not the subject is resisting correct. he said or one of the pieces of the information the officer may need to take in and evaluate is whether the subject resist right yes and at the end of the subject is not resisting there is no longer a need to continue to restrain them correct yes in other information that might be helpful in making an assessment as to determine whether or not the subject is continuing to threat. yes. but mr slater if you would rephrase would it be important for enough. would it be reasonable then in the critical thinking model for an officer to

determine and take in information about the subjects medical. yes for example if the subject is no longer breathing would it be important for the officer to take that into account to reassess and reevaluate the. order of the subject no longer has he polls for example with that important information the critical thinking model for the officer to take in consider and decide to maybe take a different step. and in such a case would it be possible then that the officer would not to do so need to do something violent but would need to do something less like he does render medical assistance yes you were asked about. that right

yes and you were asked about an example of whether an officer would receive a threat if there was a gun battle and he to make a determination between medical attention and that kind of extreme right you know you review the body work cameras correct. i've reviewed yes i've reviewed but they were never footage you didn't see a gun battle no. nothing further. overthe. so the critical decision making model requires the officers to take in multiple

pieces of information and decide. what how to act based on the circumstance right yes other factors they may consider is the size of the crowd right yes their tactical position yes traffic or. rendering medical into a person in the middle of a busy street while buses and cars are turning that may not be the best decision for an officer to make right. rendering medical aid or trying to while trying to deal with other people who are upset with you or volatile towards you may come into play too to play agree yes. an officer who is essentially in a tactical disadvantage that will come into play yes officers have to

look at lots of different bits of information and decide how to proceed based on the totality of the circumstances and not just one single fact agreed yes. over russians. over than they really. are. in officer needs to consider whether other sources of information might be relevant it. medically correct yes including people telling the officer that a person was in need of medical assistance that might be important for them to consider sure somebody said this in a desperate fashion that doesn't necessarily constitute

a threat to the officer. this game i have nothing further your are. certain. that. all members of the jury were going to join for that they will start up again our own 15 you are. judge cahill there adjourning the force day of the very cute chauvelin trial very interesting to ing and fro ing there the witness on the witness stand there was a david kluger now he is a former police officer with the minneapolis police department he's retired and he was the supervisor on shift on the 25th of may 2020 which is of course when george floyd died a lot of issues there both is the steve's lie here for the prosecution and nelson

for the defense kind of going backwards and forwards trying to pinpoint him on a variety of points i think the highlights of his testimony where the whole issue over when the restraint should have been stopped and he certainly said at one point that the restraint should have stopped when george floyd was no longer resisting and also handcuffed a very interesting point as well about the role of the crowd that was something that was brought up by the defense and of course we all remember the images that we've seen over the past few days from the a certainly from the body cams of the officers that showed that a crowd did start to gather around and started filming what was happening and the started filming there actually when with his knee on george floyd's neck in the defense there mentioning that maybe this could actually have presented a stressful situation for the officers involved well let's go to gabriel is on though in minneapolis obviously following all twists and turns of this court case

for us i thought it was interesting how they he turned out to be a very key witness i think for both the feds and prosecution both really trying to pinpoint him on some very key points. you know that's right this was a. thursday with a lot of information on this trial it sometimes it was dry if you will with a lot of technical information but if you really break it down it was pretty key let's just go to what you were just saying there barbara that this last. person on the stand here this police supervisor. was really being asked a lot of questions about protocol use of force and these sort of things now the big win for the prosecution with this witness is that this person as a police supervisors basically admitted that. he should not have had

his knee on george floyd's neck for as long as he did based on the circumstances that was a big revelation from this and a big admission from the minneapolis police department former he's now retired supervisor who was the supervisor over. and over that incident who arrived on scene as it was transpiring for the defense though they were basically trying to point out that and it a big part of the defense is they're saying that their argument is that derek chauvin had to keep his knees on george floyd's neck so long because there was a threat because of the crowd that was gathering now the video shows between 7 to 12 people and so that's what they were trying to get out from this guest from the defense basically saying you know use of force can be modified depending on what

the threats are right and he said yes right so i mean both sides got something out of this but big picture barbara i think the big picture now is it's very clear the defense is laying out and. argument that derek show was under some sort of threat from the growing crowd growing crowd. 7 to 12 people that is going to be a key argument on why derek chauvin they're going to argue needed to keep his neck his knee on george floyd's neck for so long ultimately it's going to be the jury that decides this but very very key testimony here just within the last hour or so . sometimes this phrase comes up the blue wall of silence effectively that the police closing ranks and kind of taking care of one another i have to say i didn't get that sense from from the witnesses that we had i think everyone has looked you

know pained or at the very comfortable just generally i mean obviously some of the images that we've been seeing have been harling but by and large how do you read the reaction of someone who of course would have been a colleague of. not that long ago. yeah you're right about the blue wall of silence as it's often called you do get a sense that the police officers or the personnel that were involved in this scene and even goes back to earlier today in the testimony with with the paramedics that arrived on scene you get the sense that they were deeply troubled by this incident you know a lot of times in police shootings or or police abuse situations it's a split 2nd decision that needs to be made you know that's often the argument the officer only had 2 seconds to make a life or death decision right that's what we often hear over and over again

doesn't mean it was the right decision it doesn't mean it was the wrong decision but that's what we're often here this was more than 9 minutes where we all watched a man die how he died. exactly when he died and who is responsible or what is responsible for his death that is being decided in the courtroom behind me but the bottom line is we have more than 9 minutes of watching this it's not just 10 seconds it's not 2 seconds it's not 3 seconds it's more than 9 minutes and i think that is really hard for a lot of people to take in and even even police officers even paramedics are used to seeing dramatic situations and you really see that in the testimony. today especially this afternoon. and of course worth remember we actually had george floyd's girlfriend take the stand the little girl here which is also incredibly emotional but gabe will be talking about it again at the top of the hour

for the moment thank you. now there is some positive news on fighting the corona virus pandemic with new research on the pfizer vaccine giving encouraging results latest research shows its job is 100 percent effective against the south african variant of the virus albeit from a relatively small sample of about $800.00 people it's 91 percent effective overall against all covert $900.00. 95 figures dating back to the 1st jabs 6 months ago now and the separate study in the u.k. has found 98 percent of people over the age of 80 have a strong immune response to the pfizer job described as quote off the scale which should protect against all covert variance well the pfizer vaccine is currently being rolled out in more than 70 nations worldwide so that the good news well patty

culhane is in washington d.c. for us it is good news isn't it patty. i know can you believe it we're talking about cove it and we finally have good news to share we've been talking about these vaccines but one of the questions was we thought maybe it would keep you safe for 3 months well that doesn't give you a whole lot of certainty if you're planning on reopening businesses reopening the economy so this is 6 months and most experts say it's likely longer they can't say that for sure the other reason why this is such good news is because there was a big concern that the variants were going to continue to mutate and get ahead of the vaccine that's why here in the u.s. they've been rushing to vaccinate as many people as possible and so now what this allows them to do pfizer is going to be able to go to organizations like the food and drug administration here in the united states and agencies across the world and try to get approval for it to be used officially so keep in mind it's being used right now it's going to millions of shots and arms but that's under emergency use

authorization so why does it matter well if you look at organizations like the pentagon the u.s. military they've said because it only had emergency you thought authorization from the f.d.a. that they couldn't mandate that all of the service members and civilians who work for the military get the shot now they left open the possibility that once this authorization is given for full use that that could change so what does that mean will expect your t.v. screens are going to be filled with a whole lot of lawyers in the coming weeks and months talking about what the law says that all these countries can employers for example force people to get the vaccine or lose their job can schools force students once that approval is made can they force them to get the vaccine that's the law of the land for many of these vaccines in the united states so it's going to be interesting to see how that plays out over the coming months probably weeks and months but yes we have good news we have in the united states between 2 to 3000000 doses being given every day of this vaccine or jabs as you say and so the president biden president joe biden said

200000000 doses by his 1st 100 days we are see. production ramp up and it really depends on which state you're in which county or in which city and how quickly people are being vaccinated but the president said by may 1st everyone 16 and up should be able to sign up for the vaccine and some states are making progress to that goal certainly great news for the united states patti cole hain thank you so good news but the battle against covert obviously isn't over yet india is expanding its covert 1000 vaccination program to everybody over the age of 45 as it struggles to stop surging infections tens of thousands of people got their job on the 1st day of the country's biggest push yet against the virus vaccines were previously restricted to people over the age of 60 and others with serious health conditions the government wants to inoculate 300000000 people by the end of july

authorities reported more than 72000 cases on thursday that's the highest spike in 6 months. everyone should get vaccinated it's absolutely safe as the vaccination campaign now includes everyone over 45 they should get the shots and then april fools prank in brussels bump up against belgium coronavirus restrictions around 20000 people turned up at a city park after a joke party was promoted on social media anti-riot police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the crowd revelers had been enticed with the promise of acts including calvin harris and that chunk i thought it split up but belgium recently entered a 3rd lockdown with groups limited to just 4 people meeting outside. and the british prime minister's most senior black advisor has quit the day after a controversial review on racism in the country are strong signs government

commissioned an independent investigation during the black lives matter movement last year the study was released on wednesday and it said the u.k. is not institutionally racist downing street insists that some of the parcher has nothing to do with the report this is a. a very interesting piece of work you know i didn't get to say the government could agree with absolutely everything in it but it has some some regional ins and stimulating work in it that i think people need to read into and to consider there are very serious issues that our society faces. to do with racism that we need to address we've got to we've got to do to fix it on the stand the severity of the problem and we look at all the ideas that they put food and will be we will be making those points and that is it for this news hour stay with us we'll have more

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