we get addicted and and try really hard to. break that addiction george floyd's girlfriend testifies about their struggle with drug abuse at the trial of the former police officer who's accused of murdering and. hello 'd i'm adrian finnegan this is 00 live from joe also coming up the world health organization slams the e.u. use vaccine rollout calling it unacceptably slow. me a mosque protesters mark 2 months since the military seized his own sense of g. is slapped with a most serious criminal charge it. at

a shifting strategy the report says u.s. president joe biden has ordered the removal of some military assets and us now from the gulf region. floyd's girlfriend has testified at the trial of a former police officer who's charged with his murder courtney ross was questioned on day 4 of the trial of derek show then i described how addiction dominated their relationship drug use is expected to become a major focus of the trial not as it was gabriel as on the reports now from minneapolis and just a warning some of the pictures that you were. about to see you may find disturbing . this image of george floyd adopted by the black lives matter movement after his death is recognized all over the world as a symbol of police brutality and it is based on a selfie kind of. that's

according to george girlfriend courtney ross who was the 1st to testify on day 4 of the derek show ven murder trial. in her often emotional testimony she described how the pair met in 2017 when floyd was working as a security guard upon questioning she also described how they fell into addiction. it was an apparent attempt by the prosecution to get ahead of a central plank of chauvinist defense team's argument that it was the drugs that killed george floyd and not the officers more than a 9 minute choke hold in their defense attorney eric nelsen questioned about

a drug overdose floyd had in march as a court session was ongoing ben crump the floyd family attorney released a statement saying in part we fully expected the defense to put george's character and struggles with addiction on trial because that is the go to tactic when the facts are not on your side we are confident that the jury will see past that to arrive at the truth. the jury later heard from paramedics part of the team who arrived at the scene to treat floyd they testified when they arrived show up and still had his knee on floyd's neck and that floyd was unconscious. person. i do not feel one i suspect in.

the trial is moving into a new phase instead of heart wrenching testimony from eyewitnesses like what we've heard most of the week the trial is now shifting into fundamental questions like how george floyd died exactly when and who or what is to blame. minneapolis the dutch prime minister's chances of forming a new coalition governing coalition of been thrown into further doubt parliament approved a motion of disapproval against mark ruta saying that he hadn't told the truth about remarks made during coalition negotiations he survived a separate vote of no confidence root insists that he never knowingly misled parliament and is refusing to resign an independent envoy will be tossed with assessing groups as conduct the world health organization has criticized the european union's covert 19 vaccination rollout says on except to be slow this it

says risks prolonging the pandemic as variants spread the w.h.o. is urging the e.u. to ramp up production and ensure all available doses are used w.h.o. also warned the overall coronavirus situation across europe is more worrying but it's been 4 months. vaccines that are available to anyone over the age of 45 in india india's government is racing to inoculate its citizens as infections continue to rise jobs were previously restricted to those aged over 60 and all those with serious health conditions india aims to vaccinate 300000000 people by the end of july the country reported more than 70000 new cases in the past day. and i think everyone should get vaccinated it's absolutely safe as the vaccination campaign now includes everyone over 45 they should get the shots india's rush to vaccinate its own people is affecting countries far beyond its borders it's home to the world's largest vaccine makeup which is put

a temporary hold on exports of the astra zeneca job it's the main dose supplying the un's kovacs program for poor countries africa's top health official is warning that if the delay continues the result will be catastrophic. continuously. the people are different. that's. true chris back then it was predominately. from esther's in the jeffery media from the. country. because there would be catastrophic. mission become problematic. graves of being emptied in brazil's largest city to make room for a soaring number of covered 19 deaths grave diggers in south pollo have been

banging the remains of people who were buried years ago there were a record number of burials in the city this week brazil is reporting its highest number of deaths since the pandemic began on average around 3000 people died each day this week. bolivia is closing its border with brazil and peru the latest south american country to increase travel restrictions to stop a spike in corona virus cases as concern over the spread of the more infectious varian 1st identified in brazil bolivian authorities are putting border towns on the lockdown or it's been detected chile is closing all its borders for the month starting on monday more than $66000.00 people died in brazil in march of the highest since the onset of the pandemic. a new government has taken power in slovakia replacing the previous one which was brought down by a vaccine scandal a secret deal came to light involving the purchase of 2000000 doses of russia's sputnik need that in barbara reports.

swearing in a new government and hoping to turn the page on a terrible year for slovakia's ruling coalition. president says on a couple to over praise the coalition for reaching an agreement in 4 weeks you know unfettered contest the real fulfillment of the success of your agreements will be if this government continues to take steps to help the country and its citizens development for now chile we have learned a lot and we also have learned a lot from mistakes i believe that will be stable and 1st thing and i believe that they'll be cohesion and unity between us because that if occasion and renewal of slovakia continues hague it was previously finance minister and deputy prime minister he swapping those roles with the man who stepped down as premier along with his cabinet on tuesday igor much of it his was the 1st european government to collapse because of how it's handled the covert 19 pandemic disputes over much of

it his leadership boiled over last month. the prime minister had ordered shipments of russia's sputnik the coronavirus vaccine without consulting his political partners but even as in the next 2 months we will receive $1000000.00 vaccines as agreed meaning it will be for half a 1000000 people the move prompted 2 parties in the coalition freedom and solidarity and for people to demand that matter of its resign he don't need to lead the center right along no party to election victory a year ago with an anti corruption agenda since covered 19 arrives of a he has had an unenviable record with a population of 5 and a half 1000000 it's registered roughly $10000.00 covered deaths one of the highest per capita rates in the world in recent weeks it's seen infection rates fall by avoiding early elections the new government will hope it can concentrate on driving down copied cases and hospitalizations nadine barber al jazeera the us is warning

russia against intimidating its neighbors unverified social media video suggests that russia is moving tanks and other equipment to areas bordering ukraine and the crimea region which moscow annexed from ukraine in 2014 earlier this week ukraine accused pro russian separatists of violating a cease fire all this as nato ambassadors met to discuss the recent rise in violence there. our concern is predicated on russian escalations and aggressions in eastern ukraine of course we would be concerned by any attempts on the part of the russian federation to intimidate its neighbors and our partners of course ukraine. is among them well the kremlin says that russia's military operations in the area are to ensure moscow's own security and are not a threat its foreign minister is also warning of escalation in the region and you don't want them to go to you know the united states addresses you crying through the lens of geopolitics ukraine close to russia makes russia great russia lift

without you crime is of no global importance i'm leaving the truthfulness of these ideas on the conscious of people professing them as well as their ability to appreciate modern russia president putin said not long ago but the statement is still relevant today that those who would try to start a new war and don't boss will destroy you crime the white house says that it's alarmed by video of children being dropped over the mexican border by smugglers in the infrared pictures an adult could be seen dangling and then dropping a child from the top of the fence moments later they drop another appear to hold supplies the 6 the sisters of from ecuador or in the cab authorities that just 3 and 5 years old. i will say that our concern and our focus is on sending a clear message to smuggler to the region that this is not the time to come you should not send your kids on this treacherous journey that these smugglers are

preying on vulnerabilities in these communities there's a lot of issues and steps we need to take to address root causes so of course our concern is for the safety of these kids these border patrol agents who saved these kids deserve our our thanks and our gratitude for ensuring their safety. a weather update next here on options here and then more promising signs for the fight as a biotech vaccine research shows that it's highly protective against the south african variant corona virus. i don't listen to him 3 of his birth sons and tina pays tribute to the controversial composer revolutionized tango and divided the musical world.

how is that we're seeing some violent storms moving across the deep south of the u.s. this long line of cloud just moving out towards the eastern seaboard as that cold front associated with it cold northerly winds blasting out of canada ahead of that we've had some very warm air just being pulled out across the gulf of mexico that will move out of the way as we go on through friday those cold temperatures pick back to fall 6 celsius least disabled not too great it's all struggling to get above freezing and also well at least it will be dry to be crisp shall we say central areas of the u.s. central parts of canada fine and dry for the west we have got a little bit of sleet the snow pushing towards the the west coast pushing over the high ground by the time we do come to friday find down that western side of the country want to see showers just around the 4 corners as we go on into saturday much of north america rosette fat looking pretty good actually there will be some

snow over towards the west coast there of canada but elsewhere it is largely fine and dry some pleasant sunshine coming through lots of places on shot meanwhile across the caribbean this is the place to be it is fine and sunny chance of just the outside schaffel want to say with some heavy rain there for the bahamas this weekend. welcome to doha 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 law day's work is done qatar airways welcome to our home.

oh. hello again this is al jazeera made news this hour george floyd's girlfriends testified about the struggles with addiction during the trial of a former u.s. police officer is accused of his murder very chauvinistic fence team is expected for the argue the drug use was the major factor and choice death. an independent envoy will look into the conduct of dutch prime minister mark ruta mts approved a motion of disapproval against him saying that he had told the truth about the monks made during negotiations to form a new coalition. of the world health organization has criticized the european union's vaccination rollout as on accept to be slow this it says risks prolonging

the pandemic as variance spread. the un security council strongly condemned the use of violence by mia military against civilians but it stopped short of threatening further action at china's insistence earlier the post civilian leader aung san suu kyi was slapped with ha most serious criminal charge yes it carries a penalty of up to 14 years in prison while the services are also being shut down scot hired reports. 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 this quickly troubled by the reports of more casualties among them in my people. during this past weekend. we were doing the call 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 protestors 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 of 2 civil war. one which is too much so and it's what the military. started when they they staged to so it's a civil war with the anti-sex and then this 2nd civil war which has been going up to 7 decades which is against all of these it talked about isolation 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 unsung suchi is former governing party they have called for a federal democracy that would include the ethnic armed groups. it's got either

al-jazeera. bio and tech have released more data about that vaccine saying that it's highly protective against the south african covert 19 variant it's called concerns because of apparent resistance to other vaccines overall pfizer says the injection is 91 percent effective even up to 6 months helen fisher reports from 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 job with of also revealed that children between the ages of 12 and 15 are 100 percent protected by their vaccine 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 period may well cause

problems for this vaccine that it might be able to work its way around and meet people there saying no look 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 they're 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's because millions of doses of the drug were ruined at a factory in baltimore serious more sources an associate professor in cellular and molecular sciences support some bria university he says that phases results are

encouraging but more data restated on the other vaccines. when he comes to clinical data it's open to present the data be made available on twitter of a size 0 to show comics that are running to be 800 people it's not a sufficient number to say it definitely works but if the data show that the most these 800 people was that developed the disease none of them hot basically the south african variant on the box about the same time that's what they found would come out so you have 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 he want better it is very good said sue because we know that this is a little bit more tricky compared to the south african variant what we need to say now is that a top baseball movie of the merits but also with all 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 variants as well let's hope that this will work because that will reduce the problem of current viruses it is a ship carrying 1200 people who fled violence and more than most and because arrived at the port town of pemba family members were waiting outside the port to see which of their loved ones were among them groups stormed the northern city of palma a week ago killing hundreds of people mozambique's military is fighting to retake it. the leader of the palestinian israeli policy has called for better coexistence between arabs and jews abbas didn't endorse prime minister benjamin netanyahu nor his rival will send a closely watched speech his united arab list policy as emotions kingmaker following israel's places to conclusive election it won 4 seats. you want me sure

i don't want to be part of a block on a ride or lapped i'm here for a different block the block that elected me to serve my people i reach out a hand in my name and out of my colleagues and on behalf of the public that voted for me to create an opportunity for coexistence in this holy land blessed by 3 religions and 2 peoples u.s. president joe biden has ordered the pentagon to remove some military assets and forces from the gulf according to a report in the wall street journal the u.s. has reportedly taken at least 3 patriot missile batteries including one from a base in saudi arabia american officials say that an aircraft carrier and surveillance systems being diverted because of military needs elsewhere mark jacobson is a full advisor as a u.s. secretary of defense he says it's a reminder to saudi arabia that it's not an indispensable u.s. ally in the middle east. i actually think that this is a fairly routine matter even though it's understandable that the saudis may see this or interpret this as being some sort of signal by the administration and

frankly the u.s. central command the middle east i think of a very steady vision of what they would light in saudi arabia there's no imminent threat from iran right now it's pretty natural to want to rotate or move troops out when there's not an imminent threat and frankly i give more weight to concerns the u.s. may have over a lack of air defense of course we you know we saw these issues with the iranian shooting in medium range missiles in recent years i think that might be more of a driver of the lack of u.s. short. range air defense capability in that need to move those patriot batteries out if you reduce your force structure in the face of. less tensions in that region it allows you to ramp back up again rather than on a day to day basis flying b. 52 is over to send some signal then what are you going to do if you need to ratchet up and and i think if you take a look at what's going on in the broader region again you now have

a renewed russian threat to ukraine might be perfectly natural that the u.s. makes make sure that it could have a naval presence increased naval presence in the mediterranean versus one in the gulf right now so i also think that it's in some ways it's a reminder to the saudis this may not be intentional but i think it's a reminder to the saudis that they are not the indispensable ally in the middle east that they their treatment and are working with them is predicated on u.s. national security interests and of course you know that i did mr nation has been very clear about its unhappiness with the saudi regime representatives of egypt to dominate him missing u.s. and e.u. officials in khartoum the discussing anything of his contentious mega dam on the river nile in an exclusive interview to serious mohamed vaal has spoken with the sudanese minister of irrigation. what we are proposing to than fight is to strengthen the african union persis by ferris jennings or all of the of their worth

that is the united states of america and the european union and the african union itself to mediate that and facilitate that and then to invite a force party the united nations so it become a court fight to give more things to the african union persists and to give more deliberate it's political leverage that it's a kind of an amicable agreement among the 3 countries and you can see the full interview with us. in a few hours later today at 08 g.m.t. friday on talk to us to 0 a train has derailed in eastern taiwan it came off the tracks in a tunnel just north of the city of quali in the fire department says that some carriages hit the tunnels walls say that a few passengers show no signs of life. concerts are taking place across argentina to mark a 100 years since the birth of tongo legend appears all of his unconventional

approach was criticized during his life now 19 years after his death his legacy is being reflected upon what's warbly the stories about reports one of solace. this is one of the most famous bangle songs worldwide. of you honey no it was written in 1989 by compulsory act of 2 beat farewell to his father. i didn't tina's celebrating 100 years ahead of us when asked perth with series of concerts and shows in the city of one aside. to get into the theater it says your wife. says this is the 1st time the city has paid tribute to his music. in the beginning he

was at war with the city of porn desirous don't forget that tango is from born as arias alongside heroic why he said he played music from the city he wanted to revolutionize music he wanted people to know there was more than 3 times 4 in the beginning he was more respected in europe than in argentina but people he looked at europe and saw him. museums and theaters in the city by putting his musical life on display early on in his career after p.s.o. left music arrangements were criticized by traditional italian musicians some even accused him of killing and mocking her for his elements of jazz and classical music and created what is now known more i worked on and became so successful that he's releasing is no no no on the go. yes i was born in the province of one of scientists but he's father moved to new york city. it was there where he was given his 1st abandon and since then he never stopped playing it.

he rolled over 900 songs beer to take tango to one you will never. be music has been played in many of the world's top feeders. and in films and royal weddings. and was a close friend of the my fiddle and also his manager he says took tango to the 21st century or so and i'll certainly come after on the basis of tango manages to create a new universal language that everyone understands and feels and you can hear it in so many different scenarios and on the 2nd note of a song you know it's he was special and elevated tango. but. 2 his music is now part of when a site is

a city that he may beginning rejected him but that today celebrates his art to. be several to see that when a sighted. get a dream figure here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera george floyd's girlfriend just testified about their struggles with addiction during the trial of the former us police officer accused of his murder tara chauvinistic fence team argues that drug use was the major factor in floyd's death we both suffer from chronic pain. mine was in my neck and his both in the back. and we both.