al-jazeera is nice no doubt the biggest stories of the week delivered to your inbox last analysis and opinions of the world. subscribe of the conversation. we get addicted and and try really hard to. break that addiction. george floyd's girlfriend testifies about the struggle with drug abuse but the trial of the former police officer accused of murdering and. hello i'm adrian for good this is holmes as era live from go also coming up dozens are killed off for a train derails inside a tunnel in eastern taiwan and many others are injured. india expands its covert 19

vaccination program for millions of workers will be left out. and slovakia gets a new government up to the old one quits of refract seen scandal. george floyd schoolfriend has testified at the trial of the former police officer charged with his mother courtney ross was questioned on day 4 of the trial of derek cho then described how addiction dominated their relationship drug use is expected to become a major focus of the trial gabriel is on the reports now from minneapolis just a warning that some of the pictures you're 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 this. that's according to george girlfriend courtney ross who was the 1st to testify on day 4 of the derek show been 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. of. mine was. 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 nelson questioned ross 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 in a living person. i do not feel on i suspected. at the moment. mr black.

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 breaking news out of easton taiwan the at least 36 people are dead after a train came off the tracks the darrelle what happened inside a tunnel dozens of people have been taken to hospital there were a reported 350 passengers onboard we'll have more on this breaking story in this news of. the world health organization has criticised the european union's code 19 vaccination rollout as unacceptable e. slow this it says risks prolonging the pandemic as variant spread the show is

urging the e.u. to ramp up production and ensure all of a double dose is a used w.h.o. also warned the overall coronavirus situation across europe is more worrying but it's been 4 months. vaccines of all vailable to anyone over the age of 45 in india india's government is racing to inoculate its citizens as infections continue to rise that 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. everyone should get vaccinated it's absolutely safe as the vaccination campaign now includes everyone over 45 they should get the shots. waste collectors employed by the government in india getting covert 19 jobs for millions of informal workers who salvage items from landfill sites are eligible for vaccines activists according to

change elizabeth brought in reports now from new delhi. from a distance these mounds in india cities could be mistaken for small hills but they amount of waste and rummaging through them with their bare hands of thousands of waste pic is they make a mega living collecting recyclable materials and selling them to scrap dealers. but while sanitation workers employed by the government or private companies are among the 1st to be eligible for clothes vaccines waste because aren't m.d.m. . new delhi municipal council workers are getting vaccinated police are getting vaccinated then are we not human we pick up trash from your homes if one of us fall sick then we probably will infect 10 others. begun connex rubbish from $300.00 homes but can't afford the $3.00 for each dose of mine 1000 vaccine she lives with

her family in a hot made from scrap cardboard there among around $2000000.00 informal waste workers in india is that our minds we can't earn like we used to before our incomes have been hit when we're finding it so difficult to get by each day how can we afford vaccines waterloo or a 100 of us with the help of environmental group chintan has started an online petition asking the government to vaccinate waste workers like her chinta calls of the country's silent environmentalist they are highly organized they are highly skewed they've been up to 70 to 80 get the results released so you can imagine that . warning to a lot of these people pick up to collect the signet get the same. so this is. extremely important the city. says that each year people like

eliminate $900000.00 tonnes of carbon dioxide by diverting waste away from landfills. but. i feel really sad that the government doesn't care about us. as india widens the numbers of those eligible for the 19 vaccines waste workers are asking to be among them elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new daddy. more now on that breaking news out of taiwan where at least $36.00 people are dead after a train came off the tracks al-jazeera is adrian brown is monitoring developments from hong kong he's on the line now adrian what more do we know. well i've been looking at some pictures that have come in just in the last few minutes they show images of the crash scene and it appears to see you can see carriages inside the tunnel that have have crumbled and been ripped apart from the impact you can see passengers trying to gather their suitcases trying to get out of the tunnel the

scenes they are pretty frantic because the 1st 4 carriages of the train appear to be ok it's the reason for carriages that appear to have been badly damaged and i was carriages are now inside the tunnel now this train adrian was traveling from katonah in the far south of taiwan to the northern port city ok long it was traveling along the railway line which runs along the eastern part of taiwan now the train confound the speed of anything up to 120 to 150 kilometers an hour what we don't know of course is why this train came off the tracks inside the tunnel some reports say that it it appeared to have hit some sort of obstacle that was inside the tunnel we're not quite sure what that obstacle is or was an investigation of course will eventually establish that the iraqi the moment is to try to get passengers in carriages 5 to 8 but you know fire crews can only enter

the time the the tunnel in sort of single file that they're calling out to people it's dark in there they're trying to get extra light put inside the tunnel so what we know is there were 350 people on this train we know that around about 100 have been rescued but we also know the more than 30 people have been killed and at least more than 70 have been injured so that leaves about 100 to 150 passengers who are still unaccounted for and this wasn't a commuter train where was your business train coming from going to and what's happened to the people who have been rescued by the authorities the emergency services where they've been taken. well the people who have been who managed to make their way out of the tunnel some passengers were able to others had to be helped by i'm going screws and fire crews will be taken to the local hospitals others are being treated at the scene at the side of the track the train was

heading to the north of the country and of course this is a holiday weekend in taiwan and in other parts of china it's the tomb sweeping festival this is traditionally when people go to the graves of their ancestors to pay their respects so it's fair to assume the people on this train were heading from tatum to cologne to do just that so that brings a sort of added poignancy to this tragedy they drain for the moment many thanks to david greene brown that reporting live from hong kong. we'll get a weather update next year i was here at then on verified social media video that's the tension between russia and ukraine. but don't listen to him 3 of his birth argentina pays tribute to the controversial composer who revolutionized tango divided the musical world.

how the weather slushie said that was the sunshine across the middle east most on the side as well for the most part we got some big spaces the clouds still larry in suits a suicide of the mad looking a little to stay at the moment and on the cool side temperatures struggling to get to well 3040 maybe 15 celsius wet weather moving through cyprus heading towards the western side of syria lebanon seeing some wet weather some of that showery rain just making its way into the far northwest of jordan as a result is that warms up it brightens up as we go on through saturday want to see showers i was towards southern parts of the caspian sea northern areas of iraq well the possible route could catch a shower with say south of that generally try and find but

a brisk wind around the eastern side of saudi arabia and with that dust and sand to watch out for temperatures here in doha still getting up to around 38 celsius it will cool off for the 2nd half of the weekend but it's a party of sunshine having said that plenty of sunshine just around the horn of africa much of it the ip address some showers there into southern parts of ethiopia pushing across into yukon that will see some heavy showers here heavy showers too just around the coastal fringes of tans and in the south africa we have got some bits and pieces of cloud on friday in the process of moving away. capturing a moment in time. snapshots of all the lives. of the stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's well out. the world god we thread mr gilby fight.

inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers. i am the voice we are the voice witnesses on al-jazeera. well again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the baby news this hour at least $36.00 people are dead in eastern taiwan after a train came off the tracks the to relevant happened in a tunnel dozens of people are in hospital the train was carrying 350 passengers. george floyd girlfriends testified about their struggles with addiction during the trial of the former us a police officer is accused of his murder show that his defense team is expected to

argue for the drug use was the major factor in shortage there. at the independent envoy will look into the conduct of dutch prime minister mark m.p.'s approved a motion of disapproval against him saying he had told the truth about remarks made during the go to form a new coalition. a new government a 2nd 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 v. but 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 an account which over praised the coalition for reaching an agreement in 4 weeks yeah 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 trusting and i believe that they'll be cohesion and unity between us because that if occasion and renewal of slovakia continues. hager was previously finance minister and deputy prime minister he's 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 . the move prompted 2 parties in the coalition freedom and solidarity and for people to demand that much of it to 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 a right sort of a he has had an unenviable record but 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 covered cases and hospitalizations nadine barber al jazeera. old graves being emptied in brazil's largest city to make room for a soaring number of covert 19 deaths grave diggers in south pollo have been bagging the remains of people who've been 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 about 3000 people died each day this week but libya 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 there's concern over the spread of the more infectious variant 1st identified in brazil bolivia and authorities are putting border towns on the lockdown where it's been detected chile is closing all its border for the month saucing monday more than $66000.00 people died in brazil in march the highest since the onset of. the u.n. security council a strongly condemned the use of violence by me on laws military against civilians but it stopped short of threatening further action but china's insistence earlier post civilian leader aung san suu kyi was slapped with her most serious criminal charge yet it carries a penalty of up to 14 years in prison while a service is being shut down across the country scott heibel 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 and the crisis and. we are very sad for our fallen heroes in protest 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 a square free troubled by the reports of more casualties among them in my people

during this past weekend. we reduce 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 un 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 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 a lot of these it. 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. scott either al-jazeera the head of egypt's sue is canal authority says the country expects more than $1000000000.00 in compensation for a cargo vessel blocked the canal for nearly a week he said the amount should cover the cost to dislodge the ship losses due to stall traffic and loss transit fees but he didn't specify who would be paying they have a given his own by a japanese firm operated by a taiwanese company and registered in panama the u.s. 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 region of crimea which moscow an extreme ukraine in 2014 earlier this week

ukraine accused pro russian separatists of violating a ceasefire well this is nato ambassadors met to discuss a recent rise in violence. 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 the kremlin says that russia's military operations in the area oswin show moscow's own security also threats its foreign minister is also warning of escalation in the region and you just want to talk to you look 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 crying the leader of a palestinian israeli policy has called for better coexistence between arabs and jews on so abbas didn't endorse prime minister benjamin netanyahu nor his rivals in a closely watched speech his united arab list posse has emerged as a kingmaker following israel's latest inconclusive election it won 4 seats. i don't want to be part of a block on the right or locked 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 are being diverted because of military needs. mark jacobson is a former advisor to the us 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 a very steady vision of what they would like 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 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 of 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 are their treatment and are working with them is predicated on u.s.

national security interests and of course you know that i did mr asian has been very clear about its unhappiness with the saudi regime the white house says that it's alarmed by video of children being dropped over the mexican border by smokeless in the infrared pictures some adult can be seen dangling and then dropping a child from the top of the fence moments later they drop another. appear to ho supply the sistas from ecuador in the case of 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. concerts are taking place across argentina to mark a 100 years since the birth of tango legend asked appears all of his unconventional approach was criticized during his life but now 19 years after his death his legacy is being reflected upon much more warmly the stories about reports from one of solace. this is one of the most famous bangle songs worldwide. of you honey no it was written in 1989 by composer actor to beat farewell to his father. i didn't tina's celebrating 100 years of dr p.s. one last birthday with a series of concerts and shows in the city of when i. was there to be interested in

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 traditionalists and the musicians some even accused him of killing and mocking her for elements of jazz and classical music and created what is now known more i worked on and became so successful that he's music 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 a 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 and also his manager he says took tango to the 21st century. story that also comes after on the base 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 in a beginning rejected him but that today celebrates his art. it is how will deceive when a site is. color going to a very unforgiving here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera at least 34 people are dead in eastern taiwan after a train came off the tracks at the realm of happened in a tunnel dozens of people are in hospital the train was carrying 350 passengers officers adrian brown is monitoring developments from hong kong i've been looking at some pictures that have come in just the last few minutes they show.