and you did that because you wanted to make sure the scene was secure yes to make sure that the officers who have responded to the scene were doing the things that they should be doing in connection with a critical incident those are such as roping off or tying off the off the tape or taping off the scene. putting up courage and yes yes not permitting citizens to come wandering through the scene. canvassing the area i think you said and ultimately your role in this particular case was limited to a couple of hours of time making sure those things were done and until. b.-c. agents arrived been and you handed officer yes. and it was it was not until later that you were asked to review the body worn cameras of the officers

and consider the use of force right yes and it would not be within your normal role or job duties to do such a use of force analysis right. i've no further questions. i was on it zimmerman you had the opportunity to review the body or cameras from him as officers involved. and did that also capture the bystanders on the sidewalk during the incident. was there something about that group of bystanders in your assessment was. control. threat to the officers at the scene. would there be

a way i mean i ask it this way. what would there be other ways for officers to deal with bystanders yes could that include calling for back. with the presence of multiple officers at the scene be a relevant fact for an officer to consider when using an amount of force on a handcuffed and restrained something. should be well but if if there is some concern about the crowd. would it be relevant that there were other officers already have to say oh i see you know it doesn't matter the crowd as long as they're not attacking you. the crowd really doesn't. shouldn't have an effect on your actions.

you were asked if the use of force training has changed over time it does but you still get the most up to date training every year when you go to the use of force tray i do yes. and. you were asked about you know has the academy changed since you went to the academy it was and you haven't been through the academy since then correct. but you have some familiarity with how the academy trains new officers absolutely and you think that cademy training provides appropriate training for officers yes it should and would provide the most up to date training and the use of force for many of us officers that take the academy tech training you know.

you are asked if you know you are a trainer and you are not a use of force training or the herd you are a student yes of course. and. but it's your testimony that based on all the training you go through every year it's well known that the prone position is dangerous absolutely yes doesn't take a trainer to be able to say that you've learned yes and that's been something that's been trained.

you were asked about the critical decision making. for mayor that from your training yes and part of that is continually reassessing the need for force. it's a fair statement yes and so that would include reassessing. the location yes. but tactical advantage. conceal and cover yes. seen security yes security unseen yes or security of the same yes medical distress of the person restrained yes. when you watch the body camera videos. to those videos

capture those types of circumstances relative to the restraint of mr ford. yes. and you. were able to assess those things in telling the jury what you thought earlier about the restraint of mr ford. when you watch those videos at some point during the restraints did you see mr floyd taking the officers who are dead may have happened initially but after that if you see any kicking the. defense counsel asked you about the concept of holding for us. sometimes it's necessary to. keep the person there so they can receive medical treatment that are. those holding for mass. excuse an

officer from providing medical attention that they've been trained to provide. those holding for e.m.'s excuse officers from continuing to use this decision making model about the use of force and of those. holding for either mass excuse officers from using other resources like other officers at the scene to you. you're asked about handcuffs if handcuffs are not properly locked can they tighten. can they've loosened. us or if they're properly. connected can they loose. then come open. but if they're locked can they still tell you the truth if they're not i think the terms

double row. based on your review of the body cams did you see any need for officer showmen to improvise by putting his new mr forward for 9 minutes and 29 seconds no i don't know. anything for. him is that done. over. so there ends i would say the most damning testimony so far all of these 5 days of the derek sherman trial well 4 and a half days let's say at this point lieutenant richard zimmerman a 30 year veteran of the minneapolis police force well known in the city well

respected. who and i've said this earlier said that line if your knee is on a person's neck it can kill them when he came back from the break he went on to say that the force used by derek 7 was totally and this is specifically about their each other not just about the idea of a knee on the neck that it was totally unnecessary and uncalled for. then the cross-examination from eric nelson for the defense who set about trying to say that essentially because lieutenant zimmerman hasn't been in the field as much recently that he does experience are going to release you for the return hopefully the mother we have a motion before the we have to deal with may be 930 but let's shoot for 950 thank you have a good week of. ok adjourned for the day says the judge and we did suspect that

this might happen being the weekend friday and perhaps being easter as well i don't know but they did talk about the possibility of this ending earlier actually not this early but as i was saying lieutenant richard zimmerman was the man who we heard and saw on the stand there and under cross-examination from eric nelson for the defense as i say essentially saying that all your experience now is only based on academy training you. policemen in uniform not out on the base anymore and essentially trying to downplay the experience was of course the prosecution is playing up the fact that lieutenant zimmerman has 30 years experience in the force and does a lot of training also talked about the idea that maybe tenet cinnamon wasn't used to this type of technology that police officers use these days tasers body cams that he's an old school cop and there was a lot of talk about what sort of training police officers actually have compared to

what is needed in a situation like this. again our correspondent covering this 5th day of the trial. so it was pretty damning to hear that line 1st of all about if your name is on a person's neck but then dave when he comes back after the break it turns. to the direction of in case to this incident which killed george floyd and he said totally unnecessary uncalled for. yeah and he was very unequivocal about that as well it says just devastating testimony for the defense and the prosecution is built up to this with this lieutenant richard zimmerman zimmerman has been on the force more than 30 years he's very well known here in minneapolis very well respected within the force but also in the city of minneapolis because he's very well known here very well respected so this testimony is just incredibly devastating on for multiple fronts

but he left very little to the imagination in his testimony basically saying in no uncertain terms that there was no excuse my words but essentially his words as well no excuse for officer show vant to have his knee on george floyd's neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds the big picture here is it is permissible of course for police officers to use force or use restraint in certain situations that is not up for debate what is up for debate or what is being debated in the courtroom is was this reasonable force used by derek chauvet the answer according to the most senior police officer with the most experience in minneapolis is absolutely not and it just left very little to the imagination just devastating testimony for the defense you know why don't we actually polls gabriel and have a listen to richard zimmerman in his own words as you said minneapolis is longest

serving police officer he believed the level of force used was not justified. what is your. you know your view of that use of force during that time totally unnecessary what do you mean. well 1st of all. pulling him down to the ground face down and putting your nguyen a neck for that amount of that amount of time. is just. uncalled for. i saw no reason why the officers felt they were in danger if the what they felt. and that's what they would have to feel to be able to use a kind of force. so in your opinion should that

restraint have stopped once he was handcuffed and prone on the ground absolutely so they sent the defense on the cross-examination we've been saying it would be interesting how they chose to attack this and basically went off to the experience of a 30 year veteran of the recent experience saying he's sort of not up with how it's going these days. yeah they did in the defense also said in their cross-examination they said and they've done this with other witnesses as well police officers state basically said is it possible for a suspect that is handcuffed to break out of the handcuffs and then that is unconscious regained consciousness and become aggressive again. is that possible. there say you know in that witnesses said it's very hard to break out of handcuffs but in theory yes there have been cases where some suspects that's unconscious has

regained consciousness and has become aggressive towards officers that is sort of the defense's argument they're just laying some sort of doubt here and asking why are they asking that because essentially what they're going to argue is that derek chauffeur needed to stay on george floyd's neck for 9 minutes because he was afraid presumably that george floyd could regain consciousness that is the argument that the defense is starting to hint that they are going to be laying out in the coming days and weeks is that going to resonate with the jury well we'll have to find out but i you know just goes to show you how difficult of a case this will be for the defense and how strong of a case the prosecution has put on so far in these 5 days yes still a long way to go the trial resumes monday morning deborah love is on the in minneapolis thank you. we'll move on to some the day's other news and taiwan's

worst rail disaster in decades at least 54 people have died dozens are injured after a train derailed in a tunnel after hitting a sliding truck the accident happened just north of the city of lane and an investigation is now underway to find out what happened this report from adrian brown. the rescue team scramble to reach passengers trapped in the front carriages carriages that folded into each other after coming off the rails as the train entered a tunnel. this woman yells carriage for carriage for has everyone come out $350.00 passengers paid for seats with more than $100.00 others reportedly standing. for double duty here or i could feel the emergency brake was put on and the train just shook and then stopped i didn't know nothing sentimental we are fine but some of the passengers in the compartment were injured

. inside the narrow tunnel emergency workers struggled to reach the enjoy feeling there was no other way for us to get out so we had to climb to the top of the train and then climb down i was sitting on the aisle side and i was thrown to the floor. a spokesman for the rail network says the accident was caused by one of its construction trucks sliding from a work site above the truck the fire department later released pictures of what appeared to be the wreckage of the truck beside the d. rail train. this is taiwan's worst of a train accident and it's believed to many of the dead and injured we're heading home to mark the 4 day annual ching ming holiday when chinese people tend to family cruise adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. to me and more where demonstrators are out on the street again the day after the military shut down wireless internet

services across the country have laid flowers in public places remember those killed during the crackdown in may and mars in the 2nd largest city mandalay there are reports of more gunfire by security forces at the protesters on thursday the u.n. security council strongly condemned the use of violence by the military against civilians but stopped short of any action at the insistence of china the killing of civilians in maine miles been the focus of the international outrage save the children says at least 43 children have been killed by security forces in the past 2 months a 6 year old girl was the youngest among them while a one year old boy was injured after he was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet and human rights watch says the military has quote forcibly disappeared hundreds of people since the coup the total number of people killed now more than $500.00 here is phil robertson deputy director of human rights watch asia division who says the world needs to do more to hold me and mass military

leaders to account. we need the unicef and the other groups that are working on child rights issues to really step up and be very vocal about this i mean the types of killings that we're seeing in some cases the military or the police or simply going into neighborhoods and and shooting up the neighborhood or barging into houses and shooting at anybody who's in there and colluding the case of the young 6 year old girl who died in her father's arms and other cases we have of course children you know 16 year old 17 year olds who are out on the protest lines you know trying to do what they can to defend their neighborhoods against these incursions by armed police and military you know there has to be a recognition that there is a responsibility by the international community to really hold 'd accountable the military for these actions that they've taken against children people are being taken away at night often when the internet is shut off people are you know

obviously seen being taken away but there's no real clarity on who is taking them and then relatives as they seek to find where their loved one has been taken can get no answers and there's no formal notification a lot of times what we're seeing is sort of pass the buck mentality where the relatives go to this police bureau and they say we don't have them and maybe the other police bureau and oh no maybe the military is going to mean it's a it's a game of trying to shuffle the relatives around while giving no answers so we fear the worst for many of these people were concerned that the longer they're held without access to their families and without access to lawyers without any acknowledgement in fact that the authorities even have them means that it's more likely they will face torture and other abuses while in detention. now all parties involved in the 2015 nuclear deal the iran nuclear deal will attend a meeting next week in the austrian capital vienna so be hosted by the european union it would be the 1st time the u.s. attends such talks since donald trump withdrew from the landmark agreement and 2018

officials from both the u.s. and iran made it clear there were no direct talks between their delegations with more from washington. we know that joe biden when he was campaigning to become president said it was his intention to go back into the iran nuclear deal certainly over the last couple of months there have been talks between the american side and the iranians through intermediaries including the europeans trying to see if there was some way they could come to an agreement with neither side ready to make the 1st step they really were to stop the enrichment of uranium the said they would consider that if the united states lift sanctions or perhaps even gave them the $130000000000.00 worth of oil sales cash that was frozen abroad neither side ready to make that 1st step so there have been discussions in appears there's no been a breakthrough it's getting both sides together in the same city of perhaps not in the same room perhaps not face to face talks but certainly this is something that

the united states and looking forward to from the state department just in the last 10 minutes have had this statement where they see that it is early days and while there is no signs of an immediate breakthrough in the don't anticipate an immediate breakthrough and there will be difficult discussions ahead we believe that this is a healthy step forward you have to remember a couple of things 1st of all that the iranians have a presidential election in june so the united states would be keen to at least get the workings of a new deal under way before then the other thing is that they want to talk about things outside the nuclear deal they don't just want to talk about and richmond and the process that was there before they also want to talk about missile testing and also whether or not iran will look at how it influences other countries in the region. he has inaugurated a new president the west african nations 1st democratic peaceful transfer of power in his 1st address as president mohamed does whom accused armed groups of

committing war crimes by killing civilians and on wednesday security forces stopped what they called an attempted coup after an attack on the presidential palace civilians are becoming are being increasingly targeted by our troops operating near the border with mali. with the media reports of a possible mass killing currently carried out in ethiopia is more than to grow a region it's happened in the town of de go in early march apparently the following un verified footage which we advise our viewers is of graphic content has emerged on social media armed men wearing what appear to be ethiopian military uniform can be heard speaking the language off camera they are seen then dragging a group of men off a cliff after they've been shot but with access and internet connection severely limited into it is difficult to independently verify these accounts of. the

government's offensive integrate began last year but it had been months in the making back in 2018 prime minister ahmed took office and united the ethnic based political parties but the tea p.l.f. the people's liberation front which had for 27 years refused to join last year prime minister abbey opponent elections because of the coronavirus pandemic but the t.p.m. have called him an illegitimate leader and held its own local vote in defiance something that was strongly condemned by the government the situation deteriorated rapidly after forces integrate attacked a federal military base in november killing dozens of soldiers the government though now controls much of today though there is still fighting in some areas earlier we spoke to journalist samuel get the 2 in addis ababa who says those videos we saw seemed to validate the various reports of violence in the region. the prime minister for your image has promised there will be

a full investigation done but there has been lots and lots of allegations made against all actors that have been involved in the region so this will take much of the country's resources. the prime minister the promise is going to be fulfilled but the kind of allegations we've been hearing that from day one we're just beginning to see actual video evidence of the allegations that have been made by the people up to cry from from last year from end of last year what struck me the most. people i've been we've been hearing from day one that people have been dying there is an issue of famine that's coming up. there has been limited resources and we've been hearing high numbers of people that have been dying in that region we just haven't been able to see their faces until now and the videos are showing us that there have been people dying and we're beginning to see the

faces behind the numbers and that's why it's having on such a strong impact just with the new york and many many countries that have interest and helping ethiopia advance forward. in bangladesh 3 people have been killed cinephile and near a rangar refugee camp it broke out in a makeshift market in the early hours of friday morning it has now been brought under control but this is less than 2 weeks after that huge fine nearby which destroyed thousands of tents and killed at least 15 people and still in bangladesh protests against police brutality after demonstrations last week at least 11 people were killed in those rallies during the visit of the indian prime minister narendra modi tundra chantry was at those demonstrations in dhaka. thousands of people gathered in front of i can look out on the largest mosque in the country most of the supporters from have fathered a slimy and other really just party there demanding the release of their fellow

party men who are detained by police and also to bring justice to those killed by police firing in recent violence 5 there have been leftist party have been protesting against these visit in bangladesh in the last several weeks actually on sunday several people were killed and shut down all across the country following days there was also violence on the opposition brought out at a rally. the government said they have to crack down because they have to quell the violence many buses and trucks right by many properties where the rights group have criticised the government on cracking down on descending guys there's no room for freedom of expression there's a digital security act which cartels any kind of expression in the social media mainstream media they also say the police have been using heavy handed tactics to quell any kind of legitimate protest in the country in recent years. coming up to

the top of the hour on al-jazeera 1700 hours g.m.t. plenty more news coming for you including the latest from the direction of a trial which has now been adjourned in minneapolis. it's time for the perfect gentlemen to when sponsored point qatar airways how i once again welcome to look at the international full cost lovely week for japan largely fine in trial weather calm winds but that's about to change we've got some what's a weather making its way towards the korean peninsula easing over tools to paris we go on through the weekend and also what's a weather to just coming out to central and eastern parts of china was so shaky with this weather system which will make its way out into the open waters there's that cloud or may moving across the yellow sea some very heavy downpours coming in i think particularly for south korea we could see some localized flooding in make

the most of that fine day on saturday in japan because it does go downhill for sunday and also it's easter monday so some western weather coming through 20 celsius in tokyo shelter for a good part of the day by the mountain so not bad but that right will eventually make its way through bright skies come back in behind a fresh well the wind just coming in across the korean peninsula and we'll see a lot she try to across a good part of northern china central areas too badly either not too bad too across the philippines lotty dry here want to say showers into southern parts sweater weather coming back into indonesia and some wet weather to up towards thailand just pushing out into the andaman sea some very heavy rain here and the fine and dry. spots of qatar airways the u.s. is always of interest the people all around the world this is been going on for a number of hours with tear gas being deployed. to report so different than i

expected to try to bring your mobile audience why it's important how did it impact their life at the height of the storm or what they would do a high would you know about my this isn't. the people pick a little now does it is very good to bring in the news to the world from here. you know your view that use of force during that time. totally unnecessary went to day 5 of terror trial for the murder of children floyd in the most senior officer in the minneapolis police says he saw no reason that officers would think their lives are at risk. hello again i'm come all santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera.