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president joe biden prepares to unveil his plans to reform america's gun malls. and the show must go on musicians in berlin find creative ways to reach their audience during the pandemic. the as. we begin in myanmar where the military has stepped up its campaign against critics calling for a return to democracy both at home and abroad as former ambassador to the u.k. says he's been locked out of the embassy in london or the military generals who farts him he appeared with the spokesman earlier who urged the british government to take action. p.s. . prove it that you get government where continue to the most their rejection of

the as a lawful. military regime and that the both of those working to bring democracy in yemen. he trying to go in the middle ground but there is no doubt which is the right side the military county has been nearly 600 people including 40 children. they have adept at doing the detained. 1000 the united nation reporter for human rights. didn't mind that their action likely to meet the league and death for the prying again woman that. the u.k.'s foreign minister has condemned what he described as the bullying actions of myanmar as military leaders dominic robb called for an end to the coup in the appalling violence in the end maher well inside the country the military has widened its cracks and there are reports 11 more protesters were killed in clashes with security forces and a leading actor colin who backs the process was reportedly detained earlier this

week the jinsa put 120 celebrities on a wanted list well earlier the ambassador appeared again outside the embassy was questioned speier correspondence. what is it you'd like the british government to be educated over the goal to allocate them out yeah. well join a whole has more now from outside the embassy in london. just a few moments ago outside the embassy building there there was a very noisy protest going on 50 to 100 people shouting slogans calling for the release of political prisoners and the democratic leaders in myanmar there's no doubt on their behalf who the appropriate diplomatic representatives of that government chose from in the man who was locked out of the building last night in what he described last night as a mini coup on the streets of london of course that these disputed me and among the

military authorities themselves he was here a short while ago the ambassador a former ambassador depending how you look at it he answered a few of my shouted questions to him very briefly take a listen to what is it just like the british government to do just. open the door i'll. take them out yeah yeah. so george i mean they're making it very clear that what he wants is for the british government to intervene here unlock the doors of his embassy and expel those inside who went against him on wednesday night specifically the deputy ambassador we understand and the military tash a who. told us earlier is the person now dispensing orders inside the building and we saw him earlier as well trying to right here trying to get out of his vehicle a black car with blacked out windows it was immediately set on by the protesters he couldn't get out of his carney out to drive away well florence louis is

monitoring developments within the m.-r. from kuala lumpur malaysia she says the arrests of high profile individuals as not discourage protests is from continuing their rallies against the military genter. tacan is the latest public figure to be detained by security forces his family members said he was taken away in the early hours of thursday morning security forces had entered their family home and they don't know where he's being held he's a well known actor know not just in myanmar but also in neighboring thailand now and a couple of days ago security forces also a rested a well known comedian zangana who is famous for being politically outspoken he was critical of the military june term military authorities even when they were running the country up till the democratic transition in 2010 and he's been arrested several times before and he is now back in behind bars again now on the tactic i suppose is to strike fear in the hearts of protesters to show that no one is safe

from rescue a public figure status is not going to protect you but that hasn't been enough to deter people from coming out on the streets to protest against the military coup we're seeing that again on thursday now protests in myanmar across towns and cities in the country they are now into the month and we're also hearing that these civilians the protests is announce some of them are beginning to fight back local media reports are saying that in the town of tarzi protesters were fighting back using hunting rifles firebombs knives and at least 11 people were killed in fighting continued into the early hours of thursday morning. and the humanitarian crisis is a merging in areas bordering myanmar and thailand's thousands of people have recently fled airstrikes in korea and states there are reports of schools and homes being destroyed when state clashes with reports is between the army and fighters from the korean national liberation army the karen hughes been a vocal opponents of the jinsa will soften be is the spokesman of the korean peace

support network he's in myanmar as currencies and says the displaced people there need immediate sumanda tyrian assistance. april all this market there's not been any jet fighters fly over the kenya territory but we have seen a lot of drones continue to surveillance the areas and right now we have more than 30000 internally displaced people are hiding in the jungle because they don't know where the jet fighters are coming again and they don't know where and when they go to drop the bombs again so disturbing this more than 20000 internally displaced people is currently needs humanitarian effect and tiring and has. put a very restricted border accept social material aspects that come in from thailand to cranston it is very much and the control of thai authorities and we have not

see a. human to accept being alone by the tired already much so these people need immediate human hair x.x. right now and we are requesting thai authorities as well to launch me to access to these people and then eat the jelly fighters are coming again and continue to drop bombs in this area and who also requires the thai government to allow them to take refuge in parasite actually and in another territory of care and you have not right in the territory of where the bombings right now i mean in the previous week but 1 we have also see the jet fighters are flying over in the turkey when i was there right now so the situation of whether they will be that they were born again is not we do not know that so we have to be very cautious about. that just right just by

over our head so we have seen a lot of people are now digging burqas and at night time they cannot sleep in the village but they are sleeping in the bunkers in there in the forest. health workers around the world say vaccines are our best bet it's of the coronavirus pandemic but shortages and delays have hurt vaccination drives in many countries around the world in africa the world health organization says more than a 1000000000 people are on the margins and have urged for an equal distribution to stop future variance from emerging bucks in asian is a lifesaving tool in the response to the pandemic and 100 days into the year and also more than $600000000.00 in those it is to be the globally africa has that minutes that only 20 percent more than $1000000000.00 africans remain on the margins of business during march to end the pandemic african countries like ghana

go on and on will have delivered is the difficult proportion of their vaccines within a short space of time and some of the success that includes training was in advanced simulation exercises realistic. and communicating early with communities meanwhile the african union says it's drops plans to buy astra zeneca shots from india and says it will switch to johnson and johnson instead the head of the africa centers for disease control says it's not speakers of concerns but a potential and extremely rare link supplant quotes the serum institute of india will still supply astra zeneca vaccines the african nations to the kovacs global vaccine sharing facility but there's the problem of press information the head of the africa centers for disease control and prevention says fighting vats remains a priority. i think it's a strong wish from the africa c.d.c.

to continue to encourage african countries to take up the vaccines quickly because the i will no longer work quickly because without that snitching quickly then we would not be winning the battle against 19 i think that is really my message to all of us that it's a collective effort it's a collective responsibility and collective accountability that will be able to rule our vaccinations across all member states remember vaccines because that's nation it was an economy. the c.d.c. director also spoke a it's about a sounds just anika and concerns over those potential links to blood clots catherine saw tells us more. he did say that they still recommend that african countries continue using this vaccine because. benefits greatly outweigh the risks and it's important to note that most of the african countries are using

astra zeneca then the issue of this shift from procuring astra zeneca from the seram instituted in india to johnson and johnson came up and he said that last week the african union signed a deal with johnson and johnson to secure a 400000000 doses of vaccine in the 3rd quarter of the year but he said this is in no way linked to the concerns in the problems that are being seen with astra zeneca he said that the program is that ika vaccines will still continue being distributed on the continent through the call of the program but what is happening is that the african union wants to. secure more and more scenes from different quarters wants to sign more bilateral deals

because this is all complimentary he says that they want to get in as many vaccines as possible on the continent so that as many people as possible can get vaccinated and even if there are some success stories here in africa the vaccination drive is still very low and they want to change that. for the 3rd day in a rule iran has a new coronavirus infection records at least 22000 cases were reported on thursday the country is grappling with a huge spike in cases after the persian new year holiday the health minister has ordered all non-essential shops in the capital and other major cities to cool iran has no 2000000 cases 64000 deaths. here's president joe biden will reveal his 1st steps to curbing gun violence on 1st say mason shootings have put pressure on the administration to tighten laws the president says congress must ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines and

repeal gun benefactress immunity from liability amongst other measures in the meantime he'll take other actions via executive order let's familiarize ourselves with some of the terminology that will be used some actions will in to stop the spread of so-called ghost guns these are weapons that come in kits without serial numbers can be assembled at home armed braces will be restricted as well know they're commonly used to steady a ar 15 style pistols that can be attached to weapons with shorts or barrels to legally make them pistols and thus subject to fewer regulations red flag laws will also be promoted nationwide's these laws and pair of judges to temporarily confiscate far arms from people who are determined to be a threat to themselves or others a speaker it's our white house correspondent kimberly she joins us live from

washington d.c. a care bill is still waiting on that announcement but any step toward gun control in the u.s. is fiendishly difficult so the administration is expecting to make any sort of breakthrough this time round. well given the fact that there are so many in the united states that cling to what's known as the 2nd amendment or the right to bear arms this is a challenge for the president but he has been under increasing pressure as a result of recent mass shootings in colorado as well as the state of georgia and as a result will see the president very shortly in the rose garden alongside his vice president and also his attorney general unveiling a series of executive actions some that you've outlined in addition there were also be an investment in urban communities that have been plagued by gun violence cities like washington d.c. los angeles even chicago so these investments in the communities will try to curb before an accident happens now as you point out

a lot of these are controversial so too is the appointment of a man by the name of david chipman that the president will also be announcing to head up the a.t.f. for alcohol tobacco firearms division in the united states that's an agency that oversees and be enforcing a lot of these things that the president is putting forward as executive actions but the reason that this is controversial is not only because he's a former federal agent but because more recently he has been a gun control advocate and activist so that is certainly going to make many who support the right to bear arms and happy now in the midst of all of this the president taking these executive actions because congress has not been able to agree on any sort of gun control legislation for years in fact when joe biden was a senator the assault weapons ban which many gun control advocates are really looking for was put in place back in 1904 it was allowed to expire 10 years later and since then there has been a lot of conservative money advocates who say more is needed so this is the

president's 1st step and he's hinted that there may be more to come. live from the white house thank you kimberly. i. well let's resume our special coverage of dark surance murder trial my the courts in minneapolis has just resumes for the day let's listen and. there is a residual lack of objection that any foundation is based on the state's representation that they will call got to be correct or correct this work well the state is going to call their computer you're trying to i think you're all right anything else for the record before bring back the jury are really my computer more than. oh well they've just taken

a short break the hacker have told you away from the trial while they take that quick break that's a trial of former many apples derek chauvin is set to resume shortly no for those keeping count this is though the 2nd week of witness testimony as prosecutors where there a case. of murder george for aids and healing on his neck for more than 9 minutes now let's see if we can cross to a correspondent alan fischer now he joins us from outside the courthouse allan you've been following that trial for us in minneapolis what's. the use so far more will you be looking out for when proceedings resume. but i think we're going to hear from a lot more expert witnesses and they're going to discuss george floyd's alleged drug use certainly that's something that the defense wants to drill down on because of course their argument is that george floyd died not because of the actions the

daily show them but because he's taken drugs and was in distress because of that though there's a question about whether or not very sure we should have recognized that and started treatment sooner but the defense is trying to say look there is no direct link between the death of george floyd and what the issue of and so we're going to hear a lot more from expert witnesses we certainly heard from them. we had from the the use of force expert for the inspector general's office with l.a.p.d. and he insisted that what derrick shove and did was a use of lethal force that he continued to lay on george floyd with his body weight much longer than he had too much longer than a period after george floyd was compliant with the police and there is the question then of positional asphyxia which is whether or not just by holding someone in that position on their face on the ground with a significant weight either on their neck on their back. on their shoulders that

stops the moving therefore makes it much more difficult to breathe which the prosecution say happened to george floyd he couldn't breathe he had a heart attack and they don't like that directly to what we're also going to hear today perhaps the judge ruling on whether or not a gentleman by the name of morris hills will give evidence to the court know he was with george ok the store where he allegedly passed this counterfeit $20.00 bill and so the judge will decide whether or not he can answer questions he is reluctant because he thinks it could put him in legal jeopardy ok alan sorry to cut you off they have not returned a witness has been sworn in so i said to back into those courtroom proceedings say and i lied and so the court has to go. as part of. the morning dr toben good morning mr blackwell would you tell us what your current employment i am a physician in. paramedic. and whereabouts in

chicago at hinds v.a. hospital or university medical school and is hines v.a. hospital a large facility. the largest fear a hospital in the country or the it's now been superseded by others and you specialize in home analogy i specialize in paghman ology and being critical care medicine. which you tell the jury what commonality is commonality is the study of the lungs deals with or diseases that affect the risk for a system so long as the chest wall. so what are the various elements components of the respiratory system other than along and just what you mean the response system begins at the nose and the mouth it goes down through the

back of the throat down through the wind pipe out through the pronk tubes and then down at the bottom down to the theatre sayer's air sacs these are the small great like structures at the bottom where all the cas exchange takes place where oxygen gets in and carbon dioxide is removed so this is the system for getting oxygen into the body correct that is the prime purpose for it to get oxygen in now at hinds hospital do you work in the intensive care unit yes i work in the medical intensive care unit and that's considered critical care same as critical care the these words all have the same meat. is critical care different from emergency medicine yes it's very different than emergency medicine emergency medicine is kind of the front door of the hospital that is it 3 area where he is separate out where people need to go

where is the critical care is where you take the very very sickest people. what kind of patients do you see in i.c.u. . in the i.c.u. probably more than half the patients who are quire in mechanical ventilation so they're on a respirator to help them with their breathing then another substantial number will not be on a respirator but their primary problems relates to their lungs so that might make up 70 percent or so and then the remaining patients will have drug overdoses alcohol withdrawal diabetic coma sepsis things like that do you only see the patients in the need of respiratory care once they come into the i.c.u. there are patients i'm the primary care physician for everybody who comes into the i.c.u. . and how long have you been a physician's or been

a physician for. 3 months short of 46 years or 45 years and where did you go to school i went to medical school in dublin ireland and i took my degree there. not that anybody notice the accent but what are you from dublin though i'm not from dublin and from a small village called fresh word in county kilkenny in rural ireland. what degrees do you hold i'm sorry what degrees they hold is the m.b.a. degree which is the irish equivalent of the american mt and then subsequently i got an m.d. to research. are you currently licensed yes i'm licensed in the state of illinois in the past i was licensed in ireland in england in a number of u.s. states but i let them on that because the only place i'm practicing is in illinois

are you board certified board certified in internal medicine parliamentary medicine down critical care medicine. so you still are actively caring for patients yes taking care of patients in the i.c.u. that we can monday i go straight back into the i.c.u. again. how long have you held up positions at loyola university school of medicine i've been at loyola in hinds for 32 years almost. before going to learn to loyola where you are practicing medicine somewhere else i spent 7 years at the university of texas at houston. did you also set up a sleep clinic in houston yes that would have been in the early eighty's so i set up one of the very 1st sleep labs in the united states for evaluating patients

with obstructive sleep apnea so how do you sleep disorders fit within your expertise because this is related began to breathing and the problems with sleep particularly people who snore and the people who snore during the night time they hit their upper airway. and they can totally stop breathing 50600 times a night ensuring that time that ever of oxygen in their blood would go very low and the basic problem in sleep apnea is because the soft palate i mean if you the roof of your mouth is your heart palate and then just if you look in the mirror it's that little piece that's hanging down at the back and that's your stuff in you that jams in against the back of your throat and it gets it clued 500 times a night in somebody who has. and does that kind of research or science or medicine relate to your work in this case yes it's extremely pertinent

to the case of mr floyd because of this the in sleep apnea the problem is at the back of the throat and as we will see in mr floyd the censored problem of where the obstruction is occurring is in the high profile which is again at the back of the throat so it's very it has an awful lot of overlap to patients with sleep apnea or come back to the type of character a little bit. are you also engaged in medical research. i'm sorry are you also engaged in medical research e.s.a. do at been doing medical research since the early eighty's since about 981. what kind of research have you been doing all of my research is related basically to breathing so it is kind of looking at breathing in patients with lung disease

people who have lung disease who walk in the door to the clinic and also patients who are in the i.c.u. and particularly patients who are requiring mechanical ventilation but then i do a lot of research that has absolutely nothing to do in clinical medicine just to know how people breathe. have you offered a textbook on the subject of ventilation yes i authored a large textbook on mechanical ventilation that's caused the principles and practice of mechanical ventilation. so my showing the cover of your textbook here cameron says the support you're referring to and his career. 1500 pages cryptically 980 s. you know. are you familiar with the last at l a n c e t medical journal is that lancet is one of the top medical journals in the world

and does the lancet medical journal refer to this book as the bible on mechanical ventilation yes it has called it that. have you offered other books also yes. we have many i think vision to 8 or 9 other books. and are all related to respiration a respiratory failure crater they're all in different aspects of. their lungs. have you published articles on abstracts also i have roughly how many of those. whose come but i think that it published more than $715.00 probably is something. published in the new england journal of medicine is published there are new england journal of medicine the journal of the american medical association says are those 2 of the most respected medical journals in the world they are per clinical or yes

have you also held editor positions at medical journals yes i was editor in chief of the journal called the american journal of the response critical care medicine so that the premier journal in the world for all along disease it's also the premier journal than the ward for intensive care medicine and it's the official journal of the american thoracic society. have you talked and lectured outside of illinois and or texas yes. generally where. around the world to me that lectured in more than 30 different countries around the world and probably the best majority of states within the united states minnesota is one of the states and guys states about minnesota that you did minutes so it had been in the mayo clinic several times as a lecture. were you given an award from the mayo clinic yes i was given an award.