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a principle. you could. feel. a city in myanmar turns into a battleground between all the protesters and security forces as the ruling generals hint at extending the one year state of emergency. the 1st week of talks to revive the iran nuclear deal wrap up in time from to mounting the u.s. removes its sanctions. and a push for a lockdown in germany to deal with a wising number of covert 19 infections and to relieve its overbook and health care system. prince philip the husband of reigning british monarch queen elizabeth has died he was 99 years old flags of buckingham palace are flying at half staff but while family has entered an official mourning period. it's also known by his title that

phillip spent more than 70 years at the queen's side the royal family issued this statement a few hours ago it said it is with deep sorrow that her majesty the queen as allows the death of her beloved husband his royal highness prince philip duke of edinburgh as well highness passed away peacefully this morning at windsor castle al-jazeera as rory challen the reports. he was by his side throughout the longest reign of a monarch in british history prince philip you could read into it wasn't only a marriage but the life of service to his wife queen elizabeth the 2nd born into greek cannes danish royalty philip had a lonely childhood he was taken under the wing of the british aristocracy when he married her then princess elizabeth in 1947 he was a promising young naval officer. it was a fairytale wedding for

a country emerging from war and hardship. it's all change for the young couple when elizabeth sparta king george the 6th died at only 56 years of age she became queen and philip in the words of his private secretary looked as if the world had fallen down on him his naval career ended along with his independence prince philip was sort of forced into making huge sacrifices he was very much a man's man not someone who was going to naturally fall into the position of playing 2nd fiddle and walking 2 paces behind his wife and calling how ma'am in public and so on and so began life in the queen's shadow hundreds of engagements a year he did however manage to find time for his own charities helping young people and conserving wildlife very energetic a problem solver a sort of scientific cast of mind so there is a sort of you know on the positive side the attributes that people admired

sometimes you know his hit his detractors would would would say that you know some of his forthrightness could come across as rudeness philip had a reputation for embarrassing politically incorrect remarks whether he was being rude about the chinese or indians or swearing at photographers who kept him waiting too long often a sideshow to formal occasions yet even though an air of racism hung over him the story royalist u.k. media generally forgave him he was certainly given a much easier ride than politicians politicians who tend to make a racist or an offensive remark in this day and age tend to have to apologize a couple of days later because so much pressure on them but i never know prince philip to apologize for mark and i remember once he won it over after i said to an aboriginal leader do you still throw space at each other and i saw him do this in australia in 2002 and the next day he came over it made front pages all over the world and he just wandered over. you got no sense of humor the complete absence of

humor so he was going to apologize. his retirement from public duties came in 2017 with a sendoff from the royal marines. his 60 years of public service was admired by many people while their marriage was said to have had its ups and downs in the couple's younger years prince philip remained dedicated and supportive to the queen chill receive immense sympathy from a british public known to view her with respect and affection. and palace in london many people today paying tribute to the. unless the queen and country. yeah absolutely i mean this was a man who married his partner in 1947 and he was 99

years old when he died that is a huge number of years of dedication to not only marriage but also his position as one of the pillars of one of the most important institutions of the united kingdom not just the united kingdom of course but the commonwealth countries australia new zealand cetera around the world so this is a man who has lived pretty much in the tire at sea of his adult life in the public glare but of a particular type because as we were explaining in that report there he was essentially a man who was destined to play as soon as he took out of our marriage destined to play 2nd fiddle to his more important wife now as to what the country thinks about philip and his passing well you know there are parts of the u.k. of course which are anti the monarchy or indifference to it many young people are indifferent so it's the left wing press is different indifference to it. there are

you know in those circles his death will be viewed i think no more or less important than the death of any other 99 year old man but there are big portions of u.k. society the conservative more right wing media there is you know a whole horse whole cohort of older people for those he is an important man and they will mourn his passing and of course there's the establishment view as well which you can hear now expressed by cross johnson. prince philip the affection of generations here in the united kingdom across the commonwealth and around the world . he was the longest serving consort in history one of the last surviving people in this country to have served in the 2nd world war a cape mattapan where he was mentioned in dispatches for bravery and in the invasion of sicily where he saved his ship by his quick thinking and from that

conflict he took an ethic of service that he applied throughout the unprecedented changes of the post-war era. like the expert carriage driver that he was he helped to steer the royal family and the monarchy so the remains an institution indisputably vital to the balance and happiness of our national life. were in plans for royal funerals and made the year a years in advance no amount of planning that could have anticipated the current coronavirus pandemic how then will prince philip's death be mocked. well this is a big question and certainly as you refer to there the years of planning that may have gone into the plan a wedding will have to be ripped up because covert means that u.k. restrictions of the moment on funerals dictate that there is

a 30 person maximum number of people who can attend any funeral so there is a plan b. in effect we don't know exactly what the details of that are but we certainly know that there will be no state funeral there will be no lying in state there will be no crowds lining the streets as a coffin is paraded down the streets on a horse drawn carriage things will be much more muted much more personal. situated at windsor castle this much has been announced by the royal family so far we know that the queen is going to go into a period of mourning is in a period of mourning the loss of 8 days during which most government action ceases there will be no royal assent granted to bills or anything like that for a month after that she will be doing her duty. privately and away from public gaze you can see that the flags at half mast on buckingham palace behind me

flags will be. around the country official flags that is until the day after the funeral whenever that is and what it whatever form it takes. culture there as for a challenge reporting live from buckingham palace in london rory many thanks indeed but speak to royal biographer christopher was joins us live from court in the united kingdom good to have you with us your thoughts on the passing of the duke of today well of course. i think that it is true that a proportion of the nation will continue their lives are affected by it he was an old man and not everybody subscribes to the idea of the royal family but i think one point which has really made just yet is that long ago he made the decision the new one state funeral home now it's very interesting because the last 2 concert that's to say not somebody born of the world love but actually married in

the royal family the last 2 concerts that die the queen mother and princess diana both had a state funeral and in fact if you look back further in the 20th century queen mary was married to king george the 5th and queen alexandra whose marriage to the 7th also had a big state funeral so every concert really in the 20th century have you know the full works but prince philip long ago made the decision that he wanted to go back 160 years to the death of prince albert the last male prince consort and have exactly the same kind of young but he did which was a very small lukey of a sudden george's windsor there was never i think in his mind a knee idea that he wanted syria ranks of troops marching around the streets he wanted to go quietly to what extent was prince philip the duke of edinburgh the

driving force behind the morton british monarchy. i think you shaped the monarchy in the days immediately after the death of king george the 6 there was no guard that surrounded the sovereign the people who protected him and also forged if you like the the daily life of the court but they were old they were funny daddy and they were stuck in a way is and philip recognized having come himself from a country which you kicked its royal family out because of it and you dilute in ways realize that things had to change and so he sell about getting the wrong sheen by the scruff of the neck and of course it made enemy is within the court it made people suspicious of him outside the court lots of people thought he was under the influence of verbal mountbatten his uncle who was trying to pull the strings of the queen so. he was on a no win situation he was never going to be

a popular figure straight away but he was determined having seen what happened to the greek row family that it wouldn't happen in britain he would not nies he would shape things he would discipline the royal family and keep it on the straight and narrow as you said he was the queen's connoisseur's a woman married to a monarch is able to acquire the title queen he could never be king though because he was not of royal blood do you think that mattered to him was he just not impressed by by by titles such as that. well of course he wasn't royal blood he was a prince of denmark and greece but because he peed born into the royal system he knew how it worked and if you are if you marry a sovereign which is effectively what he did you know that you're going to walk 2 paces behind your wife and he signed up for that pretty early on he recognized that

this was his role in life and as it turned out he'd have very good. how will the british monarchy change now that he has passed away. well i think it's changing already i think that we've seen the decline of his influence over the last 10 years and you know some people see the british royal family now in a state of chaos not the queen but in the generations beneath her and there is a concern that without the magical hole which philip had over his family for many years things may start to disintegrate you can't see in prince charles the same iron grip on the family that his father did and it seems to be a masculine thing. the queen will continue to do what she does but what she does is constitutional stuff she doesn't do family stuff now without fear of them i think

that we are going to see a period of flux there will be a period of weakness but they have. an extraordinary capacity to bounce back it's been really good talking so many thanks again for being with us for a biographer christopher wilson speaking from court in the u.k. . this is the news hour from al-jazeera still to come on the program we'll bring you special extended coverage of the trial of a man accused of murdering a georgia florida forensic pathologist is speaking right now on the course of his death a crucial part of the case against. the foster u.k. organize a virtual meeting of the u.n. security council others is happening right now to discuss the situation and me on law a meeting is intended as a platform for voices from inside the country to brief security council members on

their view of developments since the coup in february in the 2 months since the top mentor late coup prevented the democratically elected assembly from forming on the 1st of february nearly 600 protesters have been killed and 3000 people detained the military's violence against peaceful protesters is becoming increasingly systematic lethal and widespread in the ethnic states there is renewed conflict including military air strikes leaving justin's day and thousands displaced in this important in my life. and. i'm his military forces. also know as. my fellow.

without any due process rights this includes every day of this session the military. force not the nations. that will let. our diplomatic editor transposes been following this meeting he joins us now live from the united nations james bring us up to speed with what's been happening. well what this is is not a security council meeting in a formal sense the security council has met 3 times with regard to me on martin put out 3 statements but the military has continued its killing despite those statements the security council hasn't though had an open meeting where we could see everything and where they could call people to speak to them particularly those who could give some testimony of what's actually happening on the ground that's because under the rules of the security council if there's

a closed meeting then it's only people in the u.n. system who are allowed to address the meeting and so because some countries notably china and russia don't want to know been meeting the u.k. have called an informal meeting of the security council what's known as an aria meeting to get all of this into the open so you heard the u.k. ambassador she called the meeting backed by the other european nations on security council and also the u.s. and we heard a short time ago from linda thomas greenfield who is the u.s. ambassador to the united nations saying that the u.s. stands strongly on the side of democracy and with the people who are on the streets in myanmar the problem with statements like that is they're not able to demonstrate that in terms of the will of the security council yes they've got 3 statements out there but the idea of any tougher action particularly sanctions or an arms embargo seems for now to be a step too far for some members of the security council notably russia and

china but others as well and i'm being told by most security council members i speak to that really the place to look for any diplomatic progress right now is the assy and countries there is talk of an assay and summit leaders of the asset nations coming together and i mean told by diplomats that could happen within the next 2 weeks and the security council hoping that as seann squat style of diplomacy might finally get through to the generals that the course they're on at the moment is one that's not going to really lead anywhere or a chance many thanks indeed i was there as diplomatic editor james bay is reporting live from the u.n. in new york many thanks. the u.n. envoy for me on mas rived in bangkok with hopes of talking to the ruling generals who are refusing to meet her on thursday the u.s. imposed sanctions on the mainstay turned gem company that's an important source of income for the generals meanwhile there are reports of tense fighting in the

country the security forces crackdown on protesters the young rescue workers say that at least 4 people were killed in the southern city of go but local media reports say the death toll could be higher rights groups of recorded $614.00 civilian deaths since the military took power in the coup at the start of february the armed forces also imposed new internet restrictions and the military has also pushed back its promise to hold an election within a year i'm going to go at the moment. with state of emergency most are you over within 2 years and the elections must be held within 2 years we must hold elections and transfer power to the winning party in the election. as to what our special coverage of the director of in murder trial of former police officer a key is accused of murdering george floyd by nailing on his neck for more than 9 minutes the court is now hearing from dr lindsay thomas

a forensic pathologist she's an expert on areas where medicine and law overlap let's listen. we appear to be at one of those moments in the proceedings where the judge is clarifying your legal points with the prosecution and the defense. our correspondent alan fisher is standing by for us in minneapolis and will be able to bring us up to speed in a few moments with what we've missed because this session. of the trial has been going on for about about an hour now day 10 all of this the trial all

derek show of anybody. let's go then to bring in alan fisher who's in minneapolis alan you've been listening to what's what's been happening so far today what are we missed. the key point the came over from lindsay thomas was that she said george ford's death was caused by the actions of law enforcement certainly on the death certificate they mentioned things like there had been some drugs taken he also had an underlying heart condition she absolutely ruled goes out as cause of death saying no was not the cause here what killed george floyd was the compressions that was put in his body eventually he had no all left in the body there for the brain and then the heart field as she's explaining how death certificate so drawn up so that they can track illnesses across the country for public health experts and so if someone mentions the fact that there was drug use it doesn't necessarily mean

that was the key issue she essentially saying that the pulmonary failure was a starting point that's interesting that she's been called because she's essentially that the person who trained the medical examiner who carried out the autopsy and of course when the autopsy mentioned forcible drug use that gave the defense a line of attack it gave them a chance to say it wasn't what the police did drugs was a significant part of that so she's explaining the process of how the medical examination is carried out and why certain things are put into the death certificate and some things like a lack of oxygen in the body are left out so that is why she has been given evidence and that is what she has been seeing certainly what is key though is the fight that she said methamphetamine any type of drug overdose was not the cause of death for george boyd it was the actions of law enforcement all right allan we'll be back with you again a little later let's go back then to the courtroom and listen to the testimony of

dr lindsay thomas forensic pathologist. tearing out yes yes that is. the left cheek and the law. forehead and you can see for example above the left eyebrow and there's a dark area that's a dried scrape as well as there's a little bit of discoloration of the skin so that also there was a bruise there and then on his left cheek you can see the dark area as well as kind of a lighter ornge pink area and those are again scrapes the dark area is where a scrape has dried. and what does that tell you about the the causal mechanism of his death it's consistent with the impression from watching the video that his face was on the ground and he was

moving his face in an effort to get into a position where he could breathe. let's look at exhibit 188. this is a photograph of mr floyd's left shoulder. you know what what we see here this again is in the area of scrapes and it indicates that there was some force between his shoulder and some rough surface in this case the ground and again is consistent with what it looks like on the video that he's struggling to push himself into a position where he can breathe. let's look at exhibit 187.

this is a photograph of his right shoulder and again you can see there's a little bit of discoloration and then the skin is great so there's less injury impact here and that fits with again what you see in the video of which side was down and. which side had more contact with the ground. let's look at exhibit 189. this is a photograph of mr floyd's left hand and if you look at the base of his hand sort of right over his wrist you can see there's some areas of red discoloration with kind of a pale area in between and that consistent with handcuff marks

you can also see on the. server outer edge there's some white material that stride skin and then it's an area where his skin has actually been rubbed up from the handcuffs. and dr exhibit 190. exhibit 190 is a photograph of his right hand and wrist and again in this case you can see more clearly the sort of the double lined this coloration above his right wrist that's consistent with the handcuff marks and indicates pressure against handcuffs and again and the outer edge can see there's a little bit where it's darker and then there's some white skin so that's an area where it's actually been scraped the skin has actually been scraped by the

handcuffs also and this photograph you can see on the knuckles of his. index finger and middle finger there's some skin that is scraped off and that's consistent with what you can see in the video where he's pushing against i think it's the rim of the car tire or something to try and push his body into a position again where he can breathe. thank you dr thomas you have jurors may put the photographs away if. you. view. how that point of simply. for you to.

get involved with. if you could. tell for. them thank you are so so dr thomas haven't looked at this physical evidence from the autopsy was that evidence. and by itself conclusive. no there are multiple ways that scrapes and bruises can happen it's only useful in the context of what. is seen in the video is. was there any evidence to suggest that mr voight was suffering

from a potentially fatal condition on the evening of may 25th 2020. do you have an opinion to reasonable degree of medical certainty if mr floyd would have died that night had he not been subject to the subdual and restraint of the police there's no evidence to suggest he would have died that night except for the interactions with on force. now where there were there other mechanisms that you felt contributed to this to floyd death yes. could you generally characterize what those were sure so i think a 2nd theory mechanism in this case is what i refer to as physiologic stress and by that i don't mean like the stress oh somebody is a type

a personality and they have a deadline at work and they're just really stressed about it i met talking about that kind of stress i'm talking about the kind of physical stress you feel when you're driving along and all the sudden a car swerves right in front of you and you slam on the brakes and you realize oh my gosh if that it if i hadn't reacted if that happened a 2nd earlier i would have been in a potentially fatal car crash and you can feel your heart race and you kind of you're. and then the car speeds and you slow down and you realize i'm ok everybody in the cars ok and you know you heard. me or i think he even worse you're at the beach and you suddenly realize my toddler i haven't seen my toddler in oh my gosh where's my toddler and that just that rush of adrenaline you get and you feel flushed and you get goosebumps and you're hurt races and you feel short of breath and and then there they are they're getting in ice cream cone and you go.

ok. but it takes you minute for your heart to kind of slow down your blood pressure has flown down and you to be able to breathe take a deep breath and recover yourself so that's the kind of physiologic stress i'm talking about only instead of after a minute 2nd or minute this goes on for minute after minute ever met for 9 minutes where you are terrified. and you can't there's no recovery so it's that kind of fear of life that i'm talking about for physiologic stress are you able to tell us what is one on in the body during the physiologic stress so it's. their reactions are you get chemical release you get adrenaline noradrenaline or epinephrine norepinephrine and those are things that make your heart race your blood pressure go up you.

require more your muscles get ready to act to go run to do whatever you need to do slam on the brakes and so you start. needing more oxygen in your muscles you need to take more breaths you your you need more oxygen for your hurt rate because your heart's beating faster there may be other chemicals that are released whether it's you know stress hormones or cortisol or things like that. there may be. lactic acid that's produced as your muscles you know when you have a heavy workout your muscles get tired and kind of sore it's because there's an increase in life acid and it's your muscles working so all of those physical things those chemical things can cause reactions in the body

that put additional stress primarily on your heart but also on all of your body systems because your body requires your chemistry to be in very fine balance and when there's too much say lactic acid or too much. not enough you know not an ability to compensate for that elevated by a thick acid then all of your body organs will get into trouble. dr do you consider that fused physiological stress are you describing. a direct cause or mechanism of death or has that 2nd year well it it can i guess i would consider it a contributory contributory or contributory to the cause of death. it's another contributing mechanism. and so the direct cause is what and then

the secondary causes what so the there sort of primary mechanism i think is the 6 the secondary low oxygen in the secondary mechanism is physiologic stress but ultimately the cause of death is the subdual restraint compression. so this physiologic stress or physiological stress that we're discussing is that something that can be observed on autopsy you know. and why why is that well it's a chemical reaction it's. increased heart rate which of course we don't see it i see it's increased. chemicals that we don't can't test for it see so none of it is anything that can be seen physically. so it's a functional mechanism yes yes that's a good way of describing is low oxygen then also

a functional mechanism yes. so could you tell us how you felt that the a physiological stress was significant to your conclusion on the cause of us a voicemail. so mr floyd was already in a position where he was experiencing difficulty breathing and getting enough oxygen in his body and on top of that now there's this physiologic stress that's putting increased demand on his heart increased demand on his lungs increased demand on his muscles so all of the things that he's using his muscles his strength his body to try and get himself into a safe position where he can breathe those are being doubly stressed by the

position that he's in as well as the underlying chemical reactions that are going on in his body so it's kind of a double whammy to his heart lungs and muscles and his whole system. so dr thomas i want to show you exhibit 194 again you're out of this been stipulated to subject to foundation are you. first dr thomas. can you tell us what this is. this is a press release that was put out by the hennepin county medical examiner's office at the time they certified the cause and manner of death of mr floyd. is it your understanding that the medical examiner's office generates this type of

a press release report in certain cases yes. so there is a section in the press release report that refers to manner of death yes i think we cannot like that. and we see the word here homicide yes. we saw always see also in here information which on a death certificate. with a press release says also how the injury occurred. and would you read that for the record how entry occurred to see them experience to cardiopulmonary arrest being restrained by law enforcement officers again you agree with that yes. so let me show you what was marked as exhibit 918. and homicide is a manner of death yes. and. which is explained to the jurors

a little bit about what it is medical examiners look to when they're trying to determine matter of that shirt so cause of death which could be anything we only have 5 options for manner of death so a death can be natural meaning that all of the conditions that contribute to the deaf are due to just innate processes could be cancer could be hurt disease something like that 2nd category is an accident and that would be something like a motor vehicle crash or an unintended drug overdose. 3rd category is a suicide which is death at one's own hands with at least probably some element of intent. the 4th category is homicide and that means death at the hands of another and then the 5th category is undetermined and that means generally we

don't have enough information about this type of death to make a determination to fit it into one of the other categories so for example we talked a lot about terminal events early on and in some cases we have no idea what we're going to pull away from the trial for just a few moments to take you back to the informal security council meeting on the on the law organized by the u.k. to give a voice to protest leaders and members of sort of civil society a speaking now cholo tone who's still recognize that man was u.n. ambassador despite speaking out against the coup and then being fired at assessment of. elim for all of the night this important and timely meeting i think the member states with the support of what the people. i also think the brief was for their comprehensive beef on the situation in yuma bees are indeed brief and.

i think minister for pouring. just right you in good piece of this it's receiving your ma. in. the international community i mean be salient points made by a conforming minister dogs in morrow and would like to make some additional points . madam chair. people myanmar and the whole deplored and condemned them young man a levee or its acts of brutality and violence and killing of in a sense a valiant which include as young as 7 years old girl we all can clearly witness. that our systematic and talk of that or there.

have always been a mean to the in the sense. your dart these back to the wall to all of us in this modern world and i strongly believe that the international community in particular the united nations security council will not let this atrocity get going on in myanmar. and can members of the security council and the un secretary general for the support expand it to the people of myanmar that it is necessary to have strong and object actions on the un security council in order to see if lives are in those uncivilly and in myanmar. collective strong action is needed immediately i miss of the essence for us is take action now

but then change information or and look in media as well as social media covers a wide range of utrecht and atrocity committed by and the military at it daily because it. you see a lot of our time i will not repeat them here but i would like to stress that the people of myanmar really happened last boss of the leg educate and strong action around the international community especially the united nations security council seems very very 2021 more than 600 civilly and have been killed by the military if you wait a day more. the military will kid more people where to commit moral ukra act and world war 2 are more people. who will again.

take the strongest possible action without the delhi who all means necessary and available and then share the free for all this namely the people especially our young people. and risking their own lives to protest against their military their civil servants and people at large who are joining the civil disobedience movement a committee representing the few down. are walking hand in hand and a military beautiful campaign to immediately and going and conditionally release our leaders take counsel of her and stand sujit president women and other and law for detainees who are jammed the state power and the people to restore that democracy

and to create a fairer democratic union in their mouth. on ever at this moment our top top priority is saving lives are in those sensitive aliens and protecting the people of myanmar the military butros act and security human in giving an assistant to the people in need of all on behalf of the people of myanmar i wish to appeal to the international community and the security council has for. action should be immediately extended to the people in your ma from beautiful and inhumane acts committed by the military and military and assistant should be abjectly provided by all means to people in need necessary shettles should leave provided taking into account of the humanitarian got ground to those seeking refuge in

neighboring countries and as. no fly zone should be declared in the living in myanmar to avoid further blessed cost find a military as facts on civil the n.b.a.'s and amber who should be imposed immediately against the military if it or didn't need to and deaf ossetian sanctions should be applying against the military if this mess is and their families and businesses and account associated with the military and their members should be frozen and their financial inflows into their military reggie and it's the schools they should be are immediately or in dire direct investments should be suspended and david time as the democratically elected government is mistral in yemen are. inglese i would like to call on all member states of the united nations

to use all possible means. to realize the above mention be your idea and strongest action is needed now we are of the view that ending the military campaign and the military role in politics and economy where if we if we do finding sustainable solution to the challenges we face with regard to the effective protection and promotion of arrive at the new religious and our other minorities in collusion with ensure saving lives and prevention of human suffering are no worse targets for humankind. will i wish to stress that the international community and the un security council have to responsibility to use all necessary means to protect the people of myanmar

drop atrocities util and inhumane acts committed by the military through collective concrete and unifying action in a timely and decisive manner if will the principle of their responsibility to protect should not be who are un security council is taking action in this regard we were always remember the help and support extended by the international community to the people of myanmar at this difficult time and time in need please please please take action and thank you and in check. thank you what was true motown's who still recognizes me and was u.n. ambassador despite famously speaking out against the coup let's bring in our diplomatic editor james space who's also been listening in to this special

informal security council meeting on james what's your assessment of what we heard . well a strong. plea the very end of that speech from the ambassador as you say he still has his country's seat jaw move torn who was the same man who made that impassioned speech in the u.n. general assembly recently shortly after the coup please please please take action he said and he wants the action from the security council which he says has the responsibility for all this he wants a no fly zone he wants an arms embargo and he wants targeted sanctions the problem is there is no appetite for all the security council to do that and even having this open meeting it is not a formal security council meeting this is a meeting called by the u.k. with the support of the u.s. and the other european countries of members of the security council but it's not formally

a security council meeting because not all the security council wanted an open meeting and notably russia and china came to this meeting at a very low level and said that they didn't support this action of holding this open meeting so even disagreement about whether i have an open meeting or not i think shows you that the idea of sanctions or an arms embargo is going to be a step too far for russia and china and remember in the security council a majority counts but not if you are a veto wielding permanent member you can stop anything so if the rest of the security council if they were to get 9 votes of the 15 on the security council and i think that's a little bit in doubt then china or russia look like it will use their veto and i'm told by some of the western countries that they don't want to put it into it that sort of situation they don't want to force a veto that would put them in the same sort of situation logjam that they are on issues like syria and so they are hoping for kwartin incremental progress and

they're hoping that might come not from the u.n. but from the assy own countries what i'm hearing is. there's talk of an ass in leaders summits remember the generals would attend that albie off which is an awesome member and i'm told that could happen within the next 2 weeks changed many thanks indeed that's diplomatic at us said james bays reporting live there from the u.n. we broke away from the that the derek show in murder trial the former police officer who's accused of murdering george floyd's the court when we broke away was hearing testimony from dr lindsay thomas a forensic pathologist an expert on areas where medicine and law overlap the court is now in recess the taking regular mid-morning break in minneapolis and we'll go back to it live when the court resumes session in the meantime let's speak to mary frances berry who is

a professor of american social force and professor at the history of the university of pennsylvania she joins us now live via skype from nashville tennessee good to have you with us professor what are your thoughts thank you what are your thoughts on the case that the prosecution is building in this trial. well there are 2 points that i want to make sure i make and the 1st is that the prosecution is deliberately and going along with all kinds of experts of various kinds try to reinforce the idea that that george forward was killed by the police but bit me on the neck by the bullet hit behavior of the police and lost oxygen and bet 'd that that whatever else happened where the drugs were found whether he had taken drugs or not or whatever else had gone on that this is where the coal probability lives and at the same time in the cross-examination which has

been very intense mr nelson is trying to show that any other factors whether it was drugs or the crowd or whatever that undermines the experts and they have been so many of them the police are rich and the guy who was an expert on the respiratory of function and now today the medical examiner and the like and they all agree about the cause of death that it was at the hands of the police so we'll see this going back and forth the 2nd point i want to make is on the edges of this mr nelson is presenting something that in the history of these cases the defense does all the time pretends that they are just a sole attorney just sort of like david and goliath out there fighting against big government and all these lawyers that come in from the other side you talked to yesterday about how he's getting exhausted because he has to keep talking talking point thing when in fact the jury may be impressed by that but he has

12 lawyers who are working on this case with him that are funded by the police union and the police union has announced publicly that they're spending a $1000000.12 boyer's but that the way they want to present this is to have. him in court as a single tear elice guy standing up to the police but there is finally one of their point this really is about george floyd and a shell to him but it is also about policing it is about people who still believe after all these years so many years that policing should be harsh police and we should stand with the police no matter what and that they don't worry about escalating whatever the circumstances are you heard a lot of talk about the escalation and other police officers who talk here when they test who believe all around the country that deescalation trying to prevent harm that that's the way police officers should function and so we have

a sort of battle of idiology behavior going on here in addition to what you see in the test about it is likely to continue this way with the met of all of the prosecutor's case reinforcement and then with mr nelson coming in and trying to undermine it as he should as a defense attorney each one of the experts professor it's been really good still trying to you've been waiting of course some time to want to speak to us but really appreciate your time many thanks indeed that's a mary frances berry that all right speaking from nashville tennessee you very much on a sister around of talks revival on bond 2015 u.k. agreement between iran and war powers have ended in vienna or sides have agreed to resume negotiations on wednesday next week president joe biden says that he's ready to lift sanctions and revise donald trump's decision to pull out of the deal in 2018 but 1st washington wants iran to return to the full limits imposed on its

nuclear program the iranian president says the negotiations are on the right track . and iran's foreign minister has tweeted saying that iran proposes a logical path to full j c p o a compliance which the us course the crisis and should return to full compliance 1st iran will reciprocate following rapid verification all trump sanctions war and t.j. c.p.o. a must be removed without distinction between arbitrary designations jodi's health minister is calling for a nationwide lockdown after a surge in corona virus infections and sponsors that the measure should last for as long as a month he also wants night time curfews intensive care units across germany filling up fast there are concerns that if it continues it may overwhelm the country's health system stephanie decker is in berlin and says that germany is grappling with how to handle the outbreak. numbers have been steadily increasing and there's

really no uniform decision or policy when it comes to lockdown of course germany is ruled by decentralized federal system so you have 16 states they're all in charge of their own health system so what we've been seeing out of her exam just to remind you i'm going to mark old school for a strict lockdown over easter while she went back on that 24 hours later apologizing to the german public so what you have right now is a situation where there is no uniform lockdown decisions people are frustrated even speaking to germans who will tell you that nothing is clear one day they say one thing next day they say the next so this is now what's being debated and i think interestingly merkel was supposed to be meeting with the leaders of the 16 states on monday that's been postponed however there does seem to be agreement that perhaps the central government will be given more powers when it comes to imposing lockdown rules on the states if the numbers of corona virus infections go over a certain number that is going to be put to the cabinet on tuesday but certainly the bigger picture here is one of very typical control over what is an increasingly

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