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filmmakers. i am the voice that works. on al-jazeera. investigating the use of across the globe on. the police shooting of another black man sparks anger in minnesota as the 3rd week of the trial over the killing of george floyd resumes me about. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back t. ball also coming out israel's prime minister says he'll never let iran obtain nuclear weapons just hours after tehran blames israel for an incident at its main
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nuclear facility and vows revenge. excitement across england away shops james and rob's reopened after months of lockdown and an urgent for somalia aid organizations warn of catastrophe because of severe drought and the locust infestation. a cardiologist giving evidence at the trial of derek show vain says the former police officer restrained george floyd in a life threatening manner dr jonathan rich says floyd died of low levels of oxygen because of the way he was held he ruled out other causes like drug use or heart disease chauvin is on trial after he handcuffed and knelt on fois neck for more than 9 minutes. have you formed any opinions in this case to reasonable griot
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medical certainty as to the cause of this of lloyd's there yes they have to tell us your opinion or opinions sure. in this case mr george george floyd died from a cardio pulmonary arrest. it was caused by low oxygen levels in those low oxygen levels were induced by the prone restraint and positional asphyxiation that he was subjected to. john hendren is following the trial for us and joins us now live from minneapolis so john week 3 and day 11 of the show of a new trial tell us more for us about what the cardiologist said in his testimony. well that was the latest expert testimony from a doctor and you heard it right there he said that george floyd's oxygen starved heart stops beating due to a lack of oxygen and because of that lack saw lack of oxygen in the doctor's words were the need of derek chauvin on the neck of george floyd so the defense is going
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to start its own testimony next in the next coming days we expect the prosecution to wrap up we know that they have a couple other witnesses planned one is a use of force witness the defense argued there are just too many of these people saying the same thing the prosecution said no this is an academic he's going to approach it from a different perspective and the judge said he would allow that testimony but only on limited issues and then we expect what they call a spark of life witness that someone in who here in the state of minnesota under the law here can testify about the power of that person's life and what they meant to the people around them essentially what the loss is in this case of george floyd's life and that's expected to be some dramatic testimony most likely by a family member and there's a lot of speculation that that is how the prosecution will close this case now the judge had decided a couple of things this morning he was asked 1st on that one prosecution witness
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but it was also asked to sequester the jury and the reason for that is there was a shooting overnight in brooklyn center not far from here that caused a lot of social unrest including looting and there was some concern on the part of that offensive that might mean that this jury would be influenced by what happened there their concern perhaps for rioting and looting which also extended here into minneapolis the judge said no that was in an entirely different case and i believe my colleague alan fisher is about to tell you about that case. thank you john thank you very much john well john mentioned that there's been nearby 500 national guard troops have been deployed across minnesota following protests over the death of another black man at the hands of police dante wright's family said he crashed his car after police shot him alan fischer reports. in a city already on edge more kindling to the fire another death of
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a young black man at the hands of the police in minneapolis provoking angry protests and. police stopped 20 you don't want to write for a traffic violation in a statement brooklyn center police said officers pulled him over just before 2 pm and phonte hired and extending arrest warrant these see as they try to arrest him he got back into the car one officer short don't you right who then drove away but hit another vehicle and died at the scene one officer fired a weapon striking the driver of the vehicle continued and eventually crashed. and. medical resources were then deployed to the scene to the people in both the vehicle that was crashed into and the original group. the driver of the vehicle was was deceased his mother was on the phone to him when it all happened bubbling over that way because they died they don't run and then.
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there are those that put the bone down and hung it up and then to break a minute later i called in his girlfriend answered with the passenger in the car and that even sat me she put it on the. driver's side of the lady in their life. people took to the streets to protest the killing. that led to huge numbers of police on the streets and looting of nearby businesses. this playing out just 16 kilometers from where george floyd died back in may when officer derek chauvin was filmed kneeling on his neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds that video spot global protests against police brutality and racism in the united states should finish charged with murder and manslaughter his trial is in its 3rd week in a courthouse ringed with body yours and soldiers from the national guard. 90 police protesters had already been spending recent days rallying in minneapolis during the
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trial. was that there's been a bit of an innocent would have to be the last time that we all kind of got the i know it is easily protest. back and keep taking the like people for no reason. you know mental health problems so this is the way to learn to stand in solidarity ensure that we're not you know with an affair because some of minnesota national guard already deployed for the trial have been sent to brooklyn center. skills enough to do that to vittie said be counseled as a precaution and investigation has been promised the community is water. out to sea the brooklyn center the mini apples. in other world news israel's prime minister says iran is the greatest threat in the middle east and he won't allow it to obtain nuclear capability his comments come as iran branes israel for sabotaging its key nuclear facility tehran describe sunday's incident which knocked out a power grid at natanz as an act of terrorism it happened
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a day after iran and veils new advanced uranium centrifuges. that iran must never possess nuclear weapons my policies prime minister of israel is clear i will never allow iran to obtain the nuclear capability to carry out its genocidal goal of eliminating israel and israel will continue to defend itself against iran's aggression and terrorism harry foster in west jerusalem has more on what the israeli prime minister had to say. what he didn't talk about was the iran nuclear deal that the biden astray ssion has said that it wants to. find a way back towards and that's what these talks in vienna this week being resumed are all about and so he didn't mention that deal at all unlike his defense minister benny gantz obviously of also a very bitter political rival they just fought an election against each other they don't have a shared policy platform but he in his meeting with austin on sunday said that
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israel would work closely with the americans to ensure that any new deal safeguarded israeli security netanyahu who has been speaking very vociferously against any idea of the deal didn't even mention it in public as for austin again there was fairly familiar u.s. language about the injuring nature of the alliance about looking for stability in the region and working together to find enduring peace supporting the efforts of the previous trump administration in terms of achieving more normalization between israel and arab nations in the region but there was no mention by him of iran at all and no mention either by either man specifically about this attack on the enrichment facility at natanz there has been though a report from the news agency here in israel citing an unnamed u.s. official saying that there was no u.s. involvement in that attack pretty wide scale briefing from israeli intelligence
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sources though to the local media that there was israeli involvement. as i've begun in tehran now with the latest on the iranian reaction to the explosion at times. nuclear terrorism is how iran has described this latest incident at its main enrichment facility pointing the finger at israel. what happened in the tons as israel's official have said several times and what we're hearing from different sources it confirms that israel was behind this incident u.s. media said it was an explosive device and not a cyber attack although they quoted an identified intelligence sources they're still very little information out of iran about how the attack was carried out in my view without a doubt this is definitely not a coincidence and one thing you need to remember while it is. israelis the usual suspect in these events over the last few years one must be mindful that there are
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many opponents in many different corners to the resumption of their joint comprehensive plan of action not the least of which is from within iran itself iran is now urging the international atomic energy agency to take action saying get reserves the right to punish the perpetrators of this development comes at an important time as iran prepares to return to vienna for talks negotiations about the 2015 nuclear agreement started last week but in direct talks between the iran and the united states president joe biden says he's willing to risk the deal that was abandoned 3 years ago by his previous as a donald trump that is if iran comes into compliance with the deal there's now been 2 attacks against in the times nuclear facility in the space of a year and israel has also been blamed for the assassination of iran's nuclear scientist and that's why it's attack against in the rain the ship in the red sea this latest incident has get again raise questions about the country's ability to
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protect its facilities iran has always boasted about its nuclear chief and some capabilities leverage it wants to. using negotiations the all the just days ago state television aired a music video promoting its nuclear program but for now it's unclear how much damage has been inflicted and how far back the program has been set aside big al-jazeera there are fewer head on are just there as new york queens itself for fossil fuels we look at why the transition to renewables made cars and emissions rise in the short term and their famous golfing victory hideki matsui yama becomes the 1st japanese man to win and major championship. it's time for the perfect gentleman the weather sponsored point qatar airways
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you may have heard the term by you by you it's the system named spring rains in japan south korea and most of china and this is it is basically a frontal system the move is in and out throughout the next few weeks is currently bringing you know to rain to japan at least it will be on tuesday and that is true for southern china where it doesn't hearts a little bit as it disappears from japan the sun comes back at the moment the korean producer is enjoying the sunshine and that's true of all of northern china as temperatures really on the high side for some but about where it should be beijing. for the south i'm pleased to say that east into museums free of actual and forecasts showers the main thrust of the biggest rain is further north and for the recession of the water that separate 10 show cyclonic development one with office you have to watch but stationary it was sumatra the far south a taiwan peninsular malaysia shows seem big and fairly frequent and with
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a slow moving crease in the matter right. south of the bay of bengal there are parts of india that will indeed see showers or even light rain for the next day or so chennai is a case in point light rain is forecast for the northern plains is still hot air quality is not back. to qatar airways. on counting the cost m.r.i. all that is changing the world of vaccines not just because of $93.00 big business and place that are thousands of pixels millions of dollars and not in the bunker bill how can we demystify the world of. helping the costs on al-jazeera. i've been covering all of that narrative for most of my career but no country is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why.
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welcome back a recap of our top stories on algis year a cardiologist giving evidence at the trial of derek children in minneapolis. minneapolis says a former police officer restrained george floyd any life threatening manner dr jonathan ridge says for he died of no oxygen levels because of the way he was held meanwhile 500 national guard troops have been deployed across minnesota after protests over the death of another black man at the hands of police dante wright screeding family told a crowd he was shot by police before driving away in a rush. and in the news israel's prime minister says iran is a greatest threat in the middle east sente won't allow it to obtain nuclear
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capability tehran has blamed israel for sunday's blackout incident at its main tons nuclear site. india has surpassed brazil to become the 2nd most affected country by the coronavirus state recorded nearly 170000 new cases and 900 deaths on sunday but despite that the government is blaming the 2nd wave on people not following govern 1000 guidelines large political and religious gatherings are still being held and as a random reports from new delhi. more than $2000000.00 hindu pilgrims gathered on the banks of the ganges river before immersing themselves in the water on monday the 3 month kamila festival began in state in january it's going ahead this year despite india seeing a rec hold a number of code in 1000 cases and deaths police say they're unable to enforce
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restrictions because of the sheer size of the crowds but. if we try to enforce social distancing an accident or stampede like situation can occur so we're trying to avoid that we're not able to implement social distancing at the banks despite wanting to do so. but elsewhere in the country restrictions such as curfews and we can knock downs are being imposed. the number of cases in india has risen from an average of around 10000 a day in early february to 130000 in the past week promised in that in the more d. and health officials say the rise is because of the severe decline in appropriate actions like wearing masks and social distancing but despite that modi and many other politicians have been holding large rallies in the 5 states where regional elections are underway that need to get me in but it's only going to get up not believe is a holding public rallies to garner support momma to ban
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a g m it shall and the random ot of holding rallies at different places but no one's paying attention to the spread of coronavirus and the death squads to buy it . medical experts say such gatherings should not be allowed to take place we are in a bad shape they're going to. ask us to dorm away so if they're going to dig where . they are not equally bad they're extremely bad because my last line got one had just war crimes are were there are states like the british or be out there john but i want to bring to you 5 banks in one word. as cases rise rapidly many states have also complained of vaccine shortages which the government denies the indian government is running the heart to vaccinate $300000000.00 people in the 1st half of this year with the country clearly in the throes of the 2nd wave of the providing a virus that's drugs that regulatory body is missing on monday to consider emergency
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use approval of the russian made sputnik vaccine elizabeth cronon al-jazeera new delhi. i live a slowly returning to normal in england with non essential services reopening across the country promise restaurants headdresses james shops and a number of other venues have now reopened it's a 2nd stage of the government's road map out of the nationwide coronavirus long down the easing of restrictions comes as a u.k. recorded just 7 deaths on sunday the lowest toll since september challenge has worn the easing of restrictions from brighton. i'm standing in brighton city center in front of prime market which is a chain of fashion clothing stores around the country very popular as you might be able to tell with teenagers and their parents and i'm just going to also the camera mounted all for you here so you can see this q it goes all the shop boy of the streets across the street then all the way down the opposite side of the street
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back onto the main street. down into the distance there so there's obviously a lot of pocket money that's been saved up over the last few months that people are itching to spend and clearly that's good news for the retail sector but all sex is not equal we have good news for say hairdressers which you're talking about absolutely full booking sheets at the moment but when it gets gets to you know the hospitality industry yes there will be celebrations this evening i've got an invitation to go and see some friends in a pub garden right specked i'm not the only one in the country doing that later on today but it's only 2 out of every 5 hospitality venues has some sort of outdoor space so it's an uneven playing field and they're all going to be plenty of. the pubs cafes restaurants that cons reopened as they would like to do but you know this is the kind of step back towards normality for the country boris johnson the
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prime minister urging people if they are out there celebrating or going shopping to behave responsibly. germany's ruling christian democrats have backing their party leader to succeed and going to miracle s. candidate for chancellor in september's elections i mean received the majority of support from leading members at a meeting on monday competition to leave the conservative bronchus years after a cd was found tumbled in the polls over a tanning of the coronavirus pandemic stepping down after more than 16 years as the german chancellor were dusty lager is. we can just see how serious the situation is by looking at yesterday's if tea party congress they made their call to arms against everything that defines our country they deny the pandemic they deny climate change and they want to lead germany out of the european union and we are now announcing that we will bring the fight to the f.t. this party must not have any influence in the politics of this country quite the
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opposite they don't belong in any german parliament and we must do everything we can to take on this fight and this is what i will personally stand for. millions of children and their families are expected to face hunger in somalia in the coming months because of a locust infestation and extreme weather a report from save the children says crop and vegetable production is expected to plunge by up to 80 percent this season livestock sales are the basis of survival for many families that income is said to drop by more than half as animals die and others are no longer fit to sell and milk production is expected to dry up as predicted to shrink by up to 2 feet further exposing children to monetization save the children says $150000000.00 is arrogantly needed to provide nearly $2000000.00 people with food health care education water and sanitation mahmoud to mohamed has signed is the country director for save the children in somalia he says communities are unable to cope with frequent climate disastrous. surely large areas.
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of the surely i did. experience the cutting out however the frequency and severity of climate related disasters that does the drought. floods and look us today shows some increase in somalia in the recent years has been. in the community's ability to cope with. the shocks and also to the caliber amid the stationing 2021 seems to be getting worse as the numbers of children and adults i get in need of assistance based who i think 9000000 a 3rd of the population and an increase of 700000 compared to last year the current humanitarian crisis in the country is that it's a little people effect of climate change conflict and maintain and then make this a wider community has been a struggling with the climate related extreme conditions including recurring
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droughts floods that brought us the swarms with which you had story crops on. but you know listen to that address or show economic impact of course in 1000 households crush of businesses loss of jobs and reduction in that image because this from somebody dies but all these have negatively affected departures in part of the trouble really authorities in the u.s. state of new york a promising to have 70 percent of a electricity come from renewable sources by 2030 as one of the most ambitious clean energy plans in the country christianson only reports. in the heart of new york's it's the legendary bay gallus once the world's largest electric generating unit its owner rise light power now wants to make it the cleanest with plans to build the largest battery facility in the country right here in 2 years a storage facility for renewable energy what are the challenges that you face to
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meet this deadline in terms of c o clint plummer acknowledges it won't be easy our challenge is new york shows it is also the country's challenge in the world challenges how do we transition from a city that's right primarily on fossil fuels for as long as their electricity to one that's. now running on clean energy infrastructure that they make a little more diverse and they're taking their journey of carbon spewing oil and gas fired generators off line to make way for the batteries they'll also need transmission lines to tie into wind and solar farms outside the city but currently renewables make up just 2 percent of downstate energy new york is attempting to women self off of fossil fuels at the same time it's taking another major source of carbon free electricity offline indian point nuclear power plant in 2019 this facility alone was responsible for 13 percent of the state's power. while
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environmentalist long pushed for its closure some are now arguing nuclear power is currently the only carbon free technology able to replace fossil fuels they point out the state is building more natural gas facilities to make up the difference and if you look at the examples of germany and vermont in california there are small studies that have shown that when you get rid of nuclear in general air pollution our carbon emissions actually increase and still others say the switch to renewables has to start happening for new york power to be carbon free by 2040 right now barren technology wind and now so we're going to members. under way to make. less expensive war lawyer and we're more all agree of the need to keep the lights on and a limit fossil fuels mean there must be change on the horizon kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. it's nearly a 100 days until the postponed tokyo m.p.
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games in japan is imposing new restorations against gov $1000.00 all restaurants and businesses in densely populated areas must now close before 8 pm every night large events have been limited to 5000 people the japanese government is doing what it can to prevent outbreaks in the run up to the games meanwhile japan is celebrating its 1st men's major golf champion despite a shaky finish at augusta he hung on to win the masters by one shot david still reports. one of the most famous prizes in sport at the masters green jacket now sits on the shoulders of a deck you might see obama the 1st ever japanese man to win a major goal title pools and remember it's really into think that there are a lot of youngsters in japan watching today hopefully in 5 or 10 years some of them will be competing on the world stage and they can follow in my footsteps. but siana
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started the final round at augusta 4 shots clear but the nerves began to show in the closing stages. but he took shots at the 15th and 16th holes and was in danger of throwing it all the way. but luckily for him despite another bogey at the last his one over par round of $73.00 was enough to secure a famous victory by want a shot the 29 year old without a win on the p.g.a. tour for 4 years was now a major champion in a touching moment on the green his caddie paid his own respects to the famous course i. former masters winners tiger woods and jack nicklaus were among those to congratulate much yama on social media and several players stayed behind to embrace him as he made his way back to the clubhouse. man he was he was something else. like i want to need to play he was like a robot this was. once i never knew all that. he is an awesome choir and.
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this certainly doesn't surprise me. but his victory is big news back home in japan and was well received by some of those making the monday morning finally breaking into that report to take you back to minneapolis in the child off former police officer derek show vein which has resumed for a 3rd week the defense says not cross-examining dr jonathan rich the heart specialist so testified earlier that floyd did not die for me hot. event or drug overdose but that he died from a cardio pulmonary arrest because my levels of oxygen so the defense not questioning the khandala just less listening right if you're an active person you shouldn't have chest pain and if you come to the doctor and say something's not right every time i try to exert myself or i try for it feels like the elephant on the chest is the classic description. so that would be one of many possible ways
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that you would diagnose coronary artery disease in someone who is alive you know also do a stress test sometimes. blocked right coronary artery that can contribute to a fatal arrhythmia. and he anyone can have a fatal arrhythmia with or without coronary artery disease. and so if a blood vessel is blocked and blood is not getting through the vessel what happens well it depends but i would like to answer that for you so in the case of mr floyd what has most likely happened based on our understanding of coronary physiology is precisely because she had a narrowing of up to 90 percent and it had accounts.

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