so we need to find alternative solutions for now people in prying are organizing their old water distribution with the rated site with those inland it will take more than a political will to bring this fragile and parks landscape back to life because hawke al-jazeera so the crews keep heard. hello there this is al jazeera and these are the headlines u.s. health authorities have recommended a pause in the use of the johnson and johnson job as it investigates a few cases of severe blood clotting and a few moments ago as well the company announced it will now delay its rollout in europe. the trial of former police officer charged for killing george floyd is about to resume in minneapolis and that follows another night of protests in minnesota police made multiple arrests as protesters angry over the shooting were

black man to fight a calf you. nato has called on russia to withdraw forces and the alliance says the kremlin has been deploying a ukraine foreign minister is in belgium meeting with nato officials and there's growing concern that the kremlin is moving towards war ukraine says moscow has sent thousands of troops to its northern and eastern borders on the annexed crimea peninsula russia must end this military buildup in and around ukraine stop its provocations on the escalate immediately we do not and will not recognize russia's illegal illegitimate of crimea. we continue to call to end its support for the militants in eastern ukraine and withdraw its forces from ukrainian territory. now the un human rights chief is the situation in myanmar will soon turn into

a full blown conflict much like syria michelle is calling for stronger action against me on those army saying targeted sanctions are not enough protests against february's could have grown across the country despite a military crackdown more than $3000.00 people have now been arrested across several cities and more than $600.00 people have been killed since the coup 3 people including a police officer have been killed in pakistan as protests against the publication in a french magazine of cartoons depicting the prophet mohammed police in islamabad fired tear gas to disperse supporters of a right wing politician saad rizvi of the t.l.p. he was arrested on monday for calling for demonstrations they say the cartoons are blasphemous and want the french ambassador to pakistan expelled well those are the headlines how i will have more news for you here on al-jazeera after the stream stay with us the castors of that kid was reading the communist party since the 1959

got to loosen his power is counted over to be guilty as can old we look at the situation in the country today this is the end of the lead but continuation of the legacy or the beginning of real change in cuba special coverage has rolled past 2 steps down on al-jazeera. ok today on the string we focus on haiti a country that is yet to see a single cow with 19 vaccine some haitians are even struggling to be able to afford covert 19 basic safety precautions. ok let's take the basket and the state government is supposed to give us masks to wear for the corona virus but they don't give us the masks and we don't know where to go and buy them they sell them a too high a price for us to be able to afford it we're poor we can't afford them therefore we

don't wear mascara the movie is the women. meanwhile presence often elmo yeas of haiti is facing some political opposition the economy is struggling and also there's an uptick in gang violence a so much to talk about in haiti right now please help me do that jump into the comment section and be part of today. joining our conversation mr joseph jacqueline gult of pop and jessica nice to see you guessed you for being with us today mr joseph introduce yourself to everybody to you all of what you do. to. the minister of foreign affairs and or she needs jacqueline as for enough friend of the stream she's been on the stream many times welcome back jack and i remind our audience who you are what you do thanks for having me on jacqueline charles some of the caribbean

correspondents at the miami herald but the problem welcome to the stream introduce yourself to a global audience let it be bob director or gives you said jersey border crazy but most of course is the official medicine of the world cornell medical college of new york and jessica good to see you tell asked him what he and what you do. yeah hi my names just go over and journalist and comic are based here in haiti welcome everybody thought about this to start with some very basics how is haiti doing regarding the covert 19 pandemic how many people are sick how many people passed away how are you handling it. well i must tell you that in the world who had a doubt the catastrophe exceeds ration that would have occurred and he did occur. we have in total 2 would have been $52.00 deaths we have about $30.00 and people would be detected but i suspect that this number is virtually 0 or i would

reach you played by 20 because we didn't test every single person we only tested people were symptomatic and who came to our cities but we are not seeing a single wave at this time that we are looking in to right this is happening each fascinating that we are not seeing much cause you to i know we had carnival we had reopened schools we had to open airports and nothing happened so i presume the business of that that we have that we reach the god of color t.v. immunity in the british does about this is so strange as you said i'm just looking here at covert figures for haiti and of course any countries figures are not going to be absolutely accurate as you're not going to be out to test every single person and also there's not a lot of testing going on in haiti anyway but look here a number of cases 12000 deaths to 510 that's extraordinary neighboring next

door to dominican republic they've had 258000 cases a more than 3000 people has done this is something just that you have looked into what siri do you have. so i had written an article for of the new humanitarian about vaccine has a tendency to the reality is that the death toll and confirmed cases are quite unreliable less than 60 about some tasks administered in haiti rather than the $1300000.00 and american republic with roughly the same population size also most tasks are quite an affordable to the general public they cost about $900.00 is just not possible for most patients and most people actually doctors like spoken to both in port au prince and in the provinces have mentioned that most people don't go to

. their hospitals when they have a fever or a flu there was all bought at stake mad the beginning with the pet pandemic so instead it's kind of been denuded as a as a different fever not coronavirus so the people dying at home they are going undiagnosed it's not being counted as cope it. it just. got here yes docs ahead of work i've been working in haiti for 40 years. earlier etc i can tell you that we have a group do the workers working in the slums we live there if we had a lot of covert debts we would up though. this is the reality or. their lying condition i know. but i let me just say let me just say this now it's 80. 1 let me just go there to jacqueline and then i'm going to go to the

minister and you know i'm just going to build on i'm just going to build up dr props point because i did a story about this and i was in haiti during cholera and i remember the bodies being thrown into streets left industry you saw people running with bodies people on the near death on the on planks and that is obvious that we have not had that in haiti yes you can you can question a numbers you can question the figures but the reality is also is that we have not seen any anecdotal evidence of large numbers of unexplained death that we saw in ecuador that we've been seeing in brazil the question fundamentally is why eustace we know we're dealing with a country where over 50 percent of the population is young so you don't have that you know older population you do have some culpability people do. the interrupting programming to take you to minneapolis and the united states for

our live coverage of day 12 of the derek sheriff and trial of former policeman is accused of murdering george freud by kneeling on his neck for more than 9 minutes and now the defense appears to call their fast witness a scott robbie crace and that specimen. yes that is ok by whom are you currently employed. all right now i'm retired i'm not going by anybody prior to your retirement who by whom are you employed the city of minneapolis police department and how long did you work from the city of minneapolis police to 28 years can you describe for the jury generally the various roles that you have for the minneapolis police department is or will. i started in 1993 i started on the street working as a 91 responder. i did 6 years as a 911 responder and then it transferred over to

a public apology for a poxy 9 months as. a public housing officer and then from there i went to the 4th precinct and became a community sponsored team member. involved as a street levels narcotics investigator did that for 22 years. now were you on duty on may 6th of 200-1000 yes i was if you had an opportunity to review various police reports and body worn cameras from an incident on that day yes i have. on that date at approximately 4 or 5 just before 5 o'clock pm did you execute a traffic stop of a red ford explorer yes i did and did you approach the passenger side. yes i did can you describe. just very briefly

the initial interaction that you had with the passenger of that vehicle. that approached the vehicle on the passenger side the passer window was down. i start given that the individual that was on there was in the passenger seat commands several time. the passenger was. unresponsive and non-compliant to my commands. i then had to. physically reach in to because i want to see its hands because i can see his hands i reached in finally and grabbed his hand to put it up on the dash and then that individual was taken from the vehicle and hands up. did you make any observations as to the passengers behavior could you repeat that question service or did you make any additional observations

as to the passengers behavior. yeah as in my mind as it is behavior was very nervous anxious. there. you see the passenger do anything physically with his hands yes he turned away from me towards the driver's seat. as genuinely as i was given a command to see is am did you draw your service weapon yes i did. observe the passenger put anything in his mouth. but he said one word times i'm sorry did you research and you're going to anything in his mouth no i do did you were you wearing a body morning by the city of minneapolis on that day yes i was and have you had an opportunity to review your body your camera prior to today's testimony yes i have

your honor based the order i would. publish exhibit 1051. 1051 is received subject to the motion of my. head and seatbelts earth. # surface or just felt. 6 got going under your seat belt. i know i don't but i'm sure you know the saying must take it to time i know it's ok relax just under your simple letter think you're right just keep your hands off work and seal. let me. just keep your hands where i can fuck that c o

o. ok put up on the dash. of the factions of the i'm not going to shoot you put your hats on that. 'd put your hands on the cash last time i'm going to tell you that it's simple. i got ha moment to say as a router is a bitch and you won't listen to what i have to say to go with the foreigner going to. what you have always wanted. on a bad job you really. open your minds for that which god said i want you to have occasion. from 0090 way of my life. which means my god my god when you came up slowly coming out and then i got your dinner there have been. a relaxing. of you know everything. to get a feel for not i'm going to tell all over the best to do it. but i was out driving

. about. so we're just for viewers just joining us here on al-jazeera 1st of all a quick a poet for the language that we heard in that both a calm face age we were hearing. and seeing the body come from the day. the day in question when george ford was killed. i do beg your

pardon that was from a previous arrest so just to correct that again we were hearing both features from a previous arrests but this is the 1st the 1st witness that has been called for the defense testimony that from a police officer scott roby crisis in the 1st witness so cold in the defense case for going to. bring the old you back in again so that we can hear that testimony there's a good friend who is our mr ford. your honor based on the court's ruling i have no further questions for the. president. good morning out straighten. you testified that you were the officer who approached

the passenger side of the vehicle you approached george floyd i'm a 6 of 21000 that's correct yes and you had your gun drawn when you approached mr flake it's not right there was a poll of yours in when you approached mr floyd he said don't shoot me man i don't want to get shot right. something like that yes you told us under his seat belt correct the script your snout and he did that right yes he did and then he said put your hands where i could see them correct yes and then he put his hands in the air yes. and then you told me put his hands on the dash is that right that's correct and that was when you grabbed his hand and forcibly put it on the dashboard of the vehicle correct. on yes. and then the other officer with you on the other side of vehicle change that to put your hands on your head correct that's correct and then he put his hands on his head right. that's for us

and there was one officer who said they were going to taser him right. that's where yes you were yelling pretty loud cracks you said was just going to escalate real quick some profanity is correct yes and you had your gun drawn the whole time you were giving commands. once i started to order me refuses your music and just benchley it escalated where i pulled my gun yes ma'am and he was awake that's what's up now mr floyd was awake. was he awake during this incident yes he was conscious yes he didn't appear to be in medical distress to you when you were playing out of the cars that right. he was talking to you he was standing up right. i don't know if it was specifically sometimes he was talking sometimes use mum one he was incoherent in my mind

a lot of the time. but she got him out of the car and handcuffed him right. and he stood next to the car right yes ma'am. yes you got to beat him up racks that's correct yes he was able to walk right yes he was he continued to talk to you. yes. there's no problem with your audio there folks is just a procedural break here well the judge considers something but we have been listening to aaron eldridge one of the prosecutors who has been cross-examining that witness the witness of course is stephen i do beg your pardon here.

our witness. is officer cretin's robbie scott creates and is the 1st witness that has been called for the defense in this trial the prosecution has no rested their case and that. very defense started with the body cam footage from the previous arrests that officer creates in was involved in we're now hearing those procedural arguments as soon as we can bring you more on that trial we will but this is of course the 12th day of proceedings. we have the 12th day of proceedings here while they do the procedural elements let's see if we can bring in our correspondent who's covering that case for as john hendren there is joining us from

minneapolis. joe and you've been listening to this trial will just say no you know what we're going to head back into the courtroom while this questioning continues let's hear from aaron eldridge one of the prosecutor and he stood next to the car and you handcuffed him correct me and other officer had to physically go and he didn't fall they're cracked no he didn't go nothing further and further. officer there was another officer on the driver's side dealing with the driver yes that's correct actually 2 and that officer was speaking to were giving commands to the driver that's correct simultaneous to the time that you were giving commands to mr ford that's correct did you hear the officer say spit it out. i mean i don't

know there's your video your best shows and that's what occurred ok i've no further questions. for the. straighten you were just asking questions about what the other officers were doing you were interacting with mr floyd cracks. and while you were interacting with mr floyd he didn't collapse on the ground where it was of course you can use to go around while you were interacting with mr floyd he didn't collapse on the ground correct no we did not well yes going to the objection sustained. you're asking questions about what the other officers were doing correct that's correct your attention was focused on mr foy correct yes it was and mr floyd didn't drop dead while you were interacting with him correct no thank you. and.

thank you anything that you. ok let's just bring you a bit of clarity on what we've just been hearing we have been hearing the cross-examination of the 1st defense witness that's officer creighton and. scott robbie cretin who is now retired know what we've been hearing there was evidence which the judge has clarified is to help assess the physical well being of george florey as he was. when he was being stalked snow the defense. entered into evidence some boards come footage this is not from the police stop the. after which george floyd saeed's this was evidence to see the effect the opioids may or may not have on a paris we're bringing in

a 2nd witness here for the defense but just to clear that up for that was the 1st seven's that we were hearing it was to help assess george ford's physical well being and notes his character let's listen in. last name as most think ammo as easy and cheap and if you're comfortable taking up a man pretty much leave it up to you but that would make it easier to hear you there would be appreciated. members of the jury this again is regarding in incident or occurrence involving george hoyt i'm a 62019 as i told you before this evidence is being admitted soley for the limited purpose of showing what effects the injustice of opioids may or may not have had on the physical wellbeing of george floyd this evidence is not to be used as evidence for the character of george for it was not so you may acquire thank you good

morning ma'am where you buy a home are you currently employed. retired ok prior to your retirement. where were you employed. in the us how long were you a paramedic for one county just under 34 years ok. can you describe the education you have to become a parent. might have a 2 year degree in emergency medical care and rescue of. 3. and then actually get an additional registered. i graduated from st mary's university 91 ok and so you worked as a paramedic for county for the entire career. other employment. acts that were very near in dakota county. for one year and then i have worked at an event or had

worked at hand and ever since there's a have gone to a large number of calls during the course of your career and are and you may not remember every specific detail about every call or act. and. as a paramedic do you maintain records each call you go to in order to assess the patient's care. or. patient medical record that we. consume not heard. sorry. prior to. your testimony today have you had an opportunity to review a run sheet for may's 6 of 2019 involving george perry for us. do you recall all of those details off the top of your head no you know. now in terms of. your recollection of may 6th of 2019

where you summons to the minneapolis police department as precinct 4 to care for to attend to mr floyd. upon arriving at the 4th precinct did you. talk to mr for this did you learn information from mr floyd about. what he had consumed and the time frame he had consumed. here it is. quite hard to assess him. here is it. confused some of the things he said were. perhaps police or. mr. were you able to learn that mr floyd had consumed some narcotics yes what did he tell you specifically about what narcotics he had taken

when he had taken. him told me that he had been taking multiple like every 20 minutes. it was. you remember it was actually. that it was a. period. it wasn't real consistent with his behavior at that point was your own live in an agitated. you can. see him about education is that is that is the way for this. new uniform do you really take some some sort of an opioid. every 20 minutes or something and then another one as the officer came up ok so he told you that he had taken the pill at the time the officers were.

did you do a physical assessment of mr ford. specifically did you take his blood pressure. would you agree that your 1st vitals were taken. proximately 134 and 59 seconds without looking at. if we were fresher recollection to review the wrong yes. we were concerned. thank you. and it's 1334. is the 1st recorded by those things. that your recollection back.