in the sun. dance and. how it feels to touch. british. people live and know what it's like to work with every breath description. with. but when. you speak. to the world. the way. a comeback is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera after 3 weeks of witness and expert testimony the final arguments are being made in the trial of the former police officer accused of killing george floyd the jury will then be sent out to consider

its verdict and russian opposition politician alike said about me has been moved into a prison hospital and they 20 of his hunger strike the authorities that describe his condition is satisfactory but his own lawyer says he appears very unwell. a 6 day lockdown has begun in the new delhi region to prevent its health system collapsing as india continues to set new records for daily kovac cases scientists are studying a new variant with a double mutation to see if it's behind the rise in infections just 2 weeks ago the country recorded almost 97000 cases a day around a 1000 on the cut under the country speak in september of last year a week later infections had surged to 168000

a day and now india has reported nearly 274000 confirmed cases in the last day and more than 1600 deaths for tori a gay to be reports. india is in the grip of the 2nd wave of cave in 19 and nowhere is that being felt that it is hospitals there are shortages of beds oxygen supplies and medicine adult to say this time they've seen a change in who is being admitted to hospital what we're seeing and this is all anecdotal a personal experience is there are younger patients who are being admitted to hospital. and are most strict in the type of disease that young patients usually her which is might be moderate. india reported 275000 new cases on monday that's the highest daily tally in a country that's now the 2nd worst affected in the world. scientists say

a new variant with a double mutation may be driving all infections in most cases we've only seen one area of the virus mutating from the original virus in this case we have 2 separate me taishan sites which is really concerning because as you know you know every time that we have a mutation we're worried about increased transmissibility increased threat of death and lack of ability of our vaccines to work despite the rising cases political and religious gatherings are continuing in many places last week 3000000 hindu pilgrims bathed in the ganges river for the con mela festival and millions more voted in local elections in the state of utter pradesh. i think the guard was let down our just by indians but by indian leaders massive election rallies were held. and subsequently the massive don't festival of whom all want to be doing

2 words massive surge in the city of ghaziabad the creditor awful so some families had to cremate their relatives on the street and with a new variant with a double mutation to contend with india faces many mood difficult days ahead victoria gate and be al-jazeera. police in brazil have raided illegal parties in sao paolo as the country fights a deadly new strain armed officers closed down venues and detained party goers as part of a special task force to enforce social distancing in the past month sao paolo police have been cracking down on hundreds of secret parties more than 1600 new debts were logged in the country on sunday schools in argentina's capital have reopened after a court ruling rejected a government order requiring that classes go online for 2 weeks there have been protests outside the president's residence and when

a side is demanding the lifting of lockdown restrictions a bit of a non there is issued an emergency decree last week containing a set of measures to slow the spread argentina has recorded of more than 2 and a half 1000000 cases and more than 59000 deaths could i suppose and for protesters say that closing schools should only be the president's last option. we're here in front of the president represents you know evil in the providence of one side of her parents and children gathered to demand the real meaning of the school last week references that the men impose and use series of restrictions to fight against the coronavirus pandemic among them a curfew starting at 8 o'clock in the evening and also the suspension in person is a cruel punishment the government try to implement measures that would not have a great impact among economic activity argentina's currently in the middle of an

economic crisis with very high inflation and enormous debts if it finds that they believe that some misguided defense is trying to preserve economic activity of people here for instance the very day that the 2 weeks the friendship is to be firm with a few weeks a year last year i didn't see the end of the stick to lock down in the world the government can live in person that says i need pressure from teachers you need that i'm very close links and ties the way that makes the integrity of creation that makes white people here have prompted protests in front of the precedent the holy party called him that's so spending education should be the last resort. but them across a republic of congo is starting its vaccination program after delaying it for more than a month health care workers vulnerable people and high risk workers will be the 1st to receive a job the program was supposed to start 4 weeks ago using more than one and

a half 1000000 astra zeneca doses from the kovacs scheme but it was postponed due to concerns over rare blood clots in a small number of people who had had the job in other countries when meanwhile all americans over the age of 16 are now eligible to be vaccinated many states had already reached the age group but the countries sent. for disease control has now made it nationwide from monday around half of all adults in the u.s. have had at least one dose with a round the 3rd fully vaccinated no vaccines have yet been approved for children under the age of 16. but travel with quarantine is now a thing of the past but only between australia and new zealand there were emotional scenes as families and friends were reunited after the 2 countries launched a travel bubble it allows travel between them without the need for isolation for

the 1st time in more than a year but all international arrivals into both countries will still have to go through a 2 week quarantine at their own expense. it's january 20. 5th. so it's a bit emotional. i think there's going to be a few. a lot of hugs. for a waiting. since a lot of down and we haven't been able to control that it feels like. cuba's governing communist party has elected me again to succeed road castro as its 1st secretary the as has already served this president since 2018 and now takes on the most powerful position in the country the succession marks the end of 6 decades of

rule by the castro brothers. who led cuba's 1959 revolution the cuban government is currently under increasing pressure especially from younger generations to make reforms to see a new man has more now from the chilean capital something that will. information about what transpired in the closing session of the cuban communist party's 8 congress is beginning to trickle down now raul castro confirmed that president begins the espana who is 60 years old will take over as the 1st secretary of the all powerful party castro said that this was not the result of something that was improvised but rather of a careful selection of what he called young revolutionaries who had shown that they had the characteristics needed to be promoted to higher positions in the party the politburo will be made up of many of the same names as before the defense minister the interior minister the foreign minister even the president of the national

assembly is there one last local is 77 years old but one name that will not remain is that of my child and buddha he is 90 years old a hard liner and he was until now the 2nd secretary of the party perhaps the most interesting thing about the whole thing is that it was carried out under absolute secrecy this was unusual not even in the opening speeches of the inaugural session were broadcast on cuban state television only a summary of what had transpired several hours later. what we do know though is that raul castro did criticize or rather mention the growing dissent on the island which you seem to attribute at least in part to social media he said that there was fake news circulating and that the whole point of this he said was to try to bring about a social uprising on the communist island and this perhaps may be an indication of what's to come which could be further restrictions on already limited access to

internet in cuba. has been shock and outrage around europe after 12 of the top football clubs from england italy and spain have announced plans for their own european league it's been condemned by politicians sports executives and. fans as a move fueled the purely by greed the super league would guarantee the team's qualification and hundreds of millions of dollars but as leave barker reports it could hurt the spirit of the game. hours after some of the continent's richest clubs threaten to split european football into the sport's governing body in europe you wafer hit back hard saying you were expelled the clubs players from future european championships and world cups i cannot stress more strongly at this moment . in the footballing world stand united against these graceful self-serving

proposals we have seen in the last 24 hours from a select few clubs in europe that are fuelled purely by greed above all else on sunday night 12 of the continent's richest clubs revealed plans to form a european super league rivaling you a 1st prestigious champions league pass alone we are madrid and that letting go have agreed to join in spain in italy both ac and into milan have signed up alongside eventis and 6 clubs from england's premier league also want to join manchester united city liverpool chelsea arsenal and tottenham the managers of the teams have been dodging quick questions let's be honest i'm employee of this club and i trust this club and my chop is very clear so i'm maybe not the right person to ask the internet already i'm just a manager and i'm prepared to coach my players under any circumstances the plans even prompted this intervention from the british prime minister we're going to look

at everything that we can do with the football authorities to make sure that this doesn't go ahead of the way that it's currently being proposed so far no teams from france or germany including the current european champions by munich plan to join the new league but 3 more clubs are expected to sign up or set to pocket more than 400 $1000000.00 when they do it a project funded by u.s. banking giant j.p. morgan seriously the midst of a pandemic an economic crisis football clubs at national league level going bust nearly furloughing players clubs on the edge in league one and 2 and these lobbying assume calls about breaking away and basically create more great. joke the super league clubs want to start as soon as possible but the premier league league and syria all joined us in condemning the move so too have many fans competing clubs face being booted out of their domestic leagues several television

broadcasters are also refusing to abandon new way for a national league to join the new project but if it does go ahead football's single sporting pyramid from the lowest grass roots teams all the way to the top may never be the same again leave barca al-jazeera. thank you back to minneapolis now that said their it show in trying to conceive derek chauvin. there and now we had been listening to the closing statement by the defense attorney eric an arson. that had been stopped so that the jury could take a 30 minute break let's listen in now to that closing statement by the defense.

so we'll just go off no it's that of the power point. before the break we were talking about the controlled substances and the role that they were here where the levels that they were found in the role that they may have applied or. contributed to mr floyd's death and i was suggesting to you that it is again this death needs to be looked at mr ford's death need to be looked at as dr baker

describes a multi factorial process this is the way the human body works heartbeats long breaths blood circulates the brain thinks the brain can see all of our movements right all of this. and to simply come in and say this particular substance or these combinations of substances when taken in can combination with each other when taken in combination with a person who has blockage in the heart substantial significant blockage and when we know that these drugs play a particular role in the in in how the blood circulates to just who it and say it has nothing to do with anything it's just really a preponderance. yet dr baker dr follower and dr thomas have all certified deaths at levels less than 11 manic

grams per milliliter or 19 anagrams or combination right these deaths had been certified on that basis alone and it didn't necessarily contain any of the other issues that were confronting mr floyd a math day. likewise again every other doctor that has testified has gone to great lengths to dismiss the role of mr floyd's heart disease and hypertension skids. forensic pathologists define coronary artery disease resulting in death and can death can occur with 70 to 75 percent blockage that is sufficient to cause the person's death every path ologist who testified in this case has indicated likewise that they have certified with those types of blockage and attributed to the coronary artery disease yet here

again this is not played 0 role dr rich testified mr ford had a healthy heart. coronary heart disease not relevant cording to the. hypertensive disease not relevant drugs acting to further constrict an all ready heart disease heart not run of adrenaline coursing through mr floyd's body not relevant what is adrenaline do further constricts. adrenaline from the para game. wasn't there didn't happen played noble normal they just want you to know more significant medical issues that presented to mr floyd and the failure of the state's experts to acknowledge any possibility any possibility at all.

that any of these other factors in any way contributed to mr ford's death defies medical science and it defies common sense and reason. now dr toben describes the death of mr floyd essentially as i understand again hypoxia low oxygen resulting. in brain going to the brain low oxygen to the brain dr follower also describes the death through hypoxic death but the heart was the was the muscles that did not get the oxygen resulting in the sudden cardiac arrhythmia. the reasons that dr fall or dismissed the notion of brain hypoxia or because number on hypoxia of the brain results in certain observable symptoms the brain demands more oxygen right it takes 20 percent of our oxygen to

function the brain even though it's one of the it's a smaller percentage of our body. it is the most sensitive to the loss of oxygen and it reveals a progressive set of symptoms confusion which was not exhibited right because if you compare the if you compare the testimony about whether mr floyd was intoxicated or he didn't exhibit any confusion. restlessness not exhibit shortness of breath it was complained of but that is also a sensation that can be caused by a sudden cardiac arrhythmia visual changes not complained incoherent speaking not complaining. when someone is experiencing hypoxia to the brain. as dr told them stated you would see increased ventilation or respiratory rate dr

toben said it is a completely normal respiratory rate $22.00 breaths perman. the timeline in this case is consistent with a sudden cardiac arrest. at 823 and 58 seconds. mr floyd speaks. i really can't breathe. if you can speak from oxygen in your brain. it 2409 he again verbalizes please i can't breathe indicating at 824 or 9 that his brain has oxygen and there is no impairment to his airway. 39 seconds later mr floyd goes limp at 24 and 40 a person can hold their breath for 39 seconds. that does not result in hypoxia and 39 seconds 27 seconds later according to dr told him

mr ford takes his last breath it's a total of 66 seconds one minute and 6 seconds from the time that we know there's enough oxygen in his brain to speak no occlusion to airway at that point 66 seconds to his from his last word to his last breath this timeline is consistent with a sudden cardiac arrhythmia. it is not consistent with a longer process of brain pox. dr follow his final analysis was that mr floyd died from a cardiac arrhythmia due to arthur arthur o. sclerotic in hypertensive cardiovascular disease during restraint by police. other significant factors. methamphetamine intoxication possible

carbon monoxide exposure and the pair. what role did mr carbon monoxide play in mr ford's death we don't know nothing was ever tested. this far as the vehicle is concerned we don't know if the car was emitting carbon dioxide carbon monoxide we don't know one thing we do know is that it was wrong and how can we tell that it was running because in the video we watched earlier when thomas lane pulls in that squad car cut food he puts it in gear it takes it out of you puts it in park never touches the keys of that and he gets out the car was running. i one last point to me. and i should be fairly quick with this. the superseding cause that was discussed. a superseding cause is an is a cause that comes after the defendant's acts alters the natural sequence of events

and is the sole cause of a result that would not have otherwise occurred. now. let's look at the medical time. we know of that e.m.'s was called initially a code to eat 2011 seconds we know that e.m.'s was stepped up to code 3 at 21 and 35 so. we know that e.m.'s responded to cover foods based on the videos at 27 and 27 seconds we know that called for fire at 203036. it takes approximately 3 minutes for each of us in the resting officers to put mr ford into the ambulance and the ambulance pulls away from comfort foods 30 and 17 seconds. fire response to cut foods at $830.00 to $59.00 that's 4 bullets in 15 seconds. after

they were caught that's pretty close in consideration to the 3 minute expectation of miss hanson. but the ambulance had driven several box away to 36 and park arriving sometime between 31 and 833 that's one in the hand and we know that because there are 2 exhibits 62 and 63 were introduced 62 shows one paramedic and officer lane in the back 63 shows 2 paramedics and officers so somewhere between a minute and a half to 3 minutes to get to 36 and park where they began the resuscitative efforts. the 1st air is pumped into mr floyd per dr toben at 203506 that is 10 minutes after mr ford went unconscious productive target

but it is 7 minutes and 46 seconds after e.m.'s responded to cut food. we ultimately know that the ambulance left. $36.00 and park at 848 and 23 minutes it arrived at each c.m.c. at $853.00 shortly after $853.00 so it took about 5 minutes to get from $36.00 and park to. what if you want would have happened if e.m.'s had started resuscitative efforts right away what would have happened if rather than driving at 36 and park they went to the hospital they would have been there in that time. i am not suggesting. i'm not suggesting to you that the ambulance paramedics did anything. but it raises the prospect of that continued

delay in resuscitation. what if e.m.'s had administered care. we heard that it would not have hurt and could have helped. i'm not blaming the paramedics. more important in this analysis in this analysis is it shows that human beings make decisions in highly stressful situations that they believe to be right. in the very moment it is occurring. there is lots of what ifs could have happened what could have happened what should have happened lots of them and lots of regard. we have to analyze this case from the perspective of a reasonable police officer at the precise moment with the talent of the circumstances when it comes to the use of force we have to look at the cause of

death to determine did mr ford die exclusively of this fix or were there other contributing factors that were not the natural result of mr chauvinism. things that happened that were set in motion before mr chauvin ever. the drug ingestion. the bad heart. the disease tart hypertension. all of these things existed before mr show in iraq. the struggle what role did the struggle play we know based on a prior incident mr floyd's heart was beating 219160 you know in a situation where he was confronted by police and had ingested drugs. he didn't die

that day. all of this you ladies and gentlemen of the jury all of this when you take into consideration the presumption of innocence the presumption of innocence and proof beyond reasonable doubt. i would submit to you that it is nonsense to suggest none of these other factors had any any role that is not recent. and when you as members of the jury conclude your analysis of the evidence when you review the entirety of the evidence when you review. the law as written and you conclude all within this all within. a thorough honest analysis. it's built to prove its case beyond

a reasonable doubt. and therefore mr shulman should be found not guilty. and there's an issue i need to discuss the boys who are going to send you back to your room for probably about 5 minutes. that was eric nelson the defense attorney that just finished his closing statement for the defense very much emphasizing the fact that he believes and was trying to convince the jury of the fact that there is reasonable doubt that there were other factors beyond. george floyd's knecht that.