the african-american communities all around this country it is particularly. important and a landmark trial for sure why is that because of course race here on the docket with this trial race relations are and the justice system because this is about this trial is about how the justice system is now hopefully able to hold police accountable so then we're talking about police accountability it is not that easy to find a police officer guilty of anything in court here live alone murder 2nd degree or 3rd to great very reason policies for an arrest and to his training the defense will war try to water this down there will throw a lot off so we'll throw a lot of smoke bombs and they're already tried doing this why how why because they have to deflate the case of the prosecution and how do they do this by mentioning

that george floyd residues of drugs in his system that the corona. autopsy report is not clearly say that it was the need of their shuffling of the action of their shovel who was responsible for the passing of george floyd but other circumstances so this will be going on for some weeks now 4 weeks expected maybe longer if this takes a turn here or twist there we'll find out but so far everything is expected all right we don't have much time but tell me what can we expect from these 4 weeks will we hear from sheldon himself. good question i don't have the answer for this if i were the defense i wouldn't put him on the stand but true i stand to surprised if this happens so. no it will be a long long long list of experts with the jury has to take notes and then has to at some point deliver a verdict and this will be interesting again 4 weeks is the is the time there's

a lot of for this could go also a little bit longer it's going to be very very interesting for weeks at least for weeks and you will be covering them for us stefan simons in washington thank you very much. pages now where the colossal container ship stuck in the suez canal for nearly a week has been set free and gyptian authorities say the bow of the skyscraper sized ever given was wrenched by tug boats from the canal sandy bank where it had been stuck since last tuesday it's now back in its normal position in the middle of the waterway this ends a crisis that had brought traffic along one of the world's busiest shipping routes to an expensive halt khana mr vincent thomas from kill institute for world economy welcome to. first off this operation has been watched nervously around the globe why did it take so long to dislodge this vessel.

it indeed took a long long time and partly the reason for that is this year scientists of the continue to ship container ship in question is. long and much longer than the wild so was actually lost in. the story of the ship and that just made it so much. now the suez canal is part of the one of the busiest trade routes on the globe do we know yet what the extent of the damage from having a block for this long will be. unfortunately we can't just quite yet quantify the exact damages we heard the figure that you know in large volume of goods every day regularly passes this is going on but we don't quite know what the effect of that if it's to lay out its delays or there certainly will be millions worth of damages to the shipping companies that have lost still have to pay operating costs for ships that are waiting for the exact damages to supply chains. for you too early to

tell exactly the canal is also a huge moneymaker for egypt of course what has this meant for the country. well you're right i mean the egyptians day gittins day to receive a lot of the revenue from business can now and a lot of that has been essentially lost in the last must be at least postponed exactly how much of the revenues lost will depend on how many ships have choosing to sail around africa instead of using this was going up. again it is hard to quantify also the economy costs or egypt. but there will be some loss of revenue for the egyptian economy that kind of is front and stomach thank you very much for your analysis thank you now let's get you up to speed on some other stories making headlines around the world at this hour the u.s. has suspended

a train packed with neon lara's countries across the world look for ways to respond to the brutal military crackdown against protesters there are than $100.00 people including children were killed this past weekend alone. the terrorist group islamic state has claimed responsibility for attacks on mozambique's strategic coastal town of palma dozens of civilians were killed and many survivors walked for days to escape the violence paula is a hub for international gas projects worth some $60000000000.00. now the national team investigating the origins of the coronavirus says it's extremely unlikely that it leaked out of the laboratory their report concludes the virus probably passed to humans from a vat through an intermediary animal the researchers visited the chinese city of la on earlier this year where the virus was 1st detected. and here are some more developments and the coronavirus pandemic the number of patients in intensive care

units in france is approaching a new peak climbing to more than 4800 doctors are warning they may have to start turning away patients who need i.c.u. care johnson and johnson says it will start delivering at single shot covert vaccine to europe on april 19th which should help the continent speed up its vaccination drive and england is easing restrictions slightly people are allowed to meet in small groups and can resume outdoor sports such as basketball tennis and. turkey vaccination effort got off to a rapid start image on your ear when more than half a 1000000 people were in ocular live in the 1st few days but the campaign to send slow down getting the vaccine to people in the country is vast back country requires special efforts that has one team of doctors literally climbing mountains our correspondent reports from the problems. in eastern turkey.

almost 2000 meters high up in the mountains is the village of today in eastern turkey with few 100 residents one street. and this is the doctor in charge of the coronavirus vaccinations here in the village. they nip at it and her team come regularly many home visits require some serious climbing but they're almost used to it now. no coronavirus cases have been reported in the dead of 4 months that's why some residents are skeptical about the doctor's visit but they know better are just convinced that her commitment is important. that people in the villages live close together if there is an infection it will spread very quickly and many don't like coming to the hospitals in nearby towns so we have to come to them. that already.

are. getting his 2nd dose today when the doctors 1st came here a few weeks ago he almost keep them out. i was afraid at 1st here in the village they said the doctors were coming to kill the old people or the elderly die from the vaccination i heard and because of that we were scared a lot giovanna boiling over. they never knows that there is a lot of false information floating around she and her team often tell patients that they themselves have been vaccinated as have their grandparents. that doesn't convince everyone but it did convince ali kazak. your you know no other judge or i hardly felt anything it didn't hurt at all less than a bee sting. of your. turkey is

a huge country and with vaccination campaigns like this the government hopes to show that it is taking care of everyone even here in the most remote areas and yet critics say that the turkish vaccination drive isn't progressing as smoothly as the authorities would like to portray it. the government recently east turkey street corona measures restaurants are open again and significantly more people are out and about even in high risk cities like istanbul a fast vaccination role of was supposed to make the reopening possible but it seems that's exactly where efforts are now faltering the government originally promised to vaccinate 60 percent of the population by may. now they say it's going to be autumn and she had them coral fin john j. from the turkish medical association things even that is too optimistic all the book on. the ministry of health has elected transparency since the beginning of the pandemic how many doses of the vaccine will turkey get and when the public is not

properly informed about any of this but it is clear that if we continue at the current rate we will need up to one and a half years to vaccinate everyone. in the tin that it then of arab and her team have given the last vaccination for today the way back to their car is once again perilous. the doctors are responsible for 20 villages and as long as there are doses they won't run out of work any time soon. you're watching news and here's a reminder our top story and the u.s. the trial of a white former police officer charged with murdering black man george floyd has gotten underway the accused is pleading not guilty case sparked waves of outrage across the country and beyond. coming up the latest pandemic

developments in arco with 19 special do make sure to stay tuned for that and i'll be back at the top of the hour of c.n.n. . the fate of against the coronavirus tend to have a. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and contacts the coronavirus update 19 special. on t w. z's been brought over so that's what people experience when their heritage is taken from them. countless cultural artifacts were stolen from africa by colonialists and carted off to europe. these things lift wounds that have yet to heal what should be done with

a stone or from africa. stolen sold on t.w. . at 1st it seemed as if children were immune to sars cove too it was just adults who had to worry about getting sick but at least their kids will say. that whether. the schools reopened after lockdowns it became clear. that children could not only carry but also spread the virus. then came the variance and with them a rapid rise of infections among younger children with some getting seriously ill. more children up you know admitted to hospital then before so are the new virus

variants making kids sikka or are simply more children being infected then before. it's not pleasant i'm doing that every day oh well 2 well well come to our covert $900.00 special i want to jones in berlin and schools here are currently closed for the easter holidays that means kids can catch the virus there at least for the next 2 weeks but what about meeting friends or family and how big is the risk for children anyway well here's what we know so far. for a lot of them it is there. are. many. kids and the coronavirus it's supposedly harmless for them but is that true. a year after the pandemic struck hospitals are

reporting an increasing number of young admissions they're suffering from the so-called pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome or pimms. worldwide doctors have seen this condition emerge weeks after a covert 1000 infection the w.h.o. keeps track of the severe illness in children and young people but says it's rare luckily children in adolescence tend to have more mild disease and even most children tend to have asymptomatic infection which means they don't have any symptoms at all. but since most children are asymptomatic it's hard to know when they're infected so the virus is transmitted easily off and it's completely undetectable some studies show. there have been. children for antibodies against the corona virus and we found that around 6 times as many children had to have the infection as would have been expected so.

you're seeing history shows us that children definitely do get infected and that they can take the infection home with them. so far nurseries in schools haven't been seen as covert hotspots but that may be about to change virus mutations like to be 117 variant which emerged in the u.k. are far more contagious amongst children as well scientists want to apply the same strict hygiene measures to them as for adults. the same rules smaller groups social distancing hygiene ventilation should apply there too. just like everywhere else only because children also contribute to the spread of the infection. and because the corona virus does pose a serious threat to some children vaccines are needed pharma giant pfizer and madonna have begun clinical studies in the us some on babies as young as 6 months

but with initial results not expected before summer it will be some time before a safe vaccine is available for children. and for more i'm joined by yvonne a maldonado she's and epidemiology is an infectious disease specialist at stanford school of medicine and she joins us from palo alto in california good morning to you good to have you with us at least tell me how worried are you about the rise in infection numbers among children. yes it is a concern but we have to remember that it is still a case that world why that children do not make up a very large percentage of people who are infected with the virus for example here in the united states about 13 percent of voluntary actions are children under 18 it is true however that children can be infected they can become hospitalized and rarely children can die from the disease so we do have to be careful and in addition as you heard before children can become infected more likely without

symptoms so they can spread to other us we have to remember that all our family members must mask and distance how big a role does the so-called british variant be 117 play when it comes to children well the b 117 variant is going to play a similar role in children as it will in any other age group and that is this virus is more infectious so whatever we see in fact infections in children we're going to see more maybe 30 to 50 percent more infectious ness of that fires and children as well as adults but subtle mavin particularly at those searching does it also make them sick and because we see more children hospitalized now yet we don't know that that's the case just for children we have seen data for the 1st year are that the b. 117 does seem to cause more severe illness but most of those data came from adults we don't know yet about children haven't seen enough data there right now i know

that you and your colleagues a working on a coach at 19 maxine suitable for children how will that work seen different from the ones already available for adults. well we know that pfizer on the journal and johnson and johnson will be using their track scenes for children and we're going to be starting in the other few weeks to use the pfizer vaccine here at stanford and then maybe johnson and johnson after that and return as also they're starting their trials the doses will be starting out with smaller doses to see if they produce any allergic reactions for example at say make sure that they're safe and if they are the dosage dosing will be increased potentially to the same level as what the adults are receiving and there's a different timeline understand for adolescents and to smaller children could you just briefly tell us when we can expect the vaccine for adolescents and then in particular for fatah to listen pap's even babies. yes so bias or vaccine here in

the united states received emergency approval for 16 and 17 year olds so we imagine that for a major now and johnson and johnson there may be approval for 16 and 17 year olds for their vaccines hopefully by this fall but for younger children that is those say 122-155-2128 may take longer maybe later this fall certainly for the little 16 months of age 2 years we don't expect that scene will be available all the trials will be going on this year he probably won't see any available approvals until 2022 right i mean i know that it's a bit of a nasty question but do we actually need a vaccine for children given that the stresses that most children infected with the coronavirus are asymptomatic. well you know there are 130000000. births a year and this world and we know that children are

a big proportion of our family members that can go out of the house and become infected so we think that children are as important as adults and be protected for their own health as well as for prevention of transmitting this virus in households in all around the world so yes absolutely it is critical that children become vaccinated but we need the vaccines to be as safe and effective as possible and just briefly in the meantime what you advise for what we parents. yes i think that the same advice should hold true now as it did a year ago if we know that children should be monitored for safety again and. not going out in crowds making sure that children can wear masks children over 2 years old can easily wear masks they're very safe and to lose years above and just unseen and hand hygiene are still important and that age group

as well. from stanford school of medicine thank you so much thank you very much. may i ask you a question did you catch cold this winter come down with the flu no well over to derek and one of your questions now. what happened with flu in the 2021 winter season. a huge fear of going into this winter in the northern hemisphere was potentially having to deal with with waves of coded and flu at the same time this sort of dreaded twin demick that would put health care systems under even more pressure and and one of the most positive things you can say about how things actually developed is that those fears never materialized in fact a flu infections worldwide have fallen so far during the pandemic that it's kind of hard to find the right adjective to describe the trend it's staggering maybe look

at this graphic on the topic from the w.h.o. for a minute i'm on the left hand side you see the numbers of confirmed cases of flu back in early 2020 when those lockdowns happened everywhere back in march and april the numbers nosedive and they've remained at truly historic lows ever since most experts think this dramatic drop is do largely to measures like mask wearing and and social distancing implemented during the pandemic but i can hear you saying well if those measures worked so well against flu viruses why have they proven so much less effective against sars kovi to at least part of the reason could be that influenza viruses were already endemic on a global scale sort of migrating if you can really use that term of the virus between the northern and southern hemispheres in a in

a regular winter season rhythm so when killed at 19 hit a year ago lots of people had some immune. due to the flu because they had it fairly recently then another significant slice of the population has since acquired some unity from flu vaccines many scientists if the arise that that throwing social distancing and frequent hand washing and masks into that mix possibly put flu viruses over a critical transmission threshold one where they they simply can't spread effectively but even today relatively few people globally have acquired any protection from sars kopi to do infection or vaccination so it can spread effectively at least that's the working hypothesis and a significant turnaround for the country which at one point had the highest death rate in the wilts. the united kingdom says it's already administered at least one

dose of its coded vaccine to over 30000000 people that's close to 60 percent of the adult population and we leave you with these pictures thanks for watching.

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