this is the deadly news and these are our top stories the jury in the trial of derek chauvin the white officer accused of murdering george floyd has watched a video of the black man's death handcuffed and pressed down ford calls out i can't breathe 27 times trevon could face up to 40 years in prison. the container ship that was stuck in the swayze canal has finally been refloated tugboats freed the ever given from a sandbank the operation and

a crisis that blocks traffic along one of the world's busiest shipping routes for days the stranding held up billions of dollars worth of congo and disrupted supply chains. and mexico has overtaken brazil as a country with the 2nd highest covered 19 death toll after the u.s. more than 320000 mexicans have died from the disease nearly 2 thirds as many as previously thought the u.s. is sending relief doses off after zeneca vaccine. this is the news from berlin you can find much more news on our web site d w dot com. if you say to anyone anywhere on the planet the words george floyd chances are they

will recognize immediately the name and maybe even his last words i can't breed when he took his final breath george floyd had no idea what his death would give life to a racial reckoning in the u.s. it has reverberated from london to paris to beijing 10 months after floyd died under the pressure of his knee former minneapolis police officer derek shogun is standing trial for murder but this is more than just a criminal trial us justice itself is being tested will it be blind or will it be blinded i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. we will get justice we would not allow dirt still that follow and this truth. cool to believe it serves the prophet kill those 10 that's the kill. list that

there is shot and betrayed his best used excessive and unreasonable forced upon the body of this to joyful this a choice to system they want us to trust us is what is it just to show us that we could trust he put his knees up on his neck and his back planting and pressing him until the very breath no leisure gentlemen until the very lives were squeezed out of. also coming up a sense of impending doom public health officials are warning that vaccinations against the corona virus are not keeping up with the very threat that they are designed to stop. turkey is a huge country and with maximization 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. to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day with a former u.s. police officer about to take the stand accused of murdering a black man in minneapolis minnesota attorneys today delivered their opening statements in the murder trial of derek show prosecutors using video of the moment george for a diet asked jurors to simply believe there are show vins attorney began laying the foundation of an argument that the force used with george floyd was not excessive but rather was warranted outside the courtroom moments before the trial began before a family kneeled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds to mark the time that lloyd was pinned down by officer showed him video of that moment shows for repeated lee saying that he could not breathe begging for his mother shivan faces charges of unintentional

2nd degree murder 3rd degree murder and manslaughter. historically juries in the united states have not convicted police officers charged with a crime floyd's family say they believe this time will be different. george. they were all. flawed. but what i can tell you we will get we would not allow. room. to. prosecute and. this trial is expected to last several months if convicted show been could be sentenced to up to 40 years in prison. this video shocked america and the world to death last may have george floyd an unarmed black man pleading i

can't breathe as a white police officer knelt on his neck. the killing spot weeks of violent protests nationwide setting off a wave of global demonstrations as part of the black lives matter movement. the city of minneapolis has since set a lawsuit with the payment of $27000000.00 to george floyd's family. with derrick chauvin sitting here on the right is the white police officer involved now he's now on trial accused of murder and manslaughter in. the trial finally began after weeks of legal wrangling over the selection of an impartial jury in such a highly charged case when the judge rejected a request from the defense for the trial should be moved. children's lawyers said media coverage and the financial settlement would make it impossible to hold

a fair trial in minneapolis and as far as a change of venue. i do not think that that would give the defendant any kind of a fair trial beyond what we're doing here today. i don't think there's any place in the state of minnesota that has not been subjected. extreme amounts of. the trial of derek show he's being called one of the most important in american history. i'm joined tonight by our correspondent stefan simons he is in our washington d.c. studio good to see you you were in minneapolis 10 months ago right after george floyd was killed you've covered much of what has happened in the united states as a result talk to me about how george floyd's death how how was it changed america

it did change america it created awareness or recreated awareness refocused awareness specifically for white people on and about suresh the injustice police brutality the absence of accountability for a lot of police departments and police officers who do wrong things on the job that is all changed now and this is what this trial stands for for the people in the united states not just for the family of course for the family of course for the african-american community of course for people in minneapolis pacifically and the community where george floyd died and where he comes from but also in the entire united states this is. a result of the summer off soak of the so-called summer of racial reckoning it is about the justice system and equality in the justice system and police accountability we heard today from george floyd's family that america

itself is on trial and they even said the world is watching are aware of how closely their system of justice is being observed at this moment. yeah i think in large parts that is accurate they are where people are where african-americans and in the united states aware that the world is watching and so is everybody else why is that because whenever you know whenever this video runs again on television here on cable news or in any other network if you like everywhere people get touched again and people remember the outcome of this this video and what it showed the death of george floyd it's not just the burning buildings but also the demonstrations in london in berlin in rome in europe in asia in everywhere around the world so yes they are aware keenly aware of this and this is of course something people. also used as an argument that this

an argument for the case that this specific trial is of utmost importance for america the prosecution today and should jurors that the video that went viral the one that we've all seen it shows the former officer derrick should have been using his need to pin down george floyd for almost 9 minutes on the outside looking in 1 may think that the video makes this clear case clear but in the us when police officers face accusations or charges of murder the outcome is never clear why is there. well it is traditionally and historically really really hard to convict a police officer here currently we're seeing it with rodney king here in ninety's many many years ago eric gardner in other cases there was video evidence of what happened and those officers walked with a slap on the wrist all walk free without any consequences whatsoever so it is hard

because of course the whole system of policing in the united states is very specific and the protections for police officers are immense this is changing right now that is also a result of the george floyd case or the case against their children now and the death of george floyd that is that politicians police departments are under pressure to change the law to change accountability laws for police to make it easier to go after these so-called bad cops we know that the city of minneapolis settled a lawsuit with the floyd family and paid 20 $7000000.00 no you know it's impossible to put a figure on the life but do we know how they came up with the sum of $27000000.00 and do we know why was this the nails before the trial. all we know is that it was

negotiated and apparently very well negotiated the lawyers of the floyd family called it to start work even the mayor called it a story but he said something else i want to quickly quote the mayor jay comfrey said that the country is in the make in it was in the making in the reckoning around racial justice that struck minneapolis like a thunderbolt is referring to george schwartz that somewhat have to address what and the settlement he says reflects the commitment to advance racial justice now let's just say we want to believe this then that's a very moral high ground and probably the right thing to do doesn't explain the exact number of 27000000 no it doesn't and i don't have an explanation for this but the council the city council voted anonymously and the mayor greta it everybody at the end was happy and it is a historically high sum of money. all right our very own stuff on simon 7 it's good talking with you always good to get your experience to to put things like this into

context thank you. the issue then we would have someone think it's possible to have escaped from a lab would mean that it essentially entered the outside human population already well adapted to humans suggesting that it was adapted in the lab however the alternative explanation which most public health individuals go by is that this virus was actually circulating in china likely in rwanda for a month or more before they were clinically recognized at the end of the samberg of 2019. america's top infectious diseases specialist there dr anthony fallon she responded to an explosive claim made yesterday by the former head of the centers for disease control dr robert redfield dr redfield said that he believes the corona virus originated in a lab in the chinese city of han and he did not provide any evidence but he said

his years of experience as a viral a just informed him of this opinion on the origin of the virus is important but more important is stopping the virus german chancellor angela merkel says the country's regional leaders are undermining efforts to do just that last night in a televised interview merkel accused regional leaders of not reversing plans to ease walk down restrictions in the face of rising infections she warned that the federal government may override germany's states in a bid to curb a 3rd wave of the pandemic. chancellor angela merkel may have backtracked last week on her plan to shut down germany over easter but she isn't backtracking on her idea that more action is needed to stop the rise in cuba 1000 cases and our goals we now have to employ the appropriate measures with a great deal of seriousness and some states are doing that others aren't yet. the chancellor and the regional state premiers had agreed to reverse openings if there

are too many new cases but with numbers rising states are hesitating to do so medical says she won't sit around and wait for case numbers to keep growing the government could push for parliament to change the law to decrease the premier's influence. as one possibility is to modify the infection protection act again and to say very specifically what has to happen when we are obliged by the law to contain the incidence of infection and right now the containment is not there c.d.u. leader that is also one of the premiers being criticised by medical he's conceded leaders are at an impasse it's come not go on like this so the fact that the state premiers and half the federal government are sitting in front of screens for hours every word is being released this is not appropriate for the crisis. and that's why we are suppose that the next conference or should take place in person in stocked

for the opposition greens more measures are needed to curb the 3rd wave in infections they think the chancellor should be more proactive in tackling the crisis. they're born to the federal government has an overall responsibility here it's not a matter of saying the states are the municipalities don't have one and everyone has a responsibility but the federal government can best accord may come a new meeting to decide on next steps won't take place before easter in the meantime mathilde will be looking at ways to reassert her authours. well joining me now. as dr andrew allman he's a member of the german parliament for the opposition free democrats dr allman is also a physician by training dr allman is good to have you back on the program last week the german chancellor reversed course there will be no hard lock down over the long easter weekend no i was expecting something to be proposed instead of the hard lock down but nothing was proposed what do you make of that well it actually

demonstrates the weakness of the federal government at the moment because except for a lock down another lock down and a more permanent lockdown they have no real solutions that are problems that we're facing with the 3rd wave of 19 i think this shows a big weakness on this side of a chance for merkel and obviously you know she is somewhat disappointed or angry with the state governments here in germany that they're not following her lead and now the next conference will be set up apparently in person so that they can discuss new issues how to deal with this with this terrible infection happening in our country but there are other ways besides that lockdown well you know there are some public health officials and even some of your colleagues in parliament demanding for 3 weeks of a total lockdown including curfews now this is something germany has not yet

experienced in this pandemic is that what is needed. honestly it sounds very easy to go into a curfew and says nobody is allowed to leave their houses their apartments for 3 weeks but that's only a theoretical thought in my opinion and i don't think it's possible right now the german public so what are the big fatigue it is tired with those rulings that are helping so they are i don't see the big chance that this is going to be possible i'm pretty sure that even the the courts will if that's going to happen well this is not legal and cut down with a curfew and dr don't we have to face sort of other than just ask you though i mean we've seen we've seen these types of walk downs with curfews in france we've seen them or we see them in italy we've seen them in the u.k. why would they why would one not work in germany. well 1st of all you have to look at how the infections are developing in germany and basically those infections over

50 percent of the affections in germany are how often in the private environment if i'm found environment and not in the public not outside not in the fresh air not during shopping so that we have to really understand how those infections can actually because a cause and one explanation is very easy we need to protect our people in our country from this virus and that is barrier precautions like wearing masks keeping your distance and have a really smart protection ruling for example testing the people on a regular basis before they go shopping or go anywhere else and i think that is was really missing we can use the same procedures that were used to for many years before at this point yesterday the former head of the u.s. centers for disease control dr robert read sealed said that he believes the corona virus originally escaped from a laboratory in china and now there is no evidence of this that we know of but dr

redfield said it is not usual for a virus to jump from an animal to humans and then be immediately able to thrive inside the human host but that is what china is claiming and telling us we should believe what do you think dr all. well honestly we are used to so no systems eases for quite centuries so far let me just remind you that the hiv virus actually came from the animal field or sars one came from animal sources or merce influence of viruses actually hop between humans and animals as well as so i'm not really sure that is enough evidence to keep that claim that dr bedford field said this is coming from a laboratory i'm not convinced so far with the arguments i think it's more important to show the evidence that he has which you could do with your known freak

sequencing sorry and to see if there's any artificial kind of genomes placed into the virus itself i'm not convinced so far the evidence so far says it's a national cause of jumping from the animal area to the human so let me just before we run out of time the w.h.o. publishing its report on the origins of this virus how much faith do you put in that report and how much do you believe that the chinese have told us the truth well these are 2 important question i do have trust in the w.h.o. and i'm pretty sure that they have a good working force to work it out where the virus originally came from the other side the chinese government wasn't always telling us the truth at the start of the pen demick so my trust is stuff very strong in the chinese these chinese government at this point in time and therefore that we need are a reform of the international health regulations as well as the w.h.o. to make this is situation a lot stronger to cope with. dr andrew allman of member of the german parliament

for the opposition free democrats dr allman as always it's good talking with you we appreciate your insights tonight thank you for thank you for having me. well unlike the european union turkey's vaccination rollout in mid january was quick more than half a 1000000 people were not related in the 1st few days but getting the vaccine to people in the country's vast rural areas that has been a slower endeavor it is an effort that has one team of doctors literally climbing mountains our correspondent julie hahn reports tonight from the province of vonne in eastern turkey. almost 2000 meters high up in the mountains lies the village of outen better in eastern turkey a few 100 residents one street i felt.

and this is the doctor in charge of the coronavirus vaccinations here in the village. they need adventure 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 all of this convinced that her commitment is important for another. people in the villages live close together if there is an infection here it will spread very quickly and many don't like coming to the hospitals in nearby towns so we have to come to them. really. work on our hard work. getting his 2nd dose today when the doctors 1st came here a few weeks ago he almost kicked 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 of oil is gone. 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 knowledge of geography 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 strict

carona measures restaurants are open again and significantly more people are out and about even in high risk cities like east on board a fast vaccination rollout 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 finn john j. from the turkish medical association things even that is too optimistic. 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 zain 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. well the day is almost gone but the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at the news or you can follow me a golf t.v. and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day we'll leave you know woods and images from india where people have been celebrating the hindu spring festival of colors just celebrates the triumph of good over evil but these celebrations will not do much to battle the pandemic so if you are celebrating anything stay safe we'll see to mock. us that.

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