the at. the at. the at. the state of you news live from berlin a reckoning over racial injustice and the united states the former police officer accused of killing george floyd goes on trial now footage of derek sjodin vueling on floyd's neck for more than 9 minutes sparked protests around the world he said that he's not guilty but he could be facing up to 40 years in jail. also coming up till the end of dollars' worth of goods ready to move again the container ship blocking the suez canal is finally out of the way and activists in germany

demanding tougher stance on violence against women with a number of what we're doing built by their partners are exes on the rise we need a survivor who says the justice system is failing. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. the trial of a former police officer accused of killing george floyd in the us city of minneapolis last year has begun derrick chauvet denies murder and manslaughter charges but if convicted could face up to 40 years in jail and as the trial opened jurors heard witnesses describe the harrowing final moments of floyd's life and they were shown the video that ignited a global movement against police brutality and braces. this video is why the 1st witness emergency dispatcher jenna scary called police on former officer

garrick cho ben and others under his command they had come from the back of the slide to the ground and my instincts are telling me that. something was not great i don't know what but something great george floyd was pinned for so long the scary initially thought the surveillance camera perched across the street had frozen jurors heard a recording of her call for help something out of the back of. this man. the prosecution also played witness video for nearly 10 minutes and it floyd back children to get off of him and he begs for his mother the jury also heard witnesses plead for mercy on his behalf. as though the rules. they were all. floored.

when well good. police charged with killing unarmed black people are really convicted civil rights activists say chosen is not on trial alone that this case is about fairness and black humanity in the united states. we are here to see the case of a man they had used to me. to lynch a man and then blame the man would emerge. during opening arguments prosecutors insisted chosen used excessive force and will prove it with key witnesses including the minneapolis police chief children's defense team put the blame on floyd your insisting that poor health and drugs led to his death they urged jurors to take nor calls for social justice. evidence that you will see this case during this trial it is i agree with counsel for the state it is nothing more

than that there is no political or social cost in this court or civil rights activists say this case is about justice for george fluid but they also hope it will lead to equal protections for an on black americans who encounter police. and we are joined now by william glue kroft william walk us through the significance of this trial not only for americans but also beyond its huge i mean the george floyd death sparks the worst widespread most widespread protests around the u.s. with that the united states as seen in decades it went all the way around the world including here in germany which has its own police brutality and police policing issues to deal with so it's clearly struck a nerve with civil rights activists especially communities of color in the united states all around the world and in the u.s. as we heard in that report that the u.s.

does not have a good track record of prosecuting and checking police abuse and of the resulting deaths that have come of that especially against people of color especially young males thinking most infamously of the rodney king case in the early 1990 s. when white police officers pulled over rodney king a black man in los angeles pulled him out of his car and beat him almost to death and they were all that off and there's a history of that so people who are watching very closely to the result of this trial and what can we expect in the next days. the prosecution really wants to focus on this video that is for them the key piece of evidence and the only evidence they need or worst the defense wants to play down the video and point to what they say is $50000.00 other pieces of evidence and also possibly get shoved himself to testify whether that would support his case or not there of course pushing this drug and health issue which even if they can prove drugs and

poor health you know existed they would still have to prove that that would have led to his death and that day and of course the prosecution wants to bring expert witnesses to the stand to prove that the cause of death wasn't anything but homicide and if they can do that if you very difficult for the jury not to convict on the video that was released and we mentioned this earlier i mean this really shocks the world when it went around well you just tell us you know has anything changed regarding police violence and racism in the united states since then. the last year seen an unprecedented attention to these kinds of issues and although the protests have since died down that anger that justifiable anger that desire for justice in transparency and reform is still very much there especially among civil rights activists there has been a number of pieces of legislation both at the national level in washington and state levels to try to address some of these like banning chokehold swat like also

using the need these kinds of maneuvers to subdue suspects and also no knock warrants when heavily armed police often late at night when people are sleeping break into people's homes often for nonviolent reasons for example drug drug charges drug warrants startling people and this often leads to deaths for both police and civilians inside and the most important thing is that these kinds of heavily militarized over reactions from the police disproportionately impact communities of color minorities more so than white communities and these are the kinds of reforms that civil rights activists and legislature legislators across the country are trying to address after decades and decades of these kinds of patterns that we've that we've seen today are part of the craft thank you. in other news trade is flowing through the suez canal again and generics have

finally managed to free the huge container ship blocking the vital waterway tugboats pulled the vessel off of a sand bank allowing it to refloat it halted traffic in both directions for nearly a week 10 percent of global trade passes through the canal in egypt every day. just look at it go. after bringing one of the world's most important waterways to a standstill the 400 meter long ship is moving along at 1.5 knots a salvage team did an excellent job you know we were in a real critical situation when it was touching on both banks and there was real risk of cracking in the center of the ship but the game entirely changed once they got that stern free and were able to pivot it. pivot back parallel to the canal. pressure on rescue workers had been mounting as the maritime traffic jam grew to over $400.00 ships suppliers had to decide whether to wait indefinitely or

sail an additional 7000 kilometers around the african continent for now they can breathe a sigh of relief but questions remain. well i just think this probably goes to show is the fragility perhaps of the global supply ship i mean this is a very significant maritime asiri one of only 2 major canals in the world that you know operate in this way in terms of moving ships from one to another and so i think any blockage that has proven so the you know really really challenging. to ever given its technical managers said initial reports ruled out any mechanical or engine failure as a cause of the accident but human or other technical errors could still be uncovered in the investigation to follow. and let's get more we are joined now by bill cavanaugh who is a ship captain and knows the suez canal well having passed through it on a number of occasions he joins us from cork in ireland our welcome to the program

and thank you for being here nearly a week we have heard to free this vessel. what do you make of that. but certainly a fantastic i decided just cruise on and do to master in crew onboard the ship itself it's been very difficult it's unprecedented it is never happened at this extent before dumping the boat so 75 incidents in the past decade not so that's a pretty good safety record what has happened here is that the bogus bio has become stuck on the east side the channel. is oprah tooting but which increases the fish and sea speeds for these persons for a large vessels because of its shape actually gotten bedroom the side saw the roof to get stern off 1st and doesn't know them to transfer some sort taken palace and discern which lifted the boat off a little bit but it took a long time because it's up obispo becoming and but how difficult is it to navigate the can now. it isn't difficult at all actually except it's busy because they work

in convoys so ships don't normally operation convoys except perhaps in areas where they work in convoys very rare so do the most difficult part is working with any convoy whoever listen to fold because of course our borders north so they wait in the great pressure lake for the other convoy to arrive rather like a sighting in the railway station and it's quite straightforward actually but nevertheless the canal is service very featureless so that would be very much dependent on radar. satellite navigation systems there's so many open questions as to as to why this happened i mean time you know on the ground we know many ships were stuck for days because of this how would that have been you think for the crews on board for example well it's very stressful for crews because are in the middle of this pandemic crews are actually spending more than their contract time aboard a ship just has become very stressful for them some crews are spending up to one year on order ships they cannot go home many countries will not allow them to come

home to pass through the airports about parenting they're missing their families or missing their children underscore a stressful for them so any kind of delay like this would be an additional stress for kreutz any proactive measures that you can think of or perhaps recommend that you think might prevent something like this from happening again. it's almost impossible to prevent human error or errors like this happening but we can mitigate or reduce the possibility of those errors happening again and there are a few things or could happen from the initial information we have for example there should be a maximum speed for vessels transiting the canal in these types of ships this vessel was doing 30 knots at the time the incident and one would argue that perhaps 7 knots would be fast enough 48200000 ton ship to connection of talks to the bow and stern is old times for making ships would also mitigate an instant like this

because if they did very well for suddenly at least the top would be able to. hold their own course to a certain extent and of course there is going to be a need to rewrite the standard operating procedures for it so it's going out because they're going to need it better contingency planning in place just in case something like this happens again in other words what if captain bill kavanah in cork ireland thank you thank you. let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world brazilian president. has carried out a cabinet reshuffle as he comes under pressure for his handling of the pandemic the foreign minister and the arapaho is among 3 ministers leaving the government has been widely criticized for damaging brazil's international ties and aggravating the pandemic by alienating back seemed suppliers. chinese leaders have approved a sweeping overhaul of hong kong's electoral system the legislature will be

expanded to 90 seats with only 20 elected by the public china has been tightening its grip on the territories since a wave of anti-government protest some 2 years ago. the us has suspended a trade deal with me on maher and response to the military's increasing violence against pro-democracy protesters the u.s. says that the suspension will remain in place until a democratically elected government is restored security forces killed over 100 civilians on saturday the deadliest day since the military coup 2 months ago the so-called islamic state has claimed responsibility for attacks in mozambique dozens of people were killed and many survivors walked for days to escape the violence in the coastal town of palma the area is a hub for international gas projects. and kosovo has become the last country in europe to begin vaccinating people against

a covert one team the prime minister there was the 1st to get the job that's after the international kovacs program delivered a batch of the astra zeneca vaccine. and here are some more developments in the coronavirus pandemic. the number of patients in intensive care units in france is approaching a new patient climbing to more than 4800 doctors are warning they may have to start turning away patients johnson and johnson says that it will start delivering its single shot vaccine to europe on april 19th which should help the continent speed up its sluggish vaccination drive and england is easing restrictions slightly as of today people are allowed to meet in small groups and can resume outdoor sports such as basketball tennis and golf. well from today everyone flying into germany from abroad will have to show a negative coronavirus test before boarding their plane the new measure coming into effect as germany battles

a sharp rise in corona virus infections with nearly 10000 daily cases fueled by new virus variants until now only passengers flying from so-called high risk areas were required to show those negative tests but the health ministry says that it's concerned about thousands of german tourists expected to head to majorca over the easter holidays the spanish island was taken off of the list of high risk countries earlier this. spring indeed deputy chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda tell us i mean we just heard about these thousands of germans who will be traveling abroad now over easter is this what the german government had in mind with these new control measures in order to bring this 3rd wave of the pandemic under control. no it's definitely not what the german government had in mind obviously with highly infectious new variants that are transmitted through person to person contact any additional mobility like travel is risky and therefore

there were many debates between the federal government and regional german leaders about forbidding travel even within germany which greatly frustrated regions in the country that very much depend on tourism over easter and now we have this very strange uptick of travel within the country bitten but people packing their bags and heading abroad so in fact the federal government looked into the option of an international travel ban as well but apparently concluded that the legal and political hurdles to that were simply too high and we have. often heard from chancellor merkel that she as a former citizen of communist east germany is profoundly aware of the fact that

travel is one of the basic freedoms gag guaranteed by the german constitution so clearly that is one reason that the government decided against that path and for this testing strategy in stepped and now that the testing is being applied well and how are people reacting. well of the most travelers seem to be absolutely taking it in stride and in fact my york one of the most beloved destinations for german travelers is making it easy for them setting up the testing centers at the by york at airports and that they can get their tests right before they return and i think one of the big questions will be how effective will all of this because the fact is even if you have a negative test result and let's say it's 24 to 48 hours old what's happened in the meantime clearly there is additional risk here and we'll have to

see how that plays out meantime melinda you know there's there's a lot of talk in the country about you know the tension between angela merkel the chancellor and also state and regional leaders tell us a little bit more about that and how it's playing out. well in fact the the chancellor threw down the gauntlet as it were and very sternly warning to some of those regional leaders that in her opinion they are not following the procedures that had been agreed upon that when infection rates rise to a certain level that they must apply a so-called emergency brake that would impose a sensually new lockdown and curfews and other more restrictive measures and she issued this warning interesting really enough in national television on sunday night which is unusual so clearly she is very very concerned about the

3rd wave and the dangers that it poses we saw some of the regional leaders who had been directly addressed in her warning words essentially pushing back yesterday and saying they will stick by their strategies a cautious opening combined with more frequent and widespread testing but none of them is directly. going into the for a frontal battle with her for example of the mayor of lynn who is set to hold a press conference said that if the federal government thinks it needs more responsibility and control over corona policy then it should by all means avail itself of that and we will be hearing more from berlin later today about where they are heading with their strategy chief political correspondent mohammed crane thank you. well every day in germany

a man tries to kill his partner or x. partner one in 3 attempts are successful. now figures show that germany has the highest number of reported femicide murders of women or girls because of their gender domestic violence is on the rise in the country and activists say that the criminal justice system is failing the victims met with one woman who survived extreme violence at the hands of her partner. but you know there have been. anger and grief follow the latest case a femicide in berlin activists from the national work against them aside want to establish this location as a place to denounce violence against women and girls. one of the activists is j. . she survived an act of extreme violence a few years ago her ex partner almost killed her. he locked me up for 10 hours and

choked me until i was nearly unconscious he did this over and over again i was certain i was going to die and he said that he was going to kill me. it started when psychological abuse crept into the relationship slowly their interactions became more and more violent when jane tried to end the relationship the violence escalated in course jane was forced to justify why i should not try to end things sooner. with puts us on the court process was almost more traumatizing than the incident itself or the entire relationship i felt i was being accused as much as the perpetrator was. experts are calling for more gender based training for the judiciary prosecutors and police who deal with cases of domestic violence. we need more measures for working with offenders we need nationwide interdisciplinary case management so we can better

assess and react to the risk level of those affected in many femicide cases there were red flags instead of being prevented these situations as. these women are now engaged in the fight against gender based violence so they can spare others from what they have experienced themselves. gives me strength is empowers me i also feel it's a kind of self-defense when we join together and go out on the streets we are making ourselves on time aside visible. jane and other activists are demanding that femicide snow longer be treated as so-called family dramas or isolated cases in the immigrant community 2 as with the case of home until a mother and daughter who were murdered in berlin year. now

the coronavirus pandemic has seen many countries for strict entry and discourage international travel so many people have been staycation ing instead of going on holiday within their own nation's borders of these tourists in south korea who have been discovering their very own purple islands. no there's nothing wrong with your screen these islands really are purple from the purple roofs roads and bridges to the lavender fields and even the locals working in them. in the morning i dress up in purple from head to toe even including my underwear and shoes and it makes me happy when i go to other cities like. people praise me as i am from the purple islands and i feel great to hear that. well. inspired by native flower and government tourism initiative residents of the ban will and back she islands in

southwest korea have cleverly transformed their town's into a tourist attraction more than $4000000.00 u.s. dollars have gone into purpling up pretty much everything there are all purple hotels and restaurants and there's even purple food. we couldn't travel overseas due to covert 19 so we thought about a local trip instead and we found these purple so i'm here with my friends and we're all dressed up in purple it's amazing and looks like fairy tales and magic as i'm seeing the grandmas are all wearing purple clothes to it's dreamy for. visitors who wear the magic color are allowed free entry to the islands they can stroll along the 3 purple foot bridges connecting the island and if they get tired they can take a break on one of these benches i purple you was made popular by a member of the k. pop band b.t.s.

and something which attracts even more visitors. imo big b.t.s. fare and so there's many places there are in korea that i wanted to visit because of a connection with the yes this is one place that i had seen online and i thought it was so beautiful and wanted to come over when i came it's true it's just as beautiful as in all the pictures i didn't know that it even would have this year so it's really nice to see all these things as a fan little more than 100 people actually live on the purple islands and then mainly elderly farmers they say they're happy about the tourists now visiting their home even if some do were the wrong color. and i'll take a look at these pictures from india where people have been celebrating holi of the hindu festival of colors a festival celebrates the victory of good over evil as crowds through colored powder at each other as is tradition this. years celebration coming amid the coronavirus pandemic in india there were more than 68000 new cases in the past 24

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