continue with this war are not broke out of this country and who are not in jail for their walk right this is also not acceptable as the mother of general a member of the left in the european parliament thank you so much for joining us on with that assessment thank you. and meanwhile hong kong electoral system is getting a sweeping overhaul seen by many as another nail in the coffin for the pro-democracy movement lawmakers in beijing approve the reforms which will see elected seats to hong kong's legislative council slashed and the number of beijing approved officials increased a vetting committee has also been set up to monitor candidates to ensure they are loyal to the mainland the measures are seen as the most significant attempt to rein in hong kong's opposition since the territory was handed over to china from britain in 1997. and the chinese ministry of foreign affairs gave a statement about the electoral reforms a short while ago sometimes should you the purpose of improving the electoral

system is to gradually develop the constitutional order of hong kong and the democratic system in line with the actual situation there to better reflect the balance political participation of residents to take into account the interests of all sectors of society and to safeguard the long term development of hong kong and then. and for more on this let's bring in correspondent phebe kong who joins us now from hong kong so maybe tell us more about these reforms. this reform has effectively recessed almost all of the actual rules in hong kong this is the most aggressive political overhaul we've seen scenes a whole homes handle for that on one hand beijing tries to the opposition representation by is drastically reducing to directly elected seats in the legislature and the election committee which is wonderful for picking the chief executive and then placing those fake and c.e.o.

with people from government appointed organizations and beijing controlled sectors so i say results for example of the seats in the legislature used to account for the directly elected seats used to account for how the legislature in the past but under the new rules in the future only less than a quarter and on the other hand no matter who wins the election and revel wants to run for it must go through a loti test just by the authorities so on the new can this will be controlled by the government alone and assume the officials will be the batting members who approves the candidacy and they will take up arms from chair except if beijing officials and this is also the very 1st time in hong kong history that the national security police actually have a say to decide which candidate is to be disqualified or not. and we've seen it beijing tried to rein in the pro-democracy movement in several ways in recent times is this really the nail in the coffin for democracy in hong kong. well i

thought of you today they say they argued that the new institution moved represent a more diverse interest off their society because size and composition of the increases but in fact when we look at the numbers of the directly elected seats they are actually which are directly elected by the general public by the general voters in hong kong and these seats are drastically the minute and not to mention a multiple hurdles at it under the new proposal so that. it's getting even more difficult for people to run for election because they have to prove their loyalty and allegiance to beijing firsthand and beijing is really trying every means to ensure there is 0 risk in any election and we can expect that the election results will be more controllable and then before that in the future elections the people as well and peoples of the public opinion will be suppressed and even more under

represented in the future elections speaking of public opinion i mean what has it been is the reaction to this sweeping overhaul. well the general public i can see that people are very concerned because. this is. hard to see as i have mentioned that this is the most aggressive overhaul a huge political blow since the national security law this is a this is an other major change fundamental change in hong kong's politics but this reform has been realized just within the month one thing extensive conservation at a local level and the critics and also of course the opposition came see this as 7 an end of their political career within a political institution because they think beijing is determined to stop all of them from entering the political institution of through elections and elections

used to be one of the few remaining peaceful and legitimate ways but i'm to continue advocacy but now many of the protests have been a lot of the bands and now elections seems that and for them to continue it and look meant and it will be even harder for the opposition camp to continue the advocacy peacefully and safely in the future your correspondent phebe kong in hong kong thank you very much for that update. let's go to the united states now where the trial of a former police officer accused of killing george floyd in the city of minneapolis last year is under way derek chauvin denies murder and manslaughter charges but if he's convicted he could face up to 40 years in jail as the trial open to jurors heard witnesses describe the harrowing final moments of floyd's life. your it's the video that ignited a global movement against police brutality and racism at george lloyd begging for former officer derek show than to get off of him and crying out for his mother

minutes into the trial prosecutors played part of this footage to jirus they said show haven't used excessive force and that they would prove it in the wakes ahead with k. witnesses including the minneapolis police chief show evans defense team put the blame on floyd they said poor health and drugs led to his death the day urge here is to ignore broader calls for social justice 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 the jury also heard from 911 emergency dispatch generally scarry who said that she witnessed floyd's arrest over a closed circuit television feed at an important she called police on shaven and others under his command after growing concerned. my instincts are telling me that something's wrong something not ready i don't know what but something was every.

police charged with killing unarmed black people are rarely convicted in the us civil rights activists say chauvinists not on trial alone that these cases about fairness and humanity we are here to see the case of a man they've used to me. to live. and their brain the man for the marriage. calls for justice that are encouraged by george floyd's family. they can't sweep this though the room joe was flown to learn the cause still they were all killed also because there was more to protect us. but one thing i can tell you we will get justice we would not allow this soldier's call for his crew. to be to chose the prostitutes and execute soon. in the 70s william blue

cross joins us now for more william why is this trial so significant not just for people in the united states but around the world. i mean we saw the protests that were sparked by george floyd's death last year the worst most extreme most widespread civil rights protest social justice protest of the united states as seen in decades and that spread all around the world so definitely touched a nerve for millions and millions of people not just americans here in europe we saw lots of action germany confronting their own demons within the police their own policing issues and as the report noted the u.s. has a long and unfortunate track record of not holding police abuse and extreme use of force to account lack of transparency police officers getting off with very light sentences if any sentences at all you know the infamous case of rodney king from

the early 1990 s. is still with american society still very much a formative moment why police officers in los angeles dragged a black man out of his car and beat him nearly to death and those officers got away scot free basically that led to severe violence and mob mob protests in los angeles that really scarred the city and shaped the community and the relationship with police to this day and we can see we can expect to see much the same as a result of the george floyd incident yes let's turn to the trial at hand i mean what can we expect to see come up in the coming days. well the prosecution wants to focus on this video that's the stare of course their strongest piece of evidence while defense wants to play down the video they point to what they call 50000 other pieces of evidence they want to discuss and bring it to the jury's attention we heard in their report that they want to go with this drug use and poor health

a reasoning for george floyd's death they would have to prove not just that george floyd had a drug problem if he did it all or had poor health if that's true but that that actually led to his death on that day whereas prosecution can turn to medical experts as witness witnesses to determine the cause of death and if they can conclude without a reasonable doubt that that death was homicide then there's your answer then there was homicide so that's really where the 2 sides are going to come down and then the big thing to watch is the shelf and himself is going to testify it's not yet clear if defenses decide if that's in his best interest or not we're going to have to leave it there did he is william clue kroft thank you so much for that update. it's . time for a sports update now with soccer and manchester city have announced that their all time top goal scorer sergio aguero is to leave the club at the end of the season argentina joined the english premier league side in 2011 and went on to score a club a record $257.00 goals but he also claimed 4 championship titles the

32 year old will become a free agent when his contract expires at the end of the current campaign. and for many in the northern hemisphere a long winter is finally over and spring is here and in japan that means cherry blossoms take a look at these stunning pictures this is tokyo's in the grow river the cherry blossom only lasts about a week there and therefore the japanese say it symbolizes the fragility of life and normally people picnic under the trees but this year authorities have asked people not to gather in groups. and coming up next is news asia. stories coming up there are a super spreader events go this one could be huge millions in india ignore social distancing as they celebrate the coming of spring. as man mars military tighten

their grip on power many who camp are leaving what more could the international community be doing. all that and more coming up after a short break with my colleague melissa chan and of course you can always get the latest on our web site dot com or you can follow us on twitter and instagram x.t. w. news i'm claire richardson in berlin for me and the entire team and so much for joining us.

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international community be doing. i'm melissa chan welcome to news asia in india hindus have marked the start of spring with their festival of colors known as holy most years millions of give ots across the country throw colored powder at each other in huge outdoor celebrations this is not most years at a time when corona virus infections in the country are spiking with a growing death toll and more than 60000 new cases a day officials have asked people to socially distance and stay home but they're not and health experts are worried that these unchecked celebrations could turn into covert super spreader events. dancing singing and screaming. thousands packed like sardines

on the streets and inside ancient temples mosques play a performative role it's exactly what public health officials desperately wanted to avoid. that may depend to make that has claimed 860000 indian lives. in the eyes of onlookers of the holiest a festival of joy we throw colors on to each other we have such a good time together nobody gets upset all our problems are forgotten. not all their problems however the. early is a celebration of winter giving way to spring for many though it was when hard facts gave way to blind faith. covert is gone it will come back after holy. war but it's a festival of joy and love we forget everything we forget that there is covert. it was a similar picture in towns and cities across the country as revelers threw caution

and colored pigments to the wind. to look at your distancing the everyone is maintaining social distancing we're trying to keep up with the traditions of our family but by keeping everyone safe. in the capital delhi police took a harder line banning public festivities altogether. you'll be 1st people the 1st of all that are being celebrated now like last night's shabbat bharat and today's festival of holy these should not be celebrated in public instead it should be celebrated in homes in small gatherings so that the coronavirus does not spread i'm glad to say that these guidelines have been followed to a great extent and till now no violations have been reported. the widespread rule breaking comes over time of rising infection rates meaning indians may well face of prolonged hangover from holy celebrations that most of them never

took part in. joining us is alarmed by an expert in global health and health policy he's based in bhopal india a man to put the celebration and people coming together in context what impact will the celebrations hath. thank you for having me so i think the body is that since you have had a bone in the number of cases across many states and then that that that he said we can maybe actually at least in the patients they were before the festival there was also something about out and bomb sunday was a renewal that a lot of people had social interactions happening many states that try to put on them but i think in many places and people went out. of the city did not qualify because their foster homes in many cases and that might lead to potential sput again it makes unfortunate because already in some parts of me they have system is starting to. put out that the number of pieces of effort lead i think. do

you feel that authorities did do enough to try to prevent these gatherings. but in some states they did announce equipment for individuals still in the senate babies festivals within their families within their households and to north branch out in other places it seems that these requests many warnings were not heeded and there have been a lot of visual share of maasai patients and those as we know can often lead to clustering of cases and i guess you don't have to track and see if that indeed holds true in the meantime you know this is a method that we need to really make sure that we're putting the brakes on the sped up infection like last summer we might have been had some pretty soon. let's put this a bit more in context more than 1300000000 people in the country that's a lot of arms that need vaccine jabs at this rate how is it looking in are you

worried particularly given the new more contagious strains of the corona virus. it's certainly cause for concern only under less than 4 percent of india's population has received one of those of the vaccine the number of people who have received more dollars as is under one person of the population so as you can see there is still a significant section of the population which need to be got work and this includes those were most at risk you know not everyone who's deadly or not everyone who's color who has a home already has yet been vaccinated. interest in getting vaccinated has been low in some parts of the country and i think that reinforces the importance for more community engagement and outreach to try to get our coverage straight again you know vaccination is only one of the but we need to also ensure that there is if you get into public health parsons and the kind of you know critique that you see in this aspect is something to what you're. now india is

a global powerhouse when it comes to vaccine manufacturing i'm a little chariots are we seeing any vaccine nationalism there the way we've seen it elsewhere are are people asking why are we exporting all these vaccines when our citizens need them as much. it seems certainly there's been some oysters towards that but you know to investigate it i think india has stepped forward and you know actively exported back seems to many countries say that's a cool act ought to do that india is the company manufacturing accidents and then to have done and the government types in the data that that having been said as the author he saw there is a big gap in dumps of number of people who need to be vaccinated in india and the government has indicated that they might have that on topics on. you know domestic needs. in income brackets and to allowing export so we might see at least for the next short while and some beginning of the next well it's admitting to using focus on domestic exploration needs but i am hopeful that in devon continue showing its

leadership in depth of sharing maxime's with other parts of the world especially as annoyed with the country. and i'm spun thank you so much for joining us. nearly 2 months since the military seized power in myanmar the protest movement shows no signs of slowing down this weekend saw the deadliest day of violence since the coup began with at least 107 people including children killed demonstrations are intensifying with the military increasingly willing to take lives in their attempt to maintain power on monday pro-democracy protesters in yangon clashed with security forces the group assistance association for political prisoners says 4000 people were killed across the country bringing the total death toll to more than $500.00 thousands more have been detained those who can are considering leaving the

and mar and the instability. joining us is a man tonto until very recently was in myanmar covering the coup and protests from day one but is now in bangkok a you decided to leave for your own safety since journalists have been targeted how difficult was it logistically to exit so there's a few difficulties in trying to exit the purse is simply cost flights right now commercial flights to mir are in from there are pretty much stopped right now and that's pretty much just really flights which not only pirate haifa the nationals of the nations are going to but also tend to cost a little bit more than normal commercial flights and there's only a few flights out every day and of course you're not the only one making this decision tell us more about what's happening who is trying to leave and is the government trying to stop some people from leaving. so use your scene number of people leaving especially the big cities not everyone is going abroad quite

a lot of people have gone back to either their ancestral villages or back to more rural areas where they either have families or friends or some sort of other because we are seeing a lot of the violence concentrated in major cities like mandalay and young girl and you also see people crossing into india of thailand about 3000 people have recently and to thailand from myanmar in terms of going abroad and what you're seeing is a cohort of people who are definitely more privileged people who had a house or to begin with which is not easy in myanmar especially if you're not considered sort of one of the indigenous races or if you have multi multi racial background and it can be quite difficult to get a passport so you're seeing a lot of journalists who have been working for international organizations as well as staff from those and just other people who have kind of ties to the international community in some way well let's pivot to the international community

and what it can or should do on monday the u.s. announced it would suspend all trade with myanmar to something like that matter. it can't but you know i think since the very beginning people have criticized sanctions the past for being too general for herding with general myanmar population and you know you really saw people trying to have targeted sanctions against individuals and against specific companies but something like the sort of broad banning of trade it could mean that the average for most of the service being more hurt than the sort of military and then the interests that are really truck behind this could. i think that's also complicated by the fact that most of them are straight is with. countries in the region so r.c.n. as well as countries like china and india where a lot of agricultural products as well as resources of minerals go out and so you

know it can make a difference and it will hurt but it won't have that much of an effect at it and then the u.n. security council is meeting on wednesday does it matter if they issue a statement condemning what's happening in yet maher. it could but that also has to balance with the fact that. representatives from russia and china both of whom are on the u.n. security council attended the parades and celebrations on armed forces day on saturday where over 100 people were killed so you know and a statement should one come out will feel quite hollow especially since russia on saturday as people were getting massacred in the streets so that they were looking to strengthen ties with and remember terry so it will really seem like you know maybe they capitulated russia and china dead to sort of this global pressure but on

the ground they might not act in a way that is in line with those words. thank you so much for joining us. that's it for today thank you for watching we're back tomorrow see you then and goodbye. the fight against the corona virus pandemic. has the rate of infection been developing what does the latest research say. information and context around a virus update 19 special. on t.w. . every day comes for us and

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