a jury finds a minneapolis police officer jared shogun guilty on all charges in the killing of george floyd last year the case has been closely watched with years earlier of an arrest in case of an acquittal. a medical intern commits suicide every 18 days in france as the pandemic pushes trainee doctors to the breaking point. british doctors and nurses are also buckling under the strain of the pandemic with one health worker describing stuff as an and father.

are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us we start with breaking news this hour former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin has been convicted of murder and manslaughter in the death of george floyd a black man he arrested last year he was immediately taken into custody side the court you're looking at live pictures right now there's crowds i wouldn't say celebrating is is the exact word but gathering in solidarity over the verdict several 100 people have come out onto the streets and have stopped the traffic in the area the sentencing of shelving will be in 10 days when he could face up to 40 years in prison with more details on the case here's our correspondent. the whole

country and many people around the world are watching as that verdict came in this was the police officer who is seen on tape taking the life of george floyd and that video recorded in. sparked a huge episode of unrest all throughout the united states the country seems to almost go up in flames as amid the pandemic people saw that video and were just filled with outrage let's review what happened in reaction to the killing now which has been declared a murder george floyd. so

now the officer on film taking george floyd's life his he is now a convicted murderer the jury came back and on all 3 counts was convicted of the trial and you have the defense arguing that it was actually it was

a drug related death that wasn't actually the officers fault the jury just did not buy it a lot of testimony a lot of evidence was shown and the jury has convicted officer derek show. now it's important to know that an appeal is expected at this point many have looked into the situation surrounding the trial and said that if the process if the defense does not appeal this verdict it would be highly unlikely there won't be an appeal right now sentencing is set to take place within 8 weeks and he was not granted bail he was not released he was remanded taken into custody meaning they do expect that he could be a possible flight risk and so he will be awaiting sentencing behind bars so this is quite a dramatic moment now in the lead up to today's verdict we saw a lot of businesses and you know being boarded up we saw the national guard deployed the military you know on standby all kinds of police assembling with you know riot gear and such and it's likely if we hadn't seen

a guilty verdict today that there would already be unrest in the streets but it appears at the moment that the anger about police brutality which you know flows from you know communities throughout the united states we heard statements from joe biden and other elected officials saying that they hoped jovan was convicted jovan has been convicted officer derrick show been who's on tape killing george floyd is now a convicted murderer guilty on all 3 charges so many anticipate we won't be seeing the unrest that many feared if the trial had gone the other way but an appeal most likely will be in the works sentencing is not for another 8 weeks so questions still remain but at the moment it looks like the black lives matter movement would consider itself at this point to be victorious. and french union has sounded the alarm at shocking suicide rates among hospital trainees with thousands of interns working around the clock during the pandemic the head of the union says that the

pressure is taking a catastrophic toll. in a terrible situation known since the start of john you were there has been one suicides among men to go into it's every 18 days. dubinsky has more on the crisis facing frontline medics and friends. just to give you a sense most interns are supposed to be working a 48 hour week that's more than most people would generally in a week but we know they were more than that sometimes around 60 hours in a normal week but that union told r.t. that during the code 900 pandemic things are so bad that some interns are working up to 100 hours every week. this is got worse during the pandemic but it was already a serious before out of also sides among medics 25 percent were interns in the monger attempted suicides it was 70 percent 4 percent of trainees had attempted suicide and that was before the current crisis before an intern worked

a 58 hour week much of that in surgery and that's got worse during the pandemic it rose to 60 hours than 70 hours than 80 and in paris up to 100 hours so weak so it's exhausting now that union has told r.t. that they need to be immediate action to alleviate the situation and the pressure for the interns now they've met with the health minister here in france in the last few days and he has said that they will be measures put in place to once the end of the summer to try and find a solution to that but the union said that's not soon enough well as the couvade crisis continues to buy taylor in france it looks as if there is no rest bite that's going to come at least in the next few weeks even months for doctors nurses and of course those into really it seems that despite the fact that france is now in this lockdown the needs and demands on medical staff from doctors right the

way down to those interns is as much as it ever was. we spoke to a woman whose daughter worked in a clinic and took her own life in 2911 before the pandemic began. mother has now set up an organization representing the families of internes who have committed suicide during the code crisis she says working conditions have been unacceptable for years. but my daughter died of professional burnout because of the conditions for work and started as and because of the complete absence of measures to prevent psychosocial risks in the hospital where she works in every situation every death is unique in the context it's always different specialties places work let ellis cases are clearly related to working conditions they were overwhelmed at work there were also cases of harassment and study pressure but what they all have in common is that working conditions made them more psychologically vulnerable they weren't

like that in the 1st place if we wait till summer how many more will die is this acceptable to hear from the health minister that it will wait and accept the fact that by summer we'll lose another 5 or 6 people until we finally have time to solve the problem no their loss we should follow them full staff will. stand it is not just france one senior health worker in the u.k. has described their role as cannon fodder stuff have been treated like cannon fodder if i didn't need the money i would have resigned which is soul destroying because they used to love my job but now it feels more with dread and permanent exhausted the latest polls show the extreme pressure u.k. health workers are under more than 90 percent want a significant pay raise with the government's one percent offer described as insulting and 2 in 3 have considered quitting in the past year but the government claims that many n.h.s. staff are getting much more than a one percent raise over 1000000 n.h.s.

staff continue to benefit from multi-year pay deals agreed with trade unions which have delivered a pay rise of over 12 percent for newly qualified nurses and will increase junior doctors pay scales by 8.2 percent we spoke to dr john put into this co-chair of our n.h.s. public who says workers are worn out. well i think this is a real wake up call the government has to do something i mean n.h.s. managers are not know they could be vocal in their criticisms of government but this is a survey which shows they are extremely worried about how the service will ringback be able to continue i think they feel absolutely worn out so overwhelmed at one point that there were 50000 staff off sick with crew so not saying you were people covering for those but they were then coverage for a huge amounts of safety and this really means that all the stops being pulled out

and that many people who also have to step up in so it was it doing work that would normally be above day great if you like but nurses standing in a doing work there at the job i don't see true self was so they've taken on that issue your response to this is so i think there really is a feeling of exhaustion and i think the one percent pay off for live governments is really insulting particularly when a 2 percent rise it already been busted for and this is left start feeling very sick moralized i'm cared for and worthless frankly. the indian capital new delhi has imposed a week long lockdown after a deadly surgeon covered the cases fatalities head a daily record on tuesday bringing the nationwide total to more than $180000.00 hospitals across the nation are severely overcrowded meaning new coma patients are

simply being turned away there are widespread reports of ambulances loaded with bodies dropping them off at a criminal or hymns and it is feared the official death toll could mask the true scale of the crisis public health expert a man told us that the situation is dire. the indian situation right now is very grim grim and there's some really you know continued to go. it would be very difficult for them to sort of look to you know really explore i think the current situation for an environment is will be to really ensure that they have enough supply for the domestic population but to your question about exports i think that is something which will now have to be the. the bigger issue is the lack of diagnosis because there are cases where people are not able to take over 19 through the regular testing and to go for a different mccann ism and also i think the other challenge which is emerging is

that it's hitting the population of a younger age which was not the case in the in the wee one. on monday india registered 273000 covert infections with numbers remaining close to record highs but while the caseload soars the vaccine rollout is failing to keep up only a small fraction of the population has been inoculated this is despite being the world's largest vaccine producer manufacturing many of the shots used in the west india has also signed up to produce 200000000 doses for up to 92 countries as part of the w h o's kovacs program although those supplies are now on hold the government has moved to restrict vaccine exports to make up for the domestic shortfall dr j. from the delhi medical association told us that india can no longer afford to send its shots abroad.

he. did nor. so many see. the impact on the herd immunity on the coverage of. it when we go for india. well to keep peace they didn't do they sure obligation in the institution were. wrong for their countries. depending on india. says. after allegations of sexual misconduct and a mismanaging the pandemic the governor of new york has yet another scandal on his hands andrew cuomo is now being investigated for using state funds to write his new book is called american crisis leadership lessons from the covert 1000 pandemic and much of the work in compiling the memoir was done by cuomo staffers while receiving state salaries cuomo steam denies any wrongdoing the idea that there was

criminality involved to speak english certain it's facing this just the furthering of a political pile on any state official who volunteered to assist on this project did so on his own time and without the use of state resources earlier this year andrew cuomo was accused of downplaying the true death toll in new york state care homes cuomo has accepted some blame but denied a deliberate cover up tracey of ino assistant director of voices for seniors which represents the rights of care on patients thinks the book was poorly timed he doesn't know cuomo. we're in the middle of a pandemic people are dying and you had time to write a book that was my 1st thought it was adding insult to injury of felt like i got hunched in the gut all of the families felt the same way he he dares to write a book when we're suffering and people are dying

a just it's unconscionable it's amazing that the deaths of over 15000 innocent senior citizens wasn't the nail in the coffin so to speak for governor cuomo as a governorship if that that's the most egregious cranleigh the sextet that bad the book deal that's bad too but there's nothing worse agree just than the mass deaths of over 15000 innocent senior citizens if that didn't get him out of office what will get him out of all its i'm very hopeful voice is for seniors organization i represent requested that the comptroller teac this stat of referring an investigation to the attorney general and new york has a weird law as it's just a technicality that he would have to do that and being that she's looking into the book that it does give her jurisdiction to look into other avenues regarding the nursing homes so we are very hopeful that this is just the beginning of justice for

all of these innocent people. watching arch international mourners after a short break there with us. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person with those great. sinks. we dare to ask.

them back this is arch international now by min ministration has apologized for what it called donald trump's renegade approach to the climate crisis or he's juggling volga asks if this could unleash a flood of overdue confessions from the white house. we are very sorry for

the last 4 years with a president who didn't care about science fair enough right from pulling out of the paris agreement kashyap waves around the world and one of the 1st things biden did after bumping trump out of the white house was to rejoin it i'm all we're at it maybe there's some other things from the past 4 years you guys want to apologize for on behalf of trump there's plenty to choose from though that could take a while and dems were pretty vocal about condemning all that stuff at the time so maybe that's a given so what about apologizing for biden's controversial past stance as he's had a long political career after all and then there's the whole inappropriate touching thing i'm sorry this happened but but i'm not sorry in the sense that i think i did anything that was intentionally designed to do anything wrong or be inappropriate ok not quite taking responsibility there maybe it's only about apologizing for past administrations so if anyone searching for ideas on where to start look no further let's start with the biggie the 1st and only use of atomic bombs in

a war it's been over 75 years since hiroshima and nagasaki were devastated by the actions of the us but not even obama was willing to make apologies for that in the midst of war leaders make all kinds of decisions it's the job of historians to. ask questions and examine them ok how about another war where dangerous weapons were used agent orange in vietnam for example and let's not forget about that forever war that biden has just promised to actually end after 20 years of bloodshed we cannot continue the cycle of the extending or expanding our military presence in afghanistan hoping to create ideal conditions for the draw and expect you to different result that withdrawal speech surprisingly didn't come with a sorry for overstaying our welcome section but if those examples are too controversial why not start a little smaller. and apologize for the treatment and persecution of julian assange

perhaps even drop the charges against him since his case threatens the very idea of journalistic freedoms but now what was i thinking how dare a whistleblower expose misconduct by the u.s. government's point is if apologies are going to be handed out there are plenty of people waiting in the wings to hear them but something tells me that isn't going to happen i'll never apologize for the united states of america ever i don't care what the facts are at all bush sr telling it like it is. new zealand is having 2nd thoughts over its role in the us led 5 eyes intelligence alliance the country's foreign minister expressed her alarm over the groupings anti china stance it's a matter that we have raised with 5 eyes partners that we are uncomfortable with expanding their remit or the 5 eyes relationship that we would much rather prefer looking for multilateral opportunities to express how we interests on a number of issues the 5 eyes alliance involves the us britain australia canada and

new zealand there has been a traditional focus on defense intelligence with agencies sharing data ranging from satellite images to surveillance and they have only recently ventured into openly political statements now the main target of that has been china which is new zealand's largest trading partner last spring the 5 eyes minus new zealand publicly accused of violating the rights of the minority and hong kong protesters back then beijing responded with a stern warning. no matter if they had 5 eyes that is. china's sober insist security and development interests but with is being moved and wind our former british military intelligence officer philip ingram thinks the political statements coming from the 5 eyes have no real impact on intelligence activities. it's a it's purely a political discussion that's going on and relationships in the southern hemisphere

between australia new zealand china and a lot of the other major players over there are going to be different to those that are northern hemisphere best with the us canada and the u.k. and it's not unusual that you're going to get different differences in foreign policy from an intelligence perspective the stance isn't changing the comments from the new zealand foreign minister were all to do with trade and trade relationships new zealand are in a perfect perfect lot as a sovereign country to make the room foreign policy decisions the 5 eyes community and we'll discuss it and suggest areas that may be of mutual interest but there's no compulsion and there's no international agreements to work with and therefore the nothing more than further discussions going on between diplomats at the appropriate level. the search for germany's next leader is turning into unpopularity contest after the country's most popular politician pulled out in

favor of one of its least liked arm in russia it is now the front runner to replace chancellor merkel after september's elections and he's peter oliver has more. well it's put to bed what had been weeks months certainly a very tense last few hours of debate and discussion over exactly who would be standing for the chancellorship from the concert of union here in germany that's made up of the christian democratic union party and the christian social union party they're very an outfit we do know now it will be arm in lash it is the 60 year old leader of the state of north rhine-westphalia has been put forward by the party and agreed on by the party as their next counterfeit and angela merkel has just given him her blessing in september's election it comes after markets who's the leader of the state of bavaria gave a concession speech on tuesday lunchtime that followed on from they

a vote which the top brass of the party gave their backing to unlatch it. had said that he would respect whatever the result of the vote was and he's done just starting to do for us if i do is cast in last it will be the c.d.u. c.s.u. candidate for chancellor my word which i have given stands i told him that we as the c.s.u. accept it we offered him our full support the christian democratic union top brass may have given their backing to our men lash it but that doesn't mean that senior conservatives across the board are in favor of the man from north rhine-westphalia in fact we've heard from marcus billionaire who's the secretary general of the christian social union this was speed him speaking on monday saying he wanted market soda for the job and he wasn't the only one it's been a week of deliberation no the days of decision come are over for is marcus is it

inspires the union and people across the country we are experiencing a great response from marcus now it's time for the city you. very much seen as the continuity candidate when it comes to christian democratic. union policy market zada would have represented certainly a bit of a change there's never been a chancellor from the christian social union in fact the union of the 2 parties only ever put forward a c.s.u. chancellor 2 times before neither of course were successful in that final ballot when you look at a poll that came out on tuesday morning it's quite clear that recording to this poll by the german broadcast r.t.l. the public really quite fun seed markets as the next chancellor to do a bit more context when the public were asked if they would vote for an unnamed celebrity from outside of politics 6 percent said they would do that a lot of eyes will be looking on the how the vaccination program across germany

develops during the 2nd quarter of 2021 a lot of hope was packed behind in the 2nd quarter would be when germany's very slow and sluggish vaccination program got back on track what we are looking at and where the smart money is going at the moment if you were to bet on these type of things would be on a coalition between the conservative union and the green party now the greens announce their chancellor candidates on monday that will be. bach she's the 1st chancellor counted at the green party of put forward the greens currently all around 21 percent of opinion polls they'll be hoping they can try and get more than that because they see themselves potentially leading the next government that would be a big shake up in german politics but there is a long time to go yet between now and that election on the 24th of september we heard from peter by

a buddhist dog member from the alternative for germany party he thinks i'm in the lodge that nomination could prove a fatal blow for a german conservatives in the long run. this is quite normal in this. day don't care what the people want america even don't care was what they on members were on the party that isn't reaching this awful. system because even now we have a chancellor who has a not to make jory c.e.o. of the people behind her you know angle america was elected just with some 5536 percent and the riad going to have again chancellor who will have just some 30 percent then he has. he must look for a top notch and now it's going to be most probably a coalition between. the conservative party and the greens and of course of course it is this is on a long distance that short to c.d.u. c.s.u.

because they used to be conservative but with this politics they are not conservative anymore. there's a free in this rundown i'll be back in let's say 31 minutes with another full and fresh look should new stay with us. happened and another one of the highest dimmock on the way to go through a food. bank itself movie theater on the plaza in this way got to dog through hard luck the feet on the other disappeared the city look at them look like they are one and i know from the start then if. this is the only thing that we do is music because everybody fights to use food weight.

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