gabriel elizondo our correspondent covering today's events in minneapolis i'll read it again i'm sorry i've done this before but i will again if your name is on a person's net it can kill them that seems to be the most obvious thing that we have heard in the past 5 days and yet i almost didn't see it coming there it really hit you when he said that. it does i mean whenever you see that video of chauvinist need on george floyd's neck you think you have that could kill a man right that could kill somebody so it's sort of obvious in a way or come all but when you hear it from this lieutenant who's a homicide detective who works or worked i should say alongside derek show and in the same police department it really hits home because this is damaging testimony for the defense because it's basically one of the top officials in the police department basically saying what this officer did what my colleague did yes it can kill a man and yes it did kill a man it seems like so i mean this is just this damaging testimony on so many different levels one of the more powerful moments of this trial in

addiction dominated their relationship drug use is expected to become a major focus of the trial gabriel elizondo reports now from minneapolis just a warning that some of the pictures you're about to see you may find disturbing. this image of george floyd adopted by the black lives matter movement after his death is recognized all over the world as a symbol of police brutality and it is based on a selfie kind of this. that's according to georgia girlfriend courtney ross who was the 1st to testify on day 4 of the derek show of and murder trial. in her often emotional testimony she described how the pair met in 2017 when floyd was working as a security guard upon questioning she also described how they fell into addiction. of. mine was. it was an apparent attempt by the prosecution to get ahead of a central plank of chauvinist defense team's argument that it was the drugs that killed george floyd and not the officers more than a 9 minute choke hold in their defense attorney eric nelson questioned ross about a drug overdose floyd had in march as a court session was ongoing ben crump the floyd family

that trayvon was decision to deal floyd snake was a totally unnecessary act of deadly foals gabriel elizondo has more from minneapolis. at the end of the 1st week of the derek show vun murder trial may have lacked the tearful emotion of the previous days but for the defense team it was perhaps the most devastating the jury her. from one of the highest ranking members of the minneapolis police force lieutenant richard zimmerman a nearly 40 year veteran and a homicide detective he was called onto the scene in the aftermath of floyd's arrest and subsequent death to investigate in no uncertain terms he condemned show vince use of his knee choke hold on george floyd. what is your. you know your view that use of force. necessary what do you mean. pulling him down to the ground. and putting your knee on a knack for. that amount of time. is just. uncalled for. i saw no reason why the officers felt they were in danger if that's what they felt. and that's what they would have to feel to be able to use a kind of force. in an exclusive interview with 0 after the court proceedings had been adjourned for

thank you very much gabriel elizondo following the trial there in minneapolis. at least 54 people have died in taiwan's worst rail disaster unmanned a truck rolled on to the track just as a train was approaching a tunnel in the east of the island nearly 500 people were on board and many survivors had to climb out of the wreckage the accident happened at the start of the chain link festival when people return to ancestral villages to clean the graves of their relatives or taiwan has a vast train network with more than a 1000 kilometers of railway tracks transporting more than 200000000 passengers every year the dramatic mountainous scenery in the east makes it a popular tourist draw which means the eastern row a line is heavily used winding its way through towering mountains and deep valleys the train derailed just north of the city of haile en while traveling from taipei to thai tongue adrian brown reports. it was the rescue team scramble to reach passengers trapped in the front are accused carriages that folded into each other after coming off the rails as the

there is gabriel elizondo has been following the trial in minneapolis. this is hugely significant testimony that came here on friday in the courthouse here in minneapolis because it's very rare that you will see police officers testifying against one of their own lieutenant richard zimmerman with some of the most damning testimony that we've seen all week against the actions taken by officer derrick shoaf and lieutenant zimmerman has been on the police force here in minneapolis for nearly 40 years he's one of the most senior police officers in the entire minneapolis police department zimmerman when he was on the stand said that the actions taken by derek show often were wrong and inappropriate and should not have been taken he said that officers while they do have the right to use force of course. they are trained to when they are told to stop using potential deadly force and he said that in all circumstances that see he saw here there was no justification whatsoever for the actions that derrick show of and took against george floyd for as we know now 9

a little after 1 pm in minneapolis gabriel elizondo is our correspondent says they are gabriel let's start with courtney ross then that tricky moment where the prosecution introduces a witness one which can potentially help the defense's account of things but it's a case of getting out of the story of drugs and getting out early. yeah that's absolutely right i mean it's no secret that the defense is going to say that it was . drugs in their opinion in george floyd's system that led to his death and it was not derrick show fans need the defense has said that in their opening statements that is probably the key part of the entire defense argument and so the prosecution is saying we're not going to sit here and pretend this didn't happen we're not going to wait until the defense decides to bring this up we're going to address it straight away and that is what they were essentially trying to do here but the defense on cross-examination now also the defense attorney for derek show off and then started to ask even more questions about the drugs it's a key part of this trial so much so that

lawyer says the investigation is politically motivated and called the raids illegal flickery gabriel elizondo is in new york with more on the investigation federal investigators are closing in on rudy giuliani and that their investigation into his him that has been going on for more than 2 years is advancing and advancing significantly also for federal investigators to raid a home such as this of a suspect they need to get permission from a judge in order in order to get that permission they need to show the judge that they have a reasonable amount of evidence that the person the suspect committed a serious crime so clearly they have been able to convince a judge because they clearly got the authorization they needed to carry out this raid at d.o.j. and any federal agents are not commenting at all about this raid but the new york times and others are reporting from sources that federal agents confiscated several elektra onic devices from giuliani's home and we're also finding out late on wednesday now that there are raids of more people as well associates of rudy giuliani outside of new york