what are the other things that you consider in terms of why to lose somebody to another location. so we heard he has at last arrived from work what are the things that you take into account when deciding whether to move to another location. is moving into the ambulance was equipment was a consideration of the. being in a good environment to resuscitate and it do you also. think you may have testified about this but it does require focus on your heart yes and. are all of those things part of your consideration on a scene about you know. i'm just moments.

might just be taking another little side moment in the court in minneapolis if you are just joining us 1730 g.m.t. which is 12 30 pm. in minnesota on day 4 of the derek show. trial and we've been hearing. from seth brevan who is one of the paramedics who attended on scene. and a nother cross-examination now from the defense to the scene of someone under the influence of methamphetamines yes. to methamphetamine scars that same restriction and they are. i'm understanding you know in fact darling's correct. yes. they knew the middle of things. there was a jury will take her lunch recess friend reconvene at 130 thank you. ok

so the judge says $130.00 which is an hour away the lunch break as i said on day 4 of the derek chauvin murder trial in minneapolis continuing special coverage on al-jazeera of that on kemal santa maria and thank you for staying with us it has been intense today as it has been the past few days as well very detailed evidence that we have been hearing as i said that was a paramedic who attended there and before that we had heard from courtney ross who was george floyd's girlfriend at the time. shall we go through a little bit of what we have heard from seth brennan the yes the paramedic let's have a listen as he described george floyd's condition when they arrived on the scene. you. discuss with your partner in fact my next step. you walk back towards me and. asked.

if he heard it rest he said i think so. so he's aware cardiac arrest is that. it's a term we're going to use for anybody there's no response and not breathing. and doesn't have a pulse currently. so essentially the family you know someone's heart stopped. so it's a very detailed detailed information gabriel is on there our correspondent in minneapolis who's been listening along with that. it's interesting isn't it gabriel that you go into such detail and some of the questions they almost sound a little bit too simple sometimes what happens if you can't administer medical assistance quickly enough but i guess what the prosecution was going for here was the issue of delay the paramedics were delayed in administering that help to george floyd because quite simply there was a police officer nailing on his neck. yeah that's

a key part of this trial and that's what they're trying to get to here and as you mentioned you know you listen to this you're thinking what are they trying to get at here what why are they asking these such detailed questions it's all part of the larger narrative that the prosecution is trying to build now that we've been teared a little bit of a different stage of this trial the 1st 3 days we're trying to bring the jury to this scene really get the emotion of this scene from eyewitnesses now they're slowly starting to pivot to other areas of this and this. person on stage now this e.m.t. merchant see medical technician one of the 1st people there to arrive on the scene and as a paramedic and they're trying to ask him detailed questions about what he saw what took him so long to get there what it's all part of the ongoing narrative by the prosecution the big story i think though so far of thursday is drug use of course

as we've all been talking about and hearing in this is the drug use and i got to tell you call we just heard from ben crump who is the lawyer for the family of george floyd who put out a statement just within the last half hour addressing the drug use issue and he said as a defense attempts to construct the narrative that george floyd's cause of death was due to fenton all in its system we want to remind the world who witnessed his death on video that george was walking talking laughing and breathing just fine before show up and put his knee on george floyd's neck ultimately killing him that's just part of a statement put out by the family just within the last half hour or so so they're trying to combat this defense argument that it was the drugs in george floyd's system that led to his death ok glad you could bring us that it's.

i want to talk about because we've been having a little look at it on screen was you've been talking as well the body cam video that we see again now we've seen plenty of it. as the days of going on we've got this scene should say cell phone video all the in-body cam but every time it's just a slightly different angle it's just a slightly different annotation and you feel like you sort of you learn so much more and. it always gets even more grim every time. it does i mean you when you when you see the video that we've all unfortunately had to see over the last 10 months of. george floyd's neck if you think what could be worse than that well nothing's really worse than seeing someone die of course but this body cam footage is really dramatic as well because you see it from several different officers that were on scene and you see it from different angles and what it shows you is how close it is because the cameras are on the officers chests and they're

so close to the scene. almost right over george floyd and so that intimacy if you will is really dramatic and you can also hear voices as well and one of the key points come all is that you were in some of that body cam footage it's not only what you see but what you hear and at one point you hear derek chauvin actually saying he's a big guy and i think he's on something insinuating that's why he felt he needed to have his knee on his neck for so long i mean so you hear his voice that's one of the 1st times we've heard derek's show opens voice during the middle of all of this so that's significant and presumably that's going to be part of the defense's argument that they felt that because george ford was such a big man that's why presumably lawyers are going to say why he felt he needed to be on top of him for so long of course that's going to be for the jury to decide still doesn't answer the question of why when george floyd's handcuffed he had to be on him for not more than 9 minutes but this will be the argument from the

defense and just to build on as you were saying the different angles the different voices the fact that we went inside the ambulance as well in with the paramedics and saw it happening and it was it's that hate saying this but that blow by blow account because that's what the lawyers do don't they they go back and they go moment by moment and we learn things about about into beijing about ivy's about at one stage i think i have. something about a drill having to be used to get an i.v. line and it is extraordinary stuff to hear. it is and the prosecution feels that the more of this that they show the stronger their case is because they don't want this just to be about that 9 minutes that more than 9 minutes. that is key to this whole trial that is ultimately what this trial is about but the prosecution feels they've got access to so many different pieces of video from daire various angles and so much information the prosecution feels the more they

show the jury about the moments leading up to that the stronger their case will be and that's why we're seeing so much detail here because it's going to force the defense to have to answer to all of this they really want to engage the jury to know not just about that 9 minutes but they want to know the moments that lead led up to it and the moments during it and the moments after it they feel that that will help bolster their case but the level of detail here as you mentioned is just really really remarkable and quite frankly it is hard to listen to a time as it is let's be really honest about it it is hard to listen to and it is hard to watch. in minneapolis thank you also in minneapolis mark all sla guests today professor and robert and marion short distinguished chair in law at the university thomas rather than asking you a specific question mark i might just ask you to pick up on what gabe and i would talking about and what impact you feel what we've just seen in the last hour or so

it will have. yeah there were some things were obvious and some things that were less obvious probably the key moment of this testimony i believe and it slipped by pretty quickly is when the e.m.t. arrived and basically had to move chauvin out of the way that that if there is this gesture and there's this reference to it and we saw it and i imagine that if we could see the jurors what we'd see is them scribbling that into their notepad and taking note of that a couple of the things that i saw one is that there is this discussion of the officer who went in the ambulance and was doing chest compressions that was defendant. thomas lane one of the other officers has been charged and so that of course will come up in the next trial but they didn't name him but we know from other body camera there is thomas lane codefendant. who was that person the 3rd

thing that is kind of a local angle on this is the discussion of ketamine may have seemed strange because they didn't actually administer cademy but that has been a very controversial practice within minneapolis that the minneapolis police often will. you know call in the mts ne m t's will use ketamine against people who later you know feel violated by the administration that drug supposedly to calm them down and then the last thing is that as i was hearing this testimony come in i thought it was building up to a moment that would go directly to an element of the crime which was he was dead because death is something that the government has to prove but debt didn't clearly come out that at any point this e.m.t. concluded that in fact george floyd was dead. a mind pick up on your point about. the ketamine maybe not specifically the ketamine but the issue of

drugs because we heard gabriel was telling us earlier that this has been a big issue we heard george ford's girlfriend earlier courtney ross his partner of 3 years and she described how both she and floyd became addicted to prescription painkillers i just want us to have a little listen to her and then i'll come back to. buffalo ny are. our story it's a. classic story of. how many people get addicted that. we both suffer from chronic pain. mine was in my neck in his blood in the back. we both had prescription. but. after prescription. fill it and.

leave. and and try really hard to. break that addiction many times. so back to marc now and. this is something which the prosecution introduce themselves the issue of drugs because they they needed to they needed to get ahead of it because it is such an important plank in the defense's argument however. you then get this argument basically drugs used versus knee on the net and it just seems to my at least that it's fairly obvious which is the real issue here. yes and you know i thought this was very affected by the prosecution because one of the angles in the discussion around the world about this case is spent well he was on drugs you know he was on opioids and the way that it was described by ms ross was

very human and it was something that was do was directed at the jury because in the united states opioid addiction is so widespread that the people on the jury you know for them that was a story she said is the classic story and it may have been the story of their own call of their child of their nephew you know for the nurse who's on the jury is the story of what she had to deal with all the time working in a hospital and so by taking that drug use and making it something that was part of a tragedy rather than something that's malevolent was i think really a key way of turning it right and as i said i had to get out in front of it i mean is that is that difficult for prosecutors in navigate that sort of thing. it is because you're predicting where the defense is going to go and then trying to steer the narrative away from the conclusions that they see and hear where you you know that the defense is going to say in the end that george floyd responsible for his

own death through his drug use this was a way of steering it so there's a little more empathy towards the drug use that it was an addiction it was something that came from treatment for pain. and it wasn't. you don't stereotype of someone who is rabid for for drugs but rather a human who had a failing. done if you can. get any way off to now free for days at how do you feel this is playing out in either the prosecution or defense getting out in front of this in these early and i should say very early stages it's going to be a long trial. yeah and i would say that so far of course things have gone well for the government and there's a lot of people i think who had no idea before they start to watch the trial that now who've seen the video used a period actively over and over who have heard from the witnesses who are

eyewitnesses. did i suspect public sentiment is is in favor of the government now and the jurors maybe leaning that same way as well there are there are people just just like the rest of us that said the defense hasn't had their turn yet and when they do they will have a chance to create a landscape that will describe the situation in a very different way and so we're really going to have to wait and see what they do with it mark khosla joining us from minneapolis today we really appreciate your time and your guidance for us mark thank you my pleasure. run 45 minutes till the trial resumes in minneapolis so we will go to other news and the british prime minister barak's johnson is acknowledging more needs to be done to tackle discrimination despite a recent report denying systemic racism it was commissioned by the government at

the height of the global black lives matter movement last year the report blames family social class and location for existing inequalities campaign as they called the findings a whitewash but prime minister johnson says the report doesn't necessarily reflect the thinking of the government. this is a. a very interesting piece of work you know i didn't say the government going to agree with absolutely everything in it but it has some some original ins and stimulating work in it that i think people need to read into and to consider there are very serious issues that our society faces. to do with racism that we need to address we've got to we've got to do to fix it we need to understand the severity of the problem and we look at all the ideas that they put forward and will be we will be making our response. to me and ma where the deposed civilian the downside

is facing the most serious charge yet of violating a colonial era official secrets act and lawyer says the court in yangon actually announced in a week ago but it was only publicly known for the 1st time on thursday that a new charge against unsung suchi and 4 others carries a penalty of up to 14 years in prison also the military has shutting down wireless services after cutting mobile internet completely for 2 months now protesters and activists have been sharing their mentions of defiance online as they continue to call for democracy all the details now from scotland and. with tears of blood painted on their faces protesters in yangon mourn those killed for demonstrating against the coup this is they mark 2 months since the military power grab that plunged myanmar into crisis and. we are very sad for our fallen heroes and protesters who are still fighting the military but we will never give up the

legal team of the pows leader on song suchi thursday announced that she has been charged with violating the country's colonial era officials secrets act she's been detained since february 1st and has also been charged on 2 other accounts and has been accused of bribery. it's a crisis that's now spilling outside its borders for the 1st time in more than 20 years myanmar military fighter jets attacked korean ethnic army held areas near the thai border those attacks during the past few days sent thousands of civilians across the border into thailand seeking safety and medical attention it also prompted the strongest reaction yet from the thai government on the coup next door kind of as quickly troubled by the reports of more casualties among them in my people during this past weekend. we were doing ok. for the exercise of utmost restraint. the escalation of situation. and to violence

and for the release of detainees some of the ethnic army groups have denounced the coup throwing support behind the protesters and have even called for an increase in attacks on myanmar as military most have spent years fighting for greater autonomy the u.n. envoy on myanmar has warned of a civil war if the situation does not improve some feel that not only is there already a civil war in myanmar but on 2 fronts the streets and the ethnic territories what we're at now is a situation of 2 civil war. one which is too much so and it's what the military. started with a they staged to so it's a civil war with the anti-sex and then this 2nd civil war which has been going up to 7 days which is against all of these it talked about isolation as protesters in yangon burned copies of the 2008 constitution that gave deep powers to the military a parallel government has been set up by deposed members of parliament mostly from unsung suchi is former governing party they have called for

a federal democracy that would include the ethnic armed groups. scott either al-jazeera. campaigners are also warning the intensifying crackdown is forcing some to join rebel groups the korean national union that represents me and ethnic qur'an meant minority along the border with thailand and want self-determination for its people it has a military wing which is 40 against me and military for nearly 70 years although there was a cease fire signed in 2012 but with hostilities reigniting after february's coup the current national union is preparing its fighters last week military jets launched air strikes on its territory for the 1st time in 20 years the group's also been supporting the protesters by sending its fighters to protect them attacking military positions and cutting off supply routes we will hear from a smile wolf now regional director with the human rights organization fortify rights he says the decision to turn to the ethnic groups for training is born out

of frustration. this is a culmination of 2 months of brutal crackdown by the burmese military in me a momentary against civilians so it's not necessarily an unexpected development but it is concerning and i think the impacts are great in the sense not just in terms of whether the civil disobedience movement protesters may start seeking to turn to more extreme methods to resist the coup but also what we're seeing there is this sort of extension of the fighting out into the ethnic areas you've seen that the sort of defacto or parallel government under the name of the. constitution and it's really trying to seek to bring in the ethnic groups that have long had to be using longstanding tensions some cease fire agreements that they've all lapsed actually over the last few weeks there's concern that as been raised already that this may escalate and they will see increased fighting and that's going in in the ethnic areas but that's also going to have a severe impact on the safety and security of the wider population if this is an

escalation from the military side the concern i think for the military will be that they could see themselves opened up on many different fronts. and that is really not just a concern as you say for the military but also for the entire populations or so before so there are a very deep concerns i think the military may not have predicted such a unified potentially unified response against the top model and this crew. let's talk coronavirus now and find the biotech says it's banks thing is highly protective against the south african variant of covert 19 this is the strain that's caused concerns because of its resistance to some jobs finds is also released new data showing its vaccine is overall 91 percent effective even after 6 months the company is seeking full approval for the shot in the u.s. right now it only had approval for emergency use from alan fischer in washington.

initially people thought that the vaccine would be good for probably 90 days so the fact that pfizer came out and said no you get 91 percent protection after 6 months that is very good news and of course it extends the period that people can get vaccinated and then we need another bush with of also revealed that children between the ages of 12 and 15 are 100 percent protected by their vaccine and as you see the big news is that they tested it for the south african variant and phoned that it was very effective there was worry that this may well cause problems for this vaccine that might be able to work its way around and meet people there saying no we've managed to sort that out we've tested it everything is good here and that's good news for pfizer as well because they can now go to the f.d.a. here in the united states and see we would want full approval for this vaccination

because of course you remember the only operating on temporary american c. approval which was granted to make sure that they could get shots into people's arms and millions of people have received their vaccination this is good news as i see coming on the back of what was essentially bad news on wednesday that's when johnson and johnson said that they were stopping shipments of vaccination to the united states that's because millions of doses of the drug were ruined at a factory in baltimore. as a new government after a scandal over a secret deal to buy russia's vaccine doses brought down the previous administration the crisis paralyzed one of the e.u.'s hardest hit countries more from november. swearing in a new government and hoping to turn the page on a terrible year for slovakia's ruling coalition. president says on

a couple to over praise the coalition for reaching an agreement in 4 weeks you know unfettered contesting the real fulfillment of the success of your agreements will be if these government continues to take steps to help the country and its citizens development are now chile we have learned a lot and we also have learned a lot from mistakes i believe that will be stable and trusting and i believe that they'll be cohesion and unity between us because it appears occasion and renewal of slovakia continues hager was previously finance minister and deputy prime minister he swapping those roles with the man who stepped down as premier along with his cabinet on tuesday igor much of it his was the 1st european government to collapse because of how it's handled the covert 19 pandemic disputes over matter which is leadership boiled over last month. the prime minister had ordered shipments of russia's sputnik the coronavirus vaccine without consulting his political partners

but when asked in the next 2 months we will receive $1000000.00 vaccines as agreed meaning it will be for half a 1000000 people the move prompted 2 parties in the coalition freedom and solidarity and for people to demand that much of it to resign he don't need to lead the center right along a party to election victory a year ago with an anti corruption agenda. since covered 19 arrives of a he has had an unenviable record but with a population of 5 and a half 1000000 it's registered roughly $10000.00 covert deaths one of the highest per capita rates in the world in recent weeks it's seen infection rates fall by avoiding early elections the new government will hope it can concentrate on driving down covered cases and hospitalizations nadine barber al jazeera. news are coming up in a couple of minutes of course our focus will be day for the direction of and murder trial the 2 witnesses we've heard from today seth brad and a paramedic has given quite graphic details of what's been happening in the

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