says officers acted appropriately and were not heavy handed at a vigil for sarah everard in london. and traffic resumes in the suez canal after the stranded container ship blocking the waterway was eventually freed. hello and welcome a witness to the arrest of george floyd whose death sparked race protests around the world says he believed that what he saw was a murder. donald williams was testifying on the second day of the trial of a white police officer, derek chauvin, who is accused of killing mr floyd by kneeling on his neck for more than nine minutes. our correspondent, aleem maqbool reports from minneapolis. do you swear or affirm. the first full day of testimony was an emotional one. it started with the playing of an emergency call that was made by an eyewitness. he just pretty muchjust killed this guy that wasn t resisting arrest. he had his knee on the dude s neck the whole time. donald willams is heard describing how he saw a man handcuffed and on his f
minneapolis police chief said the acts that chauvin took were totally unnecessary. the witnesses on the stand this morning was the doctor who pronounced george floyd dead at the hospital. was your leading theory of george floyd s cardiac arrest oxygen deficiency? that was one of the more likely possibilities. i felt that at the time, based on the information i had, it was more likely than the other possibilities. and, doctor, is there another name for death by oxygen deficiency. asphyxia. it s well known that any amount of time a patient spends in cardiac arrest without immediate cpr markedly decreases the chance of a good outcome. none of the officers on the scene performed cpr on george floyd. the doctor said he believed floyd s death was not likely from drug use but instead from suffocation or asphyxia. the defense team tried to combat that conclusion. so when someone ingests fentanyl, it can cause them to feel very sleepy because of an increased carbon dioxide
heart attack or from a drug overdose. dr. thomas clear, the police on trial, the officer on trial, in her view, is the cause of mr. floyd s death. what it means to me is that the activities of the law enforcement officers resulted in mr. floyd s death and that specifically those activities were the subduel of restraint and neck compression. to discuss is cnn senior legal analyst laura coates and our law enforcement analyst charles ramsey. thank you both for being here. laura coates, this medical testimony, part of the prosecution build, the medical examiner, we believe, will come next. your perspective on how the prosecution is building its case? they re doing a great job of it. they re building off and corroborating from prior testimony. you re seeing and hearing from the bystanders first, talking about law enforcement. they pretty much covered the idea of this was an unreasonable amount of force to use. now they re in that substantial causal factor and they began with
at firsthand that the myanmar military far from defending people wages war against them with pitiless savagery, crushing them as enemies. germany is to suspend the use of the astrazeneca vaccine for the under 60s after further concerns about its safety. and, as a decade of fighting in libya comes to an end the horrors of those years are now being exposed. we have a special report. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. brazil has registered 3,780 covid-i9 deaths, a new record in the latin american nation, which now regularly accounts for about a quarter of coronavirus deaths worldwide on any given day, more than any other country. meanwhile, brazil s defence ministry has announced the commanders of the army, navy and air force will be replaced as brazil s president, jair bolsonaro, struggles to head off a crisis over his leadership. mark lobel reports. getting vaccinated in brazil takes on a new urgency with overcrowded hospitals and a record dea