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I'm Gareth Barlow. And in the early hours of Friday, the 12th of March, these are our main stories. The governor of Brazil's most populous state, Sao Paulo, announces tough restrictions in response to the country recording its highest number of covid-19 related deaths. The US judge hearing the case against Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd has said he will reinstate a third degree murder charge. The United Nations expert on Myanmar has alleged that the military regime is probably guilty of crimes against humanity, including torture and murder.

Also in this podcast, every days is 5000 images, some actually pretty basic, which people has uploaded one per day for 13 years to form eventually a huge seething mass of imagery online. That's what someone has bought, a collage sold for nearly 70 million dollars.

But in a new virtual format, a non-functional token, confused I am. Find out later. The governor of Brazil's most populous state, Sao Paolo, has announced tough restrictions in response to the country recording its highest number of covid-19 related deaths, more than 2000 in a single day. From Monday, there'll be an overnight curfew from eight p.m. to five a.m. All religious and sporting events will be suspended. The state governors, Altruria said beaches and parks will also be closed.

Brazil has recorded the second highest number of deaths with the virus in the world after the United States. Our South America correspondent Katy Watson reports from Sao Paolo.

Every few days, a worrying new record is being broken in intensive care units across the country are filling up. People are dying while they wait in line for beds. And the fear is that Brazil's new variant is making matters worse. At the same time, just four percent of Brazilians have been given their first vaccine. Experts have criticized the federal government for its slow response and keeping people safe. Dr Natalia Pasternack is a microbiologist.

Brazil runs the risk of becoming a virus incubator and a mutation incubator. Because if you have one country this big with the virus running wild, the probability of more variants emerging is really big. And if we don't vaccinate and we don't take really serious preventive measures as lockdown's, the virus will continue to run wild. So Brazil runs the risk of becoming an international pariah.

But President Jair Bolsonaro continues to rail against locking down the country. Last week, he told people to stop whining and fussing. Instead, it's governors who are introducing restrictions to curb the spread of the virus that made them.

Earlier this week. Former President Lula da Silva didn't hold back either, telling people to ignore the president and the health minister and get vaccinated. This country, he said, didn't have a government. Indeed, there's growing fear that with no national leadership, this crisis is only going to get worse.

Katie Watson in Brazil, Denmark, Norway and Iceland have suspended the use of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine after some people who received the jab developed blood clots. The European Union's health regulator has tried to ease concerns, saying the occurrence of blood clots in people who received the AstraZeneca vaccine is no higher than in the general population and that there's no indication that the jump caused the clots.

But the Danish prime minister, Mr. Frederickson, said she didn't want to take any chances at this point.

It's important to uncover and examine possible risks associated with the vaccine properly. Therefore, I think it's the right decision to put AstraZeneca job on hold for the time being. I'm as upset as everyone else about this, but when there's a risk, it has to be investigated.

For their part, AstraZeneca says the drug safety has been studied extensively in clinical trials.

Health correspondent Catherine De told us more officials in Europe say they've received reports of a small number of deaths and hospitalizations from blood clots in people who recently had a dose of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. Now we know of two reported deaths in Austria and Denmark. Overall, though, there have been 30 cases related to blood clots among nearly five million people who've been vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine in Europe. Now, it's worth pointing out that in any mass vaccination program, there will be unexpected illnesses which occur shortly after immunization.

Now, monitoring for adverse events is designed to pick these up and investigate whether there could be any link to the vaccine. The Danish health authorities stressed they're simply pausing the use of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine for 14 days while they investigate the death of a woman from a blood clot. Now, this vaccine she received was from the same batch of a million doses that was used in Austria, where a 49 year old nurse died of a blood clot 10 days after receiving the jab.

Several other EU countries have temporarily suspended the use of this batch, AstraZeneca said. The batch had been rechecked and there's no quality concerns.

If there's no concerns, if this incident rate of blood clots is comparatively low, why do the countries go to this step of pausing? Why don't they carry on and investigate at the same time?

Well, the European Medicines Agency said that the vaccine's benefits continue to outweigh its risks and the vaccine can continue to be administered while the investigation of cases is ongoing. They say that there's no indication that vaccination causes these conditions and blood clotting events are not listed as side effects.

And with regards to the vaccination campaigns in the EU and in these affected countries, there's been lots of criticism that it's been. Slow across Europe, what impact could the suspension have? Yeah, there had been some hesitancy already around the AstraZeneca vaccine because some countries is that they wouldn't give it to the over 65 because of a lack of trial data. But the real world data gathered here in the UK has shown that is extremely effective in preventing serious illness and hospitalization in the over 80.

So health leaders have got their work cut out to, you know, reassure the public this may not help with that. But actually, you know, there has been some good news today because in a separate move, the EU Medicines Agency's approved the single dose Johnson and Johnson vaccine.

That's actually now the fourth that's being given approval in the EU Catherine Diecast and sticking with covid-19 because a leading British psychotherapist is calling for the recognition of a new psychological disorder caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Oken, who used to be a leading adviser to the UK's National Health Service, is campaigning for a condition which he calls post pandemic stress disorder to be officially recognised. But as our reporter Richard Hamilton explains, there's disagreement about the proposal.

The best way to describe how I felt, and I'm sure a lot of people can actually identify where this is actually losing your sense of identity.

Juliette first experienced eating disorders in her youth. She found that lockdown began to trigger feelings of anxiety and depression again. Last Friday, the head of the World Health Organisation, Tedros Gaboriau source, said the pandemic had caused more mass trauma than the Second World War and that the mental health toll could last for many years. Owen Oken, a psychotherapist with more than 25 years experience, believes we need to take what he calls post pandemic stress disorder extremely seriously.

For example, if someone in the military experienced something terrible or they witnessed something terrible, they would have symptoms of PTSD. My argument is I think a lot of people have experienced trauma to a lesser or greater degree over the past year. And this is manifesting itself in different ways. And my worry is that if we you know, you're going to see symptoms like depression, anxiety, panic, and if we treat those disorders in the same way we normally do, unless the trauma element, though, my concern is people are going to present with symptoms over and over and over again.

So essentially, it's a recognition of the level of trauma for people.

Over the past year in the United States, the Manual of Mental Disorders is known as the DSM, and it's used by health care professionals around the world. In 1970, it listed around 100 psychological syndromes or conditions. But today that list has expanded to about 370. So do we really need another one to add to that list?

Some people will be very traumatised by this pandemic. Some people will have lost loved ones. They will have suffered severe illness themselves or looked after others who have been through this very difficult predicament.

Dr James Davis is a medical anthropologist at the University of Roehampton in London and the author of several books which challenge conventional psychiatry. He does not doubt that people are suffering, but he's troubled by this proposed diagnosis.

Where I have far less sympathy, however, is in the attempt to medicalize these problems, as you know, mental disorders or stress disorders, etc.. We have to remember that the definition of disorder is a dysfunction in the South. These people are not dysfunctional or mentally ill. In that sense. They're rather suffering from natural and normal, albeit painful human responses to these very difficult circumstances. And so I'm very concerned that by medicalising these problems, we're not only misleading people as to what their nature is, but also we're generating potential side effects that accompany the process of radicalization.

In England, seven point four million people have been prescribed with antidepressants in the United States is estimated to be about 25 million. James Davis believes PTSD would only lead to overwhelmed doctors handing out even more prescriptions. He also says that believing you have a disorder can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, leading to unhelpful labels, stigmatisation and a sense of victimhood.

Richard Hamilton, the judge presiding over the trial of Derek Chervin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of killing George Floyd, has said he will reinstate a third degree murder charge. Derek Truven is already charged with second degree murder, as well as second degree manslaughter. The third degree murder charge carries a maximum sentence of 25 years. Last year, the same judge, Judge Peter Cahill, dismissed the charge.

He explained Thursday's change based on the defendant's appeal. The Court of appeals has made it very clear. I was bound from the moment the opinion was filed, and I accept that I even agree with the decision in State versus Schavan that their opinions have precedential value immediately.

Our correspondent in Washington, Gary O'Donahue, has more details.

This is a significant victory for prosecutors since a third degree murder charge is easier to prove than a second degree one. In essence, they would just have to show that Mr. Chauvin's actions were dangerous and reckless, though not necessarily a felony if convicted on the second degree count. The sentence could be up to 40 years in prison. The third degree charge can carry a sentence of up to 25 years behind bars. Jury selection has already begun and the trial proper is set to open at the end of the month.

Mr. Shoval denies the charges against Gary O'Donahue.

When Joe Biden became president of the United States, he promised to reform the criminal justice system. For years, campaigners have argued the system is stacked against the poor. A particular issue is the use of bail bonds, where people who have not yet been convicted of a crime have to pay in order to await trial at home. The criminal justice reform group, the Bail Project, estimates that almost half a million people go to sleep in jail cells because they can't afford to pay bail willingly.

Reform agenda, though, help reverse social and racial inequality in the American justice system.

Doucouré investigates a series of anti-racism protests across the U.S. placed a spotlight on criminal justice system activists say often discriminates against people of color.

Americans voted with their pockets. Large sums were donated to bail funds, which provide bail for those on low incomes. One such fund, the bail project, received an unprecedented 16 million dollars in the month of June, right at the peak of the protests.

For those unable to afford bail, there are long term financial repercussions, as I heard from criminal justice activist Harvey Murphy. When I met Harvey in Harlem last year, he told me he was arrested for a crime which was later dismissed in court. But he ended up spending two months in jail while his struggle to raise the 1500 dollars bail.

But I got a chance to bail out. I had lost my job. So when I came home, I was in debt are over it. So now I can't pay rent because I got no money. I just bailed out with that. And then today you'll be innocent and he sells innocent or proven guilty, but you got to pay for your freedom.

Bail is reimbursed when the accused turns up at court, but the fee paid to a bail bond company is not returnable whether the person is found guilty or innocent. This has created a lucrative industry market research value the bail industry at three billion dollars last year. I spoke to the CEO of the Pretrial Justice Institute, Cherice Burdine.

The fact that you have to pay what we call here in the U.S. a secured bond, meaning you have to put up some money upfront in order to actually purchase your freedom. The fact that you need to do that has, you know, created and perpetuated the industry of a for profit bail bonding industry, which charges people in the U.S. who are actually the least likely to be able to afford it a loan amount for their bond.

That includes interest rates that will sort of have them paying for that bond amount for years beyond when their criminal case may even be finished.

In New York state, legislation introduced in January prevented judges from setting bail for many non-violent crimes. Before this law came into effect, many bail bond businesses had already been pushed out, according to the founder of Bail NYC, Eduardo Gelati. He said the industry has been demonized. He fears that without bail, New York will return to the 1980s.

It was very common for anybody, everybody to get mugged in New York. OK, so you're going to take me back to a period where crime was rampant. You're going to have people not showing up to court. You're going to have chaos.

Over in New York, the number of people behind bars was expected to reduce by 40 percent if the new laws were implemented effectively. The coronavirus pandemic has slowed down the court system. So it's too soon to determine if the legislation has been a success or failure. But all eyes are on New York because if it works, this approach could be adopted. Cross Country, that report by Ejima and Doucouré. Still to come, when we went home, I sat down at a table and said to those people in the room with Parkinson's, it's not the same as you.

And he said he said, what are you talking about? Well, have to go back.

A retired nurse from Scotland has helped to develop what scientists say could be a breakthrough test for Parkinson's disease.

The United Nations special rapporteur on Myanmar says the military regime is probably committing crimes against humanity, including murder, torture and enforced disappearance. Thomas Andrews was presenting his latest report on Myanmar to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. It was in folks reports.

Thomas Andrews described Myanmar's military as a murderous, illegal regime, saying he had credible evidence at least 70 people had been violently killed. The violations against civilians were widespread and systematic and likely to be crimes against humanity. He called for a coordinated action, including the imposition of economic sanctions. The UK, the US and the EU welcomed his report, but China and Russia said Myanmar's sovereignty should be respected.

Imagine, folks, Prince William has said the British royal family is not racist. In his first public response to allegations made in a US television interview by his brother, Prince Harry, and his wife Megan. Speaking to journalists in London, Prince William, who is second in line to the throne, said he hadn't yet spoken to his brother but would do so previously. Buckingham Palace has said it was concerned over issues of race raised by the Duchess of Sussex in that interview.

She claimed her husband had been asked how dark the skin of their first baby might be. She also said she had experienced suicidal thoughts. Is our royal correspondent, Sarah Campbell.

Prince William's team had made it clear to reporters covering the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge his visit to an east London school that he would not be answering questions, but he must have known they might come. They did. And contrary to the briefing and convention, he answered, Yes, sir.

Have you spoken to your brother since the interview? I haven't spoken yet, but I will do. And can you just let me know, is the royal family a racist family, sir? Well, very much not.

The question is, were his answers impromptu or despite what his aides had told reporters, had he planned to engage? And if so, was it with the blessing of the rest of the royal family on Tuesday? Perhaps because the Queen's brief 61 word statement on the matter had yet to be released. Prince Charles ignored a question about the interview with no on camera comment from a senior royal. William will have been well aware that anything he uttered would be headline news and would put the story right back at the top of running orders.

Once again, Megan and Harry's interview was lengthy and full of incendiary comment. But perhaps the most damaging claim was that a member of the family in conversation with Prince Harry had expressed concern over how dark their baby skin would be, despite the queen's statement saying the race issue was concerning and would be dealt with privately. William clearly felt he had to push back on what has become a very public and damaging allegation racism at the heart of a family which prides itself on leading a diverse and multicultural commonwealth of nations.

Remaining silent, one must conclude, was in Prince William's mind, not an option.

Sarah Campbell, a retired nurse from Scotland, has helped to develop what scientists say could be a breakthrough test for Parkinson's disease. Julie M. noticed a musky smell, and her husband left more than a decade before he was diagnosed. Now, researchers in Manchester in England believe a simple skin swab should be able to identify the same chemical compounds, potentially revolutionising the detection and treatment of the disease. Here's our health correspondent, Jim Reid.

When Joy Miller went to a support group with her husband's eight years ago, she realized the other people there had the same familiar smell.

When we went home, I was down at the dining room table and said to those people in the room with Parkinson's, not the same as you. And he said, What are you talking about? We'll have to go back.

Since her husband's death in 2015, Mrs. Mitchell has been working with scientists to find out why that was trials on 500 people with Parkinson's. So they all had similar changes in the sebum, the oily substance that protects the skin. Professor Peter Barron from Manchester University said measuring that could identify 85 per cent of cases.

Parkinson's is a very broad spectrum. People have suffered from different symptoms. Are common symptoms, but there are lots of different symptoms. And if we have no other information about someone and we've taken a swap of their them, then in eight and a half out of 10 times we would be able to tell that that person had Parkinson's disease.

So without any other information, the team in Manchester believe this is the first step towards what could be a fast, painless and cheap form of diagnosis is hoped. The same technique could be used to track the progression of the disease and to measure whether new experimental treatments are having an impact.

Shimrit there without truly remarkable story. The Chinese Olympic Committee has offered vaccine doses to be used for participants at this summer's Tokyo Olympic Games in next year's Beijing 2012. The Winter Olympics, the issue has sparked a moral and ethical debate, though, as to whether young, healthy athletes should be pushed up the queue in order to help ensure the Olympics is as safe as possible. Our sports news correspondent Alex Capstick has been looking at the arguments for and against.

The European title Engebretson Wensing, 11 dusky Olympic hopefuls getting some much needed competition time at the recent European Indoor Athletics Championships. There were no fans in Poland, but it didn't prevent covid from striking at the event. The host nation pulled out of a men's relay following a positive test. It's a scenario the organizers in Tokyo are desperate to avoid. But whatever safety protocols are in place, it's believed vaccines are key to holding a successful games.

The IOC will undertake a great effort so that as many as possible of the Olympic participants and the visitors will arrive here vaccinated.

The problem for Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee, is that he can't force governments to prioritize athletes in their vaccination programs. Many of them will be reluctant to jump the queue anyway. Evan Dunphy is a race walker from Canada.

First off, one hundred percent behind getting vaccinated when it's my turn in line. I'm vehemently against any sort of priority access for athletes who are otherwise, you know, young, healthy adults just so that we could go off and gallivant and play games in Tokyo. I don't think that's fair to our community.

As far as you can see here. There people are getting. People are getting vaccinated here.

A vaccination center in Tel Aviv where the rollout is moving apace. Most elite Israeli sportsmen and women have had their jabs. Doug Novruz is the chief medic for the country's Olympic team.

Top level athletes are a national priority. I mean, they represent the country. I think it does give you a bit of peace of mind. And you can you put the thing aside and focus on your actual training.

It's a view shared by the IOC longest serving member, Dick Pound. He caused a stir last month when he promoted the case for pushing athletes forward once key workers and the most vulnerable have been immunized. It's happening in countries like Hungary, Lithuania and Mexico, but it's not widespread.

We wait until it's our turn, but as soon as the situation regarding the supply with vaccine will relax, we would very much like the idea to give the team the opportunity.

The IOC, which has not made vaccinations compulsory, is hoping for the best. But with most countries sticking rigidly to their immunization protocols, the prospect of thousands of athletes turning up in Tokyo without a jab does seem likely.

Alex Capstick. Hundreds of rare fish have washed up on the shores of South Africa's Eastern Cape, following a sudden drop in the temperature of the ocean. Local communities have rushed to collect the fish for consumption in Africa. Editor is Mary Harper.

The dead fish include giant manta rays, which can span five metres wide tooth puffers and a dusky shark. About 60 different species have been found. Scientists say the sea surface temperatures have dropped from 26 degrees Celsius to as low as 12 degrees. They say strong northeasterly winds caused colder water to rise to the surface and that nothing could be done to prevent it. The local authorities have warned people not to eat them, as it's not clear how long they've been dead for, and some of them may be toxic.

Mary Harper, now we finish this edition of the Global News podcast with a rather intriguing story, and it takes some explaining. So bear with me on this one. A work by an American artist who goes by the name of BP has sold at auction for nearly 70 million dollars. Now, that's a staggering price tag.

Makes people whose real name is Mike Winkelmann, one of the world's most expensive living artists.

That's the easy bit. The piece itself, though, which is called Every Day is the first 5000 days is far from ordinary, is, in fact a collage of thousands of pieces of art all put together over the course of a decade. And it's in a new virtual format, something called a non-functional token, meaning that the art doesn't exist in tangible form. There's no physical representation. It's purely digital, confused. I have been for most of the day.

I'm not going to lie. But we'll examine the technical process in a minute. But first, I asked our arts correspondent, the man who knows Vincent, doubt about the art itself.

It's a phenomenon, possibly a sign that new people, very rich people seem to be buying art who might not have done so only recently. People or as you say, Michael Winkelmann is an artist from Wisconsin. But it's very interesting that many media outlets are responding to this story today as much as a tech story, as much as a cultural event every days is 5000 images, some actually pretty basic, which people has uploaded one per day for 13 years to form eventually a huge seething mass of imagery online.

That's what someone has bought in this online. Only sale, there's no physical thing there, but somebody paid nearly 70 million dollars for it at Christie's in New York, it mattered that much, at least to them.

And talk to us about this nonrefundable token. What is it and how does it work?

Okay, this odd word, fungible, it means something like Norns swappable. We're being reassured. This is a one off. Christie's offered the work with a unique NFTE or non-refundable token, a term we're going to have to learn. It's a sort of guarantee. And in payment they were ready to accept, interestingly, cryptocurrency bids. The auction house is saying this is a pivotal moment in contemporary art, which may or may not be true. Perhaps it's all hype, but it may be that someone who's made a fortune may be using an artisan block chain.

Technology decided they wanted to own what suddenly become a huge icon of this part of the world, which we're going to see a lot more of in the coming years.

The BBC's Vincent Out, and that's all from us for now. But there will be an updated version of a global news podcast later if you want to comment on this podcast or any of the topics covered in it, including those nonrefundable tokens, then send us an email. The address is Global Podcast BBC Don't Code on UK. The studio manager. It was Mike Adler, the producer Liam McAffrey, and our editor, as always, is Karen Martin. I'm Gareth Barlow.

Until next time. Goodbye.