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I'm Jonathan Savage. And in the early hours of Saturday, the 13th of March, these are our main stories. The US city of Minneapolis is to pay 27 million dollars to the family of George Floyd, who died last year as a police officer, knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Prosecutors in Bolivia have ordered the arrest of the former interim president Janina Ania's, and several former government ministers have been charged with sedition and terrorism. The four nation group known as the quartet, the United States, India, Japan and Australia, has agreed to pool resources to make and distribute coronavirus vaccines.

Also in this podcast, what it looks like at the moment is a green mass of corroded drums, and it's kind of that size of a paperback book.

I suppose the challenge of decoding the 2000 year old Greek tech that's had scientists stopped.

The U.S. city of Minneapolis says it will pay 27 million dollars to settle a lawsuit with the family of George Floyd, the black man who died last year while being restrained by a white police officer. The officer, Derek Trovan, was shown in video footage kneeling on Mr. Floyd's neck for nearly nine minutes. Benjamin Crump, a lawyer for Mr. Floyd's family, said it was the biggest pretrial settlement of a wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. history. He also said it sent a powerful message that black lives do matter and police brutality and racism must end.

The sentiment is not just historic because of the 27 million dollars paid out before the impact on social justice policy reforms and police reforms because the financial compensation most directly impact George Floyd and his family, the future of their family. But it is the policy reforms that affects all of us.

I asked our Washington correspondent, Ali Magpul, why did the Floyd family sue the city of Minneapolis?

Well, this was a civil rights lawsuit. And what the family had said was that the city of Minneapolis, through these officers, had denied George Floyd his civil rights, but also that the the city had overseen a period during which this culture of excessive use of force, of impunity was flourishing in the city's police force. And so in announcing the settlement, the president of the city council also apologized to the family. And the family has been saying, we've heard from George Floyd's sister have said that this is a part the first part of their search for justice for George.

But, of course, there's more that they want, including the punishment of the officers involved. And they want results in the criminal case, which is due to start at the end of the month as well.

Yes. Can you tell us a bit more about the criminal case?

Well, we've had an extraordinary week of sort of jury selection where potential jurors come into the court and arrest their opinions about what they saw last summer in that video. And in fact, in the last couple of hours, another potential juror was dismissed because she had said that she thought badly of the officer after having seen that video last year. And another one was dismissed earlier this week because they said that they had they couldn't unsee that video. But I'm sure a lot of people listening would feel the same way on both of those points.

But they may to be dismissed if they were potential jurors. But that trial is due to start on the 29th of March at the earliest. And an interesting thing that that some legal experts are looking at is as to whether the civil case and the fact that it's been resolved now will impact on that, because all jurors have been told not to listen to the news, not to be influenced by what's going on outside. So there are worries that potentially with the city settling this very large lawsuit, it might in some way prejudice the trial.

Aleem Maqbool in Washington. Prosecutors in Bolivia have ordered the arrest of the former interim president, Geneina Ania's, and several former government ministers who have been charged with sedition and terrorism. At least two former cabinet ministers have already been detained.

Our Americas editor Leonardo Russia reports Messias has tweeted that she is the victim of a political vendetta by the masked Socialist Party, which returned to power in October. It was presidential and congressional elections by a landslide. Prosecutors say missileers and several of her ministers had taken part in a coup against Bolivia's former left wing leader, Evo Morales, in 2019 after he was elected to a fourth term in office. The opposition accused him of electoral fraud and took to the streets for weeks to demand his resignation.

Mr. Morales said he was intimidated by the military and the police into standing down and fleeing the country. Leonarda, Russia.

Its economy is growing and its military becoming ever more fearsome, and as such, China's might is causing its neighbors concern. That's led the United States to feel the need to inject renewed impetus into a regional alliance to counteract Beijing. On Friday, leaders of the so-called QUOD Nations, which was founded in 2007 and includes the United States, Australia, Japan and India, held their first ever virtual summit.

All four have had their disagreements with China over the past 12 months, but they've got plenty of other concerns, too. In his opening remarks, President Biden said the US was committed to working with its allies for stability and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific region.

We're establishing a new mechanism to enhance our cooperation and raise our mutual ambitions as we address accelerating climate change.

And we're renewing our commitment to ensure that our region is governed by international law, committed to upholding universal values and free from coercion.

His comments were echoed by the Japanese prime minister, Yoshihisa Masuka, today.

Due to the fact that I would like the four countries to forge strongly ahead toward the creation of a free and open in the Pacific and to make visible contributions to peace, stability and prosperity in the region, including overcoming the coronavirus.

I asked our U.S. State Department correspondent, Barbara Plett, Usher, if there were any concrete measures agreed at the meeting. Yes, there were.

The biggest one was on vaccines. They announced a joint effort to produce and distribute vaccines in Southeast Asia. Quite ambitious. They want to have a billion vaccines by 2022. And this would be done with a combination of U.S. and Japanese money, Indian manufacturing capacity, and then Australia would help with distribution. One U.S. official here called it an historic effort. The other two concrete things are a working group on climate cooperation that is coordinating steps to combat climate change and a working group on technologies, critical and emerging technologies.

They want to set standards for future technologies and coordinate on telecommunications, the development and deployment of telecommunications.

So quite a wide ranging agenda. But at the same time, there was time for an open and honest discussion about China, according to a U.S. official. What would they have been focusing on there?

I think they would have been focused on probably maritime security. There is concern that China's territorial and maritime claims are threatening the freedom of navigation and overflight in the Indo-Pacific. And nobody said so explicitly. But in the opening remarks, all four refer to free and open Indo-Pacific. I think the Japanese prime minister said it twice. So it's sort of code word for that. You also heard from Mr Biden, there's a region governed by international law. Again, a reference to those kinds of concerns, regional security.

More generally, India, Australia and Japan have all faced security challenges from China. It's not clear how this quad would respond to that, but I think they will have been raised. And then the technologies, as I mentioned, there is concern about how China is influencing and shaping the cyber sphere, including, you know, surveillance, espionage and so on. And these countries want to be able to provide a counterweight to how technology is designed and how standards are put forward.

How will China feel about this meeting taking place?

China has already responded and said that it should not be seen as a counterweight to China and has has sort of condemned it and particularly in the India's role in it, because during its Non-Aligned Movement days, India was close to China. But it has been moving away recently. And you had that deadly clash with Indian forces in the Himalayas. Indian and Chinese forces in the Himalayas. And recently and so the Chinese specifically mentioned India in their response to the meeting, which they condemned.

Barbara Plett, Usher, more than a year after the first cases of covid-19, large parts of Italy are facing stricter lockdown's schools, restaurants, shops and museums will have to close from Monday in many regions after authorities said there had been a 15 percent rise in infections over the past week. The Italian prime minister, Mario Draghi, visited a vaccination center in Rome on Friday where he had this warning about a new wave of infections regarding September 11.

Last spring's events are still fresh in our minds, and we will do everything we can to prevent them from happening again on the basis of scientific evidence. The government has today adopted restrictive measures that we have judged to be appropriate and proportionate.

Our correspondent in Rome, Mark Lowen, gave us this update.

The toughest restrictions would apply to more than half of the country, Jonathan. So 11 of Italy's 20 regions will go into a red zone, which means that the schools, restaurants, cafes, bars, shops and non-essential businesses, in effect will have to close. And then the majority of other regions restrictions are also toughening. Into the tiered orange zone, the only region not to have any tightening of restrictions, this is the island of Sardinia. And then over the Easter break, three days over Easter, the entire country will move into a red zone as a kind of preemptive measure to stop people from traveling across the country and having big Easter lunches and the like.

So Italy is just over a year since it imposed it was the first country in the world to impose a nationwide lockdown. And here we are again with a country that is now in the grip of a third wave and a very bleak feeling of deja vu that is setting in.

Yeah, people must be absolutely fed up with this, as I'm sure they are all over the world. Do these restrictions have popular support, though?

The polls last week showed that there was rising support for a toughening of restrictions. And certainly with the numbers that are going up considerably here, Italy has had rising infections for the last six weeks. The government is confident it has the majority of Italians behind it. The cases are very you know, they're going up worryingly high now, about 25, 26000 a day. And the prime minister today said that if Italy doesn't act now, it would have to impose even tighter restrictions in the weeks ahead.

And of course, coinciding with the restrictions are vaccinations. How is the vaccination program progressing sluggish?

Frankly, Jonathan, Italy is in the lower half of of EU countries in terms of numbers of doses per 100 people. It's delivered is administered just over six million doses of the vaccine. But compare that to I mean, it's not a country in the EU anymore, but the U.K. with that 24 million doses and they are countries of comparable size. So the prime minister has said that Italy is is quickening the pace of vaccines. For example, he said in these first 10 or 11 days of March, it is administered doses at a roughly twice the rate of those jobs in January and February.

And he has pledged to ramp up the vaccination program. And in addition to that, he has been quite muscular in in kind of punishing the vaccine manufacturers that are not delivering enough vaccines to EU countries to meet their contract contractual agreements. So, for example, Italy became the first country in the EU to block an export of vaccines by AstraZeneca to Australia a couple of weeks ago in retaliation for AstraZeneca under delivering what it had agreed to to give to the EU.

Mark Lowen in Italy. Georgia says its first Corvet vaccines will arrive on Saturday after a long delay.

The country's health minister said it'll receive 43000 doses of the AstraZeneca jab, which is enough to vaccinate just over one percent of the population. But questions are being asked why so late and why so few? From the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, Rehaan Demitri reports.

At a recent protest outside the prime minister's office in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, a group of health care specialists demanded the government answer their questions. Georgia Latza is one of them.

So where is the vaccine?

It's in 108 countries and not in Georgia. Why?

He asked, what is the public? Patience has been tested for some weeks now after a much promised first batch of 30000 doses of Pfizer vaccine failed to arrive at the end of February. The head of the country's National Center for Disease Control, Dr. Amran Gumbrecht Alexander, says they were taken aback by the delay.

There were three major conditions to send it in the beginning of January, and Georgia has responded to Pfizer that we are in line with it all. I mean, the requirements of the Pfizer. But unfortunately, now they change something we don't know yet. What will be the additional additional conditions?

Are you disappointed with this kind of development?

Yes, we are disappointed because, you know, this is a very big inequality in vaccine supply worldwide.

Georgia signed a contract with CORVAX, the global vaccine sharing scheme, in September 2020 and made the first payment of four and a half million U.S. dollars. But critics say the government's mistake was to put all its eggs in one basket, relying only on Corvax, Azerbaijan.

But I don't really care what the public frustration in Georgia is also fueled by the fact that in neighboring Azerbaijan, the vaccinations started back in January with the Chinese cinnabar vaccine. While Armenia is going ahead with the Russian Sputnik V, those vaccines are yet to be approved by the World Health Organization, Georgia's internal regulation only. Allows for vaccines, prequalified by the WTO to be used in the country. Hello, everybody, and thank you very much for joining us today.

At a recent online news conference, a local journalists asked the WTO Europe regional director, Dr. Hans Kluger, the question on many Georgian's mind.

The main question now in Georgia, where is our vaccine?

Georgia, as a country, as a government, really lived up to all the obligations. Both their government, the Kovács and particularly WTO, are really working around the clock to get the vaccine as soon as possible.

In the country, the first doses to arrive will be used to vaccinate frontline medical workers. Dr. Vakhtang Colation is the head of the intensive care unit at Tbilisi's new hospital.

There are reports that they are to see about 15000 medical personnel have been infected with covid. In Georgia, medics are physically and psychologically on edge. We've lost about 70 of our colleagues to the virus and we're looking forward to when it will be possible not only to vaccinate US medical staff, but also the citizens of Georgia's target is to vaccinate 60 percent of its adult population this year.

That's around one point seven million people. Kovács can only provide a fraction of the country's needs. The race is now on to find alternative supplies as quickly as possible.

Orien Demitri reporting. Staying with covid-19, the head of the World Health Organization. Tedros the tunnel. Gabriel has said that serious action needs to be taken to deal with a pandemic in Brazil, which is in danger of overwhelming the health system. India is also facing a rise in numbers not poor in the western state of Maharashtra will be the first major city to go into lockdown from Monday. And there are concerns about whether India is seeing the start of a second wave.

Still to come, you are 16.

Robert Downey Jr. is in contention in the worst actor category for taking on the title role.

And the Oscar goes to definitely none of this lot. The president of Mozambique, Philippe Nusi, has replaced the head of the Army and the Air Force chief at a time of increased insecurity in the north of the country, although no official reason has been given for the sackings. There is growing concern that the military has been unable to prevent attacks by Islamist militants in Kabul Delgado province. Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the country over the past year, and half a million people have been forced from their homes amid the humanitarian crisis triggered by Islamist attacks.

Many are now trapped in the town of Palma, which has been cut off by the insurgents.

These people say they're desperate for some help here because of the hunger. All of us need to buy rice and some food. It's happening because there is no access of the roads that are up to. No, I didn't. I'm very angry. I have it three days without eating nothing. And I'm but I don't get nothing.

I asked our Africa editor, Will Ross, for details on the latest situation in Palma.

The town has been cut off for some days because the insurgents have been so active in that area, they had blocked the roads and that was one of the major problems. Getting aid in was not possible, and that's why those people were so desperate for food. But we understand some aid has been getting through, getting there by boat mainly, but obviously not enough for a town that has grown significantly in size because so many people have fled the attacks on the villages that have gone on, you know, on a very large scale.

And people are so scared. There's also been, you know, the military response, which has, you know, led to this fight between the insurgents and the military and some South African mercenaries that are working there as well, fighting there as well. So people are really fleeing, some of them fleeing to areas by boat because they're afraid to travel by land.

Why has it been so difficult for the military to put down the insurgency? Well, it's a very difficult question to answer. I mean, you go back three and a half years and this looked like a fairly small scale issue. Small villages in very remote areas of northern Mozambique were being attacked by small groups of these jihadist gunmen who basically were not that well armed and would just go around attacking villages, burning down homes. But since then, it's grown and many people will point to the the way that the Mozambican authorities have dealt with this problem.

They certainly have gone exclusively, it seems, for a military route rather than trying to win over the civilian population. And there have been some accusations of atrocities by the Mozambican military as well as the insurgents, of course. And I've seen, you know, parallels between what's gone on in Mozambique and the situation in northeast Nigeria, where a decade earlier a jihadist insurgency, you know, could have been put down or at least reduced. But because of the way the military reacted and making the civilians trapped between the insurgents and the army, it simply grew and got worse and worse.

Well, Ross, according to a medical report shared with the BBC, Nazanin Zakari Ratcliffe, the British Iranian women held in Iran since 2016 is in urgent need of psychiatric and psychological treatment after her five year ordeal.

The report, commissioned by the legal charity Redress, finds she's suffering from serious and chronic post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as depression and obsessive compulsive disorder. Caroline Hawley reports.

I tell you what I feel like if hand right.

This has become a morning ritual, a phone call between Nazanin at her parents flat in Tehran and her husband, Richard, and six year old daughter Gabriella at their flat in north London.

For all of her family, but particularly for Gabriela, Nazanin puts on a brave face with the last five years have been a mental torment.

Last Sunday, her ankle tag was removed at the end of her sentence, but she's due in court again, and her biggest terror is returning to solitary confinement. Her husband, Richard, hasn't been able to bring himself to read the full medical report on the extent of psychological pressure she's been under and the impact it's had on her. It's a really horrific experience and it's cumulative and it builds up. And, of course, most of it has been hidden away.

She didn't talk about it the moment she came out. She didn't talk about it with her mum and dad. We all have the instinct to protect our families from some of the things we've been through. And it's important to put it on record. It's important that the government is protecting people. Who knows what can happen? But it's not the report contains distressing new details of her ordeal, she told the doctors of the pressure she was under to cooperate with the Iranian authorities.

The threats, the claims she'd been abandoned by her husband. They've concluded that continuous uncertainty over her fate has contributed to her PTSD, depression and anxiety. And they say that unless she gets proper treatment, the conditions could worsen. Dr. Michele Hastler, medical director of Physicians for Human Rights, spoke to Nazanin over several hours.

Psychological torture is even more difficult to heal and more long lasting than physical torture. And it leaves invisible scars and the type of techniques that they used against Nazanin Zagari Radclyffe from keeping her in isolated conditions, sensory and material deprivation, alternating between constantly keeping the lights on and loud sounds was heartbreaking. Just they were so cruel in using her daughter against her, you know, that they would have a guard right outside her cell who would call her young daughter and make Nazanin listen to her talking to her daughter.

One way to do it. You know what? Richard and Gabriel have come to one of Nazanin favorite places, Hampstead Heath. They used to love coming here together to feed the ducks, but Gabriel is not as interested in doing that anymore.

Thousands of miles away from her mother, she's growing up fast and Nazanin is missing it.

Caroline Whorley reporting. Thousands of companies and organizations in Britain which use Microsoft email exchange servers are being urged to update them immediately because they're said to be vulnerable to being hacked. The National Cybersecurity Center, part of the British intelligence agency G.S. HQ, issued the advice because about half of such servers in the U.K. haven't installed the repairs or patches released by Microsoft. Our security correspondent Gordon Corera reports.

It was just over a week ago that it first emerged that some systems running Microsoft Exchange were vulnerable to hackers. Microsoft said a Chinese group had first exploited the weaknesses. But once word got out, other groups of hackers moved in to install malicious software that could steal emails or even lock people out of their computers completely. With so-called ransomware in the U.K., seven to 8000 organizations are thought to have been potentially vulnerable, with only half of those having patched or secure their systems by updating them.

So far, officials say, malicious software has been found and removed in 2300 cases, although there have been no reported cases of computers being locked with ransomware. The National Cyber Security Center, an arm of GCU, said email servers should be patched as a matter of urgency.

Gordon Corera. It's been called a marvel of ancient engineering, an instrument 2000 years old. But it was so ahead of its time that it's puzzled scientists ever since it was found a century ago off the Greek island of Antarctica. Now, scientists at the University College London say they've used computer modelling to reconstruct the full version of the astronomical calculator. Dr Adam Wacek is one of the scientists at UCL.

What it looks like at the moment is a green mass of corroded bronze. And it's kind of about the size of a paperback book, I suppose. But in reality, it would have been a much thicker paperback book, essentially a rectangular box. There's evidence that it was the mechanism was encased in wood. So you can imagine this kind of wooden box with a back and a front dial or set of dials. So you've got a display at the front of the display at the back.

You've got a little kind of either a hand crank or some kind of wheel that you turn at the side of the instrument. And as you turn it, the various dials show the positions of the planets and eclipses and that sort of thing.

Can you describe for us what it might have been used for? Well, there's quite a lot of scholarship out there trying to understand what it might have been used for. And I think the current emphasis really is on it being used as some kind of didactic teaching tool. So you've effectively got a planetarium on one side and the mechanism for displaying eclipses and predicting eclipses on the other side.

Why was it such a mystery? Because if it is 2000 years old, it can be that sophisticated, can it?

I think the very famous physicist Richard Feynman went to see it in the I think it was the 1980s, actually, in the museum. And he got bored of looking at all the statues and things and and famously wrote that he saw this uninspiring lump of rusted, corroded bronze in a corner. And he went over and over to look at it and was absolutely gobsmacked by what he saw. He said it was so entirely different and strange that it was nearly impossible.

So it kind of stopped short of saying that it came from outer space, that you get the gist. It's so out of place in terms of what we believe the Greeks, the ancient Greeks were capable of achieving mechanically.

How significant, then, is it that they're managing or they're going to be creating a replica with modern machinery and computer modelling?

Yet one third of the mechanism survives in this corroded form. Two thirds is missing. And what we've we've effectively done is we've recreated it using the evidence that we have. So the recreation is digital. It's a recreation that has a long heritage insofar as there have been other academics and scholars that have recreated versions of it. But we believe we're the first to use all the evidence, if you like, to end up with the definitive version of the Antikythera mechanism.

Adam Boychik from University College London. It's every actor, director or producer's worst nightmare to be nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award or a Razzie.

It honors those truly awful films that somehow made it to the screen. Robert Downey Jr. is critically panned. Remake of Dr. Doolittle has six nominations, as does the erotic drama 365 Days.

Anne Hathaway, an actual Oscar winner, has two nominations for worst actress.

Our correspondent Colin Patterson has this on the content. You can talk to animals, do little received a critical malling when it came out in January last year, the low point of every single career involved, said The Irish Times, while the New York Post surmised there's got to be a moment as an actor watches himself on screen pulling bagpipes out of a CGI dragon's rear end that he thinks, Have I really fallen this far? Now, Doolittle is up for six Razzies at the awards show at which no one wants to when you're 60.

Robert Downey Jr. is in contention in the worst actor category for taking on the title role, the only other film with as many nominations as 365 days. Poland's answer to 50 Shades of Grey.

Why am I here? I ought to get out now. Afraid this is impossible.

As one critic said, it's the kind of movie you fast forward to get to all the good parts, only to realize that there are no good parts.

Never let anyone hurt you.

The opposite of this podcast and that report by Colin Patterson. And that's all from us for now. But there will be an updated version of the Global News podcast later. If you want to comment on this podcast or the topics covered in it, you can send us an email. The address is Global Podcast at BBC, Dalziell Dot UK. The studio manager was Mike Adler. The producer was Leon McSherry. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Jonathan Savage.

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