Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio.

I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Today begins the trial of Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering George Floyd,

whose death sparked protests worldwide last year.

Our correspondent visits the city as it prepares once again to be in the global spotlight.

And the female Regent Honeyeter is a bird that will, well, will do it for a song,

but the males of the species are increasingly unable to carry the right tune.

We look into why they've lost their love song and how the species might be saved.

But first...

Islamist fighters have been laying siege since last week to the town of Palma in Northern Mozambique,

near Africa's largest ever private investment project.

Over the weekend, residents and foreign workers made desperate escape attempts by land and sea.

Hundreds of people have attempted to flee the town, running into forests and nearby villages.

Nearly 200 civilians were sheltering inside the hotel in the town of Palma after militants surrounded the compound.

A nearby natural gas project from French company to Tarl has been forced to suspend operations.

Doesn't have been killed and many more still unaccounted for.

Some described harrowing scenes of streets and beaches littered with decapitated bodies.

This insurgency has been terrorizing the country's Cabo Delgado Province since 2017.

Earlier this month, America's government designated the insurgence as an arm of Islamic state.

ISIS Mozambiques' violent extremist insurgency has retavic in the country's Cabo Delgado Province

and has killed more than 1,300 civilians.

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