if you want to help save the world. sneeze into your elbow. brazil's president is facing new scrutiny after his son is named as the head of a crime ski. lodge the roman you want to have is there in life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes clean bill of health trying to search all patients being treated in the original at the center of the coronavirus and out of hospital . signs of a recovery spain recorded slowest daily death toll for 5 weeks. and fears

the food crisis will get even worse in zimbabwe that extends a nationwide lockdown. welcome to the program police in brazil are investigating president diables tomorrow son for his role in a criminal scheme that spreads fake news the supreme court named carlos bolton r.-o. in an ongoing probe about false stories targeting judges last friday justice minister joe morrow resigned over what he called political interference from the president and that followed by an ira sacking the federal police chief as get more on this developing story for latin america editor lucien human who's in santiago in chile i mean how serious now are the calls the balsa naro to step down following those charges that he's been sort of meddling in the judicial process.

exactly they're becoming very very serious indeed and this is moving very quickly just a short while ago president. confirmed that he has chosen a new justice minister to replace said joe morell who was who resigned friday this new minister is none other than a friend of his his former legal advisor when he was a deputy in the congress so that will do very little for his claims that he is impartial in that he is not putting in his own cronies into the cabinet but the real issue here is not so much what the son may or may not have done but the fact that the president is believed to have interfered in an ongoing confidential investigation by trying to get information on that investigation from the former police chief whom he fired rather the head of the federal police who he had fired and this is illegal it's unconstitutional it can be considered in teachable offense

earlier he had tried according to said joe more or to falsify his signature as the justice minister in order to fire that chief of police he withdrew that signature but that cat was out of the bag if you like so these are accumulating charges of misconduct by the president and the former president that number leaked at that last those considered brazil's most prestigious elder statesman if you like has already asked for president bush also not of to resign to spare the country from quote a long and torturous impeachment process so this is this is heating up very very quickly if you do see is a really we have a you might say a legal circle we have a political circle and we have the circle you might say of public opinion or more wonders whether within these circles bolzano really has any friends or support because based on the support will depend on whether he can stay in position. exactly that is that that is what the congress is trying to calculate right now

it's divided he doesn't have the support the full support of the congress has been he has been feuding with congress and the supreme code both in court both of which have to decide on whether or not it which they should move forward with an impeachment process or an investigation and and so he doesn't have a lot of support there but they're trying to decide on whether public opinion would support a move like that and right now although both are not his popularity has plummeted significantly in the last few months particularly be over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. it is not certain yet because people are going out on the streets to demonstrate in 2 certainly against him their state trying to stay home to to stay healthy but the only ones who are making a lot of noise right now are the ones who support prince and impulse scenario but this is not very indicative about what would happen if an investigation were to move forward so there everybody is kind of trying to hedge their bets and see what the people will do in the coming days and weeks of course we'll continue to monitor

that with you from chile you see in human latin america to thank you for the day's other news now in china is claiming another milestone in its battle with coronaviruses says that all patients have been discharged from hospitals and the original at the center of the pandemic health officials also say they've gone 11 straight days with no new deaths in china with 100 ported more than half of the country's total cases a nearly 85 percent of the national death toll city residents are still being tested regularly despite a relaxation of lockdown rules well in hong kong's overclock says china is now looking to deploy medical resources to the border region with russia. this is the epicenter of the initial corona virus outbreak and of course engendering we saw this particular city sealed off was in general 23 when live 11000000 people went into lockdown for about 3 or so months it was only when the numbers started to drop that they lift that particular lock down so in january february at the pick of this

particular virus outbreak in we had we had the likes of thousands of cases being reported on a daily basis of course we had accounts for half the national total of coronavirus cases in china and 3 quarters of china's deaths but instead of we had the medical efforts are now being deployed elsewhere we've got the cases on sunday a national health commission's report of 11 cases and 5 of those have come from a particular region in the north of the country that's an area called long jiang province and this particular province borders russia it's about 4000 kilometer a border there and as a result this is now the new battleground because of the cases of the surge in infections in that particular region we've got a number of cities that been put in lockdown we've got public transport it's been postponed or held for a period of time and this type quarantine restrictions in a number of those cities we also have mandatory testing for all arrivals coming from russia into china certainly china is now looking to deploy medical teams to this particular region as it sees a surge in the number of cases and there is

a professor in the school of politics and international relations at the university of nottingham in the u.k. he says the chinese communist party is doing everything it can to shield itself from any blame for what's happening. the chinese communist party holds. a quote unquote monopoly of truth and that means. the communist party basically by default whatever they say must be true and whatever is reported that kind of counters the official narrative by default must be fought and sought based on this understanding i think it's quite clear that we must not trust the carpet 19 statistics coming out of mainland china we need to be quite careful when we draw like comparisons to other countries it's all good to hold for example the british and u.s. government to account for their let's say a belated response and i think that criticism is being articulated day by day but when it comes to mainland china. as this is the origin of the corona virus outbreak

and this is of course something that secretary sitting is. perhaps ashamed off and so the highest it has been going into all the drives to kind of deflect criticism of this fact and they're now increasing reports that. the custody is actually orchestrating a global this information campaign courageous chinese citizens are attempting to kind of break through censorship but unfortunately just yesterday we learned that. some volunteers in china would try to document what really happened in and that they've been harassed by the authorities and so let's bear in mind health professionals who just wanted to share information with other professionals like dr levy when young they they couldn't speak their mind and on his deathbed he said

china should no longer have censorship and citizen journalists would try to report from the front lines like to ensure sure neither of us they were immediately carts and and gagged. well spain has recorded its lowest daily death toll in 5 weeks 288 people died in the past as the number of new infections also dropped it's raising hopes that spain's strict lockdown restrictions of beginning to pay dividends meanwhile millions of children in spain are being allowed outside to play for the 1st time in $6.00 weeks it's the locked down seeing further easing but it's only for an hour they must be accompanied by an adult and stay within a kilometer of home public parks remain closed marta herero has more from the capital madrid this is a big relief after 43 days of street lockdown children under 14 are able to go out for a walk only for one hour one kilometer away from their home and back and with one adult each adult can take at least 3 up to 3 kids of the same family so what we've

seen today the big picture in spain have been all these parents with the kids with their bicycles with the scooters we've seen plenty of police patrolling drones warning all the parents and the kids to keep to keep the safe safe safety distancing and. plenty of kids and all the parks are closed in spain on the playgrounds of course so the access is impossible so these kids have to to exercise or to walk with their own by their own means and with the parents so there are scientists spanish prime minister yesterday said that if this continues this slowdown trend continues according to 2 ministers sources in the past 34 hours we were just at the lowest death toll. in a month 288 new fatalities in the past 24 hours and 1700 new infections if this trend continues next week and we can see don't point out to sect to exercise individually so we might have one of the pictures well. or britain's

prime minister is due back at work on monday 2 weeks after he was in intensive care boris johnson facing criticism of his and his government's handling of the crisis including critical shortages of personal protective equipment for health care staff and the lack of testing or public calls to ease the lockdown also increasing joho is in london with more on what boris johnson can expect as he gets back to work. he returns to the helm of a country. currently in its 2nd 3 week period of severe restrictive lockdown measures that has reached the peak of its epidemic but not yet seen a steep decline still posting perilously high numbers of new infections and fatalities passing the 20000 person mark hospital deaths that is on saturday there is still persists and shortages of personal protective equipment for frontline health care workers a government target to hit 100000 tests

a day by the end of this month looks a long long way away still and there are louder and louder calls on the prime minister on the government to give greater transparency about its plans for a timetable for an exit strategy the opposition is saying the public must be kept in the loop about how and when the lockdown will end business community leaders and even senior figures in the prime minister's own party is saying it's got to end very very quickly if we're to avoid destroying the economy altogether so he's got a lot of things that he's got to work out presumably the most important priority will be to try and figure out how to communicate to the british public quite what is going to happen next and in order to do that he's got to resolve that central sort of predicament whether and to what extent on the one hand to follow the calls of business and those in his party to end the lock down to save the economy and on the other hand whether and to what extent to heed the rather more cautious calls of the scientific and medical community who say now is not the time the numbers are

still too high well in other parents you turned the world health organization says patients who've already been infected by the corona virus will develop some form of protection earlier the u.n. health agency said there was no evidence they'd be better off and that threatened to damage plans by several countries to issue so-called immunity passports allowing the recovered to return to normal life while the. previous statement calls concerned and tweeted to clarify they said we expect that most people who are infected with covert 19 will develop an antibody response that will provide some level of protection. well still ahead here on al-jazeera a test of faith during the pandemic churches reopened in south korea for the very 1st time we. imagine. the show must go on the ramadan home entertainment the iraqis long.

yes another front which you can't really see this is this cloud here has been drawing boards and dusty around the empty quarter to qatar to the central part of saudi arabia and then it will be replaced by a breeze that comes in after so 40 on sunday down to $35.00 in doha on monday occasional showers maybe a little bit there's not much on the frontal system a few showers left in the top of it all and that's really just in the in part of iran so the whole of the review that you're back to the levant it's relatively warm the wind being the dominant feature here sometimes it's dusty and strong and now it's cooling down again or dying down i should say in jerusalem of 24 rock or up to 27 and even in turkey dish as it's warming up now on the far north of africa this cloud shows the luckier shastra area and tunisia sorites this hour of course is

generally dry these hot winds are bringing dusty conditions into egypt the showers for the south and after a make it up a long way nando's and tiger and betty for example the temperatures in the salary into the middle forty's now that is the average but even here in mena for example regress so above the average where she would necessarily expect expect showers further west to reach the r.v. coast hardly surprising in fact the forecast next 3 days damage on the westward. from fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against these developments we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for future generations the breastpin pioneering future energy.

welcome back to al jazeera with me still run a reminder of our top news stories police in brazil own vesta getting present diable soros son for his role in a criminal scheme that spreads fake news the supreme court named carlos balsara in an ongoing probe about false stories targeting judges. also china says the coronavirus patients have not been discharged from hospitals and will hand the original at the center of the pandemic beijing is also reporting no new coronavirus deaths for an 11th straight day and in europe spain has recorded its lowest daily

death toll in 5 weeks 288 people died in the past 24 hours as the number of new infections also drops. in south korea another sign that life is starting to return to normal catholics are attending mass for the 1st time since social distancing measures were introduced at the start of the pandemic but what bryant has more from seoul on the precautions been taken. it's nearly 2 months since the catholic church and other churches here in south korea decided it was simply too risky to hold normal services instead they're holding masses on the line and it's only now all of these weeks on that the catholic church has decided it is safe to reopen its churches but only under the strictest of precautions we're at the main cathedral in seoul can only have a congregation of up to a 1000 but only a quarter of that number are being allowed in for 'd each mass and you know order to do so you have to turn up here early go to this building where you get

a number and your contact details your identity is recorded all this so that if there is a case of infection then every member of that congregation can be traced it's all part of this contact tracing that the south koreans are now so expert at then you have to line up. 2nd time outside the cathedral itself obviously keeping a distance from the people in front of you and behind you and as you go into the cathedral taking the usual precautions like hand sanitizer making sure you have a mask and then there are special precautions in place for example during the taking of communion all intended to reduce the risk of infection being passed on to an absolute minimum people we have been talking to say yes it is slightly troublesome to go through these measures which are in place at churches this sunday throughout south korea but they are nonetheless thankful that they can once more return to their churches. and i am

a bit concerned but it feels we are getting back to normal to such an extent. that i feel grateful and moved at be back in church it made me realize that b. took it for granted and that was wrong. this is being seen as a further sign of life returning to something like normal once more and indeed the figures seem to bear out the fact that the worst seems to be behind south korea with only a few new cases being detected every day and most of those coming from outside the concern for the authorities now though is that a sense of complacency or fatigue sets in allowing a resurgence which nobody here wants to see a field hospital dedicated exclusively to over 1000 patients has been inaugurated in rio de janeiro it's the 1st of 9 such facilities shuttle to open next month across the state brazilian medical officials have warned that they're struggling to cope with the high number of infections brazil is one of the worst affected

countries in latin america. well cuba's government has sent 200 medical workers to south africa to help treat virus patients 86 south africans have died and around 4000 cases have been reported cuba has at least 1300 cases of its own but government leaders in havana say the situation is under control the communist cuban government sends medical teams to many countries as an important income earner for its impoverished economy. hundreds of venezuelans are trying to get home from colombia stranded on the border it's closed because of the virus threat many say they're having to sleep there and haven't eaten today's 5000000 venezuelans of flood in the past 5 years because of the collapsing economy so i leave. here i got 8 days ago my girl and i had been almost the whole time without food we haven't be there i'm heart it doesn't matter if we sardines or tuna that doesn't matter as we venezuelans i want ears we want them to let us pass together sayed and give us the

hope that we can return home now i said only a group of about 200 venezuelans passed by 1st but they left without an answer and as well as foreign ministry has given no answers we've traveled for 2 weeks walking riding on mules we did the impossible to get here a larger team is partially relaxing the nationwide lockdown but it's also extending restrictions in large cities by 2 weeks schools universities restaurants and most government offices will continue to be closed but going for a walk is allowed all restrictions have been lifted in communities with fewer than half a 1000000 people businesses around mexico are rallying to help make masks for frontline workers or laser cutting firm is focused almost entirely on mass for doctors nurses in mexico city and the hospitals are facing shortages of vital protective equipment as cases continue to rise mexico has around $14000.00 confirmed infections. well to africa zimbabwe has extended nationwide lockdown because of

a rise in corona virus cases but the restrictions of come at a cost raising concerns the food crisis affecting half of the population or get even worse are in the toss of reports given to the world most of the struggling to put food on the table these women are grateful for any kind of assistance years of drought rising inflation and now coronavirus have seen food prices soar several families are now eating lists many say they know not much will change until lock down restrictions are eased or scrapped in early may. mean more killing people. for their tweets and. we are no doctor. so you're waiting for what we're waiting for the 2 weeks to get finished after treatment you'll see what is going to happen next the world food

program says half of the population needs food aid a poverty assessment done by the government and aid agencies last year found nearly 80 percent of families in urban areas are hungry the. local milling companies try to cope with what's available the pandemic has made it difficult to buy more grain from abroad. some of this country is on lockdown it's not export ban but what did seem to dan is that the infrastructure the whole system of exporting is no sister or bridge also and some of the ships that are bringing concerning this aid are now subjected to quarantine of the station there so this is slowed down and the. petition of one. families in rural areas are also struggling the rains have been erratic many haven't managed to grow much food now the global health crisis is an. more families here vulnerable priority is given to the sick and the elderly and

even here people are being encouraged to practice social distancing but masks and gloves and hand sanitizers are in short supply and that's the case all over the country. the unofficial unemployment rate is more than 80 percent most people live hand to mouth the government is vulnerable households will receive cash transfers over the next 3 months that's less than $10.00 per person every month businesses have been told by the state not to increase the prices of basic commodities but in previous years whenever an official price freeze was imposed elated panic buying shortages and even more frustration. al-jazeera zimbabwe. the latest attack in the democratic republic of congo has killed at least $23.00 people rival ethnic communities have carried out decades of attacks in the gold an oil rich province of it well since 2017 at least 700 people have been killed in the

region so auto is a counterterrorism expert at global risk international he says government in the d.l.c. has several problems on multiple fronts. ryssdal to secure the house you know he was the one that brought these so you have to 1st profit back into politics but the guy house you know continuously you know clucking at the political agendas within the government and he's now seen as somebody who you know constantly leaves you know well you know we have. connected to violence within the state i mean conway is facing the corporate 19 like every other country but some of the supporters we're seeing you know got 3 in places where the government are already by and you know well you've got me so my contrarian before which is security the president is a good he came to power there has been so many. theories there are so many areas

where you know he needs to look into an address you know but i don't think this is something which he can do just within a couple of years that he's been in power i think he needs to look at that and i'm sure that president you security will be looking at all these angles and all these of that coming in from various angles as you said and you know he would be concerned that the promises he made you know needs to be fulfilled don't you know even has you to do that at the moment. boeing has attempted to be hit with an expensive lawsuit for the collapse of a deal to buy an actress manufacturer in brazil embryo accuses the americans of sabotaging the $4000000000.00 tie up to avoid its commitments boeing sinking billions of dollars from the u.s. government as the airline industry is at a standstill more airlines have canceled orders for the boeing 737 months following crashes killing all aboard. now the u.s. secretary of state has praised qatar airways for repatriating nearly 1000000 people

worldwide including tens of thousands of americans qatar increase both flights and capacity to help stranded travelers to return home the carrier helped a number of countries to repatriate their citizens after most airlines canceled international flights for watching t.v. is a popular pastime during the muslim holy month of ramadan and iraq is no exception it is perhaps the only custom that has remained unaffected by the curfew imposed in response to cope with 19 and that has raised the stakes for those producing t.v. shows samantha 14 has the story from baghdad. even as public life in baghdad has largely come to a halt the cameras for this t.v. show never stopped rolling. it was scheduled to air during the fasting month of ramadan a prime time for television across the arab world and so the director has found ways to overcome the covert 19 lock down. around 90 percent of

iraqi productions that response to air during ramadan were cancelled so there were no options the audiences would be bored was foreign in arabic content that they were watching in the past we impose a sort of semi quarantine for the programming team we only film inside this house we don't mix with other people and we took preventative measures. the name of the satirical comedy is well at all but which translates as state of melons a local expression used to describe a chaotic situation it alludes to the lack of stability in post 2003 iraq the sketches tackle everyday issues such as corruption and the impact of conservative norms on society you know. how stop sending messages you call me sister but then you seem to me to just past midnight recorded in iraqi dialect it has gained popularity over long established turkish an egyptian series. we managed to

use a language that appeals to all classes of iraqi society so the audience will see us as one of the family they'll say yes this old lady is like my mother or that character like my brother. t.v. series has always been an integral part of what i'm a ban but the crew hopes that this year their efforts will help lighten up evenings for people stuck at home the curtain has been lifted during the day but it remains in place in the evening which is when people usually gather to break their fast that means that many cherished ramadan traditions cannot be observed this year. we join one thermally at their home as they prepare for the 1st a meal to break their daily fast delightful aroma swath through the kitchen and there's no shortage of mouth watering dishes spread on the table but mother of 3 and soon to. give birth to a 4th son misses her extended family you know well you know mom darn it's ramadan so normally we should be at my grandfather's house but we can't go. later in the

evening the men in the family would usually head out of their friends and relatives until late at night. ramadan is known for coffee shops and playing games in public it's all about the gatherings and would usually go to a coffee shop to have shisha but this year i cannot do that as all the coffee shops are prohibited and closed and so watching t.v. is one of the few entertainment options left after their meal the family tunes in to lay it out but it's a rare occasion to smile and one of the few traditions that have not been appended by the coronavirus pandemic seem awful to al-jazeera but that. means the whole robin a reminder of our top stories police in brazil are investigating president diable sonorities son for his role in a criminal scheme that spreads fake news the supreme court name callers ball sonora

in an ongoing probe about false stories targeting judges china says all corona virus patients have now been discharged from hospitals in the original epicenter of the pandemic beijing is also reporting no new coronavirus deaths for 11 consecutive days in on calls or a clock says china is now looking to deploy medical resources to a border region near russia. on sunday the national health commission's reported 11 cases in 5 of those have come from a particular region in the north of the country that's an area called how long jiang province and this particular province borders russia it's about 4000 kilometer a border there and as a result this is now the new battleground because of the cases of the surge in infections in that particular region and we've got a number of cities that been put in lockdown we've got public transport it's been postponed or held for a period of time and this typewriting restrictions in a number of those cities that we also have mandatory testing for all arrivals coming from russia into china certainly china is now looking to deploy medical

teams to this particular region spain has recorded its lowest daily death toll in 5 weeks 288 people died in the past day as the number of new infections also dropped italy has reported 260 virus deaths its lowest toll for 6 weeks. britain's prime minister boris johnson is due back at work on monday 2 weeks after he was in intensive care johnson's facing criticism of his and his government's handling of the crisis including critical shortages of personal protective equipment for health care staff and the lack of testing. in the parent u.-turn the world health organization says patients who've already been infected by the corona virus will develop some form of protection earlier the u.n. health agency said there was no evidence they'd be better off those are the headlines i'll be back with a news hour in half an hour next on art is there it's inside story with birds with .

will again be divided into 2 countries again separatists backed by the united arab emirates to class self rule in the south on the state of emergency what does that mean the efforts to end yemen's civil war this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm going to.