but behind her and in depth analysis of the dates global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. here's a. sneeze into your own. al-jazeera . hello i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes warnings that nearly half of workers around the world are at risk of losing their livelihoods as new figure figures show huge losses in the u.s. germany and nigeria. the u.k.

coronavirus death toll passes $26000.00 as the government includes karen fatalities for the 1st time. 100000 arrested for breaking the philippine government lockdown what police are being accused of serious violations and an icon of indian cinema the film world pays tribute to if i'm caught who has died of cancer. the brutal impact coronavirus lockdowns are having on the global economy is becoming clearer with the release of new financial data and the numbers only reflect up to the end of march just as most restrictions were actually being put in place the world's largest economy the united states which has now recorded more than 60000 deaths has shrunk 4.8 percent since the start of the year that's its

largest drop since 2008 new numbers from europe's economic powerhouse germany show its g.d.p. is expected to contract by more than 6 percent this year plunging the country into its deepest recession in half a century and the economy. out of africa nigeria has just been granted a $3400000000.00 loan from the i.m.f. that's the funds the largest ever aid package for a single country all of this says the international labor organization warns that 1600000000 workers in the informal economy are in immediate danger of losing their livelihoods that is nearly half the global workforce what we find in report in this monitor is of the lives of the 2b2b informal workers of the world about 1600000000 as suffered massive damage to their

ability to earn a living and to support themselves and their families if they are not able to go out and work for a day and earn some income day by day because that's how it tends to work their family won't eat they won't eat and their family will not eat and there is no social protection. stock or about the latest u.s. economy figures with our white house correspondent kimberly have cat and kimberly president trying this current meeting business leaders at the white house to do we know what he had to say about the falling g.d.p. . yeah the u.s. president said very little about these numbers which are obviously not good news for his administration you're right he's meeting with big business industry leaders in the hospitality industry this time yesterday it was the small business leaders all he would say is that he was optimistic that the next quarter would be what he called a transition quarter and he predicted that the 4th quarter would be fantastic now i

can tell you that not everyone at that table shares such a rosy view of the prospect of recovery in fact one of his economic advisors larry kudlow said that this is a tough one in the contraction that we're seeing right now that is projected to be even worse next quarter in terms of the g.d.p. that it will go on for a bit so this is jeff another economic indicator that is bad news for the u.s. economy we've been looking at so many in recent weeks whether it's unemployment claims which we expect to go up again tomorrow or whether it is the dismal number in terms of the death toll now ticking past 60000 in this country what many of these business leaders are talking about as they meet with the president is that even if these economies are reopened the problem is that many of these customers are not coming back because they simply don't feel safe yet to leave their homes and that's what these business leaders are grappling with that's what this president is grappling with as he tries to reopen this u.s.

economy. so kimberly terrible news on the economic front if there is a slight glimmer of hope when it comes to any kind of treatment for covert 90 there's already talk that an antiviral drug called that red vest severe could actually be cleared for emergency use after some promising results from a trial and potentially this could be great news what more do we know. all we know is coming from dr anthony found she has a very respected public health official in the united states now what he said is that he looked at the data from a study on using ramdev severe for possible treatment for cope with 19 and that there is some positive data what he says is that the use of this drug if it gets to market could shorten a person's recovery time from coronavirus although with 31 percent improvement doesn't seem like good knock out 100 percent is

a very important proof of concept because what it is proven is that a drug and block this virus. and what else it seems to prove in these results from this study is that essentially this drug can block an enzyme that the virus needs to perpetuate so this is really opening the door for a possible treatment breakthrough now what is being reported in the united states is that the f.d.a. or food and drug administration is expected to potentially announce that there will be an emergency authorization for the use of this drug on the market so that it can be used immediately watching very carefully as this meeting continues with the u.s. president the question of the answers that may follow whether the president will make some sort of announcement to that effect you know will bitch be checking in with you for those ones in the meantime kimberly how could thank you. feel ready dire economic situation in germany meanwhile could get even worse germany the

powerhouse of europe dominic kane explains from berlin. the economic damage that germany is suffering by dint of the pandemic continues to raise real concerns. and her cabinet colleagues now they have to reckon with a shrinking economy they already knew that the projection for this particular quarter april to june was very bad now they can see that the german economy is going to shrink by more than 6 percent in this calendar year given the fact that until the pandemic began they'd expected a modest growth of the economy it shows the effect corona is having the point that they are having to deal with is when to relax restrictions to allow the economy to get back to some degree of normality whilst of course keeping the threat of the 2nd wave of infection at bay if there is a 2nd wave of infections it could make the recession that's already going to be

very bad that much worse. and as we mentioned earlier nigeria has received a $3400000000.00 loan from the international monetary fund to help it tackle kovac 19 the outbreak and sharp fall in oil prices of magnified challenges for the economy the government has already reduced its 2020 budget by 40 percent. more now from. this is a country that has seen a lot of borrowing in recent times in march early march 2020 the government the parliament approved more than $22000000000.00 as for for the nigerian government to borrow externally so this is also coming at a time when the external results of this country has seen a significant drop from more than $40000000000.00 just a few years ago to only $33000000000.00 the grant from the i.m.f. is seen by economists and government officials here as

a welcome development it could help stimulate growth and also cushion the effect of the covered 19 impact on be kind to me but a lot of economists also fear that this country may need much more than what it has already gotten from the i.m.f. external other external and internal borders of the at the moment saudi arabia has reported a 1st quarter budget deficit of more than $9000000000.00 as oil prices slide the world's largest oil exporter has been hit hard by the global collapse in demand because of the pandemic saudi oil revenues to fall in 24 percent compared to the 1st quarter of 2019 factories are forced to stay shut and storage units are nearly full saudi arabia along with other large oil producing nations have agreed to cut output by about 10 percent over the next 2 months in an attempt to balance the market. and boeing's stocks have reported a $641000000.00 loss on tuesday tuesday

a loss that grows to $1700000000.00 in its core airplane manufacturing businesses the companies the fence contracts a little less than half its overall business are largely untouched but the playmaker will lay off one in 10 workers including 15 percent of its commercial aircraft employees john hendren has the story now from chicago. buffeted by a global pandemic in a crisis of its own making boeing is plunging deep into negative territory the company has been scrambling for more than a year to get its most lucrative plane this 737 max back in the air after it was grounded following 2 crashes that killed 346 people then the coronavirus emptied planes in airports with passenger travel down an unprecedented 95 percent boeing reported a loss of 6 $141000000.00 and now plans about $16000.00 layoffs 110th

of its global workforce light all of shutdowns not just europe and united states but pretty much everywhere in the world the ramifications are. for the most part the industry is not interested in taking delivery of airplanes at the moment and or . against contracts that we have in here and so as a result there is this moment in time. try to contend with the dramatic reductions southwest and other airlines are cutting their orders for the 737 max and with fewer long haul travelers boeing is cutting back on production of its massive 777 and $787.00 dreamliner jets boeing is the united states largest export ing manufacturer and it said that when boeing sneezes america's economy catches cold now foundations of highly skilled highly paid boeing workers will be joining the waiters service workers and others who are among the 1st wave of coronavirus

layoffs and that will reverberate down the boeing supply chain and throughout the u.s. economy boeing rival airbus also posted a $521000000.00 loss in what it's called the greatest crisis the aerospace industry has ever known. analysts say boeing and airbus will have to restructure for a new marketplace and compete with their own cheaper used planes languishing on tarmacs around the globe you're all grown up and got no where to go really being there isn't any certainly a product of a separate post about bad news europe not many people are planning a trip to the lake cookery of italy right now so it's going to be only long time they're going to readjust and be a smaller company although the global pandemic took just months to ground much of the aviation industry analysts say it will take years to arrive at a new normal john hendren and jazeera chicago. well it speak to patrick peregrina

international economist who heads of research at adv acro he joins us live now from london sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera an incredibly bleak picture that's being painted there the u.s. economy in trouble and the jerry at that the heart of the african economy germany of course the heart of the eurozone of how bad is it is it worse than you thought it might be when i guess a lot of predictions were made a few weeks ago. well certainly when we look at the data that's come out it's actually been worse than the economists consensus was. for example in today's us g.d.p. number the the core personal consumption element which is the largest element is about 70 percent of g.d.p. . fell an annualized rate in that over get this testing q 17.8 percent and it was a 4 was expected to be 3.6 percent we've never seen that before in the u.s. with session in the consumer or it has a residual amount demand but actually he is actually taking

a more defensive stance and actually start to react with long before the shutdowns in terms of their activity. a lot of nations right now is thinking of ways in which to lift the lockdown also because of the impact that these lockdowns are having on the various economies what do you think the priorities should be in looking at this maybe at the u.s. or even the u.k. what do you think are the main industries to get going again that would try to help stimulate the economy as a whole. well if we look at it ok we have the government sector that's fairly protected. but the rules say the sec to that and i think we saw the fed reserve the saving in a press conference the largest sector of the economy is not these big companies the big it is to employers are the u.s. emmys they're the great majority of employment it's ways of getting we know we have to live with a lockdown so we're seeing these gradual easing of them but the problem is we just don't know i mean look at germany very key angela merkel talks about the

r 8 they they ease their lock down after easter and they've seen the r 8 pick up and we did you know this possible what happens if germany goes into lockdown again that's going to really dent global confidence and in terms of what we're seeing we close to companies we talk about boeing we have british airways tensors and 10000 job losses it's these big companies they those numbers sound bad enough but when you think about something like boeing or british airways think about all the auto suppliers to them so for every boeing worker there's probably about another 8 workers in the supply chain providing all the various parts tools. that are going to put the stuff together that's brought into that so we really are talking about a car that for now about 30 busy percent at least of global activity has just disappeared and the problem is come back to these small businesses most small businesses run on very fine margins they don't have the financial wherewithal they

can go and tap the markets easily you see the problems with the business loans in the u.s. and the u.k. and they may simply not come back and that's the real issue so on what an employment rises it go. very quickly 'd would takes years which come to us 10 years who are unemployment to get back to where it was in 2007. despite all the problems that there have been especially in the states with giving loans to small and medium businesses and less at least you have governments that are trying to help these businesses but we heard from the international labor organization that potentially half the global workforce which works in the informal informal the so-called informal economy could actually find itself unemployed from one day to the next what is the knock on effect of that and how possible is it for some of the weaker economies in the world to try to balance their books again and get back on their feet if the biggest economies in the world are in the trouble that they're in . it's extremely difficult and that's the real problem are already saying

a lot of emerging markets burning through their effects with service some of them are even trying quantity of easing on their own and the problem is no real forthcoming aid because everyone else is in such dire straits so and the un warned the other day that they could see. hunger of rice to biblical portions that global hunger could rise by 130000000 this year alone and i think it's you know it's a it's an awful awful situation and so we said there are so integrated in supply chains of silver stuff banga banga banga only textile workers are being put out of work because large retailers in the west of just canceling contracts and it's really really interactive the only thing that's really going to fix this out ultimately is the fact when we actually come up with a proper vaccine all i mean it sounds awful but we might have to get to the point where because we don't so mental about covert 19 there we almost have to treat it

as we did with previous to and previous times and almost except that it's with us and we're going to see these death threats there is one thing i would say though and i think we tend to lose sight of this it's we we hear the numbers about deaths and it's very very distressing but there is it would take quite a lot of rufus despite global governments but the evidence is very clear that the under fifty's in a health context or very unlikely to be affected by this and it crisis huge political dynamics but i think probably going back to what you're saying how can we get a lock downs going well it is actually getting people back and then i'm going to reengage with the in column e. and i know that takes you know we've been seeing efforts on contact and tracing all the sort of stuff and i think this is the this is the hope i mean we're not. the.

time to travel rick perry with out about saying this could be very hard absolutely very difficult decisions ahead for most of the governments in the world patrick peregrine head of research at macro thank you. i hear that coming up on this news hour from london the race to find a successful coronavirus vaccine as we were just discussing there and the surprising reason that it could be the late president as a walk free in afghanistan to help the fight against the coronavirus. has a number of coronavirus related deaths in the u.k. has jumped more than 26000 after the government included care home numbers for the 1st time that makes it the worst hit country in europe after initially but there was some good news for prime minister boris johnson who became a father and again on wednesday days after his own recovery from the virus that he has more now on the situation in your own behalf of everyone in the house of

commons may i say congratulations to the prime minister and kerry simmons on the birth of. in an expected announcement is boris johnson just back at work off to being in intensive care with cope with going to be his fiance celebrate some good news so from the foreign secretary dominic robb carries on deputizing including here a parliament for a prime minister's question time where most m.p.'s virtually not in person opposition leader kissed storm a wanted to know why there was still so many people dying of coronavirus in care homes and shortages of protective equipment for frontline health workers with possibly on truck to have one of the worst death rates in your. on monday the promise to said in his short speech that many were looking at our apparent success in the united kingdom but just the 1st 3 with me but far from success these latest figures are truly dreadful he also asked when the government would communicate

a strategy for lifting the current restrictions dominic rob simply said it was too early but he will not because i know he's in the situation of the international evidence that germany has now have to think twice about easing up on the measures because of the risk of the 2nd spike this is exactly the risk that the governor of the bank of england referred to last week when i referred to on the 16th of april and that sagely scientists have been referred to germany's economy minister says he now expects the economy to shrink this year by minus 6.3 percent meaning the country's deepest recession since world war 2 output is predicted to rebound by more than 5 percent next year but that depends on angola merkel's government being able to gradually lift the lockdown measures from wednesday germans have to wear a mask when entering shops which began to open last week nose and mouth coverings are already compulsory on public transport but while this kind of travel is permitted international trips are very much off the agenda given. the cabinet

decided that global travel restrictions were non-essential on holiday travel will be upheld until june 14th this is a decision that we have had to take because we are not at the point in our fight against the disease to be able to offer safe travels meanwhile spain officially europe's worst hit country has recorded a daily coronavirus death count below 400 for the 6th day in a row in the summer times that's reason to be hopeful the al-jazeera. sweden has faced intense criticism for its more relaxed approach to the coronavirus pandemic social distancing measures have not been strictly enforced relying more on public responsibility instead of the world health organization says this could actually be the best approach in coming days. if we are to reach a new normal i think i think in many ways sweden represents a future model of if we wish to get back to a society in which we don't have locked up then society we may need to adapt for

a medium or potentially a longer period of time in which our physical and social relationships with each other will have to be modern modulating by the presence of the virus. and meanwhile a covert 19 vaccine being developed in oxford in the u.k. may be available by september but it could be delayed by the success of social distancing in slowing the spread of the virus joe hall explains. this is the new normal the to be to safe distance we must keep that defines life for many people now. and danger for those who can't. but for how long when will it end. the answer in part lies in the global race for a vaccine against coded 90 edward o'neill is a medical research are taking part in what is currently the world's most well advanced vaccine trial at oxford university there is

a very good well qualified tame trying to do everything they can as carefully and as quick as they can so that we have great confidence in the results i myself am one of many volunteers who wanted to be part of it i think we all want to have the lockdown to end but more importantly to help save lives scientists at oxford's jenner institute began a trial involving 1100 people last week which they're like spanned to 6000 participants in may if successful and with a fast track to approval from the regulator the 1st few 1000000 doses of a vaccine could be available by september and they've just received good news from labs in the united states where half a dozen rhesus macaque monkeys the closest animal species to humans were given the oxford vaccine and then exposed to large quantities of the virus 28 days later all 6 were reported healthy that's no guarantee of success of course and nor of the oxford scientists alone as a chinese company that's also had positive results with

a rhesus macaque monkeys there are at least 2 u.s. companies and a german one that have launched small scale clinical trials and they're among dozens into which millions of dollars are being poured in the search for a vaccine the scientific community is only cautiously optimistic with many vaccines you only get a proportion of the population becomes of me in and so the virus can keep circulating but much lower rates so we should hope that any dioxin will absolutely limit. in a matter of months or even years but it should be very helpful in helping control works and as a lot will. and the challenges mount daily successful trials depend on participants injected with the vaccine being exposed naturally to the virus. as infection rates decline in some parts of the world then it becomes harder to achieve the success of

social distancing measures therefore the new normal may paradoxically make the wait for a vaccine even longer join a whole al jazeera oxford. authorities in the yemeni port city of aden have announced a 3 day curfew after 5 new coronavirus cases were confirmed there the announcement came from the southern transitional council a separatist group backed by the united arab emirates which declared self rule on sunday over the key city and other southern provinces. meanwhile in libya the eastern warlord highly for half that has announced a cease fire for the islam make month of ramadan earlier at least one person was killed and several others injured during an attack on the health complex east of tripoli libya's u.n. recognize government blamed it on have terrace forces on monday have to end their peace talks with the u.n. recognize movement whose forces have been advancing on his fighters for nearly 2 weeks get more now on the cease fire from

a head who joins me now on the phone from tripoli so he's announced it to coincide of course with the month of ramadan what else do we know about the cease fire. well barbara for many people here in the worst of libya it's not surprised whether the same time can never be taken for granted as you know that. they cannot trust hospitals foursomes hospitals the commanders especially when it comes to. rejected many ceasefire proposals in the past including the one and the russia and generally the other and they believe also and here and west of libya people perceive this threat of this money the spokesman of house that as he said that they will respond they

will put the ceasefire and place during the holy month of ramadan but meanwhile their lives come to any violation means that they c.d.'s and putting a cease fire in place but it's been imprinted because it's here and the west as a kind of defeat as you know this comes only a few weeks of going to bed said back they lost almost the west of libya after they lost several cities and strategic towns. along the coastal highway in the west of libya that links the capital tripoli to the tunisian border so. as you know barbara this announcement comes only a few i want to. start of the heavy fighting around the city of who now this is the major stronghold for a house that has the forces and as you know that if this also this also comes a few day is. the backlash that had over his announcement that he

has a popular mandate to the country you know we've got this turkish corporation with a government of national school. has changed the balance of power on the ground to the favor of big government national court and in fact the government has been now in full control over the course again of how sort of course have to force one applies. to control of the air force during that part the 1st 10 months of the battle but we can say that during the past over the past 2 or 3 months the government forces have been taken control of the air force due to the turkish military cooperation with the government of national court so do it speaking this also to by half the spokesman is not being taken seriously in the

worst of libya especially with the government camp and it's not being taken for granted you know that there is the government forces cannot trust half those close and they say that half that it was may take this opportunity to regroup and a range and there. 'd are troops on the ground a lot of developments coming out of libya mustn't i know you will be monitoring all of them for us for the moment that they were had live in tripoli for us thank you. and still to come in this news hour brazil's supreme court blocks president bush sonata from appointing his friend as federal police chief and protesters target banks sense that fire to cash machines 2 nights in a row in lebanon as the financial crisis they would be.

hello it's all change in the weather across europe now lots of clouds spilling in from the atlantic are rolling into central and eastern parts big areas of low pressure piling through so we have got some much needed rainfall making its way into central in the eastern parts of the continent further south it is a little dry here that eastern side of the med you have want to see showers heading over towards great but essentially a lot of fine dry and sunny weather somewhat drier into spain and portugal as well but you can't without the possibility of a shower or 2 in the west the weather is further north front seeing a fair bit of that wet weather pushing into northern parts of italy through switzerland southern areas of germany as well the u.k. also seeing some rather unsettled weather at the moment right across the british isles in fact and on the other side of the north sea seeing some west of where the pushing into scandinavia i will drift

a little further eastward just go on through friday some more heavy downpours coming in for some i would tools the baltic states denmark seeing some heavy rain they will speckling of showers there still in place across england scotland wales and into southern parts a little drier it must be said central areas of france still seeing some of that western weather but for much of southern europe it is fine and dry a lot of the fog in dry to across northern parts of africa showers in the process of clearing away with plenty of sunshine behind. desperate for a better life millions of people have sought refuge in europe sometimes their dreams of century are realized but sometimes disenchantment and hostility drive them home. in the 2nd of 2 films on these contrasting experiences people and power meets the returning migrants now determined to discourage others from following the

same policy. gambia back home from al-jazeera. when the news breaks over the night of the dumping of garbage in the river by the government has wrecked our lives when people need to be heard and the story needs to be told to many coming to this place of the only chance they have to eat at least once a day with exclusive interviews and in-depth reports for obvious reasons of the world battled the gentleman pandemic we'll bring you the latest developments from around the globe al-jazeera has teams on the ground to bring new moon boldly documentaries and live news.

welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera new financial data shows the enormous impact the coronavirus is having on heavyweight economies the united states germany nigeria the economic heart of africa have all suffered huge blows to their g.d.p. germany is facing its worst recession in half a century plane makers boeing and their bus have both posted 1st quarter losses of more than half a $1000000000.00 because of the pandemic and the u.k. now has the 2nd worst coronavirus related best in europe after italy the number of deaths climbed to more than 26000 on wednesday after care home vets were included for the 1st time. a riot has broken out in a prison in sierra leone after a case of corona virus was confirmed in the facility. inmates that had them by road prison said some buildings on fire in protest the government says police and security forces were able to get the right on the control the inmate who tested

positive has been taken out of prison for treatment. the afghan government is releasing some prisoners to stop the virus spreading in their overcrowded jails and overwhelming hospitals in the country decades of conflict and political instability mean that the health care system would struggle to cope priyanka has. a rare lease of life during the global pandemic. these are some of the 230 prisoners released on wednesday inherit province the epicenter of the crooner virus outbreak in afghanistan they are being given another chance by special decree issued last month by president bush of carney it's also a practical necessity but a cash strapped government that can't afford to go over 19 to spread in overcrowded jails. they release some of the prisoners to the government's trying to reduce the number of prisoners because those who are still inside the prison are in terrible

condition because of coronavirus and having no facilities and space as the prison is very crowded. no matter the circumstances they are glad to get an opportunity for freedom and potentially a new life. i've been through so much misery inside the prison i haven't seen my son yet who was born after i was jailed but now i'm very happy to go back to my family see my mother and father i won't get involved in crimes again but outside the prison walls is a country under lockdown decades of war and political infighting has forced more than half of the population into poverty more than a quarter of afghans are unemployed for now the focus isn't saving lives over livelihood. to keep ourselves safe women stayed home and not go out if there's any important work to do we should take all the safety precautions when we come home we

need to wash our hands and keep ourselves away from areas affected by coronavirus. precautions that seem even more critical with the health system suffering from shortages of ventilators testing centers and staff may struggle to cope with a major outbreak of the virus the. screw the philippines there were human rights activists say that the government's strict enforcement of lockdowns has led to serious violations committed by police the u.n. describes the country's response as highly militarized jimmy duggan reports from manila. these were the last few moments of winston ragas his life before he was shot dead by police they say the former soldier refused to follow their orders and was threatening to shoot them so they fired detained. twice. but witnesses deny this they say he posed no threat to anyone in the

movies who spoke with its family says ruggles was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and this death is a huge loss for them. so he was very thoughtful especially to his nieces and nephews here remember there were birthdays and he was a very generous man. other videos that critics say show excessive use of force by police have gone viral to. the reality. in this one a police officer forcefully tries to arrest a foreign national jury a dispute over quarantine measures imposed by the government. and here another officer appears to break into a private condominium before threatening to arrest people using areas like a swimming pool the philippine government displays around $50000000.00 people under lockdown across the region designed to clamp down on the spread of the coronavirus

that's nearly half of the country's population just a few weeks ago president agree go to tear to or there domenici and police to shoot anyone who creates trouble. police have denied allegations of wrongdoing and say they have arrested more than 100000 people since the lockdown was implemented more than a month ago human rights watch has issued a statement urging the government to investigate reports of abuses and hold officers have committed rights violations accountable. very harsh regulations would build regard reality so basic to a firm. and that it's going to soak in the. anger and frustration and. the government says its policies are necessary to fight the spread of the coronavirus but people here tell us the use of what they say is the heavy handed

and violent response by police is creating fear and anxiety. to doug and al-jazeera manila. brazil's supreme court has temporarily blocked the appointment of a family friend of the president as chief of the country's federal police alexander a measure was appointed after that and fired his predecessor that prompted the justice minister to quit accusing the president of unlawfully interfering with police affairs well all of this goes on brazil has reported more than 5000 deaths and over 73000 infections or so that are the smiths criticism of his handling of the outbreak saying that even though his middle name is messiah he can't prevent coronavirus that's. the way i'm sorry what do you want me to do i am a sinner but i don't do americans. for more on this let's cross live to our latin america editor to see a new man who joins us from santiago

a lot going on in brazil and tell us more about the supreme court ruling on xandra . appointment but i'm guessing not a surprise but what reaction has there been to it. hello barbara actually the new police chief was supposed to have taken over his chair at the office to day at the same time that the new justice minister was sworn in both of those were removed by both of the previous ones because he wanted his own friends in there and that's exactly what the supreme court has blocked they believe that it would give president bush unfair advantage influence over the new federal police chief precisely because the police chief is supposed to be in charge of investigations which include that of 2 of the president's sons in fact the president himself now is under investigation allegations of of political

interference in the justice system and in these sorts of police investigations so this has not been a good day at all for president and he is losing a lot of support because he is being seen now as doing exactly the opposite of what he promised to do when he was elected and that is to fight against corruption and now it turns out the balsa narrowed his 2 sons have been involved in a lot of a less than what we could call shady deals one of the sons for embezzle mint and the other food for allegedly being involved in a fake news network to undermine the opposition so things are getting very complicated for the press is so you say he's had a bad day but really it's been a pretty eventful couple of weeks for the brazilian government but on the one hand there's the kind of governmental shenanigans and resignations and then of course on the other is the very serious corner virus crisis that they are trying to handle how do they to join together. is there any sense that trying to use the crisis to cover up for example the placement of his friends in high places to the to link up

. that is what he's trying to do it's not working very well at all on the contrary it's giving brazilians and many people outside of brazil as well the impression that he's just not able to handle the coronavirus pandemic worried about the politics that it's taking place he is fighting with the supreme court he is fighting with the congress he now is fighting with police and so that is not allowing him in the view of many people to really see clearly imagine saying that. having more than 5000 deaths in the country but there's nothing i can do about it i can't do miracles people are furious in brazilian and other parts of the country where there were protests after those comments were made in the sense that the idea the feeling is that he's just losing his touch and he's certainly not able to protect the health of the brazilian people at this stage very worrying in these times and latin america editor speaking to us from always thank you.

let's go to lebanon now where the central bank governor has the fended his organization's role doing during the economic crisis protests against lebanon deepening financial problems have turned violent for 2 nights in a row in the northern city of tripoli. targeted banks and set fire to cash machines as in a halt there are now reports from. bank branches across lebanon people line up to try to withdraw as much of their savings as they can informal restrictions have been in place for months and recently access to dollars stopped further fueling public anger banks say they face a liquidity crisis through the central bank they have been lending money to the state which is now almost bankrupt. not if the central bank funded the state we didn't spend the money we need to know her the money was spent the central bank doesn't have the capability for oversight this is

a campaign against a central bank and particularly its governor. the central bank governor defended himself after the prime minister has indirectly accused him of trying to topple the government by engineering the collapse of the local currency the pound along with lebanon's worst economic crisis in decades is a struggle for power. protestors anger is targeting the banks and the government which took over in january but has still to present a plan to save the economy lebanon's foreign reserves are dwindling. what we need to do is to dismantle government that have been channeled through which government spending. and those government spending led the last one. we have

175 percent of that is due to an explicit and it should be this problem for the opening of the competition something privatization would not just end corruption but it would be more profitable instead of draining government funds such structural reforms are what international donors have been demanding. the united nations western governments and the arab league are all reiterating the need for reforms in lebanon it seems that changes in the structure of this state is what billions of dollars in assistance western and some arab nations don't seem to be willing to give blanket checks particularly to a government controlled by the iranian backed hezbollah and its allies politics is at play as popular discontent worsen. the u.n. secretary general has condemned to tuesday's attack in northern syria and reiterated his call for a nationwide cease fire to combat the coronavirus at least $46.00 people including

11 children were killed when a bomb placed in a fuel truck exploded it happened the city of a free man which has been under the control of turkish backed fighters for 2 years turkey is placing blame for the attack on the kurdish y p g a group which says it does not target civilians sources have told al-jazeera that a plane carrying prominent officials from the united arab emirates flew to the sudanese capital khartoum on tuesday the sources say the emma rotty delegation including the brother of abu dhabi's crown prince. was meeting sudanese officials to discuss military support for the libyan warlord have tied sudanese officials have denied any meeting taking place so it's more about this would join us and why no scholar of the middle east institute and a former u.s. envoy to libya he joins us now via skype from maryland sir thank you so much for

joining us here on al-jazeera and i can just add to that in the past half hour or so we've had some breaking news out of libya about highly for have also announcing a potential cease fire to coincide with the month of ramadan so in light of all of that and the developments that we've seen in libya over the past few days what do you make of the news of the u.a.e. flying to sudan to i guess effectively trying to drum up support for. it sounds like not that they're trying to drum up support with there are about to do for all of acquisition of arms or mercenary us for hafter i was there or. if that were to be true though it is very troubling because the arab emirates has repeatedly called for and so the civil or political goetia ships and support through the un resolutions require that indeed just a few very sicko sheikh mohammad a doctor president trump of your status and so on the one to see deescalation or that was probably enough for both as so in light of that why do you think it would

be happening now well after it's been losing the war in the west lately and it looks like a truce both sides have been potentially go and i'll bet it's turkey on one side the emirates and russia on the other egypt are all getting more weapons mercenaries from whatever support of their side which is a tragedy that needs saw. i suppose a lot of meetings have been held in various capitals around the world trying to make it stop i'm thinking of the conference in berlin where there was a tenuous agreement to various cease fires now a lot of this happened in fact most of it happened before the coronavirus really started hitting a lot of the of the euro capitals of around the world where do you see the role of the international community now where most governments are understandably focused on internal affairs do you see any leadership any direction well right now oh you

don't hear boris johnson saying this for us still. you don't hear don't help right now saying this war must stop you don't hear emanuel macross say you don't hear anybody say it is the position of all over merkel but the conference together everyone committed to stop the war and yet it has continued and have to as they have the center of its continuance so he wants a cease fire see far would be great if it was accompanied by both sides stopping rearmament the problem is that doesn't seem to be happening the acting un envoy special represent secretary-general stuff he waves this and there were all violating their obligations almost immediately then we have the obligations and she is essentially accused of the various patrons of being completely absent cyr and not following up on the other statements the promises they made truthfully honestly all or all the world needs to stop general haftar is not going to we had

a libyan court wind up as a dictator all libya libyans did not rise up against gadhafi in 2011 to replace gadhafi with a new dictator i've met 2 men who would be instable if i don't think most libyans want to be told what to do by anyone libyans or foreigners many good general after jonathan winer a scholar at the middle east institute and former u.s. envoy to libya sir thank you so much for sharing your views with us thank you. the un's outgoing human rights and voice for me and lara says the country's leader has failed to live up to her reputation as a humanitarian and he told al-jazeera that she's been left disappointed by a sense that she went hey has my. for more than 2 years young he leave was unable to do her job properly the united nations expert on human rights in myanmar was barred from the country in late 2017 as the government labeled her

biased and unfair just months earlier security forces had begun their latest and most violent crackdown against ringler communities in rakhine state now as she prepares to leave her position leases the military continues to deliberately target running and other ethnic groups as it fights a buddhist separatist army they know where their houses are really no where the religious right in our schools not one monastery was yet and shelling and bombings continue and it's really hard to believe they're not targeting civilians. following the violence of 2017 hundreds of thousands of running get fled to neighboring bangladesh where they remain the murder rape and torture carried out by security forces was documented by many rights groups and resulted in genocide charges being laid against me and at the international court of justice in december

last year me and mas leader aung san suu kyi travel to the hague to open her government's defense against the charges which she said are misleading in a preliminary ruling the judge has ordered the national league for democracy or n l d government and the military to take steps to prevent further attacks on the ring but li and other observers say nothing has happened not yet variac human right attack by the burning me and the there are repression and i am both the army and the government need not in any direction are there in your population in every direction are men and their right and share all of their intervention and are right. in a crime remain suchi was once held up as a symbol of hope for me and my but his silence and inaction on rights abuses mean most of that hope has been extinguished young he leases she's utterly disappointed

in her riyadh knew that she. had a still or trade as the icon democracy and human rights but as resent the n l d has been and ever since she took the our state council or all or her actions and her words statements why otherwise. there is an election she later this year and sue cheese party will be expected to win again many believe the military which once ruled the country for almost 50 years will continue to control it from behind the scenes and the un. human rights inspector will probably continue to be banned wayne hay al jazeera. the internationally renowned indian actor irrfan khan has died of cancer at the age of 53 he began his career in india television and bollywood movies but he went on to star in hollywood films including

life as jurassic world and slumdog millionaire overcalls so reports. there he was one of india's most recognize faces treading red carpets around the world but his success was gained after many years of struggle born in 1967 and rajastan shabbes other it finally han switch from chasing a korean cricket to one and acting and graduated from india's most prestigious school. in 1988 he made his debut in the acclaimed salaam bombay produced by indian american filmmaker mira nair lismore role one little praise that changed in 2001 when he starred in british movie maker os of the warrior. the low budget film went on to win several international awards including

a buff the for best british film in an interview with al-jazeera the actor said despite acting in many bollywood and hollywood films it was his role in the 2008 oscar winning slumdog millionaire the transformed his life doctors lawyers and they would get beyond 60 probably isn't going to be put back to main thing is to enter into mass audience psyche and that killed. fortunately it happened with me because of conservative firms you know i did my the. names he does in limited and certainly after that you know but. this from karen a lot of people who didn't see my id heard of names in the oh my from the song in some dog in the research about me in the store the earlier feel so that's important you know where it leads you know you know nobody can say. that success led found to more phones and greater recognition at home and abroad including

a national film award and india's 4th highest civilian award the pub mistry then he shot finance the dissonance meant on twitter in 2018 if iran had been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer after nearly 2 years of treatment in london informed returned home to shoot on crazy media that would turn out to be his last film it was released last month the news of irrfan khan step has brought tributes pouring in from across the world with his fans remembering the legacy of an actor who wasn't interested in his fame living on i don't want to be remembered no i just want to know what what's going to happen after i'm gone after you believe your body what if i can feel that for a moment that will be my my what were they being alive i don't want to be

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