this. is. a long long long. long long long. long. long. love and respect. stay at home and stay healthy or cast your vote and possibly catch the virus what would you do an almost impossible choice for voters in the u.s. state of wisconsin today is the presidential primary on the ballot joe biden or bertie sanders on people's minds is my vote worth the risk tonight the coronavirus hazardous to your health and dangerous for democracy i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day.

i've been very public health experts and the department of health services that there is not a sufficiently safe way to administer in person 40 years we're going to have mass bailable gloved rail pull and. we expect more cases we expect or down slightly expect more tragedies but it's. also coming up he left prison today a free man australia's high court has thrown out the conviction of cardinal george pell 1st child sex abuse. i would like to pray for all those who suffer unjust sentences and resulting from persecution. and to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with americans asking what is the coronavirus doing to our democracy it is

a valid question especially today especially in the state of wisconsin residents there have been told by their governor to stay at home in order to slow the spread of the virus but at the same time they are being asked to go to the polling places and cast their vote wisconsin's presidential primary is taking place today the governor postponed the election yesterday but the u.s. supreme court ruled against him wisconsin is now the 1st u.s. state to hold a presidential primary since the stay at home orders were issued for much of america. tests are critically important for we cannot start provides you instead of campaign rallies the 2 remaining candidates are pegged to their living rooms bernie sanders has fallen behind dramatically help a productive and front runner joe biden is struggling to land his attacks on president trump only until yesterday at his press conference the president start to our grasp the reality of what he's facing in terms of the number of potential best

look around a virus pandemic has turned the election come pain upside down the white house press briefing room has become trump's preferred we are about putting an optimistic president in the spotlight we have it so well under control i mean we really have done a very good job one day it's like a miracle it will disappear i hope we can do this by easter. i think that would be a great thing for a country and while soaring death tolls in the united states speak another language on twitter trump is bragging about his t.v. ratings with more than 8000000 viewers tuning in every day there's one thing president trump doesn't have to worry about and that's his media presence while joe biden has almost disappeared from american t.v. screens president trump simply turned his daily corona briefings into campaign rallies reality former obama campaign adviser spencer critchley says the corona pandemic is doing more harm to the president than to democratic hopeful joe biden

one of the things i would point to is the famous quote from napoleon bonaparte never interfere with your enemy when he's in the process of destroying him so that might sound a little bit calculating but in political terms president trump is doing a great deal of damage to his own reputation service members while president trump supporters still stand by his side the projected number of casualties could become a problem full of the occupant of the white house. and for more now i'm joined by john who dacke he is deputy director of the center for effective public management at the brookings institution he is also an author and he has researched extensively into u.s. presidential power john is in washington d.c. tonight john it's good to have you on the day u.s. president drunk tweeted today urging people in wisconsin to go out and vote in this primary how does president trump stand to benefit from the wisconsin presidential primary. it's hard to see

a path by which president trump benefits from the wisconsin primary i think it puts into contrast what a crisis the nation is going through right now and how unprepared we are to handle elections not just primary elections but this is going to come up again in november and i think the lack of preparedness that has not happened in a coordinated way from the federal level down through the states to the local level really puts that lack of leadership into a context that is broad an ominous prediction you're making there what do you think could happen come november come election day. well if the virus comes back in the fall that's obviously going to create a serious public health challenge for a lot of americans but i think too it's important to recognize that there will still be fear within the electorate moving forward about coming into contact with others in terms of gathering in large groups and small places and i think states need to think seriously about how their absentee ballot rules and how other types

of ballot access rules can affect voters willingness to turn out in november is there a movement in the united states to make the november election a complete mail in ballot election that everyone mils in their ballot instead of having to go to the polling places. well in the united states states administer their own elections even national level elections and so that's something that would have to happen on a state by state basis i do know that those conversations are happening and in governors' offices across america not necessarily everyone but for instance i live in washington d.c. and our presidential primaries on june 2nd it's been scheduled for june 2nd all along in the mayor of washington d.c. put out a request that every voter in d.c. request an absentee ballot and i think you're going to start to see governors following suit for their primaries and the november election wisconsin's governor

tried to postpone today's primary but both the wisconsin and the u.s. supreme courts said no you have to do the primary election today viewers around the world they may be scratching their heads and asking why would the cords demand an election in the middle of a pandemic like this do you have an explanation. i think a lot of americans are scratching their heads to it all comes down to wisconsin election law and the law is firm and the day is set and the governor doesn't have institutional power to simply postpone an election and i think in a time like this you would want a governor to have that power of but the laws written for a variety of reasons to limit gubernatorial stretch of them and i think what it shows both wisconsin but other states is that we need to go back and reexamine our election laws and start to plan for the unexpected and to plan for situations like this. voter turnout is not expected to be very good in wisconsin the head of

wisconsin democratic party is says that they will not be going out urging people to leave their homes to vote he says the republicans to do the same does holding a primary election in a pandemic does that automatically invite questions about the credibility of the vote in the credibility of the results i mean are we asking for you know a disaster after election day. i think it does raise questions about the legitimacy of the vote in wisconsin moving forward the democratic national committee the republican national committee can entertain challenges at their respective conventions as to the qualifications or the credentials of the state's delegates and that can create quite a fight if it comes down to it and what's more challenging for democrats is that the democratic national convention will be held in wisconsin all right john who has with the brookings institution tonight helping us understand why wisconsin is

holding an election in the middle of a pandemic john we appreciate your insights tonight thank you thank you were tonight as world leaders send get well messages britain's prime minister boris johnson remains in stable condition in intensive care at a london hospital johnson was admitted sunday evening with a high fever he tested positive for the corona virus 2 weeks ago and had been governing the country from self isolation it was only a month ago when boris johnson boasted of shaking hands with people at a hospital where 1000 patients were being treated he had his government's approach to the crisis well it's raised eyebrows and it's drawing criticism. i've seen hons can disguise that i was at a hospital the other night i think there were a few the rush if you credit are as a patient and i shook hands with everybody you'll be pleased to know that i

continue to shake hands that you know i'm going to say this the best single thing we can do is wash our hands 2 verses of that all happy birthday hot water bars that this is the worst public health crisis for a generation you have to stay to meet is a part you have to follow the social distancing i developed models symptoms over the coronavirus it's all right for more i'm joined now by alex forrest whining alex spent years covering was minister and u.k. politics she joins me tonight from here in berlin good evening to you alex you've been working your sources what do we know about the condition of the prime minister tonight well the very latest from his official spokes person in downing street that his condition is stable and he remains in intensive care for close monitoring and he said to be in good spirit says he's often said to be now we

know that he's received standard oxygen treatment over the last 24 hours he has not touched i had have assistance with his breathing which is far as we know safe amin's he has not had to be put on a ventilator and downing street previously said that the prime minister does not have pneumonia so all of the facts he's looking much better said from the prime minister he's not out of the woods yet and we can't emphasize enough just how serious this is that the british prime minister is still in intensive care yeah he is in intensive care and that of begs the question who is in charge of the u.k. tonight. well that's a good question and his concern to many people particularly across the u.k. dominic rob who is the foreign secretary and also the 1st secretary of state is acting on behalf of the prime minister at the moment that has been agreed by the 2

men at that it's still unclear exactly what powers he has he was at a press conference today where he was also repeatedly is he in charge until he could say was that he and the cabinets and those of the top ministers who he surrounds a boris johnson on at in unity they are taking responsibility the problem is the longer that boris johnson is out of action the mood difficult that may well become that will be decisions that will have to be made and somebody will have to make them and will that be dominant rob you know we saw alex there a collection of sound bites with boris johnson and his infamous defiant stance towards the coronavirus it is a stance that some would say has landed him in intensive care in a london hospital but we certainly hope that the prime minister recovers but once this pandemic is behind us do you think that the public in the u.k.

do you think that the public will demand answers about how this government prepared or did not prepare for this outbreak. well sent me many questions have been on since over the last few weeks and there is already to look about them holding a public inquiry once this pandemic is under control and there are many things that have to be taken into account for example testing we know that the united kingdom is still moment on top of testing enough people of the whether or not they have the coronavirus including those on the frontline so working for the national health service that is being a big issue now the health secretary has said that by may there should be a $100000.00 tests a day many are wondering whether vaccine is possible and even today we have the chief medical officer for england chris witty who's conceded that the u.k. had a lot to learn from germany and questions about how germany has got so far ahead on

testing there's also the issue of a quit meant there have not been enough ventilated as in the u.k. in hospitals while so many frontline staff have not had the correct equipment that they need be at mosques the proper clothing so there are many questions that need to be honest so far more than 6150 lives died in hospital from corona virus the highest number of deaths over the last 24 hours and those 24 hours have seen the highest number this continues to grow is a big problem for the united kingdom and many questions still to be on. alex you and i we spoke on sunday evening about this situation and what struck us was that the the queen had delivered a message to the country the commonwealth and the world with a very positive outlook about the future after this pandemic and just an hour later came this shocking news that the prime minister has been admitted to the hospital i

mean this is not what the u.k. was expecting. no nobody was expecting it and i don't think it can be stressed enough that everybody was taken by surprise including his own cabinet so including those a top ministers who because everybody in downing street had been telling the press the prime minister was in good spirits and everybody seemed to be thinking this was just routine this would be ok and then suddenly we're told that he's in intensive care and i think that it shook everybody particular to the queen had given a very stoic but positive message to the u.k. which has been obviously hit very badly by coronavirus and then to find the british prime minister somebody as being except badly that he's in intensive care was a real shock now the queen has south has already been in touch with boris johnson's family including his partner who she sent a message to carry cement and she's pregnant with that child and runs that she has

south has been suffering from coronavirus simpson so it just shows that coronavirus you know it doesn't take account of who you all what she needs is a virus that nobody seems able to control including the british prime minister john and we've got about a minute left i want to ask you about the cabinet members and the prime minister we understand that practically every one of the cabinet was shocked when they found out that boris johnson had tested positive for the virus to coronavirus and that they were also shocked when they heard that he had been admitted to the hospital we you know if he has been governing and working closely with members of his cabinet how is it possible then for them to be shocked by the news of him being sent to the hospital i mean it seems like there's a disconnect there. well you have to remember the boris johnson was in self isolation so they went seeing him face to face and it's become clear over the past

24 hours that they hadn't actually spoken to the prime minister since saturday but yes it did come as a huge shock to them and a big surprise obviously those closest around him must have known that this was becoming more serious but he wasn't able to see people and it was then decided by his own don't say that he had to be it makes it that it may well have been difficult for that to have been speedily pashtuns in the cabinet so you know i don't think we can stress not just what a show i base has been to do everyone in the u.k. including those closest around him you know all right my colleague alex for is winding tonight with the latest on the british prime minister boris johnson who is still in intensive care in a london hospital alex thank you. in australia cardinal george pell is a free man tonight to he left prison earlier today after australia's high court overturned his conviction for child sex abuse tell who was once

a senior figure in the vatican was serving a 6 year prison sentence he has always maintained his innocence at a mass in rome today pope francis did not mention pelle by name he did however make a remark about the persecution of innocent people images that spock a vindication a high place and us off to 405 days in custody cardinal george pell walks free from an australian prison into a monastery a decision felt acutely by sexual abuse survivors. on now. there are monsters and any earth earth and then there's. just been shot. it's it's here. it was a year ago that the cardinal was convicted of sexually assaulting 2 choir boys in

the 1990 s making it the most high profile case of alleged historical sex abuse to rock the roman catholic church the cardinal has always maintained his innocence. whole idea of sexual abuse is power and to me in a statement he says he holds no ill will to his accuser stressing that he does not want his acquittal to add to the hurt and business so many feel his supporters in the church say they've always believed in his innocence. and sense was. an understanding of the man. when he said he was innocent accepted that but also accepted the processes of the courts and that has come to its conclusion. the decision came from a strongly its highest court marking the end of a complex 3 year legal battle there were no celebrations from the vatican but at

mass on tuesday the pope or a cold the persecution that jesus suffered. i would like to pray for all those who suffer unjust sentences resulting from persecution or. further work a white spells lawyers as a number of civil suits are seeking compensation for his alleged failure to protect children from pedophiles or napoleon now our religion and ethics correspondent martin jacques he joins me from berlin tonight going to need to you martin you know when the cardinal when he was going when he was convicted and sentenced to prison many in australia and some in the catholic church said that this would give closure especially to perils victims alleged victims and their families what does the high court's decision today do. well i mean it's certainly overturns that whole and it basically. states that the burden of proof that was on that

q. series had not been met so what so there was a very serious possibility that an innocent person would be convicted is actually what the what the what the verdict says and for that reese and wright recent will doubt still exist there for the conviction was thrown out so that they overturned the lower court's decisions and what we've heard this a little bit and they were saying that the jury the court had made a mistake correct what they actually said was very specifically that there were 3 very strong indications. that. accused her was that user story was not the full story and that there was actually enough of an opening for recent of all doubt so in a sense i mean this is sort of the 3rd effect the perfect. so to say response

or the perfect reaction in some way to sort of what we have heard a lot from the me too movement which is essentially at any cost the victim should be should be believed what the high court says is that. accusation it's not enough that what you need the burden of proof demands actually that these things be shown to be the case beyond a reasonable doubt what they see. davey against the noted amount a conviction and although generally australian courts high courts have been very very few overturning juries trail by juries i mean there and there are very digs in this case what they so they said that if instead was present ted. was not. listen. mark the signal there is frozen martin can you hear me.

for sure looks like we have lost martin this time over time martin let's try it can you hear me. just like if you yes hey can i can hear you ok very good ok good let me ask you this what is this yes yes ok now we got the signal back what does this mean for the catholic church this decision to throw out the conviction well you know a sense i mean very conservative parts of that got to look church will feel vindicated by by the sentence at the very same time it does put a very serious dent in sort of in the attempt of the church to sort of clean itself and show its show it didn't face and what about the survivors i mean there you know that survivors across the world the people the legions of people who say that they were abused by the church's clergy. but look i mean there he said very very serious

sense of these appointments i mean you know ultimately it east that the court has to these side criminal cases that at the very same time they're essential sense that an injustice has been committed here that you know these puts the church in a very difficult position i mean a decent relation to this particular case because it's not really it will not pay for a church that has been under siege for all these seers for massive sexual abuse to gloat. around these days if we till so i think that business actually a victory very said pyrrhic victory is a very costly victory and it's a very very delicate road ahead particularly what will happen with cardinal pell and the pope today he did not mention mr pell the cardinal by name but he did talk about the he said he was praying for those who have been for the innocent who have been wrongly persecuted are we reading too much into him when we

we hear some analysts saying that he was speaking about the pell case with that comment how did you read. no i mean i think don't think we are as a matter of fact i mean most of the special ice press and people that had been following had been following the trial pretty much were convinced that that would be acquitted many people are surprised that he was acquitted so late in the process i need to sunder stude that the recent way that we don't came so late is because it was a trial by jury but the evidence was actually inconsistent davis against him so i think that the pope piece indeed looking at these looking at the story of this trial and essentially claiming a victory but he's doing it in a way that is trying to be delicate dope early not delicate enough and he said a representative of the church ultimately all right our ethics and religion correspondent martin jacques with the latest on this surprising turn thank you very much mark.

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