so we 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 have been fired by public health experts and the department of health services that there is not a sufficiently safe way to administer in person voting for is going to be a level of love grail of full. time for we expect more cases we expect more of the house we expect more transferees but it's still going to be something that.

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 sacrifice you instead of campaign rallies the 2 remaining candidates are picked to their living rooms bernie sanders has fallen behind dramatically able to productive and front runner joe biden is struggling to land his attacks on president trump only until yesterday at his press conference the president started to our grasp the reality of what he's facing in terms of the number of potential dast the coronavirus 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 and 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 carona briefings into campaign rallies and reality former obama campaign adviser spencer critchley says the corona pandemic is doing more harm to the president than to democratic hopeful and 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 for 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 and 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 elections 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 do the primary election today viewers around the world john they may be scratching their heads and asking why would the courts demand an election in the middle of a pandemic like this do you have an explanation. yeah i think a lot of americans are scratching their heads too 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 and a time like this you would want a governor to have that power of but the law is 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 which is not expected to be very good in wisconsin the head of was gone since democratic party is says that they will not be going out urging people to leave their homes to vote he has the republicans to do the same does holding a primary election in a pandemic does it 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 are i 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. well 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 strong criticism i'm shaking hands can decide that i was at a hospital the other night i think there were a few there are actually a few credit cards patients and i shook hands with everybody you'll be pleased to know that i continued to shake hands you know i'm going to say this the best single thing we could do is wash our hands 2 verses of that. happy birthday hot water bar said this is the worst public health crisis for a generation you have to stay to meet his opponent you have to follow the social distancing i've developed to mine and symptoms own the coronavirus. rights for more i'm joined now by alex forrest whiting 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 spokesperson in downing street is that his condition is stable and he remains in intensive care for close monitoring and he said to be in good spirits as he's often said now we know that he's received standard oxygen treatment over the last 24 hours he has not touched a hand have assistance with his breathing which is far as we know so far means he has not had to be put on a ventilator and downing street a previously said that the prime minister does not have pneumonia so all of that he is looking much better from the prime minister he's not though 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. domenic 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 you 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 acting in unity they are taking collective responsibility the problem is the longer the 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 break. well sent me many questions have been on since over the last few weeks and i was already told 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 not 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 has been a big issue now the health secretary has said that by may there should be a 100000 tests a day many are wondering whether that is possible and even today we have the chief medical officer for england chris witty has 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 for so many front lines doff 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 6100 people and 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 food 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's a night i don't think it can be stressed enough that everybody was taken by surprise including his own captain that some including those a top ministers who because everybody in downing street have been telling the press the prime minister is 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 particularly after 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 she sent a message to carry symonds and she's pregnant with that child and she has self 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 will miss is a virus that nobody seems able to control including the british prime minister 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. 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. we have to remember the boris johnson was in self isolation so they went seeing him face to face and it's become clear in 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 fake surprise obviously those closest round him must have known that this was becoming more serious but he wasn't able to see the 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 want to show you this has been to do everyone in

the u.k. including those closest around him you know all right my colleague alex force watching tonight's 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 all strenuous 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 pill by name he did however make a remark about the persecution of innocent people. images that spark of vindication or hopelessness after $405.00 days in custody cardinal

george pell walks free from an australian prison into a monastery a decision felt acutely by sexual abuse survivors. in any earth. and. it's it's he. really. 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 apparent 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. my own sense is. an understanding of the man. when he said use innocent it's the best but also accepted the processes of the courts has come to its conclusion. the decision came from a strangely 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 recalled the persecution that jesus suffered. you know what i prefer i would like to pray for all those his soft unjust sentences resulting from persecution of any man. the work alights piles lawyers as a number of civil suits seeking compensation for his alleged failure to protect children from pedophiles well i want to pull in now our religion and ethics correspondent

martin gak he joins me from berlin tonight's good evening to you mark you know when the cardinal when he was 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 pelz victims alleged victims and their families what does the high court's decision today do. well i mean it certainly overturns that hope and it basically. states that the burden of proof that was on docu series had not been met so what high court so there was a very serious possibility that an innocent person would be convicted this actually was. what the verdict says and for that reese and wright recently dowd still exist there for the conviction was thrown out so that they overturned the lower court's decisions and what me through this a little bit they were saying that the jury the court had made in

a state school wrecked. what they actually said was very specifically that there were 3 very strong indications. accused her. 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 1st faked 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 a victim should be should be believed what the high court says is that. accusation is 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 had been very very to overturning juries trail by jury so i mean there and there are very ticks in this case what they so said that they've been instead was we say ted. well let's not. listen. mark to signal there is frozen martin can you hear me. looks like we have lost martin this time when we're time martin let's try it you hear me yeah 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 sense i mean very conservative parts of that got to look church will feel vindicated by by the

sentence a diary same time it does put a very serious dent in the 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 they're you know the survivors across the world the people the legions of people who say that they were abused by the church's clergy. look i mean there he said very very serious sense of this appointment i mean you know ultimately it east that the court that has to these side criminal cases that at the very same time there is such a 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 that's not really it will not pay for a church that has been under siege for all the seers for massive sexual abuse to

gloat. around these days of quito so i think that b.c.'s 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 so 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 both came so late is because it was

a trial by jury but the evidence was actually inconsistent david and so against him so i think that the pope peace 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 he said i represent it with the church ultimately all right our thanks and religion correspondent martin jack with the latest on this surprising turn thank you very much mark. well the day is almost done the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either d.w. news you can follow me at gringotts t.v. and don't forget to use our hash tag of the day every member whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day it will see that everybody.

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