this is the w. news live from berlin fears are growing that brazil could become a new coronavirus hotspot doctors are warning the health system there is on the brink of collapse and this for the political turmoil too is the popular anti corruption justice minister resigned. also coming up the u.s. president almost from is on the defensive officer jesting that injecting this in fact it could be a treatment against coronavirus now from says he was being sarcastic. and muslims around the world begin marking the holy month of ramadan and unprecedented

restrictions we go to egypt to see how people are managing to celebrate and pray together while still following the rules. as welcome to the program brazil's health care system is on the verge of collapse according to its own manages many clinics there are already too overwhelmed by coronavirus cases to take in any new patients more than 53000 people have contract to cope with 19 in brazil fears it could become one of the world's pandemic hotspots president joe you're both in our oath still maintains it's a relatively minor disease. also now is also facing a fresh blow to his political authority is just as minister has resigned accusing him of meddling. with the police. oh.

noisy protests rang out across brazil on friday dragging out the president's televised address to the nation. shy of also not grow defended his sacking of the federal police chief amid accusations that he was trying to interfere in the country's justice system it'll be jilted also i don't have to ask for authorization from anyone to change any official or anyone else but both scenarios still provided no reason for the dismissal which had prompted the resignation of prisms popular justice minister on life t.v. . for his mission on pan fortunately i have no way to continue with a commitment that i assure you and without any are able to preserve the autonomy of the federal police to carry out their work. about what you think of that all.

said geo morrow's departure was a body blow to a president already under fire over his handling of the coronavirus crisis both and now rove has repeatedly described covered 19 as a little flu that hundreds of victims are being buried in mass graves. state governors have brought in social distancing measures dismissed by both the narrow as poison. officials are warning that hospitals are on the brink of collapse . and the man at the top faces public anger growing louder by the day. now for more on this as bring in journalist michael fox from florian upal is michael brazil's former justice minister says you're moral it was a popular politician famed for fighting corruption we heard him speak there in our report he was a bit vague there about his motives why did he resign. well it's still not

very clear i mean we know why you resigned you resigned because a lot of fired police chief bodysuit relationship now that was also mention in your report now the intricacies of exactly how important was this for why that's what we don't know he mentioned numerous times political interference political interference from the government trying to take out the federal police chief he also in several of his solos of his talks and several of his points he kind of eluded to to a series of crimes that the bush another government may have been committing that also let himself may have been committing including asking for updates on intelligence and federal police investigations this would be like asking for updates from the f.b.i. about investigations that are confidential of the president really doesn't have access to and of course the idea of being able to take out this bit the federal police chief the idea that these are kind of separate entity that also not

a should not be meddling with. and there but there's there's a lot behind the scenes that we don't know many people are mentioning it could also be impacting or have to do with bolton not his own son all 3 of them are under there all alterations all 3 of them are under investigation and some of them serious serious investigation be interested came out with a bit of a bombshell this morning about his son who's a former assembly representative from rio de janeiro and that he may have been involved in kickbacks to build public to build housing for paramilitaries in rio de janeiro and money finance and what so there's a lot of issues here that we just don't know yet. this deposit comes only a week after the president sacked the popular health minister so this isn't of a serious blow for bolton are is he losing support in the public. so you have to remember that even as of a couple weeks ago the health minister had roughly double the support the balshaw

out of has he was up right in the mid sixty's in terms of percentage and also not it was around 30353637 now remember also that was i was very similar donald trump as his roughly 3rd of the country these are his supporters he's never had more than that and he knows that he's able to do things with that just like donald trump is able to manage the country because these are his people the war trast that is the more bombastic oftentimes the kind of get his supporters even more on board and that's what we're seeing particularly breaking quarantines getting to the protests supporting these protesters saying that for instance the crow dividers isn't i think that the or that 70 percent of the country has to get sick before this whole thing is over these are things that he's doing actually shore up his support with his supporters are all at the same time the rest of the country is extremely nervous about this this crisis that just keeps the growth michael fox there thank you very much in the united states there have been discussions

within the white house about changing the full month of president donald trump's coronavirus briefings could telling his role in trump and usually so briefing on friday and didn't take any questions from reporters the for the us he suggested people with corona virus may be able to be treated with ultraviolet light and disinfectant alarming medical officials he claimed his remarks were casting and he wasn't encouraging people to drink bleach. it was an abrupt ending to trump's latest coronavirus briefing after weeks of lengthy daily press conferences with the u.s. president taking center stage journalists were left with a brief statement and many unanswered questions the reason for this sudden change in style might be tied to the outrage caused by trump's recent remarks the claim that injections of disinfectant might help treat the coronavirus. supposing 'd we

hit somebody with a tremendous whether it's ultraviolet or just a very powerful light. and i think you said that has to be checked that you're going to test it and then i said supposing you brought the light inside the body you can which you can do either through the skin or. in some other way and i think you said you're going to test the kill so it was interesting or it will be right in that i see the disinfectant that knocks it out in a minute one minute and is there a way we can do something like that. by injection. or almost a pleading the next day he claims his comments were deliberately misinterpreted by the fake news media he said his remarks had been taken out of context and he'd been misunderstood but i was asking to start quickly has taken a very sarcastic question to the reporters in the room about disinfectant on the inside but it does kill it and it would kill it in the hands and that would make

things much better that was done in the form of a sarcastic question to the reporter. political opponents aren't staying on the sidelines. in this tweet democratic presidential candidate joe biden urge people not to drink bleach. the president's advisers reportedly believe that the overexposure and his inaccurate remarks are causing his approval ratings to drop they want him to reduce his participation in the daily briefings if is ratings continue to fall he might not be left with a choice as some of the other developments in the pandemic the world health organization says there is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from the cove of 19 are protected from a 2nd corona virus infection global death toll has reached almost 200000 according to figures from johns hopkins university more than a quarter of all deaths have occurred in the united states which has the world's

highest number of cases and a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines today there are new questions over the health of north korean leader kim jong il or now reuters news agency says doctors have been sent in from china to advise on kim's health south korean media reported that he is recovering from a heart operation. air france has secured a 7 the 1000000000 euro bailout from the french government with most of its planes grounded air france along with its partner allan speck their joint traffic to be down more than 90 percent in the coming months. muslims around the world have begun marking the holy month of ramadan normally has the time for the world's $1800000000.00 muslims to come together in celebration and prayer but this year that's impossible next report takes us to egypt where people are balancing

unprecedented restrictions with religious observance. few people wear masks when shopping for ramadan sweets and hardly anyone keeps a safe distance many egyptians are still fairly relaxed about the threat of infection from corona virus but it's a very different story when it comes to the devastating economic effects of the pandemic these volunteers and the minister of here charity are working hard to provide relief every year they distribute staple food packages during ramadan this year they're delivering a lot more because the crisis has forced many egyptians into poverty but it's not only material life that's been affected in the mosques there's no common prayer an unprecedented step in the holy month of ramadan. we recommend observing the protective measures that have been introduced. these are in accordance with sharia law.

breaking the daily fast should only happen within the close family gone are the times of big feast with friends. has found an alternative to video chat. let's see how the meet will be during ramadan keep in contact with my friend and after breaking the daily fast i asked how she experienced it despite the restrictions she can celebrate the rituals of ramadan with as many friends as she wants thanks to social media. now the frozen southern tip of our planet and home to emperor penguins colonies are threatened as the sea ice melts because of global warming german scientists are now studying how the birds and adapt to a warming world. the baby penguin has fallen victim to a predator that's not unusual for these german researchers many chicks also freeze to death in the icy winter winds but according to the scientists the penguin

population is holding steady. it's just you know we're going to measure it record it's wingspan that weight to determine when it died and really it's to you so the. emperor penguins inhabit the southernmost part of the earth the coldest part of the planet. is observing one of the colonies the emperor penguins breed their young during the antarctic winter. time it's often the gods of my life i know that's by that and they're left on their own for long stretches on so that both parents can huntress field. and then they start to form something like kindergarten they form groups to protect themselves better this investigation says that. the researchers use drones to help determine how many emperor penguins live here they've estimated the population to be over 20000 but

they fear the future could be bleak. fought as the danger is that the structure of the ice that they preyed on will likely change higher temperatures could lead to less ice or it could break up early and that means breeding periods will be shorter and the adults might not have a place to meet. the effects of the climate crisis or nothing new in the antarctic record high temperatures were recently recorded here the penguin researchers are appealing to politicians to take a stand. if we can adhere to the one point on after 2 great goals to play to win the paris agreement then this penguin species will survive if not they'll be wiped out by the year 2100 at the latest. and that's because they can only survive when there's ice under their feet. well that's it now for me and the news team i will have an update for you at the top of the opto then you can stay up to date on our

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