a, you know, or this channel, we are not afraid to happen delicate topic because population is growing and young people clearly have the solution, the future with 77 percent every weekend on the w outrage in brazil over the seemingly unchecked power of cops, police are accused of mass executions in a drug rate this week, the country 2nd deadliest in history. and then there's the video showing police watching as a mentally ill man suffocates. also this week,

the united states. it suffered its deadly of school shooting in a decade. a massacre of 19 children and 2 teachers american exceptionalism at its worst. tonight, the seemingly unchecked power of guns. i'm burnt off in berlin. this is the day ah, the american people in this country. if i could love a guy, and i feel like shame on and are a shame on the senate because some sort of it should be done. we have seen to the 990 s no appetite, no matter how horrific the mass murders arm, but that i don't think that they're creating more laws to make it harder for law abiding citizens to purchase a weapon. defend himself is going to make any difference from bad people doing terrible things. if more guns were in the, the solution,

we would be the safest country in the world. but we are not also coming up outmanned and out weapon rushes invasion is going from bad to worse and eastern ukraine for you. correct. and the bind administration is connecting the dots publicly here from moscow to keep all the way to beijing under president. she, the ruling chinese communist party has become more repressive at home. and more aggressive brought to our viewers watching on p b. s. in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with what will only added to the anguish and anger in the wake of tuesday's deadly school shooting. today, 3 days after a gunman killed 19 children and 2 teachers inside a texas elementary school and admission of a grave error in judgement by the police. federal agents of swat

t were in place inside the school, but did not move to take out the gunman. because police had told them to wait, the chief of police reportedly saying that he was not aware that any children were in danger at the time yet 911 emergency calls had already been made from the school . how did the police cheat misread the situation? so badly, this looks like a communications break down at the highest level at the worst moment in the impact of today's revelations, it was palpable at the press conference in the town of u builder, texas. i want you to take a listen. i would pay with a bit of an aide with hindsight, a bit of a standby. hey standby, i got it. i got it. ok from the benefit of hindsight where i'm sitting now. that of course it was another right decision, the wrong, this is very, there's no,

no excuse for that. that was stephen mccall. they're the director of the texas department of public safety. i want to go now to our correspondence, stephan simons. he's been covering the story for the entire week in texas. he's still in texas, is defined. i want to get your reaction to what we discovered today at me. we are talking about a major, major error in judgement and a breakdown in communication with the police. i can tell you that there is a lot of people out there who, who don't have the kindest words for what they listen to and what they learned today from the police and, and of course to her. we can't repeat them. but i can tell you that there is an outrage on the side of the public in you've all day. and just imagine the families, they hurt. they heard this well, the 1st time too. so you lost your child and 3 days in,

after all this happened, you're still grief stricken and you want the world to handle. the world has ended for you. you get a press conference from the police, which we had asked for 4 days. and that's, you know, that's a whole other story. i'm trying to get information information. now we know why there were not forthcoming with information, not because they didn't have it because they had a problem on their hands and the people in you all day and the families are absolutely devastated with this. and why would they not? that was a major blunder, and again, i was for 45 minutes. 19 officers in the hallway were told by the commanding officer. no, don't do anything because it's a barricade situation. people don't even understand why he was that. how this thinking or this assessment could have been done. so major mistake and outrage all along. in the we learned today the chief of police saying that he had the ultimate

authority. it was his decision for those, those special agents to wait instead of to go in when they could have gone in. and so of course the question comes, if they had not waited so long, would we to day be talking about few were dead school children and may be know that teachers indecent possibly, possibly at least possibly. and you know, it's, it's not about that. i mean, this is bad enough that we have to ask this question, did this police operation go so wrong? did this a leading police officer and, and surrounding officers? because, you know, i mean if one guy just because there's another star on his shoulder, pat makes a wrong decision. and i know that as a police officer is a trained police officer, then i need to, i need to say something any to this is not a mutiny, but i need to say something and try to move this mind or this officer to make the

right decision. and he made the wrong decision. yeah. are we? is it possible that we at that they could have lies been saved? children's lives been safe to the teachers? yes. possible. there were 911 called begging the police, begging the police to actually jump into action because the kids hurt the police. the in the next door in the hallway and nothing happened. it is, it's mind boggling. it is mind boggling. and we know now you're on your way to houston, texas. the national rifle associations annual convention takes place to day. and because of what has happened this week, we know that some politicians have cancelled their speeches, including the texas governor, but not everything has been cancelled. the former us president, he's on his way to speech. talk to me about the juxtaposition of all of that, against this school shooting. oh, what, what,

what can anyone say, i mean there is a, the truth is miss the adult, the governor of texas. he canceled his personal appearance, he still dropping a pre tape video message to the n r. a tech crew senator ted cruz from texas. that is not withdrawing his participation for tonight. he will show up at the convention . president trump, as you mentioned for president trump is gonna come. this all looks so bad, it's bad optics. it's probably also bad politics. it is, it is also a comprehensible because it is, you don't for those parents or for people in, in the, of all the we talked to not just parents, but all citizens there. you can go on the street here. i mean, it's sanatorium asked somebody in there tell you they don't understand it, they don't, they really don't get it. i think people, a lot of people have trouble understand why the n r a thought is still a good idea to go forward with this. um and i don't have an answer for this because all we hear is,

is head shaking and unbelievable. ah. we don't to brazil and a shocking video that appears to show police asphyxiating a man with tear gas in the back of the police court. now we are not going to show the video in its entirety, out of respect to the deceased man, but there are parts that we do want you to see. but i think this shows police officers arresting jenny, although the easels santo's in front of onlookers in the state of shaggy bay in northeastern brazil. now, according to his family, santos did not resist arrest. the officers bundled him into the back of their court . before closing the rear door san toast, his legs remade outside the car, clouds of gas can be seen, billowing out an autopsy report later confirmed that santo's suffocate.

according to his family, he suffered from skits of freeney. santo's is dead, has sparked renewed criticism of brazil's police over its use of excessive force according to the brazilian form of public security. police killed 6400 in 16 people in brazil just in the year 2020. we want to go now to joelle pedro suarez. he's a freelance journalist in rio de janeiro to well, it's good to have you with us. and i want to just ask you about what we saw that just in this video alone give us a sense of the anger that is being felt in brazil because of this video. i'm brent. i'm glad to participate. thank you so. so brazil is

really shocked by video you just showed we just watch it because although the numbers show that police violence is common event here, a man and being chartered in, i guess chamber me in a car by police, public agents was really, really shocking or not to use to see that kind that level of violence here, but it's also the for to see that on the previous day of the episode, 26 men 26 people were killed during police raid in rio de janeiro, just one year after the free. we wish less 29. 0,

here it is. so nice. come on that it happens in brazil. that's right. and you know, both of those police raids that you mentioned. both of them are the 2 deadliest police raids that have taken place. drug raids in brazil's history, this video that have shocked the country in the world. it appears to show that the police doing what they were doing with complete impunity. people were even standing there. watching them is that typically out people perceive the police to operate in brazil. yes. so of course, we know those kind of action is not legitimated by any law, but we have a culture that in that incentive base, the public agency is important to say a congratulations for example,

the agents responsible for the action in real. that's last, almost certainly that people and the normality that we see in this action off jenny, about those that public agents is, is originated by this normalized situation that we see every day in the life in brazil and isn't it, although i was a black man, what about race as a part of this story, i mean, most people who are shot by brazilian police as i understand it from the statistics, they're black, right? yes. when you look at this statistics from real in 2020, for example, this is very clear. 86 percent of the people are people that

by the police were black and this is originated by a culture in our, in the public, in the queue. it public security in brazil that that is 1st shoot and then ask the police agents. they have the excuse, is very complicated situation on public security to act deliberately against black people vulnerable people who are situated in locations controlled by arm. you know, in some very, very complicated situation with rules on their colonial history. brazil. well yeah, i mean i'm going to ask you just about the policing culture, because obviously we can't make a blanket statement about all police anywhere in the world. and we don't want to do

that in brazil either. but is there something about the culture of policing in brazil that, that allows this excessive use of force or does it have maybe more to do with the government giving it's tacit blessing to how things are being done so grand, for sure. under both the situation got even worse because of these conservative wave that to brazil since 2018. but the guy said that this is a very old situation and he started in the military . police are real responsible for the daily, but through the streets it was created with the board post of arresting. i'm african slaves and slaves,

people who see from the farms. so and in, in the, in the media. i think there she, it was train to charge her quality of causing her for the political pointers. so we don't have a crappy culture in brazilian police forces. they have never been before and 2 feet, 2 of them, a graphic society. and the result is the scene we have just watching and that we watch daily in brazil, journalist joel petros morris, we report we appreciate you giving us some insight into the situation in your country. thank you. thank you, brett ah, when joe biden became at u. s. president, last year he pointed to china as the biggest foreign policy challenge that he would

face. but then russia invaded ukraine more than 3 months into that war and biden's position. it has not changed at all. china remains a migraine, if you will, for washington. russia is more of a headache this week, u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin outlined the u. s. foreign policy goals and a keynote speech. and he said that washington will lead the international block of countries united against russia. now, to counter a longer term threat posed by china, take a listen to what he said. even as president putin's war continues, we will remain focused on the most serious, long term challenge to the national order. and that's posed by the people's republic of china. china is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international water. and increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do it. beijing's vision would move us away from the

universal values that are sustained so much of the world's progress over the past 75 years. we stand ready to increase our direct communication with beijing across a full range of issues. and we hope that that can happen. but we cannot rely on vision to change its trajectory. so we will shape the strategic environment around beijing to advance our vision for an open inclusive international system. we will shape the environment around beijing is the subtext here. we cannot be expected to directly influence beijing in the future. i want to bring in the author economist in columbia university professor jeffrey sachs to night. professor, it's good to see you again. it's good to have you back on the program. how did you understand those words from secretary of state blinking i was say, relieved, at least that the secretary of state said we will have more communication with

china. because the most notable fact of the 1st couple of years of the by the administration is how little diplomatic contact there has been. how little discussion, how testy and frosty the relations are, how much they've been conducted across the media in sound bites rather than an actual dialogue. and so i'm hoping that that positive message that lincoln said the u. s. is prepared to open more communication and across a wide range of issues is really good. take away from the speech, much of the rest with standard fare of us policy. i think putting china in a bad light from my own viewpoint, the u. s. looks for the worst and often it says that and can create his own worst enemies in that way. but the speech actually was

a bit more moderate than we've seen before, from blinking and from the by to ministration. and i hope we could take the positive side of this and say, maybe the temperature could lower just a bit. how many fronts does the united states really want to have right now? it's it, wrap it up the, the rhetoric and now in actual war and sanctions with russia. but at the same time it's been pretty, pretty, pretty hard and alliance oriented in asia and it's 2 fronts. and it's a massive and international seat. and we need more cooperation. that's the bottom line. when you professor, i assumed that you did not agree with what president binds. in the last week, when he was asked about military intervention, in the case of taiwan being invaded by china, he was kind of ending that policy of strategic ambiguity wasn't well,

at least lincoln said yesterday, you know, the u. s. it hears to the one china policy, the u. s. it hears to the standards that have guided us policy towards the people's republic and towards taiwan. the u. s. does not favor a independence of taiwan. it again, was attempting, i think, to lower the temperature by the says, a lot of things. this is one thing that we've seen. i don't know whether these are gaps or, you know, he really wants to express your what exactly they mean, but they are, it's not a good way to conduct foreign policy. i know i've been reading the article that you've been writing recently about the russian invasion of ukraine. and you know, you've suggested a path to peace that that could include a guarantee from nato, of, of no expansion these of the ukraine. does that translate into

u. s. policy on taiwan, these of the china in any way. well, okay, we could have avoided this war altogether in my view because pollutant has been saying for years, we need to discuss the security arrangements. nato is moving into the black sea region surrounding us. a not only remedial area, turkey, but now you crane and georgia. and you look at a map that's pretty provocative, that they have the nato all around the black sea. nato was once upon a time, a defensive alliance to guard against a soviet invasion of western europe. so, actually, what is nato doing in georgia? even what is natal doing in ukraine when the united states declared this policy in 2008 european leaders were aghast. in private but, you know, nato was the u. s. basically,

they didn't express this very publicly. this pressure, this provocation has been a background to this whole story. and last year we had an exit ramp. and by and said, no, we're not negotiating over this question of nato enlargement. and until this day, the united states does not acknowledge the need to negotiate over this. now, when it comes to taiwan, again, don't be provocative. lower the temperatures. don't try to go head to head with a superpower. this is another superpower. it, it just creates conflict. professor jeffrey sachs is always we appreciate your time in your insights and we wish you a good memorial day. we can thank you. thank you so much. ah, london is in the grip of abba fever, the 1st concert, and the super groups in new stage show voyages taking place,

allowing audiences to see digital versions of the band perform ahead of tonight's performance. the members of the band re united at a star studded premier of their long awaited show they were all there in person. if looking a little older than in their heyday. it was a triumphant return to the red carpet. for the sweetest superstars. some 40 is owned from their last performance. the band was excited to be back. it's so nice to see all the k c center, all the expectations and everything. it goes right into your when i'm so happy to be fans, we're clearly ready to take a chance on the group's new virtual performance. hm. inside, they would take him back in time as holograms of the band from that seventy's. hey day strutted that stuff ah, brought to life by digital motion capture technology at the specially built arena.

there real voice is accompanied by live musicians. ah, fans of the fulsome seemed blown away without you fantastic. so let me 1917 on. took me right about now. it was all my say in the real thing, the motions today it was a was everything about it was a treat feel is your voice, your eyes and your feet because it was just non stop and to time it was brilliant. it's was unbelievable. it was extraordinary. i can believe it. what i've seen. absolutely fantastic. if i die to not die out, pay with an avatar set to perform 7 days a week from many months the pop legends seem ready to carry on even when they're gone. right. knowing me and knowing you the weekend is almost here, the day is almost done. the conversation continues align your finest on twitter

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