ah, ah, 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 in 2 teachers, american exceptionalism at its worst. tonight, the seemingly unchecked power of guns. i break off in berlin. this is the day ah, the american people in this country. if i could love that,

i feel like shame on and are a shame on the senate because something should be done. we have seen since the 1900 ninety's, no appetite, no matter how horrific the mass murders are. 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 themselves is going to make any difference from bad people doing terrible things. if more guns were in be the solution 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 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 the texas elementary school and admission of a grave error in judgment 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 you builder, texas. i want you to take a listen. i would pay with a bit of a for the benefit of hindsight, a bit of a hey, sam, bye bye. hey sam. bye. hey, stay my. 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 room 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. jeff and i went 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 whole 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'll for telling you 45 minutes. 19 officers in the hallway were told by their 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 me learn 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 no dead teachers in the st. 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 face 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 lives 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 happens. 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 today. 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 abil at 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 imagine 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 know, for those parents or for people in india of all the we talked to not just parents, but all citizens there. you can go on the street here. i'm in, it's an attorney and ask somebody in that 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, it's 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. what else to brazil and a shocking video that appears to show police asphyxiating a man with tear gas in the back of a 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 g pe 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 remained 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 debt 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 it 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 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 shock in 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 $26.00 men, $26.00 people were killed during police raid in rio de janeiro, just one year after the free. we wish less 29 people here in to see so nice. come on. it happens in brazil. that's right. and you know both of those police raids and you mentioned both of them are the 2 deadliest police raids that are taking place. drug raids in brazil's history, this video that have shocked the country in the world. it appears to show that the, 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 asians it's important to say a congratulations, for example, the agents responsible for the action in real. that's last, almost certainly that people and these normality that we see in this as shown off genuine. all those that public agents is, is originated by this normalized situation that we see every day in daily

life in brazil and isn't it, although 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? yeah. when we look at the statistics from real in 2020 for example, this is very clear. 80 percent of the people are people that by the police were black and these is originated by our culture in our, in the public, in the security and the public security in brazil that that is 1st shoot. and then as though the police agents, they have the excuse of these very complicated situation on public

security to act the leader in italy against black people, vulnerable people who are situated in locations controlled by army. 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 it, is there something about the culture of believing in brazil that allows this excessive use of force or doesn't 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 to me guys said that this is a very old situation in brazil and he started in the military. police are real responsible for the daily, for through the streets. and it was created with the pose of arresting african slaves and slaves, people who sleep from the farms. so and in, in the, in the military, they think it was trained to torture policing or the political pointers. so we don't have it correct the 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 penrose forest, we report, we appreciate you giving us some insight into the situation in your country, thank you. thank brett ah, when joe biden became a u. s. president. last year he pointed to shine 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 and 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 anthony blinking, 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 have 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 and 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 in 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 u. s. policy. i think putting china in a bad light from my own viewpoint in the u. s. looks for the worst, and often it says that it can create its 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 the administration. 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? i it, it, reaction it up, be the rhetoric and now in actual a 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 season. we need more cooperation. that's the bottom line. when you professor, i assumed that you did not agree with what president mind said last week when he was asked about military intervention. in the case of taiwan being invaded by china that 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, not only romania or 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 natal doing in georgia, even what is nato 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 in the super groups, new stage show voyage, is 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 pay see, send all the expectations and everything. it goes right into your next to so have this way. fans were clearly ready to take a chance on the group's new virtual performance. hm. inside, they were taken back in time as holograms of the band from the seventy's heyday, structed that stuff ah, brought to life by digital motion capture technology at the specially built arena. there real voices accompanied by live musicians. ah, fans of the fulsome seemed blown away without you. fantastic. so let me 917 on. took me right. but now it was all my saying, the real thing, the emotions that 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 really and

it's was unbelievable. it was extraordinary. i can believe it. what i've seen. absolutely fantastic. if i, if i died to not die out pain with the avatar set to perform 7 days a week for many months, the pop legends seem ready to carry on even when they're gone. right. no, it me and no one you the weekend is almost here, the day is almost done. the conversation continues align your find us on twitter either at the w news, you can follow me on twitter at rent. gov tv. i remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day of a good weekend. everybody ah ah

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