brazilian president receives a court order to take over the. state governors accuse him of denying the of the virus. also. his residence the fries twice a week to save tons of potatoes as industries that are reeling from the pandemic. british police are preparing themselves for a crime wave once the country's lockdown is lifted. young people face. new evidence suggests the f.b.i. agents tried to bring the former u.s.

national security adviser over alleged ties to russia and. live from moscow thanks for joining us on the program. with us. and let's begin with the latest figures on covert 19 global pandemic is into a new month. coronavirus cases are still soaring. 3.4000000 there is some hope though 1000000 people have recovered. but you can see though fatalities now at more than 242000. in other headlines the brazilian president's being blamed for not doing enough to stop the outbreak of coronavirus as the death toll in the country goes past 6000

jailable sonar earlier dismissed the virus as being nothing more than a little flu on friday a brazilian court gave the president 48 hours the release his cova test saying he hasn't done so yet. and has the details new cases of corona virus are turning up in brazil each day the numbers are mounting the death rate is estimated to be much higher due to limited testing we've got brazil preparing big graveyards anticipating lots of dictums brazil's president has been reluctant to acknowledge the threat of corona virus now with over 6000 deaths this is his response. so i want i'm sorry what do you want me to do both of messy as is my middle name of motherhood i don't see a miracle questions have been raised about both scenarios only coronavirus test courts have ordered him under threat of penalties to reveal the results all power emanates from people and people have the right to be informed about the real state

of health of their elected representative their refusal to provide test results is illegitimate transparency end of out of access to public information ship prevail the political climate in brazil is heating up as well also noro is now facing lots of opposition the supreme court has ordered a probe into allegations that bolsa naro interfered in police investigation this could lead potentially to criminal charges as well as removal from office sergio morrow cues the president of having fired the federal police chief and implied that he had done so for political reasons operate you learn from the 2nd quarter of the last year the president began to insist to change the command of the federal police the president told me more than once that he wanted a director who was a close acquaintance of his own someone he could call gather information intelligence reports a director or a superintendent who could do that this is not the federal police throw to report

this kind of information also narrow insists he didn't do anything illegal they defeated up we were talking about my interference within the federal police i well if i can by your change a minister why can't i change the head of the federal police i don't need to ask for permission from anybody to change the director or anyone in the pyramid of the executive power to put out the resignation has sparked fears that a wider political crisis could soon unfold before their support for more resigning is a bad thing a shot in boston irish credibility that's a sergio moro is a popular figure who fought corruption hable. being the government and not feeling good there it's a terrible sight. side his exit is an indicator of the things not right should not happen since everyone wants things to be ok so i believe his exit also cusco all the changes in this government and everybody hopes there will be good

changes for brazil. brazil's neighbors are quite alarmed by the country's lax approach to the pandemic they fear that the largest country in south america could become a super spreader here you know little traffic is coming from sao paolo where the infection rate is extremely high and it doesn't appear to me that the brazilian government is treating it with the seriousness that it requires that worries me a lot. and i've ordered the reinforcement of venezuela or do with it was ill to create an epidemiological barrier paraguay recently dug a trench on its border and the pandemic many are watching brazil very closely the country could be sitting on a political timebomb it would mop and r.t. new york. or the main outbreaks in brazil if it wealthy communities spectators in the poor and densely populated favelas could be catastrophic the local gang leaders have impose strict containment measures in poor areas like the rules the government as a rolled up and risk of media team redfish has taken

a look at how gang ruled areas are adapting. in for bella's across brazil local bands the gang members are stopping some of the usual activities to prevent a corona virus outbreak in your never thought but thank you. thank you thank you. i say. despite drug sales being down the instructions come from the gang leader is to impose a curfew on all the questions. this is in stark. trista the leader of a country and there was still people to go back to work and reverse lockdowns put in place by regional officials. in the bill is like this the gangs are in charge the only visible government institution here are the armed police they come in to do raids. as walking in diversions you. will face

so push each maybe someone. you know associate it with so much cooperation. i have done what i do my thing here. lies and what i don't. just. get out of going to. jail just go to jail mayor daley. when the tourism tree restaurants and shops closed in march this shut off the income of the many are now reliant on food parcels. although the populace both sonera wants to keep the poor in a side by offering them a small basic income during a cold shutdown many don't have bank accounts or smartphones for which are needed to access support. the price of food and basic goods it's also risen sharply in the

recent months as a result of brazil's existing economic crisis but at least in these frivolous the cost of protective equipment is being paid for just. eating fries could help you called. for at least save potatoes from going to waste and belzer the rallying call from brussels that we thought comes as the pandemic has shut down the hospitality trade leaving a surplus of spuds so to save the industry belgians are being courage to do their bit to get. ironically the consumption of frozen fries in belgium is fairly low in comparison with other countries who are now looking into promotional contain to get

belgians to eat more of them there were 3 of space now freezers and help us to avoid food waste we don't just invite all belgians to eat more fries but the entire world when one part of the market collapses that is normally compensated elsewhere now the out of home market has completely collapsed worldwide we are a sector with lower margins and rely on large volumes if all humans don't go up the entire sector is in trouble it has been reported that over 750000 tonnes of potatoes could fall foul of the crisis while frozen fries make up about 75 percent of belgium's potato processing we asked people where their whether they could go with the extra calories to save the economy. but why not see if we can support the potato produces great pleasure yes why not everything that can support the belgian economy the economy of our country and be a fake character but i live in the district and i'm also a merchant here and it's very interesting that the shop going to reopen because it

will give a boost to life here it will help everyone to stay on course because during the quarantine was really good but more to preserve. fries because there was such a cold they go with another kind of food why not a rule like price but i don't think i would like to write every single day just to save the straw that. broke horses trying to help prop up the industry for instance chip shops were allowed to stay open for take away orders during the locked out spoke to one the owner of one of the shops about the struggles brought on by the pandemic. there's been an overabundance of potatoes the government and also the producers and workers make an appeal to eat fry several times a week of the standard well there's a glass of potatoes because the corner shops and restaurants and so i want to close . listen it's going to be very hard and difficult but we'll try to survive we closed the shop on the 18th of february because we thought that nobody could come

see me being allowed out when we reopen i think we're going to work at 30 percent capacity we're going into the unknown anyway this is the end of the lockdown on the 11th of may so we'll see what is going to happen. to. a former u.s. national security advisor was apparently being set up by the f.b.i. over alleged russian contacts back in 2017 revelation comes from nearly on the sealed documents that say there was a lack of derogatory evidence against michael flynn a former f.b.i. agent though still intervened to try to keep the case open writing notes that since crossfire razor michael flynn was not specifically named as an agent of a foreign power by the original crossfire hurricane predicated reporting the absence of any derogatory information or lead information from these logical sources reduce the number of investigative avenues and techniques to pursue the f.b.i. is closing this investigation hey if you haven't called raise or don't do so yet

according to the documents f.b.i. agent fisk us the possibility of tricking flynn into lying so you could be prosecuted or fired as left some believe in the bureau deliberately targeted him regardless of evidence and michael flynn of course pleaded guilty back in 2017 for lying about contacting the russian ambassador that was weeks before donald trump took office and charges were brought as part of an investigation into the alleged russian meddling during the 26th the us election flynn is currently seeking to withdraw his guilty plea the latest evidence will go some way to boosting his chances of president trump has already said he'd give them a job. it looks to me like michael flynn would be exonerated based on everything i see i'm not the judge but i have a different type of power back into your administration. while i think he's a fine man i think it's terrible what they did to him it's something that nobody says to me but you're asking me for the 1st time i would certainly consider it yeah

i was. a lot of the legal and media analyst law and all thanks for joining us on the program today given the context the be the circumstances under which this all took place why do you think we have p.r. i could've gone to such lengths to try and prosecute michael flynn to try and prove his guilt. to prove his guilt to ultimately go after the president that's where this is derivative from everything that was done was in order to subvert the candidacy the presidency of donald trump nobody had any interest in michael flynn nobody ever thought that this general in any way was doing anything wrong what happened was and this is what is what is so wrong in the united states we have a prohibition and as a lawyer as a former prosecutor i will tell you when you target prosecute somebody this is unconstitutional and illegal prosecutors wait for somebody to come to them to say this is what

a suspect has done we believe the police had believed they've done something when the prosecutors go after somebody to see not only if they can catch him doing something but to create it that's the issue they aided the caught the crime of his lying and then if he pushed back they threaten his family his son so they were going to get a conviction a a jail time if you will of general flynn come hell or high water that was their motivation. these revelations what do you think that in the case just in terms of the power that u.s. intelligence has i mean is there some sort of you know limit. to what they can do after apparently not you know we there is a phrase here in this country we've always talked about the deep state the deep state well there's the intel's state and the intelligence community seems to run completely separate and distinct from anybody else what this man did was he pled

guilty and this is this is extraordinary because this his lawyer pursued this he already entered a plea of guilty they did now a motion to withdraw that plea which is extraordinary courts don't normally like that after that when the public and the court find out specifically what was done and let me also add this you very rarely see people writing down step by step what they did providing a prescription or a recipe for how someone's rights were violated and that either shows you tremendous stupidity or a sense of immunity that they're impervious to review they can say what they want this is you know when you read the documents you don't really see how they think this was blatant deliberate and they targeted effort to go after somebody who had

not committed a crime but they created when and where people are going to be asking is how how frequent does this happen how frequently how common is this and the u.s. since to church commission has always been very suspect of the intelligence communities and what they can do seemingly independent of the normal due process protections. given a lot of us media still believes that michael flynn is guilty do you think this could haul me if he has a means and should be or rather give it that will be an investigation realistically of what's happened here and say what you know could be described as abuse of power . great question the mainstream media will not cover this the mainstream media the corporate run mainstream or as a president might say fake news media will not cover this most americans don't know anything about this they don't know who fled measure what happened they will say he lied he entered

a plea of guilty that's all they need to know they won't ask but why if i put a gun to your head if i threaten you and your family and i say plead guilty and you do that's coersion that's to arrest that doesn't count what's happening now is the next issue is what will happen unless and until attorney general bill barr in conjunction with the president has a a a full throated very thorough investigation into what happened nothing will happen in this this country went through the most exhausting impeachment hearings congressional one after another the democratic party is vicious they went after this president and found nothing never found anything yet there was no accusation to slight for them to minimal to de minimus for them to pursue the question is will this republican administration and it should not be a matter of politics but will attorney general bill barr and others go after the

heads of the f.b.i. to find out how did this happen why were there no safeguards and how can a levy a general a 3 star general a hero be put through this just because apparently of a political vendetta that remains to be seen. do you think flynn is that shots of being exonerated here and if if he is what ramifications do you think that could have you know for the one to russian medal of allegations on all those of us the geishas that took place the other great question series or that number one will he be exonerated absolutely what will happen was again he pled guilty he was about to be sentenced now we find is new information he has now asked the court to allow him to withdraw that plea of guilty thus read we restore him his original plea of not guilty which will then allow the department of justice attorney general bill maher to drop the case once the case is dropped he is free he then can pursue

civil litigation against the government for abuse of process for violating his civil rights and the like what will this do regarding this russian investigation of russian meddling let me remind everyone that as of today's date and i've been following this as since you were sleeping i still don't know what the russian collusion was at all the investigations you name it from just go from from carter page to we still don't know it says though this female has been so imbedded in our collective conscience is russian interference russian meddling. the we're still waiting for evidence of that so if justice prevails general flynn could end up being a very wealthy man because what they've put him through and by the by the carter page of us again is still going on but what they did to this and his message should

the world is very simple if they can do this to me a lieutenant general retired somebody who was a hero somebody who gave his entire life in support and in prayer and in defense of this country if they could do this to me and forced me to plead to something that was manufactured what does this mean for the average citizen if the public understands his case that way sky's the limit so that remains to be seen this may be some way in the future and of course we are just sort of speculating speculating at a stage but do you think from. the job offer and you know if it does take place what sort of capacity will sort of role do you think we can see the former security advisor in. whatever capacity have before this is a very honorable a very revered and very respected man who spent and dedicated his entire life to supporting his country if he is exonerated if he is found is called a no name prosequi if they decide not to prosecute he is as as as pure as the

driven snow it never happened people are also asking can depend president pardon him well there's nothing really to pardon because he will have been exonerated so it's up to the president can you imagine how this will go all the press corps and deep state intel state to dare a bad person that the press corps has already sullied and tattooed and deemed to be a security risk or somebody's not worthy of our respect and praise it could be the ultimate slap in the face which in view of such might make it even more likely for the president to establish to the world this is my office these are my rules and this man was never convicted of anything he is presumed innocent this is the american way why not bring him back a man of his experience a man of his expertise and a man of his tradition of such an interesting case and one very much to follow

a lot of legal a media analyst good to have you on the side as always thank you sir. police in the u.k. brace for a civil crime wave on the back of the corona virus epidemic is that more of the spread. lead.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race in his own spear in dramatic development only loosely and going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. over much of the program the british police have warned of a crime wave when lock down most of the lifted us thousands of young people face unemployment the west midlands crime commissioner in england says he fears a summer of alcohol fuelled violence and anti social behavior. i have concerns that

we could have tens if not hundreds of thousands of young people in the west midlands particularly young men who rant about june or july find they have no job to go back to i fear that we may be facing a summer crime wave young men out of work venues reopening in large groups congregating is a toxic mix for crime i'm particularly worried about public order offenses anti-social behavior and alcohol fuelled violence. in england alone police have issued almost 9000 fines for people breaching locked up almost 200000 corona related incidents reported so far fines vary up to 1000 pounds while the authorities are also warned the reopening of pubs could add to problems peter kirk a former police officer says a surge in crime when the pandemic settles is very likely. when we went into the lock down with all that specially with the closure of clubs. and public space

effectively. it was predictable that crime associated with those locations would permit and that is now working its way through in the statistics that we see. violence street crime drug misuse or drug dealing. lots and lots of things happening in street some basic problem prices have gone down equally predictable is going to release that pressure just like the businesses that have had. no income or very much reduced income for that period of a lot around so the criminals have their. illegal businesses shut down they're all combat with engines needing to make up that slack thing in the u.k. a charity group has sounded the alarm over care home whistleblowers being sacked as they attempt to draw attention to safety issues they're facing during a covert 19 outbreak legal action is now being considered over the staff dismissals

and the organization called compassion in care has claimed that 5 whistleblowers were fired for highlighting a lack of staff on personal protective equipment they also said that a number of covert 19 patients were being placed in care homes after release from hospital care as contacting the regulators the authorities 4 weeks ago apparently without response the charity's founder told us that care homes have always had a weak link in the u.k. health care system. this crisis was foreseeable and you know it's been a number of weeks there since starr for been raising concerns about to p.p.a. about lack of star fame as well care homes usually get by on a wing and a prayer. anything goes wrong and everything crumbles and there is the case now west after off sick and there isn't anyone to replace them the people that contact us are the good care is that you know the stuff that humble may wish that you know their compassion for the job and you know you don't hear about these health care

workers they're going to be given half of all covert care where people are dying and you know i know it's great that people are clapping for the n.h.s. but i say to people for these carers they're doing something absolutely amazing they're not trained they've got no equipment and they've got no gratitude and i think that you know at least we can do is to stand up for them. the toll in the u.k. care homes has reportedly quadrupled in the past fortnight half of those numbers you can see that have occurred in just 5 days over the british health minister is the king by westminster's response to the pandemic despite being a huge war from the very beginning i wonder if you will to make use of what you need to apologize to those families of long ones who died in cahoots because the government didn't properly protect the. the thing is i think. i think that's unreasonable as a question actually from the start we know we knew that there was

a very significant challenge with condoms the government of down when it comes to the m.l.t. care situation and care and social care is that every scene after this outcry and their mistakes are pointed out and those mistakes should have been made i mean people have died needlessly that could have been saved and as it is we've got we have empty hospital beds and we've got people dying and residential care homes where there are no no and these people are dying gasping for air i mean this is no way air and mistake by the government this is a human rights abuse and it needs to be investigated properly and there needs to be accountability for what's happened here and the care workers that continue to work in these conditions every day are at breaking point their mental health suffered and there's no help or support from them and they just feel a fan didn't buy the whole system. you know the news desperate times call for

desperate measures and in a bid to raise much needed funds for hospitals in france a number of priceless treasures are set to go on to the hammer because the ministry will option 100 pieces some of which failed back to the 19th century solid lewinsky has more details from paris. warnings that the french economy could face it's a recession since the 2nd world war have come to pass meaning that the coded 900 crisis has blown a massive hole in the 2nd largest economy this reduced activities may be linked to this is a should normally essential activities since the country dropped a district lockdown in mid march and it seems the french are really struggling so much so they're looking for alternative ways to raise extra cash and with little to no money likely to come in from foreign tourism this year the french have turned to raiding the family silver per se france has been here before selling off

pieces of national heritage but pulling off so many valuables at once with around $100.00 pieces set to go under the hammer at the same time is reportedly rare and in a country which prides itself on its heritage this really goes against the grain in the past france has been so precious about conserving natural treasures it's banned work sold at auction from leaving the country to allow for time for home grown sons to be raised to buy them and to keep them here when the piece christ mocked by free when a song artist. was sold at auction for 24000000 euros after decades of lying and discovered hanging in a kitchen france stepped in. i saluted the role played by the system of control over the export of cultural goods for the protection and richmond of the national heritage and i thank the members of the advisory commission on national

treasures thanks to the time given by this measure.