took the step after both are now to dismiss the head of brazil's federal police moro is a former anti corruption judge who is one of the most popular members of both scenarios cabinets. and doctors nurses and other frontline workers have been hailed as the heroes of the pandemic expressions of gratitude have become a ritual in countries thanks to places like spain and italy and the u.k. where people applaud medics caregivers and others from their balconies and doorways but elsewhere frontline workers bear the brunt of public anger in sudan some doctors say they've been attacked by patients families who blame them for the health systems failures many medical workers left the country under the previous dictatorship that has left mostly young doctors to handle the coronavirus break. a moment of rest before the early shift begins doctors and nurses board a shuttle bus from their temporary housing to the nearby clinic they cannot keep a safe distance apart and they aren't allowed to see their own families. he's health workers have to get by on one meal a day. clinic is the main treatment c

press conference, bolsonaro denied the allegations, saying he had the rig to replace the federal police chief. moro's resignation has rocked e government and sparke prests and calls for bolsonaro to be impeached. another popular official, brazil's health minister, was fired a week ago. he advocated for social distancing measures during the coronarus pandemic, which bolsonaro opposes. more than 3,500 people have died from covid-19 in brazil. in north korea today, there was still no sign of the countrs leader, kim jong-un. it's not unusual for north korean leaders to disappear from public vi-- sometimes for a significant ceremony last week. that sparked speculation about his health. his last public appearance was april 11. another mystery? the secretive country continues to claim there are zero cases of vid-19 there. joining us today from washington, d.c. is jean lee, director of the korea program at the wilson center. let's start with the humanitarian crisis. how equipped is north korea to deal withomething like the coronavir? >> north korea has such a fragileh heare system. you know, i visited so man

federal police or from the superintendent. this is really not the role of the federal police. the president dismissed mr moro'sce investigations, nor shield members of his family from them, but he did say he wanted to know more. translation: i always told him, "moro, i have no information from the federal police. i have to have every day a report of what happened, especially the last 2a hours, in order to decide the future of this nation." i never asked him about the progress of any case. the president has repeatedly downplayed the danger of covid—19 and last week, he fired the health minister because they disagreed over using isolation to contain the virus. there are rumours that other ministers may go, too. translation: the political sphere is already preparing for the resignation of other ministers in the coming days. the way the population reacts to this will determine whether or not brazilians will live through another impeachment of a president. the country now faces a rapidly expanding epidemic with an administration in turmoil. the stock market and the currency have fallen sharply, and mr bolsonaro's g

minister has resigned in protest after the president, jair bolsonaro, sacked the chief of the federal police. sergio moroolitical interference in the force. shares on the sao paulo stock exchange plunged 8% after the resignation. world leaders and the united nations' health agency have launched a new global initiative to speed up work on ways to prevent and cure covid—19. the call to action is being co—hosted by president macron of france and the president of the european commission, ursula von der leyen, alongside bill and melinda gates. in a huge show of support for the who, other world leaders also took part in the announcement — but not the united states, which has withdrawn support for the organisation. here's mr macron on why this collaboration is so important. translation: it's inexcusable that any country who finally finds a vaccine keeps it for itself. the moment we reach that point in this fight, we need to make the vaccine accessible as fast as possible for the whole population. the initiative that we're working on is one that can make this available to everyone in every geographical area — an

moro quit friday just hours after bolsonaro fired the federal police chief, who was investigating bolsonaro's political allies and two of his sons. for corruption and ties to mafia -- flavio bolsonaro is under investigation for corruption and ties to mafia in rio de janeiro. another son, carlos bolsonaro, is charged with leading a criminal fake news racket that's made threats against political opponents while spreading defamatory misinformation. this all comes as president bolsonaro faces widespread criticism for minimizing the dangers of the coronavirus outbreak. the death toll in brazil has topped 4000 and hospititals rept being oveverwhelmed with sisick papatients. in environmental news, new research finds populations of land-dwelling insects around the world have plummeted by about 25% over the last three decades. publishing in the journal "science," german researchers blame the drop in arthropods on a critical loss of habitat, driven by urbanization and deforestation.n. and thosose are some of the headlinenes. this is demomocracy now!, democracynow.org, the quaranante report. i'm amy goo

federal police to carry out their work. about 20 something that all. said geo moros 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 which now 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 a warning that hospitals are on the brink of collapse. and the man at the top faces public anger growing lied to by the day. and for more on this let's bring in a journalist michael fox from of florida not the less michael the justice minister quit a week after bolton are fired his own health minister it was the public reacting to all this. it's been it's been a crazy time here in brazil and it continues to be i think people are just kind of at their wits ends in a lot of ways particularly because it's all happening in the middle of the pandemic now it's important on the stand that many on the left however have always seen justice minister social

federal police to carry out their work. about 4 years for that all . said geo moros 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 which now 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 a warning that hospitals are on the brink of collapse. and the man at the top faces public anger growing lied to by the day. and the united states there have been discussions within the white house about changing the format of president donald trump's coronavirus briefings and co tailing his role in them it comes after trump held an unusually short briefing on friday and didn't take any questions from reporters the day before that he calls the law by suggesting people with corona virus may be able to be treated with ultraviolet light and disinfectant something that alarmed medical officials he has since claimed his remarks was sarcastic and he wa

in a nationwide address, president bolsonaro denied he had overruled mr moro to remove the head of the federal police carried out the country's worst—ever mass shooting last weekend started his rampage by assaulting his girlfriend. she hid from him in the woods overnight, and has since become a key witness in the investigation. police believe gabriel wortman killed 22 people while disguised as a policeman in nova scotia. the european commission's chief brexit negotiator, michel barnier, has condemned the lack of progress on trade talks with the uk. he said britain didn't want to commit seriously ona number of fundamental points. downing street said the talks had been constructive, but admitted some aspects of the eu offerfell short of the uk's expectations. as we've been hearing, the united nations, political leaders and business leaders from around the world have launched a new initiative aimed at speeding up the development of treatments and a vaccine for covid—19. a key element of the effort will be to make sure that any vaccine is made available and affordable to everyone in the world, but there

justice minister has resigned in another blow to present government surgeon moros stepped down shortly after also the federal police chief now the president is under fierce criticism as brazil struggles to cope with the current virus outbreak is the worst affected country in latin america with more than 50000 people infected. prisoners have staged a protest after a prison officer tested positive for cope with 19 inmates at the german border is always a demanding transfers and some a tree control over worries that they're vulnerable to the infection at one point they threw sharp objects from the roof this could have the latest number of correspondent trees in but as i would be monitoring events for close to where the protest is happening what is happening right now. what argentina was one of the 1st countries in latin america to impose a lockdown because of the spread of cold 1000 but in spite of that the virus is spreading argentina has now around 3000 confirmed cases and some of them are happening inside this country is prison what we know is that very early this friday morning a group of prisoners started a prote

high court's decision comes after former justice minister sergio moro resigned friday, accusing bolsonaro of illegally firing the federal police chief who was at the time investigating bolsonaro's political allies and two of his sons. on tuesday, bolsonaro appointed a family friend as the new federal police chief. the world health organization says it's preparing to slash humanitarian aid to yemen's health care system by as much as 80% after the trump administration cut off funding to the u.n. global health body. some 24 million people in yemen, about 80% of the population, are relianant on humanitarian aid. millions of yemenis are on the brink of starvation. yemen, which has been devastated by a u.s.-backed, saudi-led mililitary bombing campaign sine 2015, already has an ongoing cholera epididemic. it confirmeded its first coronavirus case on april 1010. in lebebon, massivive protests continueued in beirut and cities across lebanon for a second consecutive night tuesday as people are angered by the deteriorating economy and alarming food shortages during the pandemic. >> we are daily workers. if we work, we eat. if we don't w

what he called political interference but president also naro moro took the step off the ball sonora dismissed the head of brazil's federal police without consulting him. in berlin friday's for future activists have placed thousands of placards in front of germany's parliament to demand action on the global climate crisis protesters with a bang coronavirus restrictions struck events were also staged in other cities and online this is the news from berlin for more you can follow us on twitter at they w news or visit our website www dot com. as the number of dead from corona virus in the u.s. passes the 50000 mark americans are also dealing with the disastrous economic fallout of the crisis millions of people have lost their jobs in the past 5 weeks and there are fears the pandemic could lead to a larger unemployment right and the great depression in the 1930 s. . this is the day. to get to $26000000.00 jobless and just a month it is terrifying i know a lot of economists at the entries they have no idea it was that it's a payout deal that was made let's let that happen and i think our economy will start to pick up very substantial