federal police so. it's likely that. extended his his power and did something against his responsibilities we suppose it was before in order to protect his sons from investigation by the federal police well during this corona virus pandemic one of the countries most in need is sudan the country was already facing a health care crisis before the pandemic suffering from a shortage of doctors and infrastructure many medical workers left the country under the previous dictatorship and that is mostly left young doctors to handle the corona virus outbreak and some doctors i say have been attacked by patients families who blame them for the failures of the health system. 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 family's. health workers have to get by on one meal a day. khartoum's clinic is the main treatment center for sudan's coronavirus patients it already has 16 intensive care beds and 15 ventilators but there are nearly 40 patients being treated already every day brings new arrivals. doctors like on a. work 12 hour day

federal police so. it's likely that both are now or extended his his power and did something against his responsibilities we suppose it was before in order to protect his sons from investigation by the federal police well all of this is happening in the midst of the corona virus outbreak that's something president bush for now though doesn't seem to be taking seriously tell us more about that. recently bought and replaced his health minister it was merely on the discussion about how to combat the corona crisis also now or is now more more alone and the question is how his ministers react who are still in place overall there are many militaries in his government and the question is how will they react now how is brazil's health system coping with the situation in rio de janeiro and sao paulo it's almost collapsing in man hours the amazon capital it already collapsed there we can see mass graves and so far the numbers are rising from day to day and we expect the worst weeks the worst 2 weeks to come from now on my tears ever to in rio de janeiro thank you. well a high profile pro-democracy activist and a bookseller who fled hong kong has been attacked with red paint in taiwan where he was set to launch a

targeting judges well last friday justice minister sergio mora resigned over what he calls political interference from the president and that followed paulson r.-o. sacking the federal police chief well geraldo zohan is a brazilian affairs political analyst and author and joins me now via skype from sao paolo good to have you with us on the program how much of a head on collision course is the president on with other members of his own party and how much support does he have. well this situation is so unique that the president the president resign his own party his is now that he is party less. but he's certainly in a collision course with members of congress there's a lot of talk about impeachment and this past friday pick up a fight with his most famous and most well known minister the minister of justice such a model which was of course famous for the carwash corruption scandals for sending to prison famous politicians most famously former president lula losing that suit so he's on a collision course with a lot of people and he's made no secret for example of his skepticism cave at 19 but do the sort of rising infection rates and the science see the public turning again

suppose it was in order to protect his sons from investigation by the federal police and that was a but in rio de janeiro for us there well the german film awards ceremony is normally a glitzy and glamorous affair but this year was a little different gemini's physical distancing rules meant no red carpet gala instead the prize winners were announced in a virtual ceremony this year's big winner was system question which tells the story of a 9 year old girl with a violent behavioral problems and her experience of japanese child welfare system. lol is including best picture best screenplay and best director for north side. well culture correspondent and film expert scott ross perot was following the award ceremony for scott tell us about the way the. yeah it was a system crasher which was a bit of a surprise because this is a small social drama about a sort of out of control kid a 1st time film from a female director north and it wasn't considered the front runner this year that was on the plots which is this huge big political epic a modern day retelling of a german literary classic but maybe there is something about the so

us now with more to this so rachel what is the latest on this case well a federal judge has now ruled today that the baltimore police department's aerial surveillance program does not violate americans privacy rights now in his decision u.s. district judge richard bennett specifically wrote images produced by the air pilot program will only depict individuals as minuscule dots moving about a city landscape the movement of these dots cannot be tracked without significant labor so he's claiming that this program does not violate americans 1st or 4th amendment rights and now that we have his approval we already have the city of baltimore's approval and so there is a chance of this program could be launching as early as next week now we found out about this program from the baltimore police department when they announced that they had plans for an aerial surveillance pilot program in which 3 planes equipped with cameras would fly over the city they will collect a one image per 2nd and they will stay in the air for 12 hours a day now the department claims the planes would be used to help investigate murders no one fatal

federal regulators didn't have any problems. they're not a solution to this problem as well. the conservative way to police the marketplace is class action lawsuits, not federal agencies. i start the book with some quotations from milton friedman. he reminds us that for all of the virtues of the united states chamber of commerce, they are often not very conservative. it is a wonderful pass passage and equipment questions, big businesses often have the free enterprise system and there on a plane to washington dc asking for special legislation for the company. so i chris, i represented many members of the teams of congress when i was lawyer and i am very grateful for all of the company we do for our kind of money and our country but they're not the best place to find with the conservative principles suggest we do should she do to police the marketplace. what is the best place to find the conservative principles say. will my book is built upon people like milton friedman. like gary beckman, like george stigler and frank easterbrook and richard epstein, conservative and libertarian, economists, scholars, lawye

according to the law change a director of the federal police i don't need to ask permission from anybody or anyone in the pyramid of the executive power. well that's pizza palace of tara he's the director of the woodrow wilson center is brazil institution and he joins us now from bethesda maryland via skype how do you think for being with us i would like to start with some context here because that you're more is really the face of the anti corruption crackdown in athen america right after leading operation coalition he's incredibly popular he's also i believe the 8th minister to leave boston are his cabinet just 15 months yes you are correct he is incredibly popular he has retained his popularity while the president's popularity has gone down he has lost support of his own party the party that led him to the presidency he is increasingly isolated and by losing by losing mr bush or not mr mo. is. you know in a very uncomfortable position 'd all the latest news in 'd brazil from brazil is that he could move should port of the military there a number of ministers. come from the military from the armed forces they could just leave the governme

federal regulators were a solution to any problem. and they are not a solution to this problem as well. the conservative way to police and marketplace is class action lawsuits, not federal agencies. i start the book with some quotations from milton friedman who reminds us that for all of the virtues of the united states chamber of commerce they are often not very conservative. he has a wonderful passage that a court in the book where he says listen, big businesses often wax poetic about the free enterprise system and they're all on the plane to washington, d.c. asking for special legislation for their company. so like chris, i represented many members of the chamber of commerce when i was a lawyer in washington, d.c. i'm very grateful for all the companies do, for our economy and for our country but they are not the best place to find what the conservative principle suggests we should do to police the marketplace. when is the best place to find what conservative principle say? my book is built upon people like milton friedman, like friedrich hayek, like gary becker, like george stigler, like frank easterbrook, like r

police power. they receive the power for the state and not the federal government. >>> well, two more big banks posted a huge loss for the quarter this morning. city group and bank of america losing almost 50% in profits for the quarter. also, the monetary fund that the global economy will suffer the worst year since the great depression. that taking the stocks down this morning:the asian markets are down, and then the european stocks and the indexes are all down about two percent right now. coming back a little bit. the premarket indicating almost a two percent drop for the u.s. as well. that's after the dow finished yesterday nearly 560 points. this morning's announcement is the release of the sales. they're expected to go down during this shut down. >>> california receiving the unemployment checks are starting to see an tricks $600 a week. that comes from the federal cares act. they're making arrangements to make them to independent contractors such as gig workers. a one stop shop to apply should be up and running in two weeks. applicants should be able to receive the money to the first full week o

digitalisation in those regions is that the police heel is that what the german government missed and is now suffering for in this crisis. well in this federal state of germany we have different levels the community level the federal state level and the national level actually and what we see is yes we should have invested more in previous years in the digitalisation of. actually make these different levels better interacting in a situation like this that new cases that are found in a community within seconds actually unknown with with our national city see that it's not yet the case that takes one to 2 days till we have the information here in berlin and that is just an example but in the very important one to have a real picture of these outbreak that we want to change through digitization and to actually support and to fund this investments that need to be taken to communities and we really want to speed up that chance in this crisis actually to speed up the digitalisation and public health system now there's a lot of debate about european solidarity you know also germany's solidarity in this crisis germany's taking in patients from abroa

digitalisation in those regions is that the police heel is that what the german government missed and is now suffering for in this crisis. well in this federal state of germany we have different levels the community level the federal state level and the national level actually and what we see is yes we should have invested more in previous years in the digitization of actually make these different levels better into acting in a situation like this that new cases that fall into the community within seconds actually unknown with with our national city see that is not yet the case it takes one to 2 days till we have the information here in berlin and that is just the example but in the very important one to have a real picture of these outbreak that we want to change through digitization and to to actually support and to fund this investments that need to be taken to communities and we really want to speed up that chance in this crisis actually to speed up the judaization and public health system now there's a lot of debate about european solidarity and also germany solidarity in this crisis germany's taking in patients from abroad how far will

button are of trying to interfere illegally with the federal police brazil's supreme court has authorized an investigation into his allegations but as well as president nicolas maduro has appointed an alleged drug trafficker as his new oil minister to raquel i 70 was indicted in the u.s. last month over allegations that he violated sanctions and received payments for facilitating drug shipments trumpet ministration has offered a reward of up to 10 $1000000.00 for information leading to his arrest and i saw me has denied the charges he takes over the role as mint minister just as the country's oil industry is near collapse. iraq is doing what it can dream crease its capacity to generate electricity but it's fighting against u.s. sanctions which control how much it can import from iran and has become reliant on supplies from its neighbor a similar similar photon reports from baghdad. iraq is fighting a 2 pronged battle to increase power supply the country is trying to resolve power shortages but u.s. sanctions mean it must do so without the help from neighboring iran. and 3000 megawatts the best maya plant south of baghdad it's iraq's bigg

federal police alexander a measure was appointed after that and fired his predecessor that prompted the justice minister to quit accusing the president of unlawfully interfering with police affairs well all of this goes on brazil has reported more than 5000 deaths and over 73000 infections or so that are the smiths criticism of his handling of the outbreak saying that even though his middle name is messiah he can't prevent coronavirus that's. the way i'm sorry what do you want me to do i am a sinner but i don't do americans. for more on this let's cross live to our latin america editor to see a new man who joins us from santiago a lot going on in brazil and tell us more about the supreme court ruling on xandra . appointment but i'm guessing not a surprise but what reaction has there been to it. hello barbara actually the new police chief was supposed to have taken over his chair at the office to day at the same time that the new justice minister was sworn in both of those were removed by both of the previous ones because he wanted his own friends in there and that's exactly what the supreme court has blocked they believe that it would give president bush unfair advantage influence ov

see this battle between the federal government in states and local jurisdictions as well, states and cities. you're warning that newark's frontline personnel, like the police officers, the firefighters could soon be furloughed or laid off because of a $143 million budget shortfall. how much longer until that happens? >> well, not just talking about police and fire. you have a whole line of folks, sanitation, health workers inside our city, water department, folks from dpw, all departments face this. you know, we need some sort of relief. we're facing 140 million or so budget deficit if we do not get the revenues that we're used to getting. i would say by the end of the summer the city would be in a terrible position if we did not get additional revenue from the state and federal government. and we're already in preparation for those things and we are turning in our fema reimbursements, all the things that we need to do and we're lobbying. i'm confident that our federal delegation, senator booker, senator menendez, payne and the rest are fighting for us. this new bill menendez has is hopeful for us. hopefully the states and cities like newark will receive s

well we just newsagency say is that. i think might be tools president to. secure the justice minister will be seen. is that the federal police chief is going to present. our john apologies i'll have to let you go just a little windy from mexico city. home and giving us the update from mexico you're watching al-jazeera coming up in just a moment after years of conflict drove forms of locusts how so malia is coping with the coronavirus that's coming up and international anger grows over is really plans to an ex-parte of the occupied west bank a top u.n. envoy calls it a dangerous and devastating wounds. but 1st to syrian men have gone on trial in germany accused of crimes against humanity one was a prominent member of president bashar assad's forces at the start of the war and is accused of complicity in acts of torture as dominic cain reports it's the 1st time any official has been brought to court for war crimes by the syrian government . they came to germany claiming to be refugees from syria's civil war now it's claimed they committed crimes against humanity jury it specifically multiple murder torture and all the serious

federal government can't fund. state and local governments, we're funding police, fire, teachers, schools. you can't just ignore them. when you don't fund the states, you're saying to the states, wellu have to fund them and the states have already said in one united choir, we can't. we can't. we talked to the president about that. the president gets it. he's going to work very hard in the next piece of legislation. but i've been in washington. i was there for eight years. the congress has to insist that this is in the legislation. yes, they passed funding for small business and funding for testing and that's good. that is a good thing. it's not a bad thing. but it's not enough either. and they don't come back every day, the congress. it's marred to get them to come back. this was not the time for baby steps. this is when you should be taking bold action. the action is proportionate to the issue, and you haven't had a problem that is any bigger than this that any of those senators or congress people have ever dealt with. then your action should be proportionate and responsive to the problem, and it wasn't. the president also agreed, which is a big deal for new york, to waive what's

threatened that unless we get an infusion of cash from the federal government, we could be looking at teachers, police and firefighters being laid off as wellon is the steepest downturn in the labor market over a five week period since the great depression, not the great recession. so i guess the question on people's minds is what blunts this? what stops us from every thursday at this time at 8:30 eastern from seeing a terrible, horrifying number when you have doctors saying yes, this will be with us through the summer and fall and perhaps into the winter? >> and sadly i think that we'll see these numbers to come, millions more applying every single week for the foreseeable future. and the problem is the economy isn't going to bounce back quickly because even if you start to open parts of the country, the hardest hit areas in the country are the places where people are losing job places like new york and california. those are not going to reopen quickly. and even when restaurants and retail starts to reopen, they won't be operating at 100% capacity. so i think that it is incumbent upon the federal government to continue to figure out how do

federal law, they can be charged for committed the crime. >> coercion by fear or the threat of a biological weapon or virus, well it's a unique way of using this particular act, is very effective. >> police in vallejo are trying to identify this particular woman who they say stole from a target store and when confronted by store security police, they purposely coughed in their faces. fearing for their safety the security officers backed away and the woman ran to a car and got away. >>> city leaders in san francisco say they are considering a proposal to protect people who are homeless during the pandemic. last night the supervisor introduced the plan to turn vacant lots into sanctioned city almost encampments. homeless people would be allowed to set up tents at the locations and must be at least six feet apart. they have access to bathrooms, handwashing stations, drinking water and garbage disposal. >> hotels are the best, but at the rate we are going, we are a long way from offering everyone a hotel room. we need to be honest about where we are and try to find something even if it's not a perfect solution it's better than what we've got. >> it would allow the use of at least one school