brazil's presidential you're both so narrow is still doing exactly that despite brazil having a latin america's highest number of reported coronavirus cases more than 4500 brazil's health minister has openly contradicted the president saying people need to protect themselves through social distancing or what about on social media the platforms both are no use to win the election they are now suddenly hostile territory not necessarily to him but to the untruths about the virus connected to him. brazil's far right president jebel sonora likes to portray himself as a man of the people. but his closeness to the people in these images has proved too much for social media platforms facebook instagram and twitter they've now removed this video accusing both inara of putting lives at risk by ignoring official guidelines on social distancing but also nora is unrepentant. this total isolation if it goes on like this in the future we will have a serious problem with the brutal amount of unemployment it will take years to resolve. with. the president elect as his aim is to protect the poor who ar

brazil. tonight michael thank you. spain has europe's 2nd highest death toll behind italy more than 8000 deaths and the elderly are especially at risk nursing homes in spain have been overwhelmed by the number of infections last week there were shocking reports of patients dying in their beds only to be discovered hours later families are even more desperate because they can no longer visit their loved ones due to the threat of the virus our correspondent philip schultz has this report tonight from seville. what is happening behind these windows concerns many spaniards almost 2000 nursing home residents have died after contracting the corona virus every day more homes are effected nothing more dangerous uncle has parkinson's and lives in a nursing home in southern spain a while ago he learned that the 1st cases of coronavirus had been diagnosed there too since then he tells me the residents of the nursing home and their relatives have become increasingly worried. so what are they doing to do with it just because that w

people in brazil the african to south makes it very clear that brazil is. the 2nd largest african country in the world the only country where as more people of african descent brazil is my jury. in certain neighborhoods however simply being young black and poor can get you shot dead in the middle of the street over the past decade the rio police had been carrying out regular raids in the favelas on the pretext of ridding slums of time these operations had made brazil the world leader in police violence against the black population. use it for us to be a tool for them will always be poor black for valid people well never see is any other way. initially like it for them we're all criminals people stare at us because of our hair because of our we live with their prejudices but i think it's tough because they've got the power and will always be a minority community. little . when. 130 years after the abolition of slavery afro brazilians are still by far the country's poorest community 2nd class citizens it in a world divided along color lines or i think it's ve

courage and charisma that struck a chord across brazil and around the world. protest is demanded that the killers be found. but brazil has a new government elected with the backing of the security forces might have a support his fear this may undermine the investigation if he is not a lot of back and forth arianrhod. compass and if it is like trying to keep a memory alive the big question is whether it's going to start that serious about finding her and if not then why. won't own oh it's been nearly a year since madea was killed and several official investigations by rios state and brazil's federal authorities on the way. maddy ellis assassination has begun to reveal troubling connections between security corruption and politics and we want to take a closer look at what efforts the authorities are making to find her killer 0. 00. we begin by following up on speculations that members of the military police assassinated mariella that she was being punished for criticizing the way they carry out their operations against drug gangs in the favelas. one such operati

and coffee in brazil. the freedom slaves had acquired and haiti had a paradoxical consequence it consolidated slavery all over the american continent. in rio's hinterlands the power either valley used to be covered with impenetrable primary forests today the mountainsides or bare trees were cleared on mass in the early 1900 centuries to make way for intensive coffee farming a new source of wealth. from. all. i said good for the others a vote by you but the lots of as and the farms in the pot i have a valley had up to 90 percent 1st generation african slaves. maidens basket that would in a very short time a practically uninhabited area was very rapidly populated with countless slaves working on the fountains will happen them and. some plantation owners possessed up to a 1000 slaves all applied a scientific organization of labor rigorous accounts were kept of each day's activities output per slave became the fundamental principle guiding plantation organization. everything was built around the coffee drying

brazil and portugal. meanwhile in europe itself hundreds of captives arrived each year via portuguese ships. in lisbon black and white noblemen a stance a plea lived on an equal footing they shared a common language and the same interests all grew rich from the slave sugar and gold trades among them german merchant and banker. when all you need. to be involved in the political and trade elites from both european and african societies local sovereigns collaborated with the portuguese some converted to christianity took portuguese names and sent their children to portugal to be latinized and study in the university of people these elites became the predatory ones that had put a piece. on the west african coast the riches that portugal devoured seemed inexhaustible. in the bellingham district of less than the building of the monastery was financed by the slave sugar and spice trades . the splendor of its architecture are testimony to an era when less than dominated the world and fled. it other european capit

brazil and portugal. meanwhile in europe itself hundreds of captives arrived each year via portuguese ships. in lisbon black and whites noblemen a stance a plea lived on an equal footing they shared a common language and the same interests all grew rich from the slave sugar and gold trades among them german merchant and banker. in economy to listen to me involved in the political and trade elites from both european and african societies local sovereigns collaborated with the portuguese some converted to christianity took portuguese names and sent their children to portugal to be latinized and study in the university of people. these elites became the predatory ones that it could at least. on the west african coast the riches that portugal devoured seemed inexhaustible. in the district of less than the building of this year only most monastery was financed by the slave sugar and spice trades. the splendor of its architecture are testimony to an era when lisbon dominated the world and flooded other european

was of those it was really an outpost of brazil many ways and it domino. gal muscle devoutly they determined that a merchant should import $20000.00 slaves per year that these slaves became contractual objects they stopped bartering with if you did it then became something highly speculative. so figures then amounted to thousands of slaves were counted by lots and no more one by one and even the language changed they spoke of pieces please define the slave in terms of stature and age as calculations were made in terms of profitability. this is glove the this is more you have to use the expression slave production because within central african states and especially the congo kingdom in small states that had separated from italy and there wasn't a slave trade strictly speaking about a boy you go. apple from a valid to comment so the system and conditions that had to be created this musical decision is his own is not like that here it was people from the outside who fed antagonisms that might allow people let's say free people citizens to end up in the slave

have already taken these measures that brazil's president in the past had referred to as extreme and it wasn't until today until thursday that we heard brazil announced the closure of 8 of its borders with 8 of its neighboring countries and you know every country in latin america is doing things a bit differently some of the measures that are being taken in one country are seen as not enough while they're being seen as extreme in other countries that's certainly been the case in mexico where the big criticism here is that the government isn't doing it enough that the president of mexico has been very nonchalant in his approach not taking the situation to seriously have a look. health authorities in mexico are increasing measures to fight the spread of code 19 on wednesday the mexican government reported the 1st death associated with the spread of coronavirus. unlike other countries in the region mexico has been reluctant to implement containment measures that could further impact the national economy. is. that speaking of money it's one thing for those of us who have a secure salary

sam cowie is a journalist in sao paulo in brazil.naro's diagnosis. he has already said that he does not have the coronavirus and he gave a rather obscene gesture outside the presidential palace to the press, noting that his test had negative results. since then it is understood he is undertaking more tests and has entered or had entered, at least, a period of isolation which was expected to last for at least seven days. now when the pro—government rallies kicked off today across the country and when the pro—government rally advanced on the presidential palace in brasilia that was the second instance of when mr bolsonaro left his self—imposed — his advised isolation period. he went out to meet the demonstrators and took photographs with them, shook hands. earlier in the day before he met them personally it was understood he left isolation of the presidential palace in a car and accompanied a protest with a car in the capital brasilia. the president earlier this week on tuesday was saying that the coronavirus is much more fantasy. in a

but there is one country whose president remains in denial about the dangers of $1000.00 brazil's joe you've also nigel who insists governments should prioritize economy obviously the virus is there and we're going to have to face it we're going to have to face it like men not like children we're going to face the virus with the reality of life we're all going to die someday. on sunday 2 of his tweets were deleted by twitter because they violated the rules of use by potentially putting people at greater risk of transmitting the virus the polls were videos of the 2 that the president took in the federal district contrary to the guidelines of his own minister of health who recommended that people stay at home as a measure to fight the coronavirus. in brazil slums n.g.o.s are stepping up efforts to help the poor investments and social security in the country is being reduced from year to year in the last 4 years and believe it in this year in the middle of the of the current of the virus from them next we're having reduction zone also familiar so that's absolutely crazy government action

because we have i in brazil 40%f the rkrk force which is in the informal sector. it's not protected by work laws, by the legislation. o we have this, i think it was 200 million -- [indiscernible] -- w which i wouould say correspondents w with abouout 4 billion euros, let's say, which is a pkagege that aims to impact the economyy or to protect jobs and protect poor people. it has been announced earlier this week. anchor: brazil governmentnt has introduced a financial pacackag to try and help the work force amid this crisis. thank you so much for being with us. time now for what we're cacalli at "france 24" a world tour with our correspondents dotted around the globe.e. this hour we're heading over to australia. many are criticizing the lack of measures over there implemented where people are not taking social distancing very seriously. et's listen. reporter: over the last couple of days, australia has seen a massive surge in con fermed cases of covid-19 -- confirmed cases of covid-19. tighter r restrictioions were pn place this week, such as a ban on indoor gatheri

and that is reflected across different states in brazil.aro ally in rio state advise not to go to the beach. as of saturday there we re beach. as of saturday there were a lot of people visiting the beach. but there is a growing concern here in brazil among members of the informal —— informal labour workforce, thejob —— informal labour workforce, the job recovery seen after the recent yea rs the job recovery seen after the recent years a financial crisis and economic crisis, has come from the informal economy, street vendor's and uber drivers and when you speak with these people you see many of them are concerned about the growing crisis. so good to talk to you. thank you very much indeed. measures have been put in place across europe to try to contain the spread of coronavirus, and limit the impact on health services and vulnerable people. rich preston has this look at what's been introduced across the continent. a wave of restrictions across europe from the closure of orders to the shutting of schools, restaurants and business. many millio

and a follow—up on brazil. europe to self quarantine for a couple weeks. you are in a picture with somebody who now has coronavirus from brazil. how is that different? first of all, i'm not coming back from someplace. but you were exposed.” i'm not coming back from someplace. but you were exposed. i have no idea who had it, but i take pictures and it lasts for literally seconds. i don't know the did not gentleman who we are talking about. i haven't seen the picture. i take sometimes hundreds of pictures a day so ijust don't know. i did sit with the president for probably two hours, but he's tested negative so that's good. it's not bad to stay home. there are certain parts of the country that are essentially, zero problem. washington's been very tough. the state of washington has been very tough. it's been a big percentage of when you talk about the 40 deaths, it's been a big percentage of the deaths. they all came from a certain area, u nfortu nately. came from a certain area, unfortunately. go ahead. thank you

in brazil greenhouse gas emissions from the waste sector have continued to rise dramatically in recent years . the german development agency g i said is advise in brazil years sanitation authority on how to reduce emissions. i judge by we are investing in expanding waste sorting and the composting of organic waste that will allow us to reduce the volume of residual waste and thereby emissions of methane as well. you know me as what they are brought at the same time we aim to raise public awareness so people start their recyclable trash. professor paolo's race has organized across disciplinary seminar at the university. students from various fields are working on developing sustainable waste management solutions. one approach is to make waste sorting more efficient another is to focus on technology trucks sensors logistics others aim to raise environmental awareness how can the public be involved more closely in the waste recycling process than use the program bring students together with representatives of the kindness of sanitation authority the recycling cooperatives and also commerc

most of brazil's governors are openly challenging president. who minimizes the risk of covert 19 calling it a little flaw. mr president as i told you in a respectful manner this is not just a little cold or a little flu we already have 46 victims up till now and this coronavirus crisis hasn't even peaked yet. also not assess sustaining economic growth is a priority in spite of the enormous risks of infection millions of brazilians face today or 3rd the livelihoods of families must be safeguarded we must return to normality there are a few stated municipal authorities that must abandon policies like a battle transportation closing businesses and mass confinement although the last 2 opinion polls early this week suggested widespread discontent with also not a surprise. and that's why pots and pans against his administration have become a daily occurrence in brazil as many are disappointed with a leader they believed would keep them safe. the united nations is appealing for $2000000000.00 to support humanitarian efforts worldwide to fight the pand

so it is incredibly quiet, a very different world here in brazil.course, bolsonaro wants to try and stop this, wants things to reopen. >> absolutely. as always, thank you so much. we have much more on our website. but for the time being here from "outside source," thanks for joining us for this global snapshot at the coronavirus crisis. we will be bk. presentation of this program is provided by n:benon.ro..amevoped by language specialists teaching spa french, and more. the freeman foundation. by judand peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solneions for america'ected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪ mr. rogers: ♪ it's a beautiful girl: we are the curious.♪ ♪ woman 1: wow! ro man 1: thedventuus. man 2: oh! daniel tiger: grrr! woman 2: those venturing out for the first ti. all: blast off! [rocket explosion] man 3: a those w have never lost our sense of wonder. man 4: whoa! g man 5: are you seeinthis? ♪ua ing] vo: we are the hungry. cookie monster: cookie! man 6: the strong. mu mmad ali: i must be

marcella marx was born in sao paolo brazil thousands of kilometers away from her and still home in germany. my grandfather a left germany fled actually in 1937 he was only 21 years old when he left and he fled to brazil this was thanks to his mother's foresight because she kind of knew that something was coming he was already not allowed to stay at university where he was studying at that time so in a way he wasn't anymore a full sits and the nazis systematically stripped german jews of all their right now marcel is fighting to claim the german citizenship that was taken from her grandfather my brother and i felt very close to the german culture since a very young age was studied in a water school in brazil with german school and we always had this references from germany and european coach are present in our houses article 116 of the german constitution allows germans who citizenship was revoked by the nazis to apply to have it restored the same goes for their descendants but authorities turned down marcellus application on the grounds that her grandfather had left germany voluntarily. an

s and the states and across brazil sold this kind of company chumming he. can probably to coag actions. brazilian. and really hard to know it sends out a nice carrot about the future the government just that we shot a chorus of policies to paying the light 90 yr so why do you think he's doing this is these are just attempting to cover all bases and hope for the best. well specifically in my field president bush tomorrow has a lot of concerns about the effects of that on then me that by many and house of the kind i'm curious a shallower over a nice project of a future reelection and the nice perspective he started to blame against the current time and guess that a lot of bounce as i wait to divide any kind of. coal. or the bleeding hold that to leave the governor's 2 days specifically president will sonar and they govern our own some polish own border they 'd richard says that which is estate which are the state here in brazil to be. really hard in not only can meeting and they just lost the focus was the call payments help to cope right 19 and they started

the message is, brazil cannot stop. exactly the message bolsonaro has been putting out and is supported by many. translation: when you suggest that if you go out on the streets, you could become infected, people become panicked. restrictive measures of social isolation are fine, but if you're going to be made to quarantine and there is no solution in two weeks, all you're doing is causing the economy to collapse. but sao paulo's governor, joao doria, is unrepentant. brazil can stop, he says, and should stop. this week he paid tribute to health professionals, scientists, and good brazilians, he said, who were saving lives, unlike some, who don't value them. banging pots this has been the soundtrack to many an evening recently, people banging pots in protest, angry with a president they see as irresponsible and out of touch. clearly, bolsonaro is not well equipped to deal with this crisis and as a consequence, there is certainly a consensus among health specialists that more people will die and the suffering in terms of t

brazil is a large, nonofficial employment country.nouncement last week from the federal government that they will release a small amount for any worker who cannot get an income. but we have not received any practical information about how it is going to happen and when. how are you planning, both practically and psychologically? how are you planning to get through the next few weeks? well, it has been a challenge. we are trying to understand everything. we are trying to reduce the expenses as much as we can, and we are trying to deal with social isolation, which isn't easy. the social networks are being really helpful with that. we are having meetings with friends and drinking together through cameras, and also a lot of people are providing free courses through instagram and what's up and live concerts. —— whatsapp. so we're trying to keep together the technology. morrissey, it is really great of you to speak to us. thank you so much. —— mauricio. authorities in the chinese city of wuhan have begun removing some of the checkpoints ins

and i felt very close to the german culture since a very young age was studied in a water school in brazil with german school and we always had this references from germany and european coach are present in our houses article 116 of the german constitution allows germans who citizenship was revoked by the nazis to apply to have it restored the same goes for their descendants but authorities turned down marcello's application on the grounds that her grandfather had left germany voluntarily. and he told me that it was he had left voluntarily it was appalling to hear something like that it was yes so we were angry but yes we we knew that we are fighting for a right cause a just cause marcella soon learned that she wasn't alone and joined forces with a lobby group that helps hundreds of people who've been turned down in january the group brought the debate to the bundestag felix couch men and his new wife isabelle from london founded the group 2 years ago they want to see a new more general law to prevent exclusions from article 116 this time the motion was barely rejected. the majority in par

to anger in brazil of a president diables noddles handling of the covert 19 crisis generations to. come should change. the u.s. mobilization of military resources to fight coronavirus is overshadowed by donald trump's controversial comments about china. more than 200000 people have been infected by the corona virus globally but there is cause for hope in china it is reporting no new local cases for the 1st time since operate began in december rwanda who by a province which has seen 3130 deaths has 0 new local infections all of the new cases 34 of them involve people arriving in the country. it was yellow eventually we are delighted to see this double 0 increase this means today we've seen the dawn after so many days of hard efforts it also means a control measures and medical treatment methods have been booking but he well but things have this. harry races in europe the current epicenter of the pandemic it leave recorded 475 deaths on wednesday that's the highest number of fatalities on a single day for any nation since the outbreak began in china in the u.s. president donald trump

so there is a bit of a divide going on in brazil. you spoke about the economy there. might now be losing theirjobs if businesses are told to stay shut? there have been lots of announcements. informal workers, the informal economy, it accounts for about a0% of the economy by some estimates. that is a huge worry, people who are now jobless that is a huge worry, people who are nowjobless and have been left go. so for independent workers, we talking street offenders, they have been given about $a0 to help them. so we are still talking about low numbers compared to other parts of the world like the uk. -- other parts of the world like the uk. —— street vendors. that is one of the biggest concerns, how long will this go on? i mean, they're quarantining here, this sort of semi— lockdown, has already started. but the numbers we are singing in europe are not here yet. so how long will people be happy to be in lockdown if they are not seeing any changes or if they are not seeing any serious concerns? there is an argument that being in quarantine for a long time will also frustr

the contents of their kitchen cupboard are typical for poor families in brazil.all of these murdock's have a high sugar content as people have adopted this diet year that's what they eat instead of proper meals. but these products are not only unhealthy they're actually comparatively expensive business some car. despite their dirt cheap ingredients sugar salt fat and carbs. but in the fabulous there are few alternatives big supermarkets that stock fruit and vegetables or a long way away small neighborhood stores like this one don't sell much fresh produce. 25 percent of food consumed in brazil is industrially processed. unhealthy fast food is a global problem and not one restricted to developing countries today 641000000 people on the planet are overweight by 6 fold increase in the last 40 years. i'm not talking to you are not the whole man she's a nutritionist and a nutrition scientist here at the very end shot 81 of wonder steam and what are the biggest misconceptions concerning your tradition of the new life most families tend to underestimate the amount of su

anchor: brazil gloated -- closing its land border for 15 days.ou will have seen this picture. which i will hopefully be able to sho you. it's a statue of real dinero christ the redeemer, lit up with those grappling with the pandemic. you may have also seen and heard this. fore two -- for twos, nig people have been banging pots and protest. they are angry at president also narrow's and -- president bolsanaro's handling of the pandemic. he previously called it a fantasy. what are these protests all about? reporter: these protests are just the anger feel about the way bolsonaro handled the crisis so far. you may have heard if you days ago, there wereuge marches in pport o hf bolsonaro and against congress. they were planned for a while. he said we need to call them off because of the hlth of brazil. but people still cameut. he came out, shook hands, took selfies. he has been giving press conferences, updating people about the severity of coronavirus in brazil. he has tried tjustify exactly y he went out, saying it was for the people ofop brazil, and

still ahead on al jazeera the desperate search for survivors has mudslides hit brazil. hello there the severe thunderstorms not quite out of the makes yet across southern sections of the united states because tuesday was the worst day you can see again gathering the whole this cloud showing up on the satellite and of course the damage was done really very widespread across nashville on a choose that the morning not it's not clear yet just how many tornadoes there were but that will become clear really by the end of the way of the national weather service and national hours literally assessing all the damage but just look at this just as a widespread businesses and homes were demolished now there's more of these severe storms as a developing very heavy amounts of rain that are widespread to flash flood warnings across much of the south it's a slow moving system is forming on some very saturated ground which is why we could have this flash flooding elsewhere a relatively quiet picture we have some snow maybe the upper midwest across towards the great lakes another system

in the desperate search for survivors as mudslides hit brazil. hello the winds are set to increase across northern sections of the middle east now in the south like you can see it's a fairly clear picture we've got a bit of a cloud system working its way into western turkey and also another taking rain and snow across much of pakistan but really it between those 2 areas and it's mostly clear and dry the way does not see about the been fairly brisk so the last few days 26 ounces the high in 25 across in riyadh but things are set to change by friday some very strong winds in the forecast though really funnel their way through northern sections of africa through the eastern end of the med and push right away across these northern sections of saudi and also these more southern and central areas of iraq so we could well see some dust and sand storms pretty strong at times rain showers as well through the eastern med so probably a damned end to the week for jerusalem damascus beirut 18 degrees celsius with their showers and widely scattered showers as