they don't want to it's extremely significant expression for a country that brazil brazil is very much a federal country it's not like in the united states where states' rights have a substantial importance in brazil it's federal and that goes back to the well before the dictatorship of the 1960 s. and seventy's so the fact that the state governors are actually standing up to the president saying no we're actually going to keep our quarantine it's huge at the same time we're also seeing some weakening in that in the state that i mean something that ina the state governor said as of last week that he wanted the quarantine lifted this week so he obviously was getting pushed bible so a lot of their allies there from the same party and so he was feeling the pressure from above but he still had to push off a little bit more it's still under quarantine at this moment we don't know how long and so everything it's touch and go it's day by day but obviously definitely this revolt from the state governors huge we know that the differences between the rich the poor are staggering in brazil but he

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 bradford and do some 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 of. her 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 crime these operations have made brazil the won't leader in police violence against the black population. supersede for vam will always be paul black for valid people tell never see is any other way. that he should walk in front of them we're all criminals people stare at us because of our hair because of our we live with their prejudices but it's tough because they've got the power and will always be a minority community. and . and. 130 years after the abolition of slavery africa brazilians are still by far the country's poorest community 2nd class citizens in a world divided along color lines. think it's very important for

across brazil coronavirus victims of being buried and young people are among the dead. these scenes have sparked protests president sitting banging pans in anger and. he eventually backtracked even as we have a mission to save lives think without threatening jobs we have to focus on both the virus and the economy. in an apparent also narrowed now wants to fight the virus but too late to prevent him losing many supporters who now see him as irresponsible. and for more now we're joined from rio de janeiro by the correspondent who filed that report months he is a bird once he has it's good to have you on the show it looks like bill sonar is the way i asked man standing when it comes to leaders denying the severity of this crisis do we know where he's getting his information from and why he continues to just blow off the warnings. in the last week there was one wing of government more in to ensure on him so this was the wing of religious groups and off science deniers they recommended to both narrowed to take this risk of the corona virus not serious enough and now since ac

in brazil in this sensitive time since brazil didn't reach the peak yet with 30000 infected and confirmed cases and around 2000 deaths at the same time there is a lot of thirds maybe all the team that was with the former president for the former minister enrique meant that me also all beauty moved all or maybe. they maybe they were his night and resigned as sorry and they will not can continue with the new minister and me if this was cleared yesterday in the last press conference that was done and then as that and at the same time this may in may not be acceptable for all for most of the politics and the politicians here in brazil especially after the announcement of the president of the congress and the president of the scene 18 in brazil that they said that this decision may not be positive at all in this time here in brazil so we don't know how things were goal in the coming days but we will see how the new minister will treat of this crisis of infection here in brazil or for corona virus or that's a picture in sao paolo brazil some thank you very much let's move on to the united kingd

time in this age of the coronavirus i'm recording it from my home on today show we'll discuss how brazil is handling or mishandling the crisis under its controversial president an hour i'll speak to one of the most high profile critics in the brazilian congress but 1st it's official because it to be believed at least 6 people die every hour in iran that 19 the. disease caused by the corona virus which is ravage the islamic republic and made it one of the world's epicenter for the worst pandemic about life time with more than $3000.00 iranians dead so far how much is the iranian government's response to the crisis to blame for the death toll and how much is the fault of u.s. economic sanctions joining me now to discuss this from terror is this week's headliner sayid mohammad marandi one of the country's most prominent political analysts and a professor at the university of tehran mohammad marandi thank you for joining me on up from thank you for having me you live in terror and you've watched this crisis unfold over the last few months how bad is the situation there right now on the groun

briefly well right now thankfully brazil that is not the brazilian policy what we have in brazil is a very strong health care system it's a universal health care system that is cross the country ever has access to and thankfully up until now the health ministry has been quarantining it has been pushing social restriction measures so that's extremely important but at the same time that universal health care system is not spread equally around the country so that means that you have places like in the northern amazon where we've got spikes in the disease right now death rates are growing and those ice use they're they're maxed out in bear in several other states that's a major major issue really complicated we're going to see what happens come tearing journalist michael fox thanks for that what do you drinking vodka driving tractors and going to the sauna all have in common you may ask well they're just some of the things belorussian president alexander lukashenko has recommended his country's citizens do to protect themselves against the coronavirus corn teen and social distance and ha

this is if he give you news live from berlin fears grow that brazil could become a new coronavirus hotspot doctors are warning the health system is on the brink of collapse and there's political turmoil too as the popular justice minister resigns also coming up as much of the world remains in the lock down to prevent the spread of the coronavirus it's business as usual in belarus the country's leader calls concerns about the pandemic psychosis. nick spicer welcome to the program. brazil's health care system is on the verge of collapse say administrators many clinics are already overwhelmed by corona virus cases there are fears that brazil could become one of the world's pandemic hotspots despite the warnings of his health officials president gyre bolsa narrow maintains it's a relatively minor disease he's also facing a fresh blow to his political authority both sonars justice minister resigned after the president fired a top police official. noisy protests rang out across brazil on friday dragging out the president's televised address to the nation. shy of all sanaa grow defended his sacki

briefly well right now thankfully brazil that is not the brazilian policy what 'd we have in brazil is a very strong health care system it's a universal health care system that is cross the country ever has access to and thankfully up until now the health ministry has been quarantining it has been pushing social restriction measures so that's extremely important but at the same time that universal health care system is not spread equally around the country so that means that you have places like in the northern amazon where we've got spikes in the disease right now death rates are growing and those ice use they're there maxed out and they're in several other states so it's a major major issue really complicated we're going to see what happens come tearing journalist michael fox thanks for that. let's take a look now at some of the other developments in the 10 that make the global death toll is now more than 200000 according to figures from johns hopkins university more than a quarter of all deaths have occurred in the united states which has the world's highest number of cases deaths i

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 government leaving him even more isolated there are calls from all quarters start with former president ferdinand that he got of those will that he should simply resigned and all the vice-president. modelled to take over i know there's already been talk potential talk of impeachment how likely is that. that the impeachment is a complicated route because even the president is removed according to the constitution before he serves half of this storm we have to have a new election to pick a successor in that case the vice president does not become the president there are political interests that that is so for instance the party of former president who is in not to love a supernova could be interested in having new elections but it looks like we are going to go to a different and alter on all turn out to brought to either extend this until early next

we don't want to negotiate we want action to be taken for brazil. the old way of doing things is behind us a new brazil lies ahead everyone without exception must be patriotic and believe and do their part so that we can give brazil the prominence it deserves the age of disrespectful behavior is over power to the people. on a sonder on petty has more now from bogota in neighboring colombia. remember that brazil remains the epicenter of the pandemic in latin america with the very dramatic nonvoters of more than 38000 confirmed cases almost 2500 people that have died already in brazil yet the president both so narrow he insists on going his way he is insisting on wanting to reopen the country this pipe what 'd. meaning of health was stabbing them so much so that he decided to sack him just a few days ago and now today on sunday he showed up at a rally in the capital brasilia where dozen. 100 or more people were there holding signs asking for a military intervention to reopen the country now remember that it is unconstitutional actually to hold demonst

across brazil coronavirus victims of being buried and young people are among the dead. these scenes have sparked protests presidents have been banging pans in anger at a whole scenario he eventually backtracked on is we have a mission to save lives think without threatening jobs we have to focus on both the virus and the economy. in an apparent huge turn also narrowed now wants to fight the virus but too late to prevent him losing many supporters who now see him as irresponsible. for more on this we're joined now from rio de janeiro by the correspondent who filed that report material but is do we know where both sonora has been getting his information from and why he brushed off warnings for so long. as we see there are 2 major wings inside his own government and in the last weeks the predominant wing why are the signs deniers the religious groups who advised him to talk in the way we saw in the report but on tuesday this changed the wing of the military's and the science friendly groups inside his government told him to lower his wards and to not anymore. talk against

we don't want to negotiate we want action to be taken for brazil. the old way of doing things is behind us a new brazil lies ahead everyone without exception must be patriotic and believe and do their part so that we can give brazil the prominence it deserves the age of disrespectful behavior is over power to the people. and what's a picture across the continent as a whole is unfair we saw a pretty grim scene in ecuador yesterday. absolutely they have slipped away sion and why. why the. largest city have been terrible for days now that's the hot spots in all of latin america where the health system has completely been overwhelmed by the number of cases by the number of deaths the government is not sure of how many people have actually died due to the corona virus there are only 420 confirmed cases that the government thinks that there are thousands more in the city of why you feel there have been $5600.00 more data than the average of this month so they're going to have to find out how many actually died of a corona virus but they fear it's going to

brazil's health ministry is fired after a series of remarks contradict the president and are as dumb playing are. hungry and exhausted hundreds of revenge or are rescued but rather starve to death on a regime change. so that president donald trump has outlined guidelines to reopen the u.s. economy ravaged by the coronavirus and job losses swelled towards levels of the great depression of the $930.00 s. and the death toll climbs above 30 $3000.00 but he's leaving it up to state governments to decide when to lift restrictions backing down from earlier claims that lifting lockdowns across the country would be his sole decision we took the greatest economy. in the history of the world and we closed it in order to win this war and we're in the process of winning it now our approach outlines 3 phases in restoring our economic life we are not opening all at once but one careful step at a time and some states will be able to open up sooner than others some states are not in the kind of trouble that others are in but they're from our white house correspondent kelly how could he says that the

we don't want to negotiate we want action to be taken for brazil. the old way of doing things is behind us a new brazil lies ahead everyone without exception must be patriotic and believe and do their part so that we can give brazil the prominence it deserves the age of disrespectful behavior is over power to the people. let's bring in john holman he's keeping track of developments right across that joins us from the mexican capital so i'm sure you saw there the clip we just ran of. the latest public performance by both how's that going down with people. it's been going down quite badly especially among those 3rd been worried about him and his reaction to coronavirus i'm critical of him for some time and that now includes the head of the lower house of congress next president's ex mez governors all of whom disagree with him he's actually kicked on from what he was saying at that rally yesterday let me just mention as well that that rally was held outside of the headquarters of brazil's army and the symbol of the symbolism of that is not going to is

brent: almost 7000 people in brazil are infected. that includes the first coronavirus cases among brazil's indigenous population. the president is under fire for his handling of the crisis. he referred to covid-19 as a measly cold. >> it was a deliberate provocation by president bolsonaro, visiting a supermarket, surrounded by shoppers right in the middle of the coronavirus crisis. he himself may be infected with the virus. this is why he chose to mingle all the same. >> shohod i have t the cororonavirus, as a former athte dodon't need to worry.. i wouldn't notice anything. at t the most, a touch of the fu or a cold. our families s must be able to feed themselves. that's why we should now all be returning to normal. >> people in rio de janeiro's biggest shantytown took their president at his word. after days of isolation, residents went back to work, shrugging off the dangers of the virus. the local mayor fears he may soon be dealing with an epidemic. >> it will be a disaster. we have already been fighting tuberculosis outbreak. resi

we don't want to negotiate we want action to be taken for brazil. the old way of doing things is behind us a new brazil lies ahead everyone without exception must be patriotic and believe and do their part so that we can give brazil the prominence it deserves the age of disrespectful behavior is over power to the people. u.s. crude oil prices have fallen to a fresh multi-year low with lock downs and travel restrictions sharply reducing global demand the u.s. benchmark dropped below $15.00 a barrel that's its lowest level in more than 2 decades this is despite a deal to slash output by major producers. 16 people have been killed in a mass shooting in the remote part of eastern canada and he say the 15151 year old male. a series of attacks in the small coastal town of port to peak in nova scotia this report. say this was the most horrifying crime scene in this quiet part of canada just before midnight saturday a gunman was reported in puerto pick a remote seaside village where the suspect 51 year old gabriel borkman owned property for the next 12 hour

news live from berlin fears are growing that brazil could become a new coronavirus hotspot doctors are warning the health system there is on the brink of collapse and this for the political turmoil too is the popular anti corruption justice minister resigned. also coming up the u.s. president almost from is on the defensive officer jesting that injecting this in fact it could be a treatment against coronavirus now from says he was being sarcastic. and muslims around the world begin marking the holy month of ramadan and unprecedented restrictions we go to egypt to see how people are managing to celebrate and pray together while still following the rules. as welcome to the program brazil's health care system is on the verge of collapse according to its own manages many clinics there are already too overwhelmed by coronavirus cases to take in any new patients more than 53000 people have contract to cope with 19 in brazil fears it could become one of the world's pandemic hotspots president joe you're both in our oath still maintains it's a relatively minor disease. also now is also facing

brazil's president. has backed protesters calling for military intervention as the standoff continues with state governments over how to highlight the pandemic is repeatedly undermined efforts to contain the spread of the virus calling for the economy to be reopened. at least 16 people have been killed in a mass shooting in the coastal town of port of people in the kind of business scotia 51 year old male suspect. heavy floods in kenya have killed at least 4 people and left 28 missing thank you police officers who were on a rescue mission in the west pocket region more but miami has this. rivers of mud sweeping through villages in the west of kenya. in the past marketplaces a police station and schools. in the west pocket days of heavy rains look as possible from the debris left behind. many areas still waiting for official rescue teams to arrive at the 1st outlook which i do i just because we ran to the other side of the ridge and that's when we saw the floodwaters came down in a big wave destroyed this

brazil's president. has fired his health minister luis and they came under a clash with boss narrow for weeks over how to handle the corona virus outbreak the president has repeatedly downplayed the risk of call that 19 calling it a little flu brazil has latin america's worst outbreak with nearly 2000 reported deaths. it is in sao paulo with more. presidency was not a decided to any movement that are from his position and this is because of the disagreements between the president and the man death especially about socialization and quite entirely and here in brazil since the brazilian president labels are not a wants to return to life the normal life here in brazil he wants and support that idea of vertical isolation another has until as a lation he think that elderly only and the people that they are in danger must stay at home at home must be isolated but all the other people must return to work normally here in brazil and this was the main issue that the former minister recently came on that i didn't

turmoil at the top in brazil a president already under scrutiny for his handling of the pandemic loses a popular politician. and illustrating how to get the message across we need artists highlighting the dangers of covert 1001 of the world's most crowded places . so the original heart of the battle against great a virus is marking a significant breakthrough just over 3 months ago china reported its 1st death from the illness now it says it's gone 10 days in a row without any fatalities the government in beijing says it's detecting mostly imported cases and almost no local transmission of the virus out of 12 new cases reported on saturday 11 were brought in from overseas despite a ban on foreign nationals imposed late last month that has been a continuous trickle of cases in chinese nationals returning home at let's join sarah clarke in hong kong and sarah said pretty much all of the very few cases that we're seeing it coming in from the outside. well the main placer the main focus now where china's looking at is the north of the country this is an area a province that borders russia k

always said about the strategies that brazil and all the countries must obey he. still ahead on out as they're racing to meet demand kenya stepped up month production after the government introduces tough rules to cap the spread the qur'an environment. and a delicate and dangerous stage in a pandemic the u.k. says lockdown measures must. looks like spain and portugal are not going to enjoy the weekend again they say a spinning area of low pressure around which all the clarity is going those front strips through spain or into from that particular area will be where there could be significant some thunderstorms to create fronts but rain seems like in portugal and spain. and there's something in britain now ahead of utah where you can imagine you drawing up what it was for the south and that's generally speaking so whilst this is a gradual change to cloudy or cooler weather maybe for example madrid at 19 you go easily in the twenty's in this part of europe in central europe if you like with the hot maybe and hungry slovenia that sort of area as an example of pianos 1

banner displays, call return tosk -- brazil's military regime.tional act number five was an autocratic decree which plunged brazil intnto the darket years of its dictatorship. on the others of rio, students hang a banner, and did not dashed announcing the gravity of returning to that period. -- announcing the gravity of returning to that period. the cabinet minister and one of the president's sons said that a new measure similar to that degree could be adopted today if necessary. act number five paved the way for torture and political persecutions. u understand,d,oo that the moment is critical. governmenthat the wants, and people don't realize. think ofhings make us a return to this period in our country, because they were democratically elected and they openly referred to this period. >> lucas and his colleagues took to the streets several times this year, like at this demonstration in june. universities have been hit with budget c cuts and have become hotbeds of resistance to jair bolsonaro's politics. on this evening, studedents protest agains

this is day w newsline from the brazil's political turmoil de pens a powerful and popular justice minister who was the face of the nation's anticorruption crackdown resigns so jim morris says there is no way he could ensure the independence of the police and the president both in are also coming up to us president trumps on the defensive after suggesting that injecting disinfectant could be a coronavirus treatment now trump says he was being sarcastic. and if the show really can't go on when maintenance tyner who's being forced to make through unix world famous october best for the 1st time in decades because of the coronavirus. i'm rebecca read his welcome to the program brazil's president john has been dealt a fresh blow to his political authority as justice minister has resigned accusing him of meddling with the police. has played down the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic there are fish brazil could become the new epi center officials in major cities warn hospitals are overwhelmed and at risk of collapse the president may while is facing a swell of public anger. i was. noisy protests

matheson this is on his ear a live from doha also coming up ignoring coronavirus measures brazil's president takes to the streets mingling with people and disregarding social distancing measures. we visit a live wild animal market in indonesia once popular now they're under scrutiny after the virus was linked to one in china. a blow to the fight against on the groups in the sahara region chad announces plans to stop military operations outside the country. a glimmer of hope the corona virus infections may be starting to slow in some of the hardest hit countries the daily numbers of deaths in spain and italy have been coming down from more than a week but the world health organization says no one should be complacent agencies warning countries not to ease restrictions which have put half the world's population under control. i know that some countries are already planning the transition out of stay out homeless 3 questions w.h.o. wants to see distractions lifted as much as anyone i descend time lifting restrictions too quickly could lead to a deadly resurgence the way down can be as dangerous

again i'm the stones you're tayo and this is al jazeera live from also coming up calling it quits brazil's popular justice minister steps down accusing the president of criminal meddling and claims i am also married denies. protests inside a prison in argentina's capital inmates demand better protection from corona virus determined not to die in jail. and how the pandemic is forcing muslims around the world to change the way they celebrate the holy month of ramadan. now it's being hailed as a landmark collaboration weld leaders have pledged to speed up development of a coronavirus vaccine and ensure that everyone will have access to it as part of a wild health organization initiative but the united states with the death toll now over 50000 says it will not take part in that diplomatic had said james bays reports. it's just the place you would have expected in previous times to have seen u.s. leadership in a global crisis and world leaders coming together with a response not the idea of this event to coordinate the search for a vaccine testing and treatments for covert 19 and to make sure a

of brazil escape military dictatorships only 35 years ago. the next day the president seemed to make you turn . we don't need to close anything what are we have here is democracy and respect for their brazilian constitution but he still repeated his call for an end to quarantine measures in brazil by next week. john home i was eager. now a service is being held in sri lanka to remember those killed in a series of bomb attacks on easter sunday last year but it's only being attended by priests due to coronavirus lockdown rules suicide bombers targeted churches and luxury hotels last april killing at least $279.00 people and injuring $500.00 lanka's former police chief and defense minister have both been charged with murder and acting on intelligence about the bombings an elephant and his joins us live now from the sri lankan capital manila so it's been a year now since those easter sunday attacks just talk us through what's expected to happen today. today is all about remembering the dead even amid the sort of corona lockdown the facade of the

brazil's justice minister has suddenly quit using president. of criminal meddling in law enforcement said your morrow stepped down after boss narrow fide the federal police chief prime jing brazil's government further into disarray the president says the allegations are baseless reports that i mean you or your family is shot to fame fighting corruption but on friday morning set your mortal resigned as brazil's justice minister on live television he accused president jade also not know of political meddling in matters of law enforcement when he fired federal police chief . the day before his mission unfortunately there is no way for me to fulfill the commitment i made if i'm not able to do my job if i'm not able to preserve the autonomy of the federal police to carry out its work on something like i said to morrow is considered by many as a sort of anti-corruption crusader and a superstar among president joey bull so not as captain in 2014 more of a federal judge at the time was appointed to the biggest political corruption investigation in braz

it's a really complicated sort of picture with a lot of different factors you mentioned there brazil and what's happening in now and that it's the worst affected country in latin america i suppose you could say that there was very probably a correlation between the attitude of the country's president. who's basically said well simply percent of us are going to get it so let's just get on with things business as usual if you know elderly if you're not. get out on the streets to work and that country is the worst affected in the region but then you can take that with a small country in central america that if anything has lakhs of regulations with coronavirus to brazil they really didn't do a lot to sort of to stop the virus and it was always to boots mention it from the from the central government that they've reputed that they've only got 3 days and 11 cases now a lot of people are saying that there's political sorts of things behind that they're not reporting all of the cases that they're having that's another factor here not just because of political reasons but because of low test

having the ride to test for corona there are cases from indigenous people in brazil who who tried to get a test for corona for kobe 1000 that didn't succeed they had to travel 3 days in one direction 3 days back and then finally as we hear more than 20 indigenous people already died. now to the questions you've been sending us about the corona virus being so many our science editor has hardly left his home office for derek but i know the feeling i was talking 5 weeks straight here and there a sense of. how does covert 1000 kill is that the virus itself our patients i mean response. the virus attacks and kills cells obviously as it's replicating itself but in the course of this disease it often appears that your body is its own worst enemy when you are infected with covert 19 it triggers a new response in your body that manifests symptoms like fever or die or really they're meant to contain sars cove to try to stop it from making more of itself while while these killer cells in your immune system sort of sweep the virus up and in about 4 out of 5 patients who have symptoms everything

and brazil escape military dictatorships only 35 years ago. the next day the president seemed to make u. turn. we don't need to close anything what are we have here is democracy and respect for their brazilian constitution but he still repeated his call for an end to quarantine measures in brazil by next week. john home and i was dizzy to. south korea's yonhap news agency says the government in seoul thinks kim jong il is not seriously ill the clarification follows u.s. media reports that suggested that the north korean leader was in grave danger after surgery speculation about his health has been growing since kim missed the birth anniversary of the founder of north korea kim il sung earlier this month a service is being held in sri lanka to remember those killed in a series of bomb attacks on easter sunday last year but it's only being attended by priests due to coronavirus lockdowns suicide bombers targeted churches and luxury hotels last april killing at least $279.00 people and injuring $500.00 others a former police chief and defense min

brazil's indigenous peoples are afraid this tribe and minister ice station is worried that the corona virus could soon spread to them. that we are asking for help because we indigenous peoples are neglected by the state we are afraid that we will starve because nobody knows how long the corona crisis will last. for a lot of use. there's hardly any intact rain forest left to flee to so this tribe is forced to tough it out it's a very different story further north in the amazon basin here many native communities are taking control of their own destiny by shutting off their reservations and putting up barriers against intruders and against the virus experts believe the virus poses more of a threat to indigenous people than other communities. because someone to myself we know that indigenous people get sick faster. develop more severe symptoms and are much more likely to die from it or he's gone why are you more to. their immune systems are more susceptible to viruses of all kinds this is why some of the tribes have even withdrawn into the jungle just like the hour wa seen here in picture

the president in brazil he's a superstar some coronavirus was very has been very last 8 days basically said 70 percent of us are going to get it so let's just get all the get out to work just leave the elderly and the sick at home and john as you say the west affected country in the region is still in brazil what's. being down now. i think there's been a real discrepancy in desire between what the president also not of has been preaching which is we've just talked about he wants people out he's really concerned about the economy and then what state governors and local municipal authorities of many of the states especially the big ones like south janeiro brazil has 2 biggest cities which has been trying to stay in as much as possible so there's a real sense of back to work there. between the president and the state governors but in parts of the country as you mention this specially right now and now start something that everyone's looking at that city in the amazonian region in which we've seen video over the last week from the hospital where they've had life patients by the side of tha

and brazil's health minister is fired over his handling of the coronavirus price. so join his crate of eyes crisis has tipped its economy into sharp decline quarterly gross domestic product figures showed that demand for its goods and services has plummeted by 6.8 percent in raises yet more pressure on beijing to prop up growth and made mounting job losses in 40 exports in the world's 2nd largest economy let's go straightaway to beijing correspondent katrina you're standing by for us they could train almost 7 percent these are extremely serious figures. that's right this is a historic plunge this is the biggest contraction we've seen for the 1st quarter growth in china since records began and it's not entirely surprising it is especially due to this corona virus pandemic now china's economy was already slowing last year was it slowed to its slowest growth since the 1970 s. now this has really this pandemic has really brought the country to a standstill for almost 2 months china's manufacturing activity was halted people stayed indoors consumption was was down and r

nation of brazil escaped military dictatorships only 35 years ago. the next day the president seemed to make you to argue that isn't to say we don't need to close in what we have here is democracy and respect for the brazilian constitution but he still repeated his call for an end to quarantine measures in brazil by next week. on home and i was dizzy to. bring you more now on that breaking news president donald trump's plans to sign an executive order temporarily halting immigration to the united states this was his tweet. just come out in the past 10 minutes or so the lot of the attack from the invisible enemy and the need to protect jobs of great american citizens he plans to sign this executive order we can go live now to john hendren who is standing by for us in chicago john other countries have closed borders to non-nationals because of coronavirus but suspending immigration i mean how significant a development is that. i believe we have some technical difficulties getting in touch with john there we will try and connect with have again and brin

and brazil's president abel sonority joined crowds at a public rally in brasilia sunday and criticised coronavirus stopped on measures imposed by state governments brazil has the highest number of infections and less in america but also are has downplayed the threat and urged and reopening of the economy. u.s. oil prices have seen their biggest drop in more than 2 decades they fell by as much as 20 percent during trading on asian markets just last week the world's biggest oil producers came to an agreement to slash oil output but that hasn't solved the industry's problems. it's exactly a decade since the deepwater horizon oil spill brought catastrophe to seize off the united states now a very different challenge has washed up on u.s.