we appreciate it, john nichols. thank you very much. indeed. thank you. it's good to be with you. i think 4 people had died after a bus exploded in afghanistan. the 13 people were also injured in the last, the target of the vehicle carrying teachers from all but only university in background districts of pod one. no one has claimed responsibility in protests taking place in brazil against the government's handling of the corona virus. pandemic thousands calling for the impeachment of president john. both sonata is widely criticized repeatedly downplaying. the risk of covered 19 and is being investigated by a senate commission. the opposition party that called for demonstrations is asking process just to show up at the rallies. we must one agree and i can't joining us live from a real vision near to just talk us through what's happening. first of all, what are the crowds like the well, many people more than one what it said, because some of them were, were registered and coming because they've been criticizing both out of for long for having dad trying to buy for not wearing a map

powers to news releases and other regional partners to work toward sustained calm some thought and john nichols national affairs correspondent at the progress of magazine the nation he says pressure is mounting on the u.s. president to distance himself from his israeli counterparts. i think that the by ministration had hoped to stand back from a lot of middle east issues and focus more on domestic policy and what has developed in israel and palestine over the last 10 days or so has forced this administration to adjust to teach 8 what's going on there much more seriously it's not that they they weren't concerned but right now this one and center issue the president's initial spawn's which was to express a great deal of solidarity with israel not to mention palestine this was a couple days ago was very controversial in the u.s. and drew a lot of criticism from his fellow democrats in so use some evolution in it to mention the circumstance of the palestinians but there is still a lot of division bernie sanders who was president biden's cheap democratic opponent for the nomination in 2020 wrote an

in gaza city and there from the advocacy group a muslim advocacy group council let's speak to john nichols about this his the passionate affairs correspondent at the progressive magazine the nation and he's the author of the fight for the soul of the democratic party and is joining us via skype from madison in wisconsin very good to have you with us mr nichols on al-jazeera so criticism there from muslim groups in the u.s. what do you make of the way the biden administration has responded to this latest escalation in the conflict everyone of course thought that he would be better and he would do better than trump on this tony issue with the years of experience has had but he's struggled to respond why is that you think. i think you're right i think that the by administration had hoped to stand back from a lot of middle east issues and focus more on domestic policy and what has developed and israel and palestine over the last 10 days or so has forced this administration to adjust to change what's going on there much more seriously it's not that they they weren't concerned but now this one i

while john nichols is the national affairs correspondent at the nation and he believes there will be another vote on the bill at a later time. well, there will be other investigation. there's simply no question that there will be committee investigations in the house. there are legal investigations by different law enforcement or organizations around the country. historically, in the united states, we have had a traumatic event. there has been a bipartisan inquiry by commission, usually made up a very prominent senior, former officials. we had something like that after. ready the september 11th attack in 2001. and if you go back to history, you'll see similar commission again and again. and again. this is a unique circumstance to have something as dramatic as what happened on january sick, not lead to a bipartisan commission. so in that sense, well, which mcconnell's, right in the narrowest of description, what's going on is really wrong in any sort of historical perspective of how america, as traditionally dealt with events like this, there is a sincere desire to get to the heart of

john avalos. we got you on mute, ramses. >> oh, great. thank you for pointing that out. i'm here now. hi. my name is ramses nichols [inaudible] and i'm going to start off with a bit of an overview over the past decade as we found ourselves more involved in the nonprofit industry and the public services there and the many thousands of workers who are part of this in san francisco every day. we continue to believe that the best advocacy on workers in this city are those providing the services on the frontline. there are thousands of folks working in the field providing services to everybody in san francisco, and through the first decade, money of us got involved in the first recession in 2008, fighting back budget cuts to the services but we felt it strongly to remain as much as possible. and then also fighting any cuts to the job. a lot of people, including myself, i thought shoot, i'm going to get cut, too. it was difficult times, and we knew it, and it became a time when we really organized with nonprofits around the city. moving after that recession, you know, as you've heard from some of our h.s.n. leaders, we

john avalos. we got you on mute, ramses. >> oh, great. thank you for pointing that out. i'm here now. hi. my name is ramses nichols [inaudible] and i'm going to start off with a bit of an overview over the past decade as we found ourselves more involved in the nonprofit industry and the public services there and the many thousands of workers who are part of this in san francisco every day. we continue to believe that the best advocacy on workers in this city are those providing the services on the frontline. there are thousands of folks working in the field providing services to everybody in san francisco, and through the first decade, money of us got involved in the first recession in 2008, fighting back budget cuts to the services but we felt it strongly to remain as much as possible. and then also fighting any cuts to the job. a lot of people, including myself, i thought shoot, i'm going to get cut, too. it was difficult times, and we knew it, and it became a time when we really organized with nonprofits around the city. moving after that recession, you know, as you've heard from some of our h.s.n. leaders, we