in fact, "ma raney's black bottom" does have to do with sexuality. for a while one of the other characters in the play is dussy may, and she is a young woman who is an opportunist, who has built a relationship with ma. and the play tells you -- the play intimates that it is of a sexual nature. so yes, dealing with that is a part of that as well. >> when i first began to do collages, i had no idea that i was going to develop such a simple set through my work, like the train, the serpent, the guitar. but these were all natural things that i saw -- i used a -- so these are the -- ♪ ♪ >> i used the train because so many of the lives of black people had to do with the train. so these are the elements of my environment. >> screen up. bring the african-american experience or bring the universal to the african-american experience. what is significant about bringing the universal to the african-american experience? what is significant to you about an attempt to bring the universal to the african-american experience? yes, sir? >> it makes it something that eve

raney, i'm curious about your reaction to dr. birx. it's clear she was pushing back on the firsthand account of what it's like dealing with this situation that they're dealing with. and she talked about the do not resuscitate orders. and she just thought -- she seemed to indicate that some of these medical professionals were overtalking, that they were overpanicking. what did you make of that, of that comment by dr. birx? >> i can't speak for every hospital in new york city, but i can tell you that anecdotally what i am hearing from physicians on the ground in new york in emergency departments and in intensive care units is that they are completely overwhelmed with patients. we can't say exactly what's going to happen here in the u.s. we can predict off of what's happened in italy. but what i'm hearing on the ground is different from the story she presented. >> when you heard her talk about the issue of ventilators, for instance, it seemed as if -- it's sort of two different conversations. we hear from folks on the ground in new york h

in the process of bringing different systems into iraq to protect american troops from a potential raney an attack off to 2 marines all killed in iraq during an obscene i saw for a show a. lot of my peers and could potentially run against the president if the public votes for a new changes in the russian constitution next month also ahead. fawaz riots and violence week sits in these prisons off the state strict response to the spread of the coronavirus. wonderful southern live from the russian capital this is often international for myself on the whole team here a very warm welcome to the program. jump in the u.s. is boosting its defensive capabilities in iraq the head of u.s. some true c'mon said this was in response to the threat posed to american troops by neighboring iran. we are also in the process of bringing air defense systems ballistic missile defense systems into iraq in particular to protect ourselves against about another potential iranian attack well just when many thought that tensions between the united states and the islamic republic of iran were starting to cool we have

must raney and colleagues have lost count of the number of hours they've spent treating patients in the intensive care unit. patients connected to ventilate those while lying on their stomachs the pressure makes it easier for oxygen to into the bloodstream at least that's what supposed to happen for people suffering from pneumonia but now the method isn't working and the doctors and nurses can't explain why. the problem. unfortunately we haven't seen anyone recover yet in this hospital. ideally we'd like to take some patients off the ventilators and see whether they get better. we need a successful case to know that we're doing the right thing. up until now mr rayney says 107 patients have already died in this unit of the hospital out of 854 people who were brought here. we've had several deaths and it's really wearing us down because we're thinking we're not in a position to do what we're here for treating patients so they get better by watching them die and inside we're dying to. the hospital in promoter has been taking in coronavirus patients since the beginning of the operation outs

succeed with a wrong saying that nothing is getting through bank transactions or humanitarian aid they raney and foreign ministry says it's an attempt to refute washington's claims that aid is not restricted by its sanctions regime we heard from middle east expert who told us trump's office to help a hypocritical increase a pauper. it's it's not forbidden it's it's medical supply our firm message caller i camps are not under the u.s. sanctions but in fact you have nor company nor foreign company sending since we run what is then reason is very simple because all these companies need the weather go ask permission to the united states if they can do this if they do. this for them to hear out and the one that they don't want to be subject to. 'd judiciary lied to i make it punishment so the best way to avoid these headaches as i may call it is just not to send any medicines to europe and not to do any transactions with iran you kill nuts you cannot transfer any kind of money in the way shape or form from iran to europe or the united states our vice a versa so this is just. expressed. to you and

value for themselves the shareholders and there's the ridiculous all right well thank you very much raney appreciate the time of our guest today the executive director of the economics and country risk life sciences practice at i.h.s. market from miami gerald apos now and then also here in london under a spice a joining us from the city university of london thank you very much gentleman and thank you as well for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting the website al-jazeera dot com and then the discussion and debate you can go to the facebook page that's facebook dot com 4th sash a.j. inside story and then of course as always twice a you can join the conversation there as well battle is at a.j. inside story from a maryam namazie and the teams here in london and in doubt i can. women in programming from international filmmakers. way out just the arrest sets the stage egypt of ethiopia will be the life of the lives the life of the ninety's dead everybody is there global ex-pats you get it we're going to let the planet go through it because we're not doing obvious things

in the process of bringing different systems into iraq to protect american troops from potential in raney an attack at all to 2 marines all killed in iraq during an obscene i saw for a should. lot of my peers and could potentially run again for president if the public votes for a new changes in the russian constitution next month also ahead. fawaz riots and violence week sits in these prisons off the state's strict response to the spread of the coronavirus.

while the red army was conquering large parts of solutia and polar raney in the east the americans british and canadian swim aching rather slow progress in the west their next big objective was the rhine river since the end of february u.s. forces had been fighting their way towards. the trying is that in the run was the big natural border in the west and fighting on its approaches or was heavy and washington's relatively current approach to the war in 1905 was one of the worst march for. you are sobbing in terms of casualties a lot of he was. on march the 5th when american units reached the suburbs of cologne the 3rd u.s. on the division and to through the western districts. to. the ordinary citizen of cologne has nothing to fear from the allied troops said leaflets that had been dropped over the city earlier. a day later as g.i.'s with fighting their way into the city center they encountered a young woman who had apparently got caught in a car between the lines. she was seriously injured but they were able to rescue. a few 100 meters away the americans and counted among german resistance

raney here with us. and what to you want to hear at this briefing today?> so, i'm going to be listening for a few things. the first is, hopefully, hearing the president and his team talk about work that they will hopefully be doing to both ramp up production of protective equipment and to distribute that and other needed supplies across the nation. >> doctor, let me interrupt you for a moment. we have the president. let's listen in. >> before we begin, i want to mention, we're working very hard, long on getting the young group of people out of peru. we've removed some, and the rest are being removed with the cooperation of the peruvian government. and we're also dealing with honduras and getting some people out that got caught up, and we are working on that very well, again, with the honduran government's work, working with us. so, i appreciate that. we have a couple of other locations that we'll report to you, and we were able to get a young woman released from a certain area who was being horribly accosted, horribly treated. and we spoke to general mille

white house correspondent kimberly how it came to have to be said the president touched all bases raney updating us that he's been speaking to a large proportion of the. corporate industry be at fast food c but sounding very upbeat about his response and his government's response. yeah he is but this is certainly a less donald trump although you're right he did certainly project optimism in terms of how this country will he hopes in the coming weeks and months rebound something that he said we're going to win faster than people think he seems to be looking at this now kind of in warlike terms that he yesterday called this an invisible enemy he made a reference to coronavirus being that invisible enemy again in this moments where he spoke to the press he's really once again identified this timeline 15 days as of yesterday now we're into the 14th day where this is the opportunity for the united states to stem the outbreak so that it doesn't reach the effort proportions being seen in italy right now so there's an acknowledgement by this president that this is critical of a much more somber