speak to brendan o'connor bought this his associate professor in american politics at the university of sydney's united states studies center is my skype from sydney very good to have you with us on al-jazeera 1st of all help us understand this year does the justice department and attorney general bill barr actually have the authority to fire jeffrey berman. probably in no crisis he would but there was an unusual appointment of jeffrey berman by the judges in fact all the southern district of new york which is basically a man action settlement signing that attorney general william but doesn't have the authority ace kind of standing in my eyes standing his ground and arguing that or i'm the guy once the senate appoint someone now then to suggest that a person to replace. someone with no experience as a prosecutor and given that this investigation will mentioned in both great lake and some in their own company worried about it just isn't the political climate that it might not have otherwise very important area for each and that he said again rudy giuliani and claims about what the trump and i and

lawyer rudy giuliani brendan o'connor is associate professor in american politics at the university of sydney's united study it's united states studies center he says it seems the attorney general may be trying to appease president. it looks like he has what some people describe as an audience of one placing the princes and as a way of keeping your job in the white house we've seen that with my sick tree and stuff i was in the company ministration people the well with donald trump such as jim kelly his former chief of jobs being sacked and then on. really pushing the boundaries of nice and separate. balances and undermine me and pretty significant played by the spending for him in this i think this will highlight again in the say well what's going on and this is just the problem the new 20 generals very having us just in from the pregnant attorney general in the top of jack head of special prosecutor. and a friend of. you know somebody said here i know you can imagine just the area where you can buy from i think trump is going to buy it was getting rid of a number of papal though i. think pesky

to thomas newsome he's an electret in the school of life and environmental sciences at the university of sydney he says the wild now has an opportunity to make more dramatic changes after the pandemic. the reduction is with saying in the areas where we really need to make massive changes so the reductions are related to. transport and other things that really link dr david i live but the hasn't being a major shift in the way energy is produced in the use of fossil fuels and so that the things that we really need to target to get a large scale and saying and long term reduction in c o 2 emissions where they are is sort of an opportunity by is that the pandemic has created an economic problem globally and in response to that there are stimulus packages being announced in a stray lia or throughout europe in the billions and trillions of dollars and the opportunity here is to use those simulate packages to essentially have a green revolution to tackle climate change because it is probably a greater threat than the pandemic that we're placing today so all of those stimulus packages could be highligh

speak to thomas newsome his electorate in the school of life and environmental sciences at the university of sydney and he joins me now on skype from sydney thomas people have been pointing to this truck on emissions and sees lock downs were imposed is perhaps the only upside to this pandemic but as we're saying it is set to be short lived and simply isn't enough is it can you give us a check in here just how does where we're at right now compared to where we actually need to be. well while we're seeing a slight up and very short term draw some of the estimates about 17 percent per day and some of the other estimates annually might be as much as the 4 percent or 7 percent drop over 2020 we've seen c o 2 emissions rise dramatically since the $990.00 s. about $340.00 parts per $1000000.00 to $1.00 of the $410.00 parts per 1000000 and the recent study that just came out has indicated that we're still at the highest levels even looking at records over something like 23000000 years so these these the crimes that we're seeing while they are a sign of the fact that we can make changes and reduce them ther

now by pasi sahlberg professor of education policy at the gonski institute at the university of new south wales in sydney australia the facts are south park welcome to the program you've described this time as the biggest educational experiment in history what did you mean by the us well never before used. almost all those. moves for several weeks. we had one point. learning. when the schools were closed so this is one part of the experience and the other one almost was these rooms around the world have never experienced so it's going to repeat suit in the record we were as of last replaced. into on any of these $22.00 areas possibly it's very. interesting. you've written that kids returning to school may need more breaks more time to play than they had before why do you say the us. well one thing is that the 5 points you want to play. your interest in school based around the world has really reduced over the last 20 years and there was a time when the human eye returning to school to the resource that was actually the friends. of the several weeks of not being over that the parents the other thing is si

now by pasi sahlberg professor of education policy at the gonski institution of the university of new south wales in sydney australia professor solve the program you've described this time as the biggest educational experiment in history what did you mean by the us well never before in the. almost all those rooms in the world most for several weeks. we had about 1500000000 learning home when the schools were closed so he says one part of the experience and the other one almost was these things around the world experience so it's going to repeat a suit in the way of work as of last week a speech in. any of these $22.00 areas also be very. interesting. you've written that kids returning to school may need more breaks more time to play than they had before why do you say the us. well one thing is that the 5 also going to play i bought themselves roots in a new school based around the world really reduced over the last 20 years and that was a time when the human eye returning to school to the resource of us back to the friends . of the several weeks of being over the parents the other thing is simple a medical

see what happens in the coming days david vaile joining us from the university of south wales thanks so much for joining us from sydney i think. still ahead here on al-jazeera we hear from current virus vive in the democratic republic of congo who say they've been ostracized and. some of the system could you know look at us as individuals and we do have lives you know. months before rashard brooks was shot by us police here pulled up about his struggles with the justice system those stories after the break. but. no sign of any rain in the forecast across the middle east large city hot and dry it's been a little dusty recently with lifted dust in the sands quite brisk winds but those winds will ease around the gulf as we go on through friday and saturday temperatures around 44 celsius here in doha on friday in places say it's a little colder a little more comfortable as we go on through the way canada 43 on saturday putting it temperatures into the high thirty's by sunday more hot sunshine for all that be a few showers having said that into that eastern side of turkey fish hours to into the highlands there tended to dr

says it and i speak to david vaile about this is a cyber law expert at the university of new south wales his eyes from sydney thank you so much for being with us david so what do you make of this decision by facebook to add labels will these new changes address the issues that they face or is it too little too late. look i think it's the latter i think it's too little too late in a sense by labeling it what they're trying to do is to make it everybody else's problem facebook's basic model is to intensively survive everyone and all of the content and really scan that so that they can maximize ad revenue anything else is irrelevant and so here for a long time not been wanting to accept responsibility for any of the harms that gets caught on the platform whether it's individuals being sort of harassed or whether it's you know elections being spoiled and by just saying we're going to label this it really won't make much difference there's also a really big problem in their pretense or they climb that they're not really a news outlet they're not really a publisher that don't really have editorial they've clearly

epidemiology and health care information and infectious diseases control of the university of new south wales joins us now from sydney in australia welcome to the program this is a troubling. development and it follows 2 months of many infections in beijing and suddenly this happens would you go on to supposed to. yes sadly yes i mean the old thirty's like to give up elections good news because they know that they have locked down fatigue but this is commonplace in places where restrictions are being lifted now you do have to give china full credit for all of the hard work they've done to get the numbers. but it's not unexpected when we know them out to about 40 percent of people are either priest symptomatic or asymptomatic so if you test a couple of people and they test positive or a couple 100 that represents potentially more cases out there who are quite a well or they at least perceive themselves to be well and they go on to the whip marketplace and what markets are like shopping malls for us so it's not unusual to have a lot of exposure happening in places like that i mean it's very disappointing but the author