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President wilson arrow and its core base of supporters keep downplaying the effect of the pandemic across the country but now even the governments had to admit as it has. As it did yesterday that the real face of the pandemic might be much worse than what you fishel numbers are showing the government for example is saying that there according to their account there could be a least another 11000 dead that have been unaccounted for so far that the government believes might be related to the coveys 19 but for the lack of testing theres no way to confirm if indeed these people have also died covies in 19 and under now another number that i think tells us a lot about that is the fact that the government says that this year so far there have been 5 times the number of people who have been hospitalized for respect respect at thore issues but less than half of those have been tested to see if indeed they have coronavirus so thats the situation in brazil we also understand that a number of laborious stories are sitting idle that there is a big backlog in the testing for lack of materials but they are to the role of war so narrow of the president giving the fact that this is not his priority has meant that its been difficult for brasil or more difficult to get those material and try to speed up the testing which would help to to get a more clear picture. One of 5 iranian tankers delivering millions of dollars worth of fuel has entered venezuelan waters safely despite u. S. Warnings tehran threatened to retaliate if the u. S. Tried to stop them deliveries are expected to ease fuel shortages in venezuela but there in defiance of sanctions imposed by washington on both countries forces fighting for libyas internationally recognized government say theyve captured 3 military camps in the suburbs of tripoli from all over to leave the hospital 2 of them are in the southern outskirts a 3rd is in the east the games are being seen as another setback to have tons of yearLong Campaign to capture the capital the taliban afghanistans president of announced a 3 day cease fire for the ied holiday ashraf ghani has called in the military to all of the cease fire the u. S. Has welcomed the surprise announcement as a momentous opportunity that should not be missed. Egyptian president sisi has pardoned more than 3000 prisoners to coincide with the holiday among them is a hit man who murdered the lebanese singer suzanne to me min dubai in 2008 on the orders of former egypt and moustapha now activist journalist or Political Prisoners have been released. Theyve been protests across spain calling for coronavirus restrictions to be lifted more quickly spains Prime Minister has promised of the country to reopen to International Tours in july but there are sanchez also announced the top flight football will restart on june 8th lockdown instructions are gradually loosening but a state of emergency is still in force. And Gazas Health Ministry has reported the territories 1st virus death Officials Say the 77 year old woman had been under quarantine after returning from egypt the United Nations has worn the red corona Virus Outbreak in gaza could be disastrous given the high poverty rates and Weak Health System the coastal strip has been under an israeli blockade since 2007. Those were the headlines the news continues here on the aljazeera off the men who stole the world stage and thats a watching. It was july 1st 2001. 1000000 humbert german at the time. I was in my flat with my wife that i had just married. 2 men came to the door. Of the not recognized did not answer the door. Minutes later i left the building walked to the car and 2 and then a 5 towards the Police Officers showed up in front of me and in german basically identified themselves and said they were there interpol f. B. I. A warrant come with us. That was not at all what he was expecting obviously he looked at his wife and blew her a kiss and it was pretty sure he would never see her again. Thats a feeling of total fear because you have the total unknown of what the future holds. Elevator was taken on a plane to chicago. Which is where he had been criminally charged. And entered the United States Justice System which is a really scary place to be. Was facing charges of ups gone down with 460000000. 00 from the f. B. I. For fraud. My name is Philip James Baker and im the former managing the 1000000000. 00 vested fund collapsed during the financial crisis. My story is a rise and fall to redemption story. Ive been rich. Ive been on the top. Ive been behind bars. I know what it is to be called a financial criminal. I did my guilt. Free. And i want to speak out. Because of what i saw because ive been there i can tell that if we do nothing. Everything can happen again. They had no consequence. The titans of wall street basically faced nothing. For my life i went to prison and. Some people would say well you know what you did wrong its fair its just. Argument could be i agree. But what about the people in the titans of wall street. The business started in the basement of my parents and this company grew to be a 1000000000. 00 company. It was. Set up a hedge fund designed to trade in commodities. Prices of oil coal things like that it was a market or he was the client. He was the one who would go out to wealthy individuals or institutions and get them put their money with. Clients for Global Investment banks from around the world Goldman Sachs bank of canada. H. S. B. C. Bank of nova scotia. U. B. S. We offer it in close to 40 Different Countries around the world brazil. Japan and hong kong obviously throughout europe. Offshore accounts. I was living the dream. Werent worried about anything but in my particular instance i had something to worry about. All sorts of investors all over the world were very eager to put their money with him because he was generating very good returns and thats what investors want he turned out to be doing Something Else which was he was misappropriating the investors money and the investors thought they were achieving these excellent returns in reality they were not full baker and his partners were essentially making it up they were lie. The 2nd thing and in some ways the more damaging issue is that as they sought to recruit additional investors new investors which were essential because they needed to paper over the last the money that theyd already lost they were in their prospectuses in the documents they provided to investors to show investors how well theyve known they were lying there to it when they were saying instead of having lost 50 percent of their assets in the 1st year they were saying oh look at us weve got this long track record of very impressive returns. They were lying not only about the returns but they were lying about the longevity of the fund so they were saying they had i believe a 14 year track record with just wasnt true that they had not been trading for 14 years. Trading results were falsely reported and hence that was a fraud you can do that one penny not reported properly is wrong. The victims were everyone who invested with. Investors who lost their money initially investors to put their money in after the initial fraud occurred and so there were hundreds of millions of dollars that vanished as a result of this. Ive been asked why did i break the law i wanted to protect what i had money family power of a bit of business. But to me how many people say no i dont want the power i dont want the money. And walk away. Would you say that you are right good of women were this. Very interesting when you see your name. Philip james baker versus the United States of america. Its overwhelming. Then you face the assistant u. S. Attorney as hes looking you in the eye and when you go through that circumstance there are no words that really can describe the depths of the loneliness and feel of the moment. Ultimately. Completed a plea deal with the United States government. I was sentenced to 20 years. For wire for a. Bill because a criminal is he the type of financial mastermind that caused the financial crisis absolutely not this is a guy who is was not very sophisticated about his crime was not very. Malicious about his crime and but he admitted that he committed a crime this is a classic example of where the Justice Department its a shortcut they want to generate publicity for themselves as going after financial drugs and Everyone Wants them to do that. And yet time and time again the people that theyre going after are the little mini. Theyre going after the big fish are not going after the bankers for the most part theyre certainly not going after the Senior Executives at the banks or other big Financial Institutions they were the Decision Makers leading up to the financial crisis. 10 years after the financial crisis except iceland. How many white collar criminals are behind bars. From Credit Suisse is the only bank of wall street to go to jail related to the crisis. Just a few 1000000 not really big fish not a true. Only one big bank Top Executive name. The number of people convicted of crimes linked to the crisis in the u. S. According the Financial Times 324 people from main street. Wall street chief executives have been to prison. Even though there is today absolutely no doubt that wall street executives and politicians were complicit in creating the crisis. This is the story of how massive global banks made billions. By packaging toxic Mortgage Loans and Financial Products and sold them all around the world. The american politicians pulled the trigger. It all started with a political philosophical or a grand admission of allowing everyone to own a home. Our government is supporting homeownership. Because it is good for america. It is good for families. It is good for our economy. Part of the American Dream that was pushed by you know all sorts of president s clinton bush whatever for years was homeownership. I thought he kept Interest Rates very low in order to make money. There used to bore. Wall street and politicians had agreed to work together. To wall street with the pursuit of profits. The politicians with the pursuit of government interference on economic growth. Which could be turned into election victories for years to come. This was the beginning of the housing bubble. When the bubbles expanding everybody is aware. Everybody is a genius. The lenders bank money the Real Estate Development Companies Make money the construction workers make money Everybody Loves a bubble. But this was a devils deal between politicians and wall street. The setting to a perfect storm. Of what happens in a booth is lenders take more and more risk and borrowers take for the race because they both think things are safer than they appear to be and one of the way they persuade themselves. To take more risk is through financial innovations. Wall street created the risky loans called subprime to americans. To people afford to pay the bank loans. That they had just applied for. The public were given access to 0 low income and even no job. So if you wanted the absolute craziness it would be the ninja loan so ninja stands for no income no job and no assets and. The idea is that you would lend money to people that gave you no information about whether they had any income with the at any job. At any assets. It will allow you to grow enormously because now you can loan in the us context to ands of millions of people. Able or or. How many people out there are there who cant. Get alone. Tens of millions of people in the United States tens of millions of people in france in these circumstances. This goes under the general category of predation in the United States the people that were targeted for the worst loans were overwhelmingly a combination of the 4 demographic factors blacks latinos the elderly and females that is incredibly and so why almost everywhere in the world these things are crimes. These toxic loans became a gold rush for the whole u. S. Banking financial industry. All the major actors of wall street want a piece of a song crime part of. Goldman sachs Lehman Brothers Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch their sterns j. P. Morgan citigroup and so. The frenzy extended itself when loans were sought by the public by falsifying their own financial situation on loan applications. Therefore the public and banks were complicit committing bank fraud. My name is richard cohen. I was Senior Vice President and business chief underwriter for citigroup. At the time citi group was the largest bank in that. It was my responsibility to make sure that the 90000000000. 00 a year that we were purchasing Mortgage Loans that were rejuvenated by other banks and Mortgage Companies these maps are policies standards. In early 2006. I discovered that over 60 percent of these mortgages did not meet our guidelines they were by definition defective when i discovered this in this was june of 2006. Silly me i thought it was my job i started issuing warnings because i was supposed to make sure that these met our policy guidelines and i sent email i put it in my weekly report i made Committee Presentations i mean im not a shy guy i cornered people in the hallways at the water fountain and everyone say yeah yeah we we we know we need to fix that but nothing would happen. And through 20062007 the volumes kept increasing and the rate of defective mortgages increased from 60 to in excess of 80 percent it was 80 percent of these mortgages that we were in turn selling and giving our representations and warranties that they were they met our policy guidelines did not meet our policy guidelines this is misrepresentation that is true as a matter of fact it was for all. Ive seen plenty of alone documents with my own eyes that were falsified and the borrower still signed them as if they were correct. People who were typically hairdressers gardeners and such reporting incomes of over 100000. 00 a year now their actual incomes would be in the range of about 16000. 00. In those cases their income is inflated by it 6 times. You would have waiters in a restaurant showing that they made 150000. 00 a year i mean that clearly is. It is out of line but nonetheless the loan type permitted that to happen. Richard bowen and his staff very carefully very professionally are documenting. That these loans their reps and warranties are false. But city is overwhelmingly turning around in reselling these loans. Citi group did not want to know because if it looked at these places it couldnt possibly continue. To use them. It was all about generating the revenue. The people who worked on wall street conceived of the idea of securitizing mortgages packaging mortgages up into securities they actually arranged to buy the mortgages they would package them up into securities they would file documents with the Security Exchange commission that they had to be able to call them securities and then they would sell them to investors all around the world and all along the way they were making money was almost like it was a perfect product that anybody who touched a mortgage i made money off of it. November the 2nd of 2007 sitting at my kitchen table. I put together an email. And i simply emailed to Robert Reuben who the next day on sunday at the Board Meeting was named chairman of the board. I also sent it to the chief risk officer the chief Financial Officer in the chain of order. I said urgent need immediately find the interest issues i put that in all capital letters. I call for an outside investigation i said come in here from the outside and investigate what is going on here because everybody here already knows and no one contacted me throughout november throughout the summer there was no contact no one said a word. Will tell you that that particular point in time. Before i would even get in my car. I was doing what they do in the books im looking underneath my car in a good location. It was a very frightening time i. Said you were the 6th i received there was an email that went out with regard to reorganization. And in that reorganization i was stripped of all my underwriting responsibilities that next week i was put on the ministry to believe and told him not to come back to the but. Theres a wave of sentiment around the world people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often peoples voices are not good because thats not part of the mainstream news narrative. Obviously we cover the big stories and report on the big events that are going on but we also tell the stories of people who generally dont have a voice i mean when i was a child my thats never be afraid to put a hand up not a question and i think thats what out of syria really does the ask the questions to people who should be accountable and also to get people to give their view of whats going on. A unique form of protest by a palestinian artist using a symbol of National Identity to create postage and passport stamps. 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Hello im daryn jordan in doha with a quick reminder the top stories here on aljazeera theres been a surge in new numbers of coronavirus cases in latin America Brazil has overtaken russia to become the 2nd worst affected country in the world of the United States confirmed infections are now above 330000. 00 on the death toll is more than 21000. 00 its thought the true total could be even higher infections in brazil and then expected to peak until next month allison from patty has been monitoring the situation in brazil from neighboring colombia. The country is truly divided on these political issues on the fact the president. And his core base supporters keep downplaying the effect of the pandemic across the country but now even the government had to admit as it has. As it did yesterday that the real face of the pandemic might be much worse than what the official numbers are showing the government for example is saying that theyre quoting to their account there could be at least another year levin house in day that it have been unaccounted for so far one of 5 iranian tankers delivering millions of dollars worth of fuel has entered venezuelan waters safely despite u. S. Warnings to iran threatened to retaliate if the u. S. Tried to stop them the deliveries are expected to ease fuel shortages in venezuela but theyre in defiance of sanctions imposed by washington on both countries. Forces fighting for libyas internationally recognized governments have captured 3 military camps in the suburbs of tripoli for more not only for have to are 2 of the camps are in the southern outskirts now 3rd is in the east the games are being seen as another said or have to be a Long Campaign to capture the capital. The taliban and afghanistans president afghani have announced a 3 day cease fire for the holiday the u. S. Has welcomed the surprise announcement for different president s and sisi has pardoned more than 3000 prisoners to coincide with the holiday among them is a hit man who murdered the Lebanese Army men in 2008 on the orders of former egyptian m. P. Moustapha no activists or journalists have been released those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after the men who stole the work station thanks for watching by foot up. Greed was definitely the driver. As it is almost forgotten until. Citigroup was not the only one. Of comparable level of fraudulent Mortgage Loans have been seen. In all the big wall street banks. And knowing the risk of bankruptcy. Banks began to pour massive amount of money to buy more and more Mortgage Loans and package them into derivatives. The top honor writer in the peak years of 2005 in 2006 is limited broke. At 106000000000. 00. Naman it was one of the largest makers and sellers of the the absolute most toxic loans in the entire world Lehman Brothers was one of the largest fraud vectors in the history of the world. My name is am time belugas. Go by the name tony. In new year 2009. 3 months after the lehman bankruptcy i was appointed by the federal court in new york to act as an examiner. I was independent of i me of the party in among the responsibilities of the court charged me and my team which was to determine how and why lehman went into bankruptcy. And when youre talking about the lehman bankruptcy you are talking about the largest single bankruptcy in the history of Financial Institutions total amount of the bankruptcy 693000000000. 00. So we told the story of what happened. Lehman brothers with the 4th largest Global Investment bank in the world. That by famous c. E. O. Dick fuld. Hi my name is dick fuld the chairman and chief executive officer of Lehman Brothers now is a terrific time to be joining Lehman Brothers ive been here 30 years and i cant think of a better time for you to take part in changes in opportunities that are going on. Do you get food what would be the 1st thing that crossed your mind. A person who was viewed as a lion on wall street i believe that in the year 2008 the very year the bankruptcy was named by forbes as one of the top 10 executives in the country. They call them the gorilla and i think they call them that for a reason he was brusque borish take no prisoners kind of guy you know run through a wall for Lehman Brothers. Hypercompetitive. I pronounce the cystic. Squeeze some of those shorts squeezing hard. Not that i want to hurt i. Dont get that please because thats just not who i am. Soft im lovable. But what i really want to do is i want to reach in rip out their heart and eat it before they die the man who lost the brothers the man who presided over its decline and fall a man who could have done something about it but chose not to the man who refused to see the writing on the wall the man who you know kicked off in many ways which became the great recession. My name is all over buddha and i was an inhouse lawyer at Lehman Brothers for years. I discovered many things that were at least unethical. If not illegal. And eventually i decided to quit. I was earning a lot of money. But it was not enough for me to turn a blind eye to all that was happening in. The tone coming from the top did fuld the guys around him or go for pushing go beyond the limits the key at lehman was to evaluate the risk and the reward and never mind the law that might be in between there if if the reward is high enough and the risk is low enough we will do it and we will sort it out later. This was a culture of risk. And this was all about money. Lehman brothers Risk Analysis Program was considered a model on wall street i mean it was brilliantly conceived. The problem was it was simply ignored you have to understand you talk about to pull folks made his fortune at Lehman Brothers he was a billionaire. So if you say why i think he had a wrong it ask you are you a billionaire if you made a 1000000000. 00 trading i am and he had. In the years leading up to the crisis everything the Financial Health of Lehman Brothers could not have been better at least on paper. They expanded the use of their toxic to routers and the ratio of lending expanded. In 2000 he. Was massively leveraged. Lehman brothers had one of the highest leverage ratios in america Financial Institutions a leverage ratio is a ratio of your debt to your equity another word for equity is capital its ratio depending on the exact time was 30 to 40. 00 to 1. 00 another words for every dollar of suppose a capital that had it had 30. 00 to 40. 00 in debt. Lehman became the focus of worldwide attention because they were perceived as the next weakest link they were the next domino to fall. So lehman it engaged in a scheme. Accounting scheme to make it look better and what they did was involved what was called greek bow one of. This was something that lehman used every quarter to hide some of the borrowed money. You see lehman would borrow money and they would pledge securities that they had as collateral. At the end it was 50000000000. 00 each school. They would borrow 50000000000. 00 and they would give 50000000000. 00 in collateral. But they would actually say that this was a sale this was not a pledge for a loan but this was a sale of those assets for 50000000000. 00 and they would treat the 50000000000. 00 not as debts but as cash that they just got. And by doing that and using that cash to pay down still other jat they could they could materially significantly move that leverage ratio down. Then as soon as the quarter was over and they had published their number they would undo that transaction and presto they would. Give back the money take back the securities and again be leveraged just as high as they were before they did this only to fool the public and no other reason. The effect of that was in june they were able to show that their leverage had been dropped dramatically. And the street said wow lehmans doing ok. Are for of a strong today so we will emerge from this cycle he even stronger. Weve done it before. And we will do it again so that fits the number yes my opinion they absolutely fudge the numbers they they engaged in a trend even within their own emails they referred to it as a drug they were on. A sham an accounting gimmick to make themselves look better so they knew what they were doing so they were i to get information to the public yes thats my that was if anybody can be reached in the report isnt it against that oh well if you file a misleading statement and you knowingly file a misleading statement and a judge concludes that you have done so or a jury does that is against the law yes there was a basis by which such a. Claim could be made yes we did against dick fuld the c. S. But nobody was arrested or charged for us now if there were no rush there were no charge there was no jury trial there was no civil case brought which the jury heard the case and then decided the case not it was things took place no. Let me start by saying that i have absolutely no recollection whatsoever of hearing anything about were seeing documents related to repeal 105 transactions while i was the c. E. O. Of lehman you think its possible that deferred didnt know now is the of course of course. There were Senior Executives at lehman who were interviewed by mr valukas and others who said that yes he did know that emails were sent to him that showed the repo 105 portion of the financials to show the facts of this and then dick fuld answer was well they might have sent me emails but i dont know how to work a computer i dont know how to open an attachment that would have a spreadsheet to show this so i never saw it i was never aware this was historic. Wall street misrepresented its financial condition. At the same time millions were spent in bonuses. This was a job. Place to make money and the most money was wall street. Bonuses reached levels that had never been even approximated in the world. Millions of dollars a year its like the greatest job that you could ever imagine getting without putting any of your own capital with. Excessive lifestyles. They were willing to take risks to support their lifestyle. Theres a great bit of narcissism and antisocial personality disorders with those they might feel like they have a sense of entitlement or theyre above the law or theyre too good. On wall street these c. E. O. s they can they pull away and some of them would pull in 100000000. 00 a year and dick fuld had several years were. It was 789100000000. 00 in one year. He had a multimillion dollar home in greenwich and thats where he lived most of the time but he also kept a very fancy malls high 1000000. 00 apartment on park avenue and he had another home down in florida also worth 1015000000. 00 another place in idaho a sun valley some sort of a cabin in the woods there but again multimillion dollar property. Since 2000 youve taken home more than 480000000. 00 thats almost half a 1000000000. 00 your company is now bankrupt our economy is in a state of crisis but you got to keep 480 1000000. 00. Out of a very basic question for you is this fair i would say to you the 500 number is not accurate and i believe the amount that i took out of the company over to that was. I believe a little bit less than 250000000000 still a large number of those still a large number. Of the i mean you know the fact both numbers were wrong and both numbers were low the true number was 530000000 420022007 dick fuld said you know i only made 310. 00 thats over 200000000. 00 that he took off his total under oath i swear to tell the truth the whole truth he did it on television 1 for the world and this stood up. For what. I dont even think i could resist if you gave me the opportunity to make 550000000. 00 and all i had to do was hurt 6000000000. 00 people i would think about it the temptation is there the real message is we dont care how you did it we dont care where theres real we dont care whether its honest just do it. Because youll be rich and ill be rich. In the financial context modern executive compensation didnt just create the most criminogenic environment it created the biggest crimes in financial history and as nothing close. This is. All street has seen very very few days like this. The house of cards came falling down. 150. Banks. Down by bad Mortgage Investments which has 25000 employees. You know corporations die of Cancer Investment banks heart attacks. There was a time when the. And when that completely. Anybody has a terrible problem and thats the situation lehman found itself in. People basically ran. Through it and the government behind it collapsed. The 15th of september 2008. Lehman brothers goes bankrupt. Because in a single day since. Banks began to stop lending money to each other. The collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered. The 2008 financial crisis displayed. Financial contagion. There was a worldwide recession you know the value of real estate plummeted people lost their homes you could go through. Foreclosure foreclosure foreclosure home after home after home they were going belly up as a result. Numerous businesses went out of business. This is a fraud but this is not random its not hoops. Everybody got hurt i mean the impact across the world was measured in the trillions of dollars the value of. What was watched and every time was almost incalculable weve never seen anything like that since 1920 and. This crisis has changed the world to many long lost state where. Without the crisis breaks it would not have happened and donald trump would not be president of the United States this is a major turning point you never know what it will be but the thirtys transform the world because it was it brought us the 2nd world war its about something old to become chunks of germany without the Great Depression so it changes everything. The leading Company Executives were ever brought to justice. I lost everything. All the money everything i have. I why my family connections i lost everything. Im just a small fish and. I was brought to justice. They all went free. The system is what it is. And until the system changes the powerful continue to walk. The youve seen that there were some very large settlements that were made but they never admitted that they did anything. There was no ignition of guilt there was no charge of any criminal activity and i have always represented that those payments were nothing more than payment so the store ssion to the department of justice to seal the evidence to lock up the evidence so the public would never see how widespread and pervasive the fraud was that was committed and i truly believe that. These crimes are so vastly larger than any blue collar crimes thats just off the charts non comparable in terms of these things its what balzac actually set behind every fortune that you cant explain lies thought just a fraud but one fraud executed so well that it wasnt prosecuted. We are now in midtown manhattan on park avenue. This is the old this is where lehman was after 911 and this building across the street is where dick fuld the c. E. O. Is working today in his new Company Matrix capital nothing has changed hes in the same business he always was some people may think of him as some sort of. You know guy that was banished forever but now hes just fine. The world collapsed there were trillions of dollars of damage it didnt cost dick fuld a dollar to man put 550000000. 00 into his pocket he kept it all and presumably hes probably grown that child quite considerably perhaps he has a 1000000000 by now the stock market has been doing very well since the crisis. Prison was the beginning of the dems. The judge told me to. Do something good with your life. And thats why im trying to make a difference by speaking to the public. About my failures and how they can be aware of. What the world is facing. Do i think it could happen again do i think that its i think thats yes i do. The seeds of the next financial crisis have already been planted theyre growing. We cant see them yet but there are plenty of signs all around of of trouble brewing. I think there is no doubt that. We are going into another crisis of a greater superiority than we have just been through. I cant predict what the instruments are going to be i cant predict the specifics but i know it will be driven by greed and misbehavior has no consequence we have shown that. We the public and Decision Makers. Basically havent learned because we never so much understood the crisis of the bankers have learned the lessons. And the lesson was that this is wheat. This is perfect this is a sure thing i will be fabulously wealthy and i will not pay any price for it thank you lord. Weve had some severe storms across more eastern areas of the United States as you can see that typically is across the Southern Plains also up towards the north but it was actually across into North Carolina where the damage was done in the last 24 hours this is not some huge old trees here were brought down over 100 year old trees the winds at times were in excess of 95 kilometers an hour so if the power lines down massive trees uprooted which of course in turn actually brought down the power lines in many cases the conditions here are not too bad as we go through sunday thats where some of the common weather will be across much of the south the southeast a warm down at launch at 31. 00 degrees celsius and then as the day progresses more of those storms developing through the Northern Plains and easy this line right the way down into Northern Areas of mexico out tools the west weve got one of 2 showers maybe even some snow flurries at to the mountains it does clear all monday and in fact weve got sunny skies and high temperatures 30 celsius in 26 in San Francisco but again through monday we have got the threat of severe storms across those a Southern Plains theres also plenty of rain for the next couple of days really through the yucatan peninsula across into cuba and these southern areas of florida this system will stay in the 4 calls to some them monday and it has certainly been flooding rains into florida this much is 250. 00 millimeters of rain. We know whats happening in our region we know happened get the date that others and not i was just that own p. R. Guy by the party the only purpose how did iraq at that time in any programming go live on the amnesty to go live to where another story that may not be mainstream is something that bears missed out on the enormity of you. By. The way that you cal death story is what can make a difference. On culture the cost Brazils Health of economic crisis made worse by its president no longer recession proof more than 1000000000 Health Care Jobs have been lost to the u. S. But angle of a close 500000000000 euro plan to save the european european. Culture the cost on aljazeera. The care bring your people back to life im sorry one day its on the best of the aljazeera documentaries in the living close the books and no i like and the other student green line continues with spirit trying to do stories that have impact on society i testify in the court of law to make sure that the bad guys behind bars so many people have gone to jail i said result off my way rewind on aljazeera. Brazils Coronavirus Crisis infections continue to climb but its feared the real skin of the outbreak could be even worse. Hello im down in jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up no peace even for the dead why many coronavirus victims in ecuador cannot be laid to rest. Gaining ground in tripoli forces loyal to the un backed government make advances against the wall or the fattah