Targets Vladimir Putins inner circle with sanctions its washingtons stiffest response yet to what it calls a brazen pattern of activity. And showdown at the gaza border israeli troops again use live fire on Palestinian Protesters killing at least seven people injuring hundreds more. Its good to have you with us tonight brazil is on tenterhooks as the countrys hugely popular former president the reason officer of the silva defies a court order to turn himself into police his legal team is reportedly negotiating with police right now hunkered down at a trade Union Building in sao paolo a crowds of. His supporters have gathered outside and were looking at live pictures of that scene the Supreme Court has ordered luka to begin serving a prison sentence for corruption while he appeals the conviction is a porter say its a ploy to stop him from running in this years president ial election where he remains the clear front runner. Artless go now to sao paolo joining us is journalist sam county
have grown in the polls that said he s not the new no that he was when he left office in two thousand and sand with a c seven percent approval rating the highest of any brazilian president of the presiding of presiding over a growing economy and if you millions of people as opposed to social policies he s much more of a device s bigots a date he remains by far those it was most popular politician and says this show fools today and in fact the conviction will solidify if that s the case as he hopes and sam what about the state of political stability in brazil we have we had a story after story the last couple of years going back to jim rousseff and now with live. with the courts the legal systems or the political systems being at odds with each other and always being out of sync with what the people the street thinks i mean how close are we to some breaking point here.