of government buildings in brasilia, last sunday. brazil s supreme court also says it s investigating the role of the former president jair bolsonaro in the riot. the violence was carried out by thousands of radical bolsonaro supporters who continue to claim that 0ctober s election was rigged. mr bolsonaro briefly posted a video questioning the legitimacy of the vote, which was won by his rival lula da silva. china has admitted that there have been 60,000 covid related deaths in just over a month following the government s sudden decision to end strict pandemic controls. it s the first time beijing has acknowledged the scale of fatalities caused by the covid wave sweeping the country. for weeks it s reported just a handful of deaths a day figures which appeared inconsistent with the long queues seen at crematoriums. in the czech republic, the retired nato general, petr pavel, will face controversial former prime minister, andrej babis, in a vote to become the country s next preside
it s the first time beijing has acknowledged the much higher scale of fatalities caused by the covid wave sweeping the country. for weeks, officials have been reporting just a handful of deaths each day, figures that appeared inconsistent with the long queues at crematoriums. the number of deaths relates to people admitted to hospitals in the five weeks leading up to last thursday. most of those who died were over 80. the operation to clear a site in germany that s been earmarked for new coal mining is entering its fourth day. police have clashed with protesters near the village of lutzerath in the west of the country. but at least one famous demonstrator has turned up to offer her support as tim allman explains. chanting for many, she has become the face of the modern climate change movement, so it was perhaps inevitable that greta thunberg would pay a visit to lutzerath. and as police continued clearing the site, she was not impressed. i think it s absolutely absurd that this is
beijing s army day, creating 12,000 troops along with taverns, jets and missiles, the first time beijing celebrated this day with a parade. china has the largest army in the world and has as many cruisers, submarines as the u.s. navy. secretary of state tillerson said the u.s. and china are at a pivotal point in history. one reason they were on capitol hill this afternoon to discuss the next steps. sandra: lucas tomlinson, thank you. bringing rick back. a pivot point for the u.s. and china in dealing with north korea. how do you see that? well, one thing that s clear is that china is not threatened by north korea. what they re threatened by is a north korea in crisis. and so what they re trying to make sure that they do is not have a crisis. if north korea s gonna launch a missile and they re gonna be able to miniaturize a nuclear head on that missile, it s not gonna go into china. so the chinese know that.