A looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Well brazils president be forced to take a coronavirus a risk that. Hes dismissed for months as a little how will he deal with the fallout from the worlds 2nd largest covert 19 outbreak this isnt a story. Hello and welcome to the program. Brazils president spent months downplaying the coronavirus pandemic. Refused to wear a mask dismissed lockdowns and said his athleticism would protect him now hes one of the 1600000. 00 brazilians infected with covert 19 only the United States has more infections and rio de janeiros famous copacabana beach has become a memorial for the nearly 70000 brazilians have died so far cemeteries are struggling to find space for the dead hospitals cant cope but also remains defiant he wont state governors to reopen shops and factories to restart south americas largest economy despite the rising total of inf
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The global covid 19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the relationship between scientists and policy makers. Leaders across the world have responded to the science with everything from respect to scepticism, foremost amongst the sceptics president Jair Bolsonaro of brazil, one of the countries hit hardest by the virus. My guest, brazilian microbiologist natalia pasternak, has launched a crusade against her president in the name of science. Is she winning the argument . Natalia pasternak in sao paulo, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen, for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Lets start with the claim from your president , Jair Bolsonaro, that the worst of the coronavirus epidemic in brazil is now over. Would you agree . Of course not. Were still in the middle of it. If were lucky. And the president seems to be completely disconnected from reality, really. Thats the way hes been behaving from the start. So, he has no real me
Time now for hard to talk. Hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The global covid 19 pandemic has put a spotlight on the relationship between scientists and policy makers. Leaders across the world have responded to the science with everything from respect to scepticism, foremost amongst the sceptics president Jair Bolsonaro of brazil, one of the countries hit hardest by the virus. My guest, brazilian microbiologist natalia pasternak, has launched a crusade against her president in the name of science. Is she winning the argument . Natalia pasternak in sao paulo, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen, for having me. Its a pleasure to have you on the programme. Lets start with the claim from your president , Jair Bolsonaro, that the worst of the coronavirus epidemic in brazil is now over. Would you agree . Of course not. Were still in the middle of it. If were lucky. And the president seems to be completely disconnected from reality, really. Thats the way hes been behaving
As researchers increasingly face many kinds of attack over their work, there is debate about how to support and protect them. As researchers increasingly face many kinds of attack over their work, there is debate about how to support and protect them.