it's very likely that in brazil. of hoth a 1000000 deaths by the 1st of july. 340000 brazilians have died with the corona virus the u.s. has a higher death toll brazil is well on the way to losing the battle against the disease . she joins me from for you know who is in brazil let me ask you is the outbreak from the outside it looks like it may be completely out of control in brazil is that the case of need how is the health care system. well it's not good i mean literally over the last day we saw 3 people die per minute here in brazil it's definitely out of control but i wouldn't say it's completely out of control we've seen just the last couple days particularly in the south of the country that actually bed there are some beds available in some i.c.u. units at hospitals so the numbers of people that are driving into these hospitals in the i.c.u. units have dropped just the last couple days but the problem is we're heading into flu season right now we're coming off of an easter holiday and what many researchers are

in brazil is that the case of health care system. well it's not good i mean literally over the last day we saw 3 people die per minute here in brazil it's definitely out of control but i wouldn't say it's completely out of control we've seen just the last couple days particularly in the south of the country that actually bed there are some beds available in some i.c.u. units at hospitals so the numbers of people that are driving into these hospitals in the i.c.u. units have dropped just the last couple days but the problem is we're heading into flu season right now we're coming off of an easter holiday and what many researchers are saying is that we're kind of at a crossroads right now either brazil could impose more harsh restrictions social restrictions saying listen we really want to get this thing under control and that will of course make the number of new cases and the deaths drop but it brazil keeps on the same track many researchers are saying yet we've passed $4000.00 deaths a day by the end a month going to average $4000.00

earlier this week closed affectively its borders to brazil all flights to and from brazil to prevent a very contagious variance from spreading how isolated is brazil at the moment because a lot of people around the world are worried about this variant. many countries in latin america already closed their borders to brazil to get you out void that you won a string of other proscenium says trains could come to other countries when i was in manassas i talked to to divide ologist who discovered to be one strain he told me that there is there are some 30 newest trains in brazil right now so if brazil doesn't control the pandemic indoors they can it can be a very difficult at best affair for the whole region and even for the world because many think we don't still many things about in those trains and we don't know how these news trainees behave because of the scene for example. her mirrors are reporting thank you so very much. bernie made off the architect of a ponzi scheme that scammed investors out of billions of dollars has died and prison he was $82.00 the former chairman of the nasda

support the state -- sustainable develop and in brazil. -- development in brazil. i think it is important that if brazil was to have a good and constructive dialogue with united states it would have to behave according to civilization norms that are played ever. >> and blank recognizi juan guaido as the president who was not elected? >> it's -- it's silly, too. cause it has no future. it did not have any future with trump. it will not have any future now. unless some kind of violt overthrow of majuro. they will have to dialogue -- back into 2003 with full support of the republicans. you talk about the group of friends venezuela. in relation to cuba, the sanctions are something totally obscured. it is still the cold war mentality which has nothing to do. it doesn't need to be friends with ca but i mean just respecting the national law. t have unateral sanctio. e declaration on bivia was very mucworrying because it points to the wrong direction. what should he do in latin america? obama in some respects try t wo in a better way in relati to cuba. even with venezuela

the people who have been affected by the rus in brazil. mainly because there are a lot of young people who are dying. that is quite different from what we are seeing in most parts of the world. could you explain why so many young people are getting sick and even dying? dr. nicolelis: during the first wave we saw the pandemic with people who are 65 years old. during the last year the demographics, much younger people are being admitted to hospitals in the icu. the largest icu facility in brazil, the hospital with more than 230 icu be. what we see now is the age group more affected is between 35 and 40 years old. this was compounded by the discovery a couple of weeks ago that brazil is suffering from an epidemic of premature deliveries. pregnant women are being infected at a record rate down here. for the first time in history, we have seen icus for newborn babies completely full in brasilia, states in the southern part of brazil. we have seen a dramatic shift in the demographics. some people are blaming the new variant. others are saying th

is brazil school the death toll keeps growing women across brazil have joined hands when broidery their grief and the names of all those who died from corbett 19 this bright note in those matters in may this panel has 2 and a half meters per presents only 0 point one percent of the number of victims we would need $1000.00 panels like this one for all the victims that's another 2 and a half kilometers of. pressure against presidential aide will so narrow has been mounting as infections and death continue to spiral out of control brazil's bar association has asked the attorney general to charge president. with criminally mishandling the pandemic $500.00 bankers economists and business men wrote a letter asking the government to stop boycotting measures aimed at controlling the new wave of infections and to start heaving to the advice of doctors and scientists . also never went on television to say he was in favor of the vaccines he had criticised in the past and was slow to start by rob brazil his words were greeted with hot banging protests with next year's presidential election in mind

and brazil about 375000 why such a poor record. yeah well this is the right question if you put the numbers on the screen so this is exactly why we have taken the microphone to speak out about this because there's no court immune response we don't want this pandemic in the intensive care unit you have to have actions in the population as we all know who are in europe and elsewhere if we have to do things not only vaccinate but we have to go measures like wearing masks keeping physical distance. work reduce law essential mobility. do testing and contact tracing all these things are not done in accordance with in brazil and the health authorities are not behind this and it's scientific it's knowledge that we have constructed over the last year and it's not being implemented in news is brazil's leader at fault here in this case well we got $20.00 and $1.00 individual it's notoriety it's the federal government and it's the health authorities mo governments we were very well in local level and the people there are overloaded as well the

in brazil about 375000 why such a poor record. yeah well this is the right question if you put the numbers on the screen so this is exactly why we have taken the microphone to speak out about this because there's no court response we don't most this pandemic in the intensive care units you have to have actions in the population as we all know or in europe and elsewhere that we have to do things not only vaccinate but we have to go measures like wearing masks keeping physical distance. work reduce not essential mobility. do testing and contact tracing all these things are not done in accordance with in brazil and the health authorities are not putting themselves behind this and it's scientific it's knowledge that we have constructed over the last year and it's not being implemented in news is brazil's leader at fault here in this case well we we are 20 and one individual it's notoriety it's the federal government and it's the health authorities local governments we work very well and local level and the people there are overloaded

variant of the virus the p one variant i mean is there anything about it that makes the outbreak in brazil particularly more severe than we would have another countries well absolutely this very at least according to what researchers say it's 10 times the viral load of the original corona virus it's roughly 2 times as contagious and could be 2 times as as deadly and so what we're seeing is this is this is the main virus that's really spread around the country here flooding office in the south of the country were so far as you can get from where this thing began yam is on and as as much as roughly 85 percent of the cases here now are all this amazon p. one variant the problem too i've been talking with with doctors and in fact all just here in the state in southern brazil and they're saying the big problem is that many of the people are coming into the hospital now or in their twenty's they're in their thirty's they're in their forty's they don't have preexisting conditions so it's really impacting people in a much different way it has this ability to avoid even some cases where people have

it's very likely that in brazil. of hoth a 1000000 deaths by the 1st of july. 340000 brazilians have died with the corona virus the u.s. has a higher death toll brazil is well on the way to losing the battle against the disease . correspondent michael fox he joins me from who is in brazil let me ask you is the outbreak from the outside it looks like it may be completely out of control in brazil is that the case i mean how is the health care system. well it's not good i mean literally over the last day we saw 3 people died per minute here in brazil it's definitely out of control but i wouldn't say it's completely out of control we've seen just the last couple days particularly in the south of the country actually bed there are some beds available in some i.c.u. units at hospitals so the numbers of people that are driving into these hospitals in the i.c.u. units have dropped just the last couple days but the problem is we're heading into flu season right now we're coming off of an easter holiday and what many researche

to and from brazil to prevent a very contagious variance from spreading how isolated is brazil at the moment because a lot of people around the world are worried about this one variant. many countries in latin america already closed their borders to brazil to get you out void that the people one is throwing all their pressing on this is trying to could come to other conference when i was in manassas i talked to to divide all the just who discovered to be one strain he told me that there is there are some 30 newest trains in brazil right now so if brazil doesn't control the pandemic indoors they can it can be a very difficult at best affair for the whole region and even for the world because many think we don't still many things about the new strains and we don't know how these news trainees behave because of the the vaccine for example. or here as it reporting thank you so very much. and back here in europe it's been 2 years since a fire rich to the most famous cathedral in paris and shocked the world well now the question is when not to down can open again while french president a me

show recently i should say called the situation in brazil a raging inferno why has brazil being so badly affected. what we are seeing in brazil right now is the combination of the inaction on their wrong doing enough to federal government back in january 2021 every expert every biologist the whole scientific community of brazil was warning about the danger of a pandemic getting out of control in the country in 2 or 3 months it means that march and april and april and the government of found out every sort of excuses not to act i was in brazil reporting for us. by the beginning of march and we were talking about the 1500 deaths every single day right now we talk about 4000 almost 5 sin that every day it shows how fast things are getting out of control in the contrie on the worst part is that it doesn't look like things are going to get better because even though the char refine on the overwhelming numbers your balls are not as a government continued to downplay the pandemic yeah definitely all full numbers there though where we're seeing now the number of deaths worldwide from the krona v

it also says the covid response in brazil was neither prompt nor equitable. it still isn't, and brazil is currently facing the worst moment of the pandemic. what does all of that say about the covid response in brazil where you are, the leadership? >> well, basically the brazilian leadership, i mean the federal government never took this seriously since the beginning, and it found all sorts of excuses not to act properly. and when we had this warning in january saying that brazil would get into the worst part of the pandemic in two or three months, all the epidemiologists and the scientific community in brazil started recommending a national lockdown to prevent what is happening right now. and the federal government didn't listen to any of us. so it's pretty clear that they never acted up to the task that they had front of them to prevent this tragedy that is happening in brazil. it's unfolding at levels that we never imagined could be possible down here. >> it is incredible. it just gets worse and worse every time i speak with you. dr. miguel nicolelis in sa

. ~ very serious crisis unfolding in brazil-— very serious crisis unfolding in brazil. ~ ., ~ , in brazil. will, thank you very much for _ in brazil. will, thank you very much for that. _ a trial of the 0xford—astrazeneca covid vaccine on children has stopped giving outjabs while the uk's medicines regulator investigates a possible link with rare blood clots in adults. the university of oxford has told the bbc that there are no safety concerns with the trial itself, but its scientists were waiting for further information. 0ur medical editor fergus walsh says the decision has been taken out of an abundance of caution. there are no safety concerns and the volunteers, it is just simply sensible to stop vaccinating while this adult review is going on. no medicine, whether it is paracetamol or vaccines, is risk—free, but i'm picking whether there is a link between the astrazeneca jab and these incredibly rare load clots is frankly difficult. and the incidents in the uk is thought to be one in every hundred thousand vaccinations, in germany, it is higher, mainly involving younger women. its

people in brazil robert anderson makes it very clear that brazil is. the 2nd largest african country in the world the only country where as more people of african descent. brazil is my jury a. better in certain neighborhoods however simply being young black and poor can get you shot dead in the middle of the street over the past decade the rio police have been carrying out regular raids in favelas on the pretext of ridding slums of time these operations have made brazil the world leader in police violence against the black population. supersede the it for them will always be paul black for valid people they'll never see is any other way. it is good for them we're all criminals people stare at us because of our hair because of our we live that are prejudiced but i think it's tough because they've got. and will always be a minority community. and with. 130 years after the abolition of slavery africa brazilians are still by far the country's poorest community 2nd class citizens in a world divided along color lines. i think it's very important for people t

experts in the country say brazil's need to adapt urgently to turn the tide. brazil needs to rapidly increase the speed of vaccination primarily among the most vulnerable population to stamp out speech in favor of medicines that science do not say are effective against covert 19 and lastly improve vigilance and tracing of the variants the could have more aggressive biological behavior from the mutant strains of coded 19 virus. the death toll rises comes as brazil's will done 10 biomedical institute detected a new strain of the virus similar to the one registered in south africa. and this president jade also nat'l struggles to cope with sliding popularity and growing pressure over his handling of the pandemic. on tuesday top commanders of the armed forces stepped down coming just one day after an atta replaced 6 government ministers in a sudden reshuffle that appear designed to. secure loyalty. and the beginning of the been there mick brazil's president disregarded the risks of ovid 19 and resisted taking extreme measures to reduce the spread of the virus here

though they continue to say the benefits of the vaccine still outweigh the risks also coming up tonight brazil records its highest ever daily death toll from cope with 19 more than 4000 deaths within the last 24 hours why has the bomb proof so dead leaves. and life in prison turkey has found dozens of harsh sentences to former top ranking army officers accused of plotting the 2016 failed. plus would you volunteer to live in a cave for over a month in france more than a dozen people have signed up to do just that we'll find out why. viewers are joining us on p.b.s. in the united states and to all of you around the world welcome we start with a setback for the world's most widely used coronavirus vaccine the european medicines agency and its british counterpart today announced there is a possible link between the astra zeneca vaccine and blood clotting in the brain the regulators described the condition as a very rare side effect but depending on where you live and depending on how old you are the advice tonight is not to take the astra zeneca. trying to put to rest any concerns 1st of all i wan

another factor is brazil's vaccine rollout. that began in january, and around 8% of the population has received at least one dose. this m is responsible for the rollout. he is brazil's health minister, fourth person to do that job since the pandemic began. he's also a doctor, which some people find reassuring. here's an epidemiologist. >> the new minister is trying to do things based on science. his main enemy is the president himself. so, realistically, the new minister is trying to do the things right. we havaccelerated the vaccination. so, our goal needs to be 1.5 million doses per day. we are getting to one million per day, which is actually good, because our previous average was around 300,000 per day. and this minister admits the possibility of doing lockdowns, which is something the president doesn't admit. ros: we've already heard from a lot of people, but the man at the center of this is the man we've heard referred to, brazil's president, john jair bolsonaro. he's raised doubts about vaccines and has resisted national

the benefits of the job far outweigh the risks we'll take a closer look at their fund also coming up brazil confirms its 1st case of a highly contagious variant of the corona virus discovered in south africa it's a fresh danger sign for the country already facing a record death toll. and a look at how one change technology is reshaping the art market collectors are paying top for digital works some see profit while others are only a bottle ready to say. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us several countries have recommended limits on the astra zeneca about seen following a review released by european and british regulators on wednesday spain the philippines and south korea have restricted the jobs to people over the age of 60 the u.k. suggests those under 30 get a different shot the european medicines agency says that there does appear to be a link between the vaccine in a rare but potentially fatal type of blood clot the benefits of the job outweigh the risks trying to put to rest any concerns. first of all i want to start by stating that our safety committee the pharmacovigilance

challenges day by day of brazil. we are also working actively on biodiversity and agricultural challenges facing brazil. brazil is a big, vibrant country and has access to global capital markets. one of the things that can help is good use of the maturity schedules of debt so that brazil has strong investment from the private sector in the future and i am hopeful that brazil will be beneficial of the global recovery. >> i know you have to get to the event that is starting at noon. i hope folks can join the conversation. you can see it online. thank you. if you have any final remarks. pres. malpass: we have a big week going for spring meetings and i'm pleased with the support that id 20 is getting and our climate change action plan and our vaccine efforts are expanding as fast as we can push them forward. that gives us some optimism. i have been mentioning the progress that we made in sudan toward renewed programs they are. there is a lot of people and a lot of lives at stake in some of these programs. i think there i

as the coronavirus raged through brazil, killing tens of thousands of people, brazil's environment minister had other issues on his mind, as this recording of a cabinet meeting reveals. "we have a chance at this moment, when the media's attention is almost exclusively on covid, and not the amazon," he says. "while things are quiet, let's do it all at once and change all the rules." there was a media storm. minister salles subsequently claimed what he wanted was to simplify the existing rules. but after that meeting, he withdrew protection from some of the forested areas of brazil. and president bolsonaro's government certainly appears to be dismantling some of the structures that had succeeded in holding back destruction in the amazon. the environmental police force, ibama, is on the front line of brazil's efforts to protect the forest. but some officers say they aren't getting the support from the president that they need. one of them agreed to speak to us anonymously. translation: i've never seen so many illegal goldmines. - the price of gold is higher than ever. but also, the prospectors

meanwhile forty's in brazil of want women to delay pregnancy until the country passes the worst of the pandemic saying the virus variants have had a greater effect on pregnant women their condition. because each of the other of these moments of the pandemic to be looked at when we see there is a difficult situation in maternity wards because of the situation that's happening in maternity wards issue be evaluators like what happened in 2006 seeing if possible we recommend delaying pregnancy and to a more suitable moment so you can have your pregnancy in a more peaceful way. has come one hour from alessandro patty's following the story from bogota actually i was on a summer there's been increasing concern about the effect that covert is having on babies and young children in brazil but tell us more about that as well reaction to women delaying their pregnancies. it's these are all very worrying developments in brazil one of the worst affected countries in the world and one in which people are increasingly critical of the response of the national government their president here are both s

well brazil brazil start as a nation efforts currently are sir centered on 2 vaccine which are curled over iraq and the oxford astra zeneca vaccines. so far they have shown in vitro studies enough neutralizing antibodies to be effective against. the p one variant but that still remains to be seen if it will be. in a. real life situation we are of course very slow in our vaccination efforts so 'd even if it is effective against the p one variant we don't have enough of the population vaccinated to stay and then back the vaccination efforts in the spread of the disease thank you so much mr ponce for talking to us thank you for your time thank you and the u.s. president says anyone over the age of 18 will be able to be vaccinated from the middle of april but joe biden is warning that covered $1000.00 infections a sitting creasing with a valley and spreading quickly half of those new cases from just a handful of states the virus is spreading because we have too many people who see the end of this secret the finish line already let me be deadly earnest with you we aren't at the finish line

brazil records more than 4000 covid deaths in a single day. hospitals are struggling to cope and the contagious variant is being blamed. european medical officials say blood clots a a very rare side effect of the astrazeneca vaccine. the u.k. is going to offer young people an alternative jab. the global benefits of vaccine generosity. the imf says richer countries should do more to help poor nations access covid jabs. and a team of scientists say there may be a new force of nature and the old. -- nature in the world. ♪ welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. brazil has seen its worst day since the start of the covid pandemic. more than 4000 people died in a 24 hour period. to date, the virus has killed more than 330,000 brazilians. hospitals are being overrun and would-be patients are dying before they can get treatment. burials are taking place throughout the night and some of the country's cemeteries. our reporter has more. reporter: even at night, the graveyards ibrazil are busy. so huge are the losses from covid. altho

government report that says washington tried to persuade brazil not to use the vaccine well most all of the reasons that the regulatory agency used to deny authorisation for that vaccine for technical so no political entities were involved in that the session they apparently failed to get access to the factories where the vaccine is made and they also found inconsistency in the reporting of safety and efficacy so of those 2 things are missing then of course the vaccine cannot be approved by there as political pressure for the approval or not what could be the implications of this however because more than 60 countries as you know have authorized the use off the russian boxing. well of course this causes an uproar because it does appear that brazil is saying that the same vaccine is not good enough but actually what brazil is saying what the regulatory agency is saying is that folks seem faxing was unable to prove that it was good enough not that it is bad those 62 other countries that have proved it have approved it mostly one of the emergency 'd basis where of course them walls are

has more from the colombian capital bogota you what war is the most health authorities in brazil right now are the effects of these new variants they know they are more contagious and now they fear they're also more dangerous especially in groups of people that have so far been spared the worst of the pandemic in this case is young pregnant women also young people in general teenagers and even children and babies they still don't know exactly how it's affecting them but they are seeing the numbers of cases going up in these groups the number of refugees allowed into the united states this year will soon be increased from its historic low president joe biden had initially agreed to limit admissions 215008 cap set by his predecessor donald trump it was criticized by democrats and refugee advocates prompting the white house to say a final increased cap would be set next month. the un's nuclear watchdog says iran is enriching uranium at 60 percent purity confirming earlier statements from tyrol it comes as members of the 2050 nuclear deal continue efforts to revive the agreement in vienna

and brazil about 375000 why such a poor record. yeah well this is the right question if you put the numbers on the screen so this is exactly why we have taken the microphone to speak out about this because there's no coordinate response we don't most of this pandemic in the intensive care units you have to have actions in the population as we all know or in europe and elsewhere if we have to do things not only vaccinate but we have to go measures like wearing masks keeping physical distance. work reduce nonessential mobility. do testing and contact tracing all these things are not done in accordance with in brazil and the health authorities are not putting themselves behind this and it's scientific it's knowledge that we have constructed over the last year and it's not being implemented in news is brazil's leader at fault here in this case well we we are 20 and one individual it's the autoroute it's defend our government and it's the health authorities mo government we work very well in local level and the people there are overload

recently i should say called the situation in brazil a raging inferno why has brazil being so badly affected. what we are seeing in brazil right now is the combination of the inaction on the run doing enough to federal government back in january 2021 every expert every biologist the whole scientific community of brazil was warning about the danger of a pandemic getting out of control in the country in 2 or 3 months it means march and april and april and the government of found out every sort of excuses not to act i was in brazil reporting for us. by the beginning of march and we were talking about the 1500 deaths every single day right now we talk about 4000 almost 5000 vets every day it shows how fast things are getting out of control and the contrie on the worst part is that it doesn't look like things are going to get better because even though the sorry fine and the overwhelming numbers show you polls are not as a government continued to put to downplay the pandemic you know definitely all fals numbers there where we're seeing now at the number of deaths worldwide from the krona virus pa

brazil's death toll surges again. resident bolsonaro says hunger is killing more people than the coronavirus. president macron announces a nationwide lockdown for france to stop covid infections getting out of control. >> i can't breathe. i can't breathe. i can't breathe. anchor: the killing of george floyd sparked anger across the world, bringing hundreds of thousands to the streets with demands for racial justice. now, a court in minneapolis has been shown the last moments of the unarmed black man's life from the perspective of the police officers who arrested him. often distressing recordings from their body cameras, the jury witnessed the video, including derek chauvin, who is on trial for his murder. >> please, don't shoot me. please, don't shoot me. >> i'm not going to shoot me. >> please. please. please, man. please. please. i didn't know, man. i didn't know. i didn't know. anchor: another scene, before show --chauvin belt on his neck, floyd pleaded with officers. >> hey, listen. >> gang, man. i'm not that kind

queues of people are seeking coverage 19 treatments in brazil last infections reached record breaking levels but still there's a push to ease restrictions. hello and welcome i'm peter w watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up they feel betrayed by bricks it among other grievances so what's igniting the violence in northern ireland 23 years after the good friday peace agreement. break scenes from an exploding volcano on a caribbean island and there's a warning there could be no rest bite for days. and a 41 gun salute for britain's long serving royal prince charles says the royal family's touched by tributes to his late father prince philip. by different power was the was a very special person who i think above all else would have been amazed by the reaction . countries across latin america rushing in restrictions as they battle to contain coronavirus outbreaks the problems are being compounded by a slow vaccine rollouts and weak health systems in the regions worst affected country brazil there are moves to ease back on the lockdown even though infections

they continue to say the bin if it's of the vaccine still outweighed the risks also coming up tonight brazil records its highest ever daily death toll from coast at 19 more than 4000 lawyers lost within the last 24 hours why has the corona virus proved so deadly there and to life in prison turkey has found dozens of harsh sentences to former top ranking army officers accused of plotting the 2016 failed coup. plus a would you volunteer to live in a cave for over a month in france more than a dozen people have signed up to do just that we will find out why. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us we start tonight with a setback for the world's most widely used. vaccine the european medicines agency and its british counterpart today announced there is a possible link between the astra zeneca vaccine and blood clotting in the brain the regulators described the condition as a very rare side effect but depending on where you live and depending on your age the advice tonight is not to take the astra zeneca shot trying to put to rest any concerns 1st of all i want to start by stating that our s

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health care workers pushed to the limit this makeshift hospital in brazil's largest city san paolo is struggling to cope with covert 1000 cases. experts have warned the district lockdown is necessary to slow the virus one of brazil's leading public health institutes cruz said without lockdown measures the country's health system faces collapse. but the president disagrees. the work was we are not going to accept this policy of staying at home of closing everything down the virus will not go away this virus like others is here to stay and will remain for a lifetime it is practically impossible to eradicate it what are we going to do until then. the country is registered more than 13000000 covert 19 cases since the pandemic began it is now at risk of overtaking the united states with the world's highest rates of infection and deaths the president's opponents know where to point the finger. i didn't but as you know brazil is a time bomb a breeding ground for corona virus creating new strains variants because there is a total lack of control of the pandemic and of life for this reason at

he was once seen as the man that would finally turn things around in brazil. the workers' party leader luis in as soon as the silver known simply as lula came to power in 2003 the sky high popularity ratings a former factory worker his humble beginnings helped him connect with brazil's poor as president he focused on social projects and policies during his 8 years. having lifted $20000000.00 brazilians out of poverty left office in 2011 with nearly 90 percent approval ratings the disappeared 3 years later a criminal investigation known as operation carwash estimated more than $2000000000.00 had been largely embezzled through brazil's oil company. funds. led to the indictment imprisonment of several politicians including lula. the former president was convicted on charges of money laundering and corruption and since it's a $9.00 and a half years in prison he appealed but was shocked when the sentence was increased to 12 years and one month. 5 almost 2 years later was released by the supreme federal court which said the legal process had been on little full and