With a political crisis threatening to topple Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, thousands of her supporters rallied to her side in Rio and 17 other cities, as the embattled leader fights to survive a push to have her impeached.
Efforts to oust her have been growing amid allegations of corruption and account fiddling, budget irregularities and illegal campaign financing but her supporters see it as an attempt at a coup.
One woman at the protest agrees for the need for an end to corruption but "not removing the government, that would be a step back."
Another supporter at the demo said that an impeachment would lead to civil unrest, saying that there is no legal basis for it, "so if it happens is something forced, and a forced (impeachment) is a coup. More and more each day we are in favour of consolidating the democracy."
It comes after the biggest party in congress withdrew from her ruling coalition, increasing her risk of losing an impeachment vote later in April.
Her ally and former president Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, is leading calls to keep Rousseff in office. However, he faces corruption charges linked to a corruption probe involving the state-owned oil company Petrobras.
At a nuclear security summit in the US, North Korea's nuclear ambitions were high on the agenda.
US President Barack Obama joined with his counterparts from Japan and South Korea to warn Pyongyang against further provocations. Meeting on the sidelines of the summit the trio called for North Korea to give up further nuclear and missile tests or face more sanctions.
Obama also met with Turkish President Erdogan where they discussed the shared effort to 'degrade and destroy Islamic State'. The American leader also extended his condolences for 'those killed and injured in today's terrorist attack in Diyarbakir.
Obama meets w Erdogan: #readout pic.twitter.com/DfcvKbj63c- ilhan tanir (@WashingtonPoint) April 1, 2016
Leaders from more than 50 countries were in Washington to discuss how to prevent nuclear materials from falling into the hands of terrorists. Rose Gottemoeller, US Under Secretary for Arms Control told reporters:
"In many countries, possession of nuclear material for sale is not a crime. So another area that we have put a lot of emphasis on, is improving our ability not only to locate smuggled material and find the nuclear smugglers, but also to bring them to justice."
It comes after the terror attacks in Brussels and investigations into the networks behind them which have increased fears that the ISIL group could target nuclear plants, steal materials and develop dirty bombs.
"The Obama administration claims that it is harder than ever before for terrorists to acquire nuclear materials. Yet, the summit includes a special conference on groups like ISIL who have targeted urban areas around the globe - a clear sign that a nuclear threat by terrorists is still looming," - euronews correspondent Stefan Grobe.
LAPD police officer doesn't like to be recorded and fails to
follow his own department policy. Goodnight cowards.
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