are given a $100.00 bonus on their 1st day after showing proof of explanation. complicating matters further that delta variant, the highly infectious strain, now accounts for a quarter of all new cobra cases in the us and has seen some countries holt or even reverse their reopening plants. there is no one size fits all approach. of course labor laws differ country by country. but with the majority of us companies planning to call back employees to the office in the coming weeks. the us could be a test case on what works. and perhaps, what doesn't. gabriel's condo, i'll just either new york, ah, this is al jazeera, these top stories, the world health organization has worn governments against easy coven 19 restrictions to soon criticizing. when it cools

a premature rushed back to full. no malady. it says the pandemic is an obvious and fell. the waves of infection could have wife nice and the year we just need to be a little more patient. remember last summer we have everything got good and then everyone kind of relaxed and then we kind of arrived in september, october and ended up in huge trouble. i think that's where we're going again with a much more transmissible variant this time around and warning comes as the u. k. prime minister confirmed most kind of the 19 restrictions in england will be lifted in 2 weeks. people won't have to wear face mosques said most places or maintain social distance thing. or johnson admits move could drive up infections, but says people must learn to live with the virus. we must be honest with ourselves that if we can't reopen our society in the next few weeks when we will be helped by the arrival of summer and by the school holidays, then we massage ourselves. when will we be able to return to normal?

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in the region. these are you headlines. 11 east is next on can you call us the site is challenging the political establishment in latin america. as a pandemic thinks millions into prophecy and fuel prices and they're trying to food . whereas the lease vex tech unicorn can see the cost on out to 0 lose more than 90 percent of global trade is moved by see really, really that's our job. but with borders closed around the world, see fer it had been stranded on their ship for months on end. though they would be fine with me. dickins. if a poorly regulated industry, some are abandoned unpaid and left to survive on their own. we still have an

incredible amount of scale. dougherty going on? holly, she's one i 18th, explores the unseen lives of thief. there is during the coven, 19 pandemic me in. ah, ah ah ah, there is a tradition among the sea farris than what happens at sea stays at say the 27 year old nadine perio believes it's time to change that she's one of a growing community of the fair is hosting videos of how they live on line, i just love to share. we have more because i feel like people are very different

than people like yours. what kind of work do you need to avoid? the may not be obvious. i'm in charge of the reason i'm here now. origin or minds who nadine's. not exactly what you might imagine when you think of a seafaring hailing from the philippines. the 2nd officer is petite, the only woman on her ship and she gets the sick. but she loves this job ah, during long voyage that you can see nothing, you know, shipped a lot. the growth is very boring. for me,

it's one of the best for us, a brand new 33 will face as well. i'm 6 or amazing. are there a 1600000 seafaring on international mention ship and their time on shore helps them cope with their relentless schedule. they usually work 10 to 12 hour days, 7 days a week, for up to 11 month at a time. but when the pandemic hit, few of them were getting on or off the ship start feeling really isolated from the world because we cannot brochure anymore. i mean, well if the enjoyment that we have to reassure and stuff on the ship, this is the beginning of the global crisis for the industry. every month,

roughly $50000.00 c fair as opposed to board vessels. swapping places with 50000 others who disembark with international borders, closing crew changes became almost impossible for me to be sure when i didn't go when i was with you to go home at the beginning of the pandemic fin worst many celebration to birthdays on board. missing the birth of children and the depth, the parents, their business. and the for me know, for me it's only 2 months expansion and apparently my live with other people are going to, there are in work for 14 months, 16 months. 17. so i still waited while many international shipping fins behave responsibly,

there are exceptions. showing me around the ship town. i want to see where you've been living for the last 18 months. some have been under enormous financial pressure. and the sea fair is on their ship. the unluckiest of all the crew of the cruise ship, oriental dragon, have been abandoned in malaysia by their employer. one running the other restaurants mean by now? the big here. so it was empty me. when the pandemic hit passengers were stranded on cruise ships all over the world. we do have a, we got a bit of water already daddy already me, but after the holiday makers went home, many seafaring remained. tammy, on 10 ton, was a casino dealer on the ship that all 29 hooting

as a mid july for ton who comes from me and my working on the oriental dragon seemed like a dream job. and i'll be glad to be the one i have been working on me when the cruises stopped, the ship's owners and hong kong stopped paying them. it's been more than a year since any of the $200.00 seafaring roomed on board have received a salary. actually make us, you know, the people spend most of the day hanging out here. yeah. we don't have anything either been good to me. the ship, water, electricity and air conditioning, a limited. so they sleep on the floor of the dining room and casino

me . i love, i love my my thought by my alarm. i know she was already over and done all those i miss you all know that he had a newborn boy. boy, by the way, will cook for me the way we'll wait till our got all the little long. she knew little again go. i thought it will be will. what will we would we call me out by reform gemini, gemini, the crew also faced shortages of water and oil for more than a week. that's when they called a union,

which arranged supplies through the ship's insurer. experience on this ship is one of the last h, b and i ever had in february 2021. the ari until dragon was seized by the malaysian courts on behalf of its crew . that means they should eventually be paid once the ship is sold. but 1st, the crew has to be repaired, created this apart from the difficult living conditions. the state fair is mostly young men from me and mar in china, feel helpless, all but i can even do what they told me. and i don't know if these would be my new up. i never found on the new to

the, the united nations is just drive supplies to be fair. as during the pandemic, as a humanitarian crisis right now, up to 200000 stranded at the same, the international transport worth is. federation. big global union says the pandemic is highlighted just how vulnerable the fair is already were in seafaring is tough. law is injuries. this psychological problems, brutality, harassment, sexual harassment. we still have an incredible amanda scaled dougherty going on, holly se se met purcell has spent 25 years working with seafarers as an inspector with the international transport workers federation. the boards ships arriving in melbourne,

australia to check on their crews. he says, conditions during the pandemic of the worst he's ever seen. have you had concerns about the mental health of any of the seafaring that you've met? we had some people have self hom themselves to get off the vessel. then eventually, what sort of pallet shipping companies have over their employees? they have huge pare because they control, you know, they finances, i control the law basically longer employed more. that company. it's a pretty antiquated fuel system. some nice seafarers, a too scared to say anything about what might be happening on board a vessel because the fear of what might happen to them. we've had cases where the crew of said later on that, that wasn't a suicide. that was pushed really for years, for centuries 18. it's blaine,

and on one of the worst regulated industries in the world because of an assault animal. i. when met boards the ship, he asked the records of the crews working hours and pe. he says there's sometimes one set of books used to show inspectors and the 2nd hidden one that he has to ferret out some other rubbish. this delta given to us as evidence is just unbelievable. it's just made up in the office. what sort of documents like forged bank statement? yeah, for sure. definitely. mm. things greatly improved after the maritime labor convention came into force in 2006, a bill of rights, the c fair as it sits, minimum standards today, working conditions. but as inspectors like massive discovered, there is still plenty of ropes. sharon has to keep them busy,

especially during the pandemic. last year they had a record amount of money recovered from curry style. and my just don't worry the, the cash register was to work when the pandemic was on their way command. hannah had run the crews. mm. oh, hello. nice to meet you. can you put the phone the other way so that it is already gone? oh, that's great, i few seafarers are as death, fresh, but the 19 crew members love a bulk carry, a docked and white many have been stuck on board in more than 2 years and there's no end to they ordeal in size by no shanker pond us. if the

ship's 3rd engineer shows the way you might look on the me. so this is the crew of people love me. it was 25 year old. a cash tomorrow. first voyage a see when when did you join the ship? i went join on 7 when i got this job and that feeling that they're coming through me, this was a cautious 1st glimpse of the la and his last moments of freedom. i don't know much about i. i love those other places, other reason for money. money meadows. this is more money than

other land jobs. it started promising lee, but the ship owner could terry company called us one trading and contracting soon left them in the lurch. coming in company we're not sending us frozen water. people are in black for 90 days and the didn't send us nothing about waiting. this is our barbecue for emergency because i think this is our thing for washing dental in february, last year that lived in white and many of the crew would use it got home, but then the country went into locked down

later in the year after one trading and contracting said it had no funds to support the ship and kept contact. the viola was arrested by hawaii authorities. ever since the mostly indian crew has been waiting to be paid for the ship cargo to be removed, the day can be repaired creation. according to the information given to the guy who has already been sort of and they are not going to go rogers when they start the stone. my company basically building us with the honey where it is the wires and many of the crews have been forced to borrow money to support their families. during the pandemic,

the biggest concern is how to deal with the death. if they stay home empty handed, bigger book, i promise the money in india i've got money going have any idea to give us money? just figure out what the situation was. all will be able to do that. the people that loaned you the money, have you tell them if you explained the situation that you're in? yeah, i order them, but they are not really me data thing. your life may want to happen in january 2021. close to breaking point, the cruise started a hunger strike hoping to draw attention to the implies. we are not somebody

going to me, the chairman of us, one trading and contracting nasa, hama, down the why me is wanted by could tyree authorities and this company has been blacklisted, but 101 east has obtained evidence that suggests a different company. us one shipping denise collect, manage the ola, although it denies this, this company also manages to ship detained in australia for safety and labor violations which have now been banned from the country for several years. abandoning seafarers has been described as the cancer of the shipping industry, and cases are record high, exacerbated by the pandemic. altogether, the crew of the law is owed more than 410000 us dollars.

what was your result moving to the light. 8 good night, like leaving the pandemic has brought to light, many hot breaking stories, like those of the crew on the last. some hope this growing recognition will lead to more protection for seafaring. oh i, when i did port security area, this is the number one and the ship there is loading canola. naval medicines spent 17 years at the mission to see ferris in portland, australia come this way. this is where we are and here is the center. this is

a how to what we do. we have like a shop for say 1st to come in to the recreation area over there for the guys sorts tuesday. these guys are away from the family and live and work on a ship. 247. that's why i say for centers is so important, it's a way of being able to get off that environment. so how did things change here when the pandemic had put a stop to just say for it was coming off the vessel and visiting center often and worrying about the gas to show wired about their mental health for this is the volunteers making up the welfare pack so the safer we put together about $1500.00 k attached already, and each one of them is got one of the boonies that they needed by someone in the

community. every tax had a very call when you come from zillow, things you come to portland, holly sought after i get, i love them. ah. during the pandemic, more than $800.00 maritime organizations, including shipping companies, signed the neptune declaration. it calls the thief farris, to be recognised as key workers who should be prioritized in the vaccine rollouts and the crew changes to be facilitated. if all of a sudden the world says, because of it, we kind of have a fair is coming and going. the whole country will come out. they are essentially where it is in that respect. they have forgotten about they say the ships come and go to the products. common guy. don't say the human side of it. the

guys are from same club of the street. i cannot come on board. yeah. okay. and i was good because for 12 months, oh, i thought you said yeah, we've got some disco is that we've got some will fit for you. i'm gonna read them for this one for every current. okay. i'll get them for you. even these small acts of kindness resonate for c fair is arriving on foreign shores proof. they've not been forgotten. you know, you just let us know and we'll try and get it for you. yeah. you can leave the ship . we'll do the shopping for you. yep. okay. yep, thank you very much. you're welcome. okay, thank you. just to say the faces that you've helped

and just done a little thing for that particular di. oh that marmont and i asked so appreciative of it. yeah. i think that's what none of us. we still the, there's been a big shift in the mood on board. the oriental dragon in malaysia. some of the crew have been stuck on this cruise ship for more than 18 months. but finally, they're heading home trepidation. the me think there is like ton because of the violent crack down back home following a military coup. gomez, i don't, i don't, i don't want to say will any. and i'm down. do you guys don't know me, mother. he's in, you know,

did it dr. on the model file for the fairly know for the day before his departure, tom gets a coven, 19, and 4 month salary, thanks to the ship's indemnity insurance. he's still owed a month wager, which he hopes to receive after the sale of the ship, but at least he won't be going home empty handed over the okay, they can. they can love the lives of the see fear is have been put on hold since they boarded. now they can't wait to get off the ship and put the lot here behind the 1000000 meadows, your auto payment. but

how does it feel to be finally off the ship after all this time after one year and several months past die on the land? if a pretty although them on a job went to the you are the, you know, blogging away ah, on earth after more than a year, a see the 1st craving, satisfied is fast food. all. but tom knows there's nothing like the taste. why do you got all i did a anyway. i didn't be i me today. i mean they're going to be dog molly, today he needed. how do you got them all my the way i saw the loan or dan man, or do you got your linea?

in kuwait, the cargo of the owner was eventually discharged and the crew was finally repack tree. i said that they still haven't been paid 58 country to recognize seafarers as key workers, australia, malaysia, and co. white are not among them. they might keep the world going, but the welfare of the ferris is a distant priority for too many governments. and now you would only be like these own. i want to watch it. now you only, you're only going to be the the mobile phone i will call gonna issue and move on into that issue. oh no ma'am. i don't, i don't,

i don't know. i i the story of them. bob weigh in her she is always told from the perspective of the great man, whether it's even moving and the robot mccardie. my responsibility is to tell, is involved when story in a way that it hasn't really been told before the ordinary, everyday life. or if the people i'm writing about patina got out of darkness, my zimbabwe on al jazeera when a war crime is committed, is it kind of just follows

a garzon human rights investigator on his unprecedented journey to the french high court. every place to make sure that the information to bring its contact, taking on the arms trade in his fight for justice, for innocent palestinians, and their families made in france on old jersey. i me a warning against cardona virus complacency, a world health organization expert says, countries are opening up way too quickly. you've made a very premature run, rushing back to full normality and i think we're going to pay a price for that. ah,

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