of what it's like to be lebanese and color strangely a home. once upon a time in punch bowl on al jazeera ah i didn't run out into the top stories on algebra. $247.00 korean sailors on an anti piracy mission in waters off africa have tested positive for co. 19. it's now become south korea's largest outbreak among service members. meanwhile, the country has recorded 1200 new cases in the past 24 hours. rob mcbride has more from salt. this is the man move the great. it is called it is a destroyer and it is south korea contribution to the anti piracy task force of the

east coast, but to no less alarming for the speed of the spread out of a crew of around 30247. have now tested positive the solution to this is the authorities here are scrambling to get to military aircraft out there to bring the whole crew back to south korea at the same time delivering a replacement crew or reduced reduce crew around a $150.00 whose job it will be basically to take over this vessel and bring it back to south korea. thailand has reported its full consecutive day of records, new kind of virus infections on monday and confer more than 11000 new cases. thailand has expanded restrictions that include stay home orders and nighttime care if you in some areas including bangkok, germany, charles says describe the situation areas hardest hit by floods. a thrill and terrifying. i know the merkel has visited the village of shoals as a master, clean up kits under way across western europe. 180 people have died in the floods.

the afghan government and the taliban of issued a joint statement following another round of talks. and the country capital, they've agreed to speed up discussions aimed at finding common grounds. phones belonging to hundreds of journalists, activists, and politicians have been hacked by government using spyware, owned by the israeli surveillance company, the nfl group. that's according to the latest investigation conducted by 16 media outlets. these ready for has called the investigations findings exaggerated and baseless. and the court in japan as handed prison sentences to 2 americans for helping and defense sherman call us one flea, the country they pleaded guilty to helping on escape 21112018. they extension bosses facing charges of financial misconduct in japan, which he denies those as the headlines ah,

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the world economy is headed for recession. china won't be there to say that this time . northern islands health service at breaking point. south korea, for one of the worst growth periods. in half a century. the richest person in the world just gave $98.00 and a half $1000000.00. del. why am i reading these headlines to? well, it's to prove these could all of these leaving poor pandemic 2020 headlines in reality though they were all published in november 2019 a month before close at 19 had even been heard all because well, before the current of ours much of the world was already deep in a crisis of capitalism and now with millions out of work in the industry, suddenly stagnant and health kit and scrambling for vaccine. the question is, did capitalism turn the emergency into a disaster? the

the me o capital if it's an id ology and economic system, a political state. but how is the system based on private ownership and the prophet says the world and the time of christ. when the situation demands, we cannot the individual gain a collective benefit. stay at home and protect lives with it said test test test without preventive measures, it could be a spiking cases. all these cancellations are a way to flatten the curve coated 19 hasn't been like any other crisis. job losses . health care struggle is a critical need for relief from the state of all struct segments of society that normally don't face these kinds of grave economic stresses. ensure all of us haven't heard of pandemic once in a century type of crisis. it's become evident to many that pre k times what info

across i can tie countries went down. i spoke with a group of people whose work has been all about dissecting and analyzing capitalism . when people say they want to go back normal to complain because that sounds pretty good to me right now. the thing about morality actually inc. politics is actually producing a lot. right. so i could get pretty well not, not even in other people have even, there was enough food to keep the money to come in and talking keys from one of the richest keys history. i mean, we didn't have the money in my opinion. capitalism is the pandemic. that is the root cause of so much of the suffering we're experiencing now. i mean,

i want things to go back to normal. i want to be able to go to a cafe. i want to be able to see my friends. i don't want things to go back to the normal that we've been living with for the last 20 years. wells, concentration pace, networking people. that's the paradigm, that's the contact stage for our current calamity. this virus has intensified as spotlight on health care, what it costs, who gets access and its ability to respond in a crisis. one system that runs shockingly counter to the needs of so many it's supposed to serve. if the one in the united states american health care is largely privatized and lacks pricing regulation, both key traits of a capitalist system. this means not only is every element of the health care system from hospitals to drug manufacturers, owned and operated by the private sector. but those businesses are free to charge, whatever they like. this makes staying healthy in the united states. a scarily

expensive proposition. this is small percentage of the population about 80 percent . that does get some state support for medical costs. but for the vast majority private health insurance, it's the only recourse they charge, notoriously expensive premiums, making them unaffordable for many and filled with loopholes from gaps that mean even in short, americans can be left with hefty medical bills to pay. that's why before the pandemic, it was estimated that 87000000 americans were uninsured, or underinsured, and medical bills were a leading cause of personal bankruptcy. you know, in the united states, people can't access health care because they can't afford health insurance, even if they have insurance. they are buried in debt after the fact. what happens in something like the current of our hits, a population that's indebted your devastating population that has no savings, right? 40 percent of americans before the crisis were reported to not be able to handle a 4 $100.00 emergency. america's health care crisis has intensified during the

pandemic. a tidal wave of labels have meant that as many as 27000000 americans have lost employer provided health insurance. and without that cover a hospital stay to treat cause it could cost as much as $73000.00. this is despite a government plan announced in march to cover some close related medical bills. the lack of coordination and the need for medical supplies to keep turning. a profit has led hospitals into bidding war. so if a crucial supplies like p, p masks, tests, and medical equipment, doctors and nurses warning that critical protective gear is running low. this is a hospital where the health care workers have taken to wearing garbage bag like being on e bay with 50 other states bidding on a ventilator hospitals around for profit. and so they don't have adequate staff, right? because that would feed into revenue. they don't want to have extra medical supplies if languishing not being you. so what we're going to see is

a lot of people who are going to perish, not because of the virus, per se, but because of the lack of access to adequate health care, the lack of access to tech them. here we're going to see people who don't seek treatment because they're afraid of not being able to pay for it. it's already been reported by emergency room doctor is that, you know, people, the last, their last words are literally, but who's going to pay for this? corona viruses, new men existed in human since 19 sixty's, and they called a range of different illnesses from the common cold to more lethal varieties, such as the outbreak of sars in 2002 and moved in 2012 in 2015 the world health organization, even listed corona viruses as being among the top possible causes of a major epidemic. so how is it that pharmaceutical companies have been caught off guard by this virus? in may, this year based research center, the corporate europe observatory,

published a detailed investigation into the effectiveness of the innovation medicines initiative. i am i, it's the world's biggest public, private partnership in life sciences and a direct billions of dollars worth of funds to biomedical research at the world's biggest pharma companies. what the investigation and come in was that not only did fund in 2017 turn down, and you proposal to work on vaccines for pathogens like corona, ours, but 2600000000 year old eyes funds were transferred into projects that represented much more commercially profitable avenues for the pharmaceutical industry. this investigation reinforced the point that big pharma insiders and whistleblowers had been making for a while. that serious matters, like pandemic preparedness, being held hostage by commercial considerations on march 5th says corona bars, cases spread across the us, congressional hearing making play out. we also took on the decade ago the

interesting problem with making corona virus vaccines because we recognize these as enormous public health threats. and yet we have not seen the big pharma guys and the biotech se rushing in into the space of dr. pito. it is one of america's leading vaccine scientists said that a vaccine his team, it created 4 years ago in response to the sauce outbreak, may have been able to provide patients with cross protection from the bars at the heart of this p damage. but it simply hadn't been commercially enticino for drug companies to invest in. the bottom line is had we had those investments early on to carry this all the way through clinical trials. years ago, we could have had a vaccine ready to go, you know, one of the big problem with capitalism, the capitalists, direct investment. the capitalist say, you know, what's really important biography, because that's a huge market. even though the current environment exists, what's not invest in evac scenes because that market doesn't really exist. and also

you really want to vaccinate the whole world. and that's preemptive measure. know, let's create something that we can sell now. so, you know, we like capitalists, me direct investment at our collective peril whenever a vaccine is actually created. the next battle, at least for patients in the united states, will be over affordability. and that's one way back to one of the fundamental part of the american health care system, where i'm like almost every other nation. basic pricing controls simply don't exist . it's not even a lawyer. this is a secret and you're saying it for sure, be affordable for anyone who needs. i'm saying we would, we would want to ensure that we work to make it affordable, but we can't control that price because we need the private sector to invest. that was donald trump, health and human services. secretary alex's a congressional hearing in february this year and interesting sites before he was appointed to his rolling government. as i worked as the top lobbyist for the pharmaceutical firm, eli lilly, and company the hunt for

a corona virus vaccine has now suddenly become one of the most well funded areas of biomedical research. not only governments and pharmaceutical giants investing in it, the so called super heroes of the corporate world have all stepped into the fray. a ceo of netflix is donating $30000000.00 toward research for a corona virus vaccine. microsoft co founder bill gates has continued to fight against corona, vars investing billions of dollars on the construction of factories working to develop the code 19 vaccine. some of the will these people on a found isn't c major corporations. i'm making headlines for denying to proven causes through their own philanthropic organizations. but it's not just about the money. it's the perception that it comes with all the trappings of the corporate world efficiency return on investment, streamlining of operations. all of this is transformed. what was, was simply charitable, giving into something else. philanthropic capitalism. lindsey niggley has written

about it extensively in a book, no such thing as a free gift. i think we have to move past the headline. sometimes mr. gates did talk about the need for my testing at an earlier stage than us officials. and that was a good sign to approach to. but i really can question whether or not their efforts were anything more than a band aid solution, because there was no evidence, but they were really having much of a positive effect on the sort of really deteriorated and ramshackle approach that was underway in the us. more generally, i think what we are planning when we see a been a dipping into their own trial to pockets and giving me some cash is we're building the mix that capital what everyone that anyone could be and be the ordinary guy. the money and not, not the 1000000000 of a collective creation, not their own individual creation every being a failure because no one money when other people are sleeping in the street going

about inequality is one of the defining factors of capitalism. it's meant that the world's top one percent now hold close to 50 percent of global growth. and so when the philanthropists among them contribute to causes, it's often only amir sliver of the net with jeff bezos is $100000000.00 donation to us food banks. for example, amounted to 0.07 percent of his estimated both markets. arkenberg is $25000000.00 donation. again, just 0.05 percent of these networks. the point of all these numbers isn't that 1000000000, it should be giving more. that's another discussion entirely. near the point here is that philanthropy, capitalism is too often used as a distraction from meaningful possibly more expensive systemic changes ramp and corporate tax avoidance. the suppression of minimum wage levels rely from state subsidies, precarious working conditions. i mean,

the list of what actually needs to be addressed is long. and it can often get obscured by flashy headlines or new segments about billionaires and their generosity. q to stepped up and you're providing $25000000.00. you didn't have the money to do that, and i just want to thank you to. this is not an act this right? this is the product of a political strategy that's been going on for the last 4050 years, whereby your taxes are slashed and private was accumulated. and what that private well does is it concentrates power and that threatens democracy. so we have this really negative feedback loop where the more dysfunctional, the data's right. the last is able to provide basic services. the less is able to protect our public health, the more ammo there is for corporate sectors and say, hey, look, the inefficient the date is incompetent. we, with all of our resources, can save the day that big philanthropic. i would, it is

a point that's not last on 1000000000 is like bill gates when asked in 2012 if he would ever run for president of the us. he responded, i actually think, you know, maybe i'm wrong that i can have as much impact in that role as i could in any political role. my role in the foundation, i don't have to raise political campaigns. i don't have to try and get elected. i'm not term limited to 8 years. it's a very nice office. down to being built very long. it could be invoking the think that he's not beholden any boat. he can make your own decision money, the river, he wishes to get a crappy for that. that that's not the construct work. what he does. if he's not replacing all in

a complex whoa can benevolent deleted is a great. they have name recognition, they appear heroic, and they've got the cash. however, this pandemic has also shown a lot on the other end of the economic spectrum to the key worker delivery drivers, supermarket shelf stack. as nurses care is the pin demick momentarily appended the hierarchy of labor. and yet in the u. k, a set of proposed post breaks it. immigration controls in february deemed many of these exact essential workers to low paid and quote, low skilled to receive a visa to work in the country. i think that is at the heart of capitalist. those who were driving and the value from the economic are not the central workers because what is keeping our economy going right now? are the lowest workers who are really, are most indispensable part of the workforce. the work is the need help. and i've seen that got enough people on this

one. i don't know enough that it has to be destroyed and people working. so should that system are not enough to live on. what do we do? because it was just me and my wife is going out and applauding the health care workers and our prime minister on down the street. recall the gotten the car, the resources that were going into the system. there's a term that gained renewed currency during this pandemic disaster capital from canadian activist and author, naomi klein came up with a years ago and a book. the shock doctrine went viral during the 2008 great recession. it points to have disasters. recession were, a pandemic, aren't necessarily catastrophic across the board in a capital, a system that can also present an opportunity for the money minded. and we've seen

a lot of profiteering during the current condemning already. i don't think we the limits at that hearing, but we've got an early which dr. companies are starting to, for example, right out when it comes to that better, for example, being charged for the 15 times the usual price. gouging is one manifestation of disaster capitalism. and during this lockdown, it's done everything from cause a temporary spike in the price of hand sanitizer to effect a number of ventilate. it's available to the u. s. government, according to a pro public or investigation in 2014. the u. s. department of health and human services signed a 13800000 dollar contract with the dutch electronics conglomerate phillips to design a manufacturer, a cheap and portable ventilator use an emergency. although ventilated was created and the government ordered $10000.00 of them, not a single one,

which red started the pandemic. like many countries, the united states space critical, ventilators shortages, while phillips were selling to higher priced commercial versions of the same ventilator around the world. so they never filled this order at the cheaper level for the department of health and human death. prioritize the more over. and it's only been recently that the department of health and human sciences has really negotiated the same order, but it has been forced to pay for the ventilators at a higher price. that renegotiation that lindsey mentioned, it resulted in the us government ordering $43000.00 of the commercial ventilators in april, at 4 times the regional price. in late august, the remainder of the order was cancelled only after a congressional committee raised questions about the expenditure. but disaster capitalism can also be less direct and more obscured from public scrutiny. like who stands to benefit from some tax payer funded pay laps. take the us airline industry,

which had its request for a $50000000000.00 bailout approved by the us senate in march, while the loans were conditional on job protections. the sticking point for many is that over the past 5 years, the big 4 airline companies, american delta southwest in the united have not only made record profits, but collectively spent nearly the same amount. 45000000000 on stock buybacks and dividend 2 ways in which companies can directly enrich their corporate executives and shareholders. so it's not that these bailouts aren't necessary now to avoid mass unemployment. it's not a substantial part of their current financial problem is arguably of their own making billions of dollars from mobile. i basically in an incident to bail out corporate america. this is incredibly ironic because these, these corporations were, you know, in a week financial place because of their own business model because they had over elaborate themselves because they had engaged in pushing money out to shareholders

instead of planning for tough time. meanwhile, regular people are held to that standard. you know, if you haven't said, then it's your fault that you're suffering in the moment. so there's, there's a double standard written into the economic response. do you have a formal package? did you talk to the billing? because we'll kept reading, cute and say, well, capitalism works when we kissed company goes to the wall when, when things are watching a bad idea, they fail to clearly have cotton in any society under this. and that's probably a good when we come out. i think we can certainly say that the old month for of public bad product. good stuff. nothing works. and i think we can all saw some questions about why did the losses and socialize it to an outside crisis.

again, we're profit. we need to reach out to the kind of the assets to rethink capitalism, have been going on almost as long as capitalism itself has existed and to be fair. it's practiced in notably different ways in different parts of the world. but one of the most toxic and recurring problems is that in too many cases, the system seemed designed to favor small elite segment of the population. if the idea we began with that way before the crisis of this corona virus, we will already grappling the crisis of capitalism. we should have this phrase, you know, that we need to save the economy or we need to keep businesses going. it makes sense, but i think we have to ask that deeper question, which is, well, what's in the economy for look at something like g d, p, gross domestic product. all that means is that there's more affluent, but it has nothing to do with distribution that has nothing to do with the quality of people's lives. you can have enormously high g, p and, and have rector, race,

homelessness, an unemployment. so we, we have to deconstruct this idea of the economy and, and put people at the center. we are living in the moment and not being clear. because okay, about the nation could not for their own companies or their own public sufficiently to prevent automatic. clearly the, well, the sort of venturing has not been fair to share and they've been ordered by a few people or less or more among them by market and other stuff that it's really hard to ignore. the stuff that we were clear actually everything mirroring the whole collective action. individual action is also clear that there are some parts of the adjustment and should be taken to

pretty much nations of the cleaning collected in all of the attention that's being given to to getting a marching coming to country without thinking too much about the way i think we need to really need it. we need to read the contract before i 2020, the year of lockdown and social distance saying you can't reach across the screen and get someone to re explore one of the global pandemic. biggest side effects loneliness, everyone who lives alone has been forced to be socially isolated for the 1st time ever highlighting its effects on physical and mental health and discovering unique ways of coping. controlling, being alone to get the episode of all hail the locked down on al jazeera,

the they've been some huge thunderstorms over among the last 2 or 3 days. and you see the class been sweeping up to the empty court. and even as far as counter this is what was left, i think is an east in oh man. yes. again, his street funding of some depth. it's not unusual. have be big showers and occasional street funding. this has been to pick the big event. but by the time we get to monday, they virtually all gone. there are a few showers around to the west side of saudi, or in yemen. nothing much indicates for a month sir le, we'll have the how do you, which is the 3 months worth of overcast drizzly weather? occasionally, the sun comes out an occasional thunder bangs mostly it's overcast, asked the temperatures elsewhere. they've come down just a little bit from 50 to about 48 him bagged on q 8. the breeze is blowing dusty breeze vehicles in for a guest, the gulf water. so though house 13, i will continue to be a seasonally normal,

humid $39.00. this little change by time you get to choose day very much the same, but just as more house potentially on the east and of among that monsoon winds becoming quite active every now and again. as it runs up the coast of canyon somalia increasing the clatter producing showers via it also indicates that sees when we get big sunstar beneath european through sassy, down and westwards. ah, the joined the debate. do not have vaccines reaching those who are most of the needs and amplify your voice in allowed a diverse community and how in array of different stories. no topic is off the table. it's such a tough ethical debate where there is an obvious discrimination in systematic discrimination of the play. people are thursdays for new wasted. the stream where a global audience becomes a global community on al jazeera ah,

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