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how will we live in the future. 66 me missing sea levels starts to fly on g.w. . the seat of the line from donald trump delivers an ultimatum to the world health organization the u.s. president threatens the w.h.o. with his country's problems with drop unless the u.n. body makes changes within the next 30 days describing it as a puppet of china also on the program. scientists in south africa were coming out to improve contact tracing as the country braces to contain the coronavirus.
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germany's top court television service it says spies must not indiscriminately tap into the traffic of foreigners abroad the ruling comes at a cost does that really cover the cost of protecting the stepped. on blocks of your own bassier back in team training european football leagues or edging towards a resumption following the bluntest league has returned to take a look at when and. i will go welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has threatened to withdraw the united states from the world health organization and permanently and u.s. funding and i letter to the un body bodies director general mr trump demanded changes based on his criticisms within 30 days uses the organization of mishandling the global corona. this response of being
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a puppet of china china describes the trams comments as a smear campaign of accuses him of shirking america's responsibilities to the w.h.o. . final decision and folly to fund the w. even before trump had issued his in century letter to the world health organization it was clear he was about to attack. and i think they've done a. very sad job in the last period of time. and again the united states pays them $450000000.00 a year china pays them $38000000000.00 a year and they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it nicer but they're a puppet of china those comments at a white house event were quickly followed by a trump tweet he links to a letter accusing the w.h.o. of making a series of missteps over its response to the pandemic in it he warns that if the
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world health organization does not commit to major substantial improvements within the next 30 days i will make my temporary freeze of united states funding to the w.h.o. permanent and reconsider our membership in the organization trumps ultimatum came just a few hours after the w.h.o. announced an independent review i will initiate an independent evaluation at the earliest appropriate moment to review experience gain and lessons learned and to make recommendations to improve national and global fund to meet preparedness and response. but this is about more than just the well telephone going to his ation don't know trump he's being criticized for his own handling of the pandemic publicly blames china for trying to cover up the outbreak china's foreign ministry has already hit back accusing trump of trying to mislead the
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public into one day to smear china let's take a closer look at this with john jordan he's a republican strategist and political commentator he joins us from california welcome to you with more than 90000 covered 19 deaths the most in the world and the highest number of coronavirus cases how would the u.s. benefit from leaving the world health organization well 1st of all we don't know the u.s. has the most deaths or the most cases of america's numbers are very transparent we don't really know what russia's numbers china's numbers are or runs numbers really are we are the we have the largest case there were fatalities number of countries that are our 4th rate of those numbers question is america is not the only one that's very unhappy with the world health organization right now certainly the and the trumpet history should take the most extreme position but there are over 100 other countries that are very unhappy with the w.h.o.
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as well i mean the world health assembly is meeting today and tomorrow and taiwan is excluded at china's insistence so i think the us is is it one of the spectrum but the rest of the world including all of nearly all of the e.u. is is is is also registering their unhappiness world health organization as it appears that the world health organization is more governed by politics then and then mix right ok so what i want us to look at let's just take a lesson look at that because of course in any multilateral organization you're going to struggle to find can consensus just going back to the question i asked what would be the benefit to the united states of leaving the w.h.o. . well certainly it would make a statement and certainly the u.s. taxpayer would save save money from it if the world health organization is really just something that the chinese government is so co-opted there's no point for the united states to state it at all furthermore that it that with the u.s. withdrawal from might encourage other countries to place pressure on other w.h.o.
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and the chinese government and make their behavior more up and demick oriented ok so we have accusations coming from china excuse me coming from the i think states and from others that china is behind this pandemic let's let's stay with this accusation that the w.h.o. is china's century where's the evidence well let's look at let's look at the head of it dr tender skin breezy is i was former health minister a member of an oppressive regime government in ethiopia and was handpicked and lobbied for extensively by beijing for the world health organization top job incidentally he was the only head of the world health organization to not me be a medical doctor he was china's pick he's not even a doctor he has consistently praised china and been reluctant to criticize china not only in terms of the origins of the pandemic but its handling of the data and
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its truthfulness to the rest of the world in lobbying for adult to his appointments to the w.h.o. to china do anything that the u.s. and other other countries was doing when they were love bring for that men or women to be in charge. i mentioned the us with the us didn't really lobby that hard for any other person to be in church keeping one doctor dr tenters good breezy as is was the head of a marxist government in ethiopia and went there and was under white criticism in ethiopia for his handling of 3 cholera outbreaks and the covering up of those in the ninety's and early 2000 so the u.s. didn't insist on getting its guy heading the world health organization but china did it and they did in fact get their guy who is a marxist and has not and is not a physician w.h.o. assembly agreed today to a comprehensive and independent review of the global pandemic of response is that likely to satisfy president from no that's of that's as it's
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a step in the right direction i think we'd all like to see understand you know taiwan has been very successful in its containment of the can chronic virus we'd like we'd like to we'd like the w.h.o. to invite to invite taiwan it at a minimum as an as an observer so the world health or something is going on the next 2 days but china won't let them do it won't it and rose breeziness do it but we'd all like to hear and learn more about taiwan's response could talk and if i could for joining us republican strategist john jones my pleasure. we'll take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world india has begun evacuating people back to eating communities along its eastern seaboard as it prepares for the arrival of cycler unfun it's expected to hit india and bangladesh on wednesday with winds of up to 185 kilometers an hour heavy rainfall and strong tidal waves. the prime minister of assertive has resigned after facing months of
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accusations that he was involved in the killing of his ex-wife thomas to bother announces retirement on national television is a strange wife was shot dead 2 days before his inauguration in 2017. protesters than in the chilean capital santiago have clashed with police over a lack of food in the essential supplies one of the city's poorest neighborhoods people threw stones and lighted fires local officials say the aid package to safety is distributed not enough to meet people's needs. now brazil has overtaken great britain as the country with the 3rd highest number of coronavirus cases more than a quarter of a 1000000 brazilians have been infected or nearly 17000 died the government is calling in more than 150 doctors from cuba to help cope with the surge. brazil's hospitals are running dangerously close to capacity rio de janeiro's
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famous maracana football stadium now serving as a makeshift overspill facility for covert 19 patients. shantytowns are among the hot spots residents from one of the biggest in the city of san paolo marched to protest against their plight with no space for social distancing and lacking medical care there especially at risk. president jaya both scenario has fiercely criticized lockdowns imposed by brazil's regional state governors because of the impact on the economy but they insist there is no alternative. to beat the economic crisis we have to beat the coronavirus the enemy of the economy is not quarantine it is the pandemic and that is why we have to provide all the necessary support for science for medicine for health. many brazilians are angry they say they're the ones suffering because the
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authorities acted too slowly but isn't that brazil is in a bad state and is behind in its response down should have been done a long time back in getting. people into work people need to eat what they're seeing the government playing politics so nobody is taking it seriously despite the seriousness of the problem. the seriousness of. the government says the worst of the crisis should be over by july and the economy will be able to pick up from oldest. not everyone shares that confidence. of finding people who have contracted cough it 19 before they can spread the disease tracing their contacts has become a priority for governments across the world scientists in south africa are developing apps that helps track those contacts if that works it could help make up
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for a shortfall in the country's testing capacity. i feel the news a city far market in cape town for the pandemic the farmers' markets through 7000 visitors a day now just 700 arrived and they are only allowed to buy essential to illustrate procedures. this is what i'm doing today everybody comes to the market i take the form i take. i explain to them the reason i'm doing it which is for prepping and creating in the case of. being a notifiable disease the shoppers appear happy to cooperate and i understand why. and it's great that we can get to the port like local pride here. and to pick. up the people by not getting the. the idea is that if there's a case of coronavirus at the market authorities can warn others who may be affected
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by collecting people's names and contact details is an easy way to make contact tracing possible it is obviously not the most effective way and researchers at the university of cape town argue would make things easier and more effective. everybody who has overseen the development of the corvee id every participant can register online and will then receive a q.r. codes this can be safe to one smartphone or simply printed out as fewer than half of all south africans own a smartphone and can now use the coby id app if i am a very fine so let's say i'm a taxi operate our i'm a security guard i want to scan use s q r s a come in so you can. scan the post. it shows my name it should look like a picture eventually it shows that i haven't been so of test that there's no
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information about where that i south africa from covert what has happened in the bank and isn't the app has sent a geolocation to the wallet of the user and it simply has found the address of that user by looking at the q.r. code the data is not stored centrally to address privacy concerns the data is only stored on user's phones if someone tests positive he or she can agree to sharing the anonymous data with the public health authorities and to one of the users who where the same location. coordinates a team of 150 volunteers who develop the coby id app today they're presenting their project in a vip see me now to political decision makers from several african countries much about the research shows that in order for content tracing to work we can we need to identify 60 percent of the patients as soon as they have symptoms and we need to find 50 percent of their contacts basically instantaneously if you take even 4
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$56.00 days to figure out all the contacts that somebody was positive had and to follow up with then you will be too slow to effect if least curb the spread of the virus but the biggest problem is the insufficient testing capacity that south africa has already performed more than 350000. and covered 1900 tests by father most of any african country but now libertarians are overwhelmed and often need more than 5 days to get a result something that no effort can fix there's still no indication as to whether south africa will introduce the as a nation wide project for the time being researchers up planning to test it here in cape town. well bank president david malouf says he believes the covered 1000 pandemic when unleash a global recession that could push 60000000 people into extreme poverty the world bank has approved a massive program of help for quick or a country's debt relief program backed by the land and the g 20 will suspend
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payments from the world's poorest nations for the rest of the year to free up funds to tackle the pandemic in the next 15 months the world bank will provide $160000000000.00 for poor countries in asia africa and latin america. said in an interview with they tell you that getting that money into the hands of people in those countries requires some creativity that's an important challenge one way is to have cash transfer programs that actually gets money directly to people either through some kind of some countries have debit card systems some countries have small bank accounts that are available to the poorest some many countries several countries use their postal systems to actually give money to people and those are useful because then the people can join you sit for 4 to maintain themselves during the shutdown but also to be ready if there if there is
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a recovery to participate in the economy. this is day doubly news live from berlin still to come. after the result of germany's vote as leader of the weekend other european football leagues are getting ready for action to take a look at their preparations. person and here in berlin businesses are reopening social distancing roles have been relaxed a little and people are presuming that favorite rituals of hard to say the return to normal life can go on best the corona virus infection rate surges again. face new decisions now almost daily about what's risky and what's not. when chewing out once again getting a taste of what the new norm is no like post lockdown something seem to be back to where they were before coronavirus brought everything to a halt for weeks shops restaurants and playgrounds remain closed now every day life
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is slowly returning back to berlin to most people it's really. out and about but they also have to make sure that their fellow citizens are protected how is that going to work opinion is divided some think the authorities are being too cautious others say not careful enough it's a test of social cohesion. i think people are very responsible a lot where they could be carrying the virus and are very careful around others. but not everyone in this playground shares this confidence older people in particular are still worried. only need to come out at the weekend to see that people are partying everywhere 20 or 30 together the young just want to go for it. most people in this part of
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serving social distancing. but it's not easy to decide what should and should not be allowed. but in schools on this is a kind of pseudo solidarity you go along with the rules when you think people are watching and spend that's what at 1st. this neighborhood takes a more casual approach something the pandemic is over others belief that never really was a crisis so no one's saying that out loud it can be confusing. deciding this is shaft assistive it's difficult for people to know how close to each other they can get it specially when they're not thinking about it all day something they're experts and some just go with their own instincts. in hours and they are not hungry yeah i was here i can and it works or not involve me monk. it's good to take a break but many missed their friends. if
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they do good films and it would be nice if more people could get together maybe in groups of 2 fights not just family friends also we could deal with that and most of the cold berlin us are learning to live with the pandemic each in their own way. the old soul in the face of prefer old boy. i feel through the city here in houston so close to it dude suree were takes. you for a fling you'll. germany's foreign intelligence services contravene the country's constitution by spying on foreigners abroad without specific grounds or suspicions that was the ruling of germany's high school courts today response to a case brought by 6 foreign journalists and the group reporters without borders
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german foreign intelligence to be handy had been monitoring the reporter's internet traffic and sharing the information with other secret services the course is giving spy agency until the end of next year to change the way to phrase it use it. we can get more from t w political correspondent tom sparrow who joins us from our parliamentary studio here in brother and welcome thomas so the big day has described this verdict as a send back in the fight against terrorism what do you think feel there are different views very different views in fact when it comes to this ruling there are those who view it as a victory for press freedom in fact as a milestone in the protection of press freedom that was the how report does without borders presented the ruling today but there are other views who say for example that this ruling is not in turn with reality and that it can actually affect negatively affect germany's intelligence gathering and that that is particularly
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important internationally now when you think for example of cyber security or the fight against terrorism so you have very different views here the court itself said that it obviously understand that there's a public interest in intelligence gathering in particular what it has to do with germany's foreign policy and germany security but that that has to happen with respect to the german laws and to the german constitution interesting live at the courthouse and insisted on changes today so how will the ruling to change the way the german foreign intelligence operates abroad. it's important to understand that germany's intelligence community feel is a very complex set of institutions there are many intelligence agencies that were specifically talking about the v.n.d. so the foreign intelligence agency which by the way subordinated to the german chancellor's office so this gives you an idea of the political impact on the political importance of all this and what the ruling said is that when the b.n.
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operates abroad so not only here in germany and when it collects information and carries out surveillance on foreigners it must also respect the rights that are enshrined in the german constitution and that under the current scheme under the current way it had been operating that was not the case and what about the way journalists work abroad will this ruling affect. so the ruling essentially says that 2 rights were being violated the right to privacy of telecommunications and press freedom and that explains why journalists and journalists are going to is asians are so happy about this ruling describing it as i said as a as a milestone and in fact reporters without borders also said that this ruling now or blige is that german government to protect from masa valence the information in fact. private information that journalists may have when they work abroad and when
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they are then under surveillance by the german authorities so this is certainly seen as something that will change the way journalists work but also and more importantly the way the german intelligence agency the v.n.d. will operate in the future thank you for that thomas spar. now sports on the return of germany's bundesliga after 2 months of break because of the coronavirus has prompted other top european leagues to increase their preparations english premier league teams can train in small groups from today while italian and spanish sides are also meeting again. everything is being disinfected at barcelona the spanish league is taking no chances but the sides of lionel messi back on the training ground has raised hopes that matches without fans can restart in mid june. xina deems it damns rail madrid have also returned to team training for the 1st time since march. very good very good to be back on the
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pitch to work you know with. the boys. now we just need to wait for the games but it's very very happy the government was 1st ok a resumption just like in italy and in england where training in small groups has also now been allowed to start up again the plans for a premier league return behind closed doors have been in the works for weeks players had been spotted doing individual training but a realistic start date for matches has been allusive they have been rather was over how much a resumption would expose players health and if games should be played at neutral venue's to avoid home fans turning up outside stadiums the return of the bonders leader at the weekend without fans and with strict guidelines not always followed by the players has put pressure on other european leagues to quickly copy germany's
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lead. but leagues including france have already scrapped their seasons and disadvantage clubs of threatened litigation in the wake of the blunders leagues resumption the french government has defended the decision. it was important for me to give priority to the health and the psychological well being of the players rather than economic considerations which in other countries have indeed taken precedence. a deep clean is needed if europe's biggest leagues are to salvage money spinning t.v. deals they are making a step in the right direction. just a reminder of our top story this hour president trump has threatened to withdraw the united states from the world health organization permanently he accuses the u.n. agency of mishandling the coronavirus crisis and favoritism towards china. i get you can always get new news on the go just download out from google pile from
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kickoff empty stadiums regulations the bundesliga has resumed. after its coronavirus shutdown that decision is highly controversial and today's is
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questions how long can this go on. and want to live in matches be inspired in terms. of the w. in the or even what do they dream of at night. as cleaners they see the face of horror. their job censoring for the social media industry. in the uk there are thousands of so-called content monitors day for day they scream terrifying images from online platforms
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some are riffing job for starvation wage the strain is enormous. the cleaners or sworn to secrecy they are not allowed to talk about their work. and no one asks how they are doing. a great. i need to stop or something walk up to. the cleaners social media shadow industry starts to names on g.w. . the book. the book the slow.

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