this in the hope for the bliss bought her. a. number of coronavirus a toilet seat that shoots up in iran the country's leadership claims the crisis has been exacerbated by u.s. sanctions. but the infection rates increasing drop dramatically in other countries too politician to be hit hard as well with the outbreak putting ministers into a warranty we asked the renowned civilian for last of of how he sees the clients is affecting everyday life. not. believe the. critics accuse the u.k. government of pursuing a high risk strategy for battling covert 19 off the official suggested allowing

a disease to sweep through the population to create a herd immunity people in london how they feel about the idea of what you say but i didn't say we're going to put all people to get the hardest working. and independent inquiry into child sex abuse in the u.k. finds that the internet is facilitating a sharp rise in predatory behavior with police struggling to respond to the growing influence. over a welcome to you you're watching our senior international with me. now with scientists around the world racing to find ways of combat in covert 19 reports of playing the trumpet ministration offered a german company quote launch sums of money for exclusive access to any vaccine it develops now berlin has said however that any such deal is off the table the

country's ministers all such discuss the development in talks this monday why gas deal takes a look now at the alleged efforts to cash in on the crisis. in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king similarly in the land of the infected the man with the vaccine becomes a god the tubing in based company is researching a corona vaccine and the high pressure the government wants to secure the rights to it exclusively the german government is trying to prevent this there are only 2 reasons why anyone would want a monopoly on a vaccine the 1st is money it would take a truly miserable creature to try and profit from a cure that could save millions of lives would have a capitalism to control over who gets vaccinated and if trump does get exclusive rights to a vaccine guess who'll be lost on the list for an injection harsh economic

sanctions imposed by the trumpet ministration have contributed to a shortage of test kits and medical supplies in iran school smocks and does affect ins i'm not easy to get at pharmacies they're all out of stock the situation is really a burden my family and i could be infected. in effect american sanctions against iran is by listicle missile program also includes things must send coronavirus test kits heck even an iranian app to help people identify the symptoms of a corona virus infection was banned by google because sanctions would take venezuela and miserable playground for american foreign policy. this is a time to demand that president donald trump criminal sanctions against venezuela so that venezuela can go into the market to buy everything it needs on a medical level to face this situation. if anyone ever tells you that the purpose

of sanctions is to change a government space here you go ahead and laugh in their face long and loud mass sanctions have one purpose to make life miserable for the entire population to make the public hurt and suffer to make them do anything to make the pain stop including overthrow their government. patients in hospitals don't even have water now imagine when the predominant like this that reaches us become for is going to be left alone we have to be quick in the plague has arrived here and the rules don't have any problems because they have the bunkers they have the clinics they have everything cubans most of whom have never known life without us sanctions being urged to make their own face masks so how do you get mosques when there is a lack of medical supplies very easy we can make them at home from materials such

as cotton cloth linen their washable and we can carry several depending on the hours that we will be in public places the end result has been the near collapse of health care systems in numerous countries tens of millions of people limited in the health care in medicine in essential it's basically tied hands and feet on the sacrificial altar of the coronavirus pandemic and if god forbid trump does get exclusive rights to the vaccine you can bet your life savings it will come with strings attached the situation is taking its toll on politicians today with the sickness striking down many in the corridors of power a growing number of lawmakers falling l. is causing concern over how effectively governments will be able to coordinate their responses to the outbreak.

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we spoke to they celebrated 70 and philosophize level as a 2nd at the pandemic he likens the crisis to a wartime scenario and emphasized the need for meaningful international solidarity . in believe yes this case people were thinking just about isolation and so on and today i hope we are becoming aware that we can't go in there you know i have been a great. we are all the entire humanity in we seat in the same bug the big loser i think will be but he sadly a nationality an atheist and so want within our country to isolate itself until of course we need to get an inch and like for example take europe we should act in a united to a shell pinkett job that we could have great that street the mosques what they would eat whatever is needed and go on and so on i think that. in this sense we

should be straight if reality in the middle of that military operation we should be i'm not here appealing to some kind of abstract sense of solidity even in our interest it gentlemanly not best to kill it they will get an even stronger probably epidemic and kill him and kill want so it shall think obviously that it is something that is demand from us but he decides if we think as a national it. will get that big step back and reflect what this our mo go through life how should we change it because we should be aware of why i don't think it's not let me just go on galilee and into the month it will be over baby epidemic. in the fall that are that if the day me get out identical article about what it was i think that even when i think we'll go

but it doesn't. it will not be the same nor miley miley because we leave now we will have to change over mode of like well many countries i'm commenting aggressive measures to contain the coronavirus the british government has been sharply criticized of its perceived lack of action a particular concern to many people has been a suggestion that authorities will attempt to control the rates which cover 1000 spreads with a view to developing wind speed and unity among the population. in terms of building up a unity within the u.k. what i mean what sort of percentage of people need to have contracted the virus probably about 60 percent or so in britain the number of cases has exceeded 1300 with 35 people dead as a result a petition has been launched calling for schools to be closed across the country but government has also stated it plans to ban larger venues softer did laying on

the decision additionally the u.k.'s health secretary has said that people have a $78.00 could be isolated for up to 4 months we also people in london what they think about the government's high risk approach to tackling the pandemic it's probably true to take you if you don't really describe how the 1st check if you like. nobody needs to be put at risk for a situation like this i can see the argument doing that but really i can also see the end to say we're going to. push it out of people to get that artist to speak with me not with science we've come down to die. which is to follow this. we've got to carry on living. overseas i don't share your father's his age he can to about 10 weeks tell him so that's where i would get really concerned because we don't know yet is full range of data and he didn't say we would need to know whether or not we do become immune to this virus simply yeah it's

a great strategy for sleep wrong so much we don't know but nobody seems to be giving this old a range if you can say once a year my totally as an associate professor of infectious disease modeling at the university of warrick in the u.k. and he explains that fame came behind the government's approach. immunity is that when enough people have been in fact to find the virus then. the epidemic will eventually die out so essentially what we're still trying to do is we're trying to control the outbreak so we're trying to put interventions that will delay the peak of the epidemic and also reduce the reduce the height of the epidemic at the point to the certain number of people would be infected then it could no longer infect any more people because essentially people had all their contacts had been infected and so it reduced to a low enough level that the epidemic would die out is

a risk to have we know that the over seventy's and particularly you know the eighty's. because they may have underlying health conditions are more at risk so obviously you want to protect those. those people in the population which is why these sorts of measures are being considered it's really important now that we keep these good hygiene practices that have been recommended we keep necessary isolation and quarantine policies. and the crucial thing here is to reduce the demands on the health service to make sure that those people that really do need hospital cat have access to it. the leader of israel's blue and white party dance has accepted an official request from the president to try to form a coalition government that comes after the longtime rival of benjamin netanyahu was a spy in the dorothy of lawmakers in the knesset for the 3rd inconclusive election and we're joined now by our liberties correspondent for the floor plenty to say

what does this mean for benjamin netanyahu. well it's not good news i mean he's going to be hoping that there's going to be a 4th round of election he's also very surprised because he was the one who actually won these elections and. particularly from his voting bloc was that he would be the one to form the next coalition government what are the chances that guns can become the next pm. look at this stage they seem quite small he's facing 2 main problems the 1st problem is that he's formed a coalition between our parties and a right wing political party belonging to a former army defense minister avigdor lieberman they are not natural allies so you will just have one issue that will erupt in the 2 sides will fall apart guns also faces threats from 2 members of his own party who say that because he's formed this coalition they are going to withdraw and if they withdraw he won't have the 61 majority that he needs at this stage however the country's president we've been

riven has tossed guns with forming the next government or at least trying to. law gives you 28 days beginning tomorrow to form a government this is a short amount of time but given the current circumstances of national and international crisis even this is too long. i will do whatever it takes to form within a few days as possible national petri arctic and broad government so if guns doesn't manage to form a majority coalition next. well then they're going to be for the elections and the question here for everyone is how do you hold elections when you have the coronavirus epidemic at the same time israelis are really fed up we've already had 3 elections here in the space of one year and it's costing the country a fortune but that will be the ultimate solution or at least the next step. and if it goes to a 4th round of elections without benefit nicer yahoo or guns. it will

probably benefit netanyahu because we are already seen a lot of criticism from the guns camp he campaigned on a ticket where he said he would not have anything to do with the right wing political party they now have come on board and they complained on the ticket saying they have nothing to do with the arabs and here you see them forming some kind of alliance so that that kind of support is going to be lost also gun safety wouldn't have any kind of relationship with the extreme arab parties party called balad and he is having a relationship he needs them for the 61 coalition so people are likely to say the next time around hang on can we really trust guns can we really trust the coalition that he's going to build now let him you know his corruption child was due to start tomorrow tuesday but it's been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic now what impact did his trial have on the elections. where you might think that it might have had to make it to impact but actually it had the opposite in september he won 33 seats and this time around he won 36 seats so with these corruption

trials going on behind the scenes his support particularly from his base has actually increased and this is. because people say they must be unified against what they see as an attorney general that has it out for netanyahu against what they call a liberal and fear media so it's actually banded together the netanyahu supporters . are thank you for the update. of the greek island of last boss is sliding deeper into crisis with the number of asylum seekers there swelling and opposition towards them growing the prospects of coronavirus tearing through the overcrowded morea campus also causing tensions to flare with even aid organizations facing hostility and lines of those that south reports. the greek island of less schools has a 3 week conflict on its hands as europe's front line to the migrant crisis some locals are taking more of a stance against the swelling numbers of refugees held up on the island and the

ngos have been drawn into battle 2 reviews of people but not small couple of 100 they stopped blocking the streets because stopping cars that many n.g.o.s a bunch of that would stop in the vans or they would stuffing their rental cars and there was just much in them between them throwing stones at them they can be put out between people we can do in this kind chasing also but india's so they said a big thing with the station amount of people that works and you know this is because they they. want to bust the message that n.g.o.s profit from human suffering finally we've got the commission to dock in this part in a t.v. need we think it's a very good sign from the authorities that they made it possible to sign also to say that it's not just the group of patches that are going to take over. how things work on this island the migrants remain in overcrowded facilities with lack of

hygiene it's frankly living in terrible conditions in a desperate move to try to pursue some of them to go back home the e.u. is offering 2000 euros as bait but some of them have traveled so far is that money really enough to make them go back if i go back tonight yeah. so to me to tell you know we're not talking about 2000 so that would be. more would be 2000 euros is not enough i come to love my country for money i love because it wasn't safe there now if you protect it's. the 3rd front is the one created by a right wing groups we do not appreciate your picture a sick island turning into a giant migrant camp. so you more getting up with us about every day these people pass through our town without asking anyone they come and steal from us people here are fed up that's why we decided to make these barricades we gather here as often as we can to prevent the refugees from entering the town and force them to take

another route we have never been aggressive towards them and we have never clashed with them on the contrary they come in gangs and try to argue with those police put on it but on the police oh main goal is to protect the village the soaps and banks . where do they want to pass through here and since the growth of virus has been confirmed to me that's another reason to prevent them from entering here this additional struggle you are seeing local speed very big price tourist season has become something of the past that businesses have even been forced to keep them shutters for good and there is very much in our life here is horrible we were happier in the past they robbed us destroying our properties they even break into our houses most of the shops are closed and the refugees are the reason there are $25000.00 of them and only a 1000 of us. says the island that has been suffering the most the morea camp is overcrowded with refugees i believe we all have to sit down and

find a solution because we can't live like this anymore our town can't survive like this we are fed up. this island might be a tiny greek period is that the sun shines all fuel rail but down here on the ground it's clouded over fear uncertainty and anger vengeful subsidies from lesbos greece. and independent inquiry into child sex abuse in the u.k. has found that the internet is facilitating a sharp rise in predatory behavior and the police are struggling to respond to the growing threats according to the report's findings 11 to 13 year olds are most at risk as say as many as $450.00 suspected pedophiles are arrested each month and distress is that the scale of abuse is likely to be considerably higher than the official figures show the inquiry also notes that many internet companies are failing to provide adequate protection for youngsters using their services.

you don't know where this images will end up and that is an awful feeling thinking that peter foss can just look online and get whatever they want it's scary. you know the media now a bomb or i feel that we are just now aware of it not that it's changed the

protocol outraged. i feel that we need really radical changes to our whole criminal justice system we need a law that the police themselves are not equipped 1st of all to deal with the very sophisticated. methods that abusers use. the reports say is the british government needs to work with tech companies to counter online abuse it also says the new tools are needed to prevent the posting of indecent images online as well as algorithms to detect illegal content and also one school so if a better going then it's about how to stay safe online further more legislation may be proposed which would enable lauren foresman to tackle the problem more effectively. we can arrest our way out of the problem we have to look at a far more holistic approach we are a saturation point margaret oliver who expose the poor handling of the washed out

child abuse ring in 2012 agrees that the government needs to be working more closely with tech companies even with the right training in the u.k. we've got a massive. deficit of police officers individual police officers are overwhelmed there are nazi north of the and it's down to the government invests in the criminal justice system we need to address this because we need more police officers we need a real commitment to invest in dealing with this kind of crime but alongside. the giants like google like microsoft. imus and they have. legislation should make them culture if you are going to and she will that investment does the incentives to prevent the to pals from destroying in children's

lives because that is not what is happening on a daily basis. from then on i saw the 1st one on one debate the race for the u.s. democratic party's presidential nomination held in washington d.c. now much of the discussion between the front runner joe biden on the self-styled democratic socialist bernie sanders revolved around the question of health care and whether think whether the u.s. system is well placed to handle the covert 19 crisis with all due respect to medicare for all you have a single payer system in italy it doesn't work here we've got thousands of private insurance plans that is not a system that is prepared to provide health care to all people. senator sanders claims they can run a virus through its highlights the country's need for universal health care system joe biden for the most part focused his fire on the trumpet ministration accusing it of badly mishandling the pandemic the president was quick to hit back posting this on twitter i must say there was

a very boring debate biden lied when he said i want to counsel shal security and medicare that's what the all said 4 years ago and nothing happened in fact i see social security and medicare i will not be cutting but they will be careful. the number of coronavirus cases has spiked dramatically in the us with 3800 infections recorded in 49 states on saturday the house of representatives passed an emergency bill to tackle the crisis and mitigate its economic impact the legislation which still has to be approved by the senate would make coronavirus testing free for all citizens so suspected of having the illness it also provides 2 weeks of paid sick leave as well as up to 3 months of family or medical leave the measure however only applies to businesses with fewer than 500 employees more paid explores the predicament currently faced by many american workers if that will. authorities here in the united states are emphasizing the importance of self isolation as

coronavirus cases continue to rise however one problem facing american citizens is a lack of sick leave legislation only 12 of the 50 us states actually mandate that employers give paid sick leave other states have various regulations now amid the crisis some corporations have adjusted their policies for their own employees only of course and in addition to that many americans are just facing the choice of risk health or lose money think about the restaurant workers the people who prepare our food think about what you do if your child's school closes down for a week for so many people taking a sick day means going without pay and even in some cases potentially losing your job but not everyone agrees this is unreasonable employees are struggling our employers are struggling and it's not a cure for covert $19.00 to put a big new expensive federal mandate on employers who are struggling in the middle of this matter u.s. politicians are now rushing to change laws but some see this not as

a public health necessity but as the on the rolling of a far left agenda unfortunately it appears at this hour that the speaker and house democrats chose to produce an idiot logical wishlist that was not covert closely. now the democrats are quick to present themselves as the good guys in this scenario but they haven't always been on the same page for years bernie sanders has pushed for paid sick leave and other benefits for workers and been castigated as a socialist only under the current circumstances have democrats fully jumped on board the debate about paid sick leave goes on but the clock is ticking the longer the debate goes on the more people will be affected. r.t. new york respected new york based lawyer money has lost and now she believes the new bill doesn't go far enough and that people need far more financial assistance interesting and i've been here. not just he thinks we but people are really talking about other people who are free and work for

a month dictions an awful something called universal basic income so i think what i see is that people are looking not just for lee but for real transformative change because i think with this and then if you think that everybody should have roots i think everybody should have free health care health care should be human rights. and you know there is a plan to pay for it and it's something that i think now we're all seeing that something like universal health care and medicare for all have to have to be implemented right moral you know you'll see that people who do have money and are wealthy will be able to kind of weather the storm i can do that income are going to have a lot lot more problems. thank you for joining us when i say international desk one day you can find plenty no stories on our website altie dot com but we're back in 15 minutes with the latest.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the world is struggling in different ways to cope with the pandemic and governments are taking the heat for their actions and inactions will the coronavirus be a referendum on globalization. talking some real news i'm joined by my guest here in moscow dmitri bobbitt he's

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