hello there i'm an electron you're watching in question broadcasting live from our to american national headquarters in washington d.c. here the stories we're following today the white house and the senate have struck a landmark agreement on a 2 trillion dollar stimulus deal to help americans in the age of coronavirus details for you next in a full report and over in the u.k. parliament shuts down until april as kopek 1000 cases search there and prince charles tests positive with the virus and violent attacks racist slurs asians across the world are experiencing a rising level of hate crimes after president trump dubs coded 19 the chinese virus

will discuss it all right it's time to boost your news i. here in the nation's capital after the white house and congress struck a deal in the wee hours of the morning on a massive 2 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package that bill is being held up yet again the spending bill which is the biggest relief package ever in u.s. history would alleviate some of the economic impacts of covert 19 such as providing support to businesses and sending out checks to families in need but right now there are 3 allowed voices against this deal artie's fair and project has been following the latest developments and filed this report. they came together so that they struck a deal they were going to go to their sides of the aisle and get everyone on board to vote this bill and pass it today however. 1st it was democrats holding up the

bill well now it's 3 republicans who say they won't vote yes until the changes they want are made now those 3 g.o.p. senators are was about to come on your screen senator lindsey graham senator ben sass and senator tim scott all say that the bill put forth today would give a quote strong incentive for employees to be laid off and stead of going to work because some people could theoretically make more by being unemployed now all 3 say they will vote no until this part of the bill is addressed or the department of labor gives regulatory guidance that no american would earn more by not working than by working now last night mail of both the senate majority and minority minority leaders they were very happy about what they were able to put in this coronavirus relief bill so let's take a look at what each side was able to win in all of this so for republicans 1st their main focus was to help corporations and businesses as well as hospitals now democrats were fighting them on this saying it's about the people not corporations so republicans are able to keep those emergency loans again and businesses but also

small businesses as well and there were democrats and republicans that compromised and actually compromised on this section here so democrats won the argument of strict oversight where corporations will be required to lay out how they'll spend their emergency loan and also make it public not just to congress but to the american people as well democrats also got an oversight board to monitor businesses and their federal aid spending now minority leader chuck schumer who he's calling this workers 1st unemployment compensation on steroids where anyone who has lost their job due to the coronavirus will have their salary plus benefits paid for by the federal government now both sides also agreed on funding for hospitals nursing homes and health care workers along with direct checks to the american people now we've been seeing that $1200.00 per american being thrown out there but as far as who gets what and how much those again those cases are still being ironed out so again it's 3 g.o.p. senators holding this up after the senate was expected to vote and pass this to truly. dollar stimulus bill this afternoon on an effort to keep the u.s.

economy from going into a great depression president donald trump says he's now still waiting on and expecting this bill soon so he can sign off it signed off on it and media. and so while the u.s. faces its own crisis here the parliament in britain closed down due to the pandemic all while new reports say prince charles has tested positive for the virus earlier today i was joined by former u.k. m.p. george galloway and along with investigative journalist ben swan to discuss the government meltdowns going on between the 2 transatlantic nations our discussion start out with ben talking about the u.s. economic relief package listen. in reality even though the senate and congress is saying this is about 2 trillion dollars worth of relief which would make it almost 3 times larger than the bailout that we saw in 2008 but in fact there are a lot of insiders who are saying that this number is actually much higher and when we get into the actual numbers of it it's probably going to be closer to 10

trillion dollars in terms of relief now this is not you know just money being doled out some of it will be repaid because some of it's in the form of loans so it was in the form of direct payments so that's a big deal but remember this is also separate from the 4 trillion dollars that the fed is trying to pump into the economy right now so we're talking about a massive amount of money a massive amount of liquidation that's going on in liquidity go into the market the big question will be how many real americans actually get relief from this and how much of this winds up becoming corporate welfare and george you have actually been on the other end of this kind of conversation before are american lawmakers doing the right thing here and well the u.k. parliament consider similar measures to stop the bleeding before parliament is suspended. well i think 1st of all it's a deal to suspend parliament it was an even suspended when it was literally being bombed the chamber of the house of commons. during the blitz in the 2nd world war

was destroyed and all the members decamped to the quarter door which is where mr churchill gave his great wartime speech as though it wasn't televised then so no one knew they were all huddled in a rather small corridor or i think it sends a bad message when lawmakers decamped for the hills when there judy is clearly at the helm of events far as that's possible to be but of course there's a balance to be struck. politicians can never lie but they can be economical with the actuality i do think that they have to show the people that life goes on that the leaders are leading and some relief in the end will be forthcoming saw lawmakers haggling or poor balls nor good signs wouldn't happen here we don't have the same system. 1 you're haggling where people were dicing with

this demand and people were dying and falling sick didn't look good from here manila. you you said that right george i mean no matter what these people are going to debate on the hill there are things happening in real time that are not being addressed and then what about the president's remarks last night aiming to reopen america by easter sunday i mean good idea bad idea mind you that my new ben that this is against i'm the recommendation of medical professionals who believe this is going to take a lot more months before it resolves itself yeah well a couple thoughts on that 1st of all i don't think the president is going to get his way of saying we will reopen everything by easter weekend but i think what he will be able to do is say by easter weekend we have a very clear timetable for when things get back to normal but look i've been advocating long before the president said this i actually was advocating court before he did set it which is

a segment essentially this we have to get the economy going again and you cannot shut down the entire economy over a virus even though you know yes $790.00 deaths of taken place but again i want to remind viewers over 22000 people have died from the flu this year in the united states alone and we haven't shut down the economy for them so the idea that we're shutting down the economy the way that we have and yes i know that the medical professionals are saying no no no we have to keep it this way but they're looking at this through a vacuum in terms of simply the issue of dealing with the virus there are far more things to take into consideration here including the fact that you have the single largest workforce in america our service jobs related to restaurants and service industries like that the restaurant industry employs over 15000000 people in this country and none of those people are working right now that cannot continue and by the way we as taxpayers can't pay everyone salary and health benefits indefinitely the idea that we could do it even beyond just a few weeks is insane yet george what's your take on that i mean where are the

american president's remarks on this are they irresponsible and was he just perhaps too optimistic. well as have others but that i was talking about i'm sure he'll have to eat those words but the. doesn't necessarily mean to have spoken up because it's important to give people the sense that this is not 4 of our one of a restriction and one of our new laws or new disciplines we're applying will not last for ever all there is hope there is light at the end of the tunnel i do think that political leaders have to strike that balance because if they were to say to people by the way you're going to be along down and shivering in your homes next winter as a result of the coronavirus that may have entirely unpredictable and unpleasant consequences and george i want to stay with you for one more minute the breaking news this morning was prince charles has come down with

a coronavirus what are you hearing on that side of the pond. where he and his wife brought government structure for the holiday home in scotland. wasn't that popular here no he's managed to get himself tested a bit like ron paul that we discussed the other day when virtually no one else has been tested and it is positive it's quite serious news he's a man in his seventy's his mother of course in our ninety's his father almost a 100 years old how. it's filled with the symbolism the heir to the throne himself house now gone down with the coronado so as one wag put it it's not the coat or no corona asian he had in mind for that is a sad end kind of scary pine bed george part of a good point we were talking about rand paul earlier this week and how he tested

positive and he likely paid for it himself obviously but what do you make of that of of high powered people like rand paul prince charles big money n.b.a. players. being able to essentially cut the kill and go take a test when they're not even showing symptoms yeah well i think what's really crazy about this is not that this group of people was are have access to tests it's that more people don't have access to tests it's insane that in south korea they have been able to test as many people as they have they're testing more people than anyplace else in the world and in the united states we can't find tests anywhere and part of the problem for that you know is the issue of the f.d.a. that the f.d.a. has a very long arduous guidelines that are set up to prevent private companies from being able to create tests and that those rules ringback were only removed a few days ago but they should have been removed a long time ago to allow private companies to come up with these tests instead the f.d.a. locks it down so i don't think the problem is just that these people get access to

tests it's that we should have far more tests in this country every american should be able to access a test anytime they want to check themselves and we would have much better numbers if we knew that we know how many actual cases there are who is most at risk in the areas where we're seeing now the most and we also have a much better idea of the actual mortality rate which we still don't have a very clear view of and judge what about on your side of the pond how is testing going there and it seems like the brits have more access to these tests than we do stateside. yes but as ben just said it's only in the last few days nobody had been tested in britain unless they turned up already sick and suspecting that they had the virus if you could run dimly to test the population which ought to be scientifically and financially easy to do then we'd have a better handle on how many people have already got those those are not the

universe the study just been published which postulates only postulates the half the people in the country have already got this virus which would mean if true the a lot of people. of. the old. issue we don't know if that's true because not enough people have been tested. the schillings like some top level people have go to somehow for themselves so we need to get in the boat delusion and we need to urgently that is a very good point i will have to leave it right there gentlemen ben swan and george galloway thank you. over and we'll hunt trying to the epicenter of the virus that city now reporting no new cases though some questions have been raised as to whether chinese officials are still testing for the virus so as of now china has announced it will lift the lockdown after a significant decrease in the number of infections similar lockdown measures will

also be lifted for other cities in the province. right take a look at this as demand for air travel tanks airlines around the world are grounding and tire fleets what you're seeing there are hundreds of commercial planes parked at a remote desert facility in victor bill california that's just outside of los angeles airlines in the nation continue to struggle with the average flight just over 20 percent full and that figure is expected to drop into the teens by this weekend. and asians around the world are facing a resurgence of xenophobia as result of the coronavirus now some are convinced that president trump's recent comments feel these flames are going to discuss next with our gas and then over in sports regina hamm highlights what one runner is doing to accomplish all the things she wants while she's confined in her own apartment we'll be right back.

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well president trump has come under fire in recent days for deliberately choosing to call coded 19 the chinese virus many critics say this has sparked an uptick in violence and discrimination against asian americans this now turning a worldwide pandemic into a political football with many asians becoming collateral damage of bully pulpit fingerpointing so joining us to discuss dresden lakisha a specialist in race and ethnic relations and gender she's also previously worked for the end i age johns hopkins university and the university of baltimore as a dress and thank you for being with us 1st can we talk about this term chinese

virus i mean is it just semantics are people being too sensitive about this term or is it more than just words. sure so by labeling code the 19 is the chinese current a virus from this instilling what's known as the yellow peril and yellow peril refers to the idea that asians are a threat to the western world whether that's an economic threat a threat of physical safety a threat to traditional norms or white supremacy and we're familiar with yellow peril like analogy in this country historically we've seen it when chinese laborers from legally immigrating to the u.s. when japanese americans were forced into internment camps during world war 2 and we've seen it in. throughout us 3 and of course we're seeing it now so to say it's just semantics and people are being too sensitive at this really to ignore the reality that invoking yellow people like the ology that's had a really very real cost to agents and asian americans we've seen an increase in

instances of his or her whole assault all over the country there's also a recent incident in chinatown where bystanders refused to give a chinese man c.p.r. when he went into cardiac arrest for fear contract and and actually die so on top of the physical arrests we also have emotional and psychological arrests many asian americans are afraid to be an uplifted you special routine things like putting gas in their cars or using car transportation or even going to the grocery store you know this kind of stress accumulates and it doesn't have long term effects so calling coke at 19 the chinese fire. virus is really so much more than a racist absolutely it certainly hits home for me where i have my own family members calling me and asking me if they thought it was safe to go out because of this yellow peril threat that they're feeling out there and you know the white house has fired back on twitter they said this they said spanish flu or west nile

virus. all named for places before the media is fake outrage even c.n.n. called it chinese coronavirus those trying to divide us must stop rooting for america to fail. and give americans real info they need to get through the crisis so is this really a fair justification or were these things named in a time where the world was overtly more culturally insensitive. so of course there is no valid justification and racism right regardless of cultural sensitivity these names are one inaccurate and. actually dangerous the white house official recently referred to the naacp run a virus as the compass lou and that's not only racist but it also makes light of the fire all the consequences of it right so to claim these needs contribute to giving americans real information that indicated the tweet. we know that h one n one originated in the u.s.

in 2009 and no one was going round calling it the americans who write the act also originated well. we can see how inaccurate labels still become common references and really help spread misinformation we have to consider why would why do we need some illnesses and not others right on the country. and it's not about accurately stating where high risk is originated to inform the public your own best interest rather than its young people who are seen as perpetually foreign to instill a fear of asians and asian americans i'm going back to that yellow peril and to feel a sense of protection yeah i'm glad you brought this up because asians historically in general have faced this kind of weird dual identity here in the us we are both model minorities and we're also the the forever other so can you explain these these terms to us and why this actually hurts that community. sure the model

minority meant was created to pit people of color against one another which allows white supremacy to flora it's rooted in and it's in separate from and separable from us so it contributes to what might be referred to as oppression olympics where oppressed people oppressed races frequently argue over who has it worse no violence system rather than working together to combat racism and colonialism so by maintaining a stereotype that people of asian descent are smarter hardworking more successful than other people color the struggles of black and brown people which also around asians are dismissed as personal issues rather than being born out of systemic issues i often hear people refer to the model minority stereotype as positive discrimination but this is inaccurate stereotypes actually quite harmful to americans it implies success is rooted in race and it ignores the many asian americans that struggle with poverty with illness that this ability and it just

paints an inaccurate picture that all asians are saying when we each have to stick story as distinct histories and quite different cultures but the model minority myth is clearly fragile we've seen in how it's just switched back to yellow peril ideologies basically when it's convenient to being as there's something to be feared and needed in us now diety we are now as either a model minority or you know the indicators of care over model minority or dangerous and foreign so each narrative is inaccurate and it's reminiscent of individual and real quote real quickly can you tell us for example that after $911.00 we saw similar hatred and discrimination towards arab americans or anybody who appeared to be middle eastern at that time why does it seem like society behaves this way after a big crisis. sure i think it's really figure people are afraid of this very dangerous and very serious by rest just like people were and still are afraid of by

. none of his 911 world americans want laning danger i am not westerners kind of creates this illusion of it's easy for people to say you know how things over there starting over there it's from those people not from us without really thinking about how many different races and cultures make up the american well but unfortunately this does have dire consequences for people that are as you know the other or and we're gardeners that you know they're how long their families lived in the u.s. the truth is that reason will not protect us from illnesses just like it won't protect us from terrorism we experience both of these things within our own borders are heartless absolutely we'll leave it right there dresden lacky specialist in race and ethnic relations and gender thank you so much for sharing your insights with us. let's head over to the sports h.q. that's where we're going to ham is sitting regina some athletes are getting stir crazy and not athletes too and their houses are resulting in some kind of pretty

crazy videos that people are putting out there it's getting interesting and a lot of us have of the more i'm intrigued to see but rather is though are taking time off you know when they don't have access to a gym or a trail that isn't stopping one woman from getting into the racing spirit and apartment sounds like a pretty good place right can't do it outside right and that's what chinese sports and joe did while in isolation she woke up one morning at 5 am a decided she wanted to run 10 kilometers which is 6 point one miles all inside her small apartment resits aren't allowed gatherings outside as a part of chinese restrictions regarding their current a virus young how made sure she keeps up her exercise with bridges and planks to be active and the xoom been certified instructor said it took about one hour and a half to complete the 10 kilometer run chips that once restrictions are lifted she can start training one day for a marathon. so you know i want to ask you with the things you have in your house considering we talked about being stir crazy what is one sport you could do in your house once sport or can it be just an exercise any anything in your house you know

the guy who had the roomba actually and the broom he did some crawling inside what could you do in your house i have a toddler for the viewers who don't know i'm a newish mom and i have gallons of milk so i can do gallon curls i like it i like it gyms are closed right now to even apartment gyms or clothes i think let's see i have i have a siberian husky i am a mom of a small large large large r.v. reacher who think she small i could hook her up to like a lid of a container and we could do this in my dinner out of the house fake i did her off there i will just have to like crush of cotton balls a snowy and roll just you know what it whatever works to pass the time until we get through this is actually make your own sports b.y.'s bring your own sports and bring your own happiness or i will leave it right there we're going to have thank you so much and that is all we've got for right now but we'll be back at 8 o'clock so sit tight 30 more minutes download portable t.v.

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a handout from the federal government aren't victims of coronavirus at all it's their own fault it's poor judgment join me to talk about that is fair and cousins we're going to have a discussion about this people always call and say pap you don't let the guest answer the question it's a discussion for those who are watching ok so so here this this this discussion really need to center around the idea that you have corporations that knew better held back no cash held back had no plan for the future and instead took all of their money everything they've gotten tax benefits everything they got from the government in the stock buybacks take it from there right you know we've spent the last couple decades giving corporations these massive tax breaks they've been making money hand over fist the big big banks have pulled in more money than ever airlines are doing great but instead of putting that money aside which is kitchen.