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tenants refusing to pay rent stores while customers are told also ahead. the crew of a virus stricken u.s. warship cheer their captain after his sacking from publicly calling for the vessel to be evacuated the navy say. stories from the past 7 days on right up to the moment about well this is the weekly n r t international hello and welcome. first the broader picture of where the world is right with the covert 19 demick never good figures to look at but billions of people are currently under some sort of lockdown the number of coronavirus cases
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those still rise there's no more than 1200000 registered infections more than 66000 died but over a quarter of a 1000000 people have recovered. let's go through some of the main news in israel this week making sure all communities abided by strict lockdown rules was proving difficult there are more than 8000 known infections there the spite intense movement restrictions one hot spot is an ultra-orthodox time where locals are ignoring social distancing advice as paul is discovered. welcome to mastering one of the oldest jewish neighborhoods in jerusalem now we're into science fact this past year not to prostitution in my district i am dressed modestly but you can already hear people shouting and booing and yelling they don't like journalists here they don't like the police and we're
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here because we want to monitor the whole coronavirus situation and the fact that most of the cases are coming from ultra-orthodox neighborhoods like this one information is pasted on billboards because there's no television or radio in these communities many of the posters are in yiddish language that was spoken in the 9th century in central europe most israelis don't speak yiddish it's only the ultra orthodox communities who do not some of these posters warn against the virus and also encourage social distancing but it's too little too late the latest ata shows at the highest rates of infection among the ultra-orthodox and they still not taking heed superintendent mickey rosenfeld is the national police spokesperson and he's here to assess things how exactly have the ultraorthodox been flouting the regulations well here we are located in the area of meshaal in the religious neighborhood we've seen an extremely high number of people that have been in the streets our units are now patrolling all of the different areas because we want to
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prevent the corona virus from spreading that is something that's perhaps to be vital here in israel as we've seen the numbers going up and the main problem being inside the area is the fact that the neighborhoods are very closed very confined and we seeing that the message is not getting out to the public there are large numbers of people inside the families we're talking about couples plus 567 even 10 children and we have to make sure that people stay at home and they stay away from each other as much as possible at this stage in some cases police have been removing people from synagogues and closing down places of worship it's really tough going trying to convince people in this ultra orthodox neighborhood to abide by the n.t. on a virus or does. buses are allowed to travel with constituents people on the synagogue is an open place she. they allowed only 10 people to create with 2000 systems to use each other they're still closing in i said why but. the only thing that we need is the souls to be open the only thing nothing else was sure
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was you know not. everybody was was actually employed 40 if there. was was not one of. those that need to step up so far as some people screaming on the balcony i was trying to just wonder even interesting to see what is going on in the season we stick patients not scientists not people in this neighborhood i'm not shy just a dentist who has changed history that's how he's in my piece appears to be he said i had to break down and change things that i thought he wanted the shop assistant to tell you the moment was. was was. why.
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was her was so many religious jews here prayer is the answer to the coronavirus but with big hospitals reporting that 40 to 60 percent of cases come from ultra orthodox neighborhoods the police will continue to crackdown. masha rim jerusalem. let's take you to europe now with the french prime minister's indicated that the lock done in the country is likely to be extended beyond the current april 15th threshold the government's keen not to further stretch the overwhelmed health service even so one that medical emergencies chief ses government efforts to supply protect if a quip meant to medics is not moving fast enough dr eric has been describing the situation to us. as you do fall in the eld of france region results of playing a game of tetris meaning that whenever we take a patient out of intensive care police is immediately taken by another patient there is a period during which we will continue to work and lack equipment. or france is
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currently dealing with around $90000.00 confirmed infections and over 7 and a half and it's the enforced stay at home regime is mentally taxing for everyone but for some the dangers are far worse charlotte dubin ski reports from paris. president macron has described domestic violence against women as says shame or average one woman is killed by her partner every 3 days it's one of the highest femicide rates in europe times of crisis are always conducive to a rise in violence for those suffering home it can quickly go from psychological abuse to physical and sexual violence and can even lead to families side as france enters its 3rd week of lockdown it's becoming clear how dangerous it's been for those in abusive relationships reports of domestic violence sought in paris they
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were up 36 percent across the rest of the country it was 32 percent to the victims were murdered this is what infuriates us representatives of feminist associations is that now it is believed that domestic violence is a national problem in addition we are in crisis this means that the total number of cases of violence committed against human relationships increased and instead of increasing the working time of the hotline which used to work until 10 pm now due to lack of plans the service stops working at 7 pm given the surge over ports of domestic abuse france's gender equality minister has announced the government will pay for hotel rooms for victims it says pop up cancelling centers will be opened while an extra $1000000.00 euros is being funneled into empty domestic abuse organizations my biggest concern is to multiply the points of contact with women as
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it's difficult for women to get out we want to make sure the support systems can reach them for many domestic abuse charities confinement under royce in domestic abuse was already a foregone conclusion there was already anecdotal evidence from china. this happened there with incidents reportedly trebling a hash tag translating is empty domestic violence during epidemic also went viral if this was in january some are questioning why european countries like france didn't put a safety net in place at the start the answer is that our politicians are simply ignoring women's rights that are human rights so basically they're very scared now about the barriers but what about the safety of these women with children living in this houses you know trapped in with men who clearly have
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a raging hunger problem so we cannot control themselves until we don't want to raise the public opinion that domestic violence is a social emergency until that day our quality shows will keep thinking and treating this problem as a minor problem it's not just women who are too risk children's charities sounded the alarm to over the heightened risk of compiling. millions of children around the world will likely face increasing threats to the safety and wellbeing including mistreatment gender based violence exploitation social exclusion and separation from caregivers because actions taken to contain the spread of the 19 pandemic with children no longer in school and social distancing in place it's hold up the younger victims of abuse to be recognised the problem is compounded by cellphone isolation measures given that social workers aren't able to make regular calls in
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person home is supposed to be the safest place that any of us can be right now for victims of abuse that small case it can mean being trapped in so i'd within a limited. access to help while the governments in france has now recognize this it's already too late that those who suffered abuse and death in the 1st week of the lockdown show that do you can ski aussie paris law problems not restricted to france of course self isolation has seen domestic violence increase in countries around the world there's also a spike in divorce supplications us couples struggle to get along in close proximity for so long domestic abuse survivor and campaigner rich and williams says it's important to take preventive measures before it's too late. but the the right
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we've seen across the current the advent countries that currently unlocked and we are we've seen a 3040 and 50 percent increase reilly's and we know this is going to be coming to the u.k. and we need to be paid going forward. you know is it a pandemic upon a pandemic and this lots of things that can be done before we have this massive influx i mean in the u.k. we've seen 9 deaths in the last 3 days. and 2 of those will be the treatises so 2 families again by sayings and 3 separate killings of women i think we've seen a rise in new and cases of domestic abuse being reported and also ben the the ones who have been living with this for a while. for many years may be that know and they feel that it's really had
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to be unlocked with the traits of the 247. and i think it's people reaching i am because they cannot take it anymore. or a global movement is gathering pace calling on loan lords to see. stop charging rent for harvesting during the ongoing health crisis but one that multi-billion year old firm has latched onto the idea to. his refusing to pay rent on its stores in germany because of the current lockdown and politicians are furious as peter all of our reports. stay at home to save lives as being the all encompassing mantra of this pandemic but for those that can't work from home well it has meant losing their jobs for some and having to rely on state benefits for one of the world's largest sports money factor is it's made them well refusing to pay rent for some of
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the stores they've been forced to close off what adi da says done and it's drawing fire from the german government it's indecent and then acceptable it financially strong firms now just stop paying their rents the brand pay for their $3.00 strike design made over $3000000000.00 in profits last year and they're being accused of trying to save a quick buck in times of crisis with so many european leaders saying they're not going to buy the dust products ever again. responded by saying they weren't the only ones but that appropriate arrangements had been made and that smaller landlords would get their money they're not the only ones to be sure clothing giant h. and m. as well as german giant stores like soft or medium are have also announced that they would be either suspending all delaying the pagan reds in the future by the way these are the last pair wajda to swivel by such a shame that
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a global corporation with 3200000000 in profits in 2019 is exploiting and or protecting tenants existence. but what about the private renter and landlord slightly more than half of the people in germany own a home last week the german government promised well over 800000000000 euro in emergency funds to tackle the financial fallout from corona virus one of the big pieces of legislation is that all the victims will be suspended from april until september of this year with the option of actually extending that until july of 2021 something which is pleased the unions politicians must send a clear signal the home must be safe. but where this leaves landlord says well a little up in the air rent is must pay if they can but what happens when all if
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they can't that's uncharted territory one would presume that it folds to loans of some kind from the hundreds of billions that have been put forward by anglo government but just how one goes about getting one of these loans how much will be made available nobody really knows just yet what we're seeing is that governments are trying to stop the actual spread over the coronavirus they're also trying to insulate business and financial systems from infection of their own kind peter all of a party. this is our to international on the way fired for a flogging up health risks a u.s. navy captain's been signed up for calling for his crew to be evacuated from their warships following a covert 19 i'd break on. you. is
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you believe in miracles would seem democrats do after the joe biden surge on super tuesday for them the fear of the bernie sanders candidate may now be contained however this is far from over taking on trial would be no we see. it in minutes past the hour welcome back on let's start with an unusual sight these days in one of europe's hardest hit coronavirus countries an open market in the capital it's been for business despite weeks of intense national customers cannot browse the stoles so long as they stick to strict social distancing it for a considerable period being the world's worst affected nation but infection and death rates are beginning to slow. meanwhile with the us being the world's worst
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affected country neighboring mexico is ramping up virus testing at checkpoints near the border medics are taking travelers temperatures and they showing symptoms are immediately sent to hospital mexico's long nearly always infections all of those 79 people died. under a virus which cruise ship docked in miami florida after being turned away from other ports in other countries 2 guests on the coral princess died from co but 19 their bodies are still on board now it comes as president trump's warning the u.s. faces what could be its toughest week yet the states of pennsylvania colorado and also washington d.c. are emerging new hot spots the number of deaths nation. white house almost reached 8 and a size. 0 the captain of
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the 1st u.s. warship on deployment to report and i pray was fired on thursday after he sent a scolding memo pleading for help hundreds some sailors gathered on tack to theodore roosevelt aircraft carrier cheering the captain as he walked off the ship . as night spread on board bread crumbs and then circulated a memo where he climbed the dire situation on board and pleaded for his crew to be evacuated for isolation and eventually found its way into the media the navy top brass said crusie a hot coals the only necessary alarm disregarded the chain of command on so relieved the captain from 2 to. the to allow those emotions to color our judgment when communicating the current operational picture can at best create unnecessary confusion and at worst provide an incomplete picture of american combat readiness
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to our adversaries 1st the captain's actions made his sailors their families and many in the public believe that his letter was the only reason. help from our larger navy family was forthcoming which was hardly the case president trump also described the company's leisure as inappropriate $155.00 out of the $4800.00 personnel on board had tested positive for the batteries just after a half under half the crew has been tested on friday they began to disembark on the tiny pacific island. where their ship dogs but only $1500.00 have come ashore and be will be isolated in hotels or. the former pentagon michael maloof told us about the unique dangers posed when there is a night break on a military vessel. it's very very difficult on a warship like that unlike a cruise a cruise ship which also was infected on an aircraft carrier
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a destroyer or submarine you don't have the luxury of individual compartments except maybe for the tap them because they do what they because they're on 247 duty they do what they call hot words that someone who's on duty gives up his bed and someone else sleeps in it i mean is that closely complied and as a consequence the ability to spread the disease such as this particularly if you're in the open ocean is very very very high and people are going up and down the ladders holding the same areas constantly and to keep those areas germ free is it's going to be a much would be a monumental task. let's bring it to new york with a mirror of the city has ordered an investigation into why amazon sucked that worker who had led a walkout on monday overconcern the stuff we're not getting enough protection against cruel a virus in later leaked memo seem to show us on executives trying to smear the
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former warehouse supervisor. he's not small it's what's a complete and to the extent the breast wants to focus on auspices he will be in a much stronger position than simply explaining for the umpteenth time how we're trying to protect workers. alarms on staff whop tested positive in 19 of the firms were high says in the united states we spoke to the fired supervisor who explained to us just how i worried that workers are. i organize a strike you know it's a cry for help to close down the buildings of amazon because they're on c. we've got people as home i haven't been paid for the entire month of march. news people were underlining health conditions luke is they got bronchitis the guy asthma we have an unknown amount of people that tested positive for the corona virus and then not being transparent with employees in ny caring about employees health all we was
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asking for was to be protected they're not providing us with enough mask the proper type of gloves just not enough cleaning supplies within the building they're very scarce right now and him it's always depleted. the cleaning crew that they hired to clean the buildings they're scared to come to work themselves so. a lot of them haven't been shown up to work you know the people who are afraid to work in that building those types of buildings so the only thing amazon can do is listen to their people it we're asking the close the building down a sanitized rest of the state and do it if they're now within to do that then we shouldn't be have we should be forced to work you know we're not as a sense to our help is not as essential as they want us to be and just not fair and it's not right lama zalman says said fired chris smalling after he did nord instructions to stay home for 14 days following his coming into contact with a colleague who had tested positive but he claims it's more about amazon's bottom
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line. in those that i was called in the uproar. and building one of the largest buildings in the tri state area holds about 5000 people. that's a lot of money that they make in that building a lot of money i'm effect in that i'm effect in the business by speaking out so they got rid of me probably to silence me to terminate me to stop the movement but i see empowered me so they motivated me even more and i'm going to continue to fight like i said we're going to day won't do it we are global go above the head and we'll go to city hall. and we'll fight with the government and so the government steps in and shut the bill down. a lot of focus on pharmaceutical firms currently because around the world they're really in a race to the 19 seen so much relying on them artes untold.
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he's been finding out just how efforts are going here in russia take a look. before you start coming up with a vaccine you need to find something similar in all strains of the virus and only based on that a vaccine can be created to identify one or several similarities hundreds of strains of the virus should be analyzed. why is it hard to develop a vaccine. because even if you create a vaccine strain of the virus it still can go in to change its part of me while the strains of that virus so the solution you have now won't be effective in home for a year or so you know is it the same as with seasonal flu or similar but not really the flu doesn't mean you take this approach when trying to present to 30 to 60 strains of the virus identified during 2 months of the epidemic with the strains already contained $149.00 mutation is we can say that so far we don't have a medication with convincing positive effects against coke is 19 we have now is
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some fragmentary names which are collected from specific clinics and if you just aggregate information and signal their progress what solution may be effective the problem with this kind of data is that clinics have to thank you patients that's the analysis is impossible so the point of the quarantine event in fiction is so to prevent a situation whereby everyone gets infected simultaneously right in the almost everyone will be infected sooner or later and it was. right out as our last 4 but the rise of victimhood culture that's in the spotlight and moments and worlds apart where crossing talks are for adults and revver you are today stay well stay healthy and stay tuned to r.t. for all your latest global developments. join me every thursday on the alex salmond sure i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then.
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and welcome to worlds apart sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me this frequently parroted adage has been the use by generations of adults to teach their children of emotional regulation but at a time when asking somebody where they're from or stating a preference for identity blind hiring may be seen as a personal affront or even violence does the old saying still holds true to discuss that i'm now joined by bradley campbell associate professor of sociology at california state university and co-author of the rise of victimhood culture microaggression safe spaces and the new culture professor campbell it's good to talk to you think you very much for your time thanks for having me now professor such an interesting topic but before we delve into it the phenomenon that you discussed in the book microaggression extreme sensitivity to just slides safe
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spaces allegations of cultural appropriation other. primarily an american predicament or is it something bad you see in other parts of the world as well. we 1st started looking at cases and the united states oberlin college at yale and other. universities that's where we were seeing the kinds of. new moral claims a new moral language being used it's certainly used. elsewhere we've we've seen it in britain and australia certainly and in other places in europe so it's something that certainly in the west has become more prominent recently a lot of the ideas go back and kind of are decades old but they nobody had heard of them virtually and now they're becoming more prominent with with people talking about micro.
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