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tenants for. the crew. to be a. chain of. stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment. this is the weekly n r t international hello and welcome. 1st they broader picture of where the world is right now with the covert 19 demick billions of people of course currently under some sort of lockdown but the number of corona virus cases still rise there
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is no more than 1200000 registered infections more than 68000 people have died but a glimmer of hope amidst all of a quarter of a 1000000 people have recovered. the british queen elizabeth the 2nd has given a rare speech to the people of the united kingdom amid the eye break of covert 19 it was only the 5th time the monarch has given an urgent address of this nature in almost 7 decades of her reign or u.k. correspondent less than 10. queen elizabeth the 2nd of the united kingdom taking. waves to the television screens all of the nation in a prerecorded message so you cite the country and in particular the n.h.s. and this type of address is really something which is quite rare from how much is
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the queen usually she only addresses the nation when she is giving the christmas address to the country and these types of occasions are very rare she did start by thanking n.h.s. workers who already have become popular around the country for bad dedication tried to quite code mighty at the same time that the lots of pressure on the government to increase their support in terms of protective equipment and in terms of testing clothes and h.s. stuck at the highlights just how all go how usual this address by the queen is she herself made reference to the 1st time as she addressed the nation of the young lady it reminds me of the very 1st broadcast time made in 1000 phone help to my sister we as children spent trying him in twins and to children who had been evacuated from their homes and sent away for the range
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safety today once again many will feel a painful sense of separation from their loved ones. but now as then we know deep down the ditch is the right thing to do comes really the queen's speech a little over a week off the house. to the throne prince charles tested positive for coded 19 he did give a speech a few days ago updating the country and saying that he was one of the lucky ones because his symptoms if you will miles but also the prime minister of united kingdom boris johnson he's been pretty much stuck in the sense out of st isolated i'm having to so isolated continuing so far as that because more than a week off the cuff the part of the for coded 19 he'd still showing them all against the backdrop of yet another devastating day in terms of the number of deaths almost 700 people killed in the last 24 hours off the testing called coded
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19 taking the figures close to 5000 them out of those who have died in the u.k. type united kingdom. trying to reach is thought to be where this. outbreak took place so outbreaks talk to iran as well in another country we're trying to help the u.s. function struggle to deal with this crisis and i just dropped complext eliza's. carbonite how do you. you know speech just happening around an hour or so ago but let's move now to our top stories from the week just go on in israel making sure all communities abided by strict lock dawn rules was proving difficult there are more than 8 thought as a known infections there at this point intense movement restrictions one hot spot is an ultra-orthodox talling where locals are ignoring social distancing advice has this report one come to master in one of the oldest jewish neighborhoods in
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jerusalem now when you enter signs like this ask you not to prostitution in my district i am dressed modestly but you can really hear people shouting and booing and yelling they don't like germans yet they don't have to please and we are 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 placed on billboards because there is no television or radio in these communities many of the posters are yiddish and language that was spoken in the 19th century in central europe most israelis don't speak yiddish it's only the ultra-orthodox communities who do now some of these posters warn against the koran this 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 ultra orthodox been flouting the regulations well here we are located in the area of mash in the
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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 prevent the corona virus from spreading that is something that's absolutely 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. 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 to be meeting 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 end to come on a virus or does. buses are allowed to travel with $25.00 people on board or synagogue is an open place to be allowed only 10 people to pray there with 2 dances
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to each other. still closing in a so why but. the only thing that we need is the souls to be open the only thing for nothing else was there was not even i think. that everybody. was was like that when somebody offers. to the was. was. the was i was not there that was. done he said marcelino rise from people screaming on the balcony i was trying to just wonder even interesting to see what is going on in the c.c.c. the institutions are not designed you know people in this neighborhood are not shy to say don't misunderstand the seizure disorder that's happening so much a piece appears to be said to break down and change things like money money the
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census to take to you moment. was. the threat. 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 ultra docs neighborhoods the police will continue to crack down. mash them. all to europe now where the french prime minister's indicated that the lockdown in france 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 sees government efforts to supply protective equipment to medics is not moving fast enough dr eric has been describing the situation. in the ill to france region we're sort of playing
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a game of tetris meaning that we never we take patients 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. is currently dealing with $90000.00 confirmed infections registered 7 and a half deaths or so they enforce the stay at home regime is mentally taxing for everyone but the dangers in lockdown are far worse for some charlotte reports from paros. president marc cohen has described domestic violence against women as front 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 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 fansite as france enters
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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 were up 36 percent across the rest of the country it was 32 percent 2 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 women and lesion ships increased and instead of increasing the working time of the hotline which used to work until 10 pm now due to lack of funds 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
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pay for hotel rooms for victims it says pop up counseling 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 is difficult for women to get out we want to make sure the support systems can reach them for many domestic abuse charities confinement and all roys in domestic abuse was already a foregone conclusion there was already anecdotal evidence from china. this happened there with incidents reportedly trebling mashed 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
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ignoring women's rights that aren't 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 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 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 the. hundreds of 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 of actions taken to contain the spread of the 19 pandemic with children no longer in school and social distancing
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in place it's hold up the younger victims of abuse to be recognized the problem is compounded by cellphone isolation measures given that social workers aren't able to make regular calls in person. 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 inside with an abuser with limited. access to help while the governments in france has now recognized it's already too late to suffered abuse and death in the 3rd week of the lock down show that you can ski. paris without serious problem is not restricted to france of course self isolation seem to mistake violence increase in countries around the world there's also
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a spike in divorce supplications as couples struggle to get along in close proximity for so long domestic abuse survivor and campaigner rachel williams says it's important to take preventive measures before it's too late. the to the right we've seen across the room in the event countries that are in lockdown we are we've seen a 304050 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 literally 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 would be the traitors so 2 families again by day. 3 separate killings of women
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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 really had to be unlocked with the traits of the 247. and i think it's people reaching i am because they cannot take it anymore. when another aspect surrounding crew of viruses this on a global movement in fact is gathering pace surrounding it people are calling online lords to stop charging rent for hosing but one that multi-billion euro firm has latched onto that idea to ali to us is refusing to pay rent on its stores in germany because of the current lockdown because of that politicians are furious that's a law appear all over to take us through it. stay at home to save lives as being
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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 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 some european leaders saying they're not going to buy the dust product ever again. responded by saying they weren't the only ones but that appropriate arrangements had been made and that smaller landlords would
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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 or delaying the pavement red in the future by the way these are the last pair vida to swivel by such a shame that 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 not until july of 2021
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something which is pleased the unions politicians must send a clear signal the home must be safe. well a little of it. must pay if they can but what happens when or if they can't. territory one would presume that it falls to some kind from the hundreds of billions that have been put forward by government but just how one goes about. 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 of the coronavirus they're also trying to insulate business financial systems from infection of their own kind. this is all. for a fly health risks a u.s.
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do you believe in miracles would seem democrats to you after the joe biden surged on super tuesday for them the fear of the bernie sanders candidate see may now be contained however this is far from over taking on trump is no easy task. welcome back to the program now that kept him off the 1st u.s. warship on the point meant to report a nice break was fired on thursday after he sent a schooling memo pleading for help hundreds of sailors gathered on deck to theodore roosevelt aircraft carrier cheering the captain and walked off the ship since then
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he himself was at the palace of the fulcrum of ours. that night to spread the word grant comes here certainly to the men but where he outlined the dire situation with ford and pleaded for his crew to be evacuated for isolation it's eventually found its way into the media navy top brass. calls the necessary law and disregarded the chain of command and so relieved i'm sure. that you allow those emotions to color our judgment when communicating the current operational picture can it best create unnecessary confusion and at worst provide an incomplete picture of american combat readiness to our adversaries 1st the captains actions majors sailors their families and many in the public believe that his letter was the only reason. help from our larger navy family was forthcoming
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which was hardly the case president trump also the scribe the captain's letter is inappropriate by son of a $155.00 out of the $4800.00 personnel onboard had tested positive for the more than half of the crew being tested on friday they began to disembark all the tiny pacific island of where their ship docked but only $1500.00 have come ashore and will remain isolated in hotels that are. former pentagon unless michael maloof told us about the unique dangers posed when there is not a 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 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 other words that someone who's on duty gives up his bed
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and someone else sleeps that i mean it's that closely confide 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. the mayor of new york's ordered an investigation into why such a worker would lead a walkout on monday overconcern stuff we're not getting enough protection against coronavirus later a leaked memo seem to show almost on executives tried to smear the former warehouse supervisor. he's not small what's a complete and to the extent the press wants to focus on auspices he will be in a much stronger p.r. position than simply explaining for the umpteenth time how we're trying to protect
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workers. i was on staff have reportedly tested positive in dozens of the firms warehouses across the u.s. we spoke to the fired supervisor who to list just how worried the workers are. i organized this strike you know as a cry for help to close down the buildings of amazon because they're on say. we got people does home i haven't been paid for the entire month of march. news people were underlining health conditions they got lucas they got bronchitis they 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 we was 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 very scarce right now and am it's always depleted. to cleaning crew that they hired to clean the buildings they're scared to come to work themselves so
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. a lot of them haven't been showing 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 is sanitize it best in the state and do it in a bin now with him to do that then we should be happy 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. insists that fired chris after he ignored instructions to stay home for 14 days following his coming into contact with a colleague who had tested positive for mr small claims that's more about amazon's bottom line than knows that i was called in the uproar will. build and one of the largest buildings in the tri state area holds about 5000 people. a lot of money that they make in that building a lot of money i'm affecting that i'm affecting the business by speaking out so
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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 say we're going to. if they won't do it then we are global go above the head and we'll go to city hall. and we'll fight with the government so the government steps in and shut the building now. to some breaking news on the program the british prime minister has been admitted to hospital for tests on the advice of his doctor or his continued symptoms of coronavirus downing street ses it's is a precautionary step on that comes some 10 days after boris johnson tested positive for the 1st time there had been remarks in the press that he had been looking at progressively worse for the last number of days his pregnant fiance akari simmons had 1000 symptoms but as she said she's doing better this of course coming just to
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run a nora after the queen made her very rare speech to the british public calling for unity in result of self discipline in the midst of the corona virus as well as saying number of remarks really. a war time and. aspect of things that are out. windsor castle where she resides for the week and easter so we're just awaiting for a little bit more information on boris johnson admitted to hospital for tests 10 days after testing positive for crew on a virus described as a precautionary step taken on the advice of his doctor the prime minister remains in charge of the government urged people to follow its social distancing advice so any and all information and. social media channels will keep you right up to
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