persecuting wiki leaks founder julian assange plus greed in an industry exposed by wiki leaks as london fashion week shuts down its glamorous facade we talked to steve coogan and michael winterbottom about their satire on capitalism featuring the last ever on screen performance of u.k. celebrity caroline flack both of all coming up in today's going underground but 1st ahead of next week's hearings on the trial of julian assange still heard nothing from u.k. labor leadership contenders in defense of the wiki leaks publisher but one candidate for deputy richard bergen has been speaking out going underground fine ahmed caught up with him. it's important that we speak out against the actual vision of julian assange who could end up in prison in the united states of america for 175 years people have got to look at was his given reason was given rise to this situation you've got to look at the. crimes that we kill akes exposed the truth

the wiki leaks spoken for example look at the. video which came out in 2010 a video which went around the world and horrified people showing innocent civilians in iraq being gunned down that wouldn't have been seen by other words if it hadn't have been quickly simulate the wall logs in relation to iraq and afghanistan and similarly the treatment of people in guantanamo bay it is because if we're killing the world knows about these things because they were killing us the world has seen the evidence of these things vitally important in a democracy the. truth is known that we know what the powerful do in our name in the name of every citizen in this country so we need to speak up for what we believe says don't need to depend defend press freedom we need to speak out against the extradition of jews in the united states america through feeling these

atrocities for revealing these crimes are really revealing the horrors of war and you fair with our son so now with a large majority in parliament where the journal of genocide does get extras the united states due for parcells and assad cracking down on press freedoms head. i think one of the great problems with this situation is that it's almost giving a warning to other journalists don't expose war crimes don't expose the truth don't expose the horrors of war because this may happen to you as well just imagine what would have happened when you look at the vietnam war and the trust that is committed by the united. states america that if the journalists who expose those atrocities were prosecuted afterwards it's important that the world knows the truth and horror of war and we must carry on speaking out about this and just finally of course now john magaw and yourself have a pet is about this officer innocent but i wasn't as much what i was as much vocal

support during the riots of the general election so will the labor party be mournful for sporting events and from now on well before the general election jeremy crowe been down our butts and myself and others spoke out against the extradition of julie the sound show leadership part so it was clear on these matters of course the labor party itself now has to decide what it wants a leadership going forward to be clear on these matters but it's a matter for labor members to decide. if the labor leadership candidate richard bergen there joining me now is someone who refuses to be silent over julian songe things like co-founder roger waters roger thanks for coming in the studio at last a sign of the finely exactly you've been campaigning for julia son shelagh and lee they have talked about them by richard berke and you know that the british guardian newspaper maybe channel 4 news if you watch that you could be forgiven for thinking you know and which of bergen and others are basically campaigning for

a russian agent who's committed sex arrives i mean everything that he's said now in strew. how they're even having these extradition. trial for julian assange is weird because it's goes completely contrary as we know to u.k. law so our law the law of this country the little that supposed to represent all wear wigs or addition treaty with the united today has a treaty but it specifically precludes anything that could be claimed to be a political crime or a political misdemeanor which obviously this is because julian his son is only crime is to speak the truth to the people and he's speaking truth though to a powerful elite to do not want the truth spoken to the people to go to serve is obviously believes that the espionage act that hacking these are crimes that you can exude i think they do i think has 600000 the powers that be in washington d.c.

have decided that they want julian killed or at least imprisoned for the rest of his is healthy it's extremely poll. and they want to be locked up forever as an example it's frightening to know that any minute they could be that standard issue kicking in the door and your talk of you know stuck into beaumarchais where you will stay until they've had their way with you which is to silence you and any who might follow you which is that which is i mean apart from the fact that julian assange. is clearly a great journalists he went he wouldn't and he went to places that other journalists were not going and he developed methods. to help we the people to find out the truth of what was going on in our names in other posts that look like as richard bergen was saying the collateral murder in baghdad

well why do you think then that amnesty international has chosen to declare a songes new prisoner of conscience. i did not know that what an earth does not me i mean i'm i'm asking you because you know you have said you can probably explain to me them what the hell is a prisoner of conscience they've come up amnesty have in the in the last few years come up with some very strange fever some very strange things that are not necessarily based on anything that you and i might consider to be the fact of the matter how entrenched of these elite forces then kiss stalin was secure stormers one of the leading candidates to replace jeremy corbyn as leader of the opposition nearly oversaw as the head of the prosecution service here the edge persecution of julian. is it all through our society of course lace but you know

politicians politicians that tricky animals because they've always got one eye on them on the meter they're always looking to see where they stand how much power they have how popular they are or they aren't horrific arenas have to perform and the love of them says overkill for musicians to a very young aspiring musician later taylor swift as someone started talking like you presumably rick would do the recording companies would get quite alone at alienating audiences without it that is true in my in my industry absolutely. there's not a great oh dear straight talking coming out of i'm 76 years old and he did this for 55 years it was a big you know not quite so. and also. i have survived to date with but now brith had counted wrote a letter to the major m.o.p.

saying that it was appalling that they were what is having tickets for my shows what they always claim is i'm a self of no a valid they said a woman of about long standing a vowed anti semi who spreads a treat. that's a could according to them and they do it because i support b.d.s. because i support human rights lawyer divestment and sanctions a vote could have essman and there was the e.u. does not support now explicitly do you think there's something different about this obviously jeremy corbin was heavily attacked for supporting palestine and bernie sanders whose relatives die in the hall of course some of been accusing bernie sanders of anti semitism trying to hang their trying the time to hang over in support of as well as on his soundness with the same code that they hung coping with by smearing smear tactics in this street sure of julian is so this post of the

now with the with the flag. this is how we feel a lot of the time well the d.n.c. obviously has be village to be attacking bernie sanders over the primary season just as they did in 2016 where they prevented him from becoming the next president of the united states then could you see why people are thinking it's a russian agent because it stemmed from wiki leaks gain russian data that you know russia has been the biggest waste of time literally wasting everybody's time for the last where did it come from i mean it's so due to chris there were about an identifiable bot steering the 2016 a how in a minute what foreign countries interfering in american elections what about $100000000.00 that adelson has just given to donald trump the game re-elected there's a little money arguably also going to certain interests in latin america trying to

overturn the the old pink tide if we have a little bit of those we know that's how the game works on guy who was hosted by prime minister boris johnson in downing street he met with foreign secretary dominic rob what do you make of these pictures of him being feted here in london. it makes me want to throw up because guido is right wing thug who was used by the united states government as the figurehead in there or sent to overthrow the jouni elected democratic. government of the sovereign country of venezuela in contravention of every international law and the un charter and everything else because why because they want to make money this isn't a hidden secret war leg during the eighty's this is the european union and britain booth recognizing what it was here shows how it was a city a state in the attack by neo liberal economics and the war mongering of the

powerful elites how insidiously has wormed its way into places of power it's a bit like in germany the blondish coming out and declaring. b.d.'s a phony member not what they said but they had some if they say so you have well i mean all leadership labor candidates well the ugly greed that. how to i i mean every time there's no election when i was a kid our front room was a committee room for the local labor party whoa you know the local labor party from 55 on and before that for the come this party so my mom would be turning in no growth a lot of people have also been saying why do leftwing candidates like corbin like saunders talk about palestine why do they talk about venezuela these are irrelevant to me you're a liberal destruction

a manufacturing jobs why are they relevant because you always campaign on these particular issues that everyday people concerned about their own lives might not think relevant to them this trust me. 2 of my great heroes in life are ken loach and john pilger who sadly can't be areas in australia i go a note from him this morning but i've seen joan poaches 2 hour long documentary in that school the dirty war on the n.h.s. and it's about the dismantling of the national health service in this country so if you really want to get me started i could weep. so he hits it day knowing that the national health service which is the jeweler in the crown of the possibility that we might be moving towards a more equitable world off to the world will see it being sold down the river by the boris johnson's son

a pleasant moderate that is of this world. just breaks my heart its design for it to be privatized and held it well be that more for roger waters of this short break plus is the death of british t.v. star caroline flack renew scrutiny of rupert murdoch's media empire we speak to a man at the heart of a u.k. inquiry into mainstream media oscar nominated steve coogan about media manipulation and his new film greed satirizing the billionaires of the fashion industry told visible coming over bob to have going underground.

something. on the spot that same. time with nothing to do on that i desired to know. how much older the. local just to. still. be able to show. you prince not just on thoughts the most unusual not among the. stuff it takes to the ship but i see you. welcome back i'm still with roger waters the interconnectedness here that i'm

really addressing with you guys julie that suddenly we heard just now he's talking about guantanamo torture he's talking about the killing of journalists and civilians in iraq but then all of this talk about pharmaceutical companies and all sorts of corruption and wrongdoing is all around the around the world you see this as a hugely interconnected it is hugely interconnected and that's that's one thing that . it's that people are in the streets in santiago in chile right where where it started with a tiny crease in subway faces something that they've realized now that there is a movement in latin america and south america but also the. fronts and maybe one day they will even be an uprising in the united kingdom to say oh enough so but it was well not rising to support johnson well supposedly he

wanted to huge majority in poland i was coming to our will come to that but you know before i do in colombia now even though they even though the government there is very very extremely right wing and there's a dictatorship in the people who are on a general strike the whole country is rising up as well and bolivia they're not they're refusing to accept the coup again u.s. financed coup that has just taken place getting rid of the julie democratic again britain recognizes the new leader of bolivia well 1st johnson would say anything it's i mean i find it very difficult you know to kape straight face even but the mention of that buffoons name i'm sorry. but it's no different than the united states where i live how do you get these people rise into these positions of extraordinary political power arguably donald trump who came to power

in an antiwar ticket i mean i i spoke to judaism's in the ecuadorian embassy about how hillary clinton. could will of got us into a full scale war involving syria i'm sure she trump was an antiwar president yet and yet and yet the united states' involvement in the wars abroad has actually increased in their spending more money on it than they were in any previous administration under trump i mean and let's not write off the possibility that trump may do something credibly insanely stupid at the behest of the neocons visibly iran is already has murdering that monitoring customs eliminate again exactly well if you can get millions around the world to support julian a songe like he is a latter day nelson mandela identity politics at least has been presumably there's been massive progress on it since you started out but even in their. own

leg josie manning who is refusing to testify against judaism and it's day 346 of her exacerbations ton credit was a brave woman people think chelsea manning is a traitor and that she deserves everything that she gets the hatred was so intense music has been such a great part of rebellion against elites over history obviously in south africa and so on presumably that's why you turned up outside the home office here to protest about the incarceration of julie the surge hardly any people turned up i have have to say are you saying that's again propaganda hardly any people turned up and not a single word was printed in any english or american newspaper of that event apart from on r t but obviously i don't listen that all the television networks here would say no one told them don't cover roger waters singing wish you were here in ignorance of performance so it's all what it's in their heads oh. people aren't stupid

where you think journalists aren't coming out and in bed drove sit in their hundreds of thousands to defend judea you don't have to ride to people's forehead so they read it every morning when they go up to shave they go oh look of mustn't step out of line or i won't get that promotion i was because i won't be given that job over this one how about what happens when you fly a big pig above a demonstration of the mother of all parliaments what are you drawing to do will get attention. that for instance a pig that would go flying over here now. has got a big picture of the american flag over his face and it says free is in on the of the so it is describes the moment where it's going to start from what's going to finish and the fact going to be on air and i'm going to open my big mouth in public

so. for me the pick has become a way of attracting attention to it because people recognize it so it's familiar it's a bit like we don't need no education is familiar to most people it's in their minds so that in and if you want to get people's attention then and and and. you have access to iconic images so well it is lyrics and news do you think the tide is now turning in judaism does favor even some mainstream media outlets maybe reporting on this trial starting on monday and realizing that the very same out of the reporting of the case may not be able to do journalism i think. fingers crossed you know. one dreads to show any faith that just at this particular moment while he's

languishing in belmarsh in a tiny cell a man has committed no crime and as we know the strings are being absolutely pulled from the united states it's a tiny courtroom and it's almost full of american advisors american lawyers sitting behind the english q.c. who's prosecuting who's prosecuting the case so will you we will those of us who care about democracy and freedom and human rights and more importantly running mate and the magna carta and english jurisprudence and the law desperately want to believe that the law will prevail because this is not a law it's a kangaroo court and to have a kangaroo court taking place in my home and distresses me beyond all belief is this what my father my grandfather died for no it's not we need to be able to rely

on the law and this is a sure or come on people let's let's. take to the streets where i am or if you will to spank you well while julian assange just been mostly ignored by mainstream media one story that hasn't is the death of reality t.v. host caroline flack questions similar to those are asked after the deaths of princess diana and amy winehouse are being asked all over again about all agog newspapers and ironically flacks last on screen performance is to be in a film starring steve coogan himself at the heart of an inquiry into president thinks the film greed examines the dark side of the fashion industry from the perspective of a billionaire businessman going underground caught up with the film's director michael winterbottom and coogan on the red carpet and started by asking coogan about using comedy to shine a light on the billionaire class the more clever more sophisticated super rich try to keep a low profile and don't attract attention to themselves if it. has stopped someone

who we used as a inspiration if you like for this is someone who did it did attract attention to yourself deliberately and used in self. the sort of as they go ahead public figure and it was company. and that in a way helped shine a light on the. super rich are you but that's what we were about were about people being supposed to do it people have money to do what they like but. such a mash. disparity between the super rich and the super poor. it comes about that people have to say what is acceptable you know. what you know and to talk about it because the one thing the super rich have is influence a young they can influence politicians they can influence you can buy influence by interest in newspapers and what they're able to do is to some extent you could control a brain agenda i'm not stopped their gender they want to they want to frame is one

where no one no one talks about this stuff and what we're trying to do so is make me a story that michael winterbottom. he did say at the end of it the ending of a storm. of the haitian i'm salaries of the c.e.o.'s. pay the walks in bangladesh you know i marked out yeah it was some sort of so do you think that this kind of represents and some walking interests of various of the most basic of the council's cost of this film it's amazing i support filmmakers i support i support creativity what the problem with the industry is it's a constant tension between art and commerce and when given a choice i will always side with overcoming. what you find is that the world is run by people who are bottom line people who will always basically close ranks if that if that the cartel of have is that a threat just about the so i support my claim well we've seen over the past couple of years especially the political climate billionaires and the super rich are

getting ever more scrutinized so do you think comedy like this do you think is not helping with that sort of i think scrutiny yes that i do i think you know i well meaning documentary that appeals to you know often is. preaching to the converted speech to the choir just say and. i think comedy is a really good way to you know using comedy as a way to show you the pill. of difficult subjects is always a good thing you said it best to do comedy documentaries straight talk about inequality and the way in which because it's grown over the last 40 years this felt like it you know and say the way you have a character like which we create a space we create really start to be. that. mark is god and hopefully people here by the end of the film feel that you know the world should be changed in some way and it has been reported of course sony did copy and of the film you did one c.e.o. salaries compared to the walkers but do you think that represents

a kind of in some locking interests of you know the feeling as just by being in different industries. so you think. that's a system for both the parents and moneys because i think that they don't want the film it's not by individuals i don't like one brand is bad one but it is good it's what you get the system the market forces all the brands compete against other over the world for the cheapest possible place where they go to fight each other and you know say i was here for that will go to bangladesh to get i get cheaper or they get me a multi-year cheaper so it's like you know all the brands are doing all the brands use the same faction's images it's about to get in with you guys it's not say this part is a bad thing but if you think that the owners are is worth $60000000000.00 but the women who make the toasters are ok pay $0.50 an hour or $0.60 an hour whatever it's to pay and what you wish to do in that gap is grotesque and what actions you want consumers to take off the stock i think they should be i think the place got this by saying because if you get in which i tried so look at 4 i think i think all suppliers and that's great but that takes me like 5 buying free range and why they

tend to just get expensive it's like leasing it makes some difference to the best way to the best way to chase have got to say what we want we don't want companies be allowed to buy there's no way we want to break a system or you know we don't want the market to be out in these kind of principal old old brands the kind of competing with other brands of one brand find a cheaper place we can pay we have pay for actually less that's moving from one country to another that then that all the brands chasing plus the people it's all get richer and richer and richer just put all the money in a tax rate and just finally with the political climate now changing and so much awareness going through we are excess do you think you have hope now the system is going to change i do i do think i foresee my own life history sided with the thomas about i 1st like chavez it was margaret thatcher and since then it's been a sense like you know you can argue with the market i think that since the financial crisis really there's been a growing sense that something should change things should be fairer that is the rich we have richer and richer it doesn't matter the inequality doesn't matter i think people are tired i think you do want to change steve coogan and michael

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in your backyard. welcoming our viewers from around the world live from central london this is r.t. u.k. . the chancellor attempts to reassure front line medical staff after health service bosses hit out at the lack of protective equipment and broken promises from ministers so as the prime minister himself is accused of failing to take the crisis seriously i'll be talking to a doctor should. the government's coronavirus further scheme opens as firms try to keep staff on the payroll and 140000 companies applied for the bono that's his business leaders stress any delays in payouts could spell could test. also this 99 year old world war 2 veteran breaks a record raising over 27000000 pounds for n.h.s.

charities captain tom moore tells us he's over the moon with the public's response . never in a 100 years do. anything like use. public come forward. call. the chancellor says that the government is working to resolve the shortages in coronavirus protective gear for frontline staff of the health service chiefs accuse ministers of breaking their promises or even promising too much it comes after the prime minister was accused of missing crucial meetings in the initial stages of the virus crisis he said and he joins me now with more. a major intervention now by health service leaders. absolutely we've seen all the way throughout this crisis

those health service leaders and others from my stock really complaining out of the record to the media about the lack of testing and p.p. personal protective equipment this latest interventionist story she really in how tablet can out spoken and it isn't the criticism aimed at the government but that today it was rich she soon act who was fronting up that daily government to briefing and he was updating the country what he says are the government's latest efforts to try to source that p.p. for n.h.s. staff alongside the efforts of british businesses and our embassies around the world we're working hard to get the p.p. our frontline n.h.s. and social cast off need we have appointed paul deighton formally chief executive of the london 20 travelling pigs to lead on our domestic efforts to make and increase the supply of p.p.a. and we are receiving shipments of p.p.

regularly from suppliers in the u.k. and abroad we're working to resolve the turkish ship mint of p.p. as soon as possible following some unexpected delays at the weekend. today we have unloaded a shipment of 140000 pounds from the animal and we are of course continuing to pursue every possible option for p.p. procurement. now this is an act was she learnt by eve on doyle now she's the medical director at public health england and she was stressing that doctors and those on the front lines should have the freedom to make their own decisions and do fact have the freedom to make their own decisions about whether they should or shouldn't treat patients if they feel that their own safety is at risk. it's very difficult to give local advice in a local circumstance but what we're very clear with guidance is that the guidance

tell you what is the right thing to do and pot is safe and that is very much then based on people's judgment of it's use the risk assessment they're in so certainly people have to make their decisions based on whether they are in a risky situation or not and it's very difficult to legislate for all of that from a distance here but just to say the guidance is very clear on what is safe and what is not safe to do. now that's as we've seen the daily death toll figure coming in 449 people sadly having lost their lives in the latest 24 hour period after testing positive with coded 99 that is a significant drop at the lowest down day increase this month so far so perhaps there will be some within the government will be taking some solace in that not that those people who lost their lives with that maybe the so-called flattening of the kind of is taking place now all this does come as you mentioned that bill with

the outspoken criticism of those n.h.s. bosses a number of n.h.s. trust chiefs criticizing the government for a lack of p.p. iraq i think in the country that was supposed to be shipments arriving with tons of goods over the weekend they still haven't arrived and there was an article in a prominent sunday paper over the weekend slamming the way in which the government has now ordered to that article that downing street advised a secret source blamed boris johnson's leadership for those failures saying the prime minister failed to send 5 cobra meetings the government say prime minister doesn't necessarily have to attend those meetings or since it only attended his 1st of those cobra meetings on march the 2nd the whole 5 weeks after the 1st reported case in the u.k. again the government saying that boris johnson has been at the helm and leading the country through the crisis all throughout this when it comes to p.v. not just criticism about the lack of p.p.

in the country but also a report that the government actually sent p.v. equipment outside the country nearly 280000 items to china but the government said that they have managed to get over 12000000 items to frontline n.h.s. stuff. and also that the government introducing lockdown measures too late according to this report and that the government should have done so when other european countries like italy and spain did the government claiming that they've been following the advice all the way through that from their advisors and that they have been working day and night not somebody from even within the conservative party has been strongly critical of the government's approach to trotted 19 has been the former health secretary jeremy hunt he took to twitter to express what he feels should be done. contact tracing needs to be our next national mission the countries that have the biggest success in keeping coronavirus tesler up places like korea and germany that have just done

a lot of testing but they use the data from testing to track down people who have the virus people they've been in contact with to isolate and quarantine them as well and if we are going to use the extra capacity that we now have in testing which is so welcome this is the way to do it but of course when it comes in there are many concerns by privacy and civil liberties activists as to the human rights cations is thank you very much indeed for that. offer more nestle now joined by a general practitioner dr hemming and great to see you here live in r.t. you can other government says it's doing all it can on p.p.a. the health chiefs say it's promising too much and breaking those promises what are your thoughts. i think that p.p. is not just a u.k. issue it's a worldwide issue and when you think of the the progress of qubit 19 it started in

some of the countries that will be making this p.p.p. so that there have been issues with lock down in the countries that be making the products that we need to source so if you just think logically about it when we have a need for something that we can procure therefore there's going to be an issue however we also see that lots of people in the community it will can all round wearing a lot of mass now i'm not saying they're wrong but i'm also very aware that some people stockpiled mass right at the beginning of this and i myself have managed to source about 100 face miles from people that i know and clinics that have been able to donate them to the n.h.s. so there are sources out there that we could tap into in order to help supply certainly in the community so apart from mosques are you yourself struggling to get other protective equipment other colleagues but what's your experience of this. my experience is that if i get emails in my inbox almost every single day from

a number of companies offering me masks now obviously we need to check the validity of the sources but there are certainly a lot of companies out there offering p.p.p. p.p. equipment there are also a lot of people in the community making facials and numerous you tube videos that show people how to make them and they look fairly simple to make so i think that we cood using all of our skills pull together and make this less of a problem that it seems to be and the british medical association saying it would back doctors who refuse to work without the right kit that could severely impact on the the coronavirus response from you experts that's right and also the nursing colleges as well so i think it's a very personal thing each doctor and nurses an individual. and they have feelings about aig how they do their job and we all have a and want to help and care for people certainly at the moment but also you have to

protect your workforce and there are people that are going to work that have maybe children or relatives with asthma that they're living with and their concern and so i think you've got to take each case individually so difficult isn't it for the likes of you a choice between risking your life indeed even affecting your family or saving the life of a patient that is one dilemma i'd imagine we never thought you'd encounter. i think that it happens more regularly than anything can maybe that at the moment it's just coming to the limelight there are many things that health care professionals have to do they work with people from across the social spectrum and they do put their selves at danger quite a lot what about the department of health calling on staff to reuse p.-p. as it is have feasible to think i think there are certain types of p.p. that can be reused i think it just has to depend on the type of p.p. that you've got it's obviously

a very broad ranging product matters so if it's the right kind of p.p. that can be reused that's fair enough and just a final thought in facing this crisis do you think that every country has actually underestimated the crisis. i think this came like a bolt out of the blue to be honest with you even though china did get some warning and maybe we could have acted slightly sooner but that goes across the globe i don't think anyone was expecting a virus it's an invisible enemy you can't see it you don't know who's got it even if you've got a email you know you've got it it's something that no one's experienced before so yes i do think that we were unprepared for it but i don't think that there's been any precedent set in this type of in this type of situation and therefore it's a definitely a learning curve dr and i having thank you very much indeed for joining us and good luck with all your work and you know colleagues thank you thank you. meanwhile the tons of extract also announce around 140000 companies have applied for the

following scheme that was launched earlier today. h m r c open the coronavirus job retention scheme at 8 o'clock this morning as of 4 o'clock this afternoon over 140000 firms have applied and the grants they'll receive will help pay the wages of more than a 1000000 people. a 1000000 people who if they hadn't been furloughed would have been at risk of losing their job firms applying today should receive their cash in 6 working days h m r c will continue to provide updates on the number of people furloughed over business leaders are concerned that any delays to payments will be catastrophic the treasury says cash will be transferred to companies within 6 working days but the british chambers of commerce says that if the money isn't there on time jobs and businesses will be under threat business expert eric up wolf murray she spoke to me

earlier about the chancellor's furlough scheme and she said it was important the money and short employees have a job to go back to not to prop up failing firms. there is meant to be a relationship of trust between employer and employee. some in some companies you know that trust is stretched very thin. and you know we have to believe that the money that comes through the following money that he's paid back through the system if the employer is going to be paid to the employee course some of them will always miss out there who will admit no scheme can possibly cover everyone in circumstances like this i absolutely agree there are going to be lots of companies that miss out you know they have covered the self-employed over you know through a different system but the self-employed don't get that money until the end of june and you know that's a long period to wait but equally with the follow scheme you know.

several people several companies have already made lots of individuals redundant you know the extreme was rigidly set up to prevent redundancies but you know companies are going to make people redundant anyway why would you keep a failing business open longer than new knees and it's meant to be there for jobs to come for people to come back to you but it could be that the company had skinny that the company was failing anyway you know there won't be those jobs to come back or what what will happen is the furloughs include just be extending you know the death of the company. that's take a look across the u.k. for the latest figures now over 120000 people across the home nations have now tested positive for the virus 449 more hospitalized people have lost their lives in the past 24 hours bringing the death toll to just over 16 and a half 1000 during today's press briefing 1st minister scott nicholas sturgeon said

social distancing restrictions are likely to remain in place for some time to come and a world counterpart mark drake for it criticized his country's failure to meet its testing targets branding them not good enough. when i asked for the figures from all over the world we can see that according to johns hopkins university almost 2 and a half 1000000 have contracted the disease over 160000 the past away a more than 639000 have made a recovery. still to come this hour. a 99 year old war veteran breaks fund raising records off to the races over 27000000 pounds of the n.h.s. will begin from captain mall in south. join

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world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you about. 99 year old war veteran who has broken the record on the nation website just giving we'll come to that story in a few minutes from now in the meantime we will now talk about what's going on in germany we'll come back to captain tom we'll put into the program in contrast with the u.k. which has at least another 3 weeks of lockdown as i say germany is starting to lift restrictions after declaring the outbreak is under control but the economy ministers warn that the measures could be reinstated if the situation deteriorates

in but in the restrictions of cause widespread frustration with some people taking to the streets peter all of the reports germany's minister for economic affairs coming out and saying that showed people stick to those social distancing protocols that are still in place even if they are being a then germany coach well perhaps avoid a 2nd lockdown he said essentially as long as people don't go running around like headless chickens and immediately back out onto the streets trying to live their lives as they were and things could be ok that's not washing with some no on saturday you hear him when we saw a group of well around 250 people demonstrating against what the current measures that have been put in place and where they see the government here in germany taking us as we try and battle against coronavirus. i'm here to stand up for my fundamental rights guaranteed by the constitution and when our right to demonstrate is taken away and we cannot raise our voices against injustice that makes us take

to the streets out of both of you just the spread of the virus isn't that bad the measures that have been introduced aren't reasonable yet still our politicians go down the same route and say look down remains in place perhaps right until they have a vaccine the monitoring app is voluntary but we'll see how it goes of the spike those people being unhappy with what's being done we are seeing an easing of some of the restrictions here in germany from monday some shops that are under 800 square meters will be allowed to gradually open that will be with restrictions on how many people can enter the store there will also be hygiene standards that need to be met almost looking to schools well we're looking at the 4th of may that the moment that is under constant review and could well be changed in the future some states though have said they may be on a different timetable in no way is this going to be a national. timetable it's laid out for when germany will be reopened markets or

who's the head of the state of bavaria has said that his state may well work on a different timeline the message from the government though from the central government here in berlin is that this isn't the return to how things were that germans will have to adhere to some more restrictions some more social distancing some more anti corona measures otherwise well things could go right back to square one skipped. the city in fits there are no guarantees of the infection curve to keep happening out there also risks and when we take these small steps towards opening up we must keep an eye on the. more the means for the whole system and almost for matters of health the statistics we're looking at here in germany is around 150000. and confirmed cases of corona virus with around 5000 people sadly having died from the virus it's a much better ratio than most other european nations it's

a much better ratio than much of the comparable nations of a similar socio economic background what that's been put down to a lot of is the amount of hospitals in germany the amount of hospital beds available the amount of protective equipment available for those working in both hospital vironment and the amount of testing that has been carried out here in germany. and 99 year old war veteran has broken the record on the nation website just giving raising over 27000000 for n.h.s. charities captain tom moore who is due to turn 100 in 10 days time celebrate his upcoming birthday by do 100 laps around his garden setting up the page to handle donations he quickly broke through his 1000 pound target he's also released a hit charity single and i spoke to captain tom himself and his daughter hannah about his fundraising exploits and started by asking if he expected to be so successful noble no harm do you know do unto simply anything. and

you know i think yeah absolutely marvelous public come forward. a little cause to widely lose some of my. marbles and what do you put it down to why do you think you yourself have caused such a stir and achieve this incredible achievement so many other people would try to do the same but you captain have done it. how. long who are bad judges mug lovers and treatment command national health service i heard a broken. skin and now he sure has got home the doctors and the nerve the nurses and all know creepily and our service been absolutely magnificent and there were certain there were reasons why it's all

a great show and going through all this money. and maybe actually just jump in there and say i think that there are several reasons why this happened and what if and yes phenomena i think that any time when so many people up being isolated that there is a real sadness across not only our country but everywhere around the world dealing with this terrible pandemic i think that we are just a regular happy family and we create something that we thought would be small that we fail intended it's a 1000 pounds if we done really well to go to the n.h.s. and we share that story we knew we had like a magnificent person doing a magnificent thing coming up to $100.00 so we shared it and. surely a lot of the credit you must take yourself because you had to handle this because

obviously your dad captain thomas is in huge demand at the moment what about your role in all of this. well i think that you know i'm a business person and i want them back to work for 2 weeks but we knew that we were sharing we were not ignorant of the fact that we were sharing a lovely story and we did that deliberately because we thought we could make some people happy and raise a bit of money so we're not naive we knew that we had something that people might like but we never ever thought in a 1000000 years it would go beyond some some great and terrific local press so we accept and take on our responsibility with kravitz hassen and with gravity we we know that we have. tom has created a beacon of hope in a world that is sad and we know this out pouring of public support is something that we feel responsibility for that we owe the public back in service

so we want to continue to try and give the nation a little bit of joy. and we won't stop until they want to but are so totally not stopping tom are you carrying on walking despite all the money you've raised so far . yes and we are who long of those people aren't contributing to the list from our comes in to continue a war can. mark recent hold on to those who quit will know or decided not to give any more money to this fund and you are a veteran of world war 2 do you think we need a bit of a blitz spirit to get through this dreadful crisis at the moment. do you think we need a. spirit that well what you start to get through this terrible crisis you need to get to do you think we need a bit of that spirit you know the world war 2 spirit i think so i think we all need

to get together because law and we're all in this together no one is a moon from list invisible. army is we're tracking grizzle the moment. everyone a nice. bottle down the distillery have to do. really wartimes the cynicism thing we're all need to do and do it cheerfully because at the end and we sing rule we all turned out alright talking about bringing positive spirit during wartime do you feel about knocking dame vera lynn off the top of the i tunes chart how do you feel about knocking dane perry are not the top of the charts well. never ever thought i would do anything like this because of absolute high regard them dearly in records in our in the war time while our as in in burma a burning attractive young lady came down busy to the lunar rover in the firing

line and turned out to do a little and so are all low will knock her off the top of soren but has happened and just finally what you make of calls for you to be knighted for your efforts. i think this is rather a little. musician a group was i don't think. i don't think we're a minute now it will. almost more but don't hold your breath before the founders and that's all from our to u.k. our colleagues from r.t. america will take over in half an hour from now so for all the team here in westminster the pike. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills

a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family and daughters in florida no mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it is healing messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pin this on than him and what happens in court be the. shock shock as far as society we feel. we don't know just from. the end of this trial unfortunately due to this still love no children just.

seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out these days to come as a kid and it gains from an equal betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

hello and welcome the crossed off were all things are considered done peter lavelle kobe 19 pandemic not only sees much of the world in lockdown but it is also devastated economies dependent make has been painful recovering from it may be even more painful is it all falls. on stopping the pandemic i'm joined by my guest in moscow is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london across the alps enemy curious he is a writer on legal affairs as well as the editor in chief of the duran dot com regiment cross uprose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated all right let's go to alexander mackerras 1st in london as the united states and britain. deal with this pandemic here i happen to have noticed that there is a very.