hello there i'm going to let you and you're watching in question broadcasting from r.t. american national headquarters in washington d.c. we want to welcome our viewers from across the nation and all around the world here are tonight's top stories u.s. attorney general bill barr now threatening legal action against state governors who ordered a virus lockdowns we've got the details for you then the canadian city of ottawa is spending millions to support its homeless population during this pandemic we'll get you those details next and last but not least scientists discover that microgravity and large is the brains of astronauts returning from space but that's actually not a good thing all right it's time to boost your i knew.

the origin of the corona virus has been a politically sensitive issue for china and a bone of contention between democrats republicans and president trump who refers to it as the chinese virus now to a u.s. states and germany plan to sue china accusing the country of lying and covering up the virus what it 1st appeared back in the fall of 2019 for more on this will bring in our chief eric ferret how significant are these lawsuits and do they have any bearing so many of the short answer to that is probably not missouri's attorney general eric schmidt is leading the case and after talking with economists at the university of missouri the state is looking to get upwards of $44000000000.00 and now you also have. mississippi's a.g.

saying that she's getting ready to file suit now missouri is the 1st state to file against china mississippi the 2nd all the seek damages and it could be the 1st of many states doing this now according to the missouri lawsuit it reads quote during the critical weeks of the initial outbreak chinese authorities deceive the public suppressed crucial information arrested whistleblowers denied human to human transmission destroyed medical research had millions exposed to the virus and hoarded protective equipment causing a global pandemic that was preventable now today the chinese government called missouri's lawsuit absurd listen here. usually those who have little suitors purely malicious vexatiously to go on which violates the basic legal principles according to the principle of so for an equality you need to snatch a little so from the actions taken by chinese governments all levels in terms of an epidemic prevention and control not subject to the jurisdiction of the us schools. no according to legal experts this lawsuit will face a number of uphill battles because of that but the missouri a.g.

says that he is one step ahead arguing that the chinese communist party is a non-state actor and that is what gives him the legal argument that they can sue but now you also have both missouri and mississippi as a.g.'s there calling on their states congressional delegations to back a new bill put out by republicans tom cotton and dan crenshaw you see there that would amend the foreign sovereign immunity as act to create a narrow exception and actually allow people american citizens to actually sue china now this bill is modeled after the justice against sponsors of terrorism act which a lot americans to file civil claims against a foreign state for any injuries or death and that passed 4 years ago with 97 of the 100 senators approving it monella you know and fair and since china is saying that you know what they're being sued for is just false and they technically don't have to respond to these lawsuits isn't aren't just all these lawsuits basically dead on arrival then well middle if you look at it from china's perspective yes but

if you look at it on a global scale not necessarily all germany is now wanting to file suit claiming that china owes them 162000000000 dollars and china said that was false and even said germany is being is in a phobic but there is however a window in international law the world health organization has international health regulations specifically that a country has to alert the w.h.o. and if they do not china could be sent to the international court of justice however manila in order to be prosecuted at the international court of justice china would have to consent to the lawsuit which as. recalling missouri's lawsuit absurd that's likely not going to happen in the newsroom fair and fronsac. and as care for those with coke at 19 dominate hospitals around the country some cities are looking to utilize facilities that are currently empty are to correspondent natasha sweet is in los angeles where one medical center is looking to reopen to aid in this fight against the pandemic. other angeles county officials

are rushing to reopen this hospital to treat cope 19 patients that were closed back in january after the owner declared bankruptcy and officers are using state finding true reopen this hospital a trend that we're seeing nationwide hard times are ahead harder than what we saw in 2008 we are today. that says toward hospitals you must be in pretty sure capacity by 50 percent that's covered 1000 patients flood hospitals throughout the country state governors and city officials alike are looking for ways to serve more people for treatment well hurst hospital has hit capacity and there's about 545 beds in year and they're all filled with cold with patients as new york works to take care of the skyrocketing amount of chronic virus patients city governments in other areas have struck deals

with owners of empty hospitals city funding will cover the cost to lease the space during the pandemic the state of california is leasing a hospital just south of san francisco to care for up to 220 crowd of everest patients governor gave a new sim said set to medical center will be leased for 3 months in los angeles workers are preparing medical equipment as they get ready to reopen st vincent medical center near downtown the hospital is opening in phases and will have a maximum capacity of $266.00 beds some of which will be designated for the intensive care unit county officials say it will operate as a referral hospital with no emergency room and will not accept walk in patients with each bed cost in roughly $236.00 a night as it will pay a total of 2600000 a month in philadelphia one of the largest cities in the country without a public hospital is also one of the poorest the hand of man university hospital shut down in september after the owner declared bankruptcy now philadelphia's mayor

is in talks with the new owner but reopening the facility with almost $500.00 beds isn't as easy as residents were hoping the owner is looking to make $900000.00 a month for the facility and in new orleans charity hospital sits bacon's the hospital never reopened after hurricane katrina hit the area in 2005 and while that facility stands and operated city officials did open up the new orleans convention center. for 2000 patients who no longer require critical care but a place for those needed intensive care remains to be seen now these hospitals that are being released through city and state funding are only meant to be temporary until the need to treat those impacted by this pandemic dies down reporting in los angeles to patia suites r t. canada's capital city of ottawa has turned its focus to some of its most vulnerable citizens that's the homeless population with coburn $1000.00 now active in the community the city is taking action to stop the spread of the virus amongst

those who live on the streets party's alex mile of which has the story opened here yoga classes in delhi india. to dr swapping the streets of miami florida around the world there are efforts to help society's most vulnerable through the coronavirus pandemic. in ottawa canada's capitol there are an estimated 950 homeless people on any given night most choose to stay in the comfort of one of the city's shelters about 10 percent remain on the street in usual circumstances the majority are taken care of but covert 19 has brought new challenges one of the greatest hurdles is the implementation of social distancing or was homeless often share spaces making it difficult in fact the majority of the facilities have communal bathrooms and kitchens knowing just how quickly the virus can spread out of was home province of ontario and the canadian federal government are investing

over $8000000.00 us to curb the spread of the virus among the city's homeless the federal government has contributed over $3000000.00 while the province has put in the rest here's ontario's deputy premier and minister of health christine elliott in some areas there are hotels being rented in other places it's community centers and other areas that every person with covered $1000.00 is there is to be treated and is there is to have a place to stay additional beds and shelters are being added to help with the effort in ottawa a local rec center is becoming a physical distancing space for homeless men making up to $140.00 new beds available and the city has reserved 70 hotel rooms and is looking at expanding to 50 more to accommodate homeless families single women and youth in need of emergency shelter in fact about 2 thirds of the money will be used to record for self isolation and social distancing initiatives including activating dozens of new beds in what are being called social distancing spaces and local governments across

the country will be doing the same canada's federal government is helping communities from coast to coast spending a total of over $110000000.00 u.s. dollars on the effort as mentioned on the canadian government website the funding could be used for a variety of needs such as purchasing beds and physical barriers for social distancing and securing accommodation to reduce overcrowding in shelters. currently in ottawa there are 6 confirmed cases of covert 19 in the shelter system all the people are solution to city credits proactive shelter workers for keeping the numbers a little but local officials know that more needs to be done to protect the most vulnerable from the coronavirus for t.v. and i watch my heart of it. right check that out space x. just hours ago successfully launched its falcon 9 rocket into orbit onboard for 60

starlink satellites and a beaming broadband from space the falcon 9 rocket also successfully touched back down on the company's drone ship out at sea a smooth landing after 2 previously failed attempts to recover the vehicle and the ocean. and space has a lot of effects on the human body and many of them aren't so good a new study shows microgravity actually and large of the brain are to the correspondent john hardy takes a closer look. space the final frontier and a place that can weaken bones increase intracranial pressure and changes an ocular structure translation more fluid in the brain and eye problems for astronauts a new report published this month on the radiological society of north america's website shows that astronauts on long duration spaceflight missions may develop changes in the shape and structure of their eyes which can persist for years after

return to normal gravity previous studies have suggested that long space flights could impact the vision of astronauts but this new study shows a change in brain functions as well with m.r.i. results of 11 astronauts 10 men and one woman both before and after they travel to space showing an increase after space flight in brain and spine fluid resulting in brain and large men which is likely key factor for the change in ocular structure so spaceflight has a number of different biomedical effects on the human body and i'm all living systems and none of them are good we all evolved here on me earth and our bodies like to be here on the earth leroy chiao is a former nasa astronaut and commander of the international space station who says it's not uncommon for astronauts to have vision changes after being in space so when we go into space pacifically as far as the brain goes and intracranial pressure what we know is that the injured cranial pressure does go up and that

makes sense because when you're not in gravity you no longer have gravity pulling all of fluids down into your lower extremities they all kind of come a bit of your torso and if you look at pictures of asturias because you are during the 1st several days of spacelab their faces are really hot and so that's because of all these extra fluid he says during the 1st day in space the human body eliminates 2 liters of fluid by an astronaut's often feel congestion and sinus pressure and ultimately a majority end up having vision problems and as researchers. found even brain tissue loss because of oxygen deprivation the biological effect of space on the body presents challenges particularly when considering deep space exploration such as a mission to mars chance said for example we don't know if this mission changed it will people who are you know susceptible to it will it last so let's stop at some point or rule continue the race to the point where you know you have mean you don't

want people arriving on mars not being in the right and he says it just shows how much we don't know about a lot of things in space but to kuli the effects on humans for longer durations exploring the final frontier for our tea john hardy. right there are some angry eyes on chris cuomo of c.n.n. after some say his time out of 14 was fake news we're going to discuss it and then in sports regina hamm shares a bold proposal from one of tennis a biggest stars will see. what else seemed wrong. but don't we all just don't know all. the world

yet to shape out this day become advocates and in gains from an equal trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy and for him to let it be an arms race is also a spirit of dramatic development only. i don't see that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

the name cuomo has been all over the news lately but not the governor of new york his younger brother chris cuomo the anchor at c.n.n. he was recently ill with coronavirus himself but didn't miss a beat broadcasting live from his basement quarantine quarters deprived of sunlight in the comfort of his wife and kids but today chris cuomo is a free man free of the virus and freed from his base it however some say there is more to the story than meets the eye one of those folks is our friend legal and media analyst lionel so lionel my friend what does this say when the reporter or the presenter becomes the story themself i mean what kind of risk does this pose to new. obfuscating. and missing the entire bag let me say this carefully worded why you depend demick i just think that when chris

cuomo puts his filter his president is world view. his take is how does it affect me chris cuomo i mean this is on heard of you know i got to tell you well here especially new york i'm right over to my right you can see this is the comfort down the street is the javits center we've got hospitals with trucks we've fridge aerated trucks that were outside allegedly designed to take away dead bodies look at this there are people. there. and to think there would have just been here about how he has he was he was had such chills that he chipped to tooth and it's it's it's it's not it's a system to an extent that is unseemly if you walk me say again injured as you know. demick right there are people actually really really ill

and dying from this and like you said he's talking about a chipped tooth and not getting to work out at the gym. what do you make though of some of the other people calling out these holes in his heroic basement confinement story namely mentioning some guy on one of these fat tire bikes. some people were saying that this story did not jive with what he said that when you when you are claimed if or when you're claiming to be in isolation people are going to be paying close attention to everything you're saying so when you're in this you know basement how are you having confrontations with the people you know minoan this is so somebody in the is so distant in the annals of news there was a time years ago when professional or very serious news folks would actually shake for the idea of having to do social media and and really have any word on their own

personal life they they hinted at their peak oil it was in their contract now there's going to have to be a some time because it says would you please talk about the news but it's not just him george stephanopoulos does here it's because the star power if you will has replaced the news itself i don't know some people would say you know this is true gonzo journalism he's going through the virus himself. yeah well. it's very interesting there's a little bit of an intern nice battle here so to speak you know for the longest time andrew cuomo the governor you don't ran the eldest this is the guy who has a particular speaking style an accent that is shared by literally no one on the planet no one has ever heard his or he wasn't exactly considered to be a movie star handsome whereas chris was chris was a guy who was always by the way chris cuomo cannot go without

a day without publishing how he's working out yes in his office it's all about him and his body what he's doing so anyway all of a sudden lo and behold here is andrew who not only is a governor of new york but he's a star and they're talking about perhaps him being a nominee right democratic national religion and the sexiest. live but even if you leave this or not all of us i'm sure could there be some into a familial wible rather sibling rivalry that happens i'm i don't know not. briefly i mean how can somebody compare you know the inconvenience of mr cuomo hampton's basement retreat with you know what the health care workers who are slaving away toiling away in these horrible conditions or some family members who are grieving their loved ones through virtual funerals i mean isn't cuomo being overall just insensitive here exactly it shows a disconnect

a total deafness because one of the things that you want to do. is to say look we're sharing this 1st of all well you know when you're one bedroom apartment with 4 kids trying to use coffee filters to go down the hall i'm in the basement of my. mansion it's almost as bad. as nancy pelosi and her $24000.00 ice cream freezer and you. have any clue as to how you know people do not connect with this if it has not normal we'll leave it right there my friend lionel of little media always appreciate your insight on the study. and netflix has just announced it added almost 16000000 subscribers all thanks to these stay at home orders because of the coronavirus pandemic now this gives netflix their biggest quarter yet and more than double what they were expecting now

their total number of subscribers worldwide is at a whopping $182000000.00 accounts so forget netflix and shell this is all about netflix changing. and this year we celebrate earth day unlike any other because of this pandemic and the earth well she's finally getting a chance to breathe a little bit there's less traffic on the road less. human activity that means less carbon footprint so clearer skies are being reported throughout the world in fact experts say los angeles some of the cleanest air of any major city in the whole world followed by india and china so biologist and friend of the show dr reese halter shared his thoughts on this year's 50th anniversary of earth day. cold has allowed us to pause to reflect on basics freezing access to fresh water give us more than one of every 3 oxygen in the gift 90 percent of cities with

daily drinking water it's time to protect these dripping breathing cathedrals that depend upon it in 6 animals and healthy soils to the earth plage consume less and walk more. all right time to go over the ridge to hammer the sports h.q. regina the a.t.p. and tours both postponed play until at least mid july now there's a shocking proposal for when the season might return it's really interesting and that's all happened the course about the past 4 hours roger federer is like most of his fellow a.t.p. tour players stuck at home but the swiss star is causing some eyebrows to raise with the suggestion that would shake up the tennis world federer took to twitter to ask the question just wondering am i the only one thinking that now's the time for men's and women's has to be united come together as one and he also went on to say i am not talking about merging the competition the court but merging the 2 governing bodies. that oversee the men's and women's professional tours there is

support for federer that among the community putting some of its top stars world number 2 rafael nidal are the ideas they know would be a great way to get both tours through the outbreak the idea of merging been proposed before but not with serious intent until the onset of the coronavirus crisis. and the canal and the hot dog eating contest is a can't miss feature of the summer for most of us not all of us and it's regaining its reigning champion is finding a new way to take part in the sport that is competitive eating american joey chestnut when marie in the bed online quarantine challenge then we finally if you're better at 10 pounds of baked beans. each competitor is allowed beverages but there's time they actually spilling the beans the number one ranked in the world be when we with a time of one minute and 56 seconds or 10 pounds of beans just not on our face number one seed in the overall tournament gideon ohio in the finals and it's all for a good cause $10000.00 will be donated to feeding america even for good causes. and

the chinese professional baseball league is the only professional league currently playing regular season games and for the union president a lie is they took a beating during the home opener for the food guardian's 1st inning absolutely do the lions pitcher way lou that's got a guardian. for the infield single off the mound to open up scoring guards up to all this time lynch aish 12 left field for a 2 run double move on with a 40 lead things slide into the 2nd their guardians bats go on fire in the 1st this time a 2 run homer to right field from di pace home team finding themselves with a 60 lead next inning was a much better bottom 2nd the other 2 were in a home run at this time in center field lions are 2 winning then in an 80 cup before the lions unable to get anything going to see a while in striking out from a nasty pitch paying and she doesn't again get out of the inning with

a nother strikeout this time it's catcher linnet you leave the 8 guardians rolling up 112 and putting icing on the cake with a cow who live to run double the stunner guardians in their 1st home win with a final score of 13 to 2 so i can see baseball hopefully major league baseball here in the states will be back soon maybe we'll see you give her about regina and that does it for us right now but make sure you keep up with everything and question at all times by downloading our brand new really cool free app called fordable t.v. you can catch up on the news 24 seventh's and make sure you can follow me on twitter at the militant building i'm going to chant i'll see you back your soon. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the street. what happens to her family and daughters in florida no

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welcome to the alex salmond show from strike an hour but didn't show where we continue our examination of the subject course of consuming the planet over this year that is novel coronavirus and the spread of covert 19 today on the show we speak to 2 international experts on the way on the frontline of fighting this pandemic 1st professor of human the international x. on intensive care and then to dr chris smith of cambridge university special someone who on this show an early federally wondered no uncertain terms about the scale of the threat imagining from the east what you've potentially got is something which while it's less lethal than sols it's much more infectious than

cells and about as lethal as the 1918 flu pandemic and everyone susceptible to this like they were for the $918.00 spanish flu pandemic so if this were allowed to escape and go to its logical conclusion one possibility one worst case scenario is it could be as bad as 918 so therefore why weren't the alarm bells ringing for policymakers across the western world i will ask chris smith that very question later in this program but 1st to me know if your messages i'm going to emails. we've had a fantastic response to last week's show and 1st we hear from mike from seattle he says increasing enjoy your insightful analysis today on the show gratitude and solidarity with you in this we disappointed. ben here from surely he says cleve explanation by dr horn explained as to why we went wrong we quoted 1000 i get to see a planet from top to 5 before malta maybe.