just. the recession depression recovery. hello there i'm an electric and you're watching in question broadcasting from the national headquarters of our team america here in washington d.c. i want to welcome our viewers from across the nation and all around the world here are today's top stories 1st coronavirus continues to grip the nation now california and during its deadliest day since the start of the pandemic this as president trump signs of yet another relief package and then over to the u.k. where more than 100 m.p.'s are calling on the british government to set up a universal basic income plan to help its citizens recover after the pandemic we're going to discuss and a controversial plan to allow survey all its planes fly over baltimore has been

approved by a judge and a whole report will tell you the reason for this odd request all right it's time to boost your news i q. now to our ongoing coronavirus coverage president today signed the nearly $500000000000.00 coronavirus relief bill into law that will give small businesses struggling to keep employees on payroll 370000000000 dollars and 75000000000 for hospitals nationwide and another $25000000000.00 for a covert $900.00 testing meanwhile lawmakers are already looking toward another built as the crisis continues to affect the american economy so as this virus continues to grip some states. like georgia they are actually preparing to really open this as president tassels with his own advisers on what to expect from the

virus in the coming months artie's trinity chavez brings us that report. today a reality as the coronavirus death toll climbs. past 50000 of hours killing more americans than the vietnam war the us having one of the deadliest days yet more than $3300.00 deaths reported in a 24 hour period the deadliest day since the outbreak began each state bottling its own challenge california marking its deadliest day yet 115 human beings lost their lives families torn apart it was the deadliest day in the state of california. holding a tight grip on new york with more than 263000 infections day after day there are still more than 1300 people showing up at hospitals even as the state comes down the curve that we. were. told we have matter being able to care for it pass this as news the virus may have spread more widely

than previously thought the state antibody test study showing nearly 14 percent of residents may have had the virus the numbers in new york city even higher at 21 percent what does that mean these are people who were infected. and who developed the antibodies to fight the infection. the lockdown demonstrations are wrapping around the country. are not. dozens of demonstrators taking to the streets of new york miami north carolina and alabama while the state of georgia is reopening non-essential businesses including spas bowling alleys and tattoo parlors after getting the green light from governor brian kemp despite the state having nearly 22000 confirmed cases of coven 19 children very distinctly i said mike was there i said you do what you think is best

but if you ask me am i happy about it i'm not happy about it and i'm not happy about bryant camp but the president also sending mixed messages publicly taslima with his own top advisers disagreeing with dr felt she over the issue of testing you know i have agree with them of that no i think we're doing a great job in testing i don't agree if you said that i don't agree with it yet experts say the c.d.c. counted more than 800000 cases in the country as widely undercounted do the testing shortages now it's so much uncertainty surrounding this virus that the new york city council is proposing a covert $1000.00 relief package into protecting small companies the homeless tenants as well as essential workers in fact one piece of the legislation called the essential worker bill of rights would require companies extend protective measures for those employees as well as hazard pay for those hourly workers who remain on the front lines through this pandemic reporting from home in new york treat each other as r.t.

. a multiparty coalition of m.p.'s are now calling on parliament to develop a universal basic income as part of a post pandemic plan to avert economic catastrophe but dominick rabb standing in for prime minister boris johnson who is still on the mend from coronavirus himself out. it rejected the notion of u.b.i. during a teleconference this week meanwhile e.u. negotiator michel barnier a is criticizing his u.k. counterparts for setting quote unrealistic deadlines and demands for a post bracks it deal so joining us to weigh in former u.k. m.p. george galloway george you and i have discussed u.b.i. in spain just a couple weeks ago who will be the 1st in the e.u. to implement such a plan but now nearly 100 m.p.'s from across the u.k. are in favor of doing the same thing there dominic rather quickly kill that idea and a number of tory m.p.'s have already come out against such a plan so is this idea already dead in the water or is it worth

a debate. well it's the latest liberal does i told you when we talked about over spin it's not something i myself support i'm old fashioned by believe that people should work on the state has a responsibility to find them work if there is no work available on the so-called free market and it's the responsibility of trade unions on this state and the employer to how morrow a decent living wage for people. is a kind of low force charter and that doesn't sit well with me it's a charter in which if you want to work your war and if you don't want to work you will get what is in fact our glorified door which will have to be bid for of course by those of us still working. so it's not the way forward in my view and it

won't go anywhere in britain because both the conservative government and the labor or position boards or pulls it the charter is led by the liberal party leader who doesn't have much of a punch in british politics these days sure. i'm not expecting this will go anywhere but the crisis provokes this kind of is that our unemployment pay our universal credit is sure absolutely insufficient and so completely incompetent live run that there's real pain agony for people who are thrown out of work so much my position is this. no one should be forced to work in an unsafe environment and my goodness we've got one no and you do 2 for 2300 dead people in the last 24 hours and we've still

got a highly infective on safer environment yeah and once they can no longer work there must suffer no loss of big boss what i stand for on george their argument is that some $3200000.00 britons are going to be furloughed and then their jobs are never going to come back and i think that's the fear that and the argument that they're making there and i know at least here stateside in the us amongst a lot of millennia with a lot of young people are really into the idea of u.p.i. is it the same across the pond. yes it's of the succeeding generation to the $68.00 generation of hippies who would who would rather you know tend their garden or do what they call useful non-work learn the piano and so on and sometimes sing to young people but it's not a way forward for the working class for the working people in this country i

believe if you can work yeah you must work and you must fight chorus there talk be better conditions otherwise you will continue it work and all the millions like me will have to pay for people to sit on their sofa instead of whatever not. but it will not happen yeah it wouldn't be fair to folks like you and i who choose to keep working because we joined working george and let's switch gears to rex it talks are going so hot between the u.k. and e.u. for plans after the u.k. formally departs the union on the 31st of december the e.u. seems to want to delay that date for another 2 years because of the coronavirus but the u.k. seems to be moving full steam ahead pandemic or no pandemic george this sounds to me like the divorced spouses one begging the other not to move out yet even though the divorce has been finalized by the courts. exactly beautifully put look

we are steve mcqueen on his motorcycle in the great escape we are out of there we are jumping over those friends and we are out of there the end of the year this is the denial in which the e.u. is living but somehow we'll stay for another 2 years and help the short of the border know of the e.u. is economic collapse of course well we won't do it the people want stunned for the government warner agreed to it we are leaving the e.u. or negotiators want to compound the critical intensive care our economic situation they've go in the e.u. by starting a trade war with us just because we have the temerity to leave them i'm of through it ringback will suffer from bought more than we will so we're out of there at the end of the or steve mcqueen on the bike we are of the right we'll leave it right

there george galloway appreciate your time today thank you. and a federal judge has ruled in favor of the baltimore police department after they were sued by the a.c.l.u. over the launch of their aerial surveillance program as a result the camera equipped planes could take to the skies as early as next. week rachel blevins is following the story she's joining us now with more to this so rachel what is the latest on this case well a federal judge has now ruled today that the baltimore police department's aerial surveillance program does not violate americans privacy rights now in his decision u.s. district judge richard bennett specifically wrote images produced by the air pilot program will only depict individuals as minuscule dots moving about a city landscape the movement of these dots cannot be tracked without significant labor so he's claiming that this program does not violate americans 1st or 4th amendment rights and now that we have his approval we already have the city of baltimore's approval and so there is

a chance of this program could be launching as early as next week now we found out about this program from the baltimore police department when they announced that they had plans for an aerial surveillance pilot program in which 3 planes equipped with cameras would fly over the city they will collect a one image per 2nd and they will stay in the air for 12 hours a day now the department claims the planes would be used to help investigate murders no one fatal shootings and armed robberies but their surveillance minnow would cover around 90 percent of the city wow that's just mind blowing one photo per 2nd over the course of 12 hours is a lot of photos so rachel what concerns does the a.c.l.u. have over this i mean is it because our are photos going to be little dots or are they going to be able to see our faces well that's the question that we're all trying to figure out. is definitely warning of all of the unintended consequences here right there saying that sure this year valence program may capture a robbery suspect but what happens to those thousands of images that are taken of

you and your family in your backyard where you're presuming that that's your private space and that you have the rights to that so in their lawsuit you specifically argued that the program would put into place the most wide reaching surveillance dragnet ever employed in an american city giving baltimore police a virtual visual time machine. whose grasp no person can escape so they're essentially arguing that by starting this this is something you can't go back from and they're creating this all seeing eye that could watch all americans that's a little scary a little creepy but this isn't the 1st time the baltimore p.d. has faced complaints over these type of civil liberty complaints what more can you tell us on that writes of the baltimore police department actually already implemented this program back in 2016 they just did it without telling anyone about it and then when people found out there was obviously a lot of backlash so they took a step back and now they're going about a different route to get aerial surveillance of this time around but we have seen a number of lawsuits against the baltimore police department just in recent years

and one of the most egregious examples of that is actually baltimore's elite gun trace task force now it was initially praise for getting guns off the streets up until their officers were caught trafficking drugs conducting illegal searches stealing cash in property running a racketeering scheme and planting evidence all while the city's homeless side rate skyrocketed now we have to remember when it comes to baltimore nearly 63 percent of their residents are african-american and yet only nearly half of the city's police force they are all white and so this is a massive problem that we're seeing especially when they also have issues with police officers living outside of the city so there are a lot of things that the baltimore police department needs to work on and yet people are wondering if we should be handing them this much power while the laundry list of charges and that just while rachel clements thank you for filing that really interesting report thank you thank you. and in the age of coronavirus our

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when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. my. in the midst of this coronavirus pandemic there is a lot of discussion about government surveillance and that conversation goes beyond just the pandemic of course in fact just last year a us government body dedicated to examining how artificial intelligence can address the national security and defense needs of the united states so according to

a new document acquired through a boy request it suggested the us follow china's lead and even surpass them in many aspects related to technology especially in their use of mass surveillance joining us to discuss this boom bust co-host investigative journalist ben swan so ben following china's lead that's something that i think resonates with a lot of people but many steps are of for the implementation of this mass surveillance program are currently being promoted and implemented as part of the government's response to the current coronavirus crisis why is that. well the reason that it kind of all seems coordinate right now is because a lot of the people who are in charge of this coronavirus task force that would essentially be monitoring and following and tracking americans are also involved in the development of this other program and so you're got crossover between these 2 things what's interesting about this program that you kind of led up to this

interview with is that it actually became part of the 2018 national defense authorization act that was passed back at that time and essentially the goal is to catch up with china but the way that you know the u.s. government likes to go around saying how terrible china is in terms of mass surveillance for its citizens all the meantime is setting up tasks for task forces to essentially recreate what china is doing or to actually go beyond what china's doing in terms of tracking location whereabouts what people are doing what they're listening to what they're watching where they are and how they conduct themselves and the u.s. is actively pursuing this and then i mean going back to china here a lot of this is traced back to the fears of the u.s. basically having foam oh right against china's technological advances i mean they're worried that china's so far i had but here they are you know playing catch up and then copycatting. right so china is way ahead in terms of development of

there's essentially 2 powers in the world when it comes to ai development you have china and the government of china and then you have the united states but it's not the government of the united states it's silicon valley in the united states so you have the chinese government and silicon valley are the 2 world leaders in terms of artificial intelligence development the question is what point does the u.s. government say they're going to work closely with silicon valley to surpass where china is in terms of ai and just because you can doesn't mean that you should and that's one of the problems that we have with ai right now is how far is too far in terms of what we allow this technology to do yeah i'm glad that you pointed that out. because it should be to distinguish that china's technology is state owned technology whereas here in the us the stuff happening in silicon valley belongs to whoever owns that start up or that google or that you know that facebook it's not state owned right so what how does what i mean by the other i mean wars say yes they didn't force so what you have in the united states is it

a worse system in my opinion because you have a poll for profit model that is privately owned but then stayed in force because the state in terms of the united states government wants to utilize that private technology. yeah that that makes it harder i'm not sure if it's going to be easier for us to implement the things that china does because of that disconnect then but this document is also very concerned about india's currency their reform there it notes specifically that the main mobile wallet provider in india called pe t.m. is majority chinese own quotes in this article which states quote. a big break came in 2016 when india cancelled 86 percent of currency in circulation in an effort to cut corruption and bring more people into the tax net by forcing them to use less cash so why is this such a big concern to the u.s.

yeah well it's 2 things number one the concern is that the chinese own majority own companies so there are of course anything you attach china to they're worried about but it's also interesting that there is this huge concern over india becoming a cashless society which india is headed towards india plans to become a completely cashless society and by the way i got news for you china plans to become a cashless society as well as it now launches its own digital currency but with the us is seen with that is that essentially there is more control by government over the monetary system which in the west in the united states is unthinkable that you would move to this kind of system the diff the problem isn't the reason it's unthinkable to the u.s. government is. because the u.s. government pushes a paper currency that is the world's reserve currency and so it's terrifying to them that other countries will move to digital currencies which would weaken the u.s. dollar what i predict and have been predicting is the u.s. is going to find a way to follow suit by trying to establish a digital currency and how would they do that they're going to do it the same way

they're doing this this ai technology which is to partner with a private entity like a libra or a facebook in order to get the private indians in silicon valley to create it for them and then the government will enforce them. you know we'll have to see i mean the us though the take away always playing catch up to asia and asian markets. always appreciate your hot takes on this thank you. thank you. other news making headlines around the world emergency services in russia are continuing to battle large wildfires that have destroyed dozens of buildings and villages in siberia fires have spread through fields and forests on the fact of a heat wave which has hit the entire region regional authorities have issued hundreds of fines to local resident and farmers for violating fire safety regulations which they believe contributed to those fires. and opposition lawmakers in venezuela loyal to one quietly agreed to pay themselves $5000.00

per month from state funds that were confiscated by the us administration recently the pay themselves pay out comes from an 80000000 dollars fund set up by the national assembly the money is made up of venezuelan assets seized by the us government part of that payout plan is expected to include $100.00 bonuses for doctors and nurses battling at the front lines of the rotavirus. and nasa celebrates today the 30th anniversary of the hubble telescope the rocket launch taking up on april 24th 990 hubble has provided an incredible number of images and observations never accomplished before hubble's observation post is in space allowed scientists to take observations free of the earth's atmosphere because of the distortion for the 1st time. let's head over to regina ham at the sports h.q. we're going to in absence of many live sports right now it's

a good time to have an edition of flashback friday to find you know last night we had something similar to live sports 1st year that of the n.b.a. draft and then the 2020 n.f.l. draft took place virtually last night highlighted some of the best years. the edge of the league so for friday edition of this day in sports history let's take a look back at some moments from the n.f.l. for 6 years ago 1940 that they granted a franchise the city of tampa bay they wouldn't play their 1st season until $906.00 but tampa bay still holds a record for the 1st post merger expansion team to win a division championship and a playoff game all during their 971 season when the 1904 san antonio spurs center david robson not just 7.2 and 71 players entire career with the spurs and he also himself nicknamed the admiral only gradually gets a look having played the n.b.a. 2000 for this guy right here you know many drafted by the chargers he wanted to find himself traded to the giants and he would have his 16 year career there as well. and if you are of the male species

you might want to avert your eyes on this one people are starting to return to normal parts of the globe melian asia and come to gym in china has reopened to its pupils and they're taking their practice to any extreme level your eyes are not deceiving you hear this gym in the shandong province has students saying we did loads of bricks from their growing region itself is actually part of traditional chinese culture and has a history of a 1000 years pupils are taught this by these 6 generation kung fu master way who is a regular student of this reform as well we found it has come true calving 2015 and students flap to him dude is a process of accomplishment he reportedly won 2 guinness world records for dragging cars and airplane all with his growing it's actually not an unusual practice and is touted by many as having health benefits including feelings of wellbeing and improved fertility so her one of the weirder sports i think i have seen ever i can't imagine it doesn't hurt on some level i mean i don't know what that

feels like down there with those body parts but the bricks can weigh between 5 to 10 to 15 pounds and they're stacked in there are actually people who have. about 3 or 4 different levels of stacking but i did notice that the younger man he had a few or less and you got a build up to it you know where you are in the grand isle exactly the gray matter you know having those guinness world records is pretty impressive and shows that the human body is pretty amazing you know we'll call an amazing thing to me that would you know right and that's all for right now but you can always follow me on twitter at manila chan and check out our brand new app it's called portable t.v. i'll be back or.

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