that's the food that there is no it's. the records. in the streets to become invisible. hello there i'm a military man you're watching in question broadcasting from the national headquarters of r.t. america you're in washington d.c. we want to welcome our viewers from across the nation and all around the world here are today's top stories today marks a dark chapter in history 1500000 armenians were massacred by the ottoman empire and a full report will take a closer look at the fight to define the term genocide. then china's response to the pandemic has resulted in an almost record breaking construction of hospitals and we'll caught up next we'll take you inside one of those hospitals as the city may see another wave of infections that the shut down of some meat processing

plants here in the u.s. may not have a serious impact on the country's food supply after all but what about distributors we're going to discuss all right it's time to boost your news i.q. . today marks 105 years since the start of the armenian genocide horrors in which 1500000 armenians were massacred by ottoman turks however turkey a successor of the ottoman empire denies the deaths constitute genocide claiming the toll has been inflated and that those who were killed were simply victims of the civil war but a new page in history has turned highlighting what historians have said all along that these atrocities were in fact genocide and the 1st one of the 20th century r.t. america producer joe ricci brings us the story. overheard

. genocides on the floor and they were both unanimous except that which is like. we seem to believe in miracles you know. yet here. today marks 105 years from what is considered the traditional start date of the armenian genocide when over $200.00 intellectuals were rounded up and deported from constantinople most would end up murdered it was the beginning of the mass slaughter and expulsion of 1500000 armenians but now for the 1st time in over a century both chambers of the u.s. congress recognized fully that what happened to the armenians was in fact a genocide something that had been ignored or denied especially following world war 2 when american foreign policy relied on turkey as

a vital ally in the struggle against the soviet union this begs the question is life different for armenians now that the strongest nation on earth essentially acknowledges what happened we should not forget that the unmeaning genocide is a part of the day decomposition because there is no i mean the feminists in the world who hasn't affected by the minutes on the slate. so it's something that it was a it was a good news but not complete i may not share in the sense that. it's a moment to celebrate to the effect that after all it's a resolution that commemorate commemorates the genocide and the go. i think among the subtle motivations to affirming that history was to preserve the memory of the survivors who are after all the that handful of people who have reconstituted the armenian nation it's the affirmation of the in tar union

experience that comes out of this resolution that needs to be recognized i think for armenians life may be better after the resolution but there are glaring omissions so far the president of the united states has yet to call the events of a century ago a genocide and then there is turkey whose president receptive to one strongly opposes the use of the term and as some believe continues the legacy of genocide denier. in our belief genocide is forbidden those who are trying to create a genocide or what was their relocation i guess they're just trying to find a criminal we consider this accusation the greatest insult to our nation i am confident that the grand national assembly of turkey will respondants that which was made for a domestic audience in the us in contradiction to what we know to be the actual historical facts. continuation of the genocide because. there

is not human genocide there is. culture in general sites to. the journal science when happened in armenia after 115 it continuous up to today. by destruction of the armenian chooser of armenian more lawsuits or armenian monuments therefore it's a continuous jemison. on today's top if you slow. so far it remains to be seen how long it will take president trump for the turkish government to acknowledge the armenian genocide will hold of. reporting in washington d.c. joseph ricci party. and joining us to expand on this paria is the executive director of the army an armenian national committee of america are not always good to see you thank you so much so today on the 105th anniversary of the armenian genocide the presumptive democratic presidential nominee joe biden issued

a statement on the subject and touted all of his years in the senate working towards recognizing the atrocities as a genocide president trump doesn't seem to agree with that sentiment why the disconnect or disagreement on the subject between some politicians. actually are here is a great continuity among presidents and ministrations trusting this thing was a really weak statement it was basically written in on explorative d.c. and that interest president trump but really it was little more than a copy paste of the obama biden insurance policy which was you know a face of language euphemistic language mental and verbal gymnastics to avoid using the word genocide so there's actually quite a bit of continuity of officials when they sort of the white house and that's true biden obama so would you call out biden record is he is he not telling us the truth when he says that he worked for years to recognize that as genocide. it's part of

the truth i mean as a senator he was a great champion of the issue as vice president he was part of an administration that not only broke its pledge to recognize this crime but fought congress for recognizing it entered a number of other steps that were very. frankly that's the other part of the equation now if i president biden was against policy by president obama then he should share as much he should tell us exactly what went on in the white house and if he was for it obama was against it he got overruled well you should you should tell us that but failing that i think we have to assume that the obama biden ministration was over one of one voice on the say right and we know that the turkish president obviously which i don't want consistently denies the vents actually constitute genocide and has been upset that congress would move to formally recognize that but america's closest ally in the middle east is israel they're also on the same page as turkey on this matter so given that the jewish people have suffered the holocaust does it bother you that they won't as

a state recognize this as a genocide. it bothers me and in many ways on behalf of the jewish people behalf of the citizens of israel this is ultimately a question of a soft respect over genocide survivors to say it is really beneath the dignity of israel to have to cover up for another country's genocide when they themselves were victims of genocide so i think really it's a question self-respect israel's you the right thing you know for the world for the army is but ultimately for themselves what would you say is next for your community now that this resolution passed last fall would the community seek something like reparations or something similar. absolutely the truth is in the service of justice we need justice we need the restoration of the rights of the assets that were denied to the armenians during the genocide 24th the day we mark the genocide is very much much more with the security of armenia going forward i'll give one example armenia how can i mean to be safe bordered by an unrepentant or army very

angry perpetrator just like it's simply not a recipe for a new security going forward so there's a moral dimension there's also a security dimension for him. and speaking of going forward how do historians. events resonate with the young armenians of today how do they talk about it how do they remember it and what do they plan to do going forward. i think i think they're looking several steps ahead beyond recognition and toward reparations we you know what that here in our organization we take things from a lot of these step by step but i think many folks especially young ones in our community are ory you know looking at the legal arena and looking at the reparations side of the struggle and and i think that they're right to do that. sounds like within the armenian community this is something that's still fresh in the minds because it was just over 100 years ago so there are you know stories i'm sure passed down through families so it's keeping this memory alive right.

the 100 year mark was important and there are some folks who said well it was a 100 years ago how could there be consequences for something to happen or years ago but the fact is that there have been consequences every single year for a 100 years but the whole full on the shoulders of the victims so what we want to see is that the perpetrator also bear the consequences of this crime that you know justice be done the victim be made whole what can be returned should be returned and what happy return should be compensated this is a you know we're not asking for anymore justice than anyone else this is a basic premise of the just resolution of the problem all right we'll leave it right there are of him par and always good to see you thank you so much. thank you so much thanks for. on april 8th the city of han widely believed to be the epicenter of the outbreak came out of a 76 day quarantine with 11000000 people stuck within the city's boundaries finally

liberated from their own homes and while this is welcoming news there are new concerns that will han could be hit by another wave as life tries to get back to normal that's because the. entire country is still struggling to control the virus now responsible for more than 4000 deaths and 83000 and factions arctic correspondent john honey has more. this is the inside of one of the hospitals built in wuhan to specifically treat coated 19 patients it's a look at how china is battling the disease as people are trying to get back to some semblance of normalcy many however remain concerned about a 2nd even deadlier wave of the virus breaking out and will go on there are $68000.00 reported cases of corona virus and who by province spread of the virus appears to be under control there though with no new cases or deaths reported in the latest figures released this week but as we know those figures continue to change when hans health officials revised the local death toll upward by 50 percent

last week publicly acknowledging for the 1st time that previous fatalities were admitted from the numbers including those who died at home and reuters reports that chinese doctors in will hon say a growing number of cases of people recovering from the virus continue to test positive without showing any symptoms becoming one of the biggest current challenges facing the country the financial times writes that many sections of the city remain physically walled off with large blue fencing and that in movement testing has become a big witness to root out hitting cases one district has set up a hotline and has offered a reward for reporting people with asymptomatic cases despite these being undetectible without a proper test u.s. officials have accused china of reacting too slowly to stop the contagion going back to december and according to some reports possibly even november aggressively stifling media reports online discussion and those speaking out about the outbreak and china's response to it this week the world health organization under fire from

the trump in ministration for praising china's response to the corona virus confirmed that the one institute for all a-g. was hit by hackers with employees e-mail addresses. logon credentials leaked online the chinese research lab has been at the center of various reports and theories about its testing of the corona virus and whether or not it played a role in the spread of the disease so far there is nothing to conclude the last words researchers played any part as the theories questions conjecture in politics about who or what is to blame continues stores have opened and people are trying to go about their lives again and with the fairies are once again operating on the young sea river as one man said the river is a symbol for the people the choppy water symbolizing the force of life and he says like the river will continue to flow despite this ordeal a nice analogy amid a beautiful sunset but the question people continue to ask and move on and throughout the world what will tomorrow bring as the global pandemic continues for

our t.v. john hardy. other news making headlines nationwide non-us citizens who serve in the military are supposed to have expedited citizenship under the law but that doesn't appear to be the case for a handful of u.s. troops now 6 service members filed a class action lawsuit alleging the pentagon is blocking them from an expedited process to become naturalized citizens the pentagon has cited national security concerns for a more extensive process. and over to minneapolis where the call to prayer during the holy month of ramadan what we blasted through speakers during this pandemic a call to prayer will be broadcast by 5 speakers speakers 5 times a day rather for residents to observe the holy day holy holiday in the comfort of their own homes the mayor facilitated the noise permit after the community requested the service. and closures of major food factories have yet to

threaten the u.s. food supply but that may not be true for food distributors we're going to discuss that and then over at the sports h.q. regina hamm takes us to spain. where one of the most famous soccer stadiums in the world is looking to make a change i'll tell you what that is. the world is driven by a dream shaped by phone person those with. the dares thinks. we dare to ask.

i. across the country long lines continue forming at food banks many states are

feeling the brunt of the massive unemployment in the wake of this pandemic needy families are also looking to the federal government for some help the u.s.d.a. reports food stamp in rome it is up 40 percent since march farmers have already donated more than $1000000.00 pounds of food to food banks and asked the u.s.d.a. to buy their crops and distribute them to those in need so to talk about the food and security and food supplies we are being joined by joel burke he is the c.e.o. of hunger free america thank you for being with us today joel so in internees congressional 5 $100000000000.00 tax payer bailout. increases for food stamps were actually not included in this surprisingly why won't the government increase monies for food programs especially when the congressional budget office say food stamps are one of the most effective and efficient ways to support the

economy during a downturn. well thank you for focusing on this vital issue and it's important to point out that is vital as food banks and soup kitchens and food and treats are there only about 110th of the dollar amount of food provided by federal nutrition assistance programs why wasn't this money included in the bill when the simple were republicans we are nonpartisan organization but that doesn't mean we ignore the reality the reality is that speaker pelosi and democratic leadership are pushing to have a snap food stamps increase in this bill and the trump white house and congressional republicans vetoed it the increase would have equal about $0.20 a meal $0.20 a meal the average snap food stamps allotment now is a bit out a $1.34 per meal this would have risen it to the princely sum of a $1.50 for a meal and in the last week of repackage it was 2000000000 dollar bill and the food

increase would have been about one percent of the total package and so honestly republicans were more interested in getting money to luxury steakhouses than they were to ensuring that working people who are hungry and unemployed people are hungry can feed their own families absolutely and concern is obviously being raised not only about from from that from this bill but about the food supply chain and whether america will actually run out of food driven in part obviously by the sight of these empty shelves those are artificial shortages because this is just what it looks like but the code that outbreak at blue plants like smithfield in south dakota you're seeing farmers destroying billions of dollars worth of crops dairy farmers dumping millions of gallons of milk literally down the tubes there's unhatched eggs being destroyed so because there's no demand for chicken you know at the hotels and restaurants nobody is eating out anymore so how secure is the food supply chain and does its distribution impact hungry americans. i think

overall the food supply chain is mostly intact i don't think people with money are ever really going to run out of food any time in the near future there may be certain meat or poultry items that run out just because a meat processing plants which were frankly pretty horrible places to work at before this have become coated hotspots so there might be some disruption in reader poultry maybe some eggs but despite the fact that farmers are throwing out surplus products the main food supply in america will by and large continue as best i can tell it's just that people without money won't be able to afford it and right now there are you know before this crisis 37000000 americans could always afford enough food now the number is probably at least 50000000 and maybe even more than that so that's the real problem money to buy food here and obviously that number of people who can't afford things as obviously going to grow with you know numbers of

unemployment soaring beyond that of the great depression and i don't recent poll by your group hunger free america found that child hunger has soared fivefold with the u.s. at 37 percent of parents cutting the size of the meals or skipping meals entirely for their kids do you think this is happening because of this unemployment or are there other factors. that are or should be implicated because of these cuts. there are 2 major reasons we've had so long soaring child hunger in america over the last few weeks what as you indicated is this massive loss of jobs the unemployment rate still isn't as high as the peak of the depression but the rapidity of the job loss is just amazing in the depression it took from 1929 to 19334 years for that unemployment increase to go into full effect and we've had a massive job loss just 2 weeks that's number one and number 2 in the united states

we do have school meals program. $29000000.00 kids a day good school lunches at schools around the country many of those are low income and lower middle income families many of them also get school breakfast very very very few of those meals are being served today because the vast majority of those needs are close to joe real quickly how do we help. you can donate to hunger free america hunger free america dot work you volunteers through our website or you call when it's what it's 663018663 hungry if you need food so whether you need help or want to get help hunger free america is there for you that is wonderful ok thank you so much joel barr for chime in and letting us know what's happening out there on the streets of america thank you so much. 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 in villages in siberia fires have spread through fields and forests on the back of a heat wave which has hit the whole region regional authorities have issued hundreds of finds a local resident and farmers for allegedly violating fire safety regulations which they believe contributed to the 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 the pay themselves pay out comes from an $80000000.00 fund set up by the national assembly that money is made up of venezuelan assets seized by the us government now part of that payout plan is expected to also include $100.00 us dollar bonuses for doctors and nurses battling at the front lines of coronavirus. and nasa celebrating today the 30th anniversary

of the hubble telescope profit want. taking off on april 24th 1090 hubble has provided an incredible number of images and observations never accomplished before hubble's observation post in space has allowed scientists to take observations free of the earth's atmosphere distortion for the 1st time ever. ok let's head over to regina hamm of the sports h.q. but you know soccer stadiums are obviously empty right now no fans there and one team figured out now would be a good time for a name change it's probably better than getting bangs or a see barcelona's camp one of the most famous soccer stadiums in the world now the club that plays there is doing their part to help fight against the current of ours barcelona is looking to sell the title rights to the storied stadium for one year their hope is to raise money to contribute to the fight against kobe $1000.00 kept now is the biggest soccer stadium in europe with seats 499354 of its fans it has

never had a sponsor since it was opened its a temper of 957 for those worried this isn't a big deal just impact the 20 $20.21 season and yes it will still be called camp new just in addition to the sponsor * spain's top soccer league is still suspended and many clubs barcelona are looking for new revenue sources. if you are a guy you might want to avert your eyes on this one people are slowly returning to the new normal in parts of the globe mainly in asia and it comes to demand china has reopened to its peoples and they are taking their practices to an extreme level your eyes are not deceiving you here this year in the shandong province has students doing what you did lay a load of bricks. from their minds come through itself is actually part of chinese culture it has a history of over a 1000 years people here are taught by the 6th generation come to master your way who is also a student of this right form as well his academy of started 2015 and students flock to him do his accomplishments of this discipline he reportedly carried 2 guinness

world records for dragging cars in an airplane all with his growing this is not actually unusual and it's how does having many health benefits including feelings of wellbeing and improved fertility to you and the 2020 n.f.l. draft took place virtually last night and how would some of the best new talent to enter the league so for friday edition of this day and sports let's take a look back at some of the best moments today from the n.f.l. 174 they granted the franchise the city of tampa bay city still holds a record for the 1st post merger expansion team to win a division championship and a playoff game moving to the heart of 984 san antonio spurs david robinson not the 7th highest points total in the n.b.a. $71.00 plays entire 40 year career at the spurs and south than admiral nickname has gradually us to look at me in 2000 for scary year almost quarterback eli manning drafted 1st overall by the san diego chargers he actually wants to charger he ended up going to big blue say the new york giants it actually to philip rivers oddly enough many went on to have

a 16 year career playing for big blue which is always great monella see those guys succeed laurie thank you for that regina ok bad does it for us right now you can follow me on twitter at manila chan i am manila chan remember that question more check out portable t.v. it is a brand new 3 out. sell bananas used to put on a chain on the stand because you know a little sponge that same day and chew up at your. home with nothing to do and that

i desired to know. how much older the. local just a little. she told. me up on that show was still a lot. of new prince not just on thoughts the most unusual not one of the look so we started to teach students. how to. time after in advance they were going underground on the anniversary of the publication of the structure of d.n.a.

by british scientists watson and crick and from a country estimated to have had the worst coronavirus death rate in the world bar donald trump's united states coming up on the show the united nations special rapporteur on the right to food on the possibility of coronavirus creating a post by demick world without hunger after centuries of inequality and greed and the bell ribeiro audi elected to represent one of britain's most deprived in-situ the season december general election and what could be the biggest anti semitism cover up in labour's history when stuart secure stomach as boss of western europe's largest socialist party all of them all coming up in today's going underground at 1st the un has warned world hunger could double by the end of the year to a quarter of a 1000000000 though even before coronavirus more than 4000000 children here in the u.k. have been growing up in poverty that's in one of the richest countries in the world amidst a record high in numbers of those needing to go to food banks in britain i'm joined now via skype from bodrum in turkey by the united nations special rapporteur on the

right to food don't feel well thanks so much a lot for coming on you've called covert 19 inequality on steroids our politicians here are telling us that the threat is equal why this mismatch how we gauge you treat it's not how we receive our conditions not equal parts we talk about the theory simple re social distancing so possible social distancing in a place and trying to i've been where you are sitting in a very small rooms tweeny if you are sleeping near miami area is it possible it's not possible for the tokyo market to. eyes that they have coming in really bad or emergency workers how possible they are equal like us that we are sitting in our car and may tip our food delivered to us so it inequality is extremely important in the situation well 10 years.