thousands of soldiers are put on standby as looting and theft rise around the world with food running shorts and further job cuts and the covert $1000.00 lockdown. germany could become the 1st major football league to restart in the wake of the pandemic with sports executive saying they're ready to kick off as early as the 9th of may if the government gives the ok. also this hour a 2nd u.s. navy warship registers a corona virus outbreak with $800.00 sailors now testing positive. and speaks to a top u.s. investigative journalist receiving disturbing threats from the brazilian government

after expose corruption by allies of president. i had already. conflicts with both the morrow prior to that. you're watching are 2 international coming to you straight from the russian capital let's get started with your life news update as always let's begin with the latest figures on coded 19 the global pandemic is still raging with more than 2900000 cases now confirmed over 832000 people have recovered but the number of fatalities has surpassed 202000. south africa has put thousands of soldiers on standby amid rising attacks on food delivery trucks the country is one of

a number the world suffering from increasing the looting and theft as the coronavirus lockdown takes its toll artie's teleporter reports lockdowns in the world tensions are boiling point and thousands of soldiers have been put on standby . was ok. riots are already sweeping across the country because of frustration with the lockdown and food shortages that have resulted from the equation is simple if people cannot get food there is every likelihood of violent conflict including widespread looting to get food on people's tables south africa's president announced a $26000000000.00 relief package on wednesday but packages with that much money involved don't really kick in overnight until it does the government's deployed thousands of soldiers to help medical workers and police.

i. it's a combination of panic around food availability there are many people who've survived from from month to month. or on no work no pay scenarios from criminal elements within gangs in the area organizing and instigating those riots and attacks on trucks so there is a criminal component to this as well which is understandable to some extent because with the lock down many criminals are not able to make income or money out of the way they used to policing resources in south africa a different challenge and of course the. the military is deployed currently to assist in the enforcement of the lockdown regulations but i don't think that the military as well trained to handle civilians it's never

a good idea to mix military with civilians and our experience of where that of in this country's history has never been good and in recent times also not. but i think what the president is largely aiming at here is not for the military to do policing work but largely for the military to start putting more pressure on high risk communities to comply with the lockdown in nigeria it's a similar story millions who relied on day to day wages to survive are running out of food under the lockdown it's led to banditry looting and many have organized vigilante groups to defend their communities although. look out there if everybody is out sight. maybe if you know food that you know if you have food. shortages. let's not forget about venezuela washington hasn't lifted sanctions on the country and with the pandemic high prices and food shortages are destroying the

economy across the country clashes between the police and looters have been running rampant. guy. got to be out. with millions more ending up on employed week by week the coronavirus has turned people's lives upside down in the developed world in countries that have significant hardships to begin with the impact is that much more severe the history of the planet is papered with food riots where a lack of access to food has says topple governments nobody must be blind to the fact that when. touch somebody's stomach or you deprive them of food you great an extremely volatile situation for them and a lack of income in south africa is doing their pets why government has been

encouraged to step down the lockdown as a rapidly as possible whilst not making it on site so a smart step down off the lockdown so that key portions of the economy can get back to work and people's income can stabilize. germany says it's the 1st major football league ready to restart a season cut short by the current 1000 pandemic but sports executives and the final decision must come from the government as r.t. peter are explains. the german club hertha berlin should be playing host eintracht frankfurt here at the olympic stadium this saturday berths but honestly like all top european leagues has been suspended due to the coronavirus but while other nations a bombing in are ing over whether this season will resume at all the head of germany's top league says they could be good to go just a couple of weeks before us of the one and only decisive factor remains the decisions of the political authority and therefore it is not down to us to set a start date for the bundesliga last time i said we will be ready when the day

exams and in case the federal government decides to do this day would be made the 9th then we would be ready only the 90 days the lifting of restrictions has become a political football and it's all right here in germany while the chancellor wants to take things slowly her own health minister as well as the leaders of some of germany's biggest states think that bringing back the bond as leader could be to lift the people need right now others are far less convinced. we would allow players who are said to have been tested the kind of contact that we forbid citizens who get fined for it if the people they can tack with get infected they aren't to be quarantined that's the opposite award we demand by the app for citizens no one piece should be responsible for this. then there is how the matches would actually take place certainly there's no plans to allow funds into the stadiums should the season resume here in germany what there is though is

a document that's been written by the ministry of labor here it's been seen by the german press and it suggests that play is and officials should be wearing masks that there should be no contact between players and that there should be pauses around every 15 minutes to allow masks to be either adjusted or replaced that isn't going to wash with clubs or the league but the premise was everything remains unchanged on the peach in my opinion if players were to play with masks on that would be an acceptable when the season was stopped in march by munich were top and 4 points clear of rivals dortmund with leipzig a point behind them with just 9 much is left to play the reason behind the push to get the season finished may have less to do with glory for players and fans and more to do with finances europe's top 5 leagues could be set to lose

a whopping 4000000000 euro because of covert 19 according to consultancy firm k p m g with the english premier league hit the hardest followed by league or in spain and the bundesliga then there's the issue of player readiness no one expected this in forced break and it's prompted play is staff and everyone connected with the game not only have to find ways to keep themselves occupied but also much if it were a group of friends through the 1st for the 1st stimulus and not just for this is being taken to all for distribution of the stadium so that it can reach those most in need i mean should football in germany get the go ahead to restart behind closed doors expect leagues in england spain italy and france to be asking when they can kick. again as well these are all of our artsy berlin. from the war against corona virus to it war of words the former you will launch to petition

to congress to investigate communist chinese government's role in the call that $900.00 break hold the spread of china's influence bring critical supply medical and of g. back to the u.s. and push back against chinese bullying of taiwan. hayley has created a website stop communist china dot com where she posted the petition numerous u.s. officials have also demanded access to chinese labs where they claim the virus originated beijing says washington is just trying to deflect attention from its own significant mistakes any objective person will see that some u.s. politicians have been peddling lines that discredit china's anti epidemic efforts to funnel people's minds and deflect attention from the fact that the show sure to fulfilling their own anti epidemic responsibilities chinese denied access to it only to the lab but to the west markets to all the places that one would need to go to identify the original source for this virus. this month donald trump said he was

investigating whether the deadly virus was manmade in a lab in the chinese city of he provided no evidence to support his theory but china isn't the only one being blamed by the u.s. the secretary of state has also criticized the world health organization for not being transparent enough and call for structural changes earlier in april washington and mounts it was halting w.h.o. funding something met with regret by the organization's director general who called for unity against the pandemic we spoke with victor gao director of the china national association of international studies who believes the american government should shift attention to what's happening inside its own country. in order to really trace the real origin of the coronavirus international community need to do scientific research and study as to how this really developed rather then resulting to single handed one sided of one country versus another and

i think it's much better to leave this to the scientists and the viral exists in the world rather there politicize this situation the united states is now the largest has the largest the number of deaths and infections and i think the u.s. government officials can better serve the american people by focusing on the fight against the coronavirus rather them play me anyone else china has all or speaker pelosi for example. and speaking up close to her and other u.s. congress people have been spotted touching their faces wearing masks improperly or not wearing them at all in session. this is a very important piece of legislation piece of legislation. russia's support of this legislation to protect jobs support small businesses will

save lives. please you one minute today's bill is critical for small businesses in my district who are desperately waiting for this financial lifeline. thank the gentleman for yielding. fine we're here we're. speaking but as soon as i stop speaking my ass back on as i turn around to go among us. congress is doing its job. makes you wonder if some higher ups have been vaccinated already. scientifically proven. or spread the virus. it's do as i say not as i do politicians know what's best for us both the rules are different for them. that microphone use. before so is this nation so there's that as well. in the us where the number of

registered 1000 cases has reached almost 1000000 it seems that there's no safe place left be it on land or sea on friday a 2nd u.s. navy ship was hit by the virus and has the details. the pentagon has confirmed that yes another u.s. navy ship has been hit by a corona virus outbreak i can confirm that there has been a a sailor on the u.s.s. kidd who was had symptoms was medivac off of the ship to a hospital in santa tonio and a sort of medical treatment facility san antonio where he was tested and was unfortunately found to be positive cove it as a result the navy has. using lessons learned from other cases they have followed a medical evaluation team a specialized medical evaluation team on to the kid i think it's an 8 person team that is conducting testing on the ship more than a dozen sailors have tested positive for coated 19 it has now been confirmed that

the ship is preparing to return to port now the ship was sent to the eastern pacific on what the pentagon says was an anti drug mission however reports seem to indicate that the vessel was actually targeting the government of venezuela now the 1st american warship to be hit with coded 19 the u.s.s. theodore roosevelt now has over $840.00 confirmed cases on board one sailor actually died just 2 weeks ago and the case gained wide public attention after the captain of the ship wrote a desperate letter to the u.s. navy. we are not at war sailors do not need to die if we do not act now we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset our sailors after the letter was leaked the navy captain was fired this sparked massive public and media outrage after which the u.s. navy investigated and is now recommending that he be reinstated a little up and r.t. new york. it'll assistance is more relevant than ever durham global

pandemic and that's why r.t. has launched the social project our turn to act a map app allowing you to request help or volunteer. their global news update continues after this short break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to from day shouldn't let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic developments only.

i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. welcome back to the program are to host and former ecuadorian president rafael career has spoken to journalist glenn greenwald who helped expose numerous u.s. and u.k. surveillance programs he is now being threatened by the brazilian government over his work who's using a similar scheme to the one washington deployed against whistleblower julian a songe. welcome will be here because if you would as a journalist and especially because of the amount of time you spend in brazil as your husband and 2 children of you have been threatened many times have you brazil has spent an entire decade decades of career of his career praising the military dictatorship. advocating against press freedoms and once we began our

reporting here in brazil last year in june that expose corruption on the part. is now justice minister who at the time of our. the events that we reported was the judge overseeing the carwash anti corruption probe very serious that started to be made by the government and i had already had conflicts of boston r.-o. prior to that and he had insulted me many times on social media in january and now and that they were actually indicting me and trying to imprison me for the reporting that i did with my sources for the moment that case has been thrown out of court but the government is appealing and trying to. reinstate the indictment elysian will proceed journalism is the profession of life and death which is the price of truth and of course we're talking about the world famous julian asuncion

what do you think about his case even the obama administration had decided that they couldn't. prosecute julian assads without also prosecuting the new york times in the guardian and. newspapers around the world that published the same material at a you public prosecutor did not prosecute journalists everywhere but the company ministries and didn't care about that so they just kind of created a theory that said that. work with his source tells the manning to do more than just receive information that he actually tried to help her. getting caught which is very similar to the theory the ball's in our government is trying to use against me because they're copying that model it's in and the reality is journalists all over the world help their sources not. to and what they're now trying to do is turn that into a crime by saying that if you work with your source to keep your source safe you

become part of the criminal conspiracy. social distancing measures aimed at minimizing the spread of coronavirus are enforced across the world while some question whether 2 meters is even enough one canadian artist has invented a device showing it's hard to comply with the rule at all danielle tristane posted a video on twitter calling for the closure of major roads he thinks they should be given over to pedestrians as sidewalks just aren't wide enough being all canada has now registered at more than 43000 and factions and more than 2000 people have died there we spoke to daniel who told us more about his idea of improving city guidelines amid a lockdown. my critique is about how we are treating the people who aren't necessarily going to the hospital but are forced to navigate the city and there and it's really unsafe right now and i think that there's so few cars already and

because there are so few cars that actually has encouraged people who do drive to drive faster so the advice from the city and the mayor has been just. into the street if you need to avoid somebody step into the street and i can do that try and i'm an able bodied man you know it's ok for me but we're asking vulnerable people to step into the live traffic to avoid each other so they can navigate safely i'm not saying close the street entirely but a lot of cities you've seen them extending the sidewalk one lane on each side and that just gives enough breathing room and then there's still enough room for cars to move around and i do know that the authorities got got the message. it only remains the european country worst hit by the pandemic with $26000.00 lives lost the virus has paralyzed many cities including rome that are usually packed with tourists at this time of the year.

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have any sense of taste or smell from the most you can look to the world with you. recently she you know sometimes you go oh this is the chief. comedy song sounds for research. and i have to confess. myself how close it is for me in the face of the time. as far as a survival go. when customers go by you're just. didn't help reduce. that's undercutting but what's good for markets is not good for the global economy . welcome your attack to deny this is the comedy show where americans in america uncovering america news are

called foreign agents have some good news through their aggrieved incompetence and hubris are us government or a corporate slimeballs with ties on or speeding up the end of the american empire an empire that has brought death and destruction around the world i know that doesn't make a pandemic any more fun you know this is just look at it like high school it's miserable boring you can't get laid to save your live but after you're done with it you know it to be in high school anymore or maybe that was just my experience even at fairly mainstream media like the independent in britain are now saying the u.s. is losing its world superpower status due to its failure to lead on the covert 19 crisis and this time it might not recover the american oligarchy or showing the world something as this hits the fan there is showing everyone that they can't be

trusted to lead to help to facilitate to organize even just to secure the short term future of humankind they're demonstrating that they can't do but steal privileges of dollars i don't lie about it asking the american empire to help you is like asking you. to do your taxes. they can't they won't they don't even know what they are talking about and they might sting you just for asking meanwhile other world leaders are doing the exact opposite the un general secretary antonio good terrorists called for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world the us on the other hand has called for more war economic war on venezuela and iran bombing in yemen and afghanistan and more they consider it to be essential work to perpetrate endless war against countries that just want to be left alone to

read what one would want to take a 2 month vacation from our destined history we're back in so many countries we're just making up new ones the bomb yeah because i've drawn by the people's republic of volcano on and off the coast of sudan what's that so dan doesn't have a coach well bob the country next to it so that it has a coast to this i've got to think of every day. meanwhile china is sending medical supplies and assistance to 89 countries as part of its health silk road it is ignoring us sanctions by sending drugs test kids and supplies to iran and venezuela god damn you china flouting our authority by helping dying people you helping people what's the one thing the one thing we won't stand for other than a food source that doesn't offer a deep fried option but china is not the only country helping other nations cuba

has sent brigades of doctors and nurses to italy as well as venezuela nicaragua jamaica suriname and granada well you can't throw i know he's dead but he probably put something in his will saying just piss off the americans keep helping sick people after i'm dead you know. but this gruesome assault of helping does not stop with cuba russia has also sent medical supplies to hard hit countries like italy you know you know something is super evil if russia is doing it so clearly sending a medical supplies is the equivalent of napalming an orphanage of children who are one day away from being adopted by a loving family so let's call it what it is russia bombed italy with medical supplies you bastards and it continues france germany and britain

have sent medical goods to iran through instead they work around to export gird goods to iran that bypasses u.s. sanctions they're helping iranians even after we put up roadblocks to stop them from helping iranians so i you get a great idea of what would you help or audience look at other than just have you ever seen something you don't deal with this especially the little one haven't you heard the propaganda we.