so. african countries take a distinct approach to fight the spread of coronavirus warning its population about the dangers through graffiti and songs. also this hour r t joins moscow as a disinfection squads as they battle it not just covert 19 public fears they may not be who they claim they are. plus hundreds of amazon workers plan a mass sickout refusing to work in protest against the tech giants killing of the pandemic crisis. and the us mainstream media usually so eager to cover sexual assault allegations go strangely quiet on new claims against presidential

candidate joe biden. you're watching our 2 international coming to you straight from the russian capital let's get started with your live news update we begin with the latest figures on kobe had 19 the global pandemic is still raging with almost 3000000 cases now confirmed when the 880000 people have recovered but the number of fatalities has surpassed 207000. with the world health organization warning that the worst of the coronavirus may yet be to come for africa some countries on the continent are taking a novel approach to stopping the spread. explains. on the surface africa appears to have escaped the worst of it so far so only about 30000 cases and

a 1000 deaths for a continent that's home to more than a 1000000000 people but that's on the surface and already health care systems at the colonies are crumbling at the same time while we're dealing with govan night eat pandemic we're also on the break of a hunger pandemic for the crawler virus even became an issue i was saying that 2020 would be facing the worst humanitarian crisis as war 2 competing with the developed world the very future of the continent will depend on how this matter is handled it is getting competitive rich nations are buying up mosques and gloves and ventilators this quickly as they're produced leaving poorer nations with nothing international aid be it food or medicine or money is slowing to a trickle even the w.h. who is warning that things could get very ugly within africa could kill

$300000.00 and forced millions into starvation it all depends on what we are discussing here which is are you testing are you finding the cases are you isolating and tracking the contacts the w.h.o. report is not a prediction that means it must happen how is africa supposed to deal with a pandemic that is bored america to its knees especially without being able to print dollars in euros without foreign aid without advanced healthcare systems and the millions of africans western advice to self isolate and will promote is something out of a fantasy sinan i don't have a source of income my normal work is to try and do people's laundry but it's been impossible to find work these days because of the fear of this disease attacks a brave conduct as men and women they are lacking in much the. it's mike it was so

these people us 400 but they were out on film i was a very big crime will go up in slums because now. these people in the country. we live in now and in a low income area i don't have 5 high at home so that has impacted mine i think it is beach because now we have to catch up in academics missing out in a lot of speeches in terms of us because we have been dismissed in any period of time millions have no access to the internet to read warnings and explanations what they have a rich imaginations b. it's graffiti informing people look the virus isn't a conspiracy placed in slums where poverty and misinformation a rife be it music the legendary south african song paths of pat has been rewritten and re recorded with the antiviral lyrics and is being aired by more than a dozen african review stations. and.

it's no surprise that on a continent where funerals can involve song and dance that music is on the front lines in the fight against who would 90 africa is being left to fend for itself charity has become a luxury no one expects a miraculous international rescue so the continent does what it can at least it fights the virus on its own terms. hundreds of workers address slim's biggest outdoor market have gone on strike demanding equality and justice after they were left out of measures easing lockdown restrictions across live now to our teams correspondent paul slate for more on this so paul what do we know about the protests. what was quite large protests happening at mommy hood which is to restore limbs the largest outdoor market the protest involved to the store

owners who wore masks clashing with police and it was over the country's decision to ease and lock down restrictions by allowing certain businesses to open but it has not allowed these stores in the outdoor market to be amongst those businesses and one of the signs at the entrance to the markets is i hear you're good at and this is in reference to the fact that i hear stores have been allowed to open this despite the fact that there are long queues and huge crowds have been gathering in those shopping centers now the store owners. have complained that they have died doing all these kind of preventative measures and that they too should be allowed to open the country the city's mayor agrees with them. have worked hard to open the mahanta yahud market and i'm sure there is no reason other complexes are open and it is not i've presented an organized crime and off with the local authorities to make sure it complies with health ministry regulations. now so far

201 israelis have died from coverage 19 and 15443 have tested positive the country's health minister has resigned after weighing the decision for 2 days earlier he did face and lot of criticism for the way he's handled the pandemic but he did not list this criticism amongst the reasons for his resignation. i decided not to return to the health ministry for a 4th time and prefer to lead a sweeping development for solving the housing crisis in israel in the housing ministry. now it's one has approved a series of steps to the lock down restrictions and amongst these that is allowing group is as i mentioned it's having a slight ease on the economy allowing some stores to open and any people who are outside not wearing a mask are fined how many israelis are still angry and frustrated that these measures are not enough to ease the situation. artie's pulse larry thank you for

bringing us that report. hundreds of amazon workers are staging a mass sickout refusing to work in protest against the tech giants handling of the koran the virus crisis it comes after organizers of a plan online event to discuss experiences was canceled and they were abruptly fired amazon has fired 6 workers in recent weeks who have called for better safety conditions in the pandemic a spokesperson for the company said they were fired for repeatedly violating internal policies but did not specify which ones. we support every employee's right to criticize their employers working conditions but that does not come with blanket immunity against any and all internal policies on top of that an amazon owned grocery store whole foods is allegedly tracking its employees and a fear of a unit in the excuse me the company is believed to be using heat mapping it to

track. nina zation efforts we spoke to human rights and labor rights lawyer about the situation. for these workers that are still at their jobs during a nationwide lockout they're literally taking their lives into their own hands to do these jobs that are even being called essential workers and yet they're not being paid as if they were essential what this pandemic is showing are the incredible inequities in the u.s. society the incredible injustices and people are reacting to that in ways that are pretty spontaneous because they literally see the lives of themselves and their families stake we live in a very. unfettered capitalist society where that type of conduct is not only common. you know it tends to be even approved of in the press and

by political leaders even though it's the legal. a blast from the past where u.s. presidential candidate joe biden as a tape of a phone conversation from 1993 has landed him in the middle of a sex scandal however in what many see as a blatant double standards usually vocal me to activists and mainstream media take a very different tack muscatel ask why. to biden's pretty famous for his hands on approach we've all seen the photos of him hugging kissing apartment even sniffing women as they squirm with looks of discomfort on their faces but a recent reservation might well throw the presidential hopeful into a credibility crisis i'm wondering what they. would do besides go to the press in washington my daughter is there after working for a prominent senator and could not get through with her problem but this is apparently

the voice of tara greets mother and the problems she's referring to accusations of sexual assault how do automated gate street fight and back in 1903 when he was still senator. i was up against the wall and he i remember the coldness of the war and i remember his hands underneath my bus and entering my skirt and fingers and it treating me as he was just trying to kiss me and i was pulling away if you haven't had but i'm not surprised it took almost 3 weeks the much of the media to both had to report rates on the geishas and when they finally got round to it it was funny chris whose side they found on no other a location about sexual assault surfaced in the course of reporting nor did any former biden staff members corroborate any details of misreads allegation the times found no better and of sexual misconduct by mr biden the times not finding any pattern of sexual misconduct is confusing since in the same article it states that

7 other women have accused by dint of want touching also confusing is why if you crucial once were removed when asked about that it this was the response. the biden campaign thought that the phrasing was awkward and made it look like there were other instances in which he had been accused of sexual misconduct why the times apparently altered its editorial content at the behest of the biden campaign as anyone's guess but then again this is not the 1st time the media has whitewashed the presidential hopefuls character previous incidents of inappropriate behavior often talk down to uncle joe being born in a different era. people like graham and shores who say you can do this. is a warrior always miniature you know trying to show i care about listening to wars began to change their shitty. project in personal space and they reset my game

again just as the media was satisfied by this apology back then it seems that also taking at face value biden's denyer of the reid allegations now he's not face the scrutiny one would expect since the story broke in late march nor did reid receive the support one might expect when she tired to time's up that's the nonprofit organization sets up to help survivors tell their stories not one time to be talked about the payments are made that you're biting campaign one a charity set we've met as a firm and we have decided there is no legal strategy safe least tell your story because it's job right it may be worth mentioning that biden's campaign advisor many to don is managing director of the organizations legal front while these things are a largely got on question no one has wasted time and doing a deep dive into tar read history and they had

a goal to find an article now presented as evidence that she's a russian agent and so apparently by extension a liar. there's love fest folk put in but i'll xander tara reid is the same person who just made an accusation against joe biden if so these games are this woman is a traitor and russia will do whatever it takes to keep trump in office they put him there in the 1st place unsurprisingly the right wing media for its own reasons has compared the less intelligent approach to biden to its character assassination of bret cavanagh they've drawn attention to how documents prove tara reid what as a staffer and by debt and the emergence of this latest larry king call it seemingly corroborates that she did in fact tell people about the incident back in 1903 not just how much of it but a brother and friend to have both since confirmed they knew christie blasi ford was unable to present and such evidence against cavanagh and yet no time was wasted in

throwing out the innocent until proven guilty motto and guess who else was apparently willing to throw out that unshakable values and this is the law of the founder of the need to move madison who by the way is still in tossing biden for president if you don't feel comfortable throwing away at the man i've known for 15 years in this time of complete chaos without there being. a thorough investigation i stand in solidarity with christine lazy for it so the rule seemingly astounds with every woman unless that's threatening the chances of the only horse in the race who can unseat trump and who you all betting on legal and media analyst lionel told us the lack of consistency is stunning. i know firsthand that the the media have shown an almost superhuman interest in everything that president trump has ever

done in any event in any venue and every aspect or corner of his life and they leave nothing unturned nothing is too far nothing is too extreme right so so that's the standard. yet when you said could we please apply that level of scrutiny to joe biden. could we look at his life the same way. you would look at the president no could we apply roughly the same standard know why because president trump and the republicans are one standard joe biden's over here and the media support joe biden that simple but you have a woman who is saying these are the allegations i made then she didn't present information testimony or rather it is presented as evidence of sorts showing that

at the time this happened her mother was saying and corroborating what she said then and what she says now yet the mainstream media it's like crickets they say nothing in terms of the media that that reaches the american public the most care is no other voice so if there's no other voice the left can say whatever they want they can say what ever they want they can show a dissimilarity of treatment they can completely ignore her all together which they have their global news update continues after this short break.

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welcome back disinfection squad are working around the clock to help reduce the spread of kobe at night team but they're having to battle not just the outbreak but also public suspicion about who they really are are to. join one team as one about its work.

i. wish it were because of this infection is mostly carried out with chlorine preparations the preparations are good and certified they approved for use in children's medical institutions we never observed problems of using. them the pandemic 1st began in russia a lot of people didn't know how disinfection is carried out were scared of it many people didn't let anyone in that would room is the swindlers and robbers masquerading as disinfect is coming to apartments when the. disinfected comes he's

already wearing a protective suit and it's hard to see his face. of view through this we disinfect different places kids facilities hospitals public places of work spaces and of paul months we disinfect around 40 or 50 places a day and that's just in one district if we talk about the whole city the number is 7 times higher.

and. yes that. may show me in the. russian national maria who spent 15 months and u.s. attention on conspiracy charges has sent a petition to the u.n. human rights council she's asking for russian prisoners abroad to be moved from incarceration to house arrest as many may not survive the coronavirus outbreaks in foreign jails. i know the female experience whatever reason it's as close personal contact and conscious the spread of the virus concerted tamper extruded may play in the

relevant authorities to resort to work toward the thieves to different nations the brits you. know several of my compatriots russian citizens buying prisons and jails in europe in the states i will not speak with them their relatives will say everything themselves more gives them are you receiving missions across the birds that could jordan sure. where most of it is so could you put them on just a little board and in the airplane each gives a body or in the. ear solutions that are showing your girl who was with me. when you or your chancellor who are sick have 3 children want to use only 2 years old he

might being a critic some but i. am. not only in my wealth in nice enough but the order of naming it gets my wealth in the way a monkey could do you see this enough to not but notion my worth in that i did get a sure thing at that there were some some that if i ask you do you have news the list of the tickets this is a burger. showing humanity in this difficult time and to petition to deport her as the country's russian citizens are due to change with a preventive measure. to pervert the studio detention but it sure was mighty today to me. that he might eugene wouldn't.

lend. to those people you can see. the mayor of las vegas has offered to make people in the city guinea pigs and then experiment to open up despite the pandemic 3000000 people in southern nevada and we've had 150 deaths we have to open up we offered to be a control group. the city's economy is expected to be the worst hit in the u.s. as almost 40 percent of residents work and non-essential businesses that may have closed during the pandemic the state of nevada economy as a whole is also the most affected the number of those unemployed without insurance there has reached all time highs we asked people in las vegas whether they approve of the mayor offering to reopen the city. nobody's keeping peace the claim that she has which sets a good plan he's opened up

a bit let us the people decide whether or not to go back to work so you know i keep my family safe and i think we all do the same thing we can all make a fortune to 6 or so i just happen to be a health care worker so i don't want to risk my life to be a guinea pig i'm already risking my life helping people that here that are already here that are testing positive i think it's one out of every 10 people on the plane itself hospitality to sleep and it's pretty much if we don't come back to normal which is not going to be normal but some kind of plane we're never going to make it. over to mrs finn or to the 14 years it's like you see we want to head. over to a small city in the policy to learn what happened in china what happened here and it's still going. to this please you know one of those biggest year.

russian paratroopers have broken world records after successfully carrying out an air drop from a height of 10000 meters unprecedented feat took place near friends just of land a russian archipelago in the arctic a region where temperatures regularly plunged to minus 50 degrees celsius in winter the drop was said to be a test for new parachutes and navigation systems and extreme conditions.

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led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. aura made in the shallows. hello and welcome the crosstown where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle crude collapse global energy markets are in disarray over. production low demand and a lot of storage has witnessed some prices go into negative territory and this is

not just because of the pandemic this is the result of disastrous policies the energy market may never recover. to discuss this and more i'm joined by my guest dmitri bobbitt in moscow he's a political analyst and editor of me media project and glenn these and in oslo he's a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as author of russia's geo economic strategy for a greater eurasia regimen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump anytime you want and i was appreciating let's go to oslo 1st glenn we have this pandemic ongoing and we have been in crisis in the energy markets and it's easy to conflate the 2 and one in the energy situations in the markets has gotten worse as a result of this pandemic but they are very separate things and i would say right off the bat that this is the result of disastrous policies particularly by the

united states.