african countries take a distinct approach to fight the spread of coronavirus warning its population about the dangers through graffiti and songs. such. as. also this hour r t joins moscow as of disinfection squad as they battle not just coping 19 public fears they may not be who they claim. also u.s. mainstream media usually so eager to cover sexual assault allegations go strangely quiet on new claims against presidential candidate joe biden. and hundreds of amazon workers plan a mass sickout refusing to work in protest against the tech giant handling of the

crisis. we're watching our to international coming to you straight from the russian capital thanks for joining us this hour let's begin with the latest figures on code 19 the global pandemic is still raging number of confirmed coronavirus cases has now surpassed 3000000 more than 883000 people have recovered but the number of fatalities has risen to more than 207000. with the world health organization warning that the worst of coronavirus may yet be to come for africa some countries on the continent are taking a novel approach to stopping the spread of gaza he 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 that because it means are crumbling at the same time while we're dealing with go over 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 we're 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 that killed

300000 and forced millions into starvation it all depends on what we're 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 with from whom is something out of a fantasy is in and 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 grave conduct as board up or down men and women they are lacking in much the. it's market was so these people us 400 but they walk on. every

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

it's no surprise that on a continent where funerals can involve song and dance that music is on the frontlines in the fight against with. 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. and russia there are now more than $87000.00 coronavirus cases with more than $6000.00 registered in the last 24 hours more than $7000.00 and total have already recovered and imus $800.00 people have died here moscow's destine faction squads are working around the clock to help reduce the spread of cocaine 19 but they're having to battle not just the outbreak but also public suspicion archies america join one team as it went about its work.

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institutions we never observed problems using. them the pandemic 1st began in russia a lot of people didn't know how disinfection is carried out was scared of the many people didn't let anyone in the room is this swindlers and robbers masquerading as disinfect is coming to apartments when the disinfectant comes he's already wearing a protective suit and it's hard to see his face. i. think. i. just wish we disinfect different places kids facilities hospitals public places to work spaces and apartments we disinfect around 40 or 50. 2 places at the end that's

just in one district if we talk about the whole city the number is 7 times higher. than the next fiery accident thank you very much where are you and. this is. my house. and this is our state yes that said oh no not here are they may show what made us. the mayor of las vegas has offered to make people in the city guinea pigs an 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 this is economy is expected to be the worst hit in the u.s. as almost 40 percent of residents work in essential businesses that may have closed

during the pandemic the state of nevada's 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 their mayor offering to reopen the city. nobody's getting the play of this year which is exit the plane is open up and let us the people decide whether or not to go back to work not so you know i keep my family safe and i think we all do the same thing to get all my fortune to see the sources 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 find a way to sell the hospitality business 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 claim that

we're never going to make it. a move artemisia been working for 2 years it's like you actually want to head. over to a small city town the polish learn from what happened in china what is happening here it's still like wildfire here in this please i'm not one of us because. you're . a real blast from the past for us presidential candidate joe biden has a tape of a phone conversation from 1993 has landed him in the middle of a sex scandal however and what many see as blatant double standards usually vocal meta activists and mainstream media take a very different tack this time or asks why. to biden's pretty famous face a hands on approach we've all seen the photos of him hugging kissing apartment even sniffing women as they squirm with the looks of discomfort on their faces but a recent resignation might well throw the presidential hopeful into

a credibility crisis i'm wondering what. that effort 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 problems but this is apparently the voice of tara greets mother and the problems she's referring to accusations of sexual assault how to automate a gate street fight and back in 1903 when he was still sort of the what 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 to 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 wants 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 i am grown men with shores who say you can do this and. this is a worrier always miniature you know trying to show i care about listening. to change their shitty. project in personal space you have to 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 deny 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 voting campaign when a charity said we've met as a firm and we have decided there is no legal strategy cif 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 one of these things a largely god on the question no one has wasted time and doing a deep dive into tar rees history and they head goal to finding an article now presented as evidence that she's a russian agent and so apparently by extension a liar. love fest folk buton league zehnder tara reid is this 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 and surprisingly 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 bite at the emergence of this latest larry king call it seemingly corroborate 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 is not on the found out 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 that 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 analysts 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 in every aspect or corner of his life they leave nothing unturned nothing is too far nothing is too extreme right 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 you would look at the president no. could we apply roughly the same standard know why to his president trump and the

republicans are one standard joe biden's over here and the media support joe biden that simple the american public the most there 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 does similarity of treatment they can completely ignore her all together which they have. still to come traitorous from jerusalem as the biggest outdoor market clash with police after not being allowed to reopen that story and more after the break. crude collapsed global energy markets are in disarray trover production low demand

and lot of storage has witnessed some prices go into negative territory this is not just because of the pen demick this is the result of just some of the scenes the energy market may never recover. as the u.s. economy was booming gaining numbers of people were made homeless. you can work 40 hours 'd in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still has the lead up to the reality of the. financial ecology and the lack of affordable housing for a living minimum wage give many people new choice. there's been a problem with the city. limits on a cold to stay way oh miss. the food that there is no answer because yes the records at least looks most vulnerable were abandoned on the streets to become the invisible.

welcome back rush national maria boat you know who spent 15 months and us to tension on conspiracy charges has sent a petition to the un 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 if a male experience were present it's as close personal contact consciousness for the virus concerted efforts to the main player in the forty's to resort to work toward

the teams to do nation to. know several of my compatriots russian citizens buying prisons and jails in europe it's things i would not speak with them their relatives say everything sounds more and more easily receiving mission suppression birds that's a joke. when most of it is so cute what the answer is a little boring and you need to explain each gives a body or any. other solutions are showing your girl you are super cute and you start that when you only have a chance of which you have been pretty sure and this was only 2 years old my cats

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hundreds of amazon workers are staging a mass sickout refusing to work and protest against the tech giants handling of the coronavirus crisis it comes after organizers of a planned online event to discuss experiences was cancelled and they were briefly fired the warehouse workers on the track worse there are such a divide the. groups are completely siloed. and apparently it streamlined intentionally so and the minute that a member of our group sent out an unit ations of that conversation i'm only cunningham and i were fired just like that. and the invitation which was out for about 2 hours on a friday afternoon and had all of. 1500 excess and that meeting was

deleted and poll are never released calendar so censorship silencing and firing. amazon has fired 6 workers in recent weeks who had called for better safety conditions in the pandemic a spokesperson for the company says 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. and it's not the only scandal over amazon's treatment of workers who are trying to organize amazon owned grocery chain whole foods is allegedly using heat mapping to track their efforts human and labor rights lawyer den koblick told us it's not surprising if the workers are trying to improve their conditions. for these workers that are still at their jobs during a nationwide lockout they're literally taking their lives into their own hands to

the shops they're even being called essential workers and yet they're not being paid as if they were such let's just ban them because showing our the incredible inequities in the us side. the incredible injustices and people are reacting in ways that are pretty spontaneous because they literally see the lives of themselves and their families at stake we live in a very. unfettered capitalist society where that type of conduct is only common. you know it tends to be even approved of in the press and by political leaders even though it's illegal. under the workers that jerusalem's biggest outdoor market are demanding equality and justice after they were left out of measures easing lock down or struction artist paul flair has the details. protest involved in the store owners who wore masks consumed

with police and it was the country's decision to knock down restrictions by allowing certain businesses to open but it has not allowed these stores in the market to get amongst those businesses and one of his friends at the entrance to the market says i see my neighborhood and this is in reference to the fact that i keep a store with you know how to open this despite the fact that there are long includes crowds have been gathering in those shopping the same time as the city's mayor agrees with them i have worked hard to open the mahanta yahoo to market and i'm sure there is no reason other complexes are open and it is not i've presented an organized reopening plan and off with the local authorities to make sure it complies with health ministry regulations the country's health minister has resigned after weighing the decision for 2 days and he did face and lot of criticism for the way he. 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. it's well has approved a series of steps to ease the lockdown restrictions and amongst these it is allowing group is having a slight ease on the economy and any people who are not wearing a mosque offline how is that many israelis are still angry and frustrated that these measures are not enough to ease the situation. russian paratroopers have broken world records after successfully carrying out an air drop from a height of 10000 meters the unprecedented feat took place near friends just a land a russian archipelago in the arctic a region where temperatures regularly plunge to minus 50 degrees celsius in winter the drop was said to be a test for numeric parachutes and i get big ation systems and extreme conditions.

i i . i i i. i . that's are global news update for this hour but don't forget you can always find us on facebook or twitter for up to the minute report stay well.

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hello and welcome to cross town where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle crude collapse global energy markets are in disarray over production low demand and lots of storage as 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 you know smee media project and glenn he's an ocelot he's a professor at the university of southeastern norway as well as author of russia's geo economic strategy for a greater eurasia argument right.