african countries take a distinct approach to fight the spread of coronavirus warning its population about the dangers through graffiti and songs. such as this. also this hour r t joins moscow disinfection squads as they battle not just cope at 19 but public fears they may not be who they claim. plus u.s. mainstream media usually so eager to cover sexual assault allegations 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 giants handling of the pandemic. a very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for tuning in this hour let's begin with the latest figures on covert 19 the global pandemic is still raging the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has now surpassed 3000000 more than 894000 people have recovered but the number of fatalities has risen to more than 207000. but 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 artist my contact explains on the surface

africa appears to have escaped the worst of it so far so many 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 they call it means a crumbling at the same time while we're dealing with govan night. we're also on the break of a hunger pandemic for the crawler virus even the cave it is shoot i would say that 2020 would be facing the worst humanitarian crisis since world 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 qubit in africa could kill 300000 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 millions of africans western advice to self isolate and work from home is something out of a fantasy 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 tax a grave conduct as men and women they are locking in markets marketwired cars so

these people us 400 but they walk on the mouth every crime will go up in slums because now. these people the country. we live in now in a low income area i don't have quite 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 but because you 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 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 couvade 19 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. in russia there are more than $87000.00 coronavirus cases with more than $6000.00 registered in the last 24 hours one in $7000.00 and total have already recovered and i was $800.00 people have died here moscow disinfection squad 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 about their jobs. join one team as

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chlorine preparations the preparations are good and certified the approved for use in children's medical institutions we need to observe problems using. the to. thank the pandemic 1st began in russia a lot of people didn't know how disinfection is carried out was scared to be many people didn't let anyone in the room as this swindler's and robots 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 fights. i. thank you thank you i live. just as we disinfect different places kids facilities hospitals public places to work spaces

and the paul months we disinfect around 40 or 50. 2 places and that's just in one district if we talk about the whole city the nobody 7 times higher. than the north is very active right very very much where are you and. this is a man. that i. can. say yes that said oh no not here are they may show me. the mayor of las vegas has offered to make people in the city guinea pigs and an experiment to open up despite the pandemic 3000000 people in southern nevada and we've had 150 deaths and 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 in 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 mare offering to reopen their city. nobody's getting the play of this she has which sex with the plane is opened up and then 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 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 i meet. the hospitality business and sleep and i think it's pretty much if we don't come back

to normal which is not going to be normal but some kind of plan that we're never going to make. 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 and what is happening here it's still like wildfire. this is not one of those because. you're. a real bass from the past for us presidential candidate joe biden as a tape of a phone conversation from 1993 has landed him in the middle of a sex scandal over and what many see as blatant double standards usually vocal me too activist and mainstream media take a different tack this time taylor ask 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 his presidential hopeful into a credibility crisis i'm wondering what. would. go through 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 do alternate gate street bite 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 and my skirt and fingers and of 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 so much of the media to both have 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 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 whitewash 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 shoulders who say you can do this. is a warrior always miniature trying to show i care about. change their shitty. project in personal space and the reset game i guess 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 that 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 safe least tell your story because his job right it may be what's matching up 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 had a goal to find an article now presented as evidence that she's a russian agent and so apparently by extension a liar. love fest folks xander to a read 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 brett cavanagh they've drawn attention to how documents prove tara reid what as

a staffer and by to the emergence of this latest larry king call it seemed he could drop rates that she did in fact tell people about the answer 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 any 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 their unshakable values and is not on the found out of the need to move who by the way is still in dual sing 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 analysts lionel told us the lack of consistency is stunning to him. 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 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 because 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 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 they just similarity of treatment they can completely ignore her all together which they have. still had traitors from jerusalem's biggest outdoor market clash with police after not being allowed to reopen that story and more after the break.

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welcome back russian national maria brought in a 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 and foreign jails. i know if a male experience were present it's as close personal contact consciousness creating virus concerted efforts to the main player in the forty's to resort to work toward the tickets to the nation to.

know several of my compatriots russian citizens buying prisons and jails in europe it's things i wouldn't speak with them their relatives say everything sounds more and more i think it's an early christian mission suppression birds that's a joke. when most of it is so cute what the answer is a little boredom you need to explain each gives a body or any. other solutions are actually a girl of yours and to diminish that when you were in your chance of which you have been pretty sure this was only 2 years old my thoughts being you could fix.

that only in my will since i seen the daughter of the many kids my wealth in the way of money kids didn't see this enough to know but notion that my worth in them that i did a sure thing it that there were some some that here i ask you do you use the list of a ticket this is a burka. chilling amenities in this difficult time and to petition to get authorized by the country's russian citizens. to change their parental reaction to temporary non-custodial detention but are sure what it might be today to make certain. that he's already seen wouldn't police then go to those people you can see.

hundreds of amazon workers are staging a mass sickout refusing to work in protest against the tech giant's handling of the coronavirus crisis it comes after organizers of a planned online event to discuss experiences it was cancels and they were abruptly fired the warehouse workers on the track worse there is 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 polish calendar so who censorship silencing

and firing. amazon has fired 6 workers in recent weeks who have called for better safety conditions in the pen demick as the person 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 untoward internal policies. and it's not the only scandal over amazon's treatment of workers who are trying to organize amazon on a grocery chain whole foods is allegedly tracking employees they suspect are trying to unionize the company is believed to be using heat mapping to track their efforts human and labor rights lawyer dan kadlec told us it's not surprising at the workers are trying to improve their conditions for these workers that are still at their jobs during a nationwide lockout there are 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 essential let's just ban them because showing are the incredible inequities in the us side. 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 at stake we live in a very. shattered capitalist society where there. is. even a job in the press. political leaders even though it's. hundreds of workers out jerusalem's biggest outdoor market are demanding equality and justice after they were left out of measures easing lock down restrictions are there has the details of the protest involved the store owners who wore masks

clashing with police and it was over the country's decision to knock down restrictions by allowing certain businesses to open but it has not allowed these stores in the outdoor markets to be amongst those businesses and one of the signs at the entrance to the markets is i hear. and this is in reference to the fact that i could hear stores have been allowed to open this despite the fact that there are long fuse and huge crowds have been gathering in those shopping centers the city's mayor agrees with them i've worked hard to open the mahanta yahoo 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 offered 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 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. it's one 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 mask off find how 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 of land a russian archipelago in the arctic a region where temperatures regularly plunge to minus 50 degree celsius in winter the drop was said to be a test for new parachutes and navigation systems in extreme conditions.

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