invisible. african countries take a distinct approach to fight the spread of coronavirus warning its population about the dangers for graffiti and songs. 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 man to stick out refusing to work in protest against the tech giants handling of

the pandemic. watching our to international coming to you straight from the russian capital thanks for tuning in this hour let's begin with the latest figures on code 19 the global pandemic is still raging the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has now surpassed 3000000 more than 888000 people have recovered but the number of fatalities has risen to more than 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 artist if 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 town 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 this 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 with from whom is something out of a fantasy it's 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 bravest acts conduct as body double that men and women they are lacking in much the . it's market watch because so these people us 400 but they walk on. every big

crime will go up in slums because now there are a number of these people the country. we live in now in a low income area i don't have my 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 our schools work because it will be dismissed in any period of time millions have new 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 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 front lines in the fight against with 9. 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 more than $87000.00 coronavirus cases with more than $6000.00 registered in the last 24 hours one in $7000.00 in total have already recovered but i must $800.00 people have died here moscow disinfection squad are working around the clock to help reduce the spread of coping 19 but they're having to battle not just the outbreak but also public suspicion. join one team as it went about its work.

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children's medical institutions we need to observe problems music. from the pandemic 1st began in russia a lot of people didn't know how disinfection is carried out was scared of it many people didn't let anyone in the room is the 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 this fight i. i i. just as we disinfect different places kids facilities hospitals public places to work spaces and departments we disinfect around 40 or 50. 2 places and that's just

in one district if you talk about the whole city the number is 7 times higher. to the north sorry to say i am very sure where i favor and. actually. this is true that it is only in my house that i was. kind to the south side yes that said oh no not here are they may show what made 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 us as

almost 40 percent of residents work and non 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 los vegas whether they approve of the mayor offering to reopen the city. nobody's getting the play of this she has which sets a good plan is open up and then let us the people decide whether or not to go back to work on time so you know i keep my family safe and i think we all do the same thing we can all make for some decisions or so i just happen to be health care workers no 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'm going to sell the hospitality business to sleep and it's pretty much if we don't come back to normal we're just not going to be normal but some kind of claim that we're never

going to make. a move artemisia been working for 2 years it's like you actually want to hand. over it's going to a small city town the polish farm what happened time and what's happening here it's like wildfire here in this police i'm not one of those 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 me to activists and mainstream media have taken a very different tack this time saskia taylor 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 looks of discomfort on their faces but a recent reservation might well throw the 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 automated gates to 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 found a clear 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 know 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 like graham and shores who say you can do this. is who are always miniature you have tried to show i care about. change an issue to. protect him just as the media was satisfied by this apology back then it seems that also taking at face value biden's deny of the reed 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 tied to time's up that's the nonprofit organization sets up to help survivors tell their stories now one time to talk about the payments that were 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 worth mentioning that biden's campaign advisor many

to done is managing director of the organizations legal front one of these things a largely got on question no one has wasted time and doing a deep dive into tar rees history and they head gold finding an article now presented as evidence that she's a russian agent and so apparently by extension a liar. love best folk put in but i'll xander 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 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 bite it 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 their 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 a 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 analyst final 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 i mean 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 a dissimilarity of treatment they can completely ignore her all together which they have. still had traders from jerusalem's biggest outdoor market clash with police after not being allowed to reopen a story and more after the break. please .

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welcome back russian national marie abortion the who spent 15 months in u.s. detention 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 from my own experience were crazy. as close personal contact consciousness for the virus concerted efforts to play around the forty's to be sold to work toward the teams to do a show to. know

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hundreds of amazon workers are staging a mass sickout refusing to work and protest against the tech giant's handling of the coronavirus it comes after a planned on line about to discuss experiences was cancelled when those behind it were abruptly fired the warehouse workers and the track worse there is such a divide the. groups are completely siloed and apparently extremely intentionally so and the minute that a member of our group sends out and asians 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 polled in his calendar so who censorship silencing

and firing. amazon has fired 6 workers in recent weeks who had called for better safety conditions in the pen demick 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 employees 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 tracking employees they suspect or trying to as 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 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 what just pandemic is showing are the incredible inequities in the us 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 at stake we live in a very. sattar capitalist society where there. is only. now it's. even approved of in the press. political leaders even though it's illegal. hundreds of workers are jerusalem's bigot outdoor market are demanding equality and justice after they were left out of measures is in lockdown restrictions are or how 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 market to be amongst those businesses and one of the signs at the entrance to the markets is i hear my neighborhood and this is in reference to the fact that i keep the 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 have worked hard to open the mohan to you know who to market and i'm sure there is no reason other complexes are open and it is not i 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 in amongst these it is allowing group is having a select on the economy and any people who are outside not wearing a mosque are fine how is that many israelis are still angry and frustrated that these measures are not enough to ease the situation. and on a lighter note as 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 or a russian archipelago in the arctic a region where temperatures regularly plunge to minus 50 degrees celsius in winter a drop was said to be a test for new parachutes navigation systems and extreme conditions.

here at r t we're cutting back on personnel in an effort to help find the spread of the crown of virus to the top the hour r t u k will be taking over and you can always head to our website in the meantime for up to the minute reports keep well wherever you may be.

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night after attention we're going underground on the day of another shuttle julian assange court appointment as the founder of wiki leaks continues to be jailed by u.k. authorities at a london prison struck by coronavirus coming up on the show how did it come to this and why is britain one of the worst hit countries by coronavirus is boris johnson's conservative government looks set to adopt more and more socialist policies we investigate how margaret thatcher's arguable destruction of british society continues to ravage education and culture around the world being of the british people and how we can fix it plus does the child of u.k.

civil rights leader office cargill hold the key to a cuban future for our national health service all the civil coming up in today's going underground the 1st european mainstream media has downplayed alleged corruption in the removal of the leader of western europe's largest socialist movement not that it stopped jeremy corbett in parliament continuing to ask questions about coronavirus that while his new need is against ahmed threatens court action against anyone publishing a leaked 850 page anti semitism document suggesting his allies conspired to lose a u.k. general election on his pay tribute very briefly to all those health workers care workers delivery workers street plane as cleaners and so many other groups all over the country doing such an incredible job together with all of volunteers to deal with this crisis i think it's an amazing moment in this country's history however parliaments job is to hold the government to account and the question one of us is .