the government of new york lashes out over a lack of federal funding to fight coronavirus new york city remains the hardest hit by the pandemic. facing starvation government workers in bangladesh run the risk of infection in factories across the nation as over 2000000 involved in the industry there on the verge of losing their jobs from. chinese media campaigns australia to chewing gum. echoes u.s. concerns over the corona virus outbreak and demands an investigation into its origin. with the focus very much on one disease experts in the u.k.

warn of a spike in cancer related deaths as patients seek treatment suspended over the threats of coronavirus. hello there live from moscow just here in the capital very welcome with us on r.t. international. and begin with the latest figures on covert 19 the global pandemic is still raging the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has now surpassed 3200000 more than a 1000000 people have recovered the number of fatalities though has also risen to more than 228000. with over a 1000000 infected across the united states it's new york that seen the worst of

the covert 19 pandemic almost 20000 victims so far have left funeral homes overwhelmed in one recent case over 100 bodies were found that in refrigerated truck discovered because of the smell the economy is reeling to new york has been calling for urgent help from other regions it seemed government to lash out at senators claiming the federal government is ignoring the plight of democratic states. picks up the story. today in new york governor andrew cuomo in a political fight with washington this is now turning into a. political brawl on state and local funding the governor pleading for help from the federal government to pay for things like unemployment in testing a move that has drawn fierce criticism from senators like mitch mcconnell and bricks got the governor taking aim at the 2 senators today at his daily press conference senator mitch mcconnell you are barreling out of new york where

every year you take out more from the cutie the federal part 37000000000 dollars more than you put in who's been laying out who. senator scott florida you're going to bail us out you take out $30000000000.00 more every year than you paid. how do they are they this has testing in new york for kovan 1000 and antibodies are rolling out across the state you have to i'm 40 patients lining up at urgent care facilities and testing sites for those tests so i'm waiting hours at the antibody natural that i carry and i get sick again for i don't know how long but that's a good friend that. i'm on i go through recovery as officials ramp up testing in the state city officials say 1st responders and medical staff are priority we are

now showing a plan to reach 150000 of our heroes and give them this antibody testing to give them that knowledge that peace of mind and will stay at home orders are still in place in new york thousands are ignoring that mandate large crowds packing public parks to watch u.s. fighter jets fly over the state to honor health care workers on the front lines and in brooklyn hundreds of orthodox jews crowded the streets for a funeral service police called to break up the dense crowds mayor bill de blasio outraged issuing a fierce warning on twitter saying my message to the jewish community and all communities is simple the time for warnings has passed i have instructed the n.y.p.d. to proceed immediately to summons or even a rest of those who gather in large groups this is about stopping the disease and saving lives period now officials continue to urge residents to simply stay home and help battle they have been faced with especially as they move into the warmer

months but it is important to note that all of new york is working its way down with her we are still seeing around a 1000 new coronavirus hospitalizations per day a clear sign that this is far from over reporting from home in new york trinity chavez r.t. . i mean one america's vice president has come under fire for ignoring a strict policy at the mayo clinic that scientific research held by the united states my parents tried to shrug off the incident saying he takes regular tests and that mosques i needed for those infected as vice president of the united states i'm tested for the crown a virus on a regular basis and everyone who is around me is tested for the corona virus and when the c.d.c. issued guidelines about wearing a mask it was their recognition that people that may have the corona virus could prevent the possibility of conveying the virus to someone else by wearing a mask and since i don't have the corona virus i thought to be

a good opportunity for me to be here to be able to speak to these researchers these incredible health care personnel and look them in the eye and and say thank you mike pence appeared to be the only person there flouting mosque rules that a discussion on coronavirus testing and research at the mayo clinic strict guidelines them on everyone to maintain proper protective measures larry king host of politically the vice president is setting the wrong example. it would give him have is that he's afraid fearful that trump would not like it because you know there's this sort of a macho government we have and it would look bad for him to wear a mask but it was a terrible example to set for people when you're telling people where a mask on your vice president does not wear a mask each archdale bows that's fine in fact someone told me that it's more important when you going into a building for you to wear a mask than the person in the building. because you will carry the virus into the

building so for him not to not do a mask is on his reasoning that he gets checked every so often was poorer. well as tertiary industries such as the knock on effects leaving tens of thousands of workers on the other side of the world without jobs is reportedly seen british retailers care's only 2 and a half 1000000000 pounds worth of contracts with factories in bangladesh and then the country into a deep crisis bangladesh is one of the top garment exporters in the world with the clothes making industry in the country already hit with around $3000000000.00 in losses it's predicted almost 32000000 workers are on the verge of unemployment about half of the industry's entire workforce there earlier this week the government reopened about 600 factories in a bid to boost the economy and prevent hunger strikes however many still fear the

risks of getting infected by covert 19 are too high despite the measures being taken. i will their office and my duty is to ensure the guidelines for the health and safety of workers to this regard me and my medical team along with h.r. representative i make an hourly observation he says that we have a range to random camera checks by a doctor as. we heard from the regional field director for the workers' rights consortium who believes that brian's need to change the way they do business in bangladesh. and bangladesh garment workers will be certainly disproportionately affected by the crisis these are workers who are already earn poverty wages and in the absence of social social security protections they and the country as a whole face a humanitarian crisis unlike any other workers across bangladesh are already on able to buy food for themselves and their families again we're talking about a workforce that has never enjoyed wages high enough to be able to save and a country that provides virtually no social protections without

a paycheck workers and their families will starve unfortunately the crisis now is revealing many of the industry's biggest flaws brands were able able to cut and run from existing and completed orders with virtual impunity leaving suppliers with no means of paying workers for completed work much less pay in the future to avoid these sort of knock on effects in the future would require brands to drastically transform the way they do business in the sourcing countries they would have to for example commit to paying more for their goods and make sure that that money is actually ending up in the pockets of workers they would also have to commit to long term relationships with the supplying factories and on the national level the countries like bangladesh would need to establish strong social protections to support workers in times of crisis like this. it seems patience is wearing thin for many years nations time to look to economic strife for a while now of struggle officials of laws that attack on china calling for an investigation into the growth of. so skewed sailor takes

a look at the potential winners and losers from the global blame game. turns out politics is just a playground for grown ups close friendships out quickly grudges are held and things aren't going well fingers get pointed take a stranger and china they got a bit of a falling out after us traded tim on to international probe into how tos we ended up with a virus that's killed more than 200000 people so far i think it is incumbent upon china to answer those questions and to provide the information so that people can have clarity about exactly what happened because we don't want it to be repeated now on the other side the pay ground china us back accusing a stranger of unhelpful political shenanigans he the for the so-called independent review proposed by the australian side is political maneuvering in essence it will disrupt international cooperation in fighting and goes against people shared

aspiration as such a critical juncture it is highly irresponsible to resort to political motivated suspicion and accusation when we advise the australian side to put aside ideological bias am political games the thing with children though and it turns out that politicians too is that once they get an idea into their head they find it very hard to let go the issues around the coronavirus are issues for independent review and i think it is important that we do that in fact to start you will absolutely insist on that now with any pay ground squirrel that comes a point where our war of words isn't enough so the ante has upped and someone goes in for a little not i think in the long term if the mood is going from bad to worse people will think why should we go to such a country that is not so friendly to china the tourists may have 2nd thoughts but the parents of the students would also think whether this place is not so friendly even hostile whether this is the best place to send their kids here it is up to the

people to decide maybe the ordinary people will say why should we drink australian wine eat us trail and. if and when a particular side is on a roll and feels the odds are at its face that it gets its friends in on the action too and who better than a friend whose business is to reach out and grab attention and who has a way with words australis over that they are making trouble it's a bit like chewing gum stuck on this of china's shoes sometimes you have to find a stone to rub it off turns out though that infant taunts the threat of court wine and decaying meat still wasn't enough to sway a straight straw it will do what's in our interest in the garble interest and we will course continue to support. moves to ensure there is a proper independent assessment now while also might be entertained by this to ing and fro ing the point is this is not a playground and the stakes are not whether you get a new toy or not china is the straightest largest trading partner with over 30

percent of the country's exports heading to beijing where it might seem a lot the street is full she has really relies on china smiling down on it just take the education sector alone where around 30 percent of university students a chinese if they stop coming so will the toy de $12000000000.00 every year and that's sad to me wouldn't be a need for those $50000.00 plus university lecturers and tutors when the classes are half empty so with jobs and economic prosperity on the line it's little wonder there are some who are not paying attention to the squabbling and doing business as usual. while all the efforts are being put into bottling covert 19 in england could claim thousands of additional lives through the lack of diagnostics treatment according to new research starting from tuesday britain is set to restore vital services including cancer care which has mostly been put on hold during the pandemic artie's partridge report. britain could soon face another health care

crisis not corona virus but a consequence of it scientists predict 18000 more people in the u.k. could die of cancer in the next year deaths from new cases in england could rise by a 5th or one expert has a grim prognosis about the overall number of deaths caused by the disruption of cancer services during the pandemic this is likely to outweigh the number of deaths from the corona virus itself over the next 5 years cancer treatment in hospitals has been put on hold to make room for covert 19 patients last month attendance for chemotherapy dropped by as much as 60 percent and cancer referrals by doctors are 76 percent lower but descent of the public wouldn't seek help at all during the pandemic if they suspected they had cancer as experts fear people aren't coming forward cancer treatment hasn't stopped but we have seen a big reduction in the number of people coming forward and we'd like to reverse

that because the system is open for business experts also warn other in direct death such as heart attacks could mean a total exceeding those of the virus itself while the national health service also faces a backlog of procedures that could cost $3000000000.00 pounds to work through after canceling $2000000.00 operations i think that it will take us many years to get back to a good position we need more operating theatre facilities we need more birds we have to keep the independent sector girl when we may need to rely on keeping some of the nightingale hospitals open so far over 26000 people in the u.k. have died from coronavirus they want to stay health secretary matt hancock revealed urgent n.h.s. treatment for cancer and other real nurses will soon be working as usual because hospital admittance from coburg 19 complete the exact pace of the restoration will be determined by local circumstances on the ground according to local need and according to the amount of the coronavirus cases that the. that hospital is having

to do with ministers are now considering moving many coronavirus patients to britain's near mt nightingale wards to make the u.k.'s permanent hospitals free while the message for people who suspect they have cancer is still the same go and see your doctor we have got the facilities to treat people cancer can be a much bigger danger than coronavirus and we'd much rather see people with cancer is at an early stage the effect of coronavirus in the u.k. can't just be measured on daily death tolls there's also the a measurable cost in terms of bereavement and social and economic hardship but with the peak of the pandemic only just here the long term effects on the u.k.'s health could yet be worse kate partridge r.t. loved. r.t. spoke to carole sykora college just on the dean of medicine at the university of buckingham he stressed the importance of starting to prioritize those in need of urgent treatment. 1st of all people stay away because that's right and stay home

protect the n.h.s. save lives that's been the slogan for the last month that petrified to go to the g.p. that would get them into the diagnostic pathway operated surgeons have been idle for the last few months everything's been on risk risp are actually control there until age a sweet scan intensive care and so on so we've got a whole cohort of cancer patients from april that haven't been diagnosed yet they're going to be diagnosed hopefully in may we're moving round to that now and then they'll come on the last 2 or 3 months worth of patients all need surgery radiotherapy chemotherapy so prioritizing them getting through the system is really the key. to most of our the international still ahead an order from the u.s. president has got some fearful of creating new infection all spots with thousands of workers already confirmed this having been 19 that's already plenty more for you after this break.

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a marathon there are $200.00. trees or 200 participants in this. and a question we should take any place out to save lives and companies because it's a matter of saving both. stranded and denied entry to a number of caribbean countries so you've got a cruise ship finally managed to dock off cuba a lot of call burma has been stuck at sea for more than a week with 5 confirmed cases of private 19 on board it was carrying around $700.00 passengers at the time we heard from one of the. life on the ship was pretty normal for the 1st week the passengers were not really worried at that stage because we didn't feel that there was any threat to us from coronavirus given the

fact the those at best tested positive were isolated we felt that there was some overreaction on this we it's not as if we had a lots of positive tests because 19 on board we haven't had the ones that had tested positive were been isolated after realize that there was no ports in central america or paws willing to accept us in the west indies there was realisation that we could run out of medicines i've an idea that we might be running short of water i think most people that point felt the holiday to all intents and purposes at finished we were going to go to anywhere else on our itinerary and that the passengers felt we really wanted to get home and how we were going to get how were we going to get. after reaching cuba passengers were then transferred back to the u.k.

by plane and they remained grateful for the warm welcome as those on board started to fear the worst. i was surprised that not even any british commonwealth. countries or protectorates in an area were willing to let us dock in the end cuba agreed that we could dock their disembark and flights would be arranged to take us home so the silent relief then once we realized that cuba was letting us disembark i can't say enough about how welcome they made us feel ok i mean they they took their own protection there and me when we docked there was that dock workers were all wearing personal protection equipment but it was a very efficient operation to get us all disembarked from the ship there was lots of buses there to take us to the airport. we were processed through or quite efficiently and the cubans leave him left

a small little gifts on the bus and some souvenirs and so on. i can't speak more highly about the way that we were treated by the cuban authorities i thought i thought that they were very very kind to us i think everybody was very grateful to the cuban authorities for their hospital hospitality and enabling us to get home. donald trump has given the order for meat production they may not have stakes the rally all to prevent consumer shortages that despite thousands of workers in facilities already falling ill the coronavirus kayla morgan has this report. the pandemic is presenting tough choices for the u.s. economy either keep the factories closed to protect the workers or open them up and potentially put the staff at risk now at this point the u.s. government has ordered the meat industry to stay open because they say it is

essential it is important the process is of beef pork and poultry meat and poultry in the food supply chain continue operating and for filling orders to ensure a continued supply of protein for americans tyson foods incorporated the biggest u.s. meat processing company ran ads saying that the food supply chain was broken shortly afterwards a ruling mandated that meat processing facilities remain open as pork beef and chicken plants are being forced to close even for short periods of time millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the supply chain as a result so there will be limited supply of our products available in grocery stores until we are able to reopen araf a cities that are currently closed now all of this seems well and good until you look into the reasons why the meat processing plants were closed in the 1st place meat processing facilities have the potential to become infection sites in fact many facilities were not providing workers with needed supplies like gloves and

face masks at this point thousands of meat processing workers had already become infected with the coronavirus trumps order mandating that these facilities stay open could be putting the public at risk people should never be expected to put their lives at risk by going to work if they can't be assured of their safety they have every right to make their concerns heard by their employers these concerns are not being addressed everyone agrees that keeping the economy rolling a head is absolutely necessary but at what cost caleb martin r.t. new york. we spoke to political analysts that go to libby who thinks that consolidating meat production in the u.s. will only deteriorate the health crisis we have an economy that values cutting costs so that they're in a moment. you know wants to get as much product out there wants to get as much done with the lowest possible cost so things like protective equipment things like different regulations to protect workers will just be seen as

a cost override in the united states they have a few company is like tasting much control the majority of the direction of meat in this country so now that just a few say it's going offline this has a huge ripple effect throughout the economy and only this that i chains meat production all over the country so i think it really shows the vulnerability of our supply chains especially ones that are still conglomerated controlled by just a few hatters we would really have to question the basics of the capitalist system that we have a state. clearly isn't doing all it can supervise the people. for all its own course to begin easing its looked out in may with a country still far from returning to normal a one aspect the french culture feels it's facing a different kind of core a team charlotte delved deeper. as well as restaurants and cafes not being given

the right to be a just yet that will also be the same for france's big cultural centers soon see in the it isn't present with all the remain closed and that is irritating sound for theaters like mine we planned 2 years in advance unfortunately we cannot reopen like the opening of a clothing store or restaurant all of a sudden we are one of the all the sectors where we know nothing we are told nothing but the creative industries are big business here in france not only do they help drive tourism and the money that they train is not to be sniffed that sextape he said he grew with around to produce 3 percent of the entire. france that is the same as the street and 7 times that the automotive industry during the lockdown ballet dances from the paris opera have been keeping

themselves busy finding that own way of. saying they've released this. was. was alright. so while the dance isn't doing everything they can to stay in shape at home the problem is what do you really want to be doing is performing in front of the audience so in for us is important to start ratio sin into snow we do it because we're already in this to do so again yes so many of his liberal groups were the most important for the garden so as do the world we have to be able to dance i'm sure it is done such as they will do anything good is necessary for the dance

and if we caught. or months specially for if your soul some form because i think it's it's it's not the brown well the french government has offered to put its hand in its pockets to help the creative industries what's really concerning is that many within there since she say that it won't be enough to stop someone from folding and there was a study that was carried out by a french trade organization this is the professional committee of ox garrison expands that around that may have to be toast in 2020 as a result of what's going on now while many people are locked out of sam's salles called and that has been made available for museums around the world there is also concerned that she could have an impact. on what the un has described as being an already fragile cultural industry which should be much more measured to cost over counter-argue have to prove that there is a special need it is hard to quantify the consequences as this is happening but

this sector is in deep distress culture is really part of the heart of frantic it pumps through the entire country finance people together and there is a real fear that this pandemic could seriously impact that up next are to documentary brings you the invisible class exploring perceptions of homelessness in america back in 30 minutes with the latest.

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