i. the governor of new york lashes out over a lack of federal funding to 5 coronavirus says new york city remains the hardest hit by the pandemic. facing starvation government workers in bangladesh run the risk of infection in fact the reason cross the nation has over 2000000 involved in the industry there are on the verge of losing their jobs. in raids trying to ease media compares australia to chewing gum stuck on a shoe beijing threatening to did short straight imports as canberra demands an investigation into the corona virus outbreak and its origin. and with the focus

very much on one disease experts in the u.k. one of the spike in cancer related deaths says patients seek treatment suspended over the covert 90. 5 from moscow just gone 3 pm here in the capital thanks for staying with us and out international. now we start 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 1000000 of those have recovered the number of fatalities though has also risen to more than 2 128000. now with over a 1000000 infected across the u.s. it's new york that seen the worst of the covert 90. it almost 20000 victims so far

have left funeral homes overwhelmed in one recent case over 100 bodies were found in under a fridge waited truck discovered because of the smell the economy's reeling to new york has been calling for urgent help from all the regions seen governor cuomo lash out at senators claiming the federal government has been politicized and where it's focused help tradition 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 gut the governor taking aim at the 2 senators today at his daily press conference sen 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 into 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 cannot get sick again for i don't know how long but that's a good friend that. i'm on i go to 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 they have been faced with especially as they move into the warmer months but it is important to note that although new york is working its way down to her

we are still seeing around a 1000 new coronavirus hospitalizations per day a clear sign that this is far from over reporting from high. any you were trying each other's art. i mean while america's vice president has come under fire for ignoring a strict mosque policy at the mayo clinic that's the scientific research in the u.s. mike pence tried to shrug off the incident saying it takes regular tests and it masks are needed for those infected as vice president of the united states untested for the chrono 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 i don't have the coronavirus i thought to be a good opportunity for me to be here and to be able to speak to these researchers

these incredible health care personnel and look them in the eye and and say thank you. my parents appear to be the only person they're flouting mosk rules that a discussion on coronavirus testing and research in mayo clinic strict guidelines them on everyone to maintain proper protective measures and larry king host of political says the vice president is setting the wrong example. guests are going to have is that he's afraid and 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 channeling people were a mask and your vice president is not were maskey church gobos that's fine in fact someone told me that it's more important when you going into a building. so you were married to the persian in the building. because you will carry the virus into the building. for him not. only his reasoning

he gets checked every so often was was poor. tertiary industry suffers the knock on effect is leaving tens of thousands of workers on the other side of the world without jobs it's reportedly seen british retailers cancel needed 2 and a half 1000000000 pounds worth of contracts with factories in bangladesh plans in the country into a deep crisis of bangladesh was 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 predicted that over 2000000 workers are on the verge of unemployment about half 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 fear that the risks of getting infected by covert too high and despite the measures being taken.

i will go overseas and my duty is to ensure the guidelines for the health and safety. to this regard and he is my medical team along with h.r. representatives i meet in our observation and he says that we haven't reached the room temperature checks by doctors. or we heard from the regional feel the rocks are 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 earned 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 unable 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 protection. without a paycheck workers and their families will starve unfortunately the crisis now is revealing many of the industry's biggest flaws brands were you 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 the 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 of those countries then to look down on economic strife when i was strolling officials have launched an attack on china calling for an investigation into the coronavirus so if you look at the potential winners and losers from the global blame do. 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 this traded tim on to the international probe into how much his we ended up with a fine rest 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 to be repeated now on the other side of 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 that pandemic and goes against people shared aspirations 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 that head they find it very hard to let go of the issues around the coronavirus 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 anti 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 industry and beef and when a particular side is on a roll and feels the odds are

a bit space 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 the soul of china's shoes sometimes you have to find a stone to rub it off turns out though that infantile taunts the threat of court wine and decaying meat still wasn't enough to sway a straight strike 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 it 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 are

chinese if they stop coming so will that toy do $12000000000.00 every year and that certainly wouldn't be a need for those $50000.00 plus university lecturers and shooters 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 school building and doing business as usual. while all the supporters of battling covert 19 in england could claim thousands of additional lives through to a lack of diagnostics and treatment that's according to new research by university college london health research hub starting for tuesday of the restore vital services including cancer care which has mostly been put on hold during the pandemic ortiz portraits reports. 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 of 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 it's not just treatments that have been affected an n.h.s. england survey found 10 percent 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 cancelling 2000000 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 go 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 haas 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 suspects 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 much rather see people with cancer is at an early stage the effect of coronavirus in the u.k. cannot just be measured on daily death tolls there's also the a measurable cost in terms of where we've met 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. london. r.t. spoke to carole sykora an oncologist and the dean of medicine at the university of buckingham in the u.k. you 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 3 p. h. that would get them into the diagnostic pathway operate 2 thirds as have been idle for the last month so everything's been on respond to control there until a bittersweet 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 related therapy chemotherapy so prioritizing them and getting them through the system is really the key to this is art international still ahead an order from the us president has got some more fearful of creating new infection all spots with thousands of workers already confirmed. just having to cope with 19 story but the more for you after this short break.

you've heard me often speak of the black hole of debt that is where all the debt the universe and. after it leaves a central bank balance sheet and it's a cosmic force pulling the g.d.p. of the world down now or even wipe all of the debt as i am a fellow straining with this white piece of cardboard the white for dead is on the other side of deep black hole and in an era of negative interest rates and negative oil prices we have to call rising our concept to debt hole from black to white makes sense and of course. this is like a horse race it's like a marathon there are $200.00. or 200 participants

in this marathon and a great. place now to save more lives and companies because the 2 member of saving. the program stranded denied entry to a number of caribbean countries a u.k. cruise ship finally managed to dock off cuba liner called burma has been stuck at sea for more than a week 5 confirmed cases of covert on board it was carrying around $700.00 passengers at the time we spoke to one of them. 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 that the best tested positive were isolated we felt that there was some

overreaction on this we it's not as if we had 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 ports 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 cousin just felt we really wanted to get home and how we were going to get how were we going to get. off the reaching queue were passengers were then transferred back to the u.k. by plane they remain grateful for the warm welcome as those on board had 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 there 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 well can 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 and we were processed through the air 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 to get home . the lot from powers given the order for meat production in the united states the rally on to prevent consumer shortages at this point thousands of workers in facilities already falling ill to the coronavirus or more been written into the store. 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 processes 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 our facilities 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 get 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 at hand is absolutely necessary but at what cost haleb martin r.t. new york we spoke to a political analyst at the cove the lady who thinks that continuing meat production is at its current right at least will only deteriorate the health crisis. we have an economy that values cutting costs for the bear in a moment and 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 and things like different regulations to protect workers will just be seen as

a cost override in the united states they have a few companies like tasting hard i'll each control the majority of the direction of me in this country so now that just a few sites are going offline this has a huge ripple effect throughout the economy and over this that supply 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 the united states. clearly isn't doing all it can supervise the people it's the. wrong side its own cost to begin easing it's looked on a maple the country still far from returning to normal i want to speak to french culture feels it's facing a different part of koran to show the reports. well as restaurants and cafes not

being given the right to create the 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 the sector is said she grew with around to produce 3 percent of the entire. france that is the same as the food industry and 7 times that the autumn into the street during the long down ballet dancers from the paris opera have been keeping

themselves busy finding that own way of still dancing 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 a ratio sin and to snare and to do it because we're already in this to do so and slowly again yes i mean he was a little groups the most important for the garden so as to do the will do before to be able to dems should have done such as they will do anything good is necessary for the dance and if we covered. or mosque specially for if you're still some form

because i think it's it's it's not a broad well the french government task 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 some from folding and there was a study that was carried out by the french trade organization this is the professional committee of ox garrison expand 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 you could have an impact. on what the un has described as being an already fragile cultural industry which should be much more measured to customer counter-argue have to prove that there is a special need it is hard to quantify the consequences and this is happening but

the sector is in deep distress culture is really part of the heart of frantic it pumps through the entire country by means people together and there is a real fear that this pandemic could seriously impact that white house as accused of stealing p.p. supplies from states that store and more up next the water norks so we're back in 30 minutes with the latest headlines through the.

time after time called her ration to repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important it's accelerating transitions to sustainable transport sustainability stay number man at a more equitable and sustainable well. they claim that production is completely hama's. it's. companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away there's a 2nd eldest going to mean and i mean look. the sun will be doing the nieminen and strengthen them and understood this is going in.