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today the latest weapon coupled with the fighting skill of the american soldier stand ready on the alert all over the world to defend this country the american people old off against aggression this is the big picture now to show you part of the big picture here is sergeant stuart wait. the privilege of serving the united states and uniform is no longer limited to a man. that you please by the women's army koran taking this grooming and feminine grace is one of the 1st lessons learned by the recruit. there were demands that would require of her perfect physical health to stamp out. what.

i'm sure you've all heard the saying there's a right way a wrong way and the army way. that i'm this is on the other hand are getting richer and part of it is going to. run the dreaded mondays model but prior to. that. there. was no contact turn right in 150 with the farm found helicopter hanging on your every word it doesn't matter

whether you're a man or a woman only that you have. the time comes. i. shall psychedelic just stop 2nd guessing yourself it's a lot of work it's time to take it it's just so. there was a waiting list for the navy over a year and i knew i didn't wait that long so i had a friend to me about the coast guard and i went to the coast guard and they said that they could get me in within a month so. i said ok. i tried college and. i had. good job but as endured and and these texas i bought my

own little house and the military was something i always wondered do i come from military family i was always taught that it's every citizen's duty to join the military if you can you should and so i i want to go ahead and join and start a career. i enjoy the air force i was 17 years old i had a boyfriend that encouraged me to go in so that's why he didn't give you permission to go. when i was in high school i was impressed with the marines but i had met a colonel that used to run laps around the track after soccer practice and he cited he'd be perfect for the marine corps because they are really smart and that's what the marine corps needs the professionalism the camaraderie everything about it inspired me. after i graduated high school i left for orlando florida which was the 1st time i was ever on an airplane and

a life. initially it was just wanting to go see the world because i'm from a really small town i had a college scholarship to go play basketball but i instead opted to go into the military. you know what i chose to do. i come from a long line of military when we had somebody from every generation on both sides of the family all the way to of revolutionary war i had served in the armed forces and i chose the marine corps because no one in my family had ever done it. well of putting on a uniform every day and you know just getting out there and giving it my all and it's a very proud feeling. that i would have done for camp and it was create the cooler ottery that discipline everything. it taught you who

i wanted to be that's what they taught you there. obviously was different and taken a shower with different people all of a sudden. but disagree experience i was a sailor every single report on me was excellent grades i knew what i needed to do in my job i was a great team leaner. i really enjoyed the whole challenge of it i got several different awards and. it was mainly men love that i could blend in and keep up with the guys and work as hard as. the new economy was challenging and education was talk not my senior year i was selected to be one of the top 30 leadership positions by the company great officers there. after basic i went to the name of security group alaska i remember getting there you know issued a parka set up in my room and then he took me to the bar which was in her barracks

and set down in a table were was me and about 10 other guys. and you know kind of felt like a piece of meat on a slab at that point and i never wanted to turn around and leave so much of my life that i couldn't. yeah yeah. i. did. i met corey december 17th of 2007 i was on watch when she got to the station and. just blew me away when she walked in. right. order ok thank you. the command told us that she was coming then there were some issues but we didn't none of the crew knew exactly what had happened and i didn't

find out. for a long time. i was stationed in saginaw michigan. i was the only female in my section. i had a supervisor. to the place where i get calls at 3 o'clock in the morning and he or telling me to come get him and i'm like i can't i'm bad and he would then threaten me. i'd walk in from training and he'd be sleeping in my bed. when we went to one of the higher ups the chain of command they were all like his his drinking buddy and they told me just because i didn't like somebody they were going to switch me away from this guy. it was in the evening around taps and. he had unlocked the door and he'd come in and he had an erection and he tried to get me to touch him i took my right hand and i pushed him in the chest and started

to yell for the other guys to kind of hear me. he hit me across. the left side of my face i remember. holding the closet thinking what just happened. to my face hurt so. when we went to the command about it me and this petty officer who saw my face. they just they went away because they didn't want any kind of problems going on. a couple weeks later i needed the key to do my cleanup so i knocked on his door and he said ok yeah come on in here and here and i said no no i'm going to wait out here. and he screamed at me and he made me come in and grab my own arm. the.

and he raped me and. every thing came to a complete change. the day that i was raped i got there in february. by april i was drugged and raped for the 1st time i had like a cold or pneumonia like symptoms and so they sent me to get shut down and while i was waiting to be examined. and came in and he helped him so he said he was going to the bathroom and he came into my room and and that's when he raped me the entire time i was screaming and yelling for help and for him to stop nobody came to the door nobody came to help me and maurice cure anything they made it very very clear . if i said anything they were going to kill me. you know in then of course i didn't have anyone to go talk to because the people that were perpetrating me were the police. it was my 1st time ever and.

i had a tough time convincing myself that i'm still over. if this is happening to me you know i can only imagine surely i'm not the only one in which i found out later going through the claims process that i wasn't. it's just after 3 am i see a shadow of a human head over my body next thing you know that i'm awake and like he's on top of me pushed my legs apart and put himself on top of me and start pulling at my shirt and i wake up and that he's on top of me. he's already penetrated i was drugged i remember the sounds the smell.

of it is locked and loaded $45.00 at the base of my skull. engaged the ball so that i knew there was around chamber all i could do was continue to concentrate on breathing slam my head against the concrete wall and very forcefully had sex with me i just went to my tent pulled a sleeping bag over my head and cried myself to sleep so within the 2 week period. he raped me 5 times we got tested. i had a trick. and i was pregnant ready. he did. he rape me. 991 in congressional testimony it was estimated that 200000 women had been sexually assaulted so far in the u.s. military if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and that was you know more than

a decade ago i would say you could easily double that number and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the. u.s. military. we go to work. straight home. time after time called her ration to repeat the same mantra sustainability very important it's accelerate the transition to sustainable transport sustainability stay in her manner in more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their

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annex. i'm tired of taking all these men i just want the v.a. to fix my job. i was having the most horrible pain in my face. it was. something was wrong. the doctor came in after the x. rays and. when he hit me in my face he dislocated my jaw and both my disk forward in my face so i. really should be in my face. probably need a partial bone replacement. actually disintegrate. i've thrown a soft diet for 5 years now. i can eat the foods that i everything is potatoes chalo.

times. times. that. my dad my brother prior navy in the army national guard and. in the family

in. was excited and completely just hyped up about going and all my family was proud of me. as my biggest hero. told us of your own being taken care of and i guess that's one of the hard things that i have to accept because i told her that she would be. who's in february we got a call. one who is dying and he. rubbed his hand all over my entire body and. he said i own all of this. and i was absolutely scared didn't know what to do my dad. when the 1st thing she said.

and. i said. what happened he said i was right. and you're a virgin. because. tributes. don't ever think your. main nerve in my spine was 3 places and my hips are rotated. my title is director of military plans and personnel policy for the navy. we have specifically trained judge advocates our navy lawyers in our naval criminal investigative service those investigators are all specifically trained in sexual assault any report of a sexual assault is fully investigated in the united states navy they didn't take

care of it for a year and a half they were tracking down witnesses they had all these students that are. and they can walk them down and say hey you're only hold talking to statement and i didn't and i went through 3 investigators it was like ok i'm giving this case that's what it's sort of feel like i'm giving this case i'm going to take care of it oh well this is really want to really want to deal with it females would come up to their commanders or their and ceo's and say that they were either sexually assaulted or abused and i don't think it was taken seriously i think a lot of times a cursory investigation was done and they were basically told to just suck it up a member bring in a young service member been brutally raped and bring him to see or command and try to make sure that this girl was take care properly and this idiot. towards top crocus built milk out of time and the credibility of the witness was

called into account had the potential victim had she made claims like this in the past there was a lot of witch hunting going on i was ordered to advise a victim of her rights for false statement when i knew that she wasn't lying i was asked to bring her in advise her of her rights like a criminal and interrogate her for false statement until i got the truth out of her . what we hear again and again from soldiers who have been raped is that as bad as it was being raped what was as bad if not worse was to receive professional fratelli ation in their chosen career merely because they were raped when you report something. you better be prepared for the repercussions if a man gets accused of rape it's a setup the woman's life i could choose to report it but if i wasn't if you know if they found that what i was saying wasn't to be truthful than that i would be

reduced in rank you could lose your rate you could lose rank you could lose your school if you file a false report 'd so. do you want to file a report. with the rape everything in the 1st my friend numerate me they sound believe me they reported it 2 different times to my squad leader and he told me that there is nothing he can do about it doesn't have any proof they actually did charge me with adultery. i wasn't married he was they took me before mike my and the tank commander and he says you think this is funny and i said what do you mean his like a solid job is like what do you mean they go see the 3rd girl report rape this week even as they all in cahoots you think is a game. ok

and who are the usually take a. real. hard . i mean that's 114 months when. the v.a. . mine is new. but if we were there. this

goes everywhere with me. and this goes everywhere with me. you always have protection with jesus but sometimes you need just a little bit more. to go. it was they c of course they. they ordered they ordered a back x. ray instead of facts but here's the make up. shit of they should know you should know what's wrong with me like read my stuff and you'll see that it's my face it's not my back it's not my legs my arms it's my need to prove i don't even know what your case is even about i don't even know why waste that the gas money the trip anything it was completely a waste of time what a good veteran's day right. it's a perfect way to spend. it. because

it was an isolated duty station they were in charge and we were just like cattle. it was the 1st time i was drugged and raped i was this room where some of my friends and i only had like one or 2 drinks and when laid down it was like instantly i was not feeling well and came to having a pillow over my head in my friend. raping me. that went on repeatedly. most sex offenders are hunters just like any hunter they study their prey they study their movements we study the behaviors they study the environment. you have rapists that prey on other human beings they they stalk them they they wait until the victim is

that the most vulnerable point in time to perpetrate their crimes a lot of times the victim is somebody that the suspect is very familiar with and they're very aware of what's going on most sex offenders have this hidden persona that nobody ever sees except for the victim therefore when they're caught or if somebody reports people don't tend to believe that because they don't see the typical sex offender if it's an officer it's an officer that has had a bit chilly in the past preyed on and enlisted they would do it once they get away with it and then they think wow this was pretty easy i'm going to try to get and particularly for a savvy perpetrator to work within a relatively closed system like the military it becomes a prime. a target rich environment for a predator. what

a was discharged they moved to seattle or things got really bad. i started to lose everything. is homeless. there is the addiction to selling drugs crack a guy. 40 percent of homeless female veterans have been raped while they were surfing they spit into such depression and it appears that they can't hold jobs they can hold their lives together and they end up on the streets when i 1st saw training as a gemini and i look over and it was like the universe was like a gal. in my head i was like you are i

know there are some special of our. wow for hair when we 1st started dating it was hard. the biggest hurdle was not taking p.t.s.d. personally it does get really stressful and sort of sad to have never known for you know before and you know it shows sort of in her in her prime now she is anxious and sad a lot of. going to go i'm going to go protect even. if they come. from. my terms if i could for out doing something and you know michel be like check in like oh it's ok trina it's i have appreciative of it you know but it makes me

really sad that here's this little 11 year old boy that's watching out for my well being. it hurts you know i wanted to go away. you know and it doesn't go away. we start to at the least so you are good at each other than the men.

but on the better side going to the book when this was all that business for me just soon to sort of mean. me emotional running t.v. months ago i feel still released of course and i suppose from the course for me mrs turner who has just located or forgot still the church. will settle into her business to compassion then to me that. we think she minds be soldier dicky's also the boot she's wearing. to church so the soul looks like the moon the apostle opinion was moving like it on the shore stuck with summarizing the police force hold.

nothing back. welcoming of us from around the world live from central london this is all to u.k. . the government claims it is committed to a u.k. wide approach in tackling coronaviruses both scotland and wales insist they won't be coworkers by westminster over when to lift a block down measures will be told to a member of the scottish parliament shortly. whistle blows in british care homes claim the situation is like a p.p.p. shortages unsafe conditions in companies ignoring concerns we hear from the father of compassion in cannes the whistle blows claims. india begins repatriating its citizens as many indian students stranded in the u.k. go hungry with universities shot and killed scarce. and also the

figures show that people from black a minority ethnic backgrounds are significantly more likely to die from coronavirus even when allowing for social and economic factors into a campaign and later the. government claims it is committed to ensuring the whole of the u.k. lifts the lockdown together with both scotland and wales saying they will take action best suited to their countries it comes as the foreign secretary warns the public that any easing of measures will be incremental and slow ahead of the promises addressed to the nation this coming sunday where he will unveil the country's exit strategy because he joins me now with all the latest so we saw what happened in today's press briefing. well that daily press briefing was fronted up

by the foreign secretary dominic drug and despite what we've been hearing throughout the day really and actually throughout the course of this coronavirus crisis with different cities when it comes to the different devolved governments and their approach to tackling coronavirus as far as mr rudd was concerned any measures will be taken alongside incorporation with those other governments we are locked into the closest cooperation collaboration with the devolved administrations through cobra but also the prime minister spoke to. first ministers today he reiterated our commitment to continuing a u.k. wide approach to tackling the pandemic that even if different parts may move at slightly different speeds but i think the key thing is that those decisions are made based on the science and the circumstances for each nation prime minister on sunday will set out a road map and i think it's safe to say that any changes in the short term will be

modest small incremental and very carefully monitored and as of now there is no changes but the key thing is that we want to give a response we're in a responsible and i'm sure footed way a sense of the roadmap ahead now the prime minister has a key to twitter see tweets are asking is will the public to contain their patients and to not risk a 2nd peak perhaps the. expectation management that why the prime minister now we've been hearing from nicholas sturgeon throughout the day and of course she stated that had governments do have an exit plan in place to come out of lockdown however stressing that somehow government won't be pressured by westminster that's easy restrictions in any way and if anything they're locked up in scotland will be extended by a further 3 weeks. is my preference if possible for all 4 u.k.

nations to make changes together at the same pace because that certainly helps us give clear consistent messages to you the public however for that approach to work we must agree to make changes only when all 4 governments are satisfied that they don't risk a resurgence of the vitus and again let me be clear if the prime minister decides that he wants to move at a faster pace for england that i consider is right for scotland that is of course his right i will respect that and i will not criticize him for doing that but i hope you understand and indeed i hope you again that i must make judgments informed by the evidence that are right and safe for scotland i will not be pressured into lifting restrictions prematurely before i am a certain as i can be that we will not be risking a sargent's of infection rates. now studds his office also revealed that such

a hole was held between the leaders of the different devolved governments earlier today although not much detail was given we just know that it was a very quick call however the last government perhaps giving as well indications much like scotland that they too will dance to the beat and that they won't be pressured by westminster in to make the decisions which at the end of the day revolve around public health are not part of those devolved powers we've been hearing from the wash government education minister casti williams who says that schools and wells won't be opening on the 1st of june regardless of what happens in the rest of the united kingdom. you will always hear directly from me on the decisions we make in wales for our pupils parents and school staff ahead of the weekend i can confirm 3 things with you firstly the situation the schools in wales will not change on june the 1st in the meantime those of you who are critical

workers and need to use schools or hubs for your children then you should continue to do so. and in addition to the scot who are also expecting the northern irish executive to be also discussing measures and to release those in due course and it's a how does the prime minister think the lockdown will be lifted. so we're expecting bars johnson to address the country on sunday and in that speech he will be after similarly revealing some details as to how the public will be allowed to perhaps a have some restrictions lifted on them and how the government intend to go forward now we can have a look at some of what we could expect the prime minister to say they include continuing to encourage people to observe social distancing rules while also encouraging people to wear face masks of course that could put strains on the supply chain for the n.h.s. who are trying desperately to get those pieces of equipment we could also see the

government encouraging in allowing unlimited exercise outdoors as it currently stands members of the public are allowed to leave the house once a day for that they exercise because a seat sunbathing being allowed and employees returning back to their workplaces towards the end of may and the beginning of june the government that could allow primary school children back to the classroom with priority given to year 6 to aid their transition to secondary school regarding secular schools we could also see then reopening as well and also the government pursuits possibly allowing gatherings of less than 30 people to gauge a small team sports and so on and so forth. we could also see pubs bars and restaurants getting the go ahead to open again strict social distancing rules that have to be in place within those establishments while we've seen the premier league

meeting repeatedly to try to figure out when they can restart their season we've seen ideas about the summer being floated but the government potentially allowing football to restart in october however it will still be without fans whenever it starts so in other words games be right behind closed doors now the office of national statistics a douche and announcer they'll be publishing estimates of the prevalence of coronavirus amongst the public next week and that could give the country a better idea of exactly how many people have actually constructed codes at 90 in the united kingdom he said thank you very much indeed for all of that while the for more on the divisions within the home nations on lifting lockdown i'm not joined by a member of the scottish parliament and former cabinet secretary for health addicts neil thank you very much for being with us now as a former cabinet secretary for health how would you know if the lockdown. well the

1st thing is that when you looked at her the whole matter because we're not ready to lift it because the real infection rate is still through our eye i suspect for the united kingdom sort of force condition has to be that the re infection rate as well but on that effort they had to open a 2nd. needs to be a much bigger test and treat ogram in place before substantially lifting the law because the key to success in the course for phase one so termination where you start to is a lot done is having a very robust and fairly comprehend so taste and tracing and isolations 5 digit and program and that's not as well up and running across the u.k. as it needs to be so these would be prerequisites in mind here before you could have any substantial easing of the research and when the time comes you see if it when that time has arrived should all of the u.k.

come out of lockdown at the same time. well not as of asylum because things are going to be different i mean the geography and the distribution of population is very different in the 4 country the 4 nations that make up the united kingdom i mean one of the big problems done southers is the the new softly and only problem really stuck in a big scale in the uki predictably was in london when you're governor the high density of population and other parts of the country you've got a relatively more density of population so i and my buring can be some the the years shouldn but i think on the fundamental and the big picture that it does better if we all move instead so we don't have a big changes and spec'd of legal relaxations that could impact the africa both negatively in the country that big sources say and the likes asians as well as

to the other countries because unless you start trouble between england and wales wales and scotland scotland and england then clearly they are figures are going to be to some extent entered dependent because cheap if people are allowed to travel freely only for example they clearly have people carrying the infection as the trouble or that can have an impact or they are fager in parts of any one of the nations and with nicholas sturgeon seemingly going in alone on this some many might suspect that the s.m.p. is there some paper to kill or obviously the whales has a slightly different view too from westminster but yes m.p. perhaps is using this to score political points what would you say to them oh the 1st minister here that absolutely clear the criteria for making the sessions is entirely and always related to public health bottles i think any politician and any one of the nations who started playing politics was such a serious public health crisis we very quickly. the wrath of the public in quite

rightly saw their decisions have to be made purely on ports right for each nation in relation to their public health clearly there has to be cooperation and need to get any of coordination but that doesn't mean to see that we can't have slight changes between different countries that's not going to be a catastrophe i mean i'm going to example of that was for the 1st minister of scotland and the hawley of large meetings beyond 500 people arrived at the beginning before that happened in other parts of the united kingdom that was a tragedy it wasn't politically driven it was just a common sense thing to do and in fact i think most people in england were looking but wish that they had done it. and the chairman reason is we're not going to hold of maybe the level been faint parts of england will have been it's a holiday as it turned out to be alex knew we really appreciate

a time very good to talk to you today thank you for being liaison announcement. whistleblowers in british care homes of hit out of p.p.p. shortages and companies ignoring or even dismissing new concerns as the virus continues to spread it comes as compassion in kenya reports a spike in the number of calls to its anonymous helpline and released a report detailing some of the most harrowing stories. people are clapping for the n.h.s. care staff we are treated like dirt by our employers and even in the local community we are treated like lepers people have no idea how hard it is you're working with stuff you don't care or who do care but are too frightened to say anything anyone who breaks ranks they are in big trouble we have no nurses here how are we supposed to care for people we have people here who are sick they should have someone with them at least but there is not enough of us at best we have a quick look at them it feels like the only thing we are doing for people is

checking to see if they're still alive that's not care at all i could not take it any more i kept saying this is wrong the helpline operation reported over $170.00 cools from care workers since the start of the pandemic more than 100 were from residential care homes over 20 in care agencies and 42 in nursing homes it comes as the virus continues to rip through the institutions with more than 4000 deaths from corona virus in a fortnight and the number expected to rise drastically. the 1st few days i think we were all running on adrenaline then people got sick i do not know why expected but not this these people need nursing they need to be in hospital we are looking after people with no p.p. we only have gloves and they are running out i thought this company was all right until i whistle blew they said i was letting the team down moaning about this they told all the other stuff i was complaining about them that's not true i reported to

proper concerns about that people should be sent to hospital and staff were a risk with no p.p. i felt i had no choice but to leave it was so horrible. but there are no nurses here we have no p p e and the only advice is from a g.p. on a video link that's not medical care the people who are sick a really suffering they can't take a drink they need to be on a drip they are so. and they need help to breathe this is like a war zone in here they need to be in hospital i keep reporting this but i'm told leave it alone yes people have died from lack of medical care i feel so useless they won't listen to me the government says the situation is improving but compassionate care founder and author of the whistleblower report eileen chubb told me the care workers and vulnerable people have been deliberately put at risk. these workers have always understood what's needed they've been telling us this days

before the lockdown started nobody in government has been listening care workers and found little people have been deliberately put at risk in fact the only you know that should have happened should have been in care homes and the fast majority concerns about the lack of p.p.a. but also the crucial thing here is there is an official government policy to place people in care homes from hospital with cove it infected the rest of the home and people have died as a result of that policy even if the government did a u. turn there's also the fact that care staff are saying people need to go to hospital they need to be on a trip they need help to greet and this is when did this people have died in a render circumstances with no medical care whatsoever and if somebody fell in the street and they had coatbridge would you walk past them and not call for an ambulance of course you'd call for an ambulance why should people in care homes be denied this basic right you say the government isn't listening but what is also

stock in this report that is in the company's management seem to be dismissing the concerns of staff and what evidence do you have that this these companies a lot of these companies are making multi 1000000000 pound profits this is a fact there's evidence on our website please governor look you know this is a fact that we've been talking about for years you know social care is beyond the law we need to take back our care system into public ownership because if this crisis doesn't teach us that then more people will die next time and there will be a next time this was totally for seeable and you know care staff have to struggle most of the times in ordinary circumstances folk whitman of course they're not going to have that quick moment when there's a crisis on they don't have it the rest of the time. still to call. the office for national statistics puns that people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds are more likely to die from coronavirus i'll be talking to campaign.

yes ding dong the witch is dead for an extortionist private equity job is reported game changing record breaking losses as berkshire hathaway is holding company goes belly up. india has started its repatriation process with 7 flight shudra from london heathrow to bring the citizens back home after over a month of coronavirus lockdown thousands of apply but officials say only the most vulnerable will be given priority passengers will have to pay for flights and quarantine for $14.00 days upon arrival in india us many indian students stranded here in britain have little chance of affording that have already run out of cash to u.k. shut it was dusty reports. the coronavirus pandemic grounded flights around the

world and for most it means canceled holidays and business trips but for thousands of indian students here in the united kingdom unable to go home and unable to work to make ends meet it's pushed many to the brink of poverty usually when almost starving i mean we do have food supplies we didn't how did it listen planes coming in there was no milk there was not grown. the requirements for something that were not a little followers we had a lot of calls to them saying about they've got nothing to eat absolutely nothing to eat. and the students are sources here because you know what happened in new york and we all know the that rates are actually the beam. that's why it's all right so these 2 groups are really so good to go out so or you know they're going to find themselves in a complete isolation trap india banned international flights on the 22nd of march giving those approach just 2 days to find

a way home flights that usually average around $300.00 pounds jumped an $82000.00 pounds meaning students strapped for cash had neither the time no money to get themselves home there were almost $27000.00 indian students in the united kingdom in $2819.00 rendering them the fastest growing group of international students in britain and they could pay huge sums just to be here up to 38000 pounds and she wished for an undergraduate degree but charities have been flooded with the press from those who don't come from wealthy backgrounds and have relied on part time jobs during the day jobs that simply don't exist during the u.k. lockdown the indian national students association has distributed over 3600 rescue packages to those in need. to try to divide the small portion afford that they have at the moment and don't 3 different portions of the day because they cannot afford for afford at the moment there are some students also who are shouldn't depend on the park and job then that the money that they earn from the art and job to afford

for their living. so at this point of time when you haven't lost their job international students are forced to do such kind of financial struggle they are there are people who are starving at this moment on top of that many are also feeling the mental strain of isolation and uncertainty far away from their families and with the stringent lockdown in place is proving too much to handle in the middle of april it was really difficult for me to get a proper sleep i get up an editor of the night there are some students who are also under a lot of you know i mean some kind of a mental breakdown and so many women and looting. and ignore supported norheim lead north from here and it has it has caused huge problem and we we have been sent you know written emails saying that believe me help us you know otherwise we go go die labor's m.p. feeling southall. has as universities to guarantee hardship funds for international students stranded in dire situations as well as more advice and other support but

sharon sic ron who runs a small charity which usually focuses on education projects says that universities have yet to offer financial support to students to help them through the crisis and universities have not been police hard to find. and also they want no more immediate support back to. the universities or even even by the government ministers should at least consider that and reduction and also feed adoptions help well but at the moment be able to talk about hardship funds but to most of the indian students and young students who i have been in contact with more than one of them are receiving any such funds universities maintain that they are offering help to students do you need to reach out and tell them about their situation students don't always highlight their difficulties and don't contact our support team we were students who were struggling to get in contact straight away the university can provide care packages and financial support as well as help finding work. our

students support and wellbeing team is looking into the details and will offer help but with only minor changes expected the lockdown measures on the horizon many of these students will be in the same situation for weeks if not months to come alone far from home and seemingly the forgotten victims of the coronavirus crisis so to edward stashing r t u k a london. data from the u.k.'s office for national statistics shows that people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds are significantly more likely to die of coronavirus onus figures show that black males are over 4 times more likely to die of covert 19 than those of white ethnicity but females are even more at risk of the disease they are $4.00 times more likely to die the study also found that people from bangladeshi pakistani indian and other mixed backgrounds had a statistically significant raised risk of death report claims it's not just about

social inequalities these results of a difference between ethnic groups in coded 19 mortality is partly a result of socio economic disadvantage and darva circumstances but the remaining part of a difference has not yet been explained. to discuss this further i'm now joined by the director of voice for change england currently a loading couldn't thank you for being with us now these findings are startling on even even without factors such as social deprivation the still a higher risk for black a minority ethnic people. i think for many people the data confirms what people have been saying anecdotally over the loss of 4 to 6 weeks and for me. there's obviously a piece of work that needs to be done in terms of understanding as was indicated.

what aspects of this are related to social economic factors and is that a case that there are. biological differences that make certain ethnic groups more susceptible and this is not to think that it and this is right for by this is what's being elated to isn't it these other circumstances and you've met with professor kevin fenton i believe from public health england. so so what did you talk about what conclusions did you draw i think at this stage. there was show of professor fenton and his team which is the impact through public health england is to look at the data and follow where it goes and in particular. the issue of. i suppose desktop research and assembling all of the existing data relating to coverage and health inequalities is

what they're going to be looking at and he surprised me this afternoon when he made the point that they would actually be reporting back on this by the end of may which to my mind doesn't give a lot of time to the kind of other facts it is that people may want to look into so this is sounds like it's going to be very focused very tight and may need. some additional research to be done on that the suggestions from your point of you talk about additional research other factors perhaps anything that comes to mind immediately that you'll think he'll. well looking specifically at the question of disability i think we need to look at that in more depth the issue of. different strains of the virus and in particular trying to triangulate some of the research with the experience of people abroad as well and and in other parts of europe i think that requires

a time and diligence and. given the nature of this emergency i don't think they have that is down to 70 to very sure find a brief them on a pressing issue of course we need to protect black nurses and and doctors on the front line deadly. absolutely and certainly we've had calls up ways to change from this is who find themselves in situations where people sit you know remains a large issue in terms of ensuring that they are properly protected obviously you know about the care homes and what's been happening there and i think the government really needs to turn up. kind of off the burner just to get that protective equipment out there and they thank you very much we're going to talk to you on this and that's it for this hour the american will take over the top of the hour i'll be back on monday and if you're here in the u.k. have a great bank holiday but do stay for more of the same way. that

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to the capitol hill it's a lot of money and companion for you michael calling for to do you know more. greetings and sell you. in the world of us pandemic politics we are on public manipulation overdrive my friends with more than 70000 us deaths and climbing we haven't seen this kind of spin control coming out of washington d.c. since w m d's and dick cheney's iraq war and you can find no better example of this than from our very own brand name in chief u.s. president donald trump who took to the airwaves tuesday night and laid bare just who the american people are to him.