european nations slowly lifting some of the fear that it may trigger a 2nd wave of covert 19 infections a representative from the w.h.o. tells us where the people are right to be worth. more than 90 mafia bosses are arrested across italy after a spike in criminal activity comes after convicted mobsters were temporarily released from jail for the plan to stop the corona virus spreading in prisons. and a man from texas with a drug muscle wasting disease trying to get to russia before it's too late to access the only clinic offering a treatment for example. good

afternoon great to have you with us this is r.t. international. will begin with the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections is now above 4300000 more than 293000 people have lost their lives more than 1600000 have recovered. taught restrictions slowly being lifted around the world people started to think about life after lockdown walks in the park through to a possible 1st vacation expose a sodomy alarm because examples from asia show the threat of a 2nd wave of infection is very real for instance the chinese city of newark over 19 was 1st detected was one of the 1st to lift restrictions due to the success of its strict lockdown measures for the new cluster of cases recently emerged the

city's authorities are planning to test all residents in the next 10 days in a bid to stop the spread. of korea's also being praise for quickly managing the pandemic which to a large extent was due to its high level of testing the sort of from last week the country also witnessed a spike in new cases ots of linked to nightclubs and bars in the capital seoul w h o's representative to russia the lead to wean of which told me earlier how she sees the situation developing. the world health organization has been saying from the beginning we do regard to the need to ease down the laugher now. is that vigilance is needed because the virus still around us the virus is still here and it continues to. so. the measure will need to be taken into account for the new reality that we are having and that is the capacity to quickly need to act. quickly identify all the candour.

and challenging rather carriage i would say small clusters of. 4 who are locked out of society and unfortunately we believe that this is going to be sort of remember the operation until i. heard immunity reach. 1 probably a vaccine actually we still have to wait for from purely health would you preferred lockdowns to been kept for longer we learned. this is called distancing of people if people take it on their new way of living certain precautions probably we can go to a series of face is that hello. kirby. kirby verse and you know a lot of. comic life that the world needs so this is uncharted territory uncharted waters and i think jointly we have to experiment with

a lot of caution and new. behavior and i think if we get the people who are fully understanding and up to including the this is an ovation i think that the way forward rather than have is. if we see countries relaxing measures allowing people out in greater numbers together will people be able to maintain even just simple social distancing a bunch of people been stuck indoors for several months now the weather is getting good do you think people will be able to police them or will the temptation just to go back to their old way of living but to much. well that's difficult to our server but i do believe in people i am as everybody knows i'm really an optimist people are very strong they have a doctor they have. 8 color are they have all come play they have over

the past and various other diseases and i think hygiene as a matter that we have sort of forgotten in a more than well we'll get a new. and this is all this something rather than social distancing and how we can do things not being heroes like you know i'm sick to work for me. when i hear 60 high so the aged and making sure i do not infect others and also using the houses in a new way using lots of digital technology. consultation i think the world has so much songs of a lot more that we just need to know if i am the way how to use it and yes i don't believe in people i think you'll be able not to police themselves but to adapt to a new reality. italian police have arrested more than 90 sicilian mafia suspects across the country what's been dubbed a mega rate they believe mobsters are behind

a recent spike in criminal rates be taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to increase their power also comes after a number of mafia bosses were temporarily released from prison and that was part of a controversial plan to stop the spread of coronavirus and italian jails or the convicts are under supervision at home the justice minister has vowed to return them to jail as soon as possible some of the very notion of mafia bosses being allowed out of prison is unacceptable. worse than just liberating the mafia the government have put them in house arrest but in the future where they have to arrest people for years. just. me it was in the government's decision the decision was based moon total members circulated by the department of prison administration asking prison officials to list those over a certain age and with certain health conditions who might be at greater risk in case of coronavirus infection the officials were then asked to send a list to the supervisory magistrates who were in italy oversee the release of

inmates from prison by issuing that memo the department made a mistake as it didn't mention an article in the saudi and penal code that differentiates between common inmates and those in prison for serious crimes such as matthew activities and terrorism that article affords lawyers the opportunity to call for the suspension of special dispensations to prisoners with health conditions unfortunately this led to the release of some important matthew figures . were among the senior members who were released but put under house arrest was franco cataldo he was serving a life sentence for kidnapping the son of an informant one of italy's most infamous and traumatic murders the boy was held hostage for 2 years before being strangled and dissolved in acid. tensions erupted in the country's overcrowded prisons in march italy's national prisoner rights advocate as they made it action to prevent the spread of the virus into jails and included stopping family visits since then some 376 matthew members and drug dealers have been moved from jails to house

arrest he said he and 30 from the cup anetta foundation that studies the mafia believes that the move was a retreat in the fight against the mob. would you look at what they do with those who lost their loved ones in the fight against the mafia think this measure how would the victims children feel i wonder what my own daughters might have thought seeing those people set free how do i or someone from my unit be murdered by the mafia one of those nights we should always be very careful in finding the right balance between the needs of the state which would never appeared to retreat in the fight against the mafia and. needs of the citizens who probably lost someone to the mafia and who should never see. gets out of prison it's unacceptable. a man from texas with a rare disease is struggling to get to the only clinic the suffering in a potential treatment that's because it is located in russia with the current virus having shut down most borders and with his condition deteriorating he's hoping to

catch a breath flight which still exists between the 0 sum russia. and then usual disease called inclusion by. its relatively rare are probably somewhere around maybe 7 to 15 people out of a 1000000 have it in all likelihood never going to be somebody who has it and it is a disease that there is really no cure for in fact very little is known about it i was diagnosed with this at the mayo clinic in rochester minnesota in december of 2015 and it is generally it's always at the time there is nothing you can do or it or it leads alternately to complete a permanent disability or you're end up in a wheelchair or on bed rest in fact if you were to look at my hand you'll notice that my fingers don't bid anymore and that because what was left of the muscles in

my arm have atrophied to the point where i can no longer do things like you're tying my shoes got items off the ground. and also i'm very unsteady on my feet so tremendous muscle after. the disease alan spencer there suffers from is a progressive muscle disorder it causes weakness of muscles followed by as he said that atrophy sometimes like in alan's case it also affects the ability to simply swallow and it's still unclear what causes the element in the 1st place. the better call center talked about is in the russian city of peer it's known for its expertise in dealing with complex diseases instead of this studies around the lymphatic system which roughly speaking plays a vital role in the system and many forwardness favor the clinics approach.

what is so huge as to what they have come up with a treatment plan and there's been absolutely amazing doctors here one that tell you that it is amazing they will tell you it is science but for someone who has lived with pain for 25 years it is amazing so that the core issue instead of dealing with symptoms nationally knickerbockers i knew millions at the clinic works with the lymphatic system and has been working with it since its foundation actually has been treating many foreigners with difficult cases in recent years many of those who couldn't get treatment at home or those working in russia all of them are being provided with full spectrum treatment and wants to get to russia as soon as possible while they're still something for doctors to work with. although inclusion body myositis is a slow acting disease when you get to a certain point it begins to accelerate and i hit the point where i have gotten.

relatively worse since i started talking to the clinic and berm in the middle of february and so their concern is that if i lose too much muscle mass they may not have much to work with and so we were there their concern was to try and get me there as quickly as possible before i got to the point where i could no longer be health and so that was the concern we had is that with the delay. on into the future if we don't get there soon they may not have much to work with. of the millions of americans losing their jobs during the pandemic could also be bad news for the health new study reveals roughly half the u.s. population has health insurance provided by employers and $7000000.00 wouldn't have access to where the alternative if they were made jobless more pics but. in april

the united states lost roughly 20000000 jobs and a new study indicates that 43000000 americans are in danger of losing their health insurance at a time when an demick is sweeping the country and access to healthcare is more important than ever the status quo is incredibly inefficient it's incredibly unfair it's tight employment for no real reason this problem exposes a lot of the net of chrysis in our system now before the pandemic broke out roughly 160000000 americans had access to health care through their job now for those who lose their job due to layoffs they have access to health care including medicaid or the cobra law quite complicated polls show that 68 percent of americans don't know what their options would be if they lost their job when it comes to health insurance furthermore research indicates that 7000000 americans are unlikely to find a new health care plan if they lose their job who's going to pay for it last words

i'll never forget the response my patient gasped out between labor breaths to me and my team have to explain that he needs to be intubated and placed on a ventilator and this is not just bad for individuals it's bad for the health of the entire country means people not going out to seek the help they need and staying sick one out of every 7 u.s. adults report that they would have void 2nd health care for a future and a dry cough due to concerns about their ability to pay for it when framed explicitly as believing to have been affected by the novel coronavirus 9 percent still report that they would avoid seeking care left wing voices have certainly been raising the alarm when a 1000000 people lost their jobs lost. the american people do and want their health care to the employment they won't medicare for all they're in a pandemic in which millions have already lost their health insurance when they'd to be guaranteeing health care for all not taking it away lack of health care of the unemployed may also explain the desperation of some americans to end the

lockout has a. god 'd oh. my. god. it was while other countries have built up bigger welfare states the united states has long stuck to the mantra if you want things in life you've got to work for them so when a pandemic when people are actually prevented from working you can understand why the desperation and fear is rising it will happen artsy new york form acquittal president an ati host rafael correia discuss the american health crisis with pink floyd co-founder activist the new york state resident roger waters. has the new

york pandemic been a shock yet but you would expect it because there's no health service in the united states of america well there is rail service food is only for the very wealthy men in consequence they're completely unprepared really to face something like that and also they're not used to acting together as a community and in consequences it's this is hitting very very hard to expect significant changes in the past and make us well that this is the that the big question at the beginning and i hope so i mean i hope so wouldn't it wouldn't it be great this election that's coming up in the united states in november if it happens will be a great indication of. well let's not we can't we could go on to about subject it's not much of a choice frankly. germany provokes the fury of brussels after its constitutional court questions the legality of the european central bank's monetary

policy shoring up the euro zone and threaten to stop cooperation with it in the full story after the short break. on all of. the 8.

ball. or and you cannot be bold with yeah you know what i am. well germany has started to ease its border restrictions with some of its neighbors including france and austria it's not being so friendly towards everyone in europe

the country's highest court is demanding that the european central bank prove its bond buying scheme designed to bring stability to the euro zone is in fact legal otherwise threaten to stop any further money tree corporation and the movers in raise the you commission it to oliver takes a closer look at the spat. the coronavirus pandemic is putting pressures and strains on many relationships one of those that's feeling the pinch is not between brussels and when it comes to financial burden sharing in the eurozone germany's highest court said the european central bank's corona bond plan would need to prove it was fit for purpose if the single currency is largest economy was to take part the e.u. commission boss didn't like that one bit the recent ruling of the german constitutional court to put under the spotlight to ease use of the european union the euro system and the european legal system the final word an e.u. law is always spoken in luxembourg nowhere else so with their well not quite that

statement from a sort of on the line gave those that will be vying for the job of german chancellor next year when angela merkel calls it a day an opportunity to show just how tough they are the statement from the u. commission in particular that bar that a european law is takes precedence over national law especially in such a conditional form is simply an accurate chancellor merkel herself has said that countries needing a fiscal helping hand due to corona should rely on existing other news like the european stability mechanism despite the e.s.m. being viewed as a slap in the face by member states like italy who remember all 'd too well the crippling austerity that was forced upon greeks after it availed itself of the e.s.m. help there are some voices in germany including that of president of the bundestag and former finance minister wolfgang schauble are saying perhaps this isn't the economic hayle should insist on dying on and that this whole argument puts more the

national pride at risk it may well be that the existence of the euro is now also questioned in other you member states because every national constitutional court can judge for itself make no bones about it eurozone economies are going to need some see. serious financial help not only in a post corona world but in the immediate short and medium term as well in order to get that help in a way that suits the likes of italy and spain and in brussels they're going to have to stop playing my core it's bigger than your court which doesn't look likely any time soon these are all over r.t. . the president of the geopolitical analysis organization europe continent emanuel to man but he's most power needs to reside in the hands of the member states as opposed to the e.u. as one body. particular part of. who is in power or the european union is it. your buddies who do sions.

extending their or own competencies we've all believe meet all the member states who put silly meat to competences or for your credit union the french and italians or some one country would like a new way to give more power to e.u. to trivialize more you europe in order to force germany to pay more for them but i think this is dangerous speech because envy enter each we are rigs used the power of the member states to us to pose to be remasters of a treaty in this case german constitutional court say when it ok the e.u. law ease. above national law but on leave if e.u. no is applied to appropriate to wait with a complete tense we decided from the member states. or the u.k. taking its 1st tentative steps to easing restrictions at the same time it's

bringing in some new ones such as saying 14 day quarantine for people arriving from abroad over the prime minister surprised when he revealed that france would be exempt following a phone call with the french president who stated those coming from france wouldn't face the restriction countries issued a joint statement saying that the new measures will be taken in a quote reciprocal manner earlier boris johnson clarified the core team move was needed to stop new infections from spreading to prevent reinfection from abroad i am serving notice that it will soon be the time with transmission significantly lower to impose quality on people coming into this country by air and later the prime minister said that the rules apply not just to those who arrive by also by train and ferry we have people in london what they think of them. thanks. to late that's been done from day one don't mean shit happens here but i guess

better late than never regardless of our poor group was learned about moving to cool thanks that's not right for only where you're coming from in this country you should be quarantined we're doing what we're doing it of conscious of doing different things it should be one rule for the whole lot till this everything is going to lie that links and. i don't understand i don't know and some why they would be exempt to be quite honest with you because they're infected like most of the world's. a russian diplomat in prague has received threats surely have to check media published his identity came as journalists speculated the man arrived in the country in mid march in order to poison local politicians a foreign ministry urged his czech counterparts to guarantee security for its employees and because they have picked up the story. we're all weary of the pandemic all the restrictions the fear the endless news coverage so why not to

lighten things up with a little drawn into the parts before the pandemic when the baddest thing in the world was russia had king elections compromising president assassinated spies and now it seems irrelevant may is according to our sources a russian man pretending to be diplomats and using a diplomatic passport travel to prague airport it was discovered that he's not a diplomat is a member of the russian secret service according to the police and other security services he was a real threat to prague minas policy politicians who criticize kremlin policy or pursued actions which of course concern in the kremlin he was travelling to the airport with a suitcase and there was information that he would be carrying rice in the sheer amount of ridiculous in the story is stupefying so this baby faced diplomatic worker is apparently a kremlin link secret service agent says someone who wants to remain anonymous hide

their face and claims to work for check intelligence all white says that's cover week but these these next part is rock bottom he was apparently found carrying rice in in a suitcase raisen is a toxic agent and a lethal deuce $22.00 micrograms for reference a microgram is one millionth of a gram and they claim this guy had enough to stuff a suitcase. grayson is an extremely effective policing toxic in small doses also fairly easy to overlook during. this entire circus was found by check press and initiated apparently by the government which claims essentially that russia hates them yes attacks elections and haps hospitals and is now out to kill a bunch of municipal workers the kremlin apparently has nothing better to do.

we have a number of contentious points with russia it is not just a case of a colony of statute which i consider a side issue i do not think we should pursue an aggressive policy like russia our diplomacy efforts accordingly as do i personally officially the czech counterintelligence agency b i as has refused to confirm anything by the way guess what the fellow did have in his suitcase this in fact and yes this in fact and in the middle of a pandemic what are the odds the end result has been that the russian ambassador is now receiving threats there is now a very real danger to someone direct and verifiable not based on anonymous sources they embassy has asked the foreign ministry of the czech republic to take all appropriate measures to prevent any encroachment on the person freedom and dignity

of the employee check media deployed a personal bullying complain against the russian ambassador who began to receive threats as a result so they do a little distraction from all the coronavirus news courtesy of a very bored czech press a russian operative brings in a suitcase full of poor isn't enough to presumably kill thousands in order to assassinate a local mayor and his 2 friends because they tore down a statue that russia really liked the czech paul fiction. and that wraps it up for this news hour appreciate staying with us here on our team to nashville we'll continue to keep you informed far all web site on t.v. dot com all social media channels live broadcasts from studios in moscow london washington d.c. .

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