but i think that it was interesting. to see. hundreds of children across the globe are struck down by an unknown inflammatory syndrome believed to have links with the corona virus with several cases now having resulted in. french drug giant comes under pressure not just from the country's government but also its people prioritized giving a coronavirus vaccine to the u.s. because it had funded the early research. on the number of coronavirus deaths of u.k. care home residents is 50 percent higher than previously thought new dangers emerged after the country's prime minister was this week called to account for unexplained deaths in the 2nd.

hi thanks for joining us you're watching the weekly here on art. ok let's start with our daily check on the latest global coronavirus figures total infections now standard above $4700000.00 fatalities have topped 315000 while the number of those who've recovered stands a little above 1800000. and the known inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to covert 19 is threatening children's lives across the globe the problems now being confirmed by the world health organization are the youngest no fatality to date has been an 8 month old british boy hundreds of cases of the syndrome which shares many similarities with the rock our psyche disease have already been recorded in north america and europe

with france seeing its 1st death from the condition recently. we have to emphasize . that rare. $10.00 to $25.00 children in france it's a new disease it looks like how is that disease. different it is not really you know. it's so we have to understand and that's why we are collecting all those things. are the conditions thought to be caused by a delayed immune response to the corona virus or at least seed a spike of cases of the new ailment more than 100 children have been hit with the condition in the u.s. 15 states there have now launched a study into the mysterious illness a new condition has a number of symptoms including blood inflammation it can also affect the heart it's the fever rash abdominal pain and vomiting as well which in particular are drawn comparisons with the cowboys psyche disease the new york state governor had this to

say we've lost 3 children 5 year old boys 7 year old boy unity year old girl this is a truly disturbing situation department of health that is telling hospitals and medical providers to prioritize testing for the called the virus for any children that are demonstrating the symptoms artie's video agency ruptly spoke with the mother of one child struck down by the condition who later recovered. yes feverish by 202 and he still couldn't keep anything down he was complaining about major pain in his belly and said. he didn't touch it anything like that so his dad called the doctor and they said they were strong so he had a strong in rochester and they did a good test there is a big test back within a couple hours and it came back positive and they were concerned about his heart

which would be getting excessively fast and his hydration on its ear the doctors saying it would the ways hydration everything was they were only giving him another 28224248 hours or he will last we get medical help they were doing talent all 1st fever and they gave him an ib agency to help because the new system was basically overreacting is where they put it so it helped calm everything down and he was in the bit you were a saturday would say he was able to keep anything down viral is just that lancaster university dr mohammed bunny assess with school slowly coming back on line children need to be carefully watched. okazaki disease. not yet known how it is triggered but it is certainly known that it is caused by an auto immune response to any and he didn't so there are few chances that whatever whenever. he is an

activity that he could be more prone to our community infection medical a virus that the body over react to the infection however 'd the impact of going to virus onto the auto immune infection similar to call a stock you still need to be explored if we look into that out now there are very small proportion of the children who are observed having this kind of condition so therefore the impact on the global scale doesn't seems to be that high but this is certainly something that needs to be watched me closely especially different governments are planning to open the schools and if that would be the condition of your children are very likely to develop a saki like in syndrome and then having chances to get infected with a clone a modest might add to it that this is certainly something we need to be watching very carefully. children in france have been dusting down the uniforms this week because simply the problem is schools started to reopen following the lockdown however some parents fear the government's push for normality could end up bringing

the coronavirus right into their homes all the da vinci explains. this week schools across from have been throwing open their doors once again to welcome peoples as part of plans to move a step closer to normality the government is opening up these educational facilities to gradual pace but many parents are torn about the idea of sending their children back to school into the classroom i am quite a severe asthmatic children have asthma as long. and so that has been very much a worry. just how does this virus chance to play out for people who are resistant. but i think the biggest factor for us was was also just stressed stressed that children will experience going back to school and being told all the time don't touch this you're sitting too close or saying no you can't use that pencil because

someone else is using it kids wash your hands again don't touch your face you know i think for us. we've been able to minutely a lot of a lot of the stress writers are quite happy they know what's out there. they've been able to go about their daily lives in a fairly normal way it has rained this little ole. for 8 weeks children have been home schooled or accessed where possible online lessons the advice has been to stay at home to socially distance when carrying out essential errands now that is shifting of francis easing controls and many people are feeling timid about returning to the post covariate 19 wilt i didn't even walk down the block during confinement we're fortunate enough to have

a garden and i don't think so i was able to go out in. get some air and occasionally get a bit of shopping right on my street so to then be told you're all the way or. that means everyone not. me. you know from one case to the other every one's going imagine. all the shops open up again and so there has been a sense of concern on our in that you know all of the russians are put into place in order to control the spread of the virus. it will be hard to continue. in level when everyone is moving about. parents aunts obliged to send children back to school and even if all wanted to go back under the new rules

that just wouldn't be possible right now there are limited spaces available with only 15 peoples in a class or 10 for nurseries and the priority is being given to children whose parents are essential workers schools will also look and feel very different with hand gel in place regular handwashing desks pulled apart children will also have to socially distance and teachers will be wearing masks in part of the fronts concern has led to some as even refusing for schools to be reopened in a letter to parents of a school in c. just north of paris the mayor described the government's guidelines as being in forcible although i'm for the ramones of our economy i'm certain that public health must remain our priority as the economy restarts and people are expected to return back to work more and more parents may feel as if they are stuck between

a rock and a hard place do they choose to send their children back to the classrooms where they may pick up the virus and bring it back home or stay home and potentially put their jobs on the line so that even ski otty paris. the french drug giant sun a fee which is busy working on a coronavirus vaccine is coming under huge pressure over who will be 1st to get hands on a cure for the company now says they'll be no advance for any country earlier it provoked outrage at home when saying the u.s. would have priority because it funded early research the u.s. government has the right to the largest preorder because it's invested in taking the risk the u.s. which expects that if we've helped you manufacturers' the doses at risk we expect to get the doses 1st i've just reminded some of fees chairman says weinberg that it's a profoundly french company he gave me all necessary assurance regarding the distribution

of a future santa fe vaccine in france for us it would be unacceptable for there to be privileged access authentic crimes are based on financial reasons son of he's one of the biggest players in the race to find a covert 19 vaccine the company has a long relationship with the us bard a research organization which in december promised son a fee more than $200000000.00 for research so far it's given 30000000 for the vaccine program but the french government angry because it also sponsors the firm to the tune of tens of millions we asked french citizens what they think. i. think it's just business like everywhere there are a lot of incoherent things going on i think we're not told everything it's like with masks we were supposed to get a huge package of masks and then the americans ticket. her regionally it's a french company then it doesn't matter who pays the money it's still french or at least it should be for everyone. before we need to return the money that they give us and it's 1st 1st would deal with all problems and then we think about this it's

not normal it's not good it's not possible. i think it's a bit stupid because at this time we all need to help each other we don't know which vaccine will work and which will be available 1st if you have the u.s. or france find the vaccine 1st that would be a good thing but it could also be that another state discovers the vaccine which decides to keep it for itself but space to support the meticulous i find it troubling want it because i don't think the us is the quandary that most urgently needs of their vaccine france also has a lot of secret people but i think the developing countries with huge populations like india and others which don't have enough doctors should be 1st even if they didn't fly knows the development of the vaccine especially since they don't have the budget for it. on friday it was revealed the number of u.k.

care home residents who died from coronavirus was actually 50 percent higher than previously estimated the new data reveals more than 12000 fatalities since the beginning of march previous estimates of put the number at just over 8000 the new data said to include those who died after being admitted to hospital the figures come after the prime minister was asked in parliament this week to account for unexplained deaths in the sector boris johnson was put under pressure by the leader of the opposition. the oas records the average number of deaths in care homes each month for the last 5 years the average for april has been just over $8000.00. this year the number of deaths in care homes for april was a staggering 26000 that's 3 times the average 18000 additional deaths this april. using the government's figures only 8000 are recorded just covert deaths that leaves 10000 additional and unexplained care home.

this april huge it to size in testing is going on a further 600000000 pounds i can announce today protection control in care homes and yes it is absolutely true that the number of casualties has been too high but i can tell you house is right a lot of talk. last week and indeed this week the number of outbreaks is down and the number of fatalities in care homes is now well the. scientists say that the virus is still having a huge impact and there's growing fears of a 2nd wave discuss progress being made and the challenges still being faced with my purge of the independent care group. i think we are going to find sadly more deaths in due course because of the in some cases not everyone the past when a care home has a coded related a cause of death on the death certificate so i think there will be more but i think at the minute we're still trying to fight the virus and deal with that battle i

think late drawn out like to see a public inquiry into how we handled the matter in this country to do with deaths in care homes well how pandemic really but i think we've got to make sure we learn lessons and nothing should this happen again is repeated such as what we've been through in the last few weeks and months and a boris johnson said that there's going to be hundreds of thousands of pounds millions of pounds thrown in to try to improve the situation in care homes that'll take time to have any effect is enough being done right now is there enough testing is enough protective equipment there for the stuff what more could be done. well i think we've had trouble with p.p. and testing improvements are on their way but we're still waiting on both fronts really and i think in terms of the money yes money has been put it this is a bit of i just say in this country with over probably 2 decades social care has never been at the top of the list and it's been underfunded we've had a 10000000000 pound sit ups are innately empowered since 2010 and yes we've had

some one put it but we're still not back to where we were funding wise since 2010 with many more people so one thing that positive that should come out of this virus is the government finally recognizes that so you get into the higher of the priority list and given the same attention as our n.h.s. is. did you ever get the feeling the sense during this you know crisis situation that elderly people struggle to look after themselves in care homes that they came down the very bottom of the list of priorities that people are focusing elsewhere and thinking will deal with those elderly last. section older people generally been further down the list in they should have and i hope that 6 corruption teacher i don't think as many people would have died if we could have dealt with it differently. he said of course that this is unprecedented so don't blame the government for everything but i hope that they will learn going forward in the future we need to do things differently we are not going to release the lock down

yet to we get some guidance to when it might be safe to do so my fear is that if we relax things too quickly we will get a 2nd spike so one looking to the dam to help us to know will be a good thing i'm hoping with better weather this coming for the summer that we will be able to meet people perhaps outside relatives to to exchange pleasantries but at the minute it's a big worry and i hope that we can move on and get to new york once it is possible . still to come a strain is being finda street has found itself dragged into a spat between the u.s. and china over the origins of covert 19. more the 90 suspected mafia members are arrested across italy after a spike in criminal activity comes after convicted mobsters were temporarily released from jail as part of a plan to stop the virus spreading in prisons all the more after the break. in.

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back italian police this week and rested more than 90 cillian maffia suspects across the country most being dubbed a mega raid they believe the mobsters a behind a recent spike in crime rates in the been taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to increase their power 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 the virus in italian jails while the comics were under supervision and the justice minister vowed to return them to jail

the soonest possible to some though the very notion of mafia bosses being let out of prison is unacceptable worse than just liberating the mafia the government have put them in house arrest back in the field where they have terrorized people for years. just you know it was in the government's decision the decision was based moon total memory 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 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 among the senior members released but put under house arrest was franco cataldo serving a life sentence for kidnapping the son of an informant one of what was italy's most notorious murder the boy was held hostage for 2 years before being strangled and dissolved in acid. tensions are up in the country's overcrowded prisons in march italy's national prisoner rights advocate urged immediate action to stop the spread of the virus into jails and those measures include is stopping family visits since then 376 mafia members and drug dealers have been moved from jails to house arrest she said she from the cup anetta foundation which studies the mafia believes that the move was a retreat in the fight against the mob. how would you look at what. the when 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 the needs of the citizens who have probably lost someone to the mafia and who should never see porton mafioso get out of prison it's unacceptable. ok here's a riddle for you what connects china u.s. sanctions and australian beneath turns out it is calls for a probe into the origins of the coronavirus caleb maupin explains. u.s. pressure on china is rising senator graham a longtime opponent of beijing has put forward the coded 19 accountability act this is a law that it casts would give donald trump the ability to put new sanctions on china i'm convinced that without cheney's communist party deception the virus would not

be here in the united states china refuses to allow the international community to go into the war hung allowed to investigate they refused to allow investigators to study how this outbreak started this hard hitting piece of legislation will sanction china until they cooperated with investigators china immediately spoke up you crying the bill may work with the bill introduced by several u.s. senators absolutely neglects fact they want to start the investigation with the presumption of guilt to shift their responsibility on china for the failure and incompetence in the fight against the epidemic this is not possible we express our resolute protest in my opening this icing sound fairness for all of the united states sometimes like a. paper tiger and then they just pretended to hide and then make trying to scare the insects son off and then they don't need hear it shoots from china so i think this scene is very very obvious.

now already in america they are all over $80000.00 people die and in a future there will be more so this is a this is true these fail to protect people and they you want to shift at least with me so that's why they just don't want to make china to be the school and i think it's the equal and opposite australia seems to be akhil in the anti china chorus coming from the united states down under there are lots of calls for a probe into china so far the united states has only gotten warnings. of retribution from beijing but australia has already started to feel china's wrath china has suspended beast imports from australia plus china is now threatening an 80 percent tariff on astroland barley imports both sides than the tensions are a factor in these dramatic trade moves to work i won't say the chinese customs

found that multiple batches of beef products exported to china by certain australian companies violated the inspection and quarantine agreed by chinese and australian authorities in order to protect the health and safety of chinese consumers china has decided to suspend taking import declarations for meat products from forest trail in company. i think we have to be careful not to grow alliance between these 2 things it's an end to dumping issue from the chinese perspective they certainly haven't raised this connected to any all that is she's now big swivel disappointed that it was but there's no reason for me to think based on the way that they're protesting it that i could draw that conclusion the media has been quick to recall recent remarks from a chinese official i think in the long to if the mood is going from bad to worse maybe ordinary people say why should we drink australian wine or eat australian beef and action or not china is australia's largest export market jobs and

livelihoods are on the line australia is calling for trade talks as well as an investigation into the origins of the corona virus the media now accuses china of waging a trade war amid the pandemic now australian beef may simply not be up to chinese standards however many interpret this as china reminding the world that it does not take accusations and sanctions lightly and it's capable of striking back if china will and it didn't stop. a conflict i think to what we have become. 'd so that's allowed china keep. the street to australia is different australia. used to. it's 'd very disappointing for all chinese people also. true promote the state's course so that's why now we just have to

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and telling the anxious nation and tricking the world that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. we are meaningless reasoning paralyzing. very much in the air. and neil delaney the media for it is the charge justified well to discuss that i'm now joined by sharon while gordon from director of research and development and environment and the harvard school of journalism media and culture counted so we to talk to you thank you very much for being with us thank you very much for having me now karen blaming journalists or the media for creating behi it is as old as our profession and south but. is that really an applicable charge in these day and age when

it was i think really begin the actual governments and international organizations like the w.h.o. which were behind the most apocalyptic predictions about double the scale and belief that called it 19 predictions that thankfully failed to realise but created a lot of fear or perhaps a lot of justified here and not in the last. well i think that obviously the pandemic is an extremely scary situation for everyone around the world and it's also extremely important for you insist to have access to information about what's happening on the ground now i think that it's obviously important to balance what is obvious reporting around the phrase scary situation with also managing the emotions audiences who are already i think in many cases finding this a baby. times goes through. i think.