hundreds of children across the globe are struck down by an unknown inflammatory syndrome believed to have links to several cases now having resulted in deaths. french drug giant comes under pressure not just from the country's government but also its people trip prioritized giving a coronavirus vaccine to the u.s. because it funded early research. on the number of coronavirus deaths of u.k. care home residents is 50 percent higher than previously thought new data remain after the country this week called to account for so-called unexplained deaths in the sector.

so much for joining us you watching the weekly here on r.t. international. this begin with our quick daily check on the latest global coronavirus figures total infections now standard above 4700000 they tell it is have topped 315000 of the number of those who've recovered stands at more than 1800000. and the known inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to covert 19 is threatening children's lives across the globe the problem is now being confirmed by the world health organization the youngest no fatality today it was an 8 month old british boy hundreds of cases of the syndrome he shares many similarities to the rack 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. it's under 25 children in france it's a new disease it looks like how is that disease but it's different if it is not you know. it's so we have to understand and that's why we are collecting all the state. of the conditions that ought to be caused by a delayed immune response to the corona virus at least seen 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 lost a study into the mysterious illness the new condition has a number of symptoms including blood inflammation and it can also affect the heart is the fever rash abdominal pain and vomiting as well which in particular draw comparisons with the callous psyche disease the new york state governor had this to say we've lost 3 children 5 year old boy 7 year old boy unity year old girl this is

a 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 lottie's video agency ruptly spoke to a mother of one child struck down by the condition who later recovered. 200. 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 there don't challenge all 1st fever and they gave him an i b a g to help because of 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 just the lancaster university dr mohammed moneer says with school slowly coming back on line children need to be watched carefully. okazaki disease. not yet known how it is triggered but it is certainly known that it is caused by and out immune response to any and he didn't so there are fewer chances that whatever that number. is an activity that he could be more prone to our community infection may call a virus the body over react to the infection however 'd the impact of going to

virus onto the auto immune infection similar to collar stock you still need to be explored if we look all 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 very 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. like a syndrome and then having chances to get infected with economist might agony we had that this is certainly something we need to be watching very carefully. children and friends have been dusting down their uniforms this week because infant and primary school 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 so the dubin scheme has more. this week schools across

france have been throwing open their door was once again to welcome peoples as part of plans to move a step closer to no malady the government is a printing 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 place again as my children have asthma as well. and so that is a very much a worry. we've seen just how does the spiders test. play out for people who are exist in a sense but i think the biggest factor for us was was arsenal just act strikes that children will experience going back to school and being told all the time don't text us you're sitting too close to us 1st 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 mitigate a lot of a lot of the stress with writers the children are quite happy they know it's out there. they've been able to go about their daily lives and our dearly normal way it has rained this little ole. for 8 weeks children have been home schooled or accessed where possible online lessons the advice is being to stay at home to socially distance when carrying out the central errands now that is shifting and 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 in our building so i was able to go out and get some air and

occasionally data better fro shopping. on my street so it's a bet if you told them you're couldn't go all the way or cross town and that means everyone up is moving. you know from one case to the other everyone is going to match or are seeing all of these shops open up to get and so there has been a sense of concern on our in that you know all of these russians are put into place in order to control the spread of the. it would be hard to continue. in level when everyone is moving about. parents 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 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 impulsive fronts concern has led to some manners even refusing for schools to be reopened in a letter to parents of the school and see just north of paris the mayor described the government's guidelines as being in forcible although i'm for the reminder of our economy i am 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 r.t. paris. the french drug johnson of which is busy working on a coronavirus vaccine is coming under huge pressure over who'll be 1st to get hands on a cure the company now says that the no advance for any country. rage at home inside the u.s. will get priority because it funded the 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 sam if he's chairman says weinberg that is 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 crime should based on financial reasons santa fe is one of the biggest players in the race to find a covert 19 vaccine the company has a long relationship with the us barbara research organization in december and promised son of fame more than $200000000.00 for research so far it's given $30000000.00 for the vaccine program but the french government's angry because it also sponsors the firm to the tune of tens of millions yes french citizens what they think. i. think is 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 took it. originally 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 then it's 1st 1st we 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 us or friends find the vaccine 1st that would be a good thing but it could also be there's another state discovers the vaccine decides to keep it for itself. this is problematic but i find it problematic 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 maybe think they're developing countries with huge populations like india and others which don't have another doctor is should be fairest even if they didn't finance the development of the vaccine especially since they don't have the budget for eat. on friday was revealed the number of u.k. care home residents who died from corona virus was actually 50 percent higher than previously estimated the new data reveals more than 12000 fatalities since the

beginning of march previous estimates put the number of just over 8000 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 or as johnson was put under pressure by the leader of the opposition. the onus 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 deaths this april huge exercise in testing is going on

a further 600000000 pounds i can announce today for infection control in care homes and yes it is absolutely true that the number of casualties has been too high but i can tell you houses right a little bit of writing room 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 the virus is still having a huge impact and there's growing fears of a 2nd wave discuss the progress being made and the challenges still faced with my pal jim from the independent care group i think we are going to find sadly more deaths in due course because at the in some cases not everyone the past when it can has or kobe had 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 later on i'd like to see a public inquiry into how we handled the matter in this country to do with deaths

in care homes where the whole band i mean 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 i boris johnson said that there's going to be hundreds of thousands of. pal's 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 there enough protective equipment there for the staff 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 pounds cut since our innate 1000000000 pound cut since 2010 and yes we've had some money put in but we're still not back to where we were funding wise is 2010 with many more older 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 that those elderly last. sector not people been further down the list in social initiative and i hope that 6 corruption teacher i don't think as many people would have died if we could've 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 go in for in the future we need to do things differently but we are not going to release a lot done 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 the better weather this coming for the summer that we will be able to meet people perhaps outside relatives to to exchange. interest to the minute is a big worry and i hope that we can move on and get to a new one since possible. straight a's beef industry says found itself dragged into a spot between the u.s. and china over the origins of covert 90. 4 more than 90 suspected mafia members are arrested across italy after a spike in criminal activity comes up to convicted mobs this would temporarily release from jail as part of a plan to stop the virus spreading in prisons details after the break. and.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy in front a shouldn't let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic developments only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the world is driven by shaped by one person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask.

welcome back telling police this week arrested more than 90 sicilian mafia suspects around the country in what's being dubbed a mega race they believe that mobsters are behind a recent spike in crime rates and that they've been taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic to increase their power it also comes after a number of mafia bosses were temporarily released from prison this was part of a controversial plan to stop the spread of coronavirus in italian jails while the convicts are under supervision at home the justice minister vowed to return them to journalist soonest possible 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 future where they have terrorized people for years. just looking at 50 let me 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 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 figures among the senior maffia members released but put under house arrest were franco cataldo serving a life sentence for kidnapping the son of an informant in what was one of at least most notorious murders the boy who was held hostage for 2 years before being strangled and dissolved in acid tensions wrapped in the country's overcrowded prisons back in march italy's national prisoner rights advocate urged immediate action to prevent the spread of the virus into jails that included stopping family visits since then $376.00 mafia members and drug dealers been moved from jails to house arrest seppi anthology from the cup and that a foundation which 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 the needs of the same. does it means you've 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 beef and turns out its calls for a probe into the origins of corona virus elim orpen 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 hunger loughton of us to gate they refused to allow investigators to study how this outbreak started this hard hidden piece of legislation will sanction china until they cooperated with investigators china immediately spoke up 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 r.p. meetings i think sound fairness for all of the united states sometimes like a. paper tiger and then they just pretend to be high and makes track scare insets son of the don't need it here it shoots strong china so i think this scene is very very obvious yeah

now already in america there are all 80000 people die and in a future there will be more so this is a this is true these failed to protect people and they you want to shift is a risk with me so that's why they just don't want to make china to be their school books and i think it's the equal copyright 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 beef imports from australia plus china is now threatening an 80 percent tariff on a struggling and barley imports both sides that the tensions are a factor in these dramatic trade moves it will have 3 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 and companies. i think we have to be careful not to draw lines between these 2 things it's an end to dumping issue from the chinese perspective they certainly haven't raised this connected to any of it is she it's another big story we're disappointed if it was but there's no reason for me to think based on the way that they're approaching 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 that didn't stop the. conflict i think do what we have become. 'd so that's allowed china keep to the street to australia it's a different austria here trying early to use to. it's 'd very disappointing for chinese people also. to promote unity states courts so that's why now do we just have to do

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