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

good evening thanks for joining us watching the weekly here on r.t. international. we start with our daily check on the latest global coronavirus figures total infections stand at more than $4700000.00. have topped 316000 the number of those who recover stands above 1800000. unknown 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 the youngest no fatalities so far was an 8 month old british boy hundreds of cases of the syndrome which many similarities to the rack our psyche disease have already been recorded in north america or in europe with france

seeing its 1st death from the condition recently. we have to emphasize. that. it's $20.00 to $25.00 children in arms it's a new disease it looks like how is that disease. 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 thought to be caused by a delayed immune response to the corona virus italy seen a spike of cases of the new ailment while more than 100 children have been hit with the condition in the u.s. 15 states there are now lost a study into the mysterious illness and you condition has a number of sentencing cluing blood inflammation can also affect the heart is the fever rash abdominal pain and vomiting as well which in particular draw comparisons with the cause sakhi 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 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 auntie's video agency roughly spoke with a mother of one child who was struck down by the condition but late to recover it. his fevers by 202 and he still couldn't keep anything down he was complaining about major pain in his belly and said he couldn't even 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. here the doctors

saying it would the ways hydration everything was they were only giving him another 28224248 hours or if he will last we get medical help they were doing how an 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 hazed saturday would say he was able to keep anything down. i was just at lancaster university dr mohammed veneers says 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 and aren't immune response to any and he didn't so there are few chances that whatever that number. is an activity you know he could be more prone to our community infection maybe call

a virus the body over react to the infection however be impact of going to virus onto the i don't mean an 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 with 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 cornum others might add to it that this is certainly something you need to be watching very carefully. children in france have been dusting down their uniforms this week because infant and primary school started to reopen have to the lockdown that some parents fear the government's push for normality could end up bringing the coronavirus right into their homes. explains. this week schools across france have

been throwing open their doors once again to welcome people as part of plans to move a step closer to no malady the government is a printing up these educational facilities at a gradual pace but many parents are torn about the idea of sending their children back to school into the classroom. place again as my children have asthma as well. and so. has bailey very much a worry. we've seen just how does this virus chance to play out for people who are in a sense but i think the biggest factor for us was was arsenal just extra stress that children will experience going back to school and being told all the time don't text your citizens you coast sort of her 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 around the virus the children are quite happy that you know it's out there. they've been able to go about their daily lives and a fairly normal way it has rained this little ole. for weeks children have been home schooled or accessed where possible on line lessons the advice is being to stay at home to socially distance when carrying out the central errands now that is shifting and frances 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 and were fortunate enough to have a garden in our building so i was able to go out and get some air and

occasionally get a bit of closure shopping right on my street so to bed and be told you're couldn't go all the way or cross town and that means everyone up. you know from one case to the other every one is going to match or see all the shops open up to get it so there has been a sense of concern on our in that. oh the russians are. in order to control the spread of the. it will 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 pupils in a class at 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 hand washing 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 they've been 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 for the ramones 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 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 their hands on a cure our company now says that there be no advance for any country earlier it provoked outrage at home when it said 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 just remind is santa fees 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 front rows 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 vaccine for covert 19 the company has a long relationship with the us bard a research organization which in december promised santa fe more than $200000000.00 for research so far it has given 30000000 for the vaccine program but the french government's 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 took a. regional it's a french company and 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 would deal with all problems and then we think of the others 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 finds a vaccine 1st that would be a good thing but it could also be there's no other state discovers the vaccine which decides to keep it for itself but because it probably meticulous i find it because i don't think the us is the quandary that most urgently needs for 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 fly in and the development of the vaccine especially since they don't have the budget for it. on friday was real 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 start of march previous estimates have put the number just over 8000 new data said to include those who died after being admitted to hospital the figures come after the pm was asked in parliament this week to account for unexplained deaths in the sector or 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 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 house is 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 doc. or 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 being faced with mike purge of the independent character. i think we are going to find sadly more deaths in due course because that in some cases not everyone the past when you can has a kobe had related to 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 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 pound sit ups are innately empowered since 2010 and yes we've had some money put in 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 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 corrected teacher but 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 i 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 but 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 spikes in one looking to the time to help us to know when will be a good thing i'm hoping with better weather this coming to 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 . to come fairly as beef industry has found itself dragged into a spat between the u.s. and china over the origins of covert 90. more than 90 suspected matthew members arrested across italy after a spike of criminal activity comes after convicted mobsters were temporarily released from jail as part of a plan to stop the virus spreading in prisons or other more after the break.

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when some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back italian police this week arrested while the 90 sicilian mafia suspects across the country and what is being dubbed a mega raid they believe that mobsters a behind the recent spike in crime writes in 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 and that was part of a controversial plan to stop the spread of the virus in italian jails on the comics and supervision at home the justice minister is found to return them to jail as soon as 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 fiefdoms 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 matthew members release but put under house arrest was franco cattell though he was serving a life sentence for kidnapping the son of an informant and one of his most notorious 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 urged immediate action to prevent the spread of the virus into jails which included stopping family visits since then some 376 mafia members and drug dealers have been moved from jails to house arrest he said he and 30 from the company at 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 had 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. here's a riddle for you what connects china u.s. sanctions and australian based well it turns out that it's a call for a probe into the origins of coronavirus tell it more than 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 hidden 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 r.p. meetings i think sound fairness for all of the united states sometimes like a. paper tiger and then they just pretend to hype and make track nice and scare the insects son off and 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 $80000.00 people die and in a future there will be more so this is a this is true they've 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 the school books and i think it's the equal copyright australia seems to be 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 than the tensions are a factor in these dramatic trade moves to a high when say 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 brought from forest trail and companies. 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 that is connected to any of it 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 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 an 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. didn't stop. a conflict i think to what we have become worse and worse so that's a lie a china keep to restrain to australia it's a different austria here it's trying early to ship used to. it it's 'd very disappointing for chinese people also it's trading. to promote the anti state's courts so that's why nowadays we just have to do something to response. and they have it that brings you right up to date thanks so

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