in the headlines this morning several french schools are forced to close again just days after reopening cases have been detected. as the world health organization is decision making body meets to work next global. pandemic then president now threatening to permanently. u.s. funding. belgian health care workers turn their backs on their prime minister in protest over the government's handling of the pandemic as the country. we speak to one of them. under dislocation where the prime minister.

we disagree with the way that. the medical sector. infection rate is slowing right now there are still problems. like one is. m.m.a. fighter. especially with the end of this weekend coming up. my father is in hospital his condition is very severe i personally had over 20 close relatives hospitalized many of them are no longer with us. and don't accept. morning 11 am in our life from our to international new central moscow kevin i'm with you for the next 30 minutes. this out and let's begin with the as usual these

days sadly quick daily check on the latest global coronavirus figures so as it stands totally infections are now at almost 4900000 around the world fatalities of top 320000 while the number of those who've recovered stands at more than 1900000. so let's crack on with today's news headlines for you getting children back to school is a mixed results in europe were appalling education ministers held a video conference on monday to discuss the impact of the outbreak and said there hasn't been a significant increase in transmission in the 22 countries where classes have returned but a number of french schools have had to close again after only a few days because of new infections reporting next on that from paris charlotte dubin ski. children had only just started to head back to school in france

but after only one week of classes around 70 having to shut down once more as cases of covert 19 have been detected. a virus contritely can probably. become poignant she was another. never told you but. this is what many teachers and their unions had warned about they import the government to reopen schools fearing that they could become the hot spots for the transmission of virus parents had also been raising their own concerns they've been asking us if we want to send the kids back and you know mixed feelings everything just isn't dark so we're actually sort of continuing as we were a few weeks to see what happens in the next 3 weeks i personally think we're going to end up back in lockdown i don't feel like everything's opened up though because

the danger is gone i think everything has opened up because financially they can't afford to keep it closed and because people are losing their minds and i think it has also opened up because now if a whole lot of people get ill they're out there and ventilators though many measures were put in place to stop the virus spreading it appears that they just weren't enough the government insists the schools that are closing down again only a small percentage rule and it says the consequences of children not going to school are more serious however while the number of children who contract it could be 900 is relatively small there is another alarming trend that's been emerging last week france registered the 1st case of a child dying from a rare complication linked to coronavirus because of it is a child presenting symptoms resembling sack you do. logical tests done within the

pediatric i.c.u. unit indicated that he had been in contact with the coronavirus without developing the symptoms this week it's a rare inflammatory disease that normally effects children under the age of 5 but since the code pandemic children across the world have been showing similar symptoms in france they have been more than a 100 reported cases since the beginning of march at present parents in france can decide whether or not to send their children back to school but given these new cases of covert 900 scented around reopen schools and the surge in more complex cases involving children many parents just may decide that it is still too risky so what do you can ski r.t. paris. president trumps renewed his attacks on the world health organization

threatening to cut u.s. funding for good he's written to the head of the us health agency with a 30 day ultimatum to make big changes or permanently lose the united states' membership to accuse the w.h.o. of mishandling the corona virus outbreak in kowtowing to china. they're a puppet of china. china centric to put it nicely but they're a puppet of china we help fund the world health organisation we use it like everyone else they gave us a lot of very bad advice terrible advice they were wrong so much always on the side of china china paid 40000000 dollars last year and we've been paying $450000000.00 a year for many years somehow that doesn't work out too well well further to this trump says the show had made several inaccurate and misleading claims about the coronavirus and accuses the agency of moving too slowly he described his letter is self-explanatory or it doesn't specify what the agency actually has to do to maintain that white house funding the letter just calls the w.h.o.

to demonstrate independence from china it's going to cross this small detail people all of us across this morning one faith it's not just a trumpet more than a 100 countries are calling for a pro bono shows coronavirus response take us through what's happening then. all this is all coming as nations of the world are coming together albeit virtually in these times for the 73rd un world health assembly perhaps the most important on a global scale of those health assemblies that's ever been you'd be forgiven for thinking that it's how to come together how to work together to find things like a vaccine how to help get aid to countries that need it most would be dominating the talks there however some nations in particular the united states have been pushing more of a blame game alex azar the u.s. health secretary saying well there has a lot there is

a lot of questions from the world health organization from all some of those countries gathered to answer failure by this organization to obtain the information that the world needed and that failure cost many lives in an apparent attempt to conceal this outbreak at least one member state made a mockery of their transparency obligations with tremendous cost for the entire world. well donald trump has as we heard suspended funding for the world health organizations and critics of the trumpet ministration say that he's using them as a scapegoat to cover up for his administration's own failings the united states has the highest number of cases of covert 1000 in the world it's seen the largest number of fatalities unemployment in the u.s. has spiraled to unprecedented levels as well. the u.s. president also in the air in washington also played a diplomatic hand during at this health summit as they tried to get

a group together to back the reinstating of observer status for taiwan that taiwan hard held that status until 2016 this is really a job china beijing claims control over the self-governing island and that ultimately failed taiwan didn't have it observer status restored to china themselves around the world who of health organizations have strongly denied the criticisms that have been leveled against them by donald trump and by the u.s. government in fact. china has said that they are willing to provide cash to those countries that are being hit by the virus that they're willing to make a vaccine should it be a chinese laboratory that discovers it to make that public domain and they've also sent doctors and aid to countries in africa or in other developing nations pledging to $1000000000.00 in aid. china provide 2000000000

u.s. dollars over the years to help with the code with 19 response and with economic and social development in a show you countries use especially in developing countries. well the world health organization that's director general has stood strongly behind his organization saying that there would be a full inquiry an independent inquiry into how it handled it but that the group had his full backing that any let any mistakes that have been made lessons and surely being learned from them we also heard from european big hitters calling for unity securing this crisis. on the floor. if we join forces will would be disciplined damning and we need the w. we true because of its irreplaceable coordinating role and here we have the opportunity to provide a unified response to the pandemic the history of complacency and unfounded accusations limit now the country can solve this problem alone we must work

together the great show is replaceable it needs in the house the resources to provide support to developing got a truce which must be our greatest and. we have as strong as the weakest systems of the u.n. world health assembly continues on choose day be looking for more well unified responses to the covert 19 crisis and less of the blame game right now. absolutely who'd rather be ahead of the show at the moment is the spot it's going to get bigger and bigger by the looks of it came across it 1st peter oliver in berlin there thank you. belgium is further easing its lockdown which includes seeing schools museums and beauty salons open their doors once again the number of active infections and the death rate is decreasing there were fewer than $300.00 new cases and 28 fatalities reported on monday but that said bulgin currently has the highest mortality rate per capita in the world and that's prompted criticism

over its handling of the crisis that at the weekend health care staff or the process hospital protested during a visit by the prime minister turning their backs on her motorcade as she arrived she was there on a bridge building mission calling her visit a message of appeasement to hospital workers but they say their efforts are not being properly knowledged and they've railed against unqualified staff being brought in as nurses. we found at this location where the prime minister was going to come in was the right occasion to show how we disagree with the way that. the medical sector 1st. it's all of this that are working under scenes that are under starts and load of work. work to every this was our 1st. big disagreement with. it enough the words that all health care system should be fine and it's sort of if you can work from. there

so that everybody. can get the same level of treatment it's a bit difficult with the way that. so we want change on those. as well as p.p. shortages in hospitals and health centers medical star for the odds for the government over what they say is a longstanding lack of recognition given to the nursing sector more generally they're demanding wide ranging improvements in belgium's health care system after the pandemic and religion caution as the country opens up one. so again. belgium which is a very small country only what you have an 1000000 we've got 9 minutes that's 4 for the health so i mean like that's just a crazy number and they're not even able to get something right and so it's going. to other ministers to take care of the most of the population so now it's defense which is going to take care of that so we're wondering what what's going wrong and how come you can do that so many how can you get it so wrong i think if they if they do take let's say radical changes in this i'm coming who knows you might

change our vision but it's not the case for the moment that's for sure once coverage is over where we'll 'd be in streets. so here in russia the daily rate of new infections has been showing a welcome decline over the past week but that said some parts of the country still struggling to contain the outbreak case in point the dagestan republic in the north caucasus is one of the hardest hit regions more than 40 doctors have died in the battle there against the virus and local medical staff face increasing challenges with over and hospitals and a lack of equipment to well let's get across this time hawkins says is reporting live this morning walking down a few regions then as well as i've just said they're having trouble president putin actually raised the issue of dagestan in his latest televised briefing what i have to say about that than well the rates of that curve of new infections in russia are overall experience will growth has been slowing down or reaching that all important

plateau that's been the trend across moscow and many other russian regions. just on the betrayed seems to be going very much in the opposite direction with information coming out of the region which is quite boring but if not addressed very soon things could be on the brink of a medical emergency this is something president putin addressed in a video conference with officials. the biggest thing in the situation in dagestan is proving difficult new cases of the sickness continue to be reported with serious complications. just on isn't the most populated region of russia lore is that the most densely populated population of around 3000000 there in the north caucasus republic but we have had news coming out of there of medical facilities being simply overwhelmed and able to cope with a number of new infections and hospital admissions infections and fatalities and rising quite quickly with medics that have been on the frontline of tackling the

pun bennett being hit especially hard. now as in most places the coverage montini affection i spent most and a video conference with president putin in the region is top cleric. might of the law of said he was actually finding it very hard to squeak go see himself was still is still suffering from covert mind team and he cool on the president doesn't action that cyclists warming trend in the republican household names in russia as well and the u.f.c. champion m.m.a.

fights a little bug about up went public just over the last 24 hours old updates on his father's health condition is of course been taken only from dagestan to moscow to surgery heart surgery which is not going to be linked in some way to cope with mine team as well and be said that his father is by fall fall from be overly excited about but to be affected by this terrible illness. i can't stress i'm in the hearts of my needs my father is in the hospital his condition is very severe we pray to a lot that he will return him to us i personally had over 20 close relatives hospitalized many of them are no longer with us since the elderly have a hard time dealing with this virus in a few days it will be our religious holiday our authorities are pleading with us not to go out to pray at home they say please don't visit anyone and don't accept guests. yes a sad situation there was

a thought about why particular dagestan's downs got into this state. well part of the answer of course could be cultural new once it's a muslim majority or public its mind in very deep historical conservative traditions there's large families of old school generations living under the same roof often a sort of mistrust of orthogonal lupton's to follow orders with people attending big family events like weddings and of course funerals when people do die these are massive banks of multiple generations together which put people at a higher risk of course of infection as well this is something which the person addressed in that video conference with douglas thought he officials. meanwhile specialists estimate that the primary reason for severe complications suffered by those in the region are late calls for medical help as well as self medication at home. and the problem of course is wider and more practical as well as we said overwhelmed medical medical facilities and

a shortage of testing kits as well as the shortage of facilities to process those testing kits on the prepared stall for the shortage of protective equipment but since i'm led of course those disproportionately high deaths among medical staff in the region as well as the possibility of deaths being on the reports it doesn't skewed of course in russia an autopsy is needed to officially confirm the cause of death as kobe had not all families in douglas thought consent so this has led to speculation those figures may in fact be inaccurate to start with so the spotlight now is very much on dr stand by me a person who's ordered the building of what extra military hospital facility to house specifically a co-infection but fact that patients now as well as sending actual sources to the region in terms of soft material and medical resources as well. calling on residents as well not to gather to celebrate the end of the most but rather than festival the end of the fast to stay at home and protect those that are

particularly vulnerable so multiple efforts now underway to try and stem this tide in dagestan which is very much but going against the overall trends over the last few days in the country you know sad to hear it isn't it was proven time and time again you can't let your guard down against this invisible focally all right dan thanks very much thank you thing with us 20 minutes past 118 is will coming out will this so we visit one of the so-called closed cities in central russia that hasn't escaped either formally linked with the soviet nuclear program but it's a covert got into this restricted zone it's been hit by the pandemic 2 we'll tell you all about that when we come back.

stand there while the united states has been the unbelievable winner at the global geographic macroeconomic gambling casino with the world reserve currency and really smart intelligent financial engineers and software engineers that. has run up my thought is that this pandemic has exposed incredible wallner abilities in the united states and the united kingdom and that's going to be painful it's going to be a very painful next 10 to 15 years. the world is driven by shaped by one person.

thinks. we dare to ask. morning the coronavirus pandemics left little of the world on touched even spreading to areas thought of as previously high security and can tell you like the russian city of zone the goal risk one of the country's so called closed cities in this day and once a secretive part of the soviet nuclear program. i

feel very sorry for those who died from corona virus the children who got sick. local people should have more responsibility they should not give up on themselves and others. you have to be patient and everything will get back to normal like you . are tensions might have shifted over to screw city these days are dealing with a coronavirus but that doesn't mean other dangers are going away i'm sorry to report this morning's illegals to worry about it thought terror groups are working

on then next moves while government supposedly diverted towards the health crisis according to the director of the stockholm international peace research institute we asked him whether the world is likely to become a more violent place than once the pandemic is over. one of them and it changes many many things it doesn't change everything doesn't necessarily change the goals of political actors or armed groups it doesn't change either their short term or their long term objectives and islamic states and others around the world in different places maybe seeing opportunities for themselves in the way that the pandemic might be weakening their ancestors or at the very least distracting their investors into other priorities. and it's the our group is going to pay them and they're going to be able to use some of that remuneration to support their own families then quite often that is enough of

a motivation for people to be risking their lives and even also getting involved and really atrocious actions so obviously the worse the social and the economic conditions the more there is a pool of not trying to recruit for isis and other such groups to to drop so therefore one has to look very much at the social and the economic effects of abandonment and they are hard to bear for it functions extremely difficult to basle or countries and i'm afraid that can be almost devastating and impossible for war torn in conflict as actually junctions. are funny for now story grabbing is some attention in belgium away from a pandemic but kind of link with a former miss belgium finalist and her pet kitten at the center of a rout after police showed up with a hygiene official to kill said the cat they claim model selena alley smuggled the

animal from peru bringing with it therefore the risk of rabies they say of this couldn't find the cat now a court is set to decide what's going to happen next let me tell you more cleaner ali was working as an intern in peru where she had died. the kitten who she called lee the pandemic forced her to return home quickly that's catch here so she brought her new feline friend whether peru carries a high risk of rabies or is most of europe is free of the disease so taken a tough line to keep it that way the belgian authorities not only want the cat put to sleep but they also now are demanding a fine of 5000 euros for every hour that their cat isn't handed over because they say they don't know where it is alice lawyer says it is not the animal's fault officials should concede they have cause confusion so now the discussion is how can the life of this get be saved we agree the rules are being followed but it was impossible to follow the rules because there wasn't a big wish or the belgian authority says you should have left the yes. but there

was nothing in there was nobody to do to take care of the rebels will also says if you leave an animal unprotected you even go in prison but they are asked to do was to commit a crime to leave to get the belgian of their it you know is very angry they want to kill. and they don't give the possibility to prove there is or does not have really b.s. and they are i have thousands of euros per hour. so you you understand this is one more than 100000 euros. you understand that this is. intimidation this is intimidation and this is quite problematic for the stricken kitten's when you support online her petition to save his life has now got around 40000 signatures the flanders regions animal welfare ministers also weighed in but small that said on the other side of this the belgian government's

food safety agency insists that euthanasia is the only way to prevent a potential rabies outbreak. 10 years ago 2 cases of rabies were diagnosed in our country when symptoms appeared in the animal that seemed healthy until then months later imagine the vaccination and an end to serum had to be administered to a total of nearly 100 people who came into contact with their animals that is why we're doing everything we can to avoid a new similar situation in belgium it's like in our session we want to kill the cats and it is simply reasonable and not necessary it go according to europeans or just a ship it is also an option the possibility to hold the cat in court and what we want is we asked so belgians sent thousands of emails to the responsible minister of the belgian thruout agency to ask him

that the utilities will be i mean will be humane the problem is now that the belgian food security agency systematically gives and gives bed you're basically risks i mean it's the exaggerated you see the big don't believe that the reason of solution that can be humane. or truckie post only faith that's the way things look in so far this shooter the 19th of may from moscow through these times are to continue to of course to update your line of social media from a network of studios and teams around the world will appreciate you taking the time to check in with us when you can as well so for now for me kevin now and stay safe and well and wherever you're watching around the world have a great day. is

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