in the headlines today several french schools are forced to close again just days after reopening as new cases have been detected. as world health organizations decision making body meets to work on the next global efforts to tackle the pandemic ongoing president trump threatens to permanently x. its us funding. belgian health care workers turned their backs on their prime minister in protest over the government's handling of the pandemic as the country. is one of those medics. found at this location where the prime minister. was the right occasion. we disagree with the way that. the medical sector.

rushes daily infection rate is slowing at the moment there are still problem region seeing a spike one. where the fighting talk from a u.f.c. world champion urging caution for his fellow citizens especially with the end of ramadan coming up this weekend. my father is in the 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. their life martin to nationals will do center in moscow is kevin owen here for this will do use update for the next 30 minutes and stay with. first getting children back to school is a mixed results in europe ministers held a video conference on monday to discuss the impact of the outbreak and they said.

that 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 of being open because of new infections reporting about that from paris charlotte 1st. 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. virus control you can probably school. point all she wants another. are enough but. this is what many teachers and they unions had warned about they imported the government to reopen schools fearing that they could become a 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 we have mixed feelings everything just opened up 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 also opens 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 this morning percentage. 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 1000 is relative. 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 not focus on to this child presenting symptoms resembling a disease a logical test 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 even these new cases of covert 19 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 trump renewed his attacks on the world health organization threatening to cut u.s. funding for good he's written to the head of the un's health agency with a 30 day ultimatum no to make big changes or permanently lose the u.s. united states membership trump accuses the w.h.o. of mishandling the corona virus outbreak and kowtowing to china he said. 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 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 although it doesn't specify what the agency has to do to maintain that white house from the the letter just calls for the w.h.o. to demonstrate independence from china let's get more lisp either all of us across in berlin high paid morning or afternoon more than a 100 countries are calling for a probe into the different shows coronavirus respond take us through what's happening them. well this is all taking place against the backdrop of the 73rd united nations health assembly taking place perhaps the most important one of those gatherings albeit even if this one is taking place virtually that there's ever been on a global stage and while it would seem like the perfect opportunity for nations to come together and work collectively to try and establish

a vaccine to get aid to those nations that need it most what's it's being used for what this platform is being used for by the united states as an opportunity to point the finger of blame firmly at the world health organization and accuse them of essentially letting this crisis spin out of control it was a 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 as we heard donald trump the u.s. president has suspended funding for the world health organization amid this pandemic. his critics say that he's using them essentially as a scapegoat for his own administration's failings in dealing with the covert 19 pandemic 'd saying that if you look at the united states having the highest number

of cases around the world the highest number of fatalities as well and also looking at the spiraling unemployment figures in the united states world the u.s. administration also tried to play a diplomatic card on monday at this u.n. health gathering as they try to reinstate observateur status for taiwan now that seems to be a clear bite china taiwan the self-governing island is claimed by beijing it did have observer status out this body until 2016 that attempt to regain observer status was unsuccessful china for their part and the world health organization of denied vehemently these claims that are being made against them by the united states from beijing's point of view they've pledged money to countries that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus they've also said this should it be a chinese laboratory that comes up with a vaccine that they'll make that vaccine open source or make it available to

everybody to produce that they also sent doctors and aid to africa and other developing nations as well china ultimately pledging to $1000000000.00 in aid to try and help fight the coronavirus. china will provide $2000000000.00 u.s. dollars over 2 years to help with the covert 19 response and with economic and social development in affected countries especially developing countries. well the world health organization has said that there will be an internal inquiry and sorry a big part in an independent inquiry into how they responded to the coded crisis that director general says that yes there were some things that slipped through the net but that they've learnt from them and he stood vehemently behind his organization while it's also being calls for unity and a unified approach to fighting the virus from 2 of europe's heaviest hitters

sunico new nissan the falls the only food joint 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 you do it now the country can solve this problem alone we must work together that great show is replaceable it needs and there is the resources to provide support to developing got a truce which must be our greatest. we had as strong as the weakest systems while the world health assembly continues on choose to be looking for more of a unified approach to fighting the virus and less of the the finger pointing that we saw on monday. you know when you're hobart. now next

belgium is further easing its log in clude seeing schools museums and beauty salons open their doors once again that number of active infections and the death rate here is decreasing there are fewer than 300 new cases and $28.00 fatalities reported on monday but all that said belgium currently has the highest mortality rate per capita in the world and that's prompted criticism over its handling of the crisis at the weekend health care staff and belgium hospital protested. over a visit by the prime minister in fact turning their backs on a motorcade that she arrived she was there on a bridge building mission calling her visitor message of appeasement to hospital workers but they say their efforts are not being properly normally they railed against unqualified staff being brought in as nurses to. be 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 they're doing the medical sector over 1st. it's all of

this that are working on the scenes under starts and loads of work. work to every this was our 1st. we had a big disagreement with x. and enough the words 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 was. so we want change on those. as well as p.p. shortages in hospitals and health centers medical staff are at odds with the government over what they say is a long standing lack of recognition given to the nursing sector they're demanding wide ranging improvements in belgium's health care system after the pandemic in a urging caution to as a country opens up once again. belgium which is a very small town true only to devon 1000000 we've got 9 minutes that's 4 for the hell so i mean like that's just

a crazy number and they're not even able to to get something right and so it's going. to other ministers to take care of the mass of the population so now it's defense which is going to take care of that so we're wondering what's 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 it will be in streets. here in russia the daily rate of new infections has been showing a welcome decline over the past week but some parts of the country still struggling to contain the outbreak the dagestan republican the north caucasus is one of the hardest hit regions more than 40 doctors there have died in the battle against the virus and local medical staff face increasing challenges with over one hospitals and a lack of equipment they say wanted to hawkins is called more on the. rates of that

curve of new infections in russia overall the exponential growth has been slowing down and reaching that all important plateau that's been trying to cross moscow and many other russian regions. just on the road betrayed it seems to be going very much in the opposite direction with information coming out of the region which is quite boring that 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 in the situation in dagestan is proving difficult new cases of the sickness continue to be reported with serious complications. isn't the most populated region of russia nor is it the most densely populated and relation of around 3000000 that are in the middle school was republic but we have used coming out of there of medical facilities being simply overwhelmed when able to cope with the number of new infections and hospital admissions infections and fatalities rising quite quickly with medics that have been on the

front line of tackling the pub and it being hit especially hard. now as in most places the cloven montini infection i spent most in a video conference with president putin the region's top cleric the man of the law of said he was actually funny for the whole it's good to see himself was still still suffering from cope with monti and he cool on the president as an action of cyclists warring trends in the republic household names in russia as well as the u.f.c. champion m.m.a.

fights. about a went public just over the last 24 hours old updates on his father's health condition is of course been taken only from drug assault to loss surgery heart surgery which has now been to be linked in some way to cope with mind team as well and. said that his father is by fall fall from the only excitement about him but to be affected by this terrible illness i can't stress i'm in the hearts of my needs my father is in hospital his condition is very severe we pray to allah that he. well return him to us i've personally had over 20 close relatives hospitalized many of them are no longer with us 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 it's

a muslim majority republican small and very deep historical conservative traditions there's large families and bolts full generations living under the same roof and often a sort of mistrust the more thorough if you know luck since to follow orders with people attending big family events like weddings and of course funerals when people do die these are massive bands 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 d'agostini 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 south an occasion at home and the problem of course is wider and more practical as well as we said overwhelm medical medical facilities and a shortage of testing kits is what is 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 under reported and skewed of course in russia an autopsy is needed to officially confirm a cause of death as koby did not all families and douglas thought and said so this has led to speculation those figures may in fact be inaccurate to start with so the spotlight now is very much on dagestan buddy in person is sort of the building of what extra military hospital facility to house specifically a code infection in fact that patients now as well as sending actually sources to the region in terms of soft. material and medical resources as well. cooling residents as well not so gather to celebrate the end of the most of the rabbi that festival the end of the foster to stay at home and protect those that are particularly vulnerable so multiple efforts now in the way to try and stem this tide. on which is very much been going against the overall trends over the last few

days in the country. the break coming up and looking spread so we talked to the director of the stockholm international peace research institute about the dangers maybe of terrorism the world busy right now dealing with the outbreak what happened alfred what about without a much more just done 3 seconds away. when i was told seemed wrong. wrong just don't call. me the all you have to seep out of this thing comes after. and in detroit because of the trail . when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

we go to work. straight home. again our attentions may shift almost exclusively to dealing with the corona virus these days and that doesn't mean other dangers are going away if we go who thought terror groups working on the next moves while governments have busily diverted

towards the health crisis then that's according to the director of the stockholm international peace research institute we asked him whether the world's likely to become a war violent place once the pandemic is over. while the pandemic 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 state and others around the world in different places may be 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. 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 economic aspects of america and they are hard to bear for it functions extremely difficult to basle countries and i'm afraid that can be almost devastating and impossible for war torn in conflict as actually junction. the story grabbing attention in belgium away from a pandemic slightly missing belgium finalist and their pet kitten or the center a big row after police showed up with a hygiene official to kill a cat they claim model selena rally smuggled the pet in from peru bringing with it

therefore the risk of rabies novices couldn't find the cat and now a court said to decide what happens next so he was working as an intern in peru where she adopted the kitten which called lee the pandemic forces returned home quickly and she brought with her. new feline friend which the authority said was wrong peru carries a high risk of rabies whereas most of europe right now is free of the disease so taking a tough line to keep it that way the belgian authorities not only want the cat put to sleep but also demanding a fine of $5000.00 euros for every hour that the cat isn't handed over at least a lawyer says it's not the animal's fault an official should concede that they've caused some confusion here so now the discussion is how can the life of this get be saved we agree the rules have been followed but it was impossible to follow the rules because there wasn't a bit wish or the belgian authority says you should have left the yes. but there was nothing in period where there was nobody to take care of the the belgian law

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 authority now is very angry they want to kill. and they don't give the possibility to prove there is does not have radius 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 indeed mediation and this is why it's by problematic show you got your views on either way at home but either which way the stricken kitten is winning some support online where a petition to save its life is now got her own 50000 signatures the flanders regions animal welfare ministers also weighed in but all that said belgium's pet immigration rules clearly state that animals need to be micro chipped and

vaccinated up to a month before being brought into the country and the government insists that euthanasia is now the only way to prevent a potential rabies outbreak. 10 years ago 2 cases of rabies were diagnosed in our country one thing times appeared in the animal that thing healthy until then months later emergency vaccination and in one to sarah 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 a reasonable and not necessary at all according to europeans or should they should it is also an option the possibility to hold the cat in corinth what we want is we are still so belgians sent thousands of emails to the responsible minister of the belgian thruout agency to ask him that.

the authorities would be i mean would be humane the problem is now that the belgian food security agency systematically gives animals gives beds you know basically risks i mean is they exaggerates mysie they don't believe that the reason of solution that can be humane. several countries much to the delight of finally being able to get the fix. on the lockdowns now they are not able to pick up the stands yet just yet anyway because of social distancing. clubs so we say an unusual substitute for that left the rather red faced.

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plastics has taken on a new meaning. to south korea to watch some food. and should be treated with respect. world enable us why things are looking so far this choose they the 19th of may for moscow throughout all this of course r.t. will continue to update you on line of social media and from our network in studios and teams around the world 247 we appreciate you taking the time to check in with us too so for me kevin owen stay safe and well wherever you're watching have a great day.

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