all media professionals are eligible whether you are a freelance journalist work for alternative media or part of a global news platform to participate published works and video all written for not go to award dot dot com and enter now. 2 pm tuesday may 19th here in moscow in the headline several french schools are forced to close again just days after reopening as new cases where other tech to. its world health organization's decision making body meets to work on the next global efforts to tackle the pandemic then now president trump is threatening to permanently x. its u.s. funding. belgian health care workers turned their backs on their prime minister in protest over the government's handling of the pandemic there as the country eases more measures we speak to one of those medics. it started 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 treating the medical sector. and although russia's daily infection rate is slowing there are still problems region seeing a spike one such is. where the fighting talk from the 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've personally had over 20 close relatives hospitalized many of them are no longer with us please don't says it anyone and don't accept yes. high life march into nationals will do center in moscow that is kevin 0 in here for the next 30 minutes with the latest round up for you and getting children back to school is a mixed results. in europe we can report e.u.

education ministers held a video conference on monday to discuss the impact of the break in said that hasn't been fingers crossed a significant increase in transmission in the $22.00 countries were classes overturned but covet to validate is a number of french schools have had to close again after only a few days because of new infections reporting from paris charlotte do bensky 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. it is probably a virus that was contracted before returning to school after exiting confinement will see what the analyses say. this is what many teachers and their unions had warned about they import the government not 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 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 close 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 are only a small percentage overall 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 going teen 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 corona virus because of it is a child presented 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 developing the symptoms the 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 $100.00 reported cases since the beginning of march at present parent in france can decide whether or

not to send their children back to school but even these new cases of covert $900.00 scented around reopen schools and the surge in more complex cases involving children many parents just may decide that it is still too risky show what you can ski r.t. paris. president trumps renewed his attacks on the world health organization threaten to cut u.s. funding for good he's written to the head of the us health agency with a 30 day ultimatum no to make big changes or permanently lose the united states membership from accuses the w.h.o. of mishandling the coronavirus 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. will trump says the w.h.o. made several inaccurate and misleading claims about the coronavirus and accuses the agency of simply moving too slowly he described his letter as self-explanatory although it doesn't specify what the agency has to do to maintain funding the letter just calls for the w.h.o. to demonstrate independence from china more than a 100 countries a calling for a probe into the deadly wait shows coronavirus response and update on that next than from artie's peter all over. but 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 there 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 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 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 china for their part on the world health organization of the night 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 also sent doctors and aid to africa and other developing nations china will provide 2000000000 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 of the world health organization has said that there will be an independent inquiry into how whatley 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 learned 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 so nick on a full 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 that is free of complacency and unfounded accusations that now contrary 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 and. we have as strong as the weakest our systems for the world health assembly continues on choose to be looking for more of a unified approach to fighting the fire a sin less of the the fingerpointing that we saw on monday. peter all over while belgium is further easing its log 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 new cases and $28.00 fatalities reported on monday that said belgium currently though has the highest mortality rate per capita in the world and that's prompted criticism over its handling of the crisis indeed at the weekend health care staff and one brussels hospital protested during a visit by the prime minister turning their backs on a motorcade she arrived at that she was there on a bridge building mission calling her visitor a message of appeasement to hospital workers but they say their efforts not being properly knowledge and they've railed against unqualified staff being brought in as nurses in this crisis. we found at this location where the prime minister was going to come and see us was the right occasion to show how we disagree with the way that treating the medical sector 1st. it's all of this that are working on the scenes under starts and the load of work. work there is to every this

was our 1st glimpse where we had a big disagreement with x. and enough so it's all health care system should be fine and it's so that you can work. 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 forms as well as p.p. shortages in hospitals and health centers medical staff are also gods for the government over what they say is a longstanding lack of recognition given to the nursing sector they're demanding wide ranging improvements in belgium's health care system after the pandemic and they're urging caution to the country opens up once again. belgium which is true only what you have a 1000000 we've got 9 ministers for the health so i mean like this. 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 must or 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 your day 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 we'll all 'd be in streets. elements here russian promise to make a machinist in spain discharged from hospital is now back to work after his covert 19 treatment he comes as 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 are still struggling to contain the outbreak has done hawkins explains. rates of that curve of new infections in russia are over all the exponential growth has been slowing down and reaching that all important plateau that's been the trend across moscow and many other russian regions. just on the betrand 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 situation in dagestan is proving difficult new cases of the sickness continue to be reported with serious complications. now as in most. he says the covert 19 affection a spare moment one in a video conference with president putin in the region his top cleric moved the line

up the live said he was actually finding it very hard it's good to see himself was still still suffering from covert 19 and he cool on the president because an action that cyclists warming trend in the republic household names in russia as well as the u.f.c. champion m.m.a. fights. 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 has now been to be linked in some way to cope with 19 as well and be said that his father is by far far from the only family member 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 will 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 of wealth or working with luck since to follow orders but meanwhile specialists estimate that the primary reason for severe complications he suffered by those in the region even in our late call is for medical help to shoot as well as self medication at home people he 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 proposed stall for the short the job. protective equipment but since i'm led of course those disproportionately oyu debts among medical staff in

the region so the spotlight now is very much on doctors thought about me a person who sort of the building of what extra military hospital facility to house specifically a covert infection infected patients as well as sending actual resources to the region in terms of soft material and medical resources so multiple efforts now on the way to try and stem this tide. which is very much been going against the overall trends over the last few days in the country stick around keep watching if you can if you got the time this is out international live from moscow off the break looking frets we talk to the director of the stockholm international peace research institute about the dangers maybe of terrorism while the world's busy dealing with a break about without a much more just 90 seconds. join

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80 minutes past to moscow time their attention is may have shifted almost exclusively to dealing with corona virus of course right now but that doesn't apparently mean other dangers of going away it's thought terror groups are working on their next moves during all this while governments are busily diverted towards the health crisis. person who thinks that strongly is the director of the stockholm international peace research institutes we spoke to him about it we asked whether the world is likely to become a more violent place once the pandemic is finally over. while the power changes many many things it doesn't change everything doesn't necessarily change the goals of political activists or armed groups doesn't change

either the short term and all that long time james and islamic state and others around the world in different places may be seeing opportunities from the south in the way that the pandemic might be weakening their ancestors or at the very least distracting their investors and serve other prior. 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 leave and also getting involved and really atrocious actions so obviously the worse the social and the economic conditions the more all that are is a pool of that kind of recruit for isis and other such groups to to draw so therefore one has to look very much on the social and the economic effects of

the boundary and they are hard to bear for it conscience extremely difficult to baffle countries and i'm afraid that can be almost devastating and impossible for war torn in conflict it's actually countries. in some sense that you could say everything worked out for us there will be less international cooperation because countries have been closing the doors on each other and blaming each other for the spread of the virus in ways or chair just unhelpful so it's resulting the problems that it raises you know is to say it's going to get worse there because the pandemic is going to have this potentially very destructive social and economic impact is specially in the most own countries. the other hand you can also see that there are many ways in which for example more and more people are getting more and more institutions i think even governments as well getting the point that you really try our souls these problems well. so you have to work together and if there

is more coherence and cooperation amongst especially the big powers but also the region hours in this war then there's also better chances for resolving the of and still other it may be the local or all that will realize that while the distance the disease. is no reason for the for the fighting to be getting worse in south it just makes us war of involved and more weak so i think you can see this is in both directions and at this point where we are now in the development of where we are now in the trajectory i don't see. the destination the end point is flip it may be worse and made it better and all the people and governments. will saurian from belgium govern attention away from the pandemic just about what is kind of link a former miss belgium finalist and her pet kitten at the center a big row after police showed up with

a hygiene official to kill the cat they claim model slain or at least smuggled the animal from peru bringing with it the risk of rabies offices in fact no can even find the cat and the court is set to decide what happens next let me tell you more selena rally was working as an intern in peru when she adopted the kitten that she called leave the pandemic very quickly forced her to return home and she brought her new feline friend where there is the problem peru carries a high risk of rabies who 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're also demanding a fine of $5000.00 euros for every hour yet every hour that the cat isn't handed over they're going really tough on this lawyer says it's not the animal's fault and officials should concede they've cause confusion he says. now the discussion is how can the life of this god be saved we agree the rules are being followed but it was impossible to follow the rules because there wasn't

a bit you wish or the budget authority says you should have left the yes. but there was nothing in there was nobody to take care of the the belgian law also says if you leave an animal unprotected you you can even go to prison but they asked her to do was to commit a crime to leave to get the belgian of dorothy now is very angry they want to kill the cat 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 intimidation and this is what by problematic. the stricken kidneys winning support online or a petition to save its life so far got $50000.00 signatures and climbing 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 insisting euthanasia is now 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 emergency vaccination and an end to sarah had to be administered to a total of nearly 100 people who came into contact with their emails 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 only reasonable and not necessary at all and you europeans are show it is also not an option the possibility to hold the jet 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. for a this will be a meeting will be humane the problem is now that the belgian food security agency systematically gives animals gives beds you're basically risks i mean is they exaggerated you see the big don't believe that the recent obs lucia that can be humane. file a sports events are slowly resuming in several countries much to the delight of millions of fans have been denied their fixture in the lockdowns they're not able of course though to pack out the stands just yet because of ongoing social distancing so enterprise one south korean football clubs found some shall we say the usual substitute supporters has left a lot of people red faced to. to

help. against. south korea kicked off over the weekend with a loud in the stands could. give the players the. us

. has taken on a new meaning. to south korea to watch some food. should be treated with respect to. things looking so far this choose a 19th of may for moscow throw these times i'll take it to use of course. social media network teams around the world we all appreciate you taking the time to check in with us if you can. stay safe and well. have a great day. standard

. geographic macroeconomic gambling. with the world reserve currency and. financial engineers. my thought is that this pandemic has exposed incredible 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.

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so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. dramatic development only closely i'm going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. greetings and sell you. welcome back everyone to another start of another week's worth of hawk watching here on our t.v. you know there are so much out there to cover so today let's kick things off with a story about coverage a little.