in the headlines today several french schools are forced to close again just days after reopening cases of detective. as the world health organization is decision making body needs to work on the next global efforts to tackle a pandemic now president trump is threatening to permanently x. its u.s. funding. health care workers turned their backs on the prime minister literally in protest over the government's handling of the pandemic there as the country. is coming up we speak to one of those medics. found at this location where the prime minister. sure i would disagree with the way that.

the medical sector. infection rate is slowing at the moment there are still seeing a spike problems one is data start. coming out from the u.f.c. world champion urging caution for his fellow citizens especially with the end of ramadan coming up this week. 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 please don't see anyone and don't accept. internationals worldview sent here moscow is kevin go in with you for the next 30 minutes with his latest round. so 1st getting children back to school see mixed results in europe at the moment. ministers held

a video conference on monday to discuss the impact of the break and said on a bit of good news there hasn't been a significant increase in transmission in the 22 countries where classes have returned so far but it's a big but a number of french schools have had to close again after only a few days of being open because of new infections reporting next from paris charlotte dubin ski them. 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 but you will see what the analyses say. this is what many teachers and their unions had warned about they import 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 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 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 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 not because not it is a child presented symptoms resembling sakhi disease. magickal tests done within the pediatric i.c.u. unit indicated that he had been in contact with the coronavirus without developing the symptoms the prior 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 with 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 so what do you can ski auty 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 un's health agency with a 30 day ultimatum to make big changes or permanently lose the united states membership notrump accuses the w.h.o. of mishandling the corona virus outbreak and cow towing to china their puppet of jonah. china centric to put it but they're a puppet of jonah we help fund the world health organization we use it like everyone else does they gave us a lot of very bad advice terrible advice they were wrong so much always on the side of china china paid 40000000000 dollars last year and we've been paying

$450000000.00 a year for many years somehow that doesn't work out too well. trauma's says the w.h.o. has 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 actually specify what the agency has to do to maintain white house funding the letter calls for the w.h.o. to demonstrate independence from china more than 100 countries are calling right now for a probe indeed into the w h o's coronavirus response and the date on that next then from artie's peter all of a. 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 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 of 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 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 cynical noons on the phone 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 the 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 because all systems of 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. belgium is for the reason it's locked 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 $28.00 fatalities reported on monday but that said belgium currently too has the highest mortality rate per capita in the world and that's prompted criticism over its handling of the crisis so at the weekend health care staff at one brussels hospital protested very visibly during a visit by the prime minister literally turning their backs on a motorcade as she arrived she was there on a bridge building mission calling her visitor message of appeasement a tall spittle workers but nonetheless they said the reference and not being properly acknowledged and they've railed against unqualified staff now being brought in as nurses during this crisis. 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 they're treating 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 audience where we had a 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 is 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 dogs too with the government over what they say is a longstanding lack of recognition given to the nursing sector there demanding wide ranging improvements in belgium's health care system after the pandemic and there are just caution to as the country opens up once again. building which is true only what you have a 1000000 we've got 9 ministers for the. well 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 most 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 you've day if they do take let's say radical changes in design coming well knows you might change vision but it's not the case for the moment yet that's for sure once coverage is over we'll all 'd be in streets. here russian prime minister may come a shoestring has been discharged from hospital and is now back at work after his covert 19 treatment it comes as here in russia the daily rate of new infections has been showing a welcome to klein over the past week but some parts of the country are still struggling to contain the outbreak to hawkins' reports next. breaks 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 the trend 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 in the situation and biggest town is proving difficult new cases of the sickness continue to be reported with serious complications. now as in most places the covert 19 affection i spared no one in

a video conference with president putin the region's top cleric moves the mind of the law of said he was actually funny very hard it's good to see himself was still still suffering from cope with 19 and he cool on the president because an action that cyclists warring trends 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 what you know luck since to follow orders but meanwhile specialists estimate that the primary reason for severe complications suffered by those in the region even in our late call is for medical help as well as self medication at home he said i will medical medical facilities and a shortage of testing kits as what is the shortage of facilities to process those testing kits. on the proposed stall for the shortage of protective equipment but

since i'm led of course those disproportionately high debts among medical stoff in the region so the spotlight now is very much on darkest on 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 results is to the region in terms of soft material and medical resources so multiple efforts now in a 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 we'll keep a close eye on but a look at this too after the break go looking for it so we talked to the director of the still cold winter national peace research institute about the dangers of terrorism and while the rest the world busy dealing with the outbreak we'll talk about one of the most to about 90 seconds.

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again our attentions may shifted almost exclusively of course to dealing with the coronavirus at the moment but behind the scenes that doesn't mean other dangers of going away it's thought that terror groups are working on their next moves while governments have busily diverted towards the current health crisis some of the things that strongly is the director of the stockholm international peace research institute so we asked a direct whether the world is likely to become a more violent place as and when this pandemic is over. while the pandemic changes many many things it doesn't change everything doesn't necessarily change the goals of political activists or armed groups it doesn't

change either the short term or the long time protect 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 buster or out of the very least distracting their investors into other priorities. the armed group is going to pay them and they're going to be able to use some of that communication to support their own finalists then quite often that is enough of a motivation for people to be risking their lives and leave also getting involved and really atrocious actions so obviously the worse the social and economic conditions the more that if there's a pool of that kind of recruit for isis and other such groups to to draw so that's all one has to look very much not to associate on the economic effects of

the boundary and they are hard to bat for it's conscience extremely difficult to battle over countries and i'm afraid that can be almost devastating and impossible for war torn in conflict as actually junction. in some sense that you could say everything will doubtless there will be less international cooperation because countries have been closing with doors on each other and blaming each other for the spread of the virus in ways which are just unhelpful. resulting the problems that it raises you know is to say it's going to get worse because the pandemic is going to have a potentially very destructive social and economic impact is especially 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. to allow for it so

you have to work together and if there is more coherence and cooperation amongst especially the big powers but also the median hours in this war then there's also better chances for resolving the of and further it may be on the local level that people realize that well the distance the disease has fixed is no reason at all for those for the fighting to be getting worse inside it just makes us more vulnerable and more weak so i think you can see this is in both directions and this is where we are now in the development of where we are now in the trajectory i don't see the the destination the end point is flip it may be worse and made it better it all depends on what people are going to. day in day out coronaviruses so many ways affect so many people's lives in a different ways case in point the next story is grab attention in belgium a former miss belgium finalist and their pet kitten there at the center of

a row after police showed up with a hygiene official to kill the cat they claim that model selena rally smuggled the animal in from peru bringing with it therefore the risk of rabies offices in front of the moment don't even know where the cat is the can't find it but you know which way a court is set to decide what happens next this is the back story slater ali was working as an in turn in peru when she adopted the kitten that she called lee very nice the pandemic though forced a very quickly to have returned home and that is when the trouble started when she brought a new feline friend back home with her peru unfortunately carries a high risk of rabies whereas most of europe is thankfully free of the does nasty disease so take a tough line to keep it that the belgian authorities not only want the cat put it. asleep but they're also demanding an astonishing fine of $5000.00 euro for every hour that the cat isn't handed over as a seller don't know where it is at the moment somewhere in europe the thing is that lawyer says it's not the animal's fault and officials 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 are being 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 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 belgium of their it you know is very angry they want to kill. and they don't give the possibility to prove that this does not really be us 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 what by problematic. the stricken kevin's winning support online or a petition to save it life is now got around $50000.00 signatures and climbing the flanders regions animal welfare minister has also weighed in but all that said the 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's making a point of this it seems it's insisting 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 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 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 only reasonable and not necessary nor calling to europeans or show asia 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. the utilities will be i mean will be humane the problem is now that the belgian food security agency systematically gives and gives beds you obviously risks. be exaggerated you see the big don't believe that the recent obs lucian that can be humane. will try to take him if i know what happens next support of him so slowly resuming in several countries much the light of course of millions of fans who've been denied their fixture in the

locked arms they're not able to pack out the stars just yet because of social distancing of course so and genetic one south korean football clubs found some rather unusual substitute supporters miss left a lot of people really rather red faced.

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