send stand the world war 2 the united states has been the unbelievable winner of the global geographic macroeconomic gambling casino church with the world reserve currency and really smart intelligent financial engineers and software engineers but that. has run up debts 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. this

is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss. in washington coming up positive news for a potential run a virus vaccine sparked a rally on wall street but how long could it lasts and as a pandemic shifts global trade and supply chains kind of may have to fight another trade war in the pacific we'll break it down with miami business well we have a package of the day so let's go and dive right that. we begin this hour with an update on the global pandemic the crown of ours has infected more than 4700000 people globally the death toll is now at nearly 317000 while stocks surged on monday morning as manager and i reported some positive data on early vaccine testing for its phase one response company's stock was up nearly 30 percent early monday the company said it will begin the phase 3 trial on the

vaccine. in and july us coronavirus cases near 1500000 states are easing restrictions america's auto industry is gradually reopening this is a sector that employs nearly 1000000 people the troubled ministration is now considering restoring funding to the world health organization this is just one month after the president announced it would suspend funds over the alleged mishandling of the krona virus meanwhile the chinese president xi jinping pledged billions to the organization to help fight the pandemic. trying to provide $2000000000.00 over 2 years to help with code 19 response and economic and social development in a friendly countries especially developing countries. this comes as the head of the w.h.o. promised an independent probe into the global response to covert 19 so i will

initiate an independent evaluation. at the earliest appropriate a moment to review experience game. and to make rico members shoes. national and global preparedness and response europe continued to ease its lockdown on monday as new infections and deaths have significantly slowed many countries are preparing to open their borders next month this in time for summer tourist season meanwhile new cases in brazil topped the total in italy the country reported nearly $15000.00 new infections on saturday alone cases are also surging in mexico and peru as these at latin american countries are struggling to contain the growing pandemic russia now the country with the 2nd highest number of cases just behind the u.s. it's kovan 1000 growth rate did slow to a record low of 30 percent or 8126 new cases in the last 24 hours.

now let's bring in boomers co-host christi i for some market analysis kristie the madonna krone virus vaccine or trials are showing some promising results here and are fueling a rally in the stock market the dow is up nearly 4 percent what are we seeing. why i think one of the big news is madonna as you just mentioned the company reported that after 2 doses all 45 trial participants had developed coronavirus antibodies now meanwhile this is still very early data but still very promising so we are massively up this morning around 3 percent across all the end next days as fed chair paul promised americans that quote there's a lot more that we can do to help the economy during his 60 minutes interview he also hinted that the fed is not out of ammo yet and that there is no limit on what they can do with these lending programs now this is kind of reminiscent of morrow jockey when he famously announced whatever it takes basically with this just are investors are now in a buy everything mode now knowing that there is a safety net with the fed buying everything including corporate bonds now all the

games today are being led by some. the most beaten down and heavily short of cyclical names such as autos energy transport banks and more than 90 percent of the s. and p. are rising today so this may be overly optimistic as we're likely to see some choppy trading as states are still struggling to be open the economy is well kristie where is all this buying coming from and is it even sustainable. well it will look at that's where it gets really interesting because according to the latest from deutsche bank flow data hedge funds and various other levered investors professional investors have continually tried to take down exposures including today during this rally continuously selling out of all the positions and winding down their exposure so by contrast robin hood charles schwab all the retail brokers they're reporting record 5 volumes today so this shows you that right now institutional are selling out and selling down to retail investors and this is kind of concerning as you have the pros getting out of the market while retailers are

kind of buying everything in sight thinking that they're getting it at a bargain discount price and also according to no more asset managers and never have continued to start a sellout or being short or be very hedged into equities month to date well kristie let me turn it over to to softbank who's suffered this huge loss this past quarter not due to their we work situation what's the latest on that front. old sock bank took a massive hit from we work last year but now with the latest earnings presentation it revealed this new valuation for the co-working startup to be now at $2900000000.00 as of march 31st now stop bank was its largest investor plowing over $18500000000.00 into the company and work was once valued as much as 47000000000 dollars last year before his botched i.p.o. and while there was a time period actor its failure when it looked like it was kind of stabilizing with a hole in one place but the current wave was truly the last nail in the coffin as

a pandemic may co-working a dangerous activity so now it seems like the future is in coworking and share spaces rather it's home office and teleconferencing well kristie let me ask you one more question do you suggest with all the stimulus is the fed are they actually going to honestly look at negative rates i know they said no last week but is that the reality. i think that the reality is that they are going to have to take a look at negative rates because treasuries right now are pricing it in and as much as investors would want they're still pricing it and so as much as powell said that he's not going to consider and that is nowhere in the cards for the u.s. we will probably eventually get there especially when the entire world is at negative rates it's going to be a tough decision but a lot of stimulus already in forced into the economy so we'll keep an eye on that too much co-host christine thanks for that analysis. thank you. for all the talk of the need for contact tracing apps there are reports monday that the tracing

technology being jointly created by apple and google will be virtually useless well according to the washington post local health authorities and states like north dakota as well often countries such as canada and the united kingdom well they say they've pleaded with the companies to give them more control over the kinds of information their apps can collect without the company's help some worry their contact tracing systems will remain dangerously strained joining us now to discuss is boom bust and investigative journalist ben swan than good to see you. wire is already there and varying countries including some local governments here in the united states now saying that the apple google collaborative will not be of use. while they're saying that for a couple of reasons the biggest reason is because you have local governments as you said and national governments around the world that are demanding that apple and google do more the what they're willing to do right now the issue is simply this apple and google are saying we can use this contact tracing app to be able to

monitor where people are not everyone has to opt in under this system you can choose to opt in and if you do that it would tell you essentially what the notification within 2 weeks whether you've been in contact with someone who had coronavirus but what it doesn't do is give you a pinpoint a location of exactly where you were it doesn't track your movements from place to place and that's what governments don't like what they want they're complaining about is that they're not getting the nuff from apple and google they want to be able to trace exactly where someone was what they were doing who they were around. what point they were at and where they went to next and where they went to next and so they're complaining but that they're not getting enough information and apple and google are essentially saying you what too much information and privacy laws and the desires of our customers is that they not be tracked everywhere they go that's right and some countries in europe we've discussed previously in the past few weeks how how they were asking the. google to ease some of these privacy restrictions and didn't actually go through them but let me ask you this apple and

google both saying that there are some privacy issues here that's what their take is for the customers right well is this an issue of data collection and who collects the data and then who keeps the data and where does it go. well that is part of it i mean part of it is that these 2 tech companies apple and google are saying hey we'll gather the information we'll have the data and then we'll pass it to you and that's in range in a lot of public health officials and and politicians because they say no no no you collect the data you give it all to us and we'll decide what to do with it and there right now there's a battle between essentially the private collection and storage of this information versus government collection and storage of the nation and i don't think governments like the idea of not being the ones in control of it but there's also a technical issue here that's very important in order for this app to work you essentially have to have your bluetooth on the entire day 24 hours a day and then when you're out and about that bluetooth is connecting to other devices that also have their bluetooth on what apple and google are saying is listen a lot of our users are going to get mad when their phone batteries are dead right

away because they're walking around with their bluetooth on and running this because remember the other thing that these governments are asking for is that even when you turn your phone off or you move to a different app that that bluetooth apps keep running in the background the entire time and apple and google are both saying no to this because it essentially violates their their policies to have an app running and tracking you in the background but it would also drain your battery almost immediately especially if you have an older device well especially if you have an older device like you're saying and most mostly because we still have lease they say the option to turn off the settings on them be able to track us when we're not using those apps but then we do know that some government such as the united kingdom they've decided not to work with apple and google and instead they're developing their own contact tracing system one of their own but is that really not working correct it's really not working and you know when you say these governments have decided they say or it apple and google will just do it by ourselves sarah governments are terrible at

most of the things they do but they're certainly terrible at developing tech and in this case they've decided to do what other countries are deciding as well as well just go without you and will create this test without. we don't need you now they're finding out actually they kind of do need apple and they do need google to do this because their apps are not working but i think this is important i just want to mention it contact tracing as a concept doesn't make sense right now i've heard from multiple doctors who are saying that contact tracing is only valuable in the very earliest stages of a virus and at the point we're at now context raising wouldn't even necessarily make sense because so many people in the population either have antibodies in their system or have been exposed and so contact tracing now wouldn't even necessarily work very well well even if it wouldn't necessarily work do you see the government continue to push for and will they eventually get what they want well they will continue to push for it and i think you have to now i ask the question is this

contact tracing actually about covert 19 or is it about more surveillance and those who kind of scoff at that idea and like well you know why why would we believe that well why wouldn't we believe that when every other major piece of legislation that's been passed in this country for the last 20 years has been about developing a surveillance state this would only add to surveillance being able to track your exact location at all times and if you mandated into phones apple and google for instance android and apple devices you would essentially be able to say all people are being tracked by their phones at all times i think government will continue to push for it the question is will tech companies go along with it or will they try to be the masters of that space and make governments dependent on them i mean and then we have on our phones for example apple where they're asking you can we store your data we're health data you can turn that on or off to so do you see them breaking down eventually. well i think the apple has its own purpose i don't ever say go for apple and google rags i just don't see them necessarily as good guys in

this i still don't but i think what they're doing right now is they're pretending to resist governments by saying we care about our our customers but they don't really care about our customers just look at their recent history and you know that's not true i think what they're actually trying to do here is that apple or google or essentially saying we want to be the ones who control the information gather the data store the data and we decide what governments get i mean in doing this apple and google as tech companies become more powerful than any government in the world in terms of surveillance they become the most powerful in-city when it comes to that i think that's ultimately what they want and that's exactly why the government is turning to that because like we said i mean the government is going to be able to break this we saw the f.b.i. when they finally cracked the apple phone when they were trying to solve and but do the investigation in california over the shooting so apple then i don't know that was a p.r. stunt or if it was just hey like we're going to protect you guys and protect the customers but they managed to pull it off at least to make the audience think hey

we're protecting your data when it comes to that co-host of the swan an investigative journalist thank you for the analysis. time now for a quick break but here the numbers at the close league play. please. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world the politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. pick. up

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never believe that one. can do to as a hobby of course very original years ago from the curb it. seems so logical for you decide to make it to work when i get out on the farm saw you know what it's like moss on to their next meal so he can listen and hopefully bless your heart hurts. tensions are flaring up once again between the united states and china both over the handling of the chrono virus and communications technologies from wall way on monday a spokesman from always said new u.s. sanctions on the talk giant threaten to devastate the company. in this relentless pursuit to tighten the stranglehold on our company the us government has decided to proceed and ignored completely the concerns expressed by many companies and

industry associations. this action this decision is both arbitrary and print issues and threatens to undermine the entire industry worldwide. the new rule will impact the expansion maintenance and continuous operations of networks worth hundreds of billions of dollars that we have ruled out across more than $170.00 countries this comes days after the trouble ministration restricted the company's ability to use american made chips this includes taiwan's t s m c which supplies over 90 percent of while we smartphone chips for more we are joined by dean of the miami business school. john thanks for your time thank you for joining us today now while way has already been hit after last year's restrictions that cut off access to american components and software this was last may these new restrictions now they're extremely worrisome for the telecom giant will they be able to survive. yes i'll be able to survive but this is one more turn

of the screw by the u.s. on the way and its effort to slow down the wild ways efforts to globally dominate the 5 g. market. the consumer division of huawei accounts for around about 50 percent of wall ways total sales and this particular regulation is aimed at that 50 percent that is focused on consumer smartphones. an interesting point here is that a big player is taiwan semiconductor and so this will put this effort by the u.s. will put taiwan in the crosshairs of u.s. china trade tension well currently the u.s. is leading china right leading the world when it comes to technology and artificial intelligence but experts are now cautioning that china it is ring facon so is this

a simple race for whoever has the more advanced technology. well the advanced technology is important and clearly the u.s. is still ahead in most arenas but china is catching catching up still a way behind but i think you know from a global point of view the global consumer is going to be advantaged in the long run by this very exciting competition between the u.s. and china. it's not just however about technology it's also about standards it's about who's going to set the international standards for these networks and for these platforms and that is as much about global diplomacy as it is about technology leadership or even with 5 g. over the u.s.'s threatened countries who will allow always lived into their their

their countries and the u.k. for example several countries have already said we're still going to allow while weighs 5 g. with certain components especially with china having made the made in china 2025 and they're trying or attempting to be the global leader in ai by 2030 let me turn this up a little bit because i want to ask you to about the china australia relations australia joined the u.s. when it called for an investigation of china over the alleged what they call the mishandling of the coronavirus well china had australia with tariffs that total 80.5 percent on australian barley shipments australia is now 3 buttoning to take that matter to the world trade organization will that do anything. well i'm not sure that that will resolve the matter and certainly not quick enough for australian bali farmers. china is the major export market for australian bali and we're talking about a $1000000000.00 worth of trade each year it's unlikely that the australian bali

farmers are going to find other markets quickly for the bali while on the other hand. china has a certain amount of leverage here because it can go to canada or it can go to argentina or it can go to france and source bawly from those countries. to the countries that have been the subject of rigorous sanctions from the united states are now working together as iran ships fuel to venezuela the u.s. is reportedly looking for ways to intervene which could signal a new conflict amid these increased tensions well for more we bring in our. leavens to discuss all the details rachel what's the latest conflict in this well in response to these reports that iran is in the process of shipping supplies to venezuela u.s. officials are reportedly deciding whether or not they want to intervene to try to

stop this exchange now if they do so one of the measures that they could take would be to deploy u.s. navy ships to the caribbean sea in an effort to prevent 5 iranian tankers that are currently on route with more than $45000000.00 worth of gasoline and supplies to prevent them from reaching venezuela's ports now the u.s. has yet to say that it's going to do this but at the same time we know that they have very very strict sanctions on iran and read us were allowed to try to cut them off from the rest of the world and it's definitely been hurting both countries but how has iran responded to this right well iran has actually filed a complaint with the united nations arguing that if the united states goes so far as to try to stop the shipments then it would be seen as a legal in an act of piracy and any consequences that come out of that are on the fault of washington now iran's a spokesperson for iran's foreign ministry also spoke out and he argued that the u.s. has no right to try to dictate where runs tankers are around the world take us no

he had to say you know by your own code what american stated regarding our oil tankers in various locations around the world is illegal and shameful if they make any move. against this really legitimate sealing of our ships i would definitely place reaction by the islamic republic of iran. now iran's supreme leader has also called for all u.s. troops to leave iraq and syria and he has gone as far 8 as to say that if they don't we voluntarily than they will be expelled and it's not clear yet exactly how that would happen but of course making statements like that is likely to once again increase tensions in another area between the u.s. and iran the united states has played sanctions on both of these countries say they've placed them for quite some time now how are are these really affecting these 2 countries right well the u.s. is targeting 2 countries that are known for their oil reserves and they have essentially cut off business with the rest of the world as a result of that and when we take a look at iran specifically we find that the country's g.d.p.

fell 4.8 percent in 2018 when the trumpet ministration began implementing sanctions and it fell another 9.5 percent in 2019 and employment rates also rose from 14.5 percent in 20000 to 16.8 percent in 2019 and the i.m.f. is forecasted 0 growth for 2020 now the sanctions on venice whale have left hundreds of thousands of civilians now lacking access to food water and basic medical supplies and this partnership with iran has given venezuela minimal access to chemicals it needs because it is otherwise unable to refine its own oil but the u.s. has seen the exchange as a way for the 2 countries to undermine sanctions now we have seen countries around the world calling on the u.s. to pull back on these things in the time of the coronavirus but the u.s. has instead doubled down so those sanctions are going to remain on iran until they agree to restrictions on their nuclear capabilities and that they'll remain on venezuela until they agree to overthrow their government one tensions have been

flaring up from both countries we know hyperinflation is present in and i saw on that has been for several sometime now that was r.t. correspondent rachel blevins thank you think. well the krona virus has put a halt to much of the global economy the race to space continues over the weekend at nasa kennedy space center the united states space for launch the mysterious x. 37 b. into orbit loaded with experiments the spacecraft or orbital test vehicle will circle the globe testing new technologies to maintain superiority in the space domain sunday's launch was dedicated to the health care workers and others working to fight the pandemic. that's it for this time you can catch boom bust on demand on the brand new portable t.v. available on smartphones through will play and the apple app store by searching portable t.v. has always talked about on youtube dot com slash boom bust r.t. will see you next time. thank.

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eat shit shit shit. out of it. yes for it. well coming up for us from around the world live from central london this is all to u.k. . the excess death toll across britain during the coronavirus crisis which is almost 55000 since the health secretary is forced to defend the government's position on failing to test patients discharged back into cameraman's . work invention secretary attempts to pin the blame on the scientific advice says m.p.'s slammed the government over its in adequate testing regime we hear from an expert in communicable disease control. from long doctors are still struggling to access personal protective equipment and coronavirus testing despite government

promises i'll be talking to broadcaster and n.h.s. doctor amid caught shortly. the world health organization's member states unanimously agreed to an inquiry into the international response to the corona virus we hear from our europe correspondent. and also this report on couples evidence of prison inmates with coronavirus symptoms locked in cells for up to a fortnight with no access to shell us to hear from a prisoner on the impact of. the number of excess deaths across britain due to the coronavirus crisis reaches a 55000 with the health secretary on the far of the discharging of patients back into care homes that's a row rubs off for the government is accused of trying to pin blame for mistakes on the sun to fake advice on. the latest so he says some shocking

excess death figures. yet subsidy to be seen throughout this crisis of course the government releasing their own sugars when it comes to those who died after just 2 positive. 19 but alongside me also. in figures from the office for national statistics the ins now we have a look at one of their biggest tell us according to the ins the have been in excess of just under 55000 deaths across the u.k. the biggest based upon a 5 year average of the comparable period until maybe 8 in england and wales alone there have been just under $40000.00 coded 19 related deaths which suggests that the actual figure out. compared to what the government figures are is much higher but there might be some positive news because in the week leading up to maybe 8 in england and wales code in 1000 related deaths. but. we've also seen

in calves as well again in the same period at deaths falling by a 3rd from over 24021660 6 have suggested that the so-called flattening of the curve is taking place but despite that the government have consistently come into criticism for the handling of the crisis in particular in social cat settings in the shadow of a social care minister and his candle was one of those to take the health secretary not hancock to task. and it has england right he asked hospitals to free up at least 30000 beds to cope with the virus but can he explain why there was no requirement to test those being discharged to can't homes the very group most at risk until april the 15th it's important to remember that hospital can be a dangerous place for people as well as saving lives it also is it can carry risks

and does and so it is appropriate and clinical decision and appropriate in many cases for people to be discharged from hospital and safer for them to go to a care home but what's important is that infection control procedures are in place in that can hone and those infection control procedures have were put in place at the start of this crisis and have been strengthened exactly as she says as we've learnt more and more about the virus all the way around and as the clinical understanding of coronavirus has strengthened so too we've updated and strengthened our guidance and these are the blame game between politicians and scientists has finally erupted yes so the beginning of this crisis we did see somewhat of a united shrug between politicians and the scientists who they said they were following but now it would appear that there is

a very visible split between the 2 sides in particular the work and pensions section treat juries at kofi saying that any decisions the government took were based on scientific advice and that if anything's going wrong that's where the blame should be like well if this if the science was wrong advice at the time is wrong i'm not surprised if people then think we made a wrong decision but you have to take judge and say see what you are again. elsewhere there's also perhaps a difference in how to deal with for example the reopening of schools professor john edmonds he's one of the advisors who sits on state scientific advisory group for emergencies and he said that opening primary schools children they aren't particular risk that they won't die from this virus in the main and they're less likely to transmit it to others but that the decision to reopen schools in particular primary schools in june would be

a political decision and not the scientific ones of past some of the washing of hands by someone in the scientific community and putting responsibility for a big decision like that on the government now elsewhere in the chair of the commons science and technology committee brian clark writing a letter to the prime minister critical of the government's handling of testing and we have a look at some of what this lettuce says it says that testing has been inadequate threw out the outbreak that the government only reaching their own 100000 test target at the end of april he also emphasized that capacity drove strategy rather than the other way round so in other words the government's strategy was based only on how much capacity for testing they had which was of course very little at the beginning he also said that the government's approach was only based on involving a small number of labs rather than reaching out to the public sector universities private labs and so on he also took issue with the fact that the majority of the

government's testing has been taking place mainly in hospitals and not in the community amongst the general public he also criticised public bodies like the n.h.s. for not taking the initiative at the beginning of the pandemic and saying that they too should have done more rather than just wait on the health secretary to set targets and said lead the way so as far as the chair for the common science and technology committee is concerned it's plenty of blame to go around for the failings around testing. thank you very much indeed out he gaze is out of that. we'll see a consultant in communicable disease control dr broadband county had told me earlier that the science and the politics need to be kept totally separate. scientists advise and the politicians take the ultimate decisions and for a long time people like myself who are independent scientists have been asking to

see the minutes of the sage and the constitution of the sage and the make up of sage and if we had we wouldn't be having these difficulties today this is very disappointing the scientists are doing a very difficult job but at the same time it would have been much better if the minutes of the sage the advice given to the government and the reference material that sage was using was public knowledge because that way we would all knock the law of the land and the decisions and the floor of information to the politicians and this obsession with a 100000 tests every day the accusation is that they let capacity drive policy not the other way around indeed and really to be honest it is a numbers game and it bumbles members of the public what we want is demand and supply and more importantly we want appropriate testing at appropriate places so we have a very centralized control and with a centralized control we do not have that dynamic of testing locally and there are

local g.p.'s this is incredible absolutely incredible we have local heroes local people who really know the stuff pretty bypassed from being able to undertake testing or contact tracing and long term we are going to need the local experts the g.p.'s the physicians public health people to manage it locally as it happens so why not use them from the beginning you say long term isn't this all going to be over soon the death rates falling fracture rates falling is that really a danger of a 2nd wave we have to brace ourselves for a much longer right and be upfront and clear with our people that this is the long run. british doctors are still struggling to source adequate personal protective equipment and access to testing as according to. by a professional body representing 25000 doctors. one in 6 of the nearly 1600 respondents said there have been situations in the last 2 weeks where they were unable to access p.p.

meanwhile the 3rd reported that they had no chance to test and check if it fitted properly 5 percent have been unable to access testing for the virus but this more than triples when doctors try to get members of their whole soul tested and this is left nearly half of doctors are very concerned or very concerned for their own health the royal college of physicians says more is needed to be done to give doctors the confidence to do their job. employers must do more to help and reassure staff giving them the confidence to fit check their own people you should be to bare minimum clinicians are working incredibly hard in the most extraordinary circumstances the n.h.s. a service faced but without the right safety measures in place they're still living in fear for their own health and the health of their families. over $200.00 frontline health care staff of died from coronavirus in britain since the crisis started this is led to claims that the government's strategy regarding p.p.

had put lives at risk the department of health says it has delivered over 1330000 items since the start of the outbreak and health care staff can ring a dedicated n.h.s. helpline to report shortages discuss this further i'm joined by broadcaster and h.s. dr i'm in a car i'm in very good of you to join us today now this is very worrying isn't it we've been told time and time again that the frontline medics do now have the kit they need yeah we are being told and unfortunately survey proves otherwise you know are my colleagues on the front line in hospital are still struggling to get the right p.p. and when they do get it suggests that actually they not be fitted for it probably in the fifty's key if we don't get a tight seal around your mouth we don't get a tight seal around your eyes there's no point wearing that people because the virus can just get into the tiniest of gaps and i understand sometimes you know medical cases agent and you have to do that but you should have to put yourself at

risk in order to do so so yes i agree employer and that might be hospital trusts need to make sure that their staff feel confident that the p.p. that they use. is appropriate for the situation that they they're dealing with and and it all goes back to the trust for for many of us really do we trust the advice that's coming out there's conflicting evidence between what public health england say and what the world health organization say is proper p.p. and is it just down to what's available and all of that puts a lot of distrust between clinicians like myself and the policy makers and that's really not a good place to be because doctors are often at risk from all kinds of diseases but it is concerning that they're so fearful for their health null because of the incorrect p.p. or the lack of it we are at risk of. illnesses as well other contagious illness is measles which generally a nice against but the other illnesses that we might be affected by generally

a minor and we make a full recovery this is a new virus that has killed over 200 health workers so we haven't seen anything like this before in the u.k. in recent times and the ban that all health care work is needed is adequate p.p. that is evidence based and that goes back to my previous point the evidence behind some of the public health england p p e requirements is patchy compared to what the world health organization says and that is a real concern for a lot of medics let's talk about testing now the health secretary said that everyone over the age of 5 with symptoms can now get a test but of course i can't even adequately test health care staff or indeed their families. we're still struggling to get these tests on time when you do order them or request them your appointment may be days late and by which time you know you've missed work you may not you know you're not going to work when you could go into work family members may then have become affected as well and yes i'm hearing that

even now for people using the government website so so there really needs to be a better system in place for health care workers in particular who are on the front line and talking about the front line you and your colleagues is there a glimmer of hope now obviously the figures are suggesting things are getting better lower death rates and low infection rates but what are you experiencing is the pressure now off you and your colleagues that we have to be mindful of figures that come over the weekend i think today's figures will be more telling of what's gone on recently we are bracing ourselves for a 2nd peak 'd particularly have to be the scenes that we saw the day that but yes we are looking at ways to try and open up g.p. surgeries for more routine work as well in the hope that numbers will continue to. all these very very tentative very very much baby steps so so we're not counting our chickens just yet right so how big a 2nd wave are you talking about is it really the most vulnerable now the elderly

who really need to be shielded from the 2nd wave at the elderly have always nice to be shielded this 2nd wave may affect anyone and you know so we're getting youngsters as well getting it but yeah i just had that how critical could the 2nd wave be that well if if if previous to anything to go by it could be worse than the 1st one but i just don't know and so we have the next week to 10 days will be really telling to see whether these eases of of the guidelines of the lockdown have come to prematurely that is a concern amongst a lot of those medics including myself dr amir khan thank you very much indeed for joining us good to talk to you today and you well let's have a look at the how the virus is affecting the home nations n.h.s. england has reported 174 more hospital deaths in the past 24 hours the scottish 1st minister has announced 29 fatalities across all settings and wales reports 17 a northern and 7. these scottish 1st minister has revealed

a 33000000 pound budget to help get people back into work it comes as the unemployment figures reveal thousands of scots have become jobless since the outbreak began northern ireland has also noted a steep rise in job losses the rate almost doubled last month and the welsh health minister has accepted that some people could be shielding at home unnecessarily after thousands of letters were sent by mistake. another so take a look at the global figures and this is according to worldwide data collated by johns hopkins university as you can see here more than 4800000 have now been infected nearly 320000 deaths and over $1800000.00 have now covered well belgium open schools museums in beauty sun all these it continues to have the highest mortality rate per capita in the world that we can hospitals to turn their backs on the prime minister to protest against the government's handling of the crisis russia's daily infection rate shows signs of slowing but areas like dagestan

are reporting rises and president trump says he's taking an anti malaria drug to prevent the virus despite safety warnings from public health officials. still to come to this out of the world health organizations member states you know this may agree to an independent inquiry into the covenant you know we hear from all your of course from the. kind also report on cups evidence of prison lives with a lot of our symptoms look console's for weeks with no access to show us we have from the president on the impact on the pandemic and. the world is driven by a dream shaped by phone person. in

the dares thinks. we dare to ask. we go to work so straight home. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to confront ation let it be an arms race move his aunt off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be

successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. it's. the world health organizations member states of agree to an inquiry into the international response to the corona virus pandemic artie's europe correspondent peter all of us has more. world health organization members of passed without objection a resolution put forward by the european union on behalf of 100 nations calling for a full independent investigation into the global response to the coronavirus pandemic what this resolution says is that there will be a full impartial independent and comprehensive investigation into the world health

organization and in particular into the w.h.o. timelines the has been criticism of the world health organization that they didn't alert people or didn't alert nations soon enough to the dangers that we now know were presented by covert 19 chief among those criticizing the world health organization as being the united states during this summit which is taking place virtually for the 1st time jute a covert 19 the us secretary of health said the coronavirus was allowed to spiral out of control because of w.h.o. inaction 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 donald trump has suspended funding for the world health organization

jewing this pandemic his critics say he's using the w.h.o. as a scapegoat to cover up for failings in his own administration the united states has the highest number of people that have tested positive for corona virus it also has the highest number of fatalities from cove at 19 as well and we're also seeing the unemployment figures in the united states spiraling out of control of washington also to a diplomatic swipe. it will held a summit they supported a big. by taiwan to regain observer status at the world health organization now the independently governed island is claimed by beijing and they did have observer status until 2016 their bid backed by the u.s. alternately failed they didn't regain that status but china themselves on the world

health organization they've dismissed out of hand the criticisms leveled at them by the u.s. china has said that should a vaccine be developed in one of their laboratories it would be made open source available to everyone to produce they've also pledged cash to those nations that have been hardest hit by the coronavirus and their leader paying also pledged $2000000000.00 in coronavirus aid 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 the world health organization is direct the general has stood by the w.h.o. saying that yes mistakes were made but they were seized upon and learnt from immediately we've also heard from 2 of europe's heaviest hisss when it comes to the covert 90 response saying the only way forward is with unity and for nations to

work together on a false only if we join forces will we 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 devil a show is replaceable it needs in earnest the resources particularly to provide support to developing countries which must be our greatest. we are as strong as the weakest our systems with the u.s. proportioning blame and china pledging billions we do see that we'll find out who knew what when when this inquiry into the world health organization and the global corona response gets under way sometime in the future.

despite the government furlough scheme keeping millions on company payrolls throughout the lock down unemployment benefits claims have reached record highs those claims soared by nearly 900000 reaching 2100000 in the 1st month of lock down unemployment has also shot up 550-0021 point 35000000 and it could be much higher as 7 and a half minute being kept in work on follow meanwhile the chancellery soon has warned of worse to come i certainly were better protect every job in every business we're already seeing that in the date and no doubt there will be more hardship to come a lot down as a big 8 very sick on our economy we're likely to face a severe recession the lights which we haven't see and of course. on an. well for more on the economic impact of covert 19 i'll be joined by dr simon duffy direct to the center for welfare reform in the next hour. prisoners

with coronavirus symptoms have been locked in cells without show has or a chance to exercise for up to 14 days in prison more storms and a report published by the prison inspector it reveals that some inmates with symptoms what else of the cells but only 13 minutes per day as a result of time measures from the also said that limited spacing made social distancing extremely difficult prisoner pepsi watson spoke to r.t. u.k. and told us that this was a disaster waiting to happen. because of. the experience once with.

some offices. on the way. down as memo serco the company operating terms on prison where watson was 1st held defended its safety measures and the prison where he's currently detained says its strategy was working. the measures that we are taking include the suspension of all prison visits and social distancing measures to ensure prisoners in our offices are safe in line with ammo cheik arden's this includes restrictions on the time spent outside of cells the safety of our staff the public and of prisoners has been off 1st concern we have robust and flexible plans to deal with the outbreak based on the latest public health advice and there are positive early signs that these are proving effective. and you can find awful interview with pepsi watson telling us about the impact of the pandemic on prisons or not instagram account that's at instagram dot com forward slash r.t. u.k.

news. experts are calling for a radical 10 year recovery plan for britain's food system after the outbreak exposed deep fragilities so that rebuilding a fairer more sustainable u.k. food supply chain is fundamental for the future deplores were highlighted recently as reports reveal food shortages and over a 1000000 liters of milk being poured away during a pandemic and an inquiry set up by the government to examine the system concluded that the outbreak unearthed just fell inflexible it is one of the experts involved in the report told me it is crucial to make changes as soon as possible. where government needs a plan in fan is it has set up a national food strategy to look at these big and systemic issues but the work needs to ramp up dramatically now as a result of the epidemic so we need to think of the whole system not just the food on people's plates but how we produce food what we produce what we produce in this

country and what we choose to trade in so we think we need to produce a lot more than healthy nutritious affordable food we need in the u.k. that means more wood coachable fruit or vegetable nuts and pulses and meat and dairy from more sustainable sources but we also need a plan to make sure that that does not become unaffordable for our for customers so we need a strategy for ensuring that the farmers get a fair price that remains affordable for everybody who needs it and that's that's all as we all eat food and with the bricks it negotiations and u.s.-u.k. trade talks are still ongoing would be better to wait before embarking on a project like this. absolutely not in fact the opposite is the case we need a framework we need a set of policies that support healthy affordable a sustainable food production in this country before we enter into trade talks with

other countries because the rescue of not doing that is that all food policies and up in a rush to the bottom we end up trading on christ and on standards in a way that compromises the ability of our own farmers to produce high quality foods to high standards quenching no cost of this redeeming value and it risks a knock on effect right through the food system from farmers to food on people's plates that is as yet wholly understood important thought her. and that's it for the moment i'll be back with more news for you in half an hour. i don't. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see you then.

greetings and sal you. welcome back everyone to another start of another week's worth of hawk watching here on our t.v. you know there was so much out there to cover so today let's kick things off with a story about coverage a little too much coverage if you will i'm talking of course about the news that last week both republicans and democrats in the u.s. senate joined together to pass the usa freedom reauthorization act.