greetings and sal you should welcome back everyone to another start of another week's worth of hawk watching here on our t.v. you know there is 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 of 2020. not surprisingly the usa freedom reauthorization

act has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with codifying endorsing and ultimately legalizing once again the national security and surveillance state that we all call this current version of the united states of america you see after expiring back in march the freedom act reauthorization restores government powers that lets law enforcement collect tangible things tens of all things related to national security investigations without a warrant requiring only approval from a secret court the pies a court that has reportedly rubber stamps many requests not reportedly they have these tangible things include things like oh you know warrant less access to your internet browsing and search history without having to prove you were under suspicion of doing anything wrong because you know who doesn't want folks like christopher ray steven elliot or william barr digging through your search history

online so all those supposed freedom protectors route storming state capitals armed to the teeth with guns and pretend patriotism you know the ones who got scared away from rain you know fighting for the right to reopen the bars and nail salons our elected officials in the u.s. senate were busy shredding even more of our constitutional protections and bill of rights seriously by stay at home 'd orders they it has nothing nothing on the united states congress says when it comes to removing personal rights and freedoms here in the united states which is why my friends we are always watching the hawks . what's going on in a city. that is so let's see this is this joyce state says a. great city displaced systemic just says they so choose. i wish. you. well

going on watching logs i am carol lin for and i'm a nice across and these are goodness gracious so everyone was out there on the capitol steps across the country and state after state saying we want our rights back we want to go outside we want to not have to really be home all the time. and then washington like passes actual things that violate people's rights they pass things that actually you know there's reauthorization act which is an extension of the old patriot act like that actually does violate u.s. citizens rights regardless of what you know fancy lawyers want to say in congress or you know people justify that kind of thing and nary a peep or rally 8 that the interesting thing about this is that it did hit certain news wave cycles by and it didn't get a lot of attention so i think a lot of americans aren't necessarily aware that this is happening what i did see on social media was a few libertarian groups come to speak out against it but thus far it's a can a fail like a tree in the forest nobody heard it so i think that part of the reasoning is that

there hasn't been enough media attention paid to it but in addition to that this is a very interesting time to push something a reauthorize something like this in congress more and more people are still looking towards another round of stimulus package they're trying to figure out what's going to happen with the economy so for this to come up now and they're not really be a large discussion in the grander speare about it i think is largely in part because of the timing in the framework that makes sense implicit that you often see that happen whether by choice or i guess happenstance you often see these kind of interesting bills that strip away rights kind of always being passed through the cover of darkness usually there's some other bigger issue going on the kind of keeps everyone distracted and then that's the time where it's like hey you know what the old freedom act you know once reauthorized that which i always find funny freedom that when they label these bills they often label them with the exact opposite of the contents of the bill when it comes to stuff that's controversial there's nothing freedom about allowing people like william barr. or whoever these a.g.'s down the line to start digging into our browsing history at all i think you

know absolutely and it also brings to the question why because if you the process if you going through and getting a warrant is not extremely long we've seen cases where within 24 hours one was given why would we need to obfuscate that process to go ahead and do things sooner and what types of not only by allusions of liberty and personal privacy but other things that this lead to because i know that there are a lot of people who probably don't want their browser history out there for the world to fear for anyone to see but in addition to that what gives you the leveraging power to do so outside of our current process i think that you know we've seen this this is a reactor i think since obviously we've had this process for your but since the original time frame i think that the american public has moved a lot more you know progressive when it came to ignore it when it came to forcefully pushing against having this level of scrutiny this level of privacy invasion and so it's very interesting to me that even beyond all the protests began

all the conversation we've seen over the past 67 years we're now back in the exact things space it is really interesting to see that there was a few people that put up a little bit of a defense of this in the senate it now moves over to the house to see what happens there and you know was it steve dame's republican of montana ron widen out a democrat or oregon and you know one of the rare times they get together and things they did offer up an amendment that would have prevented the use of section 215 for warrantless surveillance of internet searches which is what we're talking about but that failed by just one vote for didn't show up one of them including bernie sanders didn't show up to vote failed by one vote some of the would have prevented that rand paul of all people surprisingly rand paul of kentucky he proposed an amendment that would have actually exempted americans from being able to be under fire as a court approved surveillance which is actually i think something that we really need to discuss and should be brought up that they all just you know 51128585 senators voted against that from. keeping americans exempt from via the court which is what we saw abused during the whole russia gate controversy so it's very

interesting to see how you know they're all joining up to crossfire to keep by the court despite the problems that we've seen with it over the years and what is the narrative around the necessity here because i know that sometimes in these arguments there is the we want to protect this nation against terrorism terrorism threats so we want to be able to intercept that type of communication or those different codings before incident actually occurs. but do we have evidence that this actually works i mean we've been we've been using this process for a long time now and then you know most of the evidence that you'll see is usually the f.b.i. paying some homeless person and then giving them the weapons and the idea in the bar you know i mean you always see there's entrapment things where i look at and say that's clear entrapment you took some guy or some disgruntled or some discreet almost person maybe well let's and gave them all of the technology gave them the bomb and said look we caught a terrorist plot you know that's not actually stopping terrorism very rarely do you stop a crime before it happens that's only in the movies and t.v.

shows. and flowers bloom wildlife run free and waterways and aquatic life enjoy a time of little to no human interaction coping 19 has provided a respite from mother nature but this is not a time for environmental activists to take a rest actually it's time to sound the alarm even louder across america the u.s. environmental protection agency has sued city and industry forcing them to clean up their act reducing pollution that threatens our air and water quality for example in my home state of illinois the wood river refinery was sued by the state and federal government for releasing toxic waste water directly into the mississippi river 2 years ago they settled one lawsuit agreeing to spend 10 $1000000.00 for necessary upgrades and monitoring of the refinery as well as $500000.00 to clean up the low income homes and buildings that were affected just an f. why these low income. homes and buildings were home to young children and pregnant

women who'd been profoundly exposed to lead and other toxic emissions for years many of the children were born premature suffer from abnormalities and lived with a life long health issues equated with the disaster now do you think the e.p.a. pressure implants would push the factory to do better but not so fast to look 66 the company that owns the wood river refinery has suspended all work on the lead abatement program they were required to complete this means that the thousands of lives the factory has put it risk over the years are still subject to lead unhealthy water and poor air quality the reason tobit $1000.00 and the department of justice seems to be helping the polluters issuing a problematic new policy the deal j. recently said it would suspend the collection of penalties for violations of consent decrees and other enforcement orders is david baron managing attorney at the environmental nonprofit justice that settlement agreements and civil litigation are only as good as the government's willingness to watchdog the consent decree and

make sure that the parties comply. that is that is huge news because i think we are all relieved a little bit when we started seeing you know because of the stay at home orders the majors get a little cleaned up and less air pollution is a good but you kind of got relieved in thinking that hey by the way they're still cleaning up but mellow under the cover of like oh well we can't find anybody. to lunch money watch we're just not cleaning anything exactly and these were major phased out plans the $1.00 in illinois for example had 7 different phases to it in addition to obviously the money that was going to be used towards revamping some of these homes that were extremely damaging a lot of those are public housing projects some of them are regular standalone homes but in addition to that it is now you are pushing more people to be threatened even higher from covert one team because now they have they have consistently poisoning in addition. so the fact that they can't go anywhere so these individuals are in their homes the water is definitely not clean water and on

top of that they are dealing with a lot of the residuals from the land poisoning to begin with that's brutal when you're kind of when you lay it out like that when you really think about that it's like ok now you've got to stay at home in your lead contaminated home you know these are things that are priority people we're talking about public health that doesn't begin and just with cope with 19 public health is across the board environmental health is across the board and this is ridiculous but you know at the end of the day we've seen it's big businesses over and over again kind of flirting . throwing out the law or throwing out common sense just to kind of maintain not maintain any kind of corporate responsibility absolutely and it's good that you point that out because b.p. is probably one of the ones one of the larger corporations that would get the most from this term from the department of justice because b.p. has had a lot of regulatory issues particularly as it relates to environmental awareness and the environmental issues that they've caused with oil spills and other things.

now they are basically sitting pretty and able to start a lot of the regulations because they're there are no important checks during this time of covert 19 and shelter in place stay home orders no one is actually coming out to make sure that they are following the regulations that were designed for them i mean i do about one of like ok if they're properly shut down and they've got their employees at home then they're probably no one's really working there so you don't have to worry about it but on the other hand. you know that you've got to keep these people's feet to the fire because they will do anything anything to not have to be responsible or be held accountable for their actions in the past but the thing that suffers most of the families are they're not like i mean these are people who are basically getting screwed over because no one is cleaning up their backyard now exactly and these are families who had protested these are families who had marched these are families who wrote letters to the editor these are families who came to d.c. # i used to work for the e.p.a. in illinois and one of the most interesting things about this is that it takes years. or for any piece of litigation to come down from the federal government when

it relates to environmental policy and environmental protection so you have families who have had issues with their water with liquid thing for the past 35 years because of this plant and they were just beginning to see some level of relief and terms of in terms of the litigation back 2 years ago and the regulations that were given then for the reopening of the plant for them to you know basically right their wrongs was a multi-stage process they're not even finished with phase one and now they are basically issuing issuing statements that they can't do the other 6 or 7 because the code 19 and it really is garbage it's like you can use that excuse. i have to have working on it too it's like we're going to see this job all across the board with bar making that decision are we pretty much absolutely so illinois is one example but we're also seeing this in dallas we're also seeing it in different areas across florida right now there are over 350 consent decrees in the united states for major corporations you know smoke that buildings and all these other

things that have really created some problems for the local residents either because they're dumping unhealthy things in the water or because they have serious air quality issues they're exacerbated now by the fact that all of that is actually making it worse for families who are trying to protect themselves from covert 19 so in the one hand you have regulators who can't go in because of the stay at home waters on the other you have parents and children who are at home but are also being extremely exposed and because of that exposure their risk of 19 of the hired man and always remember to these are also people who are probably in the poorest of communities we're going to have to face this directly head on well the people who own the companies who are living in the rich communities they don't have to worry about letting their water they don't worry about these kind of toxic chemicals in their environment it's gross gross gross gross is going to break remember that you can also store watching the hawks on the man to the brand new portable t.v. which is available on smartphones through google play an apple app store simply by searching portable. or you can see. to your big t.v. by downloading the portable t.v. app on apple t.v. or a lot of portable t.v.

this app will be available more devices coming soon and coming up on the show tensions are once again rising between the united states and iran this time over by those way largely murder of rachel blevins brings us the full story stay tuned for watching the hawks. during the vietnam war u.s. forces also bomb to neighboring laos it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. the mountain house well my skin is officially the mouth heavily bombed country per capita. human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country jordyn wieber went on to another topic. even today kids in

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join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. 2 of the countries that have been the subject of rigorous sanctions from the united states are now working together at the wrong ship spiel to venezuela the u.s. is reportedly looking for ways to intervene which could signal a new conflict amid increased tensions parties rachel blevins joins us now to discuss the details welcome thank you for having me what is the latest conflict phrase we have these reports that iran is in the process of sending supplies to venezuela and. now are sort of waiting to figure out what the united states is going to do and there are reports of the u.s.

is planning on intervening in some way and that could be directly for sending u.s. navy ships out to the caribbean sea to try to stop these 5 iranian tankers that are carrying more than $45000000.00 worth of gasoline and supplies so they could try to stop them in their path before they even get to venezuela now the u.s. has yet to confirm that but we do know that they have these incredibly strict sanctions a motor iran and venezuela and they've really spent the last year trying to cut these countries off from the rest of the world it's really breaking my heart here in this because it sounds like my dad used to describe the way we used to sanction cuban we still do but the way we you know the whole cuba versus the u.s. that back in the sixty's with the blockade things like that now we're seeing that's going to how has iran responded to the reports that you wish may actually intercept their ships in korean waters while iran went to head of this and they submitted a complaint to the united nations and they said look if the u.s. tries to stop or tankers in the sea we will treat it as an illegal act of piracy

and any consequences that come out of that will be washington's fault now a spokesperson for iran's foreign ministry is also speaking out and he's saying that it's not up to washington to dictate where running tankers are around the world to say you know buy own kind of what american stated regarding our oil tankers in various locations around the world is illegal and shameful if they make any moves against this really legitimate sealing of our ships i would definitely place reaction by the islamic republic of iran. now at the same time iran's supreme leader is also renewing calls for u.s. troops to get out of iraq and syria and he went as far as to say that if they didn't leave voluntarily they would be expelled now it's not clear yet exactly how that would happen but a statement like that is enough to increase tensions even further between the u.s. and iran. very sticky situation how the u.s. sanctions impacted both countries where will the u.s. is a visit. targeted countries that are known for their oil reserves and they have done

everything they can to cut off their business and hurt their economies and that has had a major impact specifically on the civilians of these countries especially when it comes to getting access to medical supplies and even basic things like food and clean water now this partnership that we're seeing between iran and venezuela is coming up because they're seeing ways that they can work together in a minimal way because iran has the chemicals the venezuelan needs in order to refine its crude oil but of course because the u.s. does have these things in place it is likely to want to intervene in some way and this is really frustrating at a time when we have a pandemic going on right now and countries around the world have called for the u.s. to back off on these sanctions for the civilians if nothing else but that's only made the terms of ministration double down on it seems and it said that it's not going to remove the sanctions on iran unless it goes along with its nuclear demands and it's not going to remove the same sense of menace will unless they overthrow their government i'm going to go out on the limb of i going to just look at it and say it makes sense that they're doubling down on that because right now the trumpet

ministration even in congress us elected officials are looking for any kind of thing to distract from the fact that what over 90000 citizens but no i mean anything to distract from that whether it's a war or conflict or whatever they want to call it is one of those things right. absolutely and they feel like you know there's such tension around this well we have a very interesting in story past not only in terms of sanctions but also just our relationship broadly that this is this is par for the course it is there anything i mean where do we see this is going to ships were actually intercepted to get into the caribbean that they know well this is hopefully something that will figure out in the next 24 hours in terms of if there is you know it's one of those things because the u.s. hasn't said anything about it now it's just kind of a waiting game to see are they actually going to put their men at risk and send them right up to these iranian tankers or are they going to do something where they decide to bring in more sanctions or try to take other measures but at the same time it is interesting to see that you countries that have been saying. the hardest by the united states right now found a way to work together if it did is that way and not surprising not surprising

rachael weapons thank you so much for that report thank you. sometimes the course of future history is changed with just a single action or even a single person's demise china's ambassador to israel has been found dead at his home near tel aviv although the circumstances do not seem suspicious the incident is still bringing china's relationship with israel into the spotlight and the united states is not too happy about that artie's alex mahela bitch has the story. a seasoned diplomat china's ambassador to israel has died and literally sit in the chinese ambassador to israel to weigh died in tel aviv on may 17th and only with you according to preliminary diagnosis due way she died unexpectedly of health reasons and the specifics need further verification 57 year old to why was found dead in his residence by an embassy worker shortly after forensic teams and the

police were at the location carrying out the investigation into his death according to israel media there were no signs of violence at the scene it is believed that he died in his sleep most likely due to a heart attack but authorities are looking into all possibilities as the investigation continues do i served in china's ministry of foreign affairs for more than 30 years and was married with one son his family was not with him in israel prior to taking his role in israel do i was a diplomat for china in ukraine for 3 years he arrived in israel to fill his latest role on february the 15th at which time he wanted to quarantine for 2 weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. although his placement was relatively short due i did make an impact as china's ambassador to israel here's a tweet from israel's former foreign minister is they all cots shocked to hear tragic news related to the sudden death of his excellence he do y. and bassett or do was a distinguished career diplomat and during his short time in israel had already

contributed to the bilateral relations between the countries according to the chinese embassy in israel in 2018 china's investment in israel accounted for 0.4 percent of all chinese foreign investment and 3 percent of all foreign investment into israel do y. was vocal about expanding this relationship but at the same time defended china from criticism when it comes to covert 19 in april do y. i told the hebrew newspaper israel high ohm in history it has happened many times when the causes of diseases were wrongfully blamed on a specific group of people which is despicable and should be condemned the disease is the enemy of all mankind and the world must fight it together when it comes to china and israel working together as with china's relation to the coronavirus the us has been very critical due wise death comes just days after us secretary of state mike pompei of visited israel in what appeared to be an attempt to convince

the israeli government to limit chinese investment washington is not happy with israel's growing cooperation with china particularly with projects like the haifa port terminal which is being constructed and will be operated by a chinese company both pompei and president trump have ward as are all but if it does not curb its ties with china the u.s. may have to cut back its cooperation with israel china and israel however seem to be committed to cementing a trusting relationship and that could even be seen as the investigation and to do wise death continues. china is sending a special team to tel aviv to investigate the death and israel's foreign minister told his chinese counterpart that his ministry will help the chinese embassy with anything be a need regarding the passing of the ambassador for r t m alex mile of which. who those fascinating work by alex are it's interesting how to help this one man's death is kind of like brought all of these tensions and all of these interesting kind of behind the scenes moving and shaking to the forefront

of the u.s. trying to combat china's influence in the world absolutely and the u.s. for its part is trying very very very very hard right now to make sure that china's role is diminished to make sure that they are punishing china to the fullest extent and i think that this is one of those instances where we're probably going to see a backfire i think so too i mean do you think i mean i want to ask you do you think that like this idea that like we want to blame china for all of this and blame china for the virus is that just kind of more of a smoke and mirrors thing to kind of cover the longstanding summit going back to obama even bush of this push into the pacific into kind of countering china in that region i think that's 100 percent correct this has given the trump administration cover for something that u.s. foreign policy has engaged in actually for a very long time unsuccessfully but at this point they think that if you can make another american people feel like the chinese created something toward their demise that it gives the white house it gives the any administration

a lot more leverage in pushing against china in a way that we haven't necessarily thing ramped up before really interesting we've got to just understand that china is the big dog on the block you're not just going to get rid of them through other standard old school ways but it's going to get gross before it gets better every day that are to go to that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we're not told to love them up so i tell you all i love you. and i'm in the shiprock keep on watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody. i am you cannot be both with me yet you know what. i

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welcoming viewers 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 pounds is the health secretary was forced to defend the government's position on failing to test patients discharged back into care who's. looking pension circuitry attempts to pin the blame on the scientific advances in peace land the government over it's been adequate testing regime we hear from an expert in critical disease control. frontline doctors are still struggling to access personal protective equipment and coronavirus testing despite government promises they have control costs and and it just talk to

a couple. world health organizations a member state unanimously agreed to an inquiry into the international response to corona box. also the unemployment benefit claims reach record highs the 900000 in the 1st month and lock down i'll be talking to a world expert a little later. the number of excess deaths across britain during the coronavirus crisis reaches 55000 with the health secretary under far over the discharging of patients back into care homes that's a runner ups after the government is accused of trying to pin blame for mistakes on the sun typical voice because these are early has the latest. some shocking excess death figures today. of course the government updating the

country daily and giving their own figures. for the amount of people who have died after testing positive for cocaine 1000 well alongside that we've also seen figures consistently from the office for national statistics released every week now and the oh and s. figures we can have a look at what the latest ones suggest they say that's at just under $55000.00 excess deaths of in place across the cape and that's compared to a 5 year average for the comparable period now until may the 8th which is the most recent date that the ins have those figures for there have been just under 40000 deaths which have been linked to targeted 19 but the situation is perhaps getting somewhat better because in the same period again up to maybe 8 coronavirus related deaths fell by around a 3rd from the previous week so that the government of consistently said they

plotted the so-called we may have reached that point a little bit some 3 or that with the easing of restrictions with the lockdown that may lead to a 2nd wave with regards to deaths now of course the governments come in for criticism with regard to how they've dealt security with deaths in the social caste setting with some saying that people are released from hospitals into cat homes without being tested and that's how the pandemic spread amongst the elderly and in kalamazoo where one of the people to take the government's task for that is the shadow social candidates this kenda who went head to head with matt hancock secretary. and it has england rightly asked hospitals to free up at least 30000 beds to cope with the virus but can we explain why there was no requirement to test those being discharged to campaigns 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 approach and appropriate in many cases for people to be discharged from hospital and safer for them to go to a care home what's important is that infection control procedures are in place in that cabin 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 learned more and more about the virus all the way around and as the clinical understanding of coronavirus has strengthened so too we have updated and strengthened our guidance and these are the blame game between politicians and scientists has finally erupted yes the beginning of this crisis we sure sort of united's trust between politicians and their advisers that for example 'd

scientific and medical offices in the country who were fronting up those daily briefings alongside the chosen politician filled up to kill or say well now perhaps there are splits which are opening up in public and perhaps verbalized quite significantly by the work and pensions secretary to resign kofi who said that all along the government had been just following the scientific advice and that if they got anything long scientists who didn't blame 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 just try and say so and what you are again. now we've also seen elsewhere professor john adams from the scientific advisory group for emergencies say addressing the issue of the reopening of trying reschedules now mr edmunds says that sat the risk to children is low and it would appear that children are less likely to transmit the virus to others as well but

that any decision to open schools in particular primary schools is a political decision not a scientific one so perhaps ahead of it that the scientific community they're trying to wash their hands of any consequences which may erupt out of the decision to reopen schools elsewhere we've seen the government coming in for criticism from the commons science and technology committee not that chat direct lark has penned a letter to the prime minister criticizing the handling of testing i'm going to look at what some of this letter says it states that testing has been inadequate throughout the outbreak and at the government of only reached their own targets at the end of april they also emphasize that the government has been a driving strategy based on capacity rather than trying to increase capacity to meet their own strategy he also says that a small number of labs have been involved with expanding testing past scene where

as there could have been more efforts include public sector universities so on he also took issue with the fact that the government of also been essentially focusing that testing in hospitals and not in the community and he's also not just criticize the government he's also taken aim at public bodies saying that they could have taken more initiative rather than simply waiting for the health secretary to set a target so plenty of blame there as far as the conscience of science and technology committee chief is concerned. thank you very much and they for all of that that's a hearty case he's added that. senior consultant in communicable disease control dr barrett and county had told me that the science and the politics need to be kept 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 it 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 he bumbles as members of the public what we want is demand and supply and more importantly we want appropriate tasting 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 completely 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 there 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 that's according to a service. 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.

in one a 3rd reported that they had no chance to test and check if it fitted properly 5 percent to be unable to access testing for the virus but this more than triples when doctors try to get members of their health hold tested and this is left nearly half of doctors surveyed concerned or very concerned for their own health their old 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 start giving them the confidence to fit check their own people should be the bare minimum clinicians are working incredibly hard in the most extraordinary circumstances the n.h.s. is of 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 have died from coronavirus in britain since the crisis started and this is led to claims that the government's strategy regarding had put lives at risk the department of health says it has delivered over 1330000000 items since the

start of the outbreak and health care staff can ring a dedicated n.h.s. helpline to report shortages. or broadcaster an n.h.s. dr amir khan joined me earlier and he said that medics were often left confused by the conflict of violence between public health england and the world health organization. my colleagues on the front line is hospital 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 you mouth we don't get a tight seal around your eyes there's no point wearing that p.p. because the virus can just get into the tiniest of gaps and i understand sometimes you know medical cases that agent and you have to rush in and do that but you should have to put yourself at risk in order to do so so yes i agree employers and that might be hospital trusts that need to make sure that their staff feel confident that the p.p.

that they using is appropriate for the situation that they they're dealing with then 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 policymakers and that's really not a good place to be and of course doctors are often at risk from all kinds of diseases but it is concerning that they're so fearful for their health not all 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 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 bad media that all health care work is needed is

adequate p.p. that is evidenced based let's take a look at how the virus is affecting the home nations n.h.s. england has reported 174 more hospital tents in the past 24 hours the scottish 1st minister announced 29 fatalities crossed. all settings wales reports 17 and more than 7 the 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 become jobless since the outbreak began northern ireland has also noted a steep rise in job losses the rate was 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 well now let's take a look at the global figures and these according to the world wide data collected by johns hopkins university more than 4800000 have been infected really

320000 deaths now and over $1800000.00 recoveries but while belgium open schools museums beauty salons continues to have the highest mortality rate per capita in the world at the weekend as people start 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 is taking an anti malaria drug to prevent the virus despite safety warnings from public health officials. still to come this. all health organizations member states unanimously agree to an independent inquiry into the cove at 19 no break we'll be hearing from europe correspondent. and unemployment benefit claims in each record highs. in the 1st month i'll be talking to welfare expert shortly.

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the. world health organization is member states of agree to an inquiry into the international response to the corona virus pandemic or as your 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's 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 but washington also took a diplomatic swipe at china during this world health 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. 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 $2000000000.00 u.s. dollars over 2 years to help with the covert 19 response and with economic and

social development in affected countries especially developing countries 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 dis been damaged and we need the w e 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 that now country can solve this problem alone we must work together. the ratio is replaceable if it's in the us the resources to do it with to provide support to developing got it through use which must be our greatest. we have as

strong as the weakest our systems with the us 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 furloughs scheme keeping millions on company payrolls throughout the knock down unemployment benefits claims have reached record highs all those claims soared by nearly 900000 reaching 2100000 in the 1st month of knock down unemployment has also shot up 550-0021 point 35000000 and it could have been much higher as 7 and a half indian have been kept in work on furlough meanwhile the chancellor she soon act has warned of worse to come. i certainly work 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. down as a big a very good act on our economy we're likely to face a severe recession the lights which we haven't see and of course. on and. of for more on this i'm not joined by the rich at the center for welfare reform dr simon duffy's simon very good to see you know a deep recession is of course a big worry but these are unprecedented times on it there's no way any government could've forseen this is doing all it can to mitigate any real future impact. well i think. i would disagree about their response but i think you are certainly right about how unprecedented this is i think i've spoken to people who are talking to different countries leaders in different regional leaders and they're feeling a level of depression way beyond the 920 s. the level of output drop and the economic impacts of that suggests unlike anything

we've seen and this is certainly a global phenomenon so while the u.k. government is. you know one of the worst lead in his response to cope it certainly thrown some money in the way of protecting business citizens and some people's incomes in a rather peculiar way i think but nevertheless it's welcome that they are supporting those things but the big question will be how we recover from this crisis and how the many people who haven't been protected will cope and stop just a british issue i mean that is the situation there in other countries in africa and south america is is also extremely worrying but isn't this a temporary state of affairs it looks as if we're actually moving out of this pandemic in many of those claiming we'll be back to work within months when there. of course anything's possible who might say that what will definitely happen but what is a depression model what does history teachers depressions are created by sudden

drops in confidence and drops in how people then lead to bankruptcy these in an in will own willingness to invest in new ideas and willingness to take risks this has the signs of the deepest deepest pressures because this is this is far more severe in its output i mean the figures today are just coming to the end of march april and man you're going to be far far far worse the british economy was already in big trouble we were the worst country in europe to recover from the 2008 financial crisis because austerity kept undermining any progress the economy made so we've got a weak economy going into a severe depression and the government is don't really kind of try to stick its finger in a number of the holes that says that but as usual what is tending to do is support the better off support bigger companies and there's going to be a whole raft of corruption associated with the measures is put in place some

companies will exploit the measures many will miss out people who just started to become self-employed will not get protection and many people moving out of benefits will find that their income suddenly drop all of these wings will have a cascading effect people will not feel they can do things they were planning to do before they will not take the decisions they've been saying this is what causes depression now talked to many times as are you being a champion of welfare reform perhaps the crisis have made the government more aware of issues and benefits system get given that so many more are claiming. well i did about the government but it's very interesting to see what's happening in the opposition so we've been talking to m.p.'s from all political parties except the conservative party about the benefits of moving to a system that we call basic income this is a known round all world as you know really the upcoming way of thinking differently

not just about interim security but about the whole economy so what the modern economy does is it insists on very fragile foundations and is excel aerated inequality in this depression is going to do the same so what we need to do is is in a systematic way start to lift everybody you know by guarantee everybody's basic income and we've now got people i lay them around and dave the liberal democrats as well as many in the us ente the green party led party all acknowledging that this is likely to be the way out of this crisis whether this government the u.k. government which is obviously one of the most extremely right wing governments in the world will embrace this opportunity is rather more doubtful thank you very much indeed dr simon duffy thanks for being with us live here not in a cave and that's a fine i'll have a morning news for you and half an hour from now. join

me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see that. you cannot be both with the yeah you like. during the vietnam war u.s. forces also bombs neighboring laos it was a secret war and for years the american people did not know. the mountain last how

much it is officially the mousepad rebound country per capita in all human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country jordyn wieber went on a canal it's happening. even today kids in laos full victims of bombs dropped decades ago is the u.s. making amends for that tragedy and what help do the people need in that little land of mines. the world is driven by shaped past and present at those.

dares thinks. we dare to ask. my stars are this is the kaiser report true true yeah rob lock down doesn't matter things are still happening things are still going forward views are still newsworthy and what's relevant is relevant what's not relevant is not relevant i say well you know as in my headlines i'm going to compare these stories to the chinese finger trap now i used to love that toy as a game and it worked on me every single time the simple puzzle trapped me and his fingers remember if for those who don't know it's kind of shaped like this and it's

made with. bamboo strips but you put your fingers on the 2 ends of the hole and what happens when you do that matter oh yeah you get on your finger you have coal and you know what happens is it shrinks in size the tube shrinks in size when how to get out of it how do we escape it is useless and relax and put your fingers together and the holes expand you know what i can watch this for our we're not a magic show but what is magic is what the fed has been doing what the u.s. government has been doing for the last 20 years any time the debt load gets too big and all the fraud gets too big and the oath fraud in the dot com crash every single time is met with more money printing but this cycle the fact that it keeps on crashing and keeps on the fraud keeps on building yeah it's like they're stuck in this chinese finger trap they keep doing the same thing then printing is exactly like salt.