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in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. with the u.s. health care system being pushed to its limits by coronavirus we hear the story of a man who claims the deaths of both his father and grandfather were done to sheer negligence. this. is good because he was like he wants a basically. school more than $1500.00 primary school to oppose the government's plan to reopen classes next month amid safety concerns. he could be very dangerous they say the virus
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doesn't affect children. we all know that certain viruses can be carried. so much you see. something like you. know in this court police in paris from using drones to keep a lookout for law. also ahead. tensions reach boiling point in the chilean capital with the military moving into protests over a food shortage is surging all employment caused by the locked on. live from moscow this is r t international my names you know neal 30 minutes of news and views start. we
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begin in the u.s. the country hardest hit by corona virus which has recorded more than 1000. claims of the health care system being overwhelmed not able to help all those who need it they're not going away we heard from one man who lost both his father and grandfather to cope at 19 and say it is done to negligence. then the next day we found out that he tested positive for the corona virus same day that he was put on the ventilator my father my mother boasts about lips were dry cos my dad has a fever starts friday's cestus high so we've taken the boma. and i was back there for about 2 and a half hours he comes out with discharge paper stating that he just as bronchitis so out there is later steeper goes up so arguments so the lady at the church receiving hospital so not bothered is better op wants to reach for every 4 take
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some sort of back again my dad is there for 3 hours comes same discharge papers so i really i just pushed him out the door break later rock april 6th 1140 my grandpa the hospital oh and so i go to sleep and roust 630 the next morning so is that one of my brother troy called screaming that dating a wake up anyway. keith gambrell believes if his dad hadn't been turned away and was tested he might have survived after his father died his mother then developed a high fever but the local hospital also refused to admit her so he took her to another one where she finally tested positive for a covert. bomb also has a prescription drug she got her heart doctor to get says the cold virus lady looks at the piece of paper gives it back from mom so my mother that there's no other dishy to do for it at the hospital or will go home x. is if you have to cope with 90 virus because more likely you have it ma'am is what
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they tell or more likely you have it 'd but go home because there's nothing we could do for your drinks he drinks tylenol take tylenol for your fever come back if you can't reach the city of detroit work he found his family live has experienced a high number of deaths largely being put down to the size of the block population which is around 80 percent keith like and thinks the authorities need to be held to account. i just feel like my dad was close to the back of the line was getting the test because he was like he wants a basically hospital an all white neighborhood just looked out the door to go home and our level was in control of my day when he went to the hospital i feel like she should be the person that's supply for his death then look at him enough to tell him the door to give him a chance to get its nest. and then the government as well why weren't we prepare for this virus if you guys are certain season stays down at the economy why don't
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we have enough just to get it will test it for the virus if it's that big of a. while our. own diet so the come back to the hospital if you need like is too late it. when the government and the old health care system really failed the american citizens. let's turn to a major talking point in the u.k. where the government's plans to get some children back into the classroom is facing further resistance more than 1500 primary schools in england say they're against throwing open their doors for next month forcing the authorities to threaten sanctions here sartain shadi edward stuff. as schools across europe begin to open their gates the united kingdom doesn't want to fall behind in class in a bid to get britain moving again boris johnson the prime minister wants to try and get all primary school kids back in the classroom in less than 2 weeks time while the virus is still out there though boris johnson and number 10 maintains it's safe
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enough to get kids back on track the best way of protecting children the best way of giving them the best opportunities in life is actually to have been coming back into school for some parents it couldn't come soon enough as school hours would be a complete game changer for moms and dads going back to work but many who are working from home say sending military ones back would be bad parenting in fact over 80 percent of parents are refusing to send their children to school if they reopen in june on safety grounds and over 60 percent say they won't set their kids in until the new academic year in september at the very earliest and certainly could be very dangerous and they say the virus doesn't affect children too much and we all know that some viruses can be carriers within. sometimes attention dangerous but children could carry the virus amongst themselves to other people who could be vulnerable in school and. my daughter was 5 when she. so
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she when she wants contact in concert with a lot of friends. get to know them again and. it could be potentially dangerous it was one of the reasons why and she was no advocate for the closure of schools quite quickly when the crisis started however the u.k. government is ringing the school bell and trying to persuade parents is the right thing to do by showing other european models other countries have succeeded in making sure the children eat safely other european countries like denmark don't want countries like denmark has less than a 1000 deaths the u.k. is hurdling towards the $40000.00 mark deeming it the worst affected in europe and 2nd highest number of fatalities in. world and it's not just parents of a hesitant in the face of the push to reopen teachers do have a legal right to stay away but many schools have never even shut so it's a lockdown some have been teaching a handful of peoples of key workers and others which is already seeing 3060 ching
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staff die of cope at 19 i do you can sit here and guarantee that no teacher is going to catch coronavirus as a result of going back to school the only way ever to ensure that you never catch coronavirus is to stay at home completely and when it comes to social distancing and keeping our numbers low teachers ferro be nigh on impossible to keep kids apart not to mention making sure the spaces say well maybe an office has to protect you. for. stuff. and sure. enough. protective p.p.h. an economy. in short supply. in the care homes rightly so you know there isn't and. as things stand teachers do have the backing of their unions plus the u.k.'s leading body of doctors unions who also it's far too soon to go back to the classrooms early and they're not even hearing any concrete evidence to prove
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otherwise and do we have got case number smush no way we should not consider reopen in schools how many councils are rebelling against their heads including liverpool ha people in greater manchester police for levels of this inspections are the only way those that i'm not about risks with children with stock. professionals like those but for now the government says it is safe to reopen schools though not everyone is convinced if i if i had children of any age where they were expected to go to school on the 1st i may not be standard now but i don't think it has the right answer. well members of the population what do you should do in regard to deceive the well being of natural. parents don't trust so much the government. they have a reputation for telling lies i'm sure parents believe. the teachers
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and the unions and medical profession rather than the government the trustees so as the government continues with its class act its own set of rules and no reassurance of safety when schools do reopen all the teachers can try and do is place hygiene at the top of the correctly then shut out with dusty arty london. let's keep the spotlight on europe where parra says early in the sky efforts to keep tabs on the locked door and violators has been grounded that's after a court bomb the use of drones in the french capital for such surveillance charlotte dubin skis across the story. the view from above drew sweeping across cities in france as part of police efforts not only to keep an eye on things but also to get a message across. that
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message during lock down from the drone loudspeaker it was a still mind to all that they needed permits to be outside all non-essential travel outside the home is a prohibited bait bellowed the drones had other uses to alerting the police to any unusual gatherings perhaps a more efficient way to monitor the streets or as george orwell once described it it was the police patrol snooping then began the fight back human rights groups had warned of a threat to personal privacy they took their case to court and they were. the drones were effectively being used illegally this initiative was carried out by the police without any preliminary consultation with the national commission on
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liberty and information and the state council therefore the council has eliminated this flaw in the police system in order to prefecture to take all necessary measures suspend the use of drones for now. well at least here in paris france is highest administrative court ruled that aerial drones can no longer be used here to track people flouting social distancing rules during the fight against 19 government officials and the paris police and all good that they weren't trying to identify people but simply watch so that they knew where to send the patrols. technology. helps but it's not enough human presence is the key thing a drone is not going to replace a police officer. but that didn't wash with the court given the risks abuser contrary to the rules for personal data protection the implementation of this private data processing on behalf of the state characterized as
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a serious and manifestly illegal infringement of respecting private lives in paris the drones have been brought back down to earth with the not so in other big cities such as must say nice where they are still in use but the human rights group behind this when i say there could be other challenges. do you really want to acknowledge called police to monitor our beaches can france live without cameras flying over the beaches this is an issue that in my opinion should be put up for public and parliamentary discussion i repeat this practice is implemented with no prior consultation. many liberties groups might also hope that this case can prove a starting point in other countries to where the use of drones to monitor the public during the pandemic has become normalized.
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maybe. it's a win for right now but it could soon be overturned it's still within the government's power to issue a decree outlining the conditions of how police drones could be used in the future if that then gets approved by the national data privacy watchdog big brother will be back not just observing from this takes a valence cameras were all used to but from. heavens see and you may never even know that they were watching charlotte even ski r.t. paris. away from corona virus authorities in palestine have threatened to quit all existing agreements with israel and the us it comes after
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israel outline plans to our territory to its tourists elements in the west bank the palestinian president mahmoud abbas called for international law to be respected. israel has to uphold responsibilities before the international community as the occupying power in the occupied land of promise start with the entailed commitments according to the geneva convention of $949.00 we hold the u.s. administration 40 responsible for the oppression of the palestinian people as it is a major partner to the occupation government in all the oppressive decisions of measures against our people while that dramatic announcement by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas comes off to an urgent meeting was held between the top brass of the palestinian leadership he announced that the p.a. would be cutting off all kind of arrangements between the south of israel and the united states that comes off an announcement by the israeli side that they intend to go ahead with and mixing their territories in the west bank and jordan valley
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that is part and parcel of the american peace deal it is something that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu supports and again we hear him expressing his optimism regarding an exception. these areas of the country or the places of the birth and growth of the jewish nation it is time to apply israeli law to them and to write another glorified chapter in the history of zionism the u.s. secretary of state mark compare was recently in jerusalem where he met with israeli leaders and he said that the decision to annex was one that was israel alone to make however they would be ongoing consultation in private but tween washington and tel aviv an hour earlier this year the american president donald trump announced his deal of the century the annexation is part and parcel of it but also is conditional independence for the palestinians the deal has been severely criticized by many in the arab world and european leaders the european union issued the
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following statement we strongly urge israel to refrain from any unilateral decision that would lead to the annexation of any. by palestinian territory and would be as such contrary to international law the palestinian president mahmoud abbas said that israel is an occupying power but he accused the united states of being an ally he said it is a key partner and therefore needs to take full responsibility for the occupation of the palestinian people so to put it mildly no love lost between the palestinian leadership and the americans. a story we're closely following is this widespread hunger has erupted into chile's latest crisis with violent clashes breaking yards in the capital over food shortages and rising all employment as a consequence of blocked on measures story and more after the break.
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19 minutes into the program welcome back coronavirus pandemic is taking a dramatic turn in chile where tensions are rising over food shortages and all employment caused by the be locked on military forces are being deployed in the capital amid clashes between local police and it comes as increasing numbers of people say they're going hungry and they're desperate for help.
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i don't i mean now you know i have 4 children i don't receive any help from the government because i have my own business so they don't help me there's very many people here who are small entrepreneurs do not get any help from me and now i am a taxi driver i can make a living because which passengers can i pick up and what does the government give us i don't know. how it's not because of the koreans in winning how food it's food that people are asking for now. the word hunger has been projected on some of sunday. those most iconic buildings as people larry deny and stick governments perceived lack of help making matters worse the pandemic has led to a spike in food prices large parts of chile were placed under lockdown as the virus
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took hold the spike the president promising 2 and a half 1000000 food parcels to the needy the moves failed to count tensions. with countries around the world slowly emerging out of confinement a resurgence in coronavirus cases is being reported in europe and asia prompting fears of an imminent 2nd wave on monday china moved to play some $100000000.00 people in its northeastern region of jeilan barkin locked out there made a growing number of infection clusters being reported the move is a reversal from beijing's previous aim of having the country back on track to normality nearby regions of also implemented protective measures across europe we know that countries have been cautious in relaxing their lock downs favoring a phased approach european businesses including small shops and hairdressers have reopened in some countries while schools and cultural sites of all to begin opening
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their doors however it's early in spain both reported a spike in covert 19 deaths on choose day well countries including germany reported an increase in post locked on infections europe's top w h o official has delivered a stark warning against underestimating the threat of a 2nd when. we know from history that in pandemics to countries that have not been hit early on can be hit in the 2nd week people think lockdown is finished nothing has changed the full disease control package has to be in place. a little earlier i put the issue of a 2nd world wide covert 19 wave and its consequences up for discussion with a panel of experts. says of covert are being recorded particularly in china and cite korea which we know were among the 1st countries to tackle the pandemic is this going to be the sonority or 'd for all countries lifting lockdowns now in the months to come lawsuit you already are people in the whole world are still on in
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fact and so they don't have any body used against them and these people if they all 'd are in the situation of social distancing and the social behavior are changing begin to interact again and therefore the transmission of the virus would increase significantly there those are going to be inevitable social distancing in march something is going to be a reality for at least the next 612 months even if we get a vaccine but action on actually i think we need to get some so that moment people need to go to work you know the pay for it so we have to stay on message just really confused people because the problem is people haven't been keeping a car rather than just staying out of money and that's not the solution the solution is to get back to work and get back to normal but it's not going to be normal like we had before will people just on a human level will people follow social distancing after restrictions are released do you think or will they become less cautious as the time goes by for a lot of us it becomes almost impossible to live our lives in the in those with a rather large and risk getting infected or contaminated by this particular
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virus because at the end of the day i think a lot of people realize that living longer along down condition is not only going to solution to anything but it is in polar bull in terms of can go can we expect medical systems to be ready for a 2nd wave. what can we do to soften the blow systems are still not ready for the 1st 2 anyone i mean if we look on to the infrastructure that is an acquired to tackle the 1st wave i mean it's still insufficient i mean we don't really see a scale of casting that is being done to really get asked what is the author well you know what kind of strategy do you expect from governments in the case of a 2nd wave could they do this again. or would it simply by the country. well i think it's already pretty close to bankrupt in most western countries i think we've gone too far in this what are we can't afford a 2nd plate but turn the thing to bigger issue now at the moment let's take on the medical. part of it is at least bail out some of the showing and where whatever you
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want to call it will come a point where. massive sort of debasement of our currency and you know interest rates are going to be forced through the roof governments not being able to pay their debts back and get match an inflation that's a start in what's happened moment you seem to have these are one dimensional response that we must do everything possible in the city in the world must do everything possible in order to prevent us from being contaminated but at the same time we forget that if we go down the road in the one dimensional sense we end up giving up our lives and then basically undermine the capacity of young people to flourish under these kinds of conditions that are positive that in the coming months we would have a lot more better strategy used to control it but certainly this is a more political and in my mental and side societal issue so it requires attacking anyone to skill level. it was supposed to be
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a meeting of minds to work out the best ways to combat coronavirus but the 73rd world health assembly instead resulted in much finger pointing between members peter oliver was more on the outcomes of the of it. but this summit wrapped up with the chinese government pledging $2000000000.00 to help fight against covert 19 however concrete plans on how that $2000000000.00 will be delivered were pretty short on the ground there was lots of talk about solidarity about unity in fact heading into the world health assembly the aim from the world health organization was to turn a tragic pandemic into a beacon of hope it didn't really pan out like that the only thing all $194.00 countries who were taking part could agree on was that there needs to be an investigation to see who was to blame for the corona virus was it china or was it the world health organization themselves donald trump the us president wasn't waiting about for any investigation he's made up his mind he blames both should be
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held responsible for what they've done they have hurt the world very very badly the world health organization was labeled a puppet of china by donald trump who straitening to cut off u.s. funding to the w.h.o. entirely well he's already suspended u.s. money going to the organization he did that of course right in the middle of a global emergency china has struck back at those comments from donald trump saying the u.s. president is attempting to cover up his administration's own failings when it comes to the virus the u.s. has the highest number of infections in the world the letter is filled with phrases of suggestions maybe s. and potentiality and is trying to mislead the public through this specious method to achieve the goal of smearing and slandering china's efforts in epidemic prevention and to shift responsibility in its own incompetence in handling the
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epidemic. china did also make promises to fill in some of the gaps in world health organization funding jure in this summit but from here in europe the loudest voices were the one saying hey guys can we all get along particularly in the face of this lethal global pandemic it is important to strengthen the world health organization to support it and to prepare it even better for the future this is a time for solidarity not a time for finger pointing or for undermining multilateral cooperation wrapping up at the summit which was conducted virtually due to coronavirus restrictions on travel globally well the world health organization seemed pretty happy however those divisions among those making up that global organization were clear for all to see and one of the overriding messages was the lack of unity among the nations of the world when it comes to the fight against covert 19 or about watching the
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greetings and sal you take us we start things off today with 2 of the most iconic american means of self-expression in self-defense i'm talking of course about protests and guns since the 2016 bundy family great american takeover of the malheur wildlife refuge it seems that many white conservative or libertarian minded activists just can't seem to leave their guns at home when it comes time to start a protest especially in the air out of code 19 bloomberg reported on may 14th that michigan has closed down its capital and canceled its legislative session rather than face the possibility of an armed protest and death threats against democratic governor gretchen well yes the armed protesters who made headlines back in early may for their want to be red dawn wolverine's style approach to 21st century white
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