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their headline stories this hour 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 grandfather. negligence this. was. because he was like he wants a place. just. government appears to. plans to reopen. after more than 1500 private schools in england make. safety concerns. and certainly could be very dangerous. but. we all know that viruses can be carriers
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with. so much. more you know i'll use in the skull is a court but police in paris from using froze to keep a lookout for. tensions reach a boiling point in the chilean capital with the military moving in to break up protests over a food shortage is surging all employment caused by. hello and welcome good to have your company those stories and plenty more besides coming up over the next half an hour live from moscow this is r.t. international. we start in the u.s.
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the country hardest hit by a coronavirus recording more than 90000 deaths claims about the health care system being overwhelmed a not able to help all those who need it are not going away we heard from one man who lost both his father and grandfather to cope in 1000 in a short period of time and ses it's down to sheer negligence. then the next day we found out that he tested positive for corona virus saying data he was put on the ventilator father my mother most of the lips were dry cos my dad has a fever starting friday's chest high so we've taken the boma. back there for oh it's one half hours he comes i would just charge paper stating that he just as bronchitis so out theories later stephen goes also arguments so the lady i receive in hospital so he's better off wants to reach for terri for take some sort of back again my dad is there out 3 hours comes saying discharge papers so i really i just
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pushed him out the door weeks later raw april 6th 1140 my grandpa the hospital 'd. so i go to sleep and rouse 630 the next morning susan one of my brother troy called screaming that dating away. well keith gambrell believes if his dad had not 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 clinic where she finally did test positive for confident. the mom also has a prescription does she got her heart doctor to. l.a. 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 go home act as if you have to cope at night because one likely you have it there is what's more likely you have 'd it let's go home because there's not that we could do for your drinks during tylenol
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take tylenol for your fever come back if you can't reach the city of detroit where keith and his family live has experienced a high number of deaths largely being put down to the size of the block population there sits around 80 percent keith gamble again thinks the authorities need to be held to account. i just feel like my dad was close to the back of the line let's get in the chest because he was like you want to basically hospital i'm all white maybe i just looked out the door to go level was i control my day when he went to the hospital us feel like she'd be the person that's supply for his desk. look at him enough to tell him the door to give him a chance to get. in the government as well why weren't we. for this virus if you guys are certain season stays down in the economy why don't we have enough just to get the border why was it that because. while our.
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diets all the come back to the hospital if you need to later. when the government and the old health care system really they still owe the american citizens. ok let's turn attention to the u.k. where the government appears to have abundant its plan to get some children back into the classroom next month after more than $1500.00 primary schools in england made a stand over safety concerns breaking down what we know are t. shoddy edwidge dusty. as schools across europe begin typing make a it's the united kingdom doesn't want to fall behind in class in a bid to get britain moving again boris johnson the prime minister want 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 enough to get kids back on track the best way of protecting children the best way
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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 months and dads going back to where so many of all working from home say sending military ones back would be bad parenting in fact over 80 percent of parents a rift. using 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 that children could carry the virus amongst themselves to. school. and my daughter was 5 when she. so she when she wants contact in concert with
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a lot of friends. get to know them again and. it could be potentially dangerous it was one of the reasons why i choose an article in. 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 children eat safely other european countries like denmark have done so far 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 the world and it's not just parents of a has a tent in the face of the push to reopen teachers do have a legal right to stay away but many schools have never even shot to say look down some have been teaching a handful of peoples of key workers and others which is already seeing 36 teaching staff die of cope at 19 i do you can sit here and guarantee that no teacher is
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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 space is saying well maybe it has to protect you. for. force stuff. and sure. enough this fear of. personal protective p.p.h. the economy. is in short supply. in the care homes rightly so in hospitals 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 all say it's far too soon to go back to the classrooms early and they're not even hearing any concrete evidence to prove otherwise and to we have got case number so much lower we should not consider
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reopen in schools how many councils are rebelling against their heads including the paul harvey paul the greater manchester police for levels of this inspections of learning where those that don't know the boat it's a risk with children with stuck with 3 children 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 send enough but think it has the right to tell members of the population what do you should do regarding safety well being of natural. parents don't trust so much the good news. they have a reputation for telling lies i'm sure parents believe. the teachers and the unions the medical profession rather than the government more.
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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 up with daschle r.t. . let's move to france where parra says are in the sky efforts to keep tabs on lockdown violators hell's being grown did that is after a court bombed the use of drones in the french capital for such surveillance picking up the story this hour charlotte dubin ski. the view from above drew's sweeping across cities in france is part of police efforts not only to keep an eye on things but also to get a message across. you know all of. you know. they will get that message during lock down from the drone loudspeaker was
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a reminder 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. this is one of the drones were effectively being used illegally this initiative was carried out by the police without any preliminary consultation with the national commission on liberty and information and the state council therefore the state council has eliminated this flaw in the police system in order to prefecture to
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take all necessary measures to 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 floating social distancing rules during the fight against 19 government officials and the paris police it's all good that they weren't troyan to identify people but simply watch so that they knew where to send the patrols. the technology helps but it's not enough human presence is the key thing the drug is not going to replace a police officer. but that. with the court given the risks abuse are contrary to the rules for personal data protection the implementation of this private data processing on behalf of the state characterized as a serious and manifestly illegal infringement of respecting private lives in paris
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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 we really want to acknowledge called police to monitor our beaches in france live with our 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 liberty groups might also hope that this case can prove a starting point in other countries too. where the use of drones to monitor the public during the pandemic has become normalized.
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it's a win for right now but it could soon be overturned it's still in the government's power to issue a decree outlining the conditions of how police drones could be used in the feature if that then gets approved by the national data privacy watchdog big brother will be not just observing from this takes a valence cameras were all used to but from the heavens see and you may never even know that they were watching so it's even ski artsy paris. let's turn the program away from the virus because authorities in posts of threatened to quit all existing agreements with israel and the us it comes after israel outline plans to add territory to his jewish settlements in the west bank
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the palestinian president mahmoud abbas called for international laws to be respected. and. that it is israel has to uphold responsibilities before the international community as the occupying power in the occupied land of palestine with the entailed commitments according to the geneva convention of $949.00 we hold the us administration fully responsible for the oppression of the palestinian people as it is a major partner to the occupation government in all the oppressive decisions and measures against our people while that dramatic announcement by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas comes after an urgent meeting was held between the top brass of the palestinian leadership. an ounce of 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 that is part and parcel of the american peace deal it is something that the israeli
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prime minister benjamin netanyahu supports and again we hear him expressing his optimism regarding and it's a show in. 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 now it earlier this year the american president donald trump announced his deal of the century the annexation is part and parcel of that 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 following statement we strongly urged israel to refrain from any unilateral
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decision that would lead to the annexation of any occupied palestinian territory and would be as such contrary to international law the palestinian president mahmoud abbas say 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 israel and the americans. are watching our 2 international coming up widespread hunger as erupted in chile as latest crisis with violent clashes breaking out in the capital to go over food shortages and. rising all employment a cold sequence of locked on we get into more in 90 seconds. the 8.
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if. let's start back with a focus on scythe america the kernel of virus pandemic is taking a dramatic turn in chile where tensions are rising over food shortages all my employment caused by the lockdown military police being deployed in the capital amid clashes between locals and other police it comes in creasing numbers of people say they're going hungry and are desperate for help.
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i don't have any now you know i have 3 children i don't receive any help from the government because i have my own business so they don't help me there's a 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 crying scene when how food it's food that people are asking for i now. want to show you this is well the word hunger has been projected on some of santiago is most iconic buildings of people there are denying to the 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 spot the president promising 2 and a half 1000000 food parcels to the needy the moves feel to tensions. with countries around the world slowly. emerging it seems out of confinement a resurgence in coronavirus cases is being reported in europe and asia the news we all did not want to hear has been prompting fears of an imminent 2nd wave let's have a look at some examples starting in china this is monday in a country move to place some 100000000 people in its north east region of bach and locked up in that 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 not just china though across europe countries have been cautious in relaxing their lockdown and fearing a phased approach european businesses including small shops and her dressers have
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reopened in some countries while schools and cultural sites have also begun opening their doors however it's really spain as well both reported the spike on choose the encoded 19 dead swell countries including germany reported an increase in post infections europe's top w.h.o. official has delivered a stark warning against underestimating the threat of a 2nd wave. 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. well earlier i put the issue of a 2nd world wide covert 19 wave and its consequences up for discussion with a panel of experts. cases of covert are being recorded particularly in china and cite korea which we know were among the 1st countries to tackle the pandemic is
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this going to be the sonority or for all countries lifting lockdowns now in the months to come lawsuit you already have people in the whole world are still on in fact and so they don't have any body used against them and these people if me or 'd in the situation of social distancing and the social behavior are changing begin to interact again and therefore the transmission of the virus already increased significantly because that kind of is inevitable social distancing not something i'm 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 sort of moment people need to go to work you know leave pay for it so we have to stay on message just really confused people because the problem is people have 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 to for will people just on a human level will people follow social distancing after a strictures are released do you think or will they become less cautious as the
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time goes by for a lot of us it becomes almost impossible to live our lives in the in the as we do rather and risk getting infected or contaminated by this particular virus because at the end of the day i think a lot of people realize that living under a long down condition is not only going to solution to anything but it's intolerable in terms of conduct 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 trust to anyone i mean if we look on to the infrastructure that is in a quiet to tackle the 1st wave i mean it's still insufficient i mean we don't. really see a scale of casting doubt is being done to me to get asked why does the automobile you 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 bankruptcy in most western countries i think we've
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gone too far in this what are we can't afford a 2nd plate but i think the bigger issue now at the moment let's take on the medical. part of it is at least bailouts some of shallowing and where whatever you want to call it a little kind of point where. massive sort of defacement of our currency and you know interest rates are going to be forced through the roof government's not been able to get back into get national a should not start in what's happened more than when you say you know what did i mention response that we must do everything possible. to do over the course of the . most money on time and i think but at the same time we forget that if we go down to rule in a $1.00 dimensional sones we end up giving up our lives and the 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 the more political and in my mental side the issue so it requires attacking animality skill
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level. it was supposed to be 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 with more on the outcomes of the event. 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 to a pretty short on the ground there was lots of talk about solidarity about unity in fact heading into the world held. 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 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
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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 china should be 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's threatening 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 s. and is trying to mislead the public through this specious method to achieve the
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goal of smearing and slandering china's efforts in epidemic prevention and to shift responsibility in its own incompetence in handling the epidemic china did also make promises to fill in some of the gaps in world health organization funding during 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 the time for solitary now the time for finger pointing are 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
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the overriding messages was the lack of unity among the nations of the world when it comes to the fight against covert 19 that's the way the news is shipping up this whedon state may the 20th. a reminder throughout these times r.t. continues of course to update you on line on social media and from our network of studios and teams right across the world in fact we cross to london up at the top of the hour for now though stay safe and stay well.
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