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just like the money's velocity number shows us that for now. just. recently the money pretty much. the u.k. government admits it made a choice to leave homes all untested for a coronavirus so it could focus solely on the n.h.s. but the admissions. relatives who lost loved ones. have a new tax. residence in. the past why we need. while in france prosecutors opened probes into the deaths of some care home residents relatives laid the blame squarely at the door of those running the facility.
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crane sees it will investigate new evidence that u.s. presidential hopeful joe biden once pressured the country's justice system in a legal case involving his son saying quote treason. this is our t. international my name's you know 30 minutes of news i'm views start now. abandoned in their moment of need that's the charge facing the u.k. government over the care of home sector it currently accounts for more than a 3rd of the country's entire coronavirus death toll on grief family say their loved ones were left to die due to a lack of testing and care for the most vulnerable dawn hopkins lost her mother in law here's her story. it started with a phone call from the staff to say she developed a temperature about
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a high temperature so we went to concerned at the time because she had had an infection. and then and then it was really when the doctor and i asked the doctor the question did she think they bad and she said. possibly 8 more than like clay we asked the. they said they weren't they weren't given test and. and i also asked the cheap a if she could be tested. they said at that time they weren't test stand. residents in care homes you know there's always going to pray that question out you know was it definitely co-chaired but she passed away from i am 99.9 percent sure it was. a state she wasn't where we have having
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a task and if she didn't have the test area it would read and make the decision to ask her what's going to tell or more than 11000 people are now believed to have died in care homes since the start of a pandemic in the u.k. the justice minister sparked outrage after admitting officials made a choice not to test carol is focusing instead wholly on the n.h.s. and up attention led to hundreds of vulnerable people going on tested as a result. we needed to make a choice about testing and we teach decided to focus upon the n.h.s. and i think that was absolutely essential in. robert buckland did state though the high number of deaths in care of homes was a huge tragedy and a matter of great regret here's dawn hopkins again speaking about her mother in law . she was 92 she had a man share books she had a good quality ally and it really wasn't her time to down i thought i think the
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government at last the care homes brought me down. they've not given them clear guidance on how to manage and to keep the residents sank in this pandemic and that woman shortage have prioritized their care homes as well because that some that is more now know like to my children we need to look into why so many residents in care homes have passed away due to their we need some answers rarely as to why this is going on out how. just taking in that into a cone even with the n.h.s. is the central focus the health system itself has struggled a lot of personal protective equipment p.p. has been a particular problem for medical staff some are even 100 equipment years past its
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original expiry date earlier i spoke to malcolm kendrick a doctor who was on the receiving end of some about old equipment. to come on time to the you know not only were patients not being tested they were also being destroyed deliberately could be a positive indicator homes it's absolutely ridiculous thing is that some mean i mean you find that you know. you look at the box and it has a sticker on it so you only 2022 and then if you learn all which was made it was somebody else underneath it there's 2070 it's an unprecedented health crisis never seen in our lifetimes do you accept that authorities are doing you know they're attempting to at least do all they can in extraordinary circumstances or not you know we all understand that this thing hit really hard and then suddenly the whole world went to p.p. evil is just not being honest with your stuff you're already you're saying all the event that happened and then used to handing out stuff it was 'd 10 years probably
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from the previous wife lou what are you doing you know just and stuff nobody would notice and then you'll all it's all right anyway what it was and why did you treat it incompetent 5 year olds you can see that my anger is really still really ruined . it's revised dying it's official coronavirus death toll after some fatalities in courage homes were reclassified as resulting from other causes or for authorities one that does not mean the virus has stopped circulating in the sector it comes as the country's health care workers continue to demand greater support saying their own lives are at stake. medics gathered in protest outside one of the couple's hospitals on wednesday since the beginning of the pandemic health workers nationwide have been sounding the
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alarm over what they say has been a chronic lack of safety equipment on funding there's also another legal challenge to any potential negligence in the care sector with. prosecutors opening a case into deaths in residential homes. has more than. we were told from the very beginning the elderly were among the most vulnerable and in the last few weeks we've started to get a real sense of just exactly what that meant in from around 40 percent of deaths attributed to 19 have come from one sector alone it's a national scandal is how it's been described by some others have had enough and they're now taking action. families contacted me they decided that the deaths of their relatives raised a number of questions obviously this is due to the fact that a code of silence exists within these institutions they revealed the absence or insufficient application of safety rules as well as the absence of the late testing
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in some cases we are even talking about concealing information about the actual state of the relative's house in these care homes the complaints are not directed against anyone in particular the goal is to hold those in charge of the nursing homes accounts ago and also quite possibly the regional health authorities the area of responsibility here is wide in relation to the cases for which we filed complaints there was not just some failure in the system in these cases we're talking about criminal liability the paris prosecutor's office has now imprint several pullin ory investigations into manslaughter failure to assist the personal danger and be in danger of the lives of others this is one of the cat homes in question it was here at the ballet that a mine be do it live since the end of 2014 back in march of this year during a video call her granddaughter 1st became aware of problems at the home. the
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employee responsible for my mother and no other president had no. protection they were meant to be confined to the rooms but were kept in a cool door i live near says she flagged her concerns to the management but was assured that everything was fine however her grandmother's condition continued to deteriorate. potosi just can't show she was in the terminal teach of called 19 he said. she could have been saved following the death of her grandmother livia formed an association it's called collective 9471 a symbolic name which represents the number of deaths recorded in the french care home system on may 5th it's now representing other families who also lost loved ones do you to what they believe was
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a failure to protect them during the pandemic the korean group which runs this home has rejected those accusations. no information has been hidden this criticism which is directed against korean but which is in reality the personnel of those who fought day and night particularly painful particularly unbearable but this is not the only care home that is being looked into elsewhere and their investigations are being opened to with more and more families criticizing what they say were problems with hygiene and a lack of protective measures in care homes if these cases do end up being caught on the homes of culpable companies could face a hefty fine or an individual may even end up in prison for up to 5 years but no way that will bring back those who lost their lives. r.t.
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or to send me a paris. living to another of our headline stories ukraine sees it will open a probe into leaked phone calls allegedly made between former president petro poroshenko and u.s. presidential hopeful joe biden the exchange revived allegations that biden engaged in a quid pro quo move by pushing for the sucking of the prosecutor general for personal reasons in exchange for u.s. aid the current ukrainian leader vladimir selinski has said those calls could be perceived as treason. yes i heard about go in biden once and i think this is not the last time ukrainians will hear about this issue the prosecutor's office and law enforcement agencies should respond i know that the prosecutor general of ukraine yesterday registered a criminal proceeding at the request of a deputy they will investigate i know that this can be considered as high treason
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but it appears the details the calls were 1st published by ukrainian m.p. the un verified exchange seems to trace back to a legal case led by the prosecutor general victor shoppin who was looking into corruption involving the gas company at the time joe biden saw moments payroll prompting allegations the former us v.p. tried to pressure the poroshenko government into sucking shulgin all allegedly in exchange for a 1000000000 dollar aid package who himself has called the leak to audio fabricated r.t. senior correspondent not because the has been following developments. this is a filthy dirty story and international corruption extortion abuse of power maybe maybe not see there's 2 explanations the 1st one is that ukraine's prosecutor general was a bad man who needed to go that spied new proof of him actually doing bad things
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and him investigating the company that jew biden's son worked at had nothing to do with anything to me to add to. that new government. under general. i am prepared to. 90. dollars. for it were we are it or that every. american my word. now the. war is i mean. $1000000000.00 loan guarantee. the 2nd explanation is much uglier than vice president joe biden gets his son a cushy job $83000.00 a month a tourist month
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a ukrainian gas company doing no one knows what this is a fact next the ukrainian state prosecutor apparently launches a corruption probe into breast money and daddy biden abuses his powers of office and allegedly blackmails ukraine with a 1000000000 dollar loan and gets the guy potentially investigating his son. as a rule even 6 hours that the prosecutors not fired you're not getting the money there's also something weird about an elected representative of the ukrainian people then president par shanku demeaning and luring himself to the slow. level never surrender and forever right now are you. for every one of you overtired our wars 9 it's a great pleasure for me goosebumps now i don't know what's worse humiliating him self or even folding the bidens demands doing as he's told far in
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his countryman despite no evidence of him doing anything wrong because a foreigner told him to. yesterday to hire me to be a general prosecutor. you're fired for harried our charity we're not hearing aid from each side is our all our. while our. greedy the greedy. state. of pieces of news. there's no way to verify this leaked recording no way to tell it if a day how it's being edited can you even imagine another country pulling in the soft the conflicts of interest a loon is davening but you know what's an even worse defense democrats do
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even after russian intelligence asset doctored that recording it was still a nothing borger yes it was russian hackers it's a pro russian operation the recordings were leaked by ukraine's putin's the russians just want to make biden look bad and even see is it on it apparently russian collusion again. the events have bank craze of the 2016 presidential election when russian operatives hacked some released e-mails from hillary clinton in what u.s. intelligence agencies later concluded was a moscow directed operation designed to peace trump russia and indeed you don't need russia to make you look stupid biden making ukraine far the guy that was investigating his son was stupid enough. new york's poorest neighborhoods how much disproportionately higher cova death rate
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than better off districts according to the city's health department we have more on balance on more besides after the break. 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 you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being
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so. direct. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. aura made in the shallowness. in the u.s. which remains the country his heart is upon the global covert 99 and the governor of the worst affected area new york city's early results of antibody testing suggest one in 5 city residents have been infected in new york health department released data showing low income neighborhoods have a disproportionately higher death rate than wealthier districts artie's
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investigative project red fish immersed itself in the city's poorest areas to see how things are playing out there at the people having to create so-called help communities through to a lack of official support. the government refuses to provide the resources like food like universal health care universal housing waiting for government agencies to address this no longer viable we have to take matters into our own hands. when the country gets a cold the bronx gets the flu now when the country gets cold the people of the bronx and the bronx consider one of the poorest areas in the city of new york and united states not counting native american reservations the bronx has one of the highest rates of diabetes in the country. these are diseases that put people more
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at risk of getting caught. were put in a position where we have to come in and provide out of our own pockets the things that people need and we don't have those resources like the government has. one thing the coronavirus done at this meeting really clear is that in capitalism not profit thank you so i think it's also really clear when you look at the stimulus talking to primarily giving less fun. $43000.00 u.s. millionaires received an average of $1600000.00 in stimulus while most people i know have to check any of the apply a month or 2 ago they're running late projects in so many places are literally life and death were for me the most visible way that the government has responded has to tell us to stop working but still protests are paid in capital still participate and paying a still participate and liability i need
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a system in place where the people are 1st before profits or people are always in crisis on the capitalism this pandemic right now gives us a window of opportunity to politicize and drive solutions forward. this system that we have is no longer applicable we need to create something new these mutual aid networks are doing exactly that. a derogatory remark about new york police saying the city's health chief trunk with an apology she had refused to supply officers with additional p p during a phone call with a top commander in march this is what was leaked to the media. i don't give to rats body or cops i need them for others. but the man came into the city face the serious shortage of mosques and other protective equipment but infuriated police unions did not take kindly to them being
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over looked on immediately called for her to be sucked last week under 10 percent of 55000 police officers were reported to be positive with dean doesn't know it 41 deaths being recorded we talked to a former officer in washington d.c. he believes the authorities have let down in the n.y.p.d. . we have lost some police officers not only in new york when in other places too as a result of the cole 19 is so if they know we can do to prevent them from coming down with it. and then ultimately down was to prove it and part of that is not only testing but also providing them with the chemical protective gear we need to do that and then about who thinks they ought to go do their job and not have the proper protection is some wrong with them but they have been on the front lines literally on the front so this and then so they haven't been able to have
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been able to stay in the house they have had to make adjustments clearly with we haven't done everything that we can to. press in the. government has let us down in relationship to. states and cities and counties with. the resources that they need in order. to spite the severity of the pandemic in the country several states are plowing ahead with their reopening programs artie's john how the reports on one of the most populous regions stateside plans for a new normal after the lock them. safe smart step by step that's the name of the state of florida's reopening plan with phase one kicking off monday though many cities and counties statewide had already started reopening earlier this month the fact that florida was among several states to start reopening so early certainly
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feel the national debate about how soon was too soon particularly as the number of coated 1000 cases in florida continue to grow i was one of the residents who had a covert 1000 antibodies test recently at this urgent care center in miami beach turned out negative the city of miami started its phase one reopening stand up miami and wednesday was some parks and businesses allowed to reopen but mayor francisco swara says restaurants hotels and beaches in the same. we would be part of the next reopening phase in another week let me be clear this is not the beginning of the end but it is the end of the beginning there are 2 paths a responsible path that will take us to face 2 and a responsible path which will bring us back to where we started the pandemic has hit miami a city reliant on tourism hard with laws like this one and all the big hotels shut down at this exclusive video recently from my paddle board on biscayne bay right off the mandarin oriental hotel in brickell key which is usually packed this time of year it's outdoor event space hosting weddings and business functions instead it was eerily quiet and desolate as florida moves into its reopening phases there are
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questions about whether or not the 1000 figures are complete the so-called architect of florida's kovac 1000 tracking web page said she was fired after going public with her concerns about florida department of house commitment to accessibility and transparency state officials say she was insubordinate but the miami herald and other media outlets sued the state over its refusal recently to release data about covert 1000 cases and deaths in nursing homes and other long term care facilities still florida is moving forward with reopening and after 2 months of being locked down residents here are going out to enjoy the warm sun perhaps one of the biggest questions now though will the covert 1000 disease cast a dark and deadly shadow over the sunshine state in the weeks or months to come. well despite talk of beaches the faults of holidays might be a little too soon yourself if you are. missing travel and in need of
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a break from this crisis well with some what is now reopened i found myself thinking about a summit getaway so let's try a test run and see what post corona travel joyce awaits us. first stop the airport mega excited already it is the 1st time you've been farther than 20 minutes from your house and what do you see queues socially distance of course but so they are everywhere queues for the new electronic check it queues of travel stopping every 20 seconds to sanitize their hands queues for temperature checks queues of people bored in groups of 10 but of about skill. well done if you survive the endless checks and queues so now you're on board and the cabin crew appeared to be extras for me black america scene is full house my gear is not talking about something to be worried about what don't look to the stewards francis also you know will be no pillows no blankets those were not shew
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ease of pre-code that travel a new not true though no middle c. noble passive aggressive elbow legal leg room bottles that all the rest is yours. so you had to how to your cost holiday adventure to the beach safety valves that you put on that 3 piece. now there's something familiar about this speech oh yes and now that q so you wait you wait the finally the cove advantage i'm not joking ushers you win and you find yourself in some side fights. when it classmates you now have to leave between tool plexiglas sheets to get to your old designated lunches or we are going to show
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we've tried to come up with a solution so that people can go to the beach the idea is to use a modular wall has a separating wall for gyms and hair dressing salons between prions corrido as well as for swimming pools and waterparks and office an hour you forgot to book you'll beat slot so no time for you today all he could see at 20 bracelets counting the number of beachgoers also if you're hungry there is a strict dress code. and all this just sounds too much for you then that is another option the young industry has used this global pandemic to advertise itself as the safest summer option which would have been a full proof plan if i hadn't been for the fact the majority of the wild population couldn't afford a week on the mediterranean waves even before the global recession was announced read through the room as sad to say that the men sunbathing and cycles in the
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middle of a sweaty city is probably the closest we'll be getting to us on a day we do some a 2020. a pandemic on the us news media in there watching the hawks spotlight next week cross to washington for the show right after the break is that close. expositors survival guide ecstacy just the start simply. puts repatriations look at the rest of 70 years. bill of the 7 x. prize report.
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