the bombs dropped decades ago is the u.s. making amends for the tragedy in laos built to the people need a little land on. this hour's headlines stories the u.k. government admits it made a choice to leave holmes tested for corona virus so it could focus solely on the n.h.s. but the admissions. relatives who lost loved ones. on mt sinai she wasn't having attacks why so many residents in cat asked why we need. to why this is not. while in france prosecutors open probes into the deaths of some kara home residents bereaved relatives lay the blame squarely at the door of those running the facilities. and

also ahead ukraine sees it will investigate new evidence that u.s. presidential hopeful joe biden once pressure the country's justice system in a legal case involving his son saying it could amount to quote treason. forever you're tuning in from today across the world welcome to moscow and to r.t. international my names you know neal good to have your company. 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 from li 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 that she developed a temperature

a very 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 are bad and she said. possibly 8 more than like clay we asked. and 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. you know was it definitely co-chaired and she passed away from i am 99.9 percent sure it was. a stroke or landslide she wasn't worthy of having

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 hospital more than 11000 people are now believed to have died in care homes since the start of the pandemic in the u.k. the justice minister sparked outrage after admitting officials made a choice not to test her omes focusing instead only on the n.h.s. i'm not potentially led to hundreds of vulnerable people going on tested as a result we needed to make a choice about testing and we didn't decide to focus upon the n.h.s. but i think that was absolutely essential in robert bucklin did state though that the high number of deaths in care homes was a huge tragedy and a matter of great progress here's dawn hopkins again speaking about her mother in law. but she was 92 she had a man share ball she had a good quality ally and it really wasn't her time to down i thought i think the

government and the lack of care homes that me down. they've not given them clear guidance on how to manage and to keep their residence. in this pandemic that wasn't short have prioritized their care homes as well because that some of that is more now i know like to my children we need to look into why so many residents in care homes have passed away due to this and we need some one since rarely as to why this is going on out of town. but it should be pointed out i'd even with beginning h.s. as the central focus the health system itself has struggled a lot of personal protective equipment has been a particular problem for medical staff some are even 100 ppm years past its

original expiry date earlier i spoke to malcolm kendrick the doctor who was on the receiving end of some of the old equipment. been injecting come on time to the you know not only were patients not being tested they were also being distorted deliberately positive indicator homes it's absolutely ridiculous thing is that yes i mean i mean you find that you know going to people you know suddenly it's the liver you look on the box and it has a sticker on it so you only 2022 and then if you pull that off which would be if somebody else underneath it so there's 2017 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 and we all understand that this thing hit really hard and that learns a little. p.-p. evil is just nobody. here already you know. and then used to

100. 'd 10 years probably from the previous wife lou what are you doing you know just. nobody would notice and then you know all it's all right anyway well what it was and why did you treat it as incompetent 5 year olds you can see that my anger is really really ruined. another headline stories from say's it's revised down it's official corona virus death toll after some fatalities encourage homes were reclassified as resulting from other causes however off thora he's warned 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 capital's hospitals on whedon's they since the beginning of the pandemic health workers nationwide have been sounding

the alarm over what they say has been a chronic lack of safety equipment and funding there's also no illegal challenge to any potential negligence in the care sector where prosecutors are opening a case into debts and residential homes without. we were told from the very beginning these elderly were among the most vulnerable and in the last few weeks we started getting a real sense of just exactly what that meant in france around 40 percent of deaths attributed to 91 have come from one sector alone it's a national scandal is how it's been described by some others have had to know and they're now taking action. families contacted me they decided that. yes 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 reveal the absence or

insufficient application of safety rules as well as the absence of or late testing in some cases we are even talking about concealing information about the actual state of their 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 are talking about criminal liability the paris prosecutor's office has now opened several pullin ory investigations into manslaughter failure to assess the personal danger danger in the lives of office this is one of the cat homes in question it was here at the ballet that 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 employee responsible from a mother and another resident had no protection they were meant to be confined to the rooms but were kept in a corner door i live in yes says she flagged her concerns to the management but was assured that everything was fine however her grandmother's condition continued to deteriorate hospital and she just can't show she was in the terminal station for 19 he said if she arrived 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. caught it in the french care home system on may 5th it's now representing the families who also

lost loved ones do you to what they believe was a failure to protect them during the pandemic the korean group which runs this home has rejected those accusations no information has been hidden there's criticism which is directed against korean but which is in. the personnel it's true those who thought day and night particularly painful particularly unbearable but this is not the only cat home that is being looked into elsewhere in france other 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 neither will bring back those who lost their lives.

near paris. ok moving the program on the ukraine sees it will open a probe into phone calls allegedly made between former president petro poroshenko and u.s. presidential hopeful joe by the exchange revalues allegations that biden engaged in a quid pro quo by pushing for the sucking of the bin prosecutor general for personal reasons in exchange for usaid the current ukrainian leader of the mirrors all in ski has said those calls should be perceived as treason. yes i heard about cohen 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 but it is putting it that the coals were 1st published by ukrainian m.p. the unverified exchange seems to trace bond to a legal case led by the prosecutor general and victor shoke and who is looking into corruption involving the gas company. joe biden saw moments payroll prompting allegations that former us v.p. tried to pressure the poorish government into sucking chokin all allegedly in exchange for a $1000000000.00 aid package poroshenko himself has called the leaked audio fabricated our senior correspondent. has been following developments. this is a filthy dirty story 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 and him investigating the company that jew biden's son worked at had nothing to do with anything. new government. under general. i am for. america 90 of the. 100 hours. for it were were it every. american my word. now the. borders i mean. one dollar loan guarantee. the 2nd explanation is much uglier than vice president joe biden gets his son a cushy job $83000.00 a month a purist mom

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 load and gets the guy potentially investigating his son 5 as and leave in 6 hours and that the prosecutor is not fired you're not getting the money there's also something weird about an elected representative of the ukrainian people then president poroshenko demeaning and luring himself to the slow. level never surrender and. for every one of you overtired i 9. it's a great pleasure for me goosebumps ah now i don't know what's worse par shanku humiliating him self or even folding the bidens demands doing as he's told far in

his countryman despite no evidence of him doing anything wrong because a foreigner told him to. yesterday hire me to be a general prosecutor. you're fired for harried our charity we're not hearing aid from each side to do is are a. greedy the greedy. state. of jesus. 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 the salt the conflicts of interest a loon is davening but you know what's an even worse defense democrats do

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 bankers 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 boost from russia and indeed you don't need russia to make you look stupid by making ukraine far the guy that was investigating his son was stupid enough. new york neighborhoods

have a disproportionately higher death rate than the better off districts according to the city's health department we are going without and probably more besides in iran 90 seconds from. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

let's start back stateside because the u.s. remains the country hit hardest by the global 1000 break on the governor of the worst affected area new york city's early results of the testing suggest one in 5

city residents have been infected the new york health department also released data showing low income neighborhoods have a disproportionately higher death rate wealthier districts artie's investigative project redfish immersed itself in the city's poorest borders to see how things are playing out if the people helping to create so-called help communities. oficial 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 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 one of the highest rates of diabetes in the country. these are diseases that put people more 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. made really clear is that. in capitalism all that matters is profit thank you so i think it's also really clear when you look at the stimulus package and it's primarily a huge slush fund. $43000.00 u.s. millionaires received an average of $1600000.00 in stimulus while most people i know haven't gotten any of the applied a month or 2 ago so right now mutual aid 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 and need a system in place where the people who are 1st before profits for people are always in crisis on the capitalism this pandemic right now gives us a window of opportunity politicized and drive solutions forward. so that we have is no longer applicable we need to create something new these mutual aid networks are doing exactly that. will it stay in the city because a derogatory remark about new york police tell us seen the city's health chief by truck with an apology she had refused to supply officers with additional p. p. e. during a phone call with a top commander back in march the following is what was leaked to the media. i

don't give to rats body or cops i need them for others. dr barr but said the game is the city face the serious shortage of mosques and other protective equipment but infuriated police unions did not take kindly to them being overlooked and immediately called for her to be silent last week just under 10 percent of 55 following police officers were reported to be positive with covert 941 and all have been recorded we talked to a former officer in washington d.c. he believes the authorities have quote let 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 it's all in danger we can do to prevent them from coming there with. and then ultimately down was to prevent and part of that is not only testing but also providing them with the critical personal protective

gear we need to do there than anybody who thinks they are to go do their job and not have the proper protection is some wrong with them they have been on the front lines literally on the front learned so this and then so they haven't been able to they haven't been able to stay in the house ever had to make adjustments clearly we are we haven't done everything that we can do. person that they dead federal government has let us down in relationship to the ground in other states in cities and counties with the resources that they that they need in order. for countries which depend on turrets and the lock turns of giving them a major headache the big question is how to reopen for business with the pandemic still essentially ravaging the world countries like italy spain greece to name but a few they want to busy beaches again for the summer season but the tide might be

against them as r.t. saskia taylor takes us through. missing travel i'm in need of a break from this crisis well this somewhat is now we open it i find myself thinking about a summit getaway so let's try a test run and see what corona travel delays await us. first stop the app or never excited already it is the 1st time you've been further than 20 minutes from your house and what you see kids especially does is of course the cell they are everywhere here is the new electronic tech excuse of travel stopping every 20 seconds just. it's eyes that hands he has for temperature checks queues of people bored in groups of 10 but of a buzz kill. well how do you survive he and this checks in queues so now you're on board and the cabin crew appeared to be extras for me black america scene and full house my gear is not talking about something to be

worried about well i don't look to the stewards francaise also nobody no pillows no blankets that is what luxuries of pre-code that travel a new not true though no middle c. noble passive aggressive elbowing or leg room bottles that all rest is yours. so you head out to your cost holiday adventure to the beach safety funds 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 then finally the code that not a joke i'm not joking asha's you win and you find yourself in some side if i see what is glass maze you now have to weave between tool plexiglas sheets to get to

your old designated lunges or we know 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 hairdressing salon between clients treated corrido as well as for swimming pools and water parks and office in our you forgot to book you'll beat so no time if you today all he could see at 20 bracelets and counting the number of beach coas also if you're hungry there is a strict dress code. if 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 obviously have been a full proof plan if it hadn't been for the fact the majority of the world population couldn't afford a week on the mediterranean waves even before the global recession was announced

reached the room and the room is sad to say that some men sung the thing and suckles in the middle of a sweaty city is probably the closest we'll be getting to a holiday. woo summit 2020. well the former 1st minister of scotland is the next post here on r.t. with the alex salmond show getting going in moments. and right after that it's all the latest news updates from our team u.k. we'll of course also continue to update the stories that matter to you online on our social media channels c as soon. as you notice in your restaurant that they blow up patrons are consuming anything the solution according to the policymakers would be to make them blow up consumers

bigger like and inject more are you know helium or oxygen into the blow up and that also mouth improve the situation they're not taking into consideration they're dead lifeless that they they can't consume just like the money's velocity number shows us that for now a couple of decades has been dying and recently the money velocity is now pretty much 0. beers a new cold war isn't played this time which again china what are the terms of engagement what does it mean to win this conflict and is all out war possible how did the u.s. and its alliance just find themselves in this situation.

welcome to the like sam and show from strike i'm a been shot in scotland who would take a fresh loot at the economics of the covert 19 crisis. when we last with to the so shoe a few weeks ago governments around the world were just starting to announce of a map economic packages to deal with the economic impact of lockdown in today's show we asked vicky pryce the former head of the government economic service in the u.k. which countries may have jobs that right is a rapid recovery possible or are we certainly never to blame for about a prolonged economic recession and we are sleeping in scottish economic commentators jobs cut of and what you thinking might a mess from this crisis but 1st it does mean a glass school with your tweet should e-mails and your messages thank you alex 1st

of all in response to our extended interview this to heidi burns a former chief medical officer for scotland mike says this is a fascinating interview long in-depth and totally vetting absolute and i really really hope people in particular on board and take action tracy says this is the best interview i've listened to and makes a lot more sense than what we have to listen to on the news with the politicians seem to tell us very little and almost says wish she was still r.c.m. or heidi then in this points to a sure last week on media on the pandemic award winning journalist peter oborne and chris hedges from both sides of the atlantic lewis says love the show interesting look at what the press are seeing i mean new day they will increase their criticism of the prime minister and his government want to says it must be skinny living in the us to be so bad for humanity in policy development she then goes on to city agree we have huge inequality too norma says the print media is dying but it's mostly their own fault by.