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is you'll be a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation from the community. are you going the right way or are you the next. what is true. is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallowness. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air
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force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area russia. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it 11000000000 barrels of oil. take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we claim that that belongs to us both of these countries have nuclear weapons capabilities there is reason for concern so that's why we're going to drill down on this story for you today right here on the news with rick sanchez where you know as we always like to say we do believe by golly it's time to do news again.
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her her visionary singles are featured present like they were going to write. are very good to. really are. discussing. her. or her home. program her very best selling science fiction author and there is a loss of her it's really great to have here on our assurance today we've got a lot of things to discuss everything that is going on all around us to last a friend or writer as side by rather is exactly who i need to talk to so i always say these signs they should also pessimistic could read about how everything is not going to be so that how things could work out in the future but in
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a recent short story that you wrote right inside that inherent team that we're all going through right now. you said it's going to last for 3 weeks and now well it has actually years oh not very optimistic tonight. in my actual story i say is that it could be more complex that what was actually because i sings out there frozen moments but what do you really understand what our local politician what makes good communication but there is not going to go sam sam just will say we are understand what is really a good read 19 so it's why i say we seems that it was oh it was 3 weeks and it is true. but never mind i sings out what is fabulous is that humans are always evil you each to be better and to act and that and after 2 days
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in new difficulties so that in the end in a few years if. is it to seem east scenario at them at this moment we have to change our way of life and we have to be to stay confined every time and perhaps to build a new city we where everybody is confined but it's not for it's unconscionable table but it could be 0 new way of life his wife michelle story is named is question use its means are we have done and they were initially to be different because there is new as is new a difficulty well you call it ever has some colleagues adaptation in your story on the coffin as people really miss it this isn't they just adjust to living out
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the route which when i imagine i will from a site be very alive do you really that people can get used to pretty much all think. and i think that if we look at the past our aunts and sisters after a lot of difficult to wal-mart and. not odd when you see some going to war when you see who was a peg when you see so shy mean or when people have nothing to eat it was more difficult that we experiment no shores nominates we just have to stay home and we don't use a computer we can use phone we have movies we are screwed so it's very crucial to both crazies and i think we will find a way to get out and to change. to be. a better. ins i'm not sure that's silly shit is clever world going
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underground because of the virus us live that's what i saw that it's a way out of the table situation right so if we us live a still it's going on today then we know that we should leave 3 years in a really harsh lock down that's you know how a parallel yes story tonight sit in a situation is you really no hope of continuing as will the lives that we know a live virus really thinking as there is there is hope that science so all the way life. just as is what before but anyway something changed as a world will be no more the same you see paris in paris is more more akin. everything is more clean and then sorry we see is that there is a new modes i see it as a birds i never see before it's like
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a revenge of the natural and i sings out from a long time i'm not sure i have to get his revenge because we are. too much there is too much human on this earth and we we are not able to stop growing demographic growing. in a few years we will beat them 1000000000 people it's very difficult for us to support so much room and frozen action so it's like when you say pause when you say stop start and think about what that meant we could not our ways grow with more people and more economy and more destruction as in that show we have to just to take a pose and to sink. out could we left for our children a better. planet. could we. let
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i think there is too much waste. we are we are growing in a society of consummation and 4 make more money and consummation and and and money is not a solution to be a pianist i think happiness is to find a new way to be was a natural to. to respect the respect that every planet i don't have a nose a world i'm going to find a new armani between humanity and the rest of life all we can really talk about that a little bit more detail because we don't have a plan b. and whatever is going on yes it happened very symbolic meaning but before we get to that i still want a little bit more ponder on this human nature and get your thoughts on whatever is going on with us right now in terms of transformation because human nature is such that on one hand we can adapt to pretty much anything on the other hand yes we are
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social animals are in a was we're not more it should be you know exclude it from each other we are more not too hot we're tapped out we're not born to be alone underground so i'm wondering i want to hear your thoughts what he's saying in this process situation where we're going through right now which one i'm of the 2 important traits of human will take over allocation. or social animal heart because i feel like a lot of people are adapting but at the same time a lot of people are having a lot of mental problems because they can't handle being alone and walked a man from just you know my 1st book is about ants and and seems to be the way that we could use because it's a very odd way ants was on the earth. and the road 20.
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1000000 years and we are on the front 3000000 years so it's a very old series ation and the solution. they once they are firing east to create pyramid a city where everybody stay inside and they just little group will turn to find food and to find a new way. for good to be here again and as a city by example but they don't. 80 percent of ants relation stay in the city inside so it's a way to stay as you say there is always a social relation but they don't and guide everything everywhere they don't. travel for no way actually we use so much playing
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so much but which we do so much pollution for nothing just for early days or. just to keep. drew to find a little place where we are quite and there is no mrs serial so much troubling with john adams family life inside would have a family life with little ruth we don't need to be 810-0000 people to ear at the same time the same person and musician are all to see a politician we don't have to be some rich people just find a way to come back to family and perhaps 2 tribes say the international is that were you saying basically traveling and socializing and connecting we're still global well is about isn't it become a luxury is that what you're saying and we have to go back yes they the most basic things are staying with family that they're one of those who don't have family yes
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i think we have to come back as you say or do more illegal groups but we couldn't keep the community is a big community with social network. you know every day really sort of day i make you a t.v. show there is are a 10000 people. airing me just wish that was a computer so it's a new way to have a big community of people without. using cost without using every single make aleutian just with the computer and. technology. it's the same like you know i speak about the ants with the answer user . to prove it's. me. it's. smell but for us it's not smell when we have we used full communicate it's
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electronic waves but it's the same so i think that answers show us a new way to be more adapted to our planet and to be more ecological and to be more money was a natural and. i'm grateful to both moments but it's a way we need to to use to be good in addition. to the larder right. around the house with the usual.
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during the vietnam war u.s. forces also bombed to neighboring laos it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know. how much it is officially the. country per capita. as human history millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country. even today kids in laos fall victim to bombs dropped decades ago is the u.s. making amends for the tragedy and what help to the people need in that little land of mine.
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and we're back with our best science fiction. starting up a crisis at rim right now. so you share pretty much an optimistic view. if you should will be. you're saying that you expect a shift in mentality you believe in that. people's and what is fair and you expect that shift and tell you. always more to always better what makes you think that humans are capable of changing the way they are because i am being skeptical you here believe or i can see but i am being skeptical why do you think that this isolation will lead to and always better kind of paradigm because we don't charge. it's the only way to. do. to go on is to change our mentality to change our habits to the
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change of connection to 20 it's a natural we don't have choice it's why it's very interesting that it's not a democratic experience it's not we don't ask people what you want. what that when it's everybody has to change our mind because there is no choice is out or you are dying in the show a week so in a few months. it's him it's only way to speak to 8ww people if you say you don't have choice you have to do is that or you will die. i completely agree but when you speak to people in are saying he don't have a choice because unless you do that you can it die when you know that we don't have a choice and we're willing to obey because we know it's temporary but that is
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what keeps people going is the hope that we're going to go back to normal after we hope they don't survive i mean we're all craving this return to normality everyone in our state was saying whoa just waiting for things to sort of sell down so we can live normally gave me normal is relative isn't it because of their weight invented but in what ways other than better over more which you think will happen the new normal life will manifest itself will can you can you deal in description well of the new normal when we go back to normal will be like i don't. every single be ok if there's a crazy for my life i you know every morning i go to say to a bistro to work and i will i want to do it again better. i think something in the unconscience of
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everybody. action and she thing is. we have one day to stop completely. so usual life and perhaps like in my novel we have to state our ways question a question a few hours almost if we are use no we experience sure we are able to do is act. and perhaps it could be the solution was a new generation to have air to have no disease to. know playing it well it could be the only solution and i just moment it's like in my novel or more confused we will be always at home and we always stay as we are now do you think the virus this whole craze a pandemic the has swept humanity sort of off
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a stage will be for directly when it's over they give us banish flu and i think imma call around. any wasn't even much more serious than calling 19 that some people are like ok well they just continued living with it for without really changing anything played here hoping for people to be more conscious about the earth and the climate and and you know consumption but do you really think we're capable because from what i see and i think if i see you will take time we are human just like you like to children you know when that should ram do wrong things you say statins a corner and wait it's extra humans we have no stains a corner and sing about what you have done ok when searching come back to say so you are honest answer listen you don't have to do is act or you will stay again is
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a corner and usually the 1st condition doesn't work so you need different moments and then d.m. should be there young boy don't do no more stop doing what you asked. the wrong thing you have done before so it's an indication of all. we. see when. too much to go east was too much and not in the waste in a waste wasting everything it's a lesson i sense of justice and it's not enough we will ever so man and the so to someone and until the moment we really understand that we have to find. another one equate to really to live together and the norman equate to live with the spacey vision and animal there is there is also always
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another question is a demographic program i think there is a another way to preprocess in your humanity us to. always projects children that we can love that we can educate and that we can feed we don't need to make tension runs if we just are able to love and educate and food and you should too trisha drain or too should wednesday mash but with it's not a contrary decisions not a national mission if for all the national usually it was a big program is that we say. every country do is unpolitical of all demographics and at the ends of what happens is we are more and more humans and we are destroying more and more natural and more and more and more.
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we're done and more and more animals and. it could not be our ways so i think we have to sink to get to be more wise to be moral to be moral cowards and make this children because on so. same their maker they should run because there is not a smart alec but actually there isn't normal so much mortality for children so we have to say things that should run we do we have to educate we have to love them and we have to give them a job and we have to use them and that stays them the legs out and it's a look a lot of time because out of control mills the same idea and the we have to do it all together so just to be sure you're saying that it is like it's like children that they don't learn yet right away from the 1st try so you're
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saying i have this cause pedantic experiences cully 19 trial if you wish. is not going to change the way we think about environment here you really do people are going to go that to fly the way they were flying he's in cars the air flying you just start to change something you before before there was only interest period of support addition to economic program growing and and so only a program with money and consummation and we have to. to make it or it directly with. economic. economy is not the only solution there was a program for all grandparents because they don't think should do they are not sure to get with every every day between it's more easy for us to your true that
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every day. i think you want to start was a youthful new generation our generation we out to moche only 2 we have bad habits so useful as a new rule of the new generation there will i see read or understand because read say the experience of grafton men and their experience of fear of 19. change could change. many abla they are now more and that table so young people. ok one of our generation because look and the 21st century we are all a start thinking all ourselves as they homo almighty they were gods and me we started by reversing the age francaise we started messing with it and were saying
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like your talent is just around the corner and look as our restart scared and nervous and we run we are at a high and it you know sort of to cause the tiniest microchip to to put us in this state and it's not even elyse you know so giving up a our generation do you think we're going to come out of this crisis still thinking of ourselves that we're home alive. i think that our generation. is a very lucky generation because we see. we says a frost people will walk on on the moon we see sexual liberation we see. a lot of territory things. cultural revolution one cultural revolution yes and.
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probably. as a people from our generation will. we will get a 100 year old because medical evolution because. medical progress for all our generation there will be to see me to be $100.00 and that. that's new. we say 100 year old for ups we can mow understand things because we have more time to think about it but our generation we are as a so lucky but it's a bad it's a bad student because we. we we are very social and. if it's white.
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rule profi to every scientifical revolution or so because we have a computer. medical things. there really is a sure loser fecal. revolution is for children no tourists it's too late for us so usually our generation is going to come out of calling $900.00 prices they just the south is just as silly a just as south assure you there as we don't we might lose because we have bad habits from so much time but for the new generation they will they will do better. every year generation to do but there isn't a world before so i have no doubt as a new generation on this concept of what we know to growing not their ways growing but to find armin well i am going to be honest i still have hope some hope for my
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generation as well and less a hurry to disagree over that gave me a status to get in there in other field it was nice now and at least someone has hope for our generation that it will also change a little bit come up better and prices for space is so much for it is wonderfully say that we show the best of luck and i still hope that we come up better in my career basic for instance you should thank you. i am very happy to speak with the recession and remember your mission reader and be sure. people thank you so much for your sort of hope i will speak again soon. i think.
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you are no offense but you no longer a young woman in fact you are one of the last living survivors of the nazi else asked i'm aware of it. all you like. you can never forget there can now auschwitz was really like to be in hell because you would never believe it want to go to as a copy of a course for 32 years of both and be very bad it all seems so a lot over by a good time to make it right when i get out on the farm saw you oh well you take my song to their next deal so he can listen and hopefully bless god heard. it appears
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a new cold war is in play this time which again china what are the terms of engagement what does it mean to wind this conflict and is all out war possible how did the us and its alliance oh i just find themselves in this situation. welcoming our viewers from around the world live from central london this is on to u.k. . buke a government is set to outline porn t.v. plans for international travelers but aviation experts warn it could destroy the industry. for the $100.00 people are feared dead after a pakistani passenger jet crashes into a residential area in karachi as it was coming in to land at the city's international airport. experts warn that those locked down stress disorder could fuel an even larger public health crisis i'll be joined by
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a doctor if you return to the health service declining to cope with 19. and the leaks government report reveals that emergency responders are concerned at the prospect britain is leaving the e.u. without a deal all the talking to a politics expert. welcome to r.t. u.k. the government's preparing to unveil its policy on quarantining international travelers that sounds the r.h. remained steady across the country between your point 7 and one. recession has the latest on choice minerva so is the child and what are these quarantine proposals so essentially they are another step in the right direction to try and stop the spread of the virus and keep that number and you know as people traveling from are brought into the united kingdom or have to quarantine for up to 14 days now the home secretary pretty fertile will be unveiling this planet of greater detail later on
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this afternoon at the government's daily press briefing but for now essentially means that anyone coming to the u.k. from abroad could face a fine of up to 1000 pounds if they fail to solve the 2 weeks as soon as people arrive in britain then be it by plane ferry or train but have to fill out a form with all of their contact details including in their drafts of weather. isolate otherwise accommodation will be arranged by the government now under the plans health officials will also be able to carry out spot checks to see whether people are complying with the government's policy they will exempt certain groups so from the measures including medical officials and bird horner's as one of those living in the common travel area like island and the channel islands now the group new rules are not expected to come into force until next month but the government will look to review the policy every 3 weeks now by and large these plans are welcome but some argue this quarantine is quite frankly bonkers ludicrous and absolutely unimplementable because if the majority of people that are getting off
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the planes or trains coming into the cape then have to use public transport to reach their ultimate destination while vent some would say it's void and completely defeats the point now the issue was raised today at the home affairs select committee where the chief executive of the airport operators association also wanted to see evidence of how useful it would be to exempt some people from the quarantine of course another line is not going to fly a flight if there are only one or 2 whole who are exempted will. be coming here so you know and that's why we're concerned about the way that this will operate in may simply. already in age. see there's also been quite a lot of criticism when it comes to the timing of it all now the shatter health secretary john ashworth has commented on saying it's almost like it seems this
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policy has been implemented a little bit too late especially when you consider other countries across the globe have already implemented a quarantine period some in fact at the beginning of that lockdowns their respective lockdowns and that almost seeing eases to that restrictive measures in comparison here in the united kingdom we seem to be at the very beginning of that now the director of health protection of public health england actually defended the government saying as always government policy has been expert in that we have been providing advice into government and into stage about the quart. pot happens when the ports may open again and indeed our chief exec is been in touch with the chief exec of you throw about a trial of testing of a temperature test checking so quarantine for 14 days is an international standard at the moment many countries are doing it and government has taken advice from
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a range of advisors on this it isn't new by the way the idea of isolation for 14 days that was what we operated jury in the 1st phase when anybody was unwell they were to stop isolation so we're familiar with if we're familiar with the process. now the plans are aimed at guarding against the 2nd wave 2nd peak of the corona virus outbreak but it does come as the government has announced for the 2nd week running there are number the transmission rate remains steady level between 0.71 as a reminder then the rate is the average number of people one infected person will pass the disease on 2 so as you can see on your screen if there are number was at 3 in the virus respect spread exponentially from one person to 3 people now even if the number is above one the infection break will increase and could lead to a 2nd peak so the government wants to ensure it is below one and stays below one if
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it is the outbreak will flatten out over time so the government says with the providence of the virus forming a travel quarantine will essentially be a very effective measure and will attempt to try and prevent the virus being imported from a brought now the government says it's supposed to be a temporary measure it will be reviewed every 3 weeks but of course it will be costing a lot of doubt across the country about any potential holiday plans of the summer so it will show you thank you very much thank you. how pakistan international's airlines jet has crashed just before landing at caracas main airport there are reports of people on the ground being killed while up to 30 have been rescued from the crash site a spokesperson for the airline confirmed there were $107.00 people on board there are reports that there could be at least 2 survivors though i kissed on affairs exposure of iran and spoke to r.t. from the nation's capitol. it was for to
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a bit of in from the airport where this particular plane crashed or recently it was a very thickly populated area and at least as many as 5 houses of this this crash happened upon which discretion up and and according to the latest supports 5 people from these deputies and obviously those are the distance of their video they have been taken out as alive the injured. obviously there are there are chances of more people who might have died this sifted record has been as good as it should have been but not as bad as that some people tried to portray these going to be that it record of the bugs on international airline particularly has more has not been good it is a primarily because of the fact that the airline has been in financial crisis since long being steered wrong the government has not been able to manage it but in this particular case i will store that this plane was not orderly it appears to be
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a sort of technical forward. a scientific report finding the u.k. government on the coronavirus pandemic has published its evidence justifying the reopening of schools in england from june the 1st the announcement of the modeling comes amid pressure from unions and councils to publish the science proving it was safe for students to return say each said the advice given to the government modeled a range of scenarios including people attending classes are out and if weeks but the advice only highlighted the uncertainty surrounding the infection rates of children compared to adults as well as concerns around social distancing. well it comes as a survey of councils in england found only a 5th of those who responded said they would reopen for some year groups in june while 15 local councils or local authorities even located mostly in northern england said schools under their jurisdiction would remain shut slighting safety concerns what
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a further 11 council said the issue is still under consideration while more than half said they were letting individual schools decide on whether they were in a position to reopen more widely or meanwhile an alternative route to sage led by former chief scientific adviser david king says the reopening should be delayed it pending or when the school reopened delaying by 2 weeks labs the rate of infection delaying to september brings down the infection probability to a much lower number. well the general secretary of the association of school and college leaders jeff johnson join me area he said it was important for the government to allow different parts of the country to follow the advice of their own local scientists and parts or send your child to be where the children peers to be a relatively straightforward decision it's of course the fact that schools aren't just full of children you've got the adults in there as well and so will teachers and other stuff we're going to be reassured about is what is the risk to them now the
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scientific briefing which i had to put into the public domain the fact that there isn't any more risk of getting to work in a school than there is in any other key work a profession let's say work in a supermarket and so on nevertheless people will need the reassurance about what does this mean in the wider community and that's one of the things i think this age publication makes us think about it isn't just children being in school is then travelling to school and that's probably why the emphasis is on the very youngest children who can be dropped off and collected rather than walking through high streets going to supermarkets newsagents getting on buses making on the other side the independent science advisor suggest a 2 week delay or even a september restart would either be acceptable do you think. well i'm not a scientist in the ascension of independents age group does make things more difficult because what they're saying is the same as we've seen in wales the same as we're seeing as you said from some local councils and i think ultimately this will need to be a public health decision in specific places because what we don't know is that they
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are right in london isn't the same as the already in manchester and i think the public against a need reassurance that it's not just westminster calling the shots here that local people looking to the local scientists are getting the right advice and gardens. experts are warning the health service to brace itself for waves of patients with post lockdown stress disorder as the u.k. lock down measures could unleash an even bigger public health crisis with britain approaching a 3rd month in lockdown as thought the measures to defeat the virus could lead to more people falling victim to a mental health pandemic a new form of post-traumatic stress fuelled by disruption isolation and financial insecurity could even be more deadly than the virus itself research from king's college london found the last recession led 210000 additional suicides. and to discuss this i'm now joined by returning n.h.s. doctor bill our has some doctors on thank you for joining us i mean you are one of
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the 1st to suggest this post lockdown stress disorder how 70 do you think it is to p.t.s.d. well really it's not a question of if but when we see waves of individuals who start to exhibit a range of symptoms which would surely mirror post traumatic stress disorder but most often we hear of p.t.s.d. in context of war or you probably remember at the beginning of this crisis boris johnson and many other world leaders used the analogy of war that we are at war footing now we think of war there's lots of life there's fear of harm this limitation of movement insecurity and all of this is in parallel by what we experience right now. so all the research has indicated for many many years that any degree of aren't even a 10 day or it can result in mental health challenges that last over 3 years so do you think the health service is ready for the waves of patients that you're suggesting. i left the n.h.s. about or 5 years ago and really when i left the n.h.s.
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was already on its knees and was experiencing all of the effects are you know austerity since i let things go because it got a lot worse and having returned and now you know the n.h.s. is really really struggling as it is before cope so really i am not confident that our health care system and infrastructure are ready to deal with the waves of. patients that are inevitably going to become it what do you think then the government should consider this when they're lifting the measures i mean do we need to slow down easing back into normal life are we going in the right pace well absolutely and i think perhaps this can be a real clarion call with regards to how we as a country and it's the culture up roach mental health can no longer have that stigma associated associated with it when we can expect up to one in 4 people in our country to experience symptoms like this so i'm really hoping that the government can take this on board and it also requires
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a why does the science will respond it's not just for the government but we need to think about economic responses cultural responses social social responses well also you mentioned that figure that if one in 4 therefore might this affect children if so how. well again the research of the children are even more sensitive to experiencing impact on their wellbeing if you think about it we told our children to stay indoors to not see their friends they've not been able to go to school now under normal circumstances that would be called child a simple good reason so we really need to be extra sensitive to how this will impact children it's complicated it requires a lot of attention and a lot of resources that well we set about attention and resources there so what can people actually do to protect themselves and their families their children from the mental health crisis. what are the normal sort of advice that you give to an individual who's beginning to feel stress on their well being you might tell them to go to the gym or see some friends even plan a holiday because do any of those things so we have to be
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a little bit more creative and this is where nontraditional providers come come in and i work for a charity or any appeal and we launched by at the beginning of the crisis we launched a helpline service for people who felt that their mental health was under stress or or was being challenged and what's so surprising is that so many people have access helpline and these are not people who would ever have thought that they would need help. a moment well especially so what we need is real societal solutions and we need to tell individuals that it's not weak to seek help there was a lot of services out there whether it's ours whether it's you know if you look online there's plenty of educational resources often we have that stigma with mental health we try and brush it under the carpet but with so many of us experiencing these sorts of problems and where we factor in the economic crisis is the political crisis the social crisis in addition to the out biases it's only normal to feel overwhelmed and stressed out so please the real call is to ask you
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to seek help. and hopefully in on the right stuff they deliver their daughter but thank you for joining us. well let's look at how the virus is affecting the u.k.'s home nation starting with the latest figures the national health service in england has reported 121 hospital deaths in the past 24 hours while the scottish 1st minister has announced a further 24 fatalities across all settings wales has reported 7 deaths and northern ireland 3 scotland's 1st minister has are scots to exercise good judgment when observing social distancing as the country gears up to ease its lock down from thursday well despite signs of boosting restrictions in england scotland and northern ireland the 1st minister of wales is taking a cautious approach marc great food said no changes to lock down rules are set to be made just yet but he hopes he'll have something to say on that next week now let's turn to the global figures as i currently stand. according to world wide data
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collated by johns hopkins university global cases have now passed 5100000 more than 333000 lives have been lost and almost 2000000 people have recovered. well the world health organization has reported the highest number of confirmed corona virus cases in one day since the start of the outbreak last year the contras with the most confirmed cases are currently the us russia brazil and the u.k. it also warned against the use of anti malaria medicine hydroxycut or acquitting which has been touted onto you used by president trump. still to come this hour. leaks government report shows that local emergency responders are concerned over a potential don't deal practice it all the talking talk politics expert. i.
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a note he says one of the report's contributors claims it's not the right time to be dealing with a potential e.u. crash at. we are currently in an unprecedented national emergency there will have health economic social and political impacts for years to come the responder community is exhausted blood's novacek terrorism breck's of preparations except for the last thing we need is a no deal breaks or if we are to do recovery properly we do not have the space to start scaling up our breck's a response to this needs to be fed into hate government thinking no this isn't pro breaks it is about being sensible for the recovery process and the health and well being of our responders well the report compiled by the c. 19 foresight group reviewed the coronavirus response by local resilience forums where these are regional groupings of local emergency responders such as police and firefighters the 42 different groups are tosk with planning the response to
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national emergencies which range from disease to extreme flooding where more than 200 local emergency responders were consulted the report concludes that failing to extend the breaks a transition period would only compound the covert 19 crisis orexia trade talks are going ahead in spite of the pandemic and the transition period is set to expire in december the government has repeatedly ruled out an extension despite warnings from europe that a free trade deal may be impossible to negotiate before the deadline the ministry of housing communities and local government has responded to the leaked report that says it's well prepared to support local authorities once the implementation period ends. well for more on this are now joined by politics expert john. john thank you for joining us let's look then what's coming out in terms of brecht's if we go back to an old theme here i mean even emergency responders are showing their concerns about brecht said but will this change minds in government. i'm not sure we've known for
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a long time the no deal broke so it would make kent a car park and the consequence of that is that almost every available copper in the metropolitan police would have to go down through traffic on the m 2 in the m 20 so in one sense it's nothing new for government i think the issue is what if this cap if this coincides the 2nd wave or the pandemic what if this coincides with the difficulty of managing our return to work which is going to take a long time because a covert is the decision or pressure and resource and i think while it won't change minds it does maybe focus a few minds on how many different demands can government locally and centrally in the u.k. take on at once well as soon as cussing i mean no breaks it it would mind a short extension would they share with coronavirus in the way it is it is unprecedented isn't it. most prankster should welcome. an
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extension of some sort because they don't just want to get out because they've done that what they want is a really good deal with the european union i think that's the issue as now which is that now we've left which we have. broached years keep changing you know changing the terms they move the goalposts of speak they they say we've no got to have no continual links in any form and if they they they fear that if we do any kind of continuation or extension there will still be within the european union where as we turn it's 2021 but i think given the state of the economy given that we've got huge challenges for all parts of the economy from recovering from from covert it seems you know you you don't want to give and try and throw try economy an anchor you want to throw the try to economy some kind of a lifebelt and i feel and i hope that this is or posturing and that as the minister seeders as the european union see this they'll come to the come to view
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because look i'm a back up at home and do overs also back up in cali mess up in the transit back and forth hurst europe as well as the hearse us but also the other point that john i mean some think then that would be a good time to get a good deal as the e.u. is in disarray. there's trees it's true that people hope that there can be a good deal but what we've seen in the history of the european union is it is willing to suffer a lot of pain to enforce the notion of the e.u. as one organization you know pain on itself it's inflicted pain are on member countries like greece over their financial crisis it inflicted a lot of pain on arland and spain and portugal and italy during the financial crisis in the fallout of that so the european union. it is fractious but it wants the same time to cry approve of something that may well be that we have got 2
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countries i think a city before this the dangers or do we have a country the u.k. and log especially you playing chicken but to prove that there are intent on actually not checking out there that they're taking the steering wheels and throwing it out the window so whatever happens as i don't and on and on that note i'm afraid i have to leave it on the turner thank you very much. and finally dating apps have been experiencing a huge surge in years since the lockdown began dating platform tender reported 3000000000 swipes were made globally on sunday march the 29th the highest daily number recorded the site believes coronaviruses dramatically changing the way people use the app with fewer real life meetings but more meaningful online experiences are to your case not others takes a look at love in the age of coronavirus lockdown has brought isolation and financial insecurity to many but it's also changed how we connect with each other professionally socially and even remand sickly yet it's actually very exciting
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because once we're in a time of the birth it's the one thing that we always see in the dating industry is a surge in people seeking connection whether it's for for fun or for romance offer something far more and i think this time despite it being a pandemic is no different you know singles and human beings in general see here connection and people are absolutely jumping on line and we've seen a massive 80 percent in people seeking a connection. there are over $8000000.00 single households in the u.k. while a study from dating site harmony revealed that half of singletons are turning to virtual dating from tinder to bumbling grindr all dating apps have seen significant spikes during the pandemic and have been forced to make public announcements about social distancing and staying safe it's just different. more lonely when you meet
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someone in online when i lived up to what you were 3 emails i want to meet up to see if there's any connection you know that spark. but you can't you're not right now things are becoming easier in parts of the u.k. in england for instance you can now meet one other person from another household each day just for chatting though keeping that to meet a distance but perhaps you don't need to physically meet others believe the focus on the lost art of conversation could mean any bonds for sure deeper and more meaningful it's important to talk and i've always enjoyed talking yes i remember those days in soho in the ninety's when it was important and you were able to talk to people more so apps has has definitely changed that but with this lockdown i think people are talking more they therefore getting to know people better and i think there's a very good chance that the friendships that people create during this lockdown
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have a bit more of a chance of actually succeeding when they actually meet them afterwards for others the pressure is off and it could be even more enjoyable than regular dating. i've asked more questions when i normally work and then we've also just had fun and kind of. not really had to worry about being too perfect on the call because life isn't perfect right now and it seems different it seems less stress. for me. whether love or lust lockdown is bringing people together whether they stay together in the real world is another matter but never has there been a better time to test the theory that's true love waits even if no one really wants it to market entries are to u.k. london more news in half an hour.
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