to the people needed in that little. u.k. announces it's moving to phase 2 of easing its lockdown of families who've lost loved ones to the pandemic say they feel abandoned. just i feel don't respect the people that have died in the bombings because. critical time for france as it relaxes its own lock down with people flocking outdoors to enjoy the spring sunshine medics warn the country could face a 2nd wave of the virus. as long ventilators remain a prime necessity during that time direct r.t. speaks to those who had a near death experience but lived to tell the tale. i want to have a feeling my comeback on the other side my children were crying so much they were telling me we're skint. and the italian mafia is caught stealing half

a 1000000 euros in social welfare benefits sparking outrage across the country. a very warm welcome to you it's monday the 25th of may and this is r.t. international live from moscow our top story this hour the u.k. has registered its lowest daily kovac 19 deaths increase since march with prime minister boris johnson saying it's now time to start further easing the country's lockdown i can confirm that i do believe we will be in a position to move to step 2. as part of step 2 we set up plans for a phased reopening of schools where last week the government allowed people across england to go out and visit friends and relatives the move was criticized by some

as primitive or anger is also mounting because there is a lack of help for families who've lost loved ones to the pandemic we heard from a woman whose father succumbed to kovac 19 having to prove host says she was turned away he was turned away in his hour of need. a mum had a cold war more more earlier that week and at that point they said he had moderate symptoms of covert one. and to stay at home and continue to isolate. them all drink plenty of fluids. and then a couple of days after that my mom was still concerned she called out. and was given the same up by. and it was only when you know he resists clearly very very young while there and i'm going to came in talking to hospital later that day going to renal failure and we were asked if the commission to withdraw the life . and he died. it was taken 3 weeks before

katherine's father died she says there is no psychological support for families with europe's worst infection rate the u.k. has registered over 36000 deaths katherine to put her against say the exams that she believes it was the government's delay in imposing a nationwide lockdown then led to the soaring number of cases. just i feel don't respect the people that have died and the families left behind if different decisions have been made in march. my dad would have been able to fly to the u.k. cause we did get a lockdown and he would still safely be in a french village where there were no cases. flown in and had been tested in the air or all the people of the people on flight had been tested. and maybe it would have been identified sooner you might of call it a lockdown it happened earlier bill that the government are not giving in to

educate people about the risks and so because of that people are now taking brits. and we're not being asked to wear masks those no emotional support available to families grieving family been affected by the virus. longer ventilators have become a prime minister city during this pandemic doctors try to avoid immediately placing patients with a spiritual problems on long ventilators but when it comes to severe cases these machines are critical for survival and on course all ski the host of artie's epidemic series talk to those who have experienced life on a ventilator and are now returning to normality. rather it's real marrying for sort of the wish it seems to. be a more thoughtful or a former sort of bully much more severe for your review or for you as much as was

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month in the new for all the lies of the interest but just on what they actually are so-called for some off the field not sophisticated which of course if. i think that move straight to simulate stuff can lead to very serious matter my sister for the one thing you heard you looking to get a shot i want to know how i would look good if i did one successful. if the thought is that the home crowd would see when you know that it exists and that they have lost action with eagerness to even tougher for the. record with some symptoms because you gave me did see them only on review article. that was your fault or the usual. yes you do you suppose also if you want the ultimate it will continue to develop true so often simpler to move and slow down.

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but it is better for them to do these $2.00 or 3 or 4 of them. just to secure the border. it's that we're going to. have great money the. italian mafia mobsters have been busted cashing in on social benefits intended for the country's poorest police say around 100 mafia members in southern italy were falsely claiming the government's citizenship wage this is a basic income issued to low wage households and job seekers revelation house pontiffs serious response across the country. sonika people. are filthy rich mobsters keep their money like hay bales their president where there is the possibility of buying restaurants hotels pizzerias everything that is on sale after and during this crisis i should ignore this is on the verge of fiscal impunity

disputes the experience the great risk since reclear li pay no tax evaders. just little get it from the ministry of justice mobsters to be in jail. now the citizenship wage is $600.00 euros a month 101 more posters were involved in the forward with half a 1000000 euros received illegally in order to get the payments they used false identities all the money has now been confiscated by the italian or 30 s. these days the mafia operates through clans mostly across italy's south in sicily alone there are estimated to be 94 clans they use extortion drug trafficking and illegal gambling to amass wealth their activity can ruin people's lives. had a sharp business in sicily and looking back i can see the mafia ruined their lives mobsters who'd come to us and ask for money the so-called racket practically attacks the mafia is ever present i can recall they would come 2 or 3 of them

demanding money from me and my wife every month they would threaten us they would say for you don't pay up will rob you we will disrupt you and i honestly having little children i decided with my wife to pay them and then perhaps we would be left alone but that didn't happen they kept coming and it was a torture for us we worked and worked for was for nothing our hard won money went to them between the taxes and the crisis when the evening i turned to my wife and told her we're closing because i can't stand them anymore. they are going to go to sea i go arch to rub against the mafia i believe this is the most important message together we can do it we can defeat the mobsters we know how much the mafia can take advantage of the economic needs of the people i believe this crisis is the mafia opportunities to probe and take advantage of all this. in the southwestern region of campania the camorra clan is trying to regain control they reported to be

competing against civil society efforts to support those in desperate need by giving out loans and food parcels and the mafia campaigners say it makes a mockery of the official government's. the point is that it's not that the mafia needs this money this $450.00 euros a month but rather it's an example of how the mafia can make a mockery of the state the mafia has an impressive economic capacity and they can wait wait for what for small business owners to run into financial trouble so they turn to them for assistance for loans italian suffer greatly we have to consider that the money the mafia takes from the state's coffers means less money goes to citizens public services become poorer assistance for the needy becomes limited. we live in a context where in spite of a targeted inefficient approach by the police in the legal system it's not always easy to prevent organized crime and how it's ingrained in the southern territories the risk posed by the murphy becomes greater and more real if the state's response

is not fast and affective enough if the state doesn't provide the needy with subsidies and support for this inevitable that criminal syndicates will continue to take advantage of. that front starts to lift its quarantine churches and mosques have opened their doors to worshippers for the 1st time in 2 months and with the weather getting warmer people across france have flocked outside to enjoy the sun this week is expected to be critical in determining whether there really is the right time to be lifting the lockdown paris looks at how life has changed since the measures were. france is expected to get its 1st sense this week as to whether the de confinement measures are working its now 2 weeks since the lockdown started . here across the country hospital admissions have generally been falling day on day and we know that there are fewer patients now in intensive care than they were 2 weeks ago but as the weather is getting better particularly given that we've just

had a weekend following a bank holiday him front there were fears that they could be a lot of people out in the streets in places like here next to the sen where they could be food the transmission of the disease people were being urged to stay at home or if they do come out to socially distance to stay away from other people to respect those barriers distance is now parks here in paris are still closed and as you can see here along the cent the respect saying in place is this fencing to try and discourage people from coming to sit in the nice grassy areas here and now i was out at the weekend and while the crowds of people lived it wasn't as packed as many people feared and they were more patrols taking place by the police too to make sure that people were socially distancing but is there a fear of that 2nd wave here in front this is what people told me.

just in scene is respected more or less but i think that there are a lot of people who think the bar is one to. personally i'm not afraid that i can see that people still are respecting the distance and stuff so. i'm pretty confident i don't think anything is going to happen we have completely overcome that it's difficult to say but in fact i think this was done by some higher power the 2nd wave is supposed to happen it will happen and unfortunately we can't do anything about it. i work at the hospital i'm used to wearing masks and i think that everybody should wear them i don't want to believe in the 2nd wave because i don't want to experience nice life again and i think people should be careful well calm here in paris at least but that wasn't the case elsewhere and from once in the cold mean of sun this hour which is just west of the city of norm

to the west coast of france they were protests were people unhappy with the restrictions that are still in place following the start of the confinement the police came out and they used tear gas thank you. thank you thank. you thank you god. there was announcements from the government over easing over struction the council of state and told the government that it was not allowed to restrict religious services and now that means often many many weeks religious services have started back up again he in france also a sense that we'll get this week as to what will happen for the summer holidays

with the french being told by one minister that that is likely to be a holiday that will be only in france on top of that we had new measures announced by the french government in regards to quarantines for those people coming to the country from the united kingdom that is being put in place as a reciprocal measure given that the u.k. announcement u.k. government and something similar just last week and finally in another attempt to try and boost france's aging a colony which has seen it g.d.p. predictions plunge this year. one minister has announced that there will be a 3000000000 euro. freeze on social security payments to some businesses who were affected by the couvade 91 pandemic meaning that they won't have to make those social security payments frogs this week waiting to find out now whether those post lockdown measures all working

a whether it can extend the easing of the restrictions even further. show that even ski auti paris. got more of the day's top stories coming up after this short break. the ball yagi. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest in the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back now to the u.s. where the number of cova deaths is expected to reach 100000 in a few hours while some accuse the government of grossly mishandling the crisis washington is trying to pin the blame on baiting is compared to what it alleges was

a chinese cover up of the initial outbreak to this thought it was spawns to the nuclear disaster artie's soundscape taylor reports the u.s. is feeling a bit how pulled out the moment it always insisted it was exceptional and really did exceptionally actually handle the pandemic so if your it seems that you need to deflect from an economic crisis soaring unemployment and a high death toll but you also really busy chatting up this is the fact that you don't have the time for the whole new positions so you look to history and sure enough an old friend of yours to the days of the cold war chooses your church leadership. we must be good judgment against the fact that some us political forces hijacking the china u.s. relations in an attempt to push on 2 countries to the brink of a new cold war decades ago if you want to see poor oppressed people behind the iron

curtain to taste freedom and the cola bottle so now you need to find some 21st century poor oppressed people who are just busting the olympic city i was was was and with china about to toss in north hong kong that would ban treason and sedition is the power that pretext presidential role as global finance of the freedom to pay hong kong has flourished as a bastion of liberty the united states strongly urges beijing to respect hong kong's high degree of autonomy democratic institutions and civil liberties which are key to preserving a special status on the us law and you don't even need to splash out of marketing you can see here some of your old posters because conveniently the enemy you are

fighting all those cold war years ago was a menace is still hanging around swinging at circle media's focus on the current pandemic risks mess in the bigger picture of the challenges presented by the chinese communist party 1st the basic facts china's been ruled by a brutal authoritarian regime risks that the chinese communist party presents to the united states counties communist party failures this information campaign that the chinese communist party the chinese communist party presents the central threat of our types i would never mind that cost englishman happen but stay now the polls say that november might not be quite the slam dunk when you respect it you have to change which you especially when it's not just about saving a few hong kong students waving the star-spangled banner this is about saving the world china shorty held responsible for what they've done they have. hurt the world very very badly but you don't want to be the only one so like any good democrat who

believes in the freedom of choice you funny people into following your heat from encouraging them to delay projects to making them get on board a huge investigation even with madame cells in the middle of the biggest recession in history or threatening a breakup if they carry on with the deal you just don't like we will simply disconnect we will support separate we're going to preserve trust and that works for important information we hope our friends and partners in ours across the world especially are 5 eyes partners like australia will do the same times have changed a bit though waiting you need to know what happened used to be a good scat tactic but it's a bit passe so you must nice and instead reach for your new fee for a foreign policy tool economic strangulation you need healthy competition right now you're going to a crisis so decked out one way to get the chips they need to survive and bounce the chinese companies from listing on the u.s. stock exchanges own offices when it's out sanctions secretary pompei would likely

be unable to certify that hong kong maintains a high degree of autonomy and if that happens there will be sanctions that will be imposed on hong kong and china that oh no guarantees of course but if you do all this you might be to shift just enough of the blame and attention from yourself to crawl back to reelection position and by the time given that you realise i have that with of which shot who pass you'll be ensconced in your state threat office chair as one professor of economics and finance a new york university only plays washington is capitalizing on the current situation to create problems for china. a lot of folks have bought into a lot of the cuarón conspiracy theories and therefore. believe that trump you know is the only person that they. can trust in u.s. politics washington is worried about china becoming too powerful and

eclipsing the u.s. superpower washington. or to. stop trying to contain china isolate china it sees this as an opportunity to ensure that china cannot advance well in the cold war certainly has been used a lot in describing the very tense relationship between us and china right now but i would say that a better analogy would be the rivalry between u.k. and germany leading up to world war one. many families have been split apart by the restrictive measures and closed borders during the pandemic but one woman from new zealand has managed to reunite with her terminally ill sister in australia. the 000.

christine archer applied to the home office in australia thinks times but repeatedly failed and wanted to prove that she really was the sister of gail archer the fact that gail who has cancer potentially only has a short time left to live didn't seem to make a difference to them only off the story attracted the attention of the media and went viral did australia christine permission to come christine told us her story. charm my employment they wanted something else they wanted to know my music ministry i've no idea why because i wasn't coming here to news but just to compare you know and look out to my sister until she dies if i couldn't give me a good reason why. the only thing is that doris and i am going to stay in the qur'an. requires satiric also. every country wants to keep the people

safe but you need to have some compassion restrictions the a very strict rules. daughter who lives 3 hours away could only come and see her for half an hour and she didn't get to see her grandchildren and there was really upsetting for who. she here it was just awful sorry if i hadn't. come over to look after gail my sister she would have been in hospital until she died and it's not what she wanted it all and you should be i will be given a choice you should be able to come into your own home and live with your and how i feel fine awakes months with a long term fix coronavirus that you ation in both countries things to be stable new zealand has had no positive cases for the past 5 days while australia started

to ease its restrictive measures in some parts of its most populated states in a bid to boost the economy christine archer again says they were strict sense are still needed to prevent a new outbreak things are looking good they're opening care for areas and in hotels and things may i'm sorry i think if you. keep people will shout and and people are sensible and follow the rules and. it it will be our that i mean i'm not saying it's not going to come back new zealand could have another outbreak it could happen when people will make open it up in the uk even to come into new zealand again someone could bring it on but they will close it down and where i'd be in a 3 market has been around the world now. and people are just being kept from their families during the pandemic animals to reuniting with their own us. 2 2 2

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