greater rights when you should be gone because if you buy something online as a consumer you can return it within 14 days if you are tempted into buying something online the elected think is perhaps overly dry east maybe you have that flashing sign come up saying only 2 of these left by now and then when you actually get to 8 and realize that you may be paid over the odds you can return it within 14 days so in that sense shopping online is better for the consumer than shopping in retail schools thanks so much gary really good to talk to you on this gary and that's it i'll be back with more news in just under half an hour including the government's deputy coronavirus press briefing live from downing street.

greetings and sell you. welcome back everyone to another start of another week's worth of hawk watching here on our t.v. you know there is so much out there to cover so today let's kick things off with a story about coverage a little too much coverage if you will i'm talking of course about the news that last week both republicans and democrats in the u.s. senate joined together to pass the usa freedom reauthorization act of 2020. not surprisingly the usa freedom reauthorization act as nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with codifying indorsing in the ultimate legalising once again the national security and surveillance state that we all call this curry. version of the united states of america you see after

expiring back in march the freedom act reauthorization restores government powers that lets law enforcement collect tangible things tens of all things related to national security investigations without a warrant requiring only approval from a secret court the pies a court that has reportedly rubber stamped many requests not reportedly they have these tangible things include things like oh you know warrant less access to your internet browsing and search history without having to prove you were under suspicion of doing anything wrong because you know who doesn't want folks like christopher ray steven elliot or william barr digging through your search history online so all those supposed freedom protectors route storming state capitals armed to the teeth with guns and pretend patriotism you know the ones who got scared away from rain you know fighting for the right to reopen the bars and nail salons our

elected officials in the u.s. senate were busy shredding even more of our constitutional protections and bill of rights seriously by stay at home 'd orders they it has nothing nothing on the united states congress says when it comes to removing personal rights and freedoms here in the united states which is why my friends we are always watching the whole house. was on a cd. player so let's see this is this you always see. great see this least systemic deception so which. brings up the bill as. well going to watch the entire world winter and i'm a nice across the mesa goodness gracious so everyone was out there on capitol steps across the country in state after state saying we won our rights back we want to.

go outside we want to. really be. home all the time. and then washington light passes actual things that violate people's rights they passed things that actually you know it was real there was a shrug which is an extension of the old patriot act like that actually does violate us citizens rights regardless of what you know fancy lawyers want to say in congress or you know people justify that because of that and nary a peep or rally 8 interesting thing about this is that it did hit certain news the way of cycles but it didn't get a lot of attention so i think that a lot of americans aren't necessarily aware that this is happening what i did see on social media was a few libertarian groups come to speak out against it but thus far it can a fail like a tree in the forest nobody heard it so i think that part of the reasoning is that there hasn't been enough media attention paid to it but in addition to that this is a very interesting time to push something a reauthorize something like this and congress more and more people are still looking towards another round of stimulus package they are trying to figure out

what's going to happen with the economy so for this to come up now and they're not really be a large discussion in the grander sphere about who they think is largely in part because of the timing in the framework. you often see that happen whether by choice or happenstance you often see these kind of interesting bills that stripped away rights kind of always being passed through the cover of darkness usually there's some other bigger issue going on that kind of keeps everyone distracted and then that's the time where it's like hey you know what the old ones reauthorize that which i was part of bonnie when they labeled these bills they often label them with the exact opposite of the content of the bill when it comes to stop it's controversial there's nothing freedom about allowing people at william bar or whoever these a.g.'s down the line to start digging into our browsing history at all i think you know absolutely and it also brings to the question why because if you the process if you going through and getting a warrant is not extremely long we've seen cases where within 24 hours one was given why would we need to obfuscate that. process to go ahead and do things sooner

and what types of not only violations of liberty and personal privacy but other things that this lead to because i know that there are a lot of people who probably don't want their browser history out there for the world to feel for anyone to see but in addition to that what gives you the leveraging power to do so outside of our current process i think that you know we've seen this this is a reactor i think in so obviously we've had this process for your butt since the original time frame i think that the american public has moved a lot more progressive when it came to ignore it when it came to forcefully pushing against having this level of scrutiny this level of privacy invasion and so it's very interesting to me that even beyond all the protest began all the conversation we've seen over the past 67 years we're now back in the exact things space it is really interesting to see that there was a few people that put up a little bit of a defense of this in the senate it now moves over to the house to see what happens there and you know was it steve dame's republican out of montana ron widen out

a democrat or oregon and you know one of the rare times they get together and things they did offer up an amendment that would have prevented the use of section $215.00 for warrantless surveillance of internet searches which is what we're talking about but that failed by just one vote for didn't show up one of them including bernie sanders didn't show up to vote. by one vote some of the would have prevented that rand paul of all people surprisingly rand paul of kentucky he proposed an amendment that would have actually exempted americans from being able to be under fire as a court approved surveillance which is actually i think something that we really need to discuss and should be brought up that they all just go 51128585 senators voted against that from keeping americans exempt from vi's the court which is what we saw abused during the whole russia gate controversy so it's very interesting to see how you know they're all joining up to crossfire's that you know to keep the court intact despite the problems that we've seen with it over the years and and what is the narrative around the necessity here because i know that sometimes. in

these arguments there is the we want to protect this nation against terrorism terrorism threat so we want to be able to intercept that type of communication or you know those those different codings before in incident actually occurs. but do we have evidence that this actually works i mean we've been we've been using this process for a long time now and then you know most of the evidence that you'll see is usually the f.b.i. homeless person and then giving them the weapons and the idea you know i mean you always see those entrapment things where i would say that's clear entrapment you took some guy or some disgruntled. almost person maybe and gave them all the technology gave them the bomb and so oh look we caught a terrorist plot you know that's not actually stopping terrorism very rarely do you stop a crime before it happens that's only in the movies and on t.v. shows. as flowers bloom wildlife run free and waterways and aquatic like enjoy a time of little to no human interaction at 19 has provided a respite from mother nature but this is not

a time for environmental activists to take a rest actually it's time to sound the alarm even louder across america the u.s. environmental protection agency has sued cities and industries forcing them to clean up their act reducing pollution that threatens our air and water quality for example in my home state of illinois the wood river refinery was sued by the state and federal government for releasing toxic waste water directly into the mississippi river 2 years ago they fettled one lawsuit agreeing to spend 10 $1000000.00 for necessary upgrades and monitoring of the refinery as well as $500000.00 to clean up the low income homes and buildings that were affected just in f y i these low income homes and buildings were home to young children and pregnant women who have been profoundly exposed to lead and other toxic emissions for years many of the children were born premature suffer from abnormalities and lived with a life long health issues equated with the disaster now you think the e.p.a. pressure and. push the factory to do better but not so fast philip 66 the company

that owns the wood river refinery has suspended all work on the little bit program they were required to complete this means that the thousands of lives the factory has put at risk over the years are still subject to lead unhealthy water and poor air quality the reason. $1000.00 and the department of justice seems to be helping the polluters issuing a problematic new policy the deal j. recently said it would suspend the collection of penalties for violations of consent decrees and other enforcement orders as david baron managing attorney at the environmental nonprofit justice said settlement agreements and civil litigation are only as good as the government's willingness to watchdog the consent decree and make sure that the parties comply. that is that is huge news because i really think we're all relieved a little bit when we start of seeing you know because of the state all borders and all may just get a little cleaned up and like hey there's less air pollution there's a group where you kind of got relieved and thinking that hey by the way they're

still cleaning up but mellow under the cover of white all while we can't summon the body. you know it's too much money watch oh we're just not cleaning anything exactly and these were major phased out plans the one in illinois for example had 7 different phases to it and in addition to obviously the money that was going to be used towards revamping some of these homes that were extremely damaging a lot of those are public housing projects some of them are you know regular standalone homes but in addition to that it is now you are pushing more people to be threatened even higher from covert $1000.00 because now they have they have this consistently of poisoning in addition to the fact that they can't go anywhere so these individuals are in their homes the water is definitely not clean water and on top of that they are dealing with a lot of the residuals from the lead poisoning to begin with it's brutal when you get it when you lay it out when you really think about that because it's like yeah ok there you go to stay at home. you know lead contaminated home you know these are

things that are probably people we were talking about public help that doesn't begin and just with covert 19 public health those across the board environmental health was across the board and this is ridiculous but you know at the end of the day we've seen that it's big businesses over and over again kind of wording you know. throwing out the lard throwing out common sense just to kind of maintain not maintain any kind of corporate responsibility absolutely and it's good that you point that out because b.p. is probably one of the ones one of the larger corporations that was gifted the most from this term from the department of justice because b.p. has had a lot of regulatory issues particularly as it relates to environmental awareness and the environmental issues that they have caused with oil spills and other things . now they are basically sitting pretty and able to skirt a lot of the regulations because they're there nor horseman chicks during this time of covert 19 and shelter in place stay at home waters no one is actually coming out to make sure that they are following the regulations that were designed for them i

mean i get out of one sort of like ok if they're properly shut down and they've got their employees at home then they're probably no one's really working there so you don't have to worry about it but on the other hand you know that you know that you've got to keep these people speak to the fire because they will do anything anything to not have to be responsible or be held accountable for their actions in the past but the thing that suffers most is the families are there not like i mean these are people who are basically getting screwed over because no one is cleaning up their backyard exactly and these are families who had protested these are families who had marched these are families who wrote letters to the editor these are families who came to d.c. i used to work for the e.p.a. in illinois and one of the most interesting things about this is that it takes years for any piece of litigation to come down from the federal government when it relates to environmental policy and environmental protection so you have families who have had issues with their water with for the past 35 years because of this plant and they were just beginning to see some level of relief and terms of in terms of the. litigation back 2 years ago and the regulations that were given then

for the reopening of the plant for them to you know basically right their wrongs was a multi-stage process they're not even finished with day one and now they are basically issuing it it is showing statements that they can't do the other 6 or 7 because the code 19 and it really is garbage and so if you can use that excuse. i have to ask you when you were in working on a 2 it's like we're going to see this job across the board with bart making that decision are we going to pretty much just absolutely so illinois is one example but we're also seeing this in dallas we're also seeing it in different areas across florida right now there are over 350 consent decrees in the united states who are major corporations who are you know smokestack buildings and all these other things that have really created some problems for the local residents either because they're dumping unhealthy things in the water or because they have serious air quality issues they're exacerbated now by the fact that all of that is actually making it worse for families who are trying to protect themselves from cope at 19

so on the one hand you have regulators who can't go in because of the stay at home waters on the other you have parents and children who are at home but are also being extremely exposed and because of that exposure their risk for 1000 is a lot higher. than we always remember to these are also people who are probably in the poorest of communities who are going to have to face this directly head on well the people who own the companies who are living in the rich communities they don't have to worry about lebanon or water they don't worry about these kind of toxic chemicals in their environment it's gross gross gross gross thought is going to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on the members of the brand new portable t.v. which is available in smartphones through google play an apple app store simply by searching portable t v or you can stream us to your big t.v. by downloading the portable t.v. app on apple t.v. or online affordable t.v. this app will be available on more devices coming soon and coming up on the show tensions are once again rising between the united states and iran this time over venezuela are 2 murders richard blevins brings us the full story stay tuned.

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2 of the countries that have been the subject of rigorous sanctions from the united states are now working together if iran ships fuel to venezuela the u.s. is reportedly looking for ways to intervene which could signal a new conflict amid increased tensions artie's rachael blevins joins us now to discuss the details welcome rachel thank you for having what is the latest conflict phrase that we have these reports that iran is in the process of sending supplies to venezuela and now are sort of waiting to figure out what the united states is going to do and there are reports of the u.s. is planning on intervening in some way and that could be directly interest and u.s. navy ships out to the caribbean sea to try to stop these 5 iranian tankers that are carrying more than $45000000.00 worth of gasoline and supplies so they could try to

stop them in their path before they even get to venezuela now the u.s. has yet to confirm that but we do know that they have these incredibly strict sanctions i'm both iran and venezuela and they've really spent the last year trying to cut these countries off from the rest of the world it's really breaking my heart here in this because it sounds like my dad used to describe the way we used to sanction cuban we still do but the way would you know the whole cuba versus the u.s. . back in the sixty's with the blockade and things like that now we're seeing this going how has iran responded to the reports that you wish may actually intercept their ships in korean waters while iran went ahead of this and they submitted a complaint to the united nations and they said look if the u.s. tries to stop or tankers in the sea we will treat it as the illegal act of piracy and any consequences that come out of that will be washington's fault now a spokesperson for iran's foreign ministry is also speaking out and he's saying that it's not up to washington to dictate where iranian tankers are around the world take us no you had to say. you know but i don't care what american stated regarding our oil tankers in various locations around the world it is illegal and

shameful if they make any moves against this really legitimate the ceiling of our ships i would definitely place reaction by the islamic republic of iran. now at the same time iran supreme leader is also renewing calls for u.s. troops to get out of iraq and syria and he went as far as to say that if they didn't leave voluntarily they would be expelled now it's not clear yet exactly how that would happen but a statement like that is enough to increase tensions even further between the u.s. and iran. very sticky situation how the u.s. sanctions impacted both countries where will the u.s. is pacifically targeted countries that are known for their oil reserves and they have done everything they can to cut off their business and hurt their economies and that has had a major impact specifically on the civilians of these countries especially when it comes to giving access to medical supplies and even basic things like food and clean water now this partnership that we're seeing between iran and venezuela is

coming up because they're seeing ways that they can work together in a minimal way because iran has the chemicals the venezuelan needs in order to refine its crude oil but of course because the u.s. does have these things in place it is likely to want to intervene in some way and this is really frustrating at a time when we have a pandemic going on right now and countries around the world have called for the u.s. to back off on these sanctions for the civilians if nothing else but that's only made the trumpet ministration double down on it seems and they've said that it's not going to remove the sanctions on iran unless it goes along with its nuclear demands and it's not going to remove the same of them as well unless they overthrow their government i'm going to go out on the limb of i going to just look at it and say that makes. them mad because right now the trumpet ministration even in congress us elected officials are looking for any kind of thing to distract from the fact that what over 90000 citizens abide no i mean anything to distract from that whether it's a war or. they want to call it is one of those things right. absolutely and i feel

like you know there's such tension around us while we have a very interesting in story past not only in terms of sanctions but also just our relationship broadly that this is this is par for the course it is or anything i mean where do we see this going when do you think that these ships will actually intercept if they get into the caribbean do they know well this is hopefully something that will figure out in the next 24 hours in terms of if there is you know it's one of those things because the u.s. hasn't said anything about it now it's just kind of a waiting game to see are they actually going to put their men at risk and send them right up to these iranian tankers or are they going to do something where they decide to bring in more sanctions or try to take other measures but at the same time it is interesting to see that you countries that have been sanctioned the hardest by the united states right now have found a way to work together if it does coalesce that way and not surprising not surprising because so much for that report thank you. sometimes the course of future history has changed with just a single action or even a single person in the minors china's ambassador to israel has been found dead at

his home near tel aviv although the circumstances do not seem suspicious the incident is still bringing china's relationship with israel into the spotlight and the united states is not too happy about that artie's alex mahela which has the story. a seasoned diplomat china's ambassador to israel has died and the chinese ambassador to israel 2 way died in tel aviv on may 17th and i was with you according to preliminary diagnosis do weigh died unexpectedly of health and the specifics need further verification 57 year old do why was found dead in his residence by an embassy worker shortly after forensic teams and the police were at the location carrying out the investigation into his death according to israel media there were no signs of violence at the scene it is believed that he died in his sleep most likely due to a heart attack but authorities are looking into all possibilities as the

investigation continues do i served in china's ministry of foreign affairs for more than 30 years and was married with one son his family was not with him in israel prior to taking his role in israel do y. was a diplomat for china in ukraine for 3 years he arrived in israel to fill his latest role on february the 15th at which time he wanted to quarantine for 2 weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. although his placement was relatively short due i did make an impact as china's ambassador to israel here's a tweet from israel's former foreign minister is they all cots shocked to hear tragic news related to the sudden death of his excellence he do y. and bassett or do was a distinguished career diplomat and during his short time in israel had already contributed to the bilateral relations between the countries. according to the chinese embassy in israel in 2018 china's investment in israel accounted for 0.4 percent of all chinese foreign investment and 3 percent of all foreign investment

into israel do y. was vocal about expanding this relationship but at the same time defended china from criticism when it comes to covert 19 in april do y. told the hebrew newspaper israel high ohm in history it has happened many times when the causes of diseases were wrongfully blamed on a specific group of people which is despicable and should be condemned the disease is the enemy of all mankind and the world must fight it together when it comes to china and israel working together as with china's relation to the coronavirus the us has been very critical due wise death comes just days after us secretary of state mike pompei of visited israel in what appeared to be an attempt to convince the israeli government to limit chinese investment washington is not happy with israel's growing cooperation with china particularly with projects like the haifa port terminal which is being constructed and will be operated by a chinese company but pompei oh and president trump of war does are all but if it

does not curb its ties with china the u.s. may have to cut back its cooperation with israel china and israel however seem to be committed to cementing a trusting relationship and that could even be seen as the investigation and to do wise death continues. china is sending a special team to tel aviv to investigate the death and israel's foreign minister told his chinese counterpart that his ministry will help the chinese embassy with anything be a need regarding the passing of the ambassador for r t m alex mile of each. who goes fast and they work by alex or it's interesting how to help this one man's death is kind of like brought all of these tensions and all of these interesting kind of behind the scenes moving and shaking to the forefront of the u.s. trying to combat china's influence in the world absolutely and the u.s. for its part is trying very very very very very hard right now to make sure that china's role is diminished to make sure that they are punishing china to the

fullest extent and i think that this is one of those instances where we're probably going to see a backfire i think so too i mean do you think image i want to ask you do you think that like this idea that like we want to blame china for all of this and blame china for the virus is that just kind of more of a smoke and mirrors thing to kind of cover the longstanding summit going back to obama even bush of this push into the pacific into kind of countering china in that region i think that's 100 percent correct this has given the trump administration cover for something that u.s. foreign policy has engaged in actually for a very long time unsuccessfully but this point i think that if you can make another american people feel like the chinese created something toward their demise that it gives the white house it gives the any administration a lot more leverage in pushing against china in a way that we haven't necessarily thing ramped up before or interesting we've got to just understand that china is the big dog on the block and not just going to get rid of them through other interests old school ways but it's going to get gross before it gets better the art of what is that is our show breed of there remember

everyone in this world we're not told beloved enough so i tell you all i love you. and i'm on the ship watching all those hawks out there and have a great day and night everybody. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to air 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. and when else seems wrong. with just don't. get to see power just the answer. and it. equals the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

problem drugs don't always come from unscrupulous dealers but from pharmacies to in every state in the united states we've seen a very sharp increase in the number of people seeking treatment for addiction to prescription opioids oids invaded america under the banner of medicine persisted with the pain but instead of trying to wean him off though she just goes after dose after dose after dose and really became his drug dealer so who's to blame patients doctors manufacturers all the governments of. this is the u.k. welcome to our viewers from around the world we're live from central london and we're awaiting the daily coronavirus press briefing given the health secretary map and call that's coming our way in just a matter of minutes from now in the meantime our headlines this. the role of

a prime minister's chief advisor is look down trip to darn continues as one minister quits and opposition leaders called for him to go i'll be talking to journalists peter oborne shortly. russian president vladimir putin announces that people spurned military parade marking 75 years since the soviet victory over nazi germany will be staged at the end of next month he had to the experts for sure in the russia has passed its code 19. and the prices soared journey britain's competition watchdog it's a tough opponent as are needed to combat profiteering. the fallout over the prime minister's chief advisers lockdown trip to durham continues with one ministerial resignation and most opposition leaders calling for

dominic cummings to be sacked. and he joins me now with the latest so how is the situation fairing in terms of the prime minister's chief advisor. well this issue continues to just wrongful on and on as the fallout from mr cummings trip to darwin around 260 miles away from london continues and we've seen a number of opposition figures writing a letter to the prime minister calling him to remove mr cummings as a special adviser now that letter which has been signed calling into question really how mr cummings his behavior will affect public health in the kind of confidence we'll see amongst the public in exactly how it affected the government's response to coronaviruses when their own advisors the people responsible for their policy don't seem to be finally. we can

now cross sorry to interrupt east of there we're going to cross to downing street downing street for the daily coronavirus briefing i'm joined by professor john newton test and trace coordinator before i provide an update on the work that we're doing to come back coronavirus i'd like to update you on the latest figures in total 3000000 681295 tests have been carried out in the u.k. including one 109979 yesterday. 265200 27 people have tested positive that's an increase of 2004 cases since yesterday sadly of those who've tested positive for corona virus across all settings 37048 'd people have now died. yesterday across the u.k. 134 deaths were reported. but for the 1st time since the 18th of

march i am very encouraged to confirm that yesterday there were no deaths from corona virus recorded in northern ireland i want to pay tribute to robin swan my opposite number and all those across the n.h.s. and public health in northern ireland and the people of northern ireland who have shown such resolve to be able to bend the curve down and thank them for the work that they've done. while the news may not be this positive every day i look forward very much to working with them to keep the virus under control in north null and. today's figures from the office for national statistics show across the u.k. as a whole the lowest number of deaths from coronavirus for 6 weeks this is a national endeavor and whatever the headwinds as a country we can't let up on this we're past the peak we're flattening the curve

we've protected the n.h.s. the number of deaths is forming we must keep our resolve. and i also want to say a massive thank you to everybody over the bank holiday weekend who stuck to the social distancing rules and especially to my colleagues in the n.h.s. and in social care who are doing so much even though we're past the peak there are still 8802 people in hospital with corona virus in the u.k. and there is still 98 and it just colleagues in hospital with coronavirus including some who are seriously ill so we must maintain our focus and the 2 areas that i'd like to provide an update on today both incredibly important for the future of tackling this disease p p and treatments 1st we've been working hard to

build our supplies of personal protective equipment i know how important this is especially to colleagues on the frontline we all heard in the early weeks of the crisis the calls from the front line for more and better p.p. . and we all saw the great global scramble to acquire it i have been completely open about the scale and the difficulties of this challenge building a new supply chain from scratch and of course the operational challenge of delivery general so nick carter chief of the defense staff said himself this is the single greatest logistical challenge that he'd faced in his 40 years of service. and in response to those challenges thang. to the armed forces and to so many others including so many in the n.h.s. we've seen a mammoth effort we've ramped up domestic production i can announce that we have now signed contracts to manufacture 2000000000 items of p.p. here in the u.k.

i set a national challenge and i'm absolutely delighted that lord dighton has stepped up and is helping us to deliver against it around the world we've signed deals with over 100 new suppliers including agreeing contracts for a further 3700000000 gloves. while we continue to improve the logistics and work hard to get everyone the p.p. that they need these new supplies mean that we're not simply keeping up with demand we are now able to begin to replenish our stockpiles. there is a lot further to go on p.p. as on so many things but we have made significant progress and i'd like to thank everybody involved. and p.p. of course is so important because it's about protecting the people who protect us. and we'll do that for as long as the virus remains on these shores the next thing i

wanted to update you on is some of the remarkable r. and d. into treatments that are taking place across the u.k. one of britain's greatest strengths is our life sciences and in particular our life sciences research and we're leading the world in the clinical trials that are being done here as i said at this podium last week the very nature of scientific inquiry means that not every project will bear fruit. but i'm determined that we'll explore every possible avenue the recovery trial is the world's largest trial of potential coronavirus treatments and because our n.h.s. is a universal system in which we're all part of we have some of the best data and can do some of the best research today i can announce that we're beginning a new trial for selected and it just patients of an antiviral drug called rendez of it. they've already been some promising early results of coronavirus patients with early data suggesting it can shorten recovery time by around 4 days as you can

understand will be prioritizing the use of this treatment where it will provide the greatest benefit. this is probably the biggest step forward in the treatment of corona virus since the crisis began these are very early steps but we determined to support the science and back the projects that show promise i'd like to thank the n.h.s. the mh ira the devolved ministrations because this is u.k. wide and gilly at the pharmaceutical company for their work in making it happen after all it's worth remembering that in the battle against this virus we are all on the same side. so we'll keep working across the world to develop the vaccines and the treatments like this that will help us turn a corner. but until a treatment or a vaccine comes good there is no simple way to defeat the virus so we must not lose

our resolve so please stay alert control the virus and save lives and now turn to professor newton to take us through the slides thank you very much sir. the 1st so the health secretary matt hancock there giving the daily virus press briefing live from 10 downing street to he said nothing about the round involving the promises chief adviser dominic cummings knock down trip to durham although i'm sure it will feature in the questions from journalists a little later we'll bring you that as we get it now and let's go back to that in r.t. case he's really he's still with us and this raul concerning dominic cummings it's simply not going to go away is it. no the pressure continues to get ready to pile on when it comes to mr cummings and his position title german right former attorney general calling on mr cummings to resign one person who has resigned as douglas ross he's under secretary of state for scotland or was until he handed in his

resignation and now we're going to look at what he said in his left in his statement he said that he's tendered his resignation from the u.k. government and that he simply couldn't remain in his position while explaining to his own constituents that they've kept to the lockdown some of them weren't able to say goodbye to people that they lost while the government continues to employ somebody who on the surface of things and flouted the very looked on measures he himself was a part of drawing up now they prime minister spokesperson has said that mr johnson has regretted mr ross at the station and thanked him for his service but there doesn't seem to be much contrition from mr cummings he was facing the media over the bank holiday weekend where they were questioning him on his decision to make that 260 mile or so journey to darren succumbing saying that he believed what he

did was perfectly legal but within the reasonable bounds of the lockdown advice. on sunday the 12th of april 15th days after her 1st of so i don't think i'm so different and i don't think there's one roof from the and one rule for the people. as i said i think that's a look through. and i knew what the guidance was. it talks about exceptional circumstances with with small children and i think that in all circumstances i behave reasonably illegally as i as i said i think there is understandable anger but a lot of that anger is based on reports in the media that the that have not been true and. it's extremely regrettable. but. the good the media that we're reporting some of these things that were wrong

were told that they were wrong but they reported them anyway. now doesn't it cummings also took a drive to the small town of fallen out possible which is close to darwin he took that drive to test his eyesight to ensure it was good enough for him to then continue to drive on down to london docks of course warning people that if they do have any panic visions and lots of jobs. on sunday the 12th of april 15th days after he'd 1st after 1st displayed symptoms i decided to return to work my wife was very worried particularly given my site it seemed to seem to have been affected by the disease she don't want to risk the nearly 300 mile drive with our child given how ill i had been. we agreed that we should go for a short drive to see if i could drive safely we drove for a few half an hour and ended up on the outskirts of bond castletown who did not

visit the castle we did not walk around the town. we parked by a river. my wife and i discussed the situation we agreed that i could drive safely she turned around to her. now this whole route has had an impact on the government's approval ratings and you know the look in fact even the prime minister's own personal approval to prove ratings dropping is now at minus one where the few days ago it was at plus 19 here struck the government out approval rating taking a tumble it's now at minus 2 that's a drop of 16 points in just one day perhaps highlighting the issue public out with mr johnson seeming inaction is aging and type a dispensary action against mr cummings for again seems to break the government's own rules on lockdown measures. to finally what about the nation's latest death because. what we've seen throughout the coronavirus crisis the government releasing their own death figures but in recent weeks the allen asked the office for national

statistics have released their own death figures and their late fees show the figures leading up to the 15th of may and they show that just under $54000.00 excess deaths took place in england and wales compared to a comparable eller same period average over the previous 5 years the figure is nearly 60000 across the u.k. just over 42000 of those are in england and wales leading up to the 15th of may which october 1000 related directly meeting the rest probably are people who had illnesses or elements like cancers which didn't go treated as a result of coke at 19 and those people perhaps didn't get it had a need and died glimmer of hope however just out of 4000 coded 1000 registered deaths to place in the week leading up to the 15th of may the lowest number in 6 weeks some will be hoping that's an indication again of the cycle locked in of the

cut however we're seeing the lockdown restrictions being easing people going out of course over this very sunny bank holiday weekend here in the united kingdom there are fears that type of breaking of the lockdown could lead to a 2nd wave very soon is i thank you very much indeed for that update well now to discuss the comings a controversy i'm now joined by political generous to peter oborne peter thanks very much indeed for being with us that might be cause for cummings to go but he's not elected as he said the only person who can sack him is boris johnson same should johnson foreign. or the leader of the opposition i think so i think most opposition people think so and political logic would determine that went into when an advisor becomes the story he should go when. it's distracting from everything else he should go. and when he's unable to account very

satisfactory it frees behavior everything all the normal rules of politics would suggest that mr cummings should indeed should have gone several weeks several days ago so why is parsed johnson not 2nd amazing there's a gamble here possibly that there's no election for 4 years in coming to us if any devices think her anyway. i find it very hard to understand why mr johnson is not sacking mr cummings. here mr johnson's friends would say that this is because of the remarkable generosity of spirit of mr johnson that he is loyal to his friends and advisers is not again to give in to pressure let's entertain i know inside and see what's going on on the other hand if i was mr cummings i mean the advisor to the prime minister and his friend i would be saying

look you sat me our rights are a lesser of apology i got things badly wrong i tried to do my best but i can see that it's caused great upset mangere and i think your interests as prime minister. best served by by by getting rid of me and mr cummings doesn't hasn't done that. maybe mr johnson feels that mr cummings is services are tremendously valuable oh that mr cummings. has kind of the remarkable. mr johnson authorized this trip to durham i have no idea this is speculation at the moment but of course and to hear speculation though dominick coming to the senate there is absolutely one thing i did do right and that is and there is a loophole allowing him to take his action when children are involved as is that being ignored. well i think the problem larry's that a lot of people who. have got children in this country no major men to sacrifice

this because of them and that. to look after them and mr cummings seems not you know seems to felt that the rules didn't apply to him by i don't personally think i know this is the lie being put forward by the cabinet and i have to say that. if i was mad cop the health secretary i hope he is asked about this today i mean mr cummings is due clearly that he can use his own discretion about how he interprets government rules is quite likely to undermine the public advice now if i was hank koch as health secretary i would be absolutely furious that government advice has been undermined by mr cummings is sent not only to make it his own interpretation of the rules but they're not to

. do the decent thing and say look i got it wrong i can see now i got it wrong even the time. i thought i was doing the right thing going to have children and by people i'm sure will understand that as a prominent generous what do you make of the fact he did have some time explained the media and if there had been some 4 stories claims here surely the media should take some of the blame over this well i have to say that limit inaccurate or misleading at any rate accounts seem to have appeared in the spectator magazine by mr mr cummings wife. so he's made it all mother well it seems to have revealed a lot of important material which you're in is in the public interests this is trumped by the way the rule book here is that you know if something goes wrong you blame the media and you put them out as this phrase scum media is going round at

the moment i miss makes me feel very nervous instructed the same to the washington post the new york times old major apart from fox years would get it and sometimes even fox news overly a completely loyal subservient media is going to get slime a day from donald trump and that appears to be. a lot of indication this is the way the johnson government is moving that unless you are absolutely loyal and reliable and i g. later a you're going to pay a tax publicly and dismissed and there's a lot of and they've been barring people from prescott for artsy asking questions that pete smearing the media generally this is the cons that serve a trumpet or old band type of ministration thank you for your thoughts on this peter peter oborne life you're not eating. pasta come the sound of

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president vladimir putin says he's been assured by specialists at the coronavirus is not poss its peak in russia he went on to reveal that moscow's bespoken victory day parade commemorating the defeat of nazi germany will now be held next month or he's going to get. well one must bear in mind how important the victory day celebrations ah for the average russian i mean the price that the country paid to win the 2nd world war was was tremendous it was absolutely huge tens of millions of russians soviet citizens perished died stopping the nazi war machine so obviously you know with most russians having relatives who died in that war it's important to come together and to celebrate their sacrifice to that end we know that the government left that laying the parade until the last moment they they had hoped that the pandemic would boss russia by wouldn't be

a serious enough threaten those days it was still unclear fortunately they delayed until the situation got better and now let me have putin says he was assured by specialists that the worst is over the peak has been passed and he has ordered the minister of defense to prepare for the 1st part of the victory day celebrations there are 2 parts the 1st part is the military parade with vehicles and jets roaring move ahead with thousands of troops marching down the red square over russian cities that part of the parade will happen on the 24th of june unfortunately the 2nd part of the parade that is the march of the immortal regiment where millions of russians all over the country marched with portraits of their grandfathers all grandmothers who venture into so many veterans who died during the 2nd world war they march in a massive columns and massive crowds massive march as it obviously is not meant couldn't them selves said it's impossible to to guarantee safety at the demick

pandemic safety in those conditions genius thank you storing you unfortunately for objective reasons we can't show it terence to strict safety rules during the march of the immortal regiment which unites millions of arabs citizens in a single formation with an endless stream of. people marching along the streets of our cities and in these circumstances it is impossible to maintain any social distancing therefore i propose to hold the march 1 month after the victory day parade on july the 26 that date also marks our military glory it's the day of the navy. tentatively the date is on the 26th of july but with the situation of the pandemic as they are there's no telling whether it will happen or whether it will be delayed again in the interest of public safety and that is why they cancelled the initial quake initial march of the immortal regiment because people's safety comes 1st and the parade or the celebrations can always come at the

later date when the situation is safer but but i must say this is welcome news and it's been an incredibly difficult few months for everyone all over the world for millions tens of millions of russians and a little celebration memorial and show you know this is the time for them. with prices of hand sanitizer antibacterial wipes and even toilet paper soaring during a pandemic the competition watchdog is well that tough a pass on needed from central government but it seems those powers forthcoming us are to yukos kate partridge ripples given politician who once said in time of war the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers this time the war is coronavirus and the patriots are those profiteering on essential items the practice of ramping up prices for profit on high demand goods is called price gouging and there's plenty of it between march the tens and april the 19th the competition and markets

will sorry to receive $21000.00 complaints related to the pandemic including price hikes the average increase was 130 percent and for hand sanitizers 367 percent hitting consumers in the pocket i think i suggest they cut out the company being able to convey one bag. for between 6 and then they were 34 point ahead sanitizing things up that is you should be the case you go not the only people who call or fold it now but the competition watchdog has promised to take action. our covert 19 task force continues to scrutinize reports of potentially harmful sales practices including inflated price rises the vast majority of businesses are doing the right thing but where there is evidence that fans may have broken the law we'll be using our existing powers to the maximum possible extent but there's a cabby at along with our existing powers we have also advised the government on

options for emergency time limited legislation that could give a better chance of dealing with this type of problem in other words the competition watchdog has lobbied the government to crack down on profiteering from the pandemic as a reg gaps in the system which lawyers say leaves the c.m.a. powerless and a much prime minister boris johnson agreed with the watchdog and told the house of commons that new laws were needed to tackle profiteering profiteering is something that we should be looking at from a legacy point of view in loose houses then in april business secretary alex sharma met amazon and e bay to discuss price gouging on their sites after reports of pam sanitizers selling for $360.00 pounds the retailers claimed thousands of listings have since been removed while emergency laws have been passed in the us and france but the idea stalled in the u.k. as the business department is not in favor of laws on price control there is probably going to be people within government who are going to be of the belief

that the market will fix itself but we've seen plenty of times in the past about just doesn't always happen sometimes the government doesn't need to intervene of course where you can probably also see plenty of areas where there is a veil ability perhaps the government believes that there's sufficient stock available in these outlets which are selling these items at reasonable prices which will effectively push aside those trying to make a quick pounds the expense of people who need these basic goods but again as long as that continues to be the case as long as there are people in as long as there is short supply then that is all acutely and fully believed to be the wrong move as far as the government concerned but i do believe this is one of those situations that they do need to interfere. back with more news in often are.