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is flying to save jobs this clueless idiot lifestyle is going to fail. they can't find somewhere else because they have a criminal record. they care about jobs because of a criminal record so they don't have the money. anyway. they do not want black people to be they might want one black or they want one black famous person they want one black abyss and one black. greetings and salutation. united states of america is on fire in the course of just over one week's time thousands upon thousands of protesters

have taken to the streets and city after city across the country from sea to shining sea to announce some one unified voice that black lives matter. and that the violence and institutional racism of the us criminal justice system and now. the rebellion my friends has begun and i don't use that word lightly i don't use rebellion lightly and while this massive uprising may have begun on the streets of minneapolis with the murder of the 46 year old black man george floyd for minneapolis police officers for the horrendous crime of supposedly buying cigarettes with a counterfeit $20.00 bill make no mistake. that the spark that ignited this fire was actually lip centuries ago when the 1st african slave was forced to set foot on the american shores that marked the beginning of a 400 year struggle and fight for equality and the most basic of human rights and dignity that we are now seeing playing out on our streets today only difference

being is that today's oppressors have a have exchanged their white hoods and plantations for badges blue uniforms and the prison industrial complex and well the united states now burns in the fires of a police state gone wild where oh where are my friends. is our leadership we're aware is our elected officials who is stepping up and calling for equality and justice for the masses as they fight against this police state who by the way are now lighting up residence after curfew for the simple crime of standing on their own porch. leadership is certainly not coming from our good old brand name in chief one president donald trump who like the true chickenhawk he is on monday reportedly

been raided the state leaders calling them weak and urged them to dominate protesters but yet when this want to be tough guy coward was confronted with over thousands and thousands of protesters at the gates of the white house rather than addressing the nation in an attempt to heal wounds and show any kind of true leadership and decency he turned off the porch lights and ran and hid in his basement. yes my friends the white house went dark in our times of trouble which is me which means it's time for us all to start watching the hawks. go on a city street. there so you. see this is this joyce state i'll see you. grace see this lady's systemic deception is late show which i will so you'll.

welcome everyone the watching the hawks i robot and i don't be surprised. if the protests in the wake joist george pull it's murder ramped up across the us the nation's capital wasn't left on american flags cars and historical landmark. we're all set ablaze or defaced today marks the 3rd straight day of protests and civil unrest as the crowds keep getting worse and closer to the white house party correspondent dan brunswick joins us live from the center of the action. a couple hours ago here we've been covering this all afternoon there was hundreds of protesters now there's at least a couple 1000 here that have gathered in front of the white house now i want to talk about the people on this side of the fence with me i have black white brown young people all standing together in unity and talking about making making this protest a peaceful one we did have a little bit of a skirmish with a couple of the protesters going over the barricade taking and me were police

actually sprayed them to get back behind the barricade but on the other side of this barricade i want you to take a look we have the d.c. and the park police that are in the front row behind them we have the state police and then behind that we have a full force of military police or the d.c. national guard that just came in moments ago where protesters actually booed them when they came in now this is why the president trump is calling on these state and local leaders to get tougher on protesters and this is kind of the way that he's doing it unloading on governors just hours ago calling them that after d.c. they are talking about a curfew that was put in place for 7 pm tonight which is in about an hour a lot of these protesters that i talked to said that they're going to be staying here well over that now just an hour before last night's curfew that was actually at 11 pm you had multiple fires in the area that were started including at the historic st john's church right in the downtown where many u.s. presidents have attended over the years you also had vandalism like what you see at

the national mall where at the lincoln memorial there was a spray painted yellow not tired yet and at the world war 2 memorial it was written to black lives matter now again merit d.c. mayor marion browser has called in the entire d.c. national guard which is made up of about 1700 soldiers to help control these protests about. police arrested 18 people last night ranging from 18 to 34 and they're also posting pictures on social media with images of people caught on security footage in a closed door video conference with state governors across the country just a few hours ago along with law enforcement and national security officials who are there are proport from the inside that president trump told him that they needed to step it up one day actually quote coming out of the room from trump saying that it's a movement if you don't put it down it will get worse and worse the only time it's successful is when you're weak and most of you are weak trump also pointing out the minneapolis police department's 3rd precinct being burned a couple nights ago the city where the protests all began the tribe has been very

vocal on where he stands on this issue mainly saying that those that are rioting and looting and causing violence are members of anti for yesterday he doesn't need it and as a terrorist organization tweeting i don't see any indication that there were any white supremacist groups mixing in this is an anti organization now again that curfew was actually extended tonight from 7 pm to 6 am and then again on tuesday night i've been here with protesters all afternoon i got to tell you everything as i mean people there has been a couple points are people have thrown stuff either eggs or water bottles of police over the barricades and other protests or is actually stepped in and said hey we're not doing that we're keeping this peaceful another thing is people are walking around giving each other water pizza and after they're leaving they're actually picking up their trash and moving along forward so again that curfew ending in about an hour many of these protesters saying though that there will be staying well after that for now reporting in front of the white house where you guys are and runs act for watching the hawks thank you for that. well well

well i don't think i'm wrong for referring to those as a rebel you. absolutely it has all of the energy over a 1000000000 it has years and years of frustration that has been pent up because of a lot of things that our government has done that have quite frankly negatively impacted the african-american community for generations now. time that many want to see that type of revolutionary action that causes lasting change and it is interesting because right before we went on the air live to. be released the autopsy results or the family released an independent autopsy results from the georgia border one of the absolutely so in stark contrast to the autopsy that was the out of the results that were originally given they found that the death was by expectation meaning that basically there was a cut off of oxygen and it was rendered due to the fact that the officer had his knee on george floyd's neck well that's interesting because and that's where the

real heart of this problem is is that you have the state always saying one thing and always portraying one and when it comes to police violence in the media kind of jumps right along with them but yet when you're there on the street and what we're seeing in countless videos over and over and over again of something completely different and that to me is what's at the heart of these protests absolutely in this case we saw a police thing into t. as well as the original autopsy report basically colluding with each other to show that they were to try to eradicate responsibility from this officer they allegedly and originally said that they are the cause of death was preexisting conditions they blamed it on him having high blood pressure they blamed it on him having some artery issues things that are actually very common in the african-american community none of which after the independent autopsy came out were things that were actually cited as his we've been a bit it's truly incredible the kind of see that play out right before our very eyes that kind of duplicity when it comes to dealing with african-american issues and you understand where the protests are coming from but it is very quickly what's

frightening to me is what people need to understand is you know they see looting they see things like the. to me the police have been the biggest agitators in this entire week and they're the ones showing up dressed like star wars villains they're the ones pepper spraying the crowd they're the ones shooting rubber bullets very rarely we have seen it thank god but very rarely have we seen police actually step up and say no we're going to walk with you know we're going to take me with you rarely do we see that instead we see police acting like stormtroopers police have treated these protesters as aggressors from the beginning i think that's a very important thing to make clear we have seen such a stark contrast between the protest of african-americans in this country and the protest of whites in this country in just a few weeks ago we saw you know a bunch of white man with a k 47 is walking up to state capitals looking threatening him in a thing also pretty much popping off on a leopard leaders meeting in the face of the police officers and we did not see

a call for violence against those protesters now when african-americans decide to march to hold signs then we see a different type of reaction police automatically aggressive police shooting off their their their guns and their bullets seeing a lot of the gas being used on the population i think that you know this shows us that there is one population of people that have a right to protest in this country another population that needs to stay quiet that's exactly the shows. after days of protests and riots across the country many many us suppose are looking for someone to blame for the violence because you know they can't they can't blame themselves they can't blame their own failed policies and lack of leadership you know we have to point fingers find someone to blame and needing twist in the countries that routinely receive the most harsh or some criticism from washington d.c. and their handling of for their handling of protests are now pointing out the hypocrisy here inside the united states artie's rachel blevins joins us now to

discuss the details thank you rachel how are these countries and what countries are they and how are they responding to the protests being that we're seeing here in the. well china has been one of the most vocal countries and it's interesting because just recently we see a protest in hong kong where the united states is cheering on the protesters encouraging them but also criticizing china for wanting to crackdown on those protests now when it comes to the protests that are happening here in the u.s. china is taking a different approach and we saw a spokesperson from china's foreign ministry speaking out and she took to twitter where she actually shared a broadcast from r.t. america which highlighted the contrast between how the tramp ministration referred to those who take part in the riots here in the u.s. as dogs and those who take part in riots in hong kong as heroes then iran's foreign minister added to the mix also on twitter and responded by releasing a previous statement from the us where he made a few changes so that instead of claiming the people of iran are tired of the corruption and justice and incompetence from their leaders the statement targeted

the u.s. government and cited the american people so it's interesting to see 2 of the main countries that the u.s. has always criticizing for cracking down on protesting now being able to point out the hypocrisy. hypocrisy is something that the u.s. is no. rachel and we know that this this administration the trump administration doesn't like to take the blame or much of anything right now we've heard from them the blame game being played with various various entities around whose fault it is that people are in the streets protesting who do you hear the white house is to blame as well as other nation leaders it was interesting to see that both current and former officials seem to be wanting to point just about anybody else other than who is actually to blame and who the people in the streets are calling to hold accountable and this is something that we've seen specifically during a recent interview from former national security advisor susan rice and she said quote based on my experience this is right out of the russian playbook we cannot

allow the extremists the former actors to distract from the real problems we have in this country now current national security adviser or. robert o'brian also backed up that statement and he said there right now the u.s. is monitoring the online activities from china russia iran and even zimbabwe as to how they're tied to the protest right now so it's interesting to see that they are trying to look at how other countries are playing a role in these protests and really amping them up and sort of looking at what's happening and going on here at home it does a gears a race with the route american history isn't enough to amplify and get black people in the streets but somehow these other nations are you know sporadically creating to serve measure didn't you realize a long time ago that russia is responsible for all of the racism in the united states that the united states government it was never once racist towards the book towards black folks in this country and there's no example of that you know i know where is it bob or a apparently bob way you know rachel thank you so much for that report great job

thank you so much think. as we go to break remember that you can also start watching dogs on demand with a brand new portable t.v. which is available on smartphones through google play on the apple app store by searching portable t.v. or streamers to your t.v. by downloading the portable t.v. up on apple t.v. or online at portable t v all right everybody coming up independent journalists and photographers in minneapolis and police are on joins us to discuss the targeting of the media by police in these protests we're seeing across the country states watching. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one sunday

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these drugs in any city in the united states that you want i. want to get it. i make money. and that's what i do every day. the work of a journalist is never done as a news professional your primary job is to provide up to date accurate information to readers and viewers to speak truth to power and serve as a check on institutions leaders and to question the world around us at times the job of journalists puts their lives at risk whether reporting from war torn regions or reporting on protests and civil unrest right here at home. throughout the protest and escalating aggression over the death of yet another unarmed black man

journalists have endured arrests beatings shootings and many of those incidents were televised live for the world to see journalist on the ground in minneapolis ground 0 of the juror george floyd protest expressed anger and upset over how law enforcement official seemingly took a page of president trump's playbook choosing to target the media instead of allowing them to just do their jobs on friday night a journalist was shot in the eye while covering the protests another from a local n.b.c. affiliate was ordered to hit the ground life at gunpoint by minneapolis p.d. in the most widely shared police arrest fanning correspondent omar human is and his crew were arrested while doing a live broadcast joining us now to discuss the reality on the ground for journalists caught between covering the news and the police state isn't it for the journalists and minneapolis photographer in lisa ron. welcomingly hello.

immolate we've seen protests against police brutality before rodney king look while mcdonald protests were held in 100 cities in the wake of the trayvon martin verdict and i don't recall journalists being targeted by police like what we're seeing in minneapolis right now what do you attribute this to and do you think president trump anti media rhetoric plays into this treatment. i think all around we're seeing things very different right now because we've been in the middle of a global pandemic. which is different for the protesters on the ground but also different for the police there was thought that we would have civil unrest because of the pandemic because of the lockdowns i believe that law enforcement was probably preparing for something like that to happen and the murder of george floyd one week ago today was probably just the spark that kind of lit that i think that they were probably ready for this and not why they're responding incredibly heavy

handed quickly more more quickly than we've ever seen before it's pretty incredible so you know you brought on the ground there we're doing a lot you know taking a lot of photos and live streaming a lot of the protests and it's interesting because for a lot of these journalists we're seeing both mainstream and in alternative news despite showcasing credentials journalists are still being arrested not only is this a violation of their constitutional right but it also is but also be rest of journalist as your earlier claim to the press suppression you often see in dictatorships around the world how did we get here in your opinion. you know but i've been out there in the middle of this and being concerned about mike safety despite having gear on and having my credentials visible the thing that i keep going back to is how is similar this feels to me what sheeple have been dealing with in gaza with journalists and medics both being targeted there. medics are also being

targeted here as well i've i've heard from lots of medics and just overheard the meeting with each other talking about how to keep safe that they're being targeted at this location maybe they're at the last location and it really makes me think about what i've seen coming out of gaza for years and. a lot of our police forces in the united states are trained there in israel there are also some people from israel to come here to train police forces to so a connection that i've just been making kind of on my own when i'm out there in the field and experiencing what's going on around me. that's an interesting i think a very pertinent connection to make i have to look into that one a bit more that's one of the things i haven't yet heard but am out much of the aggression towards the media is seen on live t.v. so americans are watching as journalists are thrown to the ground as they're handcuffed as they are arrested and journalists are for their part doing their own

facebook lives and other streams talking about the abuse as a whole and this hasn't seemed to slow down the brutality or the nonsensical rest from the minneapolis p.d. what do you think journalists have to do to be safe and what have you been doing to stay safe. you know when i'm live streaming i've got people in my comments telling me to get closer i have 2 young kids so i have to keep my own safety in mind for the family side i'm not getting as close as i want to which is unfortunate because my job is to show exactly what's going on and what we're seeing like you mentioned if there's independent people being targeted there's national news from local news that are well known and journalists from what i've seen whether they're independent or their local or their national everybody is very well marked people have helmets on people have vests on that are labeled presby i have my x. credential is on right now. i feel like everybody's as visible as they want as they

can be unless we go around with like bright yellow clothes on but in that case do we want to be more visible because what that makes us a target because it just seems like it continues to come because we've seen plenty of videos of journalists very clearly being close to the police and they're well marks and they're yelling that they're pressed that they're still being targeted and so i i don't know if there's anything that is i know that we can do to protect ourselves right now that's what makes this truly frightening and i mean i've never quite seen the media in this country you me usually there's always kind of a blue line that separates you know mainstream media they're usually behind the police barricade reporting from the rear you know and you know a lot of alternative media and things like that are out amongst the protesters the 1st time i've seen them go after both sides of the media spectrum which is truly frightening we're going little time wepa want to ask you would newsrooms newspapers and digital platforms are cutting staff and fewer journalism students in the pipeline what message is the police treatment of journalists in this protest now

sending to potential future news people when they are sitting back at home saying maybe i don't want to do this job if i have to worry about losing an eye to a you know to get to a rubber boat you know what most of the other sundered. they're probably sending a message a message like that where people are concerned about their well being if they want to get into this industry but i i do think that it's also empowering some people who want to shed a light on what's going on and giving them or more fuel and more about what they should to do it into risk themselves there will be some people who are turned away definitely unfortunately because. it's so so important the real real true you know true journalism which but i do see more people getting out their phones and more simple kind of american citizen journalists right now to think kind of goes there way very quickly i just want to follow up and ask are you seeing any kind of

are you seeing any kind of violence that we're seeing from the police towards media are you seeing that violence at all come from the protesters toward the media there that are covering members i think there's a port it's important for people to know if i mean i mean of the protestors are doing the same thing to media that we're seeing from a poor years. not that i've seen with my own eyes i don't have a deadly sometimes things like that happen in a situation especially if you're in a. like little dinner or something and you have a friend who is in california capturing some of the thing that was going on and did get attacked for that and i personally a few days ago i was mugged on the way back to my car after covering the protest but that was had nothing to do with me being media i don't get the sense that the people out protesting are out to get me you're going to harm me i feel much more threatened by the state troopers the minneapolis police not so much the same old police actually i do want to know what they feel is very different in st paul

than it does and. i want to say i'm only produce you so much for coming on and keep up the good hard work that you're doing up there as an independent journalist and. letting people see the truth of what's happening thank you so much for coming on and reporting for us thank you so much for having. already but what if god is our show for today remember everyone this is important in this world we are definitely not told we are loved enough so i tell you all i love you i am tire open door and i'm you keep on watching those hawks out there stay safe everybody have a great day and. i. know crowd.

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u.k. . people gather cross the world for the funeral of george floyd's the black man who died in the u.s. while in the custody of a white police officer that's as tensions brew in the u.k. over controversial statues following the removal of the wrong commemorating a slave trade in bristol. doctors say there's a crisis of confidence in public health england according to its official report into the coronavirus impact on ethnic minorities profoundly disappointed i'll be talking to a medical campaigner. buke a government u. turns on schools as the plan to bring back all primary years before the summer break is scrapped. and the prime minister's senior advisor dominic cummings faces a possible private prosecution over his much criticized look down trip to darren we hear from the woman behind the campaign.

thousands of got that it hoost in texas to pay their respects at the funeral of george floyd the unarmed black man killed by a white police officer and whose deaths font global protests proceedings are underway as we speak with thousands have gathered at the fountain of praise church yesterday many floyd's family members a civil rights activist attended a vigil in his hometown he said to be buried next to his mother in a private ceremony later this tuesday. where george ford's death has sparked a global protest movements and people across the world have turned out to pay their respects to ever stash the choice we now from the lungs of the ration outside parliament. the shadow so what's the situation like there now. well we have just observed a minute silence right by. nelse month on the statue of course

a symbol of on to prague decolonization liberation and indeed freedom of course is the time where george story just funeral is taking place across the united states so today they are commemorating his but earlier today we did. with sinn churchill start here as you can see protesters are just now moving over there with. a few technical problems was shot you there we'll see if you can get back to her a little bit see if we can try again now shania can you hear me. hi kay i can hear if you can hear me i will just. buy what winston churchill said. is over there in the corner of parliament square which is where demonstrators are headed to right now winston churchill for them being quite a controversial figure and we were expecting quite

a few 100 really to gather at this present time this quite a huge police presence to try and protect that very structure because at this point in time the black cloud of smoke just movement has changed its targets to books such as across the united kingdom earlier this week protests that winston churchill such was defaced where people wrote turn it back to isis saying that winston churchill was a racist of course many would argue that he indeed is a controversial figure and that's why he many people's opinions are is a legacy of quite a noise ation and oppression of course it does replicate scenes we saw some quite iconic scenes in bristol over the weekend where by protesters they toppled down a statue of edward cole's to the 17th century slave trade was pulled down by protesters and thrown into a river near by now down to the south has a fair share of controversial stuff she isn't the one to mess it deep. khan has launched

a review into diversity in the public realm but says that it could also in compass certain institutions i'm quite clear we shouldn't be memorializing we should be commemoration celebration as icons people who are slaves. we should be doing is making sure that the streets of london the public grown the squares and probably reflect. well the founder of the tate gallery artist that you would essentially cleanse the reputation of certain places and controversially his ancestry is actually linked to slave trade but in general the defacing or in fact the destruction of structures is completely split opinion but many a crib with the removal just not attacked. we shouldn't destroy the statues i guess we should probably move into like museums where we can appreciate the history behind it doesn't matter if the person did one thing good couple of things good if

the person has done. disgracefully to parts of the society right why do we need to start of this person and the problem is we are going to write history. good or bad we can't do that creative sickly if you're looking into historical figures and saying they had an involvement in slavery or a spate of you know if there is a cutoff of it if they demonstrate behaviors that were racists and i think it should be a friday night i think that this election is for black people and for other people in this country to build it so what needs to be looked at is that some of these statues of people who got a history of racism do they need to be removed it's not fair when the people who are here. to slavery you know i mean we we think the slavery we should we should applaud shameful parts it is our history. i find it's a very dangerous things to stop. it's a bit like to tell you terry and wanting to you know. trying to clear your whole

past and pretend there were a different change society we are changing but i think you have to be very careful to remember your past so that you don't make the same errors again. turning attention then by protesters seem to be inspired by the actions and bristles and right now as i speak protesters are gathering outside a statue of verge of course he is a 19th century in paris in south africa he laid the foundations of the exploitation of the labor system over. the all of the seizure of the lands in south africa many campaigners argue that that represents subjugation of the community so it remains to be seen whether or not the activists will go down a similar route of those by forcibly taking matters into their own hands and removing the statue but putting all of this into a wider context then the black clouds matters movements really reinvigorated once

again by the tragic killing of george droid with all aspects of racial discrimination discrimination exploitation prejudice and indeed the very symbols are also seeing the light shone on to them to. thank you very much. and social commentator sonia pull to told me the traditional methods for securing the statues removal don't always work. bristol was could have been completely overshadowed by edward colston for many years not just the statue but colston all the main music center streets it's a multicultural city people were literally being offended de lay and not for anything like this was a major major slave and i think that it was sort of sweet karmic retribution to see him thrown into the dock just as many many people died on the crossings that he made lots of money from the side for what he represented though could this be

a dangerous precedent to settling statues to be pulled down if people disagree with the course or absolutely as i say i can't really necessarily condone the methodology but having said that it's a great deal of frustration a great deal of frustration and the truth is people just this weekend alone has suddenly learned about black slavery in a way that they hadn't learned before so there's a great deal of education that has come from this act and sometimes great acts of activism have to take place they appealed repeatedly they signed petitions they appealed to the council nobody was listening what would what would they left with and as i say i don't necessarily approve of modern mob rule or taking lore into our own hands but sometimes just sometimes a situation warrants it or the history of the u.k. may not be perfect as we know when it comes to civil rights but we can't whitewash history can we we have to confront it yes we do need to confront it but me personally i think it's time to start looking at all of the the all of these you

know statues because the truth is it's extremely elitist. doctors have condemned the official report into the impact of coronavirus on black and ethnic minority groups more than 30 medical groups have signed a letter saying there's now a crisis of confidence in the study's authors public health england. we have long been aware ethnic disparities in health outcomes sadly this review does nothing to further our understanding and we must express our profound disappointment as a priority p.h.e. most urgently publish in full any recommendations and actions it plans to take to address inequalities be am the communities face this is a crisis of competence and credibility we cannot afford public health england's review revealed that black and ethnic minority groups are up to twice as much at risk when compared with people of white ethnicity but critics say the report failed

to give any reasons or recommendations for actions needed the study failed to adjust findings for longer term health conditions or occupations meanwhile the department of health said that more work was needed. following the findings of the public health england report the government is taking action more needs to be done there qualities minister is now undertaking further work to protect our communities from the impact of covert 19. for more on this issue and are joined by the find our melanin medics on the media i don't need to thank you for joining us this report doesn't provide many answers as has been highlighted why do you think that is. well i think we were informed that there was a possibility that the recommendations section was actually moved from the final report to this was quite disappointing to you know become aware of it and i think this is because there are so many voices that have been silenced in that process or the haven't actually been banned as they should have and within those

recommendations and also we were told that there was pleasing gates and that took place but we haven't heard any outcomes from the community gauge that we went to before. which could provide greater context to that because of the numbers and statistics at the root. so i do believe the review is the starting point but there is such a great city to actually. include the voices of the fact with this conversation and it orders a forward positive recommendations that can make for change but of course also this occupation and other health conditions are also factors as well but yet sobering there betty what it means and back to is we can't deny that the risk of occupation we can't deny the risks that are attached so why and how but i think is really understanding that for lots of baby groups you know there is that intersection so they are more likely to suffer from certain health conditions or that they are more likely to be in front of patients but it's just there is that leads to understand

what can we do that at this moment so actually prevent the pro life threat maybe you know this which to many baby communities is a force that is taking the lives of the lives what we could also look abroad could i mean is it just the u.k. where resting when it is a more likely to be affected by coronavirus well that's that's the quite a lot being. you know the countries of the caribbean and in africa that the impacts are created by race has not been as a parent as it has to be chaotic by the unseasoned that is what people are quite concerned about and it shows that maybe within the u.k. there are actually great delight issues that have not be dressed in tight spots that only repeating themselves during this time that i am also aware of iowa where the situations are similar perhaps in the u.s. . yes so did the u.s. i know with a certain states that black people were significant you had poor outcomes medicaid's integrated virus and black people was disproportionately affected but it came to coronavirus stats and this is something that is quite concerted only of

course you can't underestimate the impact. this is related experience is whether it be the racial experiences that may have courtship you see it at this point you know we have the data to show that they were affected and we do i just sat in context of what they are experience and what that they view lives revolve around and how does this contributes to them be more likely to be affected by the credit virus and as you say you mentioned the data there do you think that when that was 1st implemented when it 1st came out as well that shielding pressing minority should have been implemented. i think there's an immediate action at risk groups that i think it is clearly stated by the government so i think people are only going to take it seriously if the government take it themselves and the lack of action notable actions of the text based communities just may suggest that is it really a priority steps clear steps to be taken so these groups can be present to protect

it as though that lives may not be lost and finally do you think or what do you think that the government can do to support the communities and also what can coming just there to support themselves yes i do believe that the government does have a responsibility to support these communities and i think you know it for communities who are following the advice of the government should they. there are greater concerns when it comes to are they going to be protected right now actually are they going to be protected from that impacts and then that's something that they have to be very mindful are i think is very important it is always the public health is such as by all saved believe that there is that the specific guidance to communities and that these players be articulated and clear because this case it so these communities and they need to be big that can be actually intimate implementable. positive results of the longer i'm finding out to meet i mean what communities could they do very briefly if you don't mind what do you think they can do to help themselves yes i think it's very important these are protective

equipment so whether that be the form but social distancing that it will be time i think also recognizing that if they do have health conditions so if they have been adversely affected by other health conditions in the past that they need to be by him that this and take extra precaution of physics so the social social distance said follow the recommendations of the health care professionals are meted out i thank you for joining us. well let's look at how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the u.k. as a whole the death toll has reached 40883 according to official government figures 286 more deaths across all settings have been reported in the past 24 hours on tuesday n.h.s. england reported 129 hospital deaths while the scottish health authorities reported 7 across all settings wells has reported 9 deaths and northern ireland has reported

no new deaths for a 3rd consecutive day despite a steady decline in the daily coronavirus death toll of my 64000 more deaths than usual have been registered in the u.k. since the outbreak began but it's according to figures revealed by the office for national statistics on tuesday which looked at the 5 year average epidemiologists say excess mortality is the best way to measure internationally comparable coronavirus the death tolls. for senior scientists also claim flaws in the government's testing traces to mean it's not fit for purpose the so-called independent sage set up to shadow the government's official scientific advisory group for emergencies unveiled its critical report on tuesday the group is calling for ministers to implement a more robust find test trace isolation and support approach it appears to more effectively combat the virus. and now let's

take a look at how the pandemic is looking globally more than 7100000 cases have now been confirmed according to worldwide data johns hopkins university in the us there have been over 400000 deaths while the total number of recoveries a supposed 3300000. those governments out. promise to get the fish peoples back to school before the summer break of being dropped which imagine just a call for primary schools followed government guidance to reopen last week i'll be talking to a local councillor. on summit 7 runs a dominate cummings could face a private legal action over his controversial looked on a trip to dover and we hear from the woman behind the campaign.

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a big his head on the government isn't it yeah absolutely there were plans to reopen schools for at least 4 weeks before the end of term of the beginning of the summer holidays of course children have going to school for many months but this year and proving to be a quite an embarrassing climb down by the government because reopening schools formed a key plank of their overall strategy to reopen the country as they seek to gradually ease lockdown measures and and other shops and other situations to as slowly begin opening and now those have been shelved with the gospels school children going back to school last week we saw years one and 6 of primary school supposed to return to the classroom they didn't that's not been pushed back at to the end of this not at the n.t.s.b. and it seems that there's been some of the pushback from teaching unions teachers themselves who fear that the situation isn't safe enough now in the northwest of england that schools there have canceled their plans to open doors as the art of

rate which is the infection rate and has gone above one now even though it's slightly above one that means that at the virus it will begin to grow in that part of england exponentially and so for those reasons and the people there the teachers the authorities the even the local councils have agreed that schools should reopen how about education secretary i got in williams kevin williamson believes that right can be got out of the situation can be made safer to schools to eventually reopen. some schools in areas such as we know of west are concerned about local rates of transmission i can assure them that sage is our estimate for the whole of the u.k. it is below well if robust data shows that local action needs to be taken we will not hesitate to do so but we are not in that position. now

the government how do you launch the study where they hope to monitor the spread of coronavirus once teachers and pupils are looking to carry out the study in 100 schools with 200 students and teachers what it says in each school so that we give them a big enough sample to be able to understand the spread of the virus and also of course you see in the past scientists in the health advisor saying that search children will be less affected by the virus are less affected by the virus and in some cases may even and not be able to spread it as much as those who are older and so for those reasons the government wanting to carry out this study so they have more information that will help them decide when they can open and of course the target they now being sometime in september in time for the new school year a time as is going on a set thank you very much indeed. from artificial our joint council if a west council that's from a chair nick robert frank you for joining us this is a major you said is that but did the government get it wrong or did the union

simply stop this happening. no it's a little more competent in the arts we of course cause all we know when really key workers valuable to never since the lockdown started but what we're talking about here is opening to a wider set of peoples as was said on the news in the early years in year 6 what we did was we asked all of our schools in the borough can you actually do this can you open police people's on june 1st and they're all in completely different positions because some of the old victorian buildings were long clean classrooms so so this to me is difficult some of them have got so poor quality infrastructure and of course a lot of teachers and answering teaching star are actually asked. for 6 but only the teachers teachers knew really what was the what was the the situation so we got the risk assessments and we made a kind of staggered start so roughly

a 3rd of our schools so that they could meet the government start it on june the 1st roughly a 3rd of them said they could do something and the 3rd of them said they couldn't do anything so it's very piecemeal now on friday last we had this study strong public health england from cambridge university in the northwest the our valley is just over one but the problem is that's an average so effectively we are but since we are barely between mom point 2 and not point 8 so it was not point 8 ingestion don't know which part of its distribution we've got so we really do need access and much much more accurate regarding local variations in the in the transmission problem is that if the children or the majority of children don't return to school before the summer break it will mean 6 months off that's a lot of time and also just that they would be able to ever catch that up. but it's not 6 months but you. should say where you are you go more likely will ever say if

you get a march they win if you actually go finish a lot down and by the by the time they get back to september in some cases it is 6 months isn't over now we're very worried because of course school is absolutely the right place or the children it's good for their mental health it's good for their development it's good for their socialization and of course parents of workers parents and children workers want to go but the school i want the children to go back to school so we do have this close the brooch which is worked out with all of our schools in the borough so it looks like the the our rates is actually going to come down starts to drop the infection rates start to drop then we can we're ready to go with this plan to to to phase in children before the before the summertime but will only do it if it's so if. so we are on the side of precaution but we have to take a precautionary approach to to send our children but robert eric thank you very

much indeed for your thoughts you're welcome. and finally boris johnson's chief a dominick cummings could face private legal action over his controversial trip to daraa while locked down restrictions were in place the action is currently being crowd funded by a law graduate frustrated by cummings flouting of the government's own coronavirus guidelines. well launched on sunday the fundraiser is seeking 300000 pounds for the case with donations so far but a little under 3000 the money raised will initially found legal advice on coming strip and have a basis for prosecution is found it will then go towards prosecuting him any of the money raised which isn't spent on the prosecution will be donated to a charity which helps people with fish and problems with april cummings and his wife drove 260 miles to take their child to a 2nd home in daraa i just i went full law down measures were still in place during police said that trip didn't break the law while a subsequent 60 mile round trip to bob castle which cummings claims was to test his

eyesight before returning to london constituted a minor breach similar breaches by members of the public have resulted in over $15000.00 fines being issued by police since lockdown measures came into force. well the woman behind the cain campaign even bought a telephoto with me that dominic cummings actions set a dangerous precedent eden apologize but he what he has done he is undermined the public confidence so now what we've got is black lives matter those protesters saying that well it's dominic cummings can say that then why can't we use this as a result excuse so what he's done he's opened the floodgates to everyone now breaching lockdown so he's done much more than just. a little breach he's just undermined the public confidence in the government itself. more news in half an

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