america's reputation in europe is dealt a big blow by its handling of the crown a virus a new poll suggests that's as the u.s. hits an all time high of covert cases with 40000 added on thursday alone. france's much anticipated covert tracing app is used to send just 14 alerts in 3 weeks that's as half a 1000000 people delete it from their phones we searched the streets of paris to find somebody using it. but it's no no no no no no we took the 5th. more companies join a boycott of facebook for its failure to remove hate speech and its reluctance to

take down some of donald trump's more controversial posts however a new undercover report says that the social media giant has censored the president's supporters for quite some time. casting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. now the u.s. has seen a record daily increase in coded 1000 cases reaching 40000 new infections on thursday those infections were revealed by johns hopkins university now the previous high was back in april with more than $36000.00 cases the u.s. still holds the record for the most global infections with almost 2 and a half 1000000 cases and this latest

a surge has forced the several states including texas and florida to suspend plans to reopen despite that president trump claims his country is coping well with the pandemic. we have the greatest testing program in the world we've developed it over a period of time and we're up to almost $30000000.00 tests that means we can have more cases if we do want to test or if we didn't test we wouldn't have cases but we have cases because we test deaths are down we have one of the lowest mortality rates we've done an incredible historic. as he says there the u.s. has a considerably lower mortality rate than most affected european countries however that is still the 9th highest death rate globally meanwhile the spike in new infections is considerable and is being attributed to young people testing positive especially in states in the south and west of the country the way the crisis has been handled in the u.s. has dealt a blow to the country's reputation in europe

a new survey in 9 countries shows 59 percent believe america's image has suffered during the pandemic while just 6 percent believe it has improved we asked europeans for their views. they don't have such an effective medical system as others do plus the social security system in america differs from ours for the moment europe does better but it isn't united states. for now i i prefer to be french sorry then american the good health system and health care system so it makes it better and makes us happy to be in france right now but at the same time i can't really judge them like it's not you can see french people partying and doing. music festival and stuff so we are not better actually we cannot really compare. the new group everybody mostly reacted in the common way and only germany maybe suffered through

a let's let's comparing casual just in france italy england with america i think that they have little mortality rate per 1000000 than we have so it's difficult to say. because in the united states they have managed coverage 9000 poorly in fact it is enough to count the 10 i believe that we have controlled and managed the epidemic better. eat up this is up to me lupin demick america has not taken seriously a person like truong has done nothing he was able to build the separation of mexico and i suppose he was i'm so capable fighting this virus he could have done knew about instead underestimated the situation when you are interpreted so i believe that we can all judge the work done in the usa this is a large country that has a different door from us has different economic resources and a different population we too have made almost steaks. meanwhile in france a coronavirus tracing app has alerted just 14 users about their potential exposure

over the course of the last 3 weeks that is despite of the country's recording many new cases of the virus every single day are just look at what. stop code it. was a priest to be a bright idea that could help prevent a 2nd wave of infections and on your smartphone that uses bluetooth signals to keep track of the devices and therefore the people that you come into contact with and when it was a few weeks ago the french minister said he could offer to a flying start as of this morning 600000 people managed to download the app so it's a very very good start. well after a few hiccups perhaps including a delayed release that so many people in france accidentally downloading another tracing up one for catalonia.

ok so who after a full start some 2000000 people actually did download it corowa you might think that given that there are an estimated 47000000 people in france with small loans that's barely a day in the ocean ok some 2000000 people die. but almost immediately 460000 men decided that it wasn't a great idea and deleted it so we've got much on to the streets of paris to find out who took the plot. and the budget for you to no no no no no no we do to faint. yes somebody who is actually down loaded it but then she said this as if yes i don't loaded it but i didn't really understand how it worked every time i tried to use it nothing so war

i was there is so much resistance to enough that was only supposed to keep you safe from the biggest threat the mortal world has ever apparently see. i take precautionary measures like a mosque but so i have a problem with giving my personal data if this application is for that reason i didn't download it. for the younger generation i wasn't interested and like younger people who move around a lot for their work. i didn't take the time to download it oh did you leave in a safe way for example i did bike and stop taking the metro assume my friends but i don't need a lot of people i don't have the need to download it because it's centralized i plainly and truthfully i'm quite wary of what would be done with may data. and that phone the. principle behind that issue of the personal data really had the

french in much more civil rights activists were concerned about the right to the right to privacy while hundreds of academics voiced fears that they take out those could be repurposed for the mass surveillance but perhaps they had nothing to worry about off the or was it since emerged that only iran $68.00 people informed the platform that they had been infected with covert and only 14 uses were alerted that they were at risk that's not going down well with those we spoke with we it's a bit of a. yes i think that 14 is not many it was only 14 people who are informed. by shows it's not as successful as high. by the authorities i think that people were a bit wary about this exchange on the mobo would you continue to pay for something you don't use no i don't think so paying for something which is not used one should ask question. clearly delete is the other thing that's. worth

thinking the up would work anyway france is digital minister has been trying to save face saying the numbers reflect a decrease in the viruses prevalence and this is true the numbers of infections have been steadily declining in france centric oh says he will be useful if there's a new spike in cases until then the french state looks set to pick up a bill of up to $120000.00 euros a month for an hour that we are using challengeable ski r.t. . over a 1000 european politicians have signed a letter condemning israel's plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank the parliamentarians argue that the us backed initiative would seriously undermine the rules based global order and pose a threat to regional stability this move will be fatal to the prospects of israeli

palestinian peace and will challenge the most basic norms guiding international relations including the un chancer acquisition of territory by force has no place in 2020 and must have commensurate consequences an expansion of parts of the occupied territory was proposed in the trumpet ministrations so-called peace plan which was released in january it envisages all illegal west bank settlements being brought under israeli control the initiative appears to have emboldened prime minister netanyahu to begin the process of seizing palestinian land on the 1st of july. 1st of all it is illegal under international law because these are listing in territories there are plenty of united nations resolutions calling for israel not to build or to encroach

on the mainland israel has miley quite a number of un laws over the years and it has done so with impunity i hope international community which is very weak on this country for years this time will take on sions of the danger behind this and action i hope with all my heart that we can prevent this dangerous move that the israeli government is doing now this is time now that we can he lead to international rules and norms sadly there is only one country that can persuade israel not to build on this land so united states of america and donald trump as you know really disregards united nations and international law by saying yes to anything is what wanted to do donald trump i think is marginal nice him sell on this conflict and

this is about credibility and i think with trungpa new session united as lost a lot of credibility to bring. in this conflict really we need to look at europe and i'm hoping that european governments will rise to the occasion and tell israel. should not do this and if they do all then they should be a sanctions imply. implied on them if this an exception is coming for real we will need real sanctions one of the most profound aspects of. this lect areas because it's crossed party because it's crossed you know sort of you know you crossed euro and it has leading figures who have supported israel and palestine over decades i think. the international community specially europe needs to say

enough is enough we have the power to refix the balance and citrus rael we are partners we are friends but we also friends of the palestinian people and we want peace in this region so think about what you're doing. and work for peace instead of destroying the 2 state solution if an action is this country. in a. few days or few weeks this will be a huge a major turn over in this conflict and i don't know what can what distant you can bring i see nothing but it's the denture in spain a famous painting has been made on the recognizable after restoration worker decided to add a little bit of creativity and it isn't the 1st time a famous piece of art has received a bad make over. i

don't think these people should be referred to as restorers let's be honest they're buggers who botched things up they destroy things. germany's chancellor is warning that europe will need it to reimagine its role in the world if the u.s. continues to pursue isolationist policies more on that after a short break this is

r t international. a minimum wage doesn't guarantee you a job. as you but if you get a job and be paid that wage is precisely that guarantee that means you're less likely to get a job and so i would predict probably over a 1000000 people would lose their jobs if the minimum wage were doubled to 50 now they want to phase it in so maybe $800000.00. would be differentially in communities ripple out of black mississippi lower wage states.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is on offense very dramatic developments only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and tom. welcome back this is our t. international now the wealth of facebook founder mark zuckerberg has fallen by $7000000000.00 as its share price tumbles after lucrative advertisers boycotted the network claiming it isn't doing enough to filter hate speech donald trump has a lot to do with their firy but a new undercover report by project veritas suggests the social media giant has been censoring supporters of the president for quite some time. explains. oh how the

mighty have fallen ok maybe not fallen but facebook and other platforms that owns like instagram are getting hit where it hurts by an advertising boycott led by civil rights groups in the u.s. every day we see ads from companies place to jason's to hateful content occupying the same space as extremist recruitment groups and harmful disinclination campaigns you add buying dollars being used by the conference to increase its dominance in the industry at the expense of vulnerable and marginalized communities who are often targets of hate groups on facebook that started out small but as the days go by bigger and more powerful companies like ne viber are dropping their ads and things really got kicked up a notch when verizon join the fray a company that reportedly spent almost $2000000.00 on advertising on the 2 platforms just last month now this is all a push in order to get the social media giant to increase moderation on its side could protect and support black uses could they called out holocaust denial as hate

could they help gets out the vote but absolutely could but they're actively choosing not to do so let's send facebook a powerful message your profits will never be worth promoting hates bigotry racism anti-semitism and violence and a large number of facebook employees seem to agree with that just a couple weeks ago they conducted a virtual walkout after the us president wrote a post that was deemed by many to be inciting violence after the incidents occurred said that the company would be reviewing its policies but also cautioned against new forms of moderation in general i worry that this approach has a risk of leading us to editorialize on content we don't like even if it doesn't violate our policies so i think we need to proceed very carefully and yet that's just the problem the company seems to have a new undercover report has once again revealed an anti trump left leaning bias at the company i worked as a subcontractor for facebook i was seeing them interfering on a global level in

a lecture. and then i saw a play an exception that just targeting conservatives or favored liberals we really have to take the word from. the left side yes good come out so we'll see is that maybe one of the growing political ads though so now they can get more exposure to the left there is the right right but facebook obviously had to give a 100 percent believed to sidelining conservative opinions and meddling and elections crazy right so if you come as no surprise that the right isn't happy with social media giants either twitter royally ticked off trump when they put a label on a couple of his posts warning that they could be potentially misleading he responded with executive order to $33.00 choices the twitter makes one it uses to suppress 'd that blacklist shadow and our editorial decisions pure and simple their

editorial decisions in those moments twitter ceases to be a neutral public platform and they become an editor with a viewpoint and i think we can say that about other source and whether you're looking to google whether you're looking at facebook social media companies that engage in censoring or any political content will not be able to keep their liability shield and now a number of users are calling it quits and link to platforms that call themselves on bias that remains to be seen but in light of all this something tells me that dr burke is ruing the day he ever even enter the thought of regulating content on a site all my name a fighting russian metal one of my greatest regrets in running the company is that we were slow in identifying the russian information operations in 2016 we were slow to identifying the type of new information operations ever since then the debate over what's moderation and what censorship has gotten more and more nuanced and guess what that's not going away the users just might. germany's chancellor angela

merkel has said that europe will need to become more self-reliant if the united states continues to pursue isolationist policies. we grew up in the certain knowledge that the united states wanted to be a world power should the us no wish to withdrawal from that role for its own free will we would have to reflect on that very deeply merkel's statement comes in the wake of donald trump's decision to drastically scale down the number of u.s. troops in germany the u.s. president accused berlin of failing to pay up and ordered to relocate some military personnel to poland and bring others home so germany's delinquent they've been delinquent for years and they owe nato billions of dollars and they have to pay it so we're protecting germany ended delinquent that doesn't make sense so i said we're going to bring down the soldier 225000 soldiers. and there's another bone of

contention between the 2 nato allies namely the north to stream to pipeline project if completed it will pump russian gas through the baltic sea to germany on thursday a group of u.s. senators introduced legislation for senate review for tougher sanctions against those involved in the project now reports suggest that germany is preparing to strike back john tell us solely from germany's that the left party told us berlin will not bow to u.s. pressure. yes certainly many opportunities to respond forcefully and germany will not let us stop nosferatu because it is essential to german economic interests and so this. which is nearly finished by the way will not be stopped i agree with angela merkel that america is the cry and it is questionable how long it can really remade a world power in the way that it has been

a global that you want it appears power for the last well half a century and it isn't development that could be positive for the world if germany were to take its opportunity and point and use it euro t. boundaries and europe and build on cooperation cooperation for example with russia that can have real lasting security consequences for the continent we have to look and the other their actions because the united states has shown itself to be a force for destruction and if europe does not want to be in the way of this destruction and if it wants to build up the continent again after this terrible face the economic consequences of it call it 90 then we have to find different ways. 35 minutes now it's when i will be back with another full look at your news i'm sean thomas this is our teacher national say with us.

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chain reaction process in the reactor 3 a tremendous heat which scientists have learned out of control. dilution really patriotic scene to harness the air i was so excited about nuclear engineering because i thought it would solve the world's energy crisis is exciting science to realize you've got the power of the sun inside that reactor and they're so all inspiring when everything works they're really here to refer when making energy the problem is that everything does work with time japan's a nuclear nightmare continues a 2nd hydrogen explosion at the fukushima daiichi nuclear complex destroyed. the reactors exterior all 3 daiichi reactors have nuclear fuel rods that have been exposed to some degree so they're teetering on the edge of

a meltdown. you need to say. there's. no heat. they need to get you increase. 3 more. concerning that situation in japan i'm now joined live from vermont to some you know we're reporting at the moment that they're all suggestions that a partial nuclear meltdown is no way this is not a nuclear chain reaction this is not a nuclear bomb this is the radiation left over after the chain reaction has started sort of sorts or interrupt but you say this is not a nuclear bomb but would the effects be the same as a nuclear bomb if obviously it does reach meltdown and there is an explosion. the chemicals that are going to be released or similar actually the chemicals released from other the radioactive chemicals released from a nuclear bomb disappear quicker then the radiation that is released in

a nuclear power plant all we're looking at an apocalypse this is true and noble on steroids do you think it's definitely going to happen or do you think crisis could be of. no i don't think crisis can be averted. i mean no containment building of the d.b. spacy nuclear reactor could keep that power plant shut down longer than expected 1st energy says it will be stored in the plants clean told of cracked displaced those who live in the shadow due to spend see any problem can be alarming i don't give it a whole line of thought that once in awhile when you hear something like that the concern should. be nuclear regulatory commission is monitoring the situation.

indian point nuclear energy center in a condition no one wants to see with clocks.