the main opposition labor party has named keir starmer as its new laeta the shadow brecht's it secretary was one of 3 candidates for the labor leadership and won with more than 50 percent of the vote he'll replace jeremy coleman who resigned after december's general election with prisoners. in southeastern france 2 people have been killed in a knife attack on residents venturing out to shop in a town under lockdown several others were also injured the alleged attacker was arrested by police nearby. you're watching date over the news don't forget you can find extensive coverage of the corona virus as well as any other stories on our website that's d.w. dot com i'm rebecca rita's in bed and thanks very much for watching. that. race. whatever it takes. no running no. good no good job made for mines.

could brecht's it be behind the shortage of personal protective equipment for u.k. doctors and nurses is brights it to blame for the deaths of more than 50 frontline u.k. medics have politics been put before the welfare of patients in this pandemic now these are grave questions and tonight the british government is struggling to deliver an answer it's facing criticism for not taking part in the european union's joint purchases of medical supplies such as the waiters in masks the u.k. left the e.u. on january 31st of this year but it is still entitle to participate in european purchases until the end of this year and yet it placed no orders why wednesday the u.k. health secretary appeared before parliament he faced a lawmaker is furious with the british government's response to the crisis. chafey . chafey i'm right in the fact that i understand that that is the whistleblower of us was suddenly it's all on french fattened with disciplinary action that was just all brave young doctors and study out and telling it what it was like only from is that the facts and you get

chatter brecht and secretary is the argument the mainstream media's candidate to be the next labor leader was it just bricks that his disastrous bricks of policy that lost in the election i don't think it was i mean bracks it was really symptomatic of a wider problem the seats we lost when the city seats in the north seat in manchester newcastle we won all the seats with much majorities we lost the seat on the fringes a news people were feeling alienated they didn't feel part of britain any longer and therefore the lashed out and breck's it was the way in which they showed their views but to the election if you take working to i mean we rarely got brakes on the doorstep it was all until he called me. described workington it's all area which the mainstream media particularly homed in on as the bellwether seat of the december election yes it was that the press really picked up a good story there and run with it and grieving to ok i think he feel that and they feel the story but it's an area which is 40 miles from the m 6 no really good road to get there and they've always voted labor as ind

festival a couple weeks ago saw the world premiere of a movie called grip camp by nicole newton and jim brecht it's going to drop on that flicks that shows these people would do a summer camp they came out of the summer camp they realize i am not alone in this and people want to change the literal world they went and they fought for disability civil rights and laws came out of that had changes in attitudes came out of that people are going to be able to see maybe for the 1st time what happens when disability community comes together that is a great leap forward. politics because this of us here in politics is becoming more and more of a pick a topic not even if if policies may not be paying attention but certainly people with disabilities are making them pay attention i'm just looking at some of the hashtags of 20. busy right now disability inclusion disability counts 2020 is a new another big one because there's a census in the united states and if you are not counted then there will not be policy that's built around you there will not be facilities and 7 says that you need there will not be

but i have to tell you, the fact that aoc and the brecht the bernie sanders supporters are not necessarily going to get behind joe biden does not bode well. see when you're talking about alexandria ocasio-cortez who says he's going to need a health plan. that's what i read. jason, so it's great to be with you for bringing breaking news, specifically today, as we heard from survivors of covid-19. good to see you. the two groups of states teaming up to coordinate reopening their economies i reportedly hoping to have contact tracing, and then it can help. that means keeping tabs on those who have had contact with the covid-19 carrier and forcing them to quarantine. cdc director robert redfield twirled npr that very aggressive contact tracing is needed for the u.s. to return to normal. however, there are major hurdles including a lack of testing, obviously, jason and i were just talking about that, and the amount of people who would take to keep track of all of those people. i want to bring in today's medical panel. fox news contributor amy alvarez, global expert on emergency medicine and mass

elections the government included in his manifesto which was absolutely jam packed with stuff about brecht that whatever was significant things it added was this legislation as if it's the most important thing for late for this country after the break that is to stop because of israel in fact israel is a human rights abuse it is it has occupied palestinian land for the last 53 years and it continues on a daily basis to carry out policies that nobody would accept on the palestinian people so the government made its intentions known that it was going to legislate they tried to make it general and that they said this was it was exhibit about israel but why did they are nonsense it was law because the. chair of the conservative friends of israel in the last that went to jerusalem to announce this so it's a blatant attempt to shield is wrote from accountability but you can understand you can understand the card well that the government really didn't want local political boycotts undermining its its global diplomatic relations and very important relations of course with israel yes but this is a

doing sentient being concentrating on on this instead and the sunday times has been ambivalent about brecht's it clearly now if we go ahead with with it then there will be yet another came and we simply cannot cope with the pandemic as it is. also on our increasing scrutiny for its handling of the pandemic is the united states the question of when to ease lockdown restrictions is dividing the country as it and donald trump keeps pushing a positive message he says there are signs covered 1000 has passed its peak but experts are warning that moving too fast could be disastrous and a gallagher's in florida with that story. after weeks of stay at home odors hundreds flocked to the reopened beaches in jacksonville florida the medical of this controversial move as essential activity even as the state hit more than 27000 coronavirus cases it's what authorities call a pathway back to normal life. but in other parts of the u.s. the scenes a very different across the country a small but growing protest movement is calling for restrictions to be eased from utah to wisconsin in both republican and democr

there that eye off the ball is a suggestion that the government were more interested in a no deal brecht's it in the policy there than they were in the oncoming pandemic and that they also are accused of sending as many as a quarter of a 1000000 items of personal protective equipment to china when britain needed it most will get more on this in the coming hours let's go straight back to nicholas nicholas we had to of course or break into our conversation there about the election in neighboring mali just a few moments ago my question was how has the vote progressed and you were applying that the president has been quoted on record. that's right i mean so the prime minister has come out and said that he was happy that the mountains took part in this election and yet there's only been 8 percent of the electorate according to the election commission that has come out to vote even worse than the 1st round of this election where there is a historic low of 10 percent of the voters that came out clearly people are scared of 2 things the global pandemic the coronavirus that's also affecting mali bu