lives are still at risk in burma. we need to look at burma is one of the most brutal military regime in the gogovernment. there continuously doing it. that is what we need to look at the same time. amy: tun khin, thank you for being with us, rohingya activists, president of the burmese writing organization in u.k.k., member o of the free rorohingya coalition. born in n burma, b but in 1982 s rendered effectivevely statetels along withth a million other ethnic rohingya ununder a nenew nationality law. and we want to thank steve corliss, speaking to us from bangladesh, that you and high commissioner for refugees representativeve in bangladesh. when we come back, how the coronavirus is thrhreatening the safety and health of tens of millioions of refugegees in cams and outsidide of camps acrcrosse globobe. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: : "holiday destinanation"y nadine shahah. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. now to the spread of the coronavirus acr

general stillwell was making progress in burma with american british and chinese units. the tide of war was turning against the aggressors with a vengeance. just 97 days after this core had led the assault on omaha beach it had driven inland and crossed the german borders. the battle was nearing its end. the battle for germany was about to begin, soon to reach full measure of the dragons teeth it had zone. the immensity of global war that occurred at the height of world war ii staggers the imagination. on the ground, in jungles and swamps, in mountains and forests and on the planes, millions of men scattered around the entire world locked in combat. in the air, thousands of others with their bombing and fighting aircraft, on the seas and beneath, others with their surface ships and submarines. incredibly long supply lines. bass communication network stretching around the earth. it was the greatest concerted organization of military might in the history of the world. it was as if the scriptural concept of the battle of armageddon was being realized at its greatest magnitu

i get the one nobody chose which was on the political situation in burma. grown up moving around a lot. but i didn't know anything about this clinical situation and the more that i learned about it, the more that one unarmed woman peaceful fight, at the time against the authoritarian regime, is really similar to north korea at the time. it began to fascinate and inspire me ride and thinking about taking a job here before university, actually before even deciding to take a year itself, i took my prom dress money that my mom gave me and instead of buying a prom dress, went to a travel agent, when there wasn't really such a thing and about a ticket to thailand. the idea was to do a couple of weeks of volunteering and infirmities refugee camp. at the end of this two weeks, we went back to the airport and this volunteer group night, and upset the gate and everyone was getting ready to board and i just had this really strong instinct that my work there was not done. then i said to the team later, i think i'm going to state. he was not approval of because i was 17

just sent home and is a veteran of the 2nd world war as a brave it in the british army he fought in burma no myanmar between 1990 in 1945 he was spots of the good cause regiments of the royal wistar fricken front force privates home won't is the only survivor from his group who served in the war. at this cemetery in no shoe. these tombs save us a memorial to all fall in war veterans how men say as it has been difficult to live in with the memories of the war all these years since the outbreak of the cruel enough virus he has been consigned about to they have what it is costing globally he says the pandemic is deadlier than the 2nd world war because a virus is an invisible enemy who went to figure out a war on burma. recruit the enemy and plan your strategy during the war how to defeat you but this is another kind of war it's an invisible war eudosia the only primitive attack you. how to help in this battle us wall and his reason $600000.00 to support frontline health and vulnerable veterans in africa he's doing this by walking for 23 kilometers on the streets. on initiate steve that's was

of fellow burma veteran, colonel tom moore, this time, he is fighting a very different war, raisingeslj funds for those on today's coronavirus frontlines. i want everybody to take this thing very seriously. because it is actually killing people, from their inception thought it was a joke and it is nojoke. it is an invisible war we are fighting so i am asking everybody to contribute to enable us to have the and help the front that workers and people all over africa. while cases of coronavirus remain relatively low in africa, there are fears that the healthcare system may struggle to cope if there are more numbers. we need more equipment and we want to raise funds to assist us in the right direction and column people to contribute to help raise the necessary funds to purchase the ppa. that would be the best for this man who has fought for us all this time. —— ppe. at just 16, private joseph hammond was conscripted and sent to fight over the other side of the world in what was then burma. he was one of the malt 200,000 west african troops often seen as the forgotten soldiers. here at t

international skirting thailand on its way to burma. air is filled with prayerful chants for rain. as the hot sun, the same sun that fires the golden pagodas, parches the land. the prayers to buddha echo throughout the whole city. even to rangoon's general hospital. and in its wards. the patients know him as dr. green, orthopedic surgeon in charge. they don't know how he went from harvard to turkey or the years spent with yale in china medical college. today dr. green is visiting professor at the university of rangoon, often consulting with his burmese colleagues, such as this man, a buddhist monk, is afflicted with neurofibromatosis. now dr. green comes to the man who at 15 during the war was hit by an exploding bomb that killed his parents and took his left leg below the knee. if he is to be helped, a piece of shrapnel in the lower pelvis causing a mid-thigh chronic drainage must be removed. the doctor studies the x-rays in anticipation of the operation he plans. as he scrubs, his thoughts go back to the story he told him of searching

typhus proved a serious disease hazard in the pacific in india burma theater. since much less was known, extensive studies had to be made of the disease in the animal hosts and insect vectors. rodents and other mammals were investigated as the animal reservoir for this disease. tics, mice and other surface insects were studied as possible vectors. studies of birds and surface parasites were undertaken. these studies added to our knowledge of typhus, but also the habits of possible vectors of other diseases. the study of the insect vectors of typhus involve hazards, since the disease is dangerous and occasionally carries a high mortality. field investigators had to observe strict precautions to avoid exposure. in general, laboratories in the pacific had more problems, but they were able to devote more time to investigate such diseases. the pacific counterpart did not differ greatly from installations active in europe, except they were modified to diagnosed these diseases. the 18th medical general laboratory in hawaii, by virtue of a trained staff in specialized

and alucians, to amen panama canal and westward and pacific and on the way of china and india, to burmato australia, eastward across the atlantic to north africa, the length of the mediterranean, the middle east and the southern route through the persian gulf to russia. to great britain, iceland, and to russia in the far north. and ultimately the entire continent of europe. under lend-lease to our allies alone the services of supply showed approximately $25 billion worth of war material. these included approximately 850,000 pieces of heavy equipment, tanks, locomotives, trucks free french forces in north africa were supplied enough arms and material to quip 12 combat divisions. millions of dollars worth of supplies went to china flown there from india. to russia alone over almost a half million pieces of heavy equipment, railroad roading stock and equipment. all of this while we were supplying our own widely deployed forces and biing uildi massive supplies for the mounting invasion yet to come. it was historic. it represented the outpouring of a great nation's energies and resources. no

general stillwell and his troops, were fighting the japanese in burma. this was global warfare, on a scale never known before. less than three years before, hitler had addressed the nation. >> germany will face war on the united states to a positive conclusion. -- >> a japanese militarist, joins the chorus. >> americans have radios, automobiles, big beefsteaks, when a people have those things, they don't want to fight. americans won't sleep in hammocks, or lie in trenches. they are like a tiger who stomach is full. they are sleepy. >> the american is no soldier. the american, no soldier? and yet there he was, carrying the fight to the aggressors. the self acclaimed superman, was coming to his bitter surprise and sorrow, the fighting quality of the american soldiers. it seems the aggressors had made a slight miscalculation. ♪ ♪ >> in italy, our forces pushed on through rain and mud. over mountains, across rivers. our power drive, the -- italians who forced the italians from france and the low country. our invasion of france, was soon to come. we now have

to burma, to australia, eastward across the atlantic to north africa. the length of the mediterranean. the middle east, and the southern route through the persian gulf through russia. to great britain, iceland, and russia by way of the far north. and ultimately the entire continent of europe. under land lease to our allies, the services of supply ships approximately 25 billion dollars worth of war material or. these included approximately 850,000 pieces of heavy equipment. thanks, locomotives, trucks, french forces in north africa, were supplied enough arms a material, to provide 12 combat divisions. millions of dollars worth of supplies went to china. flown there from india. to russia alone, over the submarine route to romance, almost a half million pieces of heavy equipment. vast stores of munitions and equipment, went to england, and to the commonwealth. are all of this, what we were supplying our own widely deployed forces, and building up mountains of supplies, for the invasion of europe, yet to come. the miracle of supply, achieved by the united s

the panama canal, westward across the pacific to a chain of islands, on to china by way of india, to burmato australia, eastward across the atlantic, to north africa, the length of the mediterranean, the middle east and the southern route through the persian gulf to russia. to great britain, iceland, and to russia by way of romansk in the far north, and eventually the entire continent of europe. under lend-lease to our allies alone, the services of supply shipped approximately $25 billion worth of war material. these included approximately 850,000 pieces of heavy equipment, tanks, locomotives, trucks -- ♪ free french forces in north africa were supplied enough arms and material to equip 12 combat divisions. millions of dollars worth of supplies went to china, flown there from india. ♪ >> to russia alone, over the submarine-managed route to romansk, equipment, railroad rolling stock, vast stores of munitions and equipment went to amman. all of this while we were supplying our own widely deployed forces and building up mountains of supplies for the massive invasion of europe yet to come. the

general stillwell and his troops were fighting the japanese in bur burma. >> this was global warfare on a scale never known before. >> less than three years before, hitler had made an address. >> germany, italy and japan will wage common war on the united states to a victorious conclusion. >> in rome his fascist partner had declared -- >> italy and national socialist germany ever closely linked participate from today on the side of heroic japan against the united states. >> a japanese militaryist joined the derisive chorus. >> americans have radios, automobiles, big beefsteaks when a people has those things they don't want to fight. americans won't sleep in hammocks or lie in trenches. they are like a tiger whose stomach is full. they are sleepily. >> the american is no soldier. >> the american no soldier? and yet there he was carrying the fight to the boastful aggressive. >> the self-acclaimed superman was learning to his bitter surprise and sorrow the fighting qualities of the american soldier. it seems the aggressors had made a slight miscalculation. >>> in italy, our forces pushe

in burma, general joseph stillwell commands the american, british, and chinese jungle fighters.ng back the japanese, opening the way for completion of the lido road, which are army engineers were building as a land supply route to the embattled chinese by way of india. russia, german armies were in retreat before massive soviet counterattacks. expression,d army "we were clobbering the enemy on all fronts, but it was no grand march, no sudden sweep to victory, for as the aggressors were driven back, their resistance increased, along with mounting desperation. we paid a price for every mile we took." the battle for germany was on, twilight ofans, the the gods had come. ♪ >> our armies were battering at the gates of the nazi homeland. general hodges first army drove through the bombing -- the line. mile upon mile of concrete fortification and antitank emplacements through the city. two years and seven months after general macarthur left the philippines, he kept his promise to return. on the 20th of october, 1944, his forces invaded the island. this, too, was to be no easy parade to

. ♪ general stillwell and his troops were fighting the japanese in burma. ♪ ♪ [explosions] this was globala scale never known before. [explosions] less than three years before, hitler had addressed the nation. willrmany, italy and japan face war on the united states to a positive conclusion. narrator: in rome, his counterpart declared -- on the side of japan against the united states. narrator: a japanese militarist joins the chorus. >> americans have radios, automobiles, big beefsteaks, and when people have those things they don't want to fight. , americans won't sleep in hammocks, or lie in trenches. they are like a tiger whose stomach is full. they are sleepy. >> the american is no soldier. [explosions] narrator: the american no soldier? was carrying the fight to the boastful aggressor. ♪ proclaimed superman was learning to his bitter surprise and sorrow the fighting quality of the american soldiers. it seems the aggressors had made a slight miscalculation. ♪ ♪ narrator: in italy, our forces pushed on through rain and mud. over mountains, across rivers. toward rome. ♪ our power drive up

to burma. to australia.ross the atlantic to north africa, the length of the mediterranean. the middle east, and the southern route through the persian gulf to russia. to great britain. iceland. murmanskssia by way of to the far north. and ultimately, the entire continent of europe. under land leased to our allies alone, the services of supply shipped approximately $25 billion worth of war materiel. these included approximately 850,000 pieces of heavy equipment -- tanks, locomotives, trucks. [rousing music] ♪ free french forces in north africa were supplied enough arms and materiel to equip 12 combat divisions. millions of dollars worth of supplies went to china. flown there from india. ♪ to russia alone, over the submarine route to m murmansk, over half a million pieces of heavy railroad equipment. vast stores of munitions and equipment went to england and the commonwealth. ♪ [music ends] all of this while we were supplying our own widely -deployed forces, and building up mountains of supplies for the massiv

we will meet of them not only in korea but in hong kong, burma, sarawi, india, if you appear. but first, first, here in the valley, see who's back is closed in the robes of the sisters. she and the sisters who live here are devoted to the sick, the lame, the blind, and to this their clinic, come the troubled ones. look upon their faces and read for yourself their stories. the poor from the huts and shanties, the homeless from the streets. refugees swept south by the communist tyranny in north korea. their wait, only the opening of the gate -- they await only the opening of the gate. and now, to reap in a day's harvest of illness, nurtured in the overcrowded city the low, former patients under continuing care present the token of their previous visit and pass inside. [chatter] [baby crying] >> then along the line to extract the seriously ill, that they may be cared for all at once. >> foreign language] >> foreign language] [children crying] >> foreign language] >> foreign language] [children crying] >> foreign language] >> a bond of pain have all record -- the infant, the wrink

in europe 75 years ago to the day events are scaled back because of covert 19 but the focus is on burma it's. also coming up the race to find a vaccine that researchers in south africa are trialing a 100 year old formula that could prove to be a game changer. last helping new york health worker shipped in from outside to relieve a city overwhelmed by the covered 1000 course. i'm serious almost gone but it's good to have you with us europe is marking 75 years since the end of world war 2 on may 8th 1905 nazi germany and its unconditional surrender forces the large memorial events that were planned have been either cancelled or scaled back due to the coronavirus pandemic in london the royal air force or red arrow squadron strict across the capital skyline trolling the colors of the union jack. in scotland prince charles laid a wreath at the war memorial. castle. meanwhile in france president he might want to paid his respects at the tomb of the unknown soldier in paris. and here in berlin the german chancellor angela merkel took part in a ceremony at the main memorial to victims of war an

we will meet them not only in korea, but in hong kong, burma, india, the pal, lebanon, ethiopia. but first, first, here in this alley in person, she whose back is toward us is clothes in the robes of the sisters of saint dominic. she and her sisters who live here are devoted to the sick, the lame, the blind. and to this, their clinic, i'm the troubled ones. look upon their faces and read for yourself their stories. the pore from the huts and shanties. the homeless from the streets. refugees swept south by the communist tyranny in north korea. they await only the opening. and now, to reap the dais harvest of illness, nurtured in the overcrowded city below. former patients under continuing care present the token of their previous visit and pass aside. then along the line to extract the seriously ill, that they may be cared for at once. >> a bond of pain have all in common, the innocent, the record -- the infant, the wrinkled grandmother, and the wide-eyed innocent child. and that often strikes them down as they wait. thus is an act of a prelude to the next day ahead as the nurse re

well, i was in england, having just come back, having just come back from burma.st come back from there. i must say, all my friends were still out there. and, so, although it was a great day, a great day for here, look at all the things, the bombing stopped in london, a lot of people that were prisoners of war were going to be released, that was good. and even the foreign people who had been locked up, they were going to be released after some terrible times they'd had. so, really, ve day from my point of view, it was a very good day. it was a good day, and i still had mixed feelings that everything was going well here but they were still out there risking their lives and battling on, as they always did. the other thing i haven't heard anyone ask you about yet, and it is always fascinated me, what do you think your late wife would have made of all of this? she would have thoroughly enjoyed it. but she probably... she was a shy person. she would have enjoyed it but she would have stood back a little bit, and she would stand behind me, she would have enjoyed it but

well, i was in england, having just come back, having just come back from burma.rom there. i must say, all my friends were still out there. and, so, although it was a great day, a great day for here, look at all the things, the bombing stopped in london, a lot of people that were prisoners of war were going to be released, that was good. and even the foreign people who had been locked up, they were going to be released after some terrible times they'd had. so, really, ve day from my point of view, it was a very good day. it was a good day, and i still had mixed feelings that everything was going well here but they were still out there risking their lives and battling on, as they always did. the other thing i haven't heard anyone ask you about yet, and it is always fascinated me, what do you think your late wife would have made of all of this? she would have thoroughly enjoyed it. but she probably... she was a shy person. she would have enjoyed it but she would have stood back a little bit, and she would stand behind me, she would have enjoyed it but quietly. she w

burma's work for fox bargain and other big brands major companies have spent millions using you tube as for advertising in germany but perhaps too much so says this public relations consultant our anything that's inevitable the use of you tube or marketing has been inflationary and it's set to decline somewhat that's because companies in influencers want to prevent a loss of authenticity there won't be an ad hidden in every youtube video time when every other one or every 3rd video but in far fewer perspective. the trend was towards exclusive marketing partnerships. an exclusive. isn't for young people boom is 30 is his time up soon. it's up pyaar of about i used to think so if you'd asked me this 2 years ago i'd have said yes you have to stay youthful and perky. but now i would say lot of us are getting older too don't force it on relax that's the way to go with the you tube pays burm $250.00 for every 100000 clicks on his channel estimates put his earnings at $10000.00 a month plus money for the advertising he does pull it. off having fun while making a living could be worse couldn

their own devices and we've seen in several countries as well that migrants often live physically in burma tree situations in quite a densely crowded. and it's. that makes thing impossible which makes social distancing an impossible simply by virtue of how and where they live and governments really have a responsibility to these workers to sort these problems out but not only that the migrant workers' dormitories can become a center for infection for others as well so there is a poem an enlightened interest in looking after migrant workers properly will also look after the local populations as well this is really easy for me to say i think in practical terms either because of political will or the practical circumstances of these work because some governments are finding it difficult to act on these principles but they really have to as a matter of humanity and as a matter of self interest for their own populations are these particular communities that we're talking about migrant workers how difficult how challenging is it to get accurate information to them i mean we already know that the

conflict in europe 75 years ago to the day events are scaled back because of cover 19 but the focus is on burmait's. also coming up the race to find a vaccine researchers in south africa are trialing a 100 year old formula that could prove to be a game changer. last helping new york health worker shipped in from outside to relieve a city overwhelmed by the company.

stick to the security protocols so we can serve the community throughout the korean team over water burma. thanks in works for robbie a one stop shop for everything from toilet paper to ready made cocktails the start up acts as an intermediary between stores markets restaurants and quarantine clients the health crisis is their moment to shine they're building on existing infrastructure to create much needed jobs and help keep struggling business alive. today if a restaurant doesn't sell through us they don't sell at all before if they didn't use our services they could sell on site. a 1000000 owns this burger joint in the usually very lively nato neighborhood before the lockdown the restaurant served around 200 patrons every day today 90 percent of what's left of emiliano business goes through robbie. and less attention to the crisis has forced us to rapidly reinvent ourselves to prove that we could change on a moment's notice we've had to make a lot of very quick decisions however the situation is very complicated you've got through delivery services we're selling 25 maybe 30 percent of

you quote somebody who says there's in the beginning of may there is somebody who says go ahead and burma are exact and end of may he says i'm a vote forever protect my car exactly so you you part of this question which is an important one you say it's the central question and it is and that is whether revolution in the west is possible right. if we were to say that a revolution is an uprising that results in the overturning of the power structure and a change in the ownership of the means of production that may obviously wasn't one not only because it failed to accomplish either of these things but because there is no indication the seizure of power was ever even seriously considered. and that for me is the crucial point here as to why this uprising was doomed from the start talk about that issue and whether revolution in the west is possible. several people spoke about was when these marches would go through paris they will walk past government buildings some of the very lightly guarded a lot of easily takes the exact minister of drug ministry draft a couple of cops striding in front of

going to do build more aircraft carriers you know how easy it is the same burma things $100000.00 missile and you can take out a multibillion dollar aircraft carrier again where is the thinking here or as i think we probably all agreed there isn't much thinking here this is just a kneejerk response it's not just a kneejerk response and unrealistic it is fantastic and he's dangerous it is a fantastic idea that you can cut all china from the world economy china is a set by many metrics now the biggest the biggest industrial is the world's biggest but trading endurable goods the idea that you can simply cut all that all around the world economy and steam all has it as you know as if that could just be done it is just as i said completely childish is it again coming back to what you said a proper 20th century it's the mindset of the 1960 s. when the soviet union did operate within its own economic world and the united states operate in its own economic world and there was very little overlap between zaxxon yes you could say you could draw up the cons of various and you could work on all those

called ord wingate who is a hero in israel he was and who is described he later on exactly was in burma he is later on described as a psychopath yes he is the one who carries out targeted assassination was not carried a bible like a fanatic it was you know a nasty character much beloved in israel and according to the website of the israel defense forces his spirit animates the israeli are well that might be true i think it is actually targeted assassinations murdering people at night blowing up their houses over their heads or when gate taught them all of that and you you argue in the book that the the so this was a popular uprising not well organized exactly a popular uprising 3637 by up to 39 to 39 by palestinians who kind of figured out. what was happening a little belatedly the only revolts against the british empire that succeed are the ones right after world war one the irish get their independence the iraqis and the egyptians and the iranians managed to limit british power and in fact the iranians pushed the british out of iran the egyptians and the iraqis similarly limit british