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across the global south infections are lagging quite far behind europe but many countries have started taking drastic action and people are bracing for the worst. there's a huge fear that the weight of this pandemic might lead to a complete collapse so a colombian healthcare system so long down is truly going to be crucial well and if we don't what you're looking at perhaps the watchdog group that we're and we're going to talk to an expert in fighting deadly outbreaks who says there is still reason for hope even in some of the world's poorest regions for me i am optimistic that it is possible for the countries in sub-saharan africa to break the transmission it is possible to quentin this outbreak we're going to find out the essential things that governments and people need to be doing now to achieve that before we get to that let's check in on the outbreak in 3 of the most important cities in the global south. we're going to head 1st to india home to 1300000000 people its capital city region alone has a population of almost 30000000. the streets of delhi are usually packed with traffic

and we are seeing now in the global south.south is much less equipped to defeat the disease. we are seeing an enormous increase in cases globally. and the best scientific evidence indicates that, unless there is a fairly strong effort to suppress the disease, these might reach — until the so—called herd immunity is reached, this might reach 60 to 70% of the global population. even if this disease kills less than other outbreaks, like ebola recently, this would always mean millions of people dying in the world, and this is absolutely unacceptable, also morally unacceptable. so we need to make sure that we have an articulated response, a coordinated response under the guidance of the who. and i believe the g20 meeting this week is a good opportunity to create a mechanism of coordination under the guidance of the who. an articulated response to be able to suppress collectively this virus, and then, once suppressed, to be able to contain it until a vaccine is found. because only with a vaccine will we be able to eradicate the dise

interested in coronavirus because it's affecting the developed world why do you feel that the global south and the developing nations of this world are so important in the battle with viruses of this kind. yes so you know the problem isn't that you don't have enough money for there to be a good working market for some of these supposedly neglected tropical diseases the issue is just that there's more money in cancer or right now more attention for 17 so part of my intention of our company and our mission is to go after making therapeutics against neglected tropical diseases as well as large scale diseases that affect everyone and just making the company small enough that we can become profitable so the big companies don't want to work on things like snakebite or they won't work as much on undoing it because the markets aren't as big as something they could spend their money else on elsewhere and they have to only pay for blockbusters because if you have 30000 employees then you have to survive on a metabolism of blockbusters otherwise your company can't make it way but if that's so why is

the power to do it to manipulate people but i think we all know that the our countries in the global south bear the brunt of all the tech this issue that have been made right i mean how do we get power how we've never really had a seat at the table in these things and we've they're the worst do you think you should go see or theobald sure that's part i mean part of the reason i can speak about it is because i can articulate it in a way that the west can understand you currently are. you know challenging. an allegedly and arguably corrupt regime what does it mean for you to say give us a seat at the table do you give a corrupt regime. a theater table to talk about now so i think one of the things this time show us is exactly how human behavior is universal regardless of culture in many ways because of very same things that manipulate americans and europeans are the very same things that manipulate us in the global south we just don't have the institutions to fight back and look how weak your institutions have gotten here. behavioral modification system how do we fix it i think i've been a j

another issue which many nations of the global south are having to cope with yes that's correct in last july about 8 months ago august on and dime if entered into an agreement we have been into numerous agreements with the with the i.m.f. before but since the agreement that has been a dramatic improvement in pakistan's economy and we are moving swiftly towards economic stabilization so you're taking $6000000000.00 from washington in return for privatizing and selling off pakistan well that's that's the political rhetoric that's usually associated around any i.m.f. program in any most of the countries but that's that's not what it is. it's $6000000000.00 plus there's a multilateral funding involved so in reality it's about $35.00 to $38000000000.00 and it's about reducing deficits increasing pakistan stack space improving the exporters competitive ness improving the way we manage or have managed exchange rate in the past it's about opening up and liberalizing they call me. so it's a host of other things well we've had they're gonna neo liberal talk year in britain for years we're talking

call to action he said and he talked to the prospect the pandemic spreading like wildfire in the global south and this more is done threatening millions and it said that a large scale multilateral response was required to the choosing of 10 percent of global g.d.p. and let's bring in james bass who's in listening in and james what do you make of what the sector general had to say. it's the last thing you said nic that the secretary general said that i think is the key 110 percent of global g.d.p. that is a massive amount of money is what the secretary general now says needs to be mobilized to deal with the disease but also the social and economic effects of disease around the world particularly in the most vulnerable communities around the world remember this is on top of the secretary general we could go launch a $2000000000.00 fund for the immediate humanitarian crises they are very concerned about those in conflict zones they're very concerned about those living in refugee communities it's worth noting that the u.n. security council has been meeting in recent days virtually they had a meet

is very determined to move in the global south of the world but also in the in the global north and to not make a distinction between the kind of polarities that we otherwise are forced on the community politically socially. people and moments everything seemingly casually captured. i kinda day i can be is here with me in studio welcome and thank you so much for coming in. i'm captivated by this title of your of your exhibition. taught arabic despite the fact that we're talking about pictures here air and breath and breathing is very very important to work very very important the 6 songs the 6 themes of the exhibition each theme for one in one room and i chose war i composed this title to try to stress to the visitors that i have not only a visual aspect of my in my photo photographs but if they really look at them carefully they'll hear something that you talked about singing and how it ties in very much to this idea that you have of wandering being a wanderer through the world. that's very much a part of your artistic method you've made it into something of a philosophy. i call mysel

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south africa afrophobic? hello, i'm zeinab badawi. welcome to johannesburg for this addition of global questions. cial capital of south africa. it is one of the cities in the country that has seen periodic attacks on workers from other parts of the continent. unemployment is high in south africa. nearly one in three people out of work. so can be violence be blamed on poverty, or other other factors at play? that is the topic of this global questions. is south africa afrophobic? i'm in foxjunction, johannesburg. this is a building that dates back to the 19th century, where migrant workers in the gold mines had settled. todayit today it has been transformed into a dynamic cultural hub, and it is the venue for our programme. we will be taking questions from our very lively audience here and we're going to get answers from our panel ina to get answers from our panel in a moment, but first, let me bring you this brief overview of the xenophobic attacks in south africa. foreigners, they take... people are taking our land. the attacks on africans from countries such as zimbabwe, mozambique and nigeria ar

if we go down the list of countries in the proverbial global south and latin america, there are countriessed their borders outright, that have been completely shut down. countries like one imola -- like guatemala, el salvador. they only yesterday announced their first case of coronavirus. in honduras, there is a national curfew that is being enforced in several studies. one of the biggest concerns is what is happening in thin as layla. a seven year economic crisis has a's healthezuel services to a critical point. caracas from doctors in that there are areas doctors will not even go because they are afraid of contracting the virus, worried that they do not have the necessary supplies. is latin america as a region prepared? it spends less than almost any other region on health services. i think the short answer is no. anchor: while the global struggle to contain coronavirus continues, there is a glimmer of good news from where it was first discovered. they reported no new cases on wednesday, the first time since the virus began in december. reports,hide their numbers are still growing in ot

40 percent in june 20th you don't compile poverty statistics this is the same way surely as any global south nation when it starts to talk to the i.m.f. let me 1st address the privatisation by more comprehensive. pakistan's has more than $2250.00 state owned enterprises and the accumulated losses have now reached up to a level where it's more than the annual defense budget of pakistan which is it and it's now accrues to more than 1500000000000 rupees even more than that they have become a drag on pakistan's national economy and it's not just the i.m.f. that we see there any commentator economic commentator having a look at the finances will see that a 2nd question that is true that since 2016 during the previous governments. poverty statistics have got been published for one reason or another in pakistan and we are. looking at reviving that statistics and finalizing a methodology for publishing that statistics we have a world bank estimate for the last year for bank has been regularly publishing poverty up if so pakistan and poverty as but the estimate poverty did in fact a decline in the 1s

imperil bonds are loosening and he sees this as an incredible moment for freedom in the global south. but he didn't mention the american south. kind of a silence there. but he needed that silence. because what he was dealing with, he had just come back from that vienna summit. remember that one that his brother was really trying to get the freedom riders to quiet out on and -- well, that vienna summit didn't go so well. he met with somebody who took him to school. this wasn't pretty. it really wasn't pretty. and it was kennedy's fault. he acknowledged that later on. he thought that what he could do because he's gotten by on charm. he could just walk in there and charm, you know, one of those charm fellows, charm them. he had survived joseph stalin. i love your face right there. she's like, yeah, survive that. so he thinks he can charm him so he wasn't prepared. imagine going into a summit meeting with the head of the soviet union and you haven't done your homework. have you ever walked into -- okay. i already see the hands. and he just wasn't ready. and afterwards he told a "new york

disagreements is from the left is what does this mean internationally what does this mean for the global south right our neighbors across the world who are already exploited when it comes to things like energy and resources and minerals right so i think that's one aspect the other aspect of it is is this a green new deal 'd to help the environment or just to create sort of a new phase of capitalism and create a new phase of profit you know what i mean so those are sort of some of the big critiques i think from the left that we get. to your point the green new deal has been seen as. western centric if that's the case then what does it mean for the rest of the world so and this is sort of the heart of the problem i think that when we call something western centric some people can get lost in that jargon what it means is that the the western countries or i like to say former colonies really will be the 1st and foremost people to benefit and profit from something like a green new deal any actions that are made within this deal will always the primary concern will always be helping the u.s. or the

national policies are evolving overnight if we go down the list of countries in the proverbial global south and latin america there are countries that have closed their borders outright that completely shut down countries in central america like guatemala el salvador honduras el salvador was one of the 1st countries in the region to adopt strong measures they only yesterday announced their 1st case of coronavirus in honduras there's a national curfew that's been imposed by that is being enforced in several cities in the country one of the biggest concerns at the moment right now is what's happening in venezuela a 7 year economic crisis there has pushed them as well as health services to a critical to a critical point we've heard from doctors in that acas in the country's capital saying that there are places where doctors won't even go because they are themselves afraid of contracting the virus worried that they don't have the necessary supplies so is latin america as a region prepared it spends less than any other region or almost any other region in the world on health services so unfortun

another issue which many nations of the global south are having to cope with yes that's correct in last july and about 8 months ago.

another issue which many nations of the global south are having to cope with yes that's correct in last july and that about 8 months ago august on and i'm offended into an agreement we have been into numerous agreements with the with the i.m.f. before but since the agreement that has been a dramatic improvement in pakistan's economy and we are moving swiftly towards economic stabilization so you're taking $6000000000.00 from washington in return for privatizing and selling off pakistan well that's that's the political rhetoric that's usually associated around any i.m.f. program in any most of the countries but that's that's not what it is. it's $6000000000.00 plus there's a multilateral funding involved so in reality it's about $35.00 to $38000000000.00 and it's about reducing deficits increasing pakistan stack space improving the exporters competitiveness improving that we we manage or have managed exchange rate in the past it's about opening up and liberalizing they call me so it's a host of other things well we've had that kind of neo liberal talking here in britain for years we're t

national policies are evolving overnight if we go down the list of countries in the proverbial global south and latin america there are countries that have closed their borders outright that completely shut down countries in central america like guatemala el salvador honduras el salvador was one of the 1st countries in the region to adopt strong measures they only yesterday announced their 1st case of coronavirus in honduras there's a national curfew that's been imposed by that is being enforced in several cities in the country one of the biggest concerns at the moment right now is what's happening in venezuela a 7 year economic crisis there has pushed them as well as health services to a critical to a critical point we've heard from doctors in gattaca is in the country's capital saying that there are places where doctors won't even go because they are themselves afraid of contracting the virus worried that they don't have the necessary supplies so is latin america as a region prepared it spends less than any other region or almost any other region in the world on health services so unfortu

cases pass 30,000, third in total cases globally. in southarolina, seven-month-old son was hospitalized with covid-19 >> very scary. haven't tested children or done studies with small babies, we're very nervous >> reporter: ohio and louisiana joining other states asking residents to stay home hawaii taking extraordinary step of requiring all returning residents and visitors to quarantine for 14 days >> give everybody their own personal space >> reporter: life on pause in new york as cases surge. coast-to-coast, leaders stressing everyone take social distancing seriously. >> time to grow up, wake up. >> i was in these parks, you would not know that anything was going on it's arrogant, it's self-destructive it's disrespectful to other people and it has to stop and it has to stop now this is not a joke and i am not kidding >> thanks to kathy for that report >>> senate will take another vote on massive stimulus package to curb the impact of coronavirus. after first attempt to pass the plan failed last night president trump tweeted we cannot let t

cases pass 30,000, putting the nation third in total cases globally in south carolina, cordy's 7 month old son was hospitalized with covid-19. >> very scary. they haven't tested children, haven't done studies on small babies we are still very nervous. >> reporter: today ohio and louisiana joining other states asking residents to stay home. and hawaii taking the extraordinary step of requiring all returning residents and visitors to quarantine for 14 days >> i am giving everybody their own personal space. >> reporter: life at the epicenter of the outbreak on pause as cases in new york surge to more than 15,000 the state's non-essential business shutdown officially begins at 8:00 tonight. coast to coast, leaders stressing everyone take social distancing seriously. >> time to grow up time to wake up. >> i was in these parks. you would not know that anything was going on it's arrogant. it's self-destructive. it's disrespectful to other people and it has to stop and it has to stop now. this is not a joke and i am not kidding >> reporter: in spopsz to governor cuomo's request the president s

cases pass 30,000 but in the nation, third in total cases globally in south carolina is a 7-month-old son was hospitalized with covid-19. >> very scary. they haven't really tested children or done studies in small babies so we're still nervous. >> reporter: ohio and louisiana joining other us states asking residents to stay home and hawaii taking the exfrom ordinary step of requiring all returning residents and visitors to quarantine for 14 days. life at the epicenter of the outbreak on pause as cases in new york surge to more than 15,000 coast to coast, leaders stress everyone take essential distancing seriously >> time to grow up time to wake up. >> i was in these parks. you would know not that anything was going on it's arrogant. it's self-destructive. it's disrespectful to other people and it hz to stop and it has to stop now this is not a joke, and i am not kid iding >> our thanks to kat yi park for that report. >>> partisan showdown threatens to derail a massive stimulus package aimed at curbing the impact of the coronavirus. mitch mcconnell is vowing to take another vote on the

through to lower demand stock markets in africa are a mixed bag after yesterday's rout song global equity markets south africa's johannesburg stock exchange clawed back just over 2 percent in the nigerian stock exchange continued its slide closing just shy of 5 percent down european markets also struggled with both germany's dax london's footsie emmeline's exchange losing ground as europe tries to prevent a further spread of the virus or dodge a bank says it's dispersing its staff to different locations after a frank based interactive the coronavirus at the european central bank one person has also been diagnosed with the virus and 100 of their colleagues are working from home as a precaution. saudi arabia says it will boost oil production next month by $3000000.00 barrels it's an attempt to force fellow oil producer russia back to the table on output cuts due to low demand the announcement initially curb choose the rebound in oil prices which plunged monday after riyadh 1st announced plans to oversupply the market it hopes that by pushing prices down it could force russia to agree to output per recent