that part of the world, or much of it, is david miliband's brief these days.ident and ceo of the international rescue committee which helps people in you man taryn crises. he's a former foreign secretary of the united kingdom. welcome, david. let me ask you to give us an update, because when it -- when covid first hit, there was a bit of almost a paradox, which is that it was hitting the richest parts of the world very forcefully, but in the poorer parts of the world, it seemed to be what was called a very slow burn. what does it look like now? >> well, i think that we're at a pivot point now. the disease is going from a rich country's disease, which is affecting poorer people in those countries more to a genuinely global pandemic. we've seen the exponential growth in latin america, mexico, colombia, but over africa over the last two months a 500% increase in the number of recorded case, and certainly in the health centers that the international rescue committee runs in conflict zones and in refugee hosting states around the world, we're seeing an uptick. i th

many miliband, thanks for joining us. great to have you. i.c.e. they've taken correct precautions to stop the spread in the reciting there. your organization believes the number could be 15% higher than what is being reported. why is there reason to believe that? >> thanks. 15 times higher, not just 15% higher. look, the figures, the statistics don't lie. we know that there's a negligible number of tests being done. we also know the test positivity rate, the percentage of people found to have the disease among those tested is 20%. it is nearly three times the total u.s. level. it is on par with countries that are -- have some of the weakest health infrastructure in the world. so that test positivity ratio, 20% average, 80% in some facilities, shows the measures being taken are not good enough. we go as far as to say some of these facilities are super spreader facilities because of the density of population, because of the lack of testing, because of the lack of isolation. just to compound the problem, we also know that 180 flights have been sent f

with the one you know the same politicians anymore who want to change want to change that is you miliband and nothing happened you see ministry in the state and now you're in the battle in beirut specially its . state of emergency with the military is taking over right now and they stand all the people back to their houses now of course the anger is a growing people will protest again but unfortunately as it had been his i have to tell you this that. the answer or the solution is not in the hands of the believe that he's been his it's in the hands of the international relations and also there are so many of the journal and international players and that he joined the outgoing also to play a big role in what's going to happen next and it went on and the decision is in that hand unfortunately in my opinion i have to say that you're saying it's up to people like the french president of iraq my contre really put pressure on the lebanese gets not only the the french president you have also the american president the americans i think it will enable him to have also the iranian that being a big

the fire the boy miliband flame the boeing is probably the best to the best the consumer forests and entire residential areas cut. pricing temperature water shortages land clearance there's an abundance of. mobile material once a good. strong person. is going. to concentration the world on fire starts aug 12th on you. next. list is g.w. news coming up joy not cranks up the pressure on hong kong's pro-democracy movement . media of high school and prominent voice for democracy. is arrested along with others under the new security law is beijing sending a message to other of pro-democracy campaigners we asked joshua wong and he says.