United nations is described as a gruesome massacre of farmers tending their crops. The armed Group Boko Haram is suspected of being behind this deadly attack. In fact, the deadliest attack in borno state this year, more from made interests in a butcher. The incident happened in 2 villages at least 2 villages in northeastern nigeria in borno state in particular. And one surprising thing is that the attackers, according to sources, came on motorcycles, and there has been a ban on the use of motorcycles in that region for at least 6 years now. So its surprising how Security Forces couldnt identify or discover. Some people illegally using motorcycles, they carried out their tax when these farm workers were busy harvesting rice in the fields in bed, as well as a bit of money where we saw today, a funeral for 43. 00 of the victims were, was held. U. S. President elect joe biden is being treated for a fractured foot the day before he is set to receive his 1st president ial briefing. Also, wisconsins 2 largest counties have finalized a recount of votes and theyve confirmed by then as the winner, irans top Nuclear Scientists assassinated on friday will be laid to rest in the coming else. On sunday memorials were held for most and irans blamed israel and has vowed to retaliate. And protesting. Farmers in india have rejected the governments offer to hold talks amid anger, over new agricultural goals. Of farmers have been camping out on highways near the capital, new delhi, and blocking major roads. And youre up to date with the headlines here on aljazeera. You know, afghanistan, the taliban is renowned for its violent repression of women. Now a new deal with the u. S. Could see the group return to power one, o one, a still best to gates of afghan women who paid the price for pace. On aljazeera. The World Economy is headed for a recession. China wont be there to say that this time. Northern irelands health service, a breaking point, south korea set for one of the worst growth periods. In half a century. The richest person in the world just gave 98. 00 and a half 1000000. 00 to help the us. Why am i reading these headlines to you . Well, its to prove a point. These could all be easily been post pandemic 2020, headlights. In reality though, they were all published in november 29th a month before, could 19th even be heard . Because well, before the coronavirus pandemic here, much of the world was already deep in a crisis of capitalism. And now with millions out of work, entire industries are stagnant and the Health Care System scrambling for a vaccine. The question is, did capitalism turn the covert emergency into a disaster . Capitalism. Its an ideology, an economic system, a political statement. But how is the system based on private ownership in the pursuit of profit . So the world in a time of crisis when the situation demands, we act not the individual game, but collective benefit. Stay at home and protect lives. There said the test test test without preventive measures that could be used by all these cancellations are a way to flatten the curve. Covered 19 hasnt been like any other crisis. Job losses, health care struggle. A critical need for relief from the state of all struck segments of society that normally dont face these kinds of grave economic stresses. In short, all of a sudden, through this pandemic, this once in a century type of crisis, its become evident to many that precursor times were also a crisis of sorts. As entire countries, when i dont doubt any of this year, i spoke with a group of people whose work has been all about dissecting and analyzing capitalism. When people say they want to go back to normal, you can blame is that sounds pretty good to me right now. You know about, as we think about politics, is it not a lot of people want to talk to us so i can pretty well doubt that you didnt mean all the people in meant no music, no parent kids got to meet money. That was a consequence. You need one of the richest, like easy human history. And yet, the money in my opinion, capitalism is the pandemic. That is the root cause of so much of the suffering were experiencing now. I mean, do i want things to go back to normal . I want to be able to go to a cafe. I want to be able to see my friends. I dont want things to go back to the normal that weve been living with the last 20 years. Wealth concentration, exploitation of working people. Thats the paradigm. Thats the contacts that the stage for our current calamity. This virus has intensified a spotlight on health care, what it costs, who gets access and its ability to respond in a crisis. One system that runs shockingly counted to the needs of so many its supposed to serve, is the one in the United States. American health care is largely privatized and lax pricing regulation, both key traits of the capitalist system. This means not only is every element of the Health Care System from hospitals to drug manufacturers, owned and operated by the private sector. But those businesses of freedom charge whatever they like. This makes staying healthy in the United States, a scarily expensive proposition. This is a small percentage of the population, about 80 percent. That does get some state support for medical costs, but for the vast majority, private Health Insurance is the only recourse they charge on a tourist expensive premiums making them unaffordable for many and filled with loopholes. And gaps that mean, even insured americans can be left with hefty medical bills to pay. Thats why before the pandemic, it was estimated that 87000000 americans were uninsured, or underinsured, and medical bills were a leading cause of personal bankruptcy. You know, in the United States, people cant Access Health care because they cant afford Health Insurance. They have influence, they are buried in debt after the fact. What happens with them, like the coronavirus hits a population that is indebted in devastating population that has no savings, right . 40 percent of americans before the crisis were reported to not be able to handle a 400. 00 emergency. Americas Health Care Crisis has intensified during the pandemic. A tidal wave of layoffs have meant that as many as 27000000. 00 americans have lost employer provided Health Insurance. And without that cover a hospital stay to treat code that could cost as much as 73000. 00. This is despite a government plan announced in march to cover some covert related medical bills. The lack of coordination and the need for medical supplies to keep turning prophet has led hospitals. And so if a crucial supplies, like mosques, tests, and medical equipment, doctors and nurses warning that critical protective gear is running low. This is a hospital where the Health Care Workers have taken to wearing garbage bags. Its like being on the bed with 50 other states bidding on a ventilator. The hospitals are run for profit, and so they dont have adequate staff, right . Because that would feed into revenue, they dont want to have extra medical supplies, just languishing not being used. So what were going to see is a lot of people who are going to perish, not because of the virus, per se, but because of the lack of access to adequate healthcare, the lack of access to technical gear, were going to see people who dont seek treatment because theyre afraid of not being able to pay for it. Its already been reported by emergency room doctors that you know, people, the last, their last words are literally but whos going to pay for coronaviruses. I knew them existed in human sense and ironing sixtys, and they cause a range of different illnesses from the common cold to more lethal varieties, such as the outbreak of sars in 2002 and mers in 2012. In 2015, the World Health Organization even listed coronaviruses as being among the top possible causes of a major epidemic. So how is it that pharmaceutical companies have been caught . So off guard by this virus in may, this year, brussels based research into the corporate europe observe the tree, published a detailed investigation into the effectiveness of the innovation medicines initiative. I am mine. Its the worlds biggest Public Private partnership bid lifesciences. And it directs billions of dollars worth of funds to buy medical research at the worlds biggest pharma companies. What the investigation uncovered was that not only did firms in 2017 turn down an e. U. Proposal to work on vaccines for pathogens like coronavirus. But 2600000000 euro of, i am eyes funds were transferred into projects that represented much more commercially profitable avenues for the pharmaceutical industry. This investigation reinforced a point that big pharma insiders and whistleblowers have been making for a while. That serious matters, like pandemic preparedness, being held hostage by commercial considerations on march 5th, as coronavirus cases spread across the u. S. A congressional hearing is taking place. We also took on a decade ago the interesting problem of making Coronavirus Vaccines because we recognize these as enormous Public Health threats. And yet we have not seen the big pharma guys and the biotechs rushing in into the space of dr. Peter hotez, one of americas leading vaccine scientists said that a vaccine his team and created 4 years ago in response to the sars outbreak may have been able to provide patients with a cross protection from the virus at the heart of this pain dimmick. But it simply hadnt been commissioned, entice enough for Drug Companies to invest in. The bottom line is, had we had those investments or early on to carry this all the way through clinical trials. Years ago, we could have had a vaccine ready to go, you know, one of the big problems of capitalism, that capitalist investment. So capitalists say, you know, its really important by agra because thats a huge market. Even though the coronavirus exists once, not invest in a back scene, because that market doesnt really exist, then i also didnt really want to vaccinate the whole world in this preemptive measure. No, lets create something that we can sell now. So you know, we like capitalism. Direct investment at our clock the peril whenever a vaccine is hopefully created. The next battle, at least for patients in the United States, will be over affordability. And thats when were back to one of the fundamental pot holes of the american Health Care System. Where unlike in almost every other nation, basic pricing controls simply dont exist. And its not even as though this is a secret and youre saying it wont for sure, be affordable for anyone who needs a. Im saying we would, we would want to ensure that we work to make it on affordable, but we cant control that price because we need the private sector to invest. That was Donald Trumps health and Human Services. Secretary alexs at a congressional hearing in february to see if an interesting side, before he was appointed to his rolling government. As a worked as the top lobbyist for the pharmaceutical firm, eli lilly, and company. The hunt for a Coronavirus Vaccine has now suddenly become one of the most well funded areas of biomedical research. Not only of governments and pharmaceutical giants investing in the so called super heroes of the corporate world, have all stepped into the fray. The c. E. O. Of netflix is donating 30000000. 00 toward research for a Coronavirus Vaccine. Marcus off cofounder bill gates has continued the fight against karada virus, investing billions of dollars on the construction of factories working to develop a covert. 19 back saying, some of the wealthiest people on earth found isnt c. E. O. s of major corporations and making headlines for denying to covert causes through their own philanthropic organizations. But its not just about the money. Its the perception that it comes with all the trappings of the corporate world efficiency returns on investment, streamlining of operations. All of this has transformed what was once simply charitable, giving into something else. Philanthropy, capitalism has written about it extensively in a book. No such thing as a free gift. I think we have to be the headline sometimes. Mr. Gates did talk about the need for mass testing at an earlier stage in some of us. And that was a good one to take, but i really didnt crash whether or not there are efforts were anything more than a bandaid solution. It because there is no doubt about it, that they were really having much more on the sort of really deteriorated and branch ocular approach that was underway in the u. S. More generally. I think what we are, weve been dipping into their own trousers given how were all in the mix that its lots for everyone that anyone could be a big you would marry guy. And thats not the case. Theyre all let your creation, not their own individual question. Everybody when other people are sleeping, street inequality is one of the defining factors of capitalism. Its meant that the worlds top one percent now holds close to 50 percent of global books. And so when the philanthropists among them contribute to causes, its often only a misleading of the net worth. Jeff bezos is 100000000. 00 donation to us food banks, for example, amounted to 0. 07 percent of the system, a good Mark Zuckerberg says 25000000. 00 donation. Again, just 0. 05 percent of his net worth. The point of all these numbers isnt that billionaires should be giving. Thats another discussion entirely. The point here is that philanthropy, capitalism is too often used as a distraction from the meaningful, possibly more expensive systemic changes. Rampant Corporate Tax avoidance the suppression of minimum wage levels, reliance on state subsidies, precarious working conditions. I mean, the list of what actually needs to be addressed if long. And it can often get obscured by flashy headlines. All new segments about billionaires and their generosity. You too, stepped up and youre providing 25000000. 00. We dont have the money to do that. And i just want to thank you too. This is not an act the right in. This is the product of a political strategy thats been going on for the last 4050 years, whereby capsules are slashed and private wealth accumulated and what that private well does. The fed concentrates power and that threatens the mob prosy. So we have this really negative feedback where the more dysfunctional the state is, right, the left and able to provide basic services. The us is able to protect our Public Health, the more ammo there is for the corporate sector to say, hey, look, the state is inefficient. The state is competent. We with all of our resources, can save the day that big philanthropic can influence is a point thats not lost on billionaires like bill gates. When asked in 2012, if he would ever run for president of the u. S. , he responded, i actually think, you know, maybe im wrong, but i can have as much impact in that role as i could in any political role. My role in the foundation, i dont help to raise political campaigns. I dont have frank elected are not term limited to 8 years. Its a very nice office. I dont doubt theyre involved in this very well in these things, but hes not beholden to make you dont is money so its not going to get that. Thats not, thats not the construct it works. And so what he does that in a complex world, looking for simple narratives benevolent billionaires are great, they have name recognition, they appear heroic, and they have got the cash. However, this pandemic has also shown a light on the other end of the economic spectrum to the key worker delivery drivers, supermarket, shelf stackers, nurses, carers, the pandemic, momentarily appended the hierarchy of labor. And yet, in the u. K. , a set of proposed post brigs at immigration controls, in february, deemed many of these exact essential workers to low paid and quite low skilled to receive a visa to work in the country. Now is that i heard afterwards that those who are deriving the most value from these are going to not the most essential workers. Because what is keeping our economy growing right now . I dont know what pete workers who are really are most in just balance of part of the force and workers in the healthcare system. And seeing that got iraq more market more all this war, though not all of them or not worth of is more like a car that would have been destroyed and people work in social care system or often not having enough to live because it wasnt just me and my wife who was going out applauding the Health Care Workers and in our neighbors there was also a Prime Minister on downing street who was part of the got the resources that were going to start the n. H. S. Theres a term thats gained renewed currency during this pandemic disaster capitalism. Canadian activist and author, namely, klein cannot the years ago in a book the shock doctrine and went viral during the 2008 great recession. It points to had disasters, but recession or a pandemic. I will say only catastrophic, across the board in a capitalist system. They can also present an opportunity for the money. And weve seen a lot of profiteering during this current pandemic already. I dont think we see the limits of that profiteering, but weve got an early sense of which doctors are starting to, for example, raise doubts when it comes to basic. Is that it is like that or for example, in charge of 15 times the usual price. Gouging is 1. 00 manifestation of disaster capitalism. And during this lockdown, its done everything from cause a temporary spike in the price of Hand Sanitizer to affect the number of ventilators available to the u. S. Government. According to a pro publica investigation in 2014, the u. S. Department of health and Human Services signed a 13800000. 00 contract with dutch electronics, glen ridge, phillips, to design and manufacture a cheap and portable ventilator for use in emergencies. Although ventilator was created and the government ordered 10000. 00 of them, not a single one, was ready at the start of the pandemic. Like many countries, the United States faced critical ventilators shortages, while phillips was selling to higher priced commercial versions of the same ventilator around the world. So they never have to fill is order that she really loved for this to happen and helping humankind. Instead, the group prioritize the work and overseas and its only been recently that the department of health and human kind of the, lets renegotiate, it is thing order. But it has been course to eventually theres a higher price. And that renegotiation that lindsay mentioned it resulted in the you s. Government ordering 43000. 00 of the commercial ventilators in april at 4 times the original price. In late august, the remainder of the order was cancelled only after a Congressional Committee raised questions about the expenditure. But disaster capitalism can also be less direct and more obscured from public scrutiny. Like who stands to benefit from some taxpayer funded bailouts. Take the u. S. Airline industry, which had its request for a 50000000000. 00 bailout approved by the u. S. Senate in march. While the lines were conditional on job protections, the Sticking Point for many is that over the past 5 years, the big 4 ally companies, American Delta southwestern united have not only made record profits, but collectively spent nearly the same amount. 45000000000 on stock buybacks and dividends. 2 ways in which companies can directly enrich their Corporate Executives and shareholders. So its not that these bailouts are necessary now to avoid mass unemployment. Its not a substantial part of the current financial problem is arguably of their own making. Billions of dollars were mobilized, basically in an instant to bail out corporate america. And this is incredibly ironic because these are, these corporations were, you know, in a week when it was because of their own Business Models because they had over leverage themselves. Because they had engaged in pushing money out to shareholders instead of planning for tough times. Meanwhile, regular people are held to that standard. You know, if you havent saved, then its your fault that youre suffering in this moment. So theres a, theres a double standard written into the economic response. So you have a form of khakis and it does not eat up to its billing. Because real capital ready to say, well, capitalism works when we kiss companies go bad ideas. They make well, actually hasnt happened in any society. And thats probably when we come out of that certainly say that the old monks were a role public and i think we can also ask him questions about was it not . Is a socializer time and yet outside the us again, we need to rethink your kind of the efforts to rethink capitalism, have been going on almost as long as capitalism itself has existed. And to be fair, its practiced in notably different ways in different parts of the world. But one of the most toxic and recurring problems is that in too many cases, the system seems designed to favor small elite segment of the population. Its the idea we began with that way before the crisis of this coronavirus. We were already grappling with the crisis of capitalism. We hear this, this phrase, you know, that we need to save the economy or we need to keep businesses going. It makes sense. But i think we have to ask a deeper question, which is, well, whats an economy for look at Something Like g. D. P. , gross domestic product. All that means is that theres more affluence, but it has nothing to do with distribution or has nothing to do with the quality of peoples lives. You can have been enormously high g. D. P. And have, you know, rapper rates and homelessness and unemployment. So we, we have to deconstruct this idea of the economy and put people at the center. We are living in fear on an analyst at the moment and not know it, right . Because theres no good about us. Nations cannot repair our companies or their own publics sufficiently to prevent or it will die on a massive scale. Clearly theyre working sort of bantry have not been fairly sharing. I view what some people are in latin term, warmonger. My marketplace and other people arent and its not that we were nearing action. Its also clear that there are some parts of just things and she owns a pretty great things in the foundations of the city and elect in all of this tension and journey to getting as much income into a country without thinking too much about where i think we need to rethink on americans and as a society 2020 year of lock downs and social distancing. He cant reach across the screen and explore as one of the Global Pandemics biggest side affects. Everyone who lives alone has been forced to be stars. For the 1st time, highlighting its effects on physical and Mental Health and discovering unique ways of coping control when its being alleged to get at the safe. All hail the lockdown on the health of humanity is at stake. A Global Pandemic requires a global response. W. H. O. Is the guardian of Global Health delivering lifesaving tools, supplies, and training to help the worlds most vulnerable people, uniting across borders to speed up the development of test treatments. And of that. Keeping you up to date with whats happening on the ground in the wooed and in the lab. Now, more than ever, the world needs w. H. On making a healthier world for you. That everyone from the aljazeera london bureau, catherine, taxis, special guest in conversation. When you say a 1000000 times that becomes the you then can create whatever narrative you want on from an interrupted. And i realized i was working for something that would evolve. You know, being a part of the creating at christopher. The death of journalism is only the 1st signal for the death of democracy. Thanks judy, a great day. Its the u. K. s biggest hospital with eventual capacity for 4000 covered 19 patients built inside a london conference center. It took just 9 days to construct with the help of Army Engineers dramatically expanding the Critical Care bed count and other similar sites on the way the actual numbers could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in Testing Capacity that the government is now trying to close extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought to get in forces, said it shot down an Ethiopian Military plane a day after the Prime Minister declared victory in the region. Here in doha with the world news from aljazeera, dozens of farmers been massacred by boko haram in the north east of nigeria in the wall