Chancellor will bring you an angle a makeover as youve never tired to have before surprise yourself with what is possible to this miracle really what moves her and what all some who talk to people who followed her along the way admirers and critics alike how is the worlds most powerful woman shaking her legacy joining us from eccles last august. The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the divisions in our societies. Time and again we see that economic background affects the likelihood of one catching cold 19 people from less wealthy communities are more likely to have jobs that put them in harms way. Working from home meanwhile as most of the. Serv of white collar employees or members of society to the face more risk of exposure living in tight quarters and finding distance a luxury. Existing Health Problems also make the coronavirus more dangerous to the poorer parts of society. So what can be done to close the gap how can we ensure that everyone has the same chance of escaping the virus. Welcome to torch of those cold in 1000 special im Stephen Beardsley in berlin its good to have you with us work housing preexisting Health Conditions all play a role in our exposure to the coronavirus as well as our vulnerability to the illness that develops from it thats what experts say thats also the lived experience of many in the pandemics hardest hit neighborhoods take a look. At been watching his friend are looking for a grave the one that belongs to their friend danny he may have died of corona virus has gets doesnt know for certain but downey is one of 41 friends that hes lost in the past 6 months all except one are black. And this really makes for worry because you know ive got children ive got friends and got children and were close. Pesca is a popular figure in the north london borough of hiring the 62 year old pensioner worked as a lecturer at the nearby university and does well interior work where he can for example at a food charity for those in need he says hes seen how the black asian minority ethnic are being community has been especially affected by the pandemic. You know. Disproportionately in terms of numbers and thats why. A report in june by Britains Department of Health Reasons for the many deaths among ethnic minorities as indispensable workers in hospitals food markets are taxi drivers theyre more exposed to the virus also Housing Conditions are often crowned risk factors such as diabetes or being overweight are also more widespread the chairman of the council of the British Medical Association is familiar with what has kept his experiencing and warns that the deaths will continue with the 2nd wave. It is that duty of any government in any nation to protect its population protect those that work lack of any action plan the lack of any implementation of clear recommendations that were made. Is extremely concerning. Cant find his friends grave only close family members were allowed to attend his funeral. Hasnt been able to say goodbye to any of his 41 friends whove died. The report mentions some of the risk factors facing poor communities during the pandemic tighter quarters preexisting Health Conditions and front line jobs lets take a closer look at that last factor jobs is a breakdown of job categories by the percentage of employees who can work remotely based on a study from the o. E. C. D. At the top Business Administration with a whopping 3 quarters of workers able to stay home roughly in the middle teaching professionals and down at the very bottom also jobs that are considered low skilled like sanitation and cleaning there are a mere one percent of workers able to do it from home and even thats hard to imagine. And im joined now by ricardo a spinoza hes a policy analyst at the o. E. C. D. Center for skills and paris carlos good to have you with us is it fair to say that the better educated you are the more likely you are to be off the front lines you know absolutely so where we found that theres a lot of evidence showing that when it comes to tell you the range of those who are as a higher level of skills say for example those who have a Tertiary Education degree tomorrow much more likely to be able to tell or work from home so. There we see the sort of Risk Research about these issues and not only that we also try to help kind of trees to all repair these difficult. Or part of the skills divide between those who can afford to stay home those who can perhaps theres already a skills divide before the pandemic wasnt there. Absolutely so weve been hearing about the risk of automation or long time right so people are going to gradually be machines now the problem is that this endemic might you not accept or a district so you think of commons up to this and they dont try to automate as many dollars in order to protect themselves. Against prices like this or potential out there and then in the future so any but context it is very likely that those jobs or are currently performed by people who as a lower level of skills are likely to be automated 1st so in that sense i think that you have to map it and then it most people will probably. Occur even much more than those this is how it was killed so widening the gap between hire and. What is the potential for retraining those who might be replaced by automated workers as you said. Yeah absolutely so i think this is going to be a center if they didnt so i think theyre up to distinguish between the long term and the short term i think the short term theres the scope of governance or colonies to implement certain policies 1st of all to retain as many jobs possible but also. To promote example. In managerial practices to share in i dont sell Management Practices in order to allow workers to work with one problem but it is a long term this will not be possible without thinking of a strategy to abseil and risky all the operation so thats why strengthening our learning system in general movie at the center of the debate and countries are working on and passing these large recovery bills right now have you seen any effort to already begin this conversation or at least even the funding for some of the spring training or is it too early. For the countries who are reaching out to the personal to help to help i think the 1st episode help identify those workers and i think research once in that direction its important for us to add it to other workers are high risk you know once we are able to identify its a church to target the right incentives the right measures those. So you know this is actually a trend that weve seen over the past month or so countries are wary about this question of very short term theyre looking at retaining as many jobs as possible are ones that any sort of they do next i mean well see countries doing more and more to strengthen their out of the system and theyre really worried about this and this is something that should do in the coming years can we say that people will always be needed for those frontline jobs those those working with their hands kind of jobs they cant really be automator telework out of. Yeah absolutely that there will be many jobs it will not be automated right so i think it will be a transitional say which can take and 1520 years we want it which we will need a lot of many of this sort of management but the question is what do we do with this so i think we have to guarantee that these people are able to return and say we took places but also we need to be able to believe you are able to move to a situation where they can move so thats why you have skilling and risk killing hiring prince shields to move to different positions example will be at the center of the debate and press up in 3 countries to to achieve all right the crisis that still developing right now of course some long term questions are correspond with o. E. C. D. Breaking down for us thank you very much. Right now its time for your questions the part of the show where our sort of science correspondent there claims and theres the questions you posted to our you tube channel over here derek. How long is the incubation period for covert 19. Most of the reasons this virus turned into such a big problem so quickly it was not just that its pretty contagious the corona virus that causes sars for example seems to be just as contagious as sars curve to if not even a little more so but that epidemic petered out and the pathogen basically disappeared after around 6 months so so why didnt the same happen with this virus well to answer that we have to look at their respective incubation period stats the amount of time that passes between the moment of infection and the time when a patient begins to show symptoms im so in other words the moment when you know that person is sick in both Diseases HealthAuthorities Say the incubation period is similar ranging from between 2. 14 days and with an average of about 5 days the interesting thing though is not the length of the incubation period but what happens during it with sars patients generally hit their peak infectious period after they have begun to show symptoms and they didnt really seem to pass the virus along to others during the incubation period when they were unaware that they were carrying the pathogens so we were able to contain that virus effectively with isolation and quarantine in measures thats a key difference between it and source code to with covert 19 Research Shows that patients are contagious or maybe even most contagious in the last couple of days of their income beijing period so before they begin to show symptoms themselves and experts say those few critical days are one of the big reasons that will be unable to get to over 1800 control without a vaccine. Science correspondent there why is there and dont forget that you can post your questions to derek on our Youtube Channel and if youd like to keep up with the latest developments on the coronavirus to subscribe to our newsletter just log on to d w dot com slash corona dash newsletter. And finally we we end with some good news rare pink dolphins are making a comeback in the waters between hong kong and macau after Ferry Service was suspended due to the pandemic a Scientists Say the dolphins population has fallen by 70 to 80 percent in the past 15 years and one of the worlds most industrialized estuaries this year their numbers a bounce back as the pandemic means less disturbance to their habitat researchers say numbers are up by a 3rd in the area since march. A red ribbon of good news there thank you for watching our covert 1000 special thats it for me and the d. D. P. Team here for more content dedicated to the pandemic to check us out dot com slash drona virus im stephen beard. Thanks as always for watching. Americas election crisis. Voter suppression electoral districts manipulation and countless tunisian. Hard fast sinister tools in the fight for power. Is there a way out of the election gene. Clues. Next on early. Drinking water is becoming increasingly needed resource around the world. Thats why im a comedian. In the indian himalayas as the looking for a way to the cycle of the crown daughter. Dance in the city of 2 old muslim waters are getting a new life because. The 60 minutes on d w. Was the 1st International Tribunal in history. The number of trials. 75 years ago a high ranking officers of the nazi regime of morning judging by the allied forces. Were the 1st war criminals to be held accountable for their crime spree. And as a fight it out them on. Getting rid of a pair of new years frasier. Our 2 part series the 3rd right the dog starts nov 12th on g. W. Its 2016 and Karen Wilson Mccoy a geriatric nurse from North Carolina wants to cast her vote in the Midterm Election the good of the. Pageant bad risk that lives the lives of citizens 60 british follow up to have sat in the senate at 9 something was up because i got to reregister because im im you know were in a system theyre not making a 0 is just tiresome you know. The question is are u. S. Elections truly democratic. Give it victory for this. Its actually an attempt to limit political participation. And these are of course all very powerful players with money expanded we gave a parson advantage probably one of the biggest ever in history thats how Voter Suppression. Surveys indicate that Many Americans have lost faith in democracy and the problems involved are reflected in this years Election Campaigns. In the us electoral system is based on a number of controversial rules political strategists will do just about anything to help their party win a majority of votes including trying to change those rules to defeat their opponents and a candidate for president can win a majority of the popular vote and nevertheless emerged as the loser. Was new york nov 8th 2016 by late evening it was clear that donald trump would become the next president of the United States. Was either. Supporters of the democratic candidate Hillary Clinton were stunned particularly since she had won a majority of the popular vote. Clinton had 2800000 more votes than trump but her opponent won the election. I think its very difficult to call yourselves a democracy. And believe that the people rule when you have a system that. Is essentially making it more difficult for the person. To win the presidency that the most people what if you were drawing this system up today you would never come up with this crazy convoluted scheme. The Electoral College system was written into the u. S. Constitution more than 200 years ago opponents have never been able to find enough votes in congress to change it what was the original purpose of the Electoral College as a democrat if you look at this from a theoretical point of view as well but its quite interesting on guns the authors of the constitution evidently afraid of mob rule and exit shove their voters supposedly let their emotions take over before they dont make rational decisions. And thats why the authors created the Electoral College to serve as a buffer through college. The college chooses the president after the popular vote is counted each state has a specific number of electors based on the size of its congressional delegation its important to note that the electoral votes are not distributed according to percentages the party that gets a majority of votes in a state is then credited with all the electoral votes in that state. So a state is then listed as either for the democrats or the republicans the winner takes it all. The Political Parties go all out to take the socalled swing states where the vote is expected to be close in a tight race these states can make a big difference. President ial candidates often focus their campaigns on just a few key states because the results can have a major impact on the outcome of the vote. After the republicans lost the 2008 president ial. Then they started working on a strategy to take back the white house and both houses of congress. Rock obama became americas 1st black president winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College plus the democrats held on to the house and senate. Its like looking at the footage from november 2008 and their early years in office and edwards bringing back sort of the hopelessness of the Republican Party at that time. The turnout in 2008 hit a record high and obama won the election with just under 53 percent of the popular vote. Several states switched from republican shown here in red to democrat shown in blue. After the election the republicans launched a campaign to win back the states that theyd lost it was called red map. What republicans determined to do with red map was actually a really ingenious and savvy plan. They knew that state legislatures after the 2010 election would begin drawing the electoral maps that. The next decades politics in this country. Would be fought on. A man who came up with the red map concept was a leading Republican Party strategist. Christiane kosky drafted a 2 step plan and convinced Party Leaders to approve it the focus of the project was state legislatures. But we were able to do was to bring resources to races that normally wouldnt see him. All. The partners. Spent. Much of that money came from. Including the Koch Brothers and the. American. Republicans were able to. Attack ads on democrat candidates a form of advertising that is intended to show a political ad. Possible. Attack your opponent. The strategy worked in the 2010 Midterm Elections the republicans took back control of the house of representatives. Before the election republicans governed 15 states afterwards that number rose to a total of 27. 00 a massive realignment of political power. After the 2010 elections. Every 10 years. That is required by law states reach draw the boundaries of the. District has approximately the same number of people. But its a system thats. Politicians who. Manipulate. This practice was named after elbridge governor of massachusetts in the early 1900. District boundaries the borders of one district were so twisted that someone like salamander and their name was attached to it the process has become much more sophisticated. Well i mean we have the ability now to look at any voter in america and have a fairly good idea in the coming years how theyre likely to vote even within the swing voters you can grade by you know an affinity score that is done by a sophisticated data modeling so you have to take. These softwares and draw these lines and you have to go ok im going down maple street take a left onto elm street or do i take a right to jones avenue. Invariably every turn you may. Is going to have some parts of. The practice is called gerrymandering the borders are drawn strategically to take into account the Party Preferences of the residents there are 2 ways to do this tracking and packing. Packing means putting as many supporters of the Opposition Party into the smallest possible number of electoral districts as a result the Opposition Party can win a few districts by a wide margin but the party in power can win more districts by a narrow majority. Cracking means weakening the power of the opposing party by distributing voters who favor that party into as many districts as possible where they then constitute a minority the votes have been counted all that matters is the number of districts a party has won not the number of voters. Take North Carolina for example the republicans won the state in 2010 and redrew the electoral boundaries in the next election they won only 49 percent of the popular vote but they took 9 of 13 seats for the u. S. House of representatives they also ended up controlling the state legislature. Gerrymandering can change the results from one elect into the next as seen in wisconsin in 28. 00 team the republicans won only 46 percent of the popular vote but still kept a clear majority in the Wisconsin State Assembly and sent more representatives to congress in washington than the democrats. But this is fundamentally remapped american democracy when a majority of voters in a state are consistently able to elect a majority of representatives. In election after election this has done great and want lasting damage to the idea of one person one vote. Last year the u. S. Supreme court declined to rule in 2 cases of gerrymandering. The justices said this was a matter for state legislatures and the u. S. Congress to decide. Another controversial aspect of the american electoral system involves the voters themselves. Excluded voters. This can be done by taking people off the list of registered voters in a given district for any number of reasons Karen Wilson Mccoy from North Carolina was not allowed to take part in the 26000 election shed moved recently and officials couldnt find her new address in their files when i found out alice pursed up the rolls. When i changed my address to one standard. D. M. V. And stuff but my new address changed. Put in the system in a Group Similar family vote. Right today to vote. In the us people are not required to provide government officials with their address and other personal data those who want to vote have to register with the local election authorities the official lists of voters are updated regularly and the names of people whove moved or died are removed. A recent study shows that states are purging record numbers of voters from these lists 16000000 were struck off between 20142016. Thats an increase of 33 percent compared to the figure for 2006 to 2008 many of these. Members of an Ethnic Minority Group the study says that the increase was highest in states that have a history of voter discrimination. North dakota before the 2018 Midterm Elections on native American Reservations volunteers helped residents fill out their voter applications but the republican led State Government approved a law that requires voters to obtain a new id card that shows their address people had just 3 weeks to get the card. And some fail to meet that deadline so they were not allowed to vote. The socalled voter id laws are just one of several measures that make it difficult for people to vote on election day they simply stay home. While voter id if it needs that kind of you. Sense that everybody has got an i. D. Not every type of i. D. Becomes an acceptable form of voting id what texas did was say you have to have a government issued photo id and then said but your student id from the university of texas a State University for instance will not count but your gun registration card will. In recent years voter id laws have been passed in many states that are controlled by republicans. Africanamericans finally won the unrestricted right to vote in 1965 and new legislation required states to get federal Court Approval before changing their election laws that helped to reduce discrimination against voters prompted a big increase in election turn. Around and strengthened the democratic process. But in 2013 the Supreme Court ruled that a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights act was invalid the court decided that federal supervision of state election laws was no longer necessary. That cleared the way for states to impose new voter identification laws and other restrictions. The result of this has been efforts to decrease very strategically voter turnout in particular among poor and africanamerican nonwhite voters who tend to vote for democrats by introducing things such as voter id laws things that actually sound very sensible if youre outside of the United States of course you should build have to show your id when you vote but in the United States where there arent national i. D. Many people dont have drivers licenses people who tend not to have drivers drivers licenses tend to be poor who tend to vote for democrats its a kind of effort to shape the electorate in a neutral sounding way that actually benefits republicans so thats one big threat. According to supporters of tougher of voter id laws these measures help to reduce voter fraud but opponents say theres little evidence to back up that claim. Lobbying groups linked to the Republican Party insists they are merely concerned about Election Security and that any new requirements have nothing to do with Voter Suppression among them as a group called freedom works. Yes it is your right to vote but its also your responsibility to make sure its your responsibility to pay your bills on time its your responsibility to go and make sure if you are interested in voting that you are certain or able to participate in the system i want to make it very easy for anyone in america. Who is legally able to vote to vote that should be a very easy process however it still should take some amount of personal initiative for you to check in you to make sure that everything is all squared away and youre ready to vote. But democrats say that these measures go too far rush holt served for 16 years in the house of representatives and hes concerned about these developments. The right to vote is the most sacred of the rights that we have there are some people who live for the election and they will in gage in Campaign Tactics that are intended to win the election at all cost even those who are conscientious. Can sometimes be fooled by Party Propaganda such as. Being told that oh we must have voter id laws because. Voters are everywhere. Consequently its becoming more difficult for some people to cast their ballots and there are other tactics involved such as closing polling stations over the past 2 years their numbers have been reduced by local Election Officials particularly in Southern States that means that people have to travel further to vote and stand in line longer the impact of this practice is especially acute in neighborhoods that have a large black population. At the same time an estimated 6000000 u. S. Citizens are not allowed to vote anyway because theyve been convicted of a criminal offense in some states this form of disenfranchisement applies even after individuals have served their sentence and here 2 africanamericans are disproportionately affected. Then there is creating obstacles to mail in voting. Right now 5 states hold almost all their elections by mail and its an option in 33 others because of the pandemic more people may vote by mail in this years election than ever before they dont want to run the risk of catching the virus at a polling place. But thousands of voters have not yet received their ballot papers and technical problems with the computers at some polling stations have created long delays. I dont say they came early they were here 630 they left at 830 i saw at least 5 people saying they had to go or they had other things to do when they couldnt stand him. Because they there just was no indication of how quickly they were going to resolve the problem really understand that theyre in technology but i also feel like me every time i love some sort of new technology and theres always a problem i just feel like. I feel like maybe its intentional that its so difficult to vote but there are fewer such problems in neighborhoods where the population is predominantly white and relatively affluent some critics have accused elected officials of targeting ethnic minorities we believe that what we saw here in georgia as well as what we saw in wisconsin last month were were test runs to see how they can take a vote by mail and sabotage it right how they can take these elections which may largely be by mail because we dont know whats going to happen with the crown of ours between now and november so theyre trying to see in what ways they can take the same valdas president they do in every other year and how they can translate that into a National Election that will largely be done by mail. In some states voting is conducted by mail only and others postal ballots are allowed only in exceptional cases and some republicans refuse to accept coronavirus as a valid reason experts believe an increase in mail in voting will benefit the democrats in any case President Trump has been dead set against the option. We dont want their. Ballots because its going to leave the door to a lecture so we dont want them to mail in ballots we dont want anyone to belive ballots theyre out so are the opponents of mail in voting trying to reduce the Election Fraud or do they just want to keep the republicans in power. Even if you compared the 2 main Political Parties. Actually have a larger reserve all potential voters if a lot of those people over at. Actually able to vote and did so the republicans would have a hard time winning elections in vines who given. The next rule of the game is that there is a virtually no limits on the amount of money that organizations can contribute to an Election Campaign funding from the super rich. In 2010 the u. S. Supreme courts ruled that the federal government cannot restrict independent contributions to political campaigns because it violates free speech provisions that are guaranteed in the constitution. But critics claim the ruling gave more power to special Interest Groups and their lobbyists in congress. Money and politics its 1. 00 of a very intriguing subject because the natural gut reaction to everyone is take all money out of politics unfortunately thats not even close to being something in the realm of possibility of for several reasons in this country free speech is very very important and so speech is defined as getting your message out so if you start restricting someones ability to buy an ad or to move a mass edge it actually very quickly gets back down into free speech we proudly uphold freedom of speech as one of the founding principles of this country and thats good but if money equals speech then those with more money have more to say they have more influence in what they say they can distort the political process. And one person equals one vote another. Strong american principle is completely undone if money is the same as speech. Campaign contributions have continued to increase one of the organizations that keeps track of this funding and its donors is the center for responsive politics based in washington d. C. Theyre concerned that transparency is being a rooted that really open the floodgates to a much bigger amount of money in u. S. Elections than was previously allowed with Campaign Contribution limits capping the amount the donors can give directly to political candidates one limit that super pacs and other outside groups have is theyre not allowed to coordinate with campaigns theoretically in many cases this can happen behind the scenes that may happen in a way thats not as obvious to the average person where they might encourage that and theres very limited in force meant by the federal Election Commission which is tasked with oversight of these types of campaign finances. A lot of this money comes from Political Action committees called super pacs there are no limits on the amount that these organizations can give to politicians much of the cash is spent on advertising campaigns. Hillary clinton raised a total of about a 1000000000. 00 for her president ial Election Campaign and about one quarter of that came from super pacs. Donald trump has portrayed himself as an independent candidate who doesnt want to be tied to big donors but the facts tell a different story. In the case of the 2020 alexion weve seen a President Trumpeting his almost imprimatur to these 2 outside groups that are run by his former officials who worked for his campaign who worked for his white house and who are now running outside youre supporting him and he has appeared. At their events and has a very close relationship because the laws have gaps. They can effectively operate as extensions of campaigns in many cases without violating any rolls. Royces of average citizens are drowned out by the special Interest Groups including super pacs and. Wealthy influential organizations dominate the public debate on major issues. When does a city critique just of the politicians Pay Attention to them and ignore the interests of middle class people. Thats a real problem but the democratic process in america. Will be a moment in which. Freedom of expression versus a 1000000000. 00 business at the end of the day no one can run for congress or the white house without having a sizable Campaign War Chest the rules of the election game in the us can help to sway results at the ballot or mailbox and it doesnt look like this system is going to improve anytime soon. Given the way. Its hard to imagine how we get its institutional forms that are necessary introduced currently i dont think it ever felt so pessimistic or keeping a democracy requires lots of work requires care and attention. Americas struggling with the size of government and the social fabric its moving left on things. I hope we dont move too far left. To mystic. And im going to keep organizing in the light of. This. We cant get there by being completely set we cant get there by saying things are never gonna change. I. Mean. Eek out in the aisle. Cool Drinking Water is becoming increasingly needed resource around the world and. Thats why im a community in the indian himalayas has the most confirmed way to the cycle of the groundwater. Lands in the city of good good old reservoirs are getting a new life because. 30 minutes on d. W. This Island Country is a superlative a skyline like from a fantasy movie. A spectacular combination of jungle. Didnt exist. In the future. Or the one your solo single. Guys break and goes faster. In 75 minutes on t w. 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