The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. This is bbc world news america, reporting from new yo city. Another record jump in coronavirus cases here in the , s. In arizofections are urging. Arizona is now the coronavirus hotspott j in the United States, but in the world. Campaign tropical p storm, asls suggest two thirds of americans disapprove of hisin hg of covid19. And we have a disturbing report on mexican drug gangs giving het aid during pandemic. Laura for all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. The United States is being a Record Number of coronavirus cases seeing a Record Number of coronavirus cases this week. Arizona is one of the hotspots where new infections are surging. When the governor of arizona lifted the states stayathomepa order, peoply. Iwas a joke to us. Fake news. Day later, many woke up to what will probably be the worst hanger of their lives. I never imagined in my life i would be in a hospital on an oxygen tube. I felt like i was going to die. T bars and nightclubs have been shut down again. Pumping music replaced by an eerie silence. But the damage has been done. At the beginning of the pandemic, some hop to the summer heat might help slothe infection rate. Ou want proof thats not happening, its here. Its currently around 44 celsius in phoenix. The temperature is rising, and so are the number of confirmed covid cases, at an alarming rate. Arizona is now the coronavirus hotspot not just in the United States, but in the world. And yet, people are still queuing hours for tests and waiting eight days for the sults. That is not actionable information. Youannot use that information anymore. If the person was infected with ervid19, you have missed the opportunity to ine and get them into isolation so they dont infect family and coworkers. Wax those those who have lost loved on in the surge finding ways to express their grief and anger. I dont want my father to just be another number. The reason people are getting sick and numbers are skyrocketing here d we are number one not only in the country but the world is not because of lack of individual responsibility. Its a lack of leadership. He t tired hearts of medical staff are breaking as they are forced to make decisions they never hoped we would. We are having to triage like at a military site, who get to get resource and who doesnt. There are limited resources. You have to pick and choose who gets lifesaving intervention. Tion toa horrible sit be i i have never had to be in tha situation. Next some some hospitals here are now oepared to operate at up 150 capacity, an indication that arizona expects to continue new case epicenter o and that the impact could get even worse. So fillon, bbc news, phoen sophie long, bbc new phoenix, arizona. Laura joining us nowemergency o stbed cie a deal with this explosion in new cases . That isht the r word. We are having explosion. We are in a worsease scenario than we were in march. We need to implement stayathome orders again but they need to be modified. No indoor gatherings. Even in states that seem to be doing well, they should be hitting paws on reopening and really reassessi hitting pause on reopening and really reassessing where they are. Laura here in new york city, i o getit takes a week coronavirus test result. Thats how long i had to wait just 10 days ago. How do we ramp up testhink when there testing when there is such a backlog of demand . It is way past time that we have National Testing strategy read we cannot let data and local officials try to figuren t out their own and then run out of supplies. We have known about this problem for months. Other countries have s they have had a national strategy. It is beyond time that we do testing has to be widespread, rapid, and free. Laura the white house has talked about how the death rate is lower than it was, but with so many new cases, are you inexpethat more people will lose their lives . Unfortunately, yes, for two reasons. One is that death is a lagging indicator. We will see cases arise, then hospitalizations, then deaths. The second reason is that you h peope been the drivers of this most recent search. But what starts in theot young willtay in the young, and we are going to see older people getick. Hospitals are already becoming overwhelmed. Laura on the topic of schools reopening, which many are keen on because it will help get the economy back to how it cank, w can schools reopen safely if there is a surge in infections . Ask thate question. I think thats the qstion. I thin all of us want schools to reopen. There are Health Benefits in addition to the economic benefits, but we have to do it safely, and there is no way to reopen School Safely when there are so many infections, when inctions areaging through the community. Infections are going to be raging through the schools as well. At this point, we should know nhere are no shortcuts we take. If the goal is to open schs safely in the fall, we ha t to hard work in the summer. The single most in porton c thig we do to ensure Safe School Reopening most important thing we can do to ensure Safe School Reopening is get a grasp on the model of cases number of cases we havea ight now. La did you ever think it woul get so bad in the United States of america . I saw what was happening in other countries. I saw that other countries were successful in containing coronavirus. And they were able to get their economy openknd kids b to school. And i hoped and thought that the bu. S. Wou able to follow in the footsteps of these other countries, but we did not. And now we are realizing that hope and rhetoric are not strategies. Laura thank you so much forin g us. Despite the surgi number of coronavirus cases here in the United States, the president was going to hold aally in New Hampshire on saturday. The white house has canceled a Tropical Storm which is currently hammering the northeast. The president was in the coronavirus hotspot of florida joining me now for all the politics of this is rob christie who worked in the white house of george w. Bush ands a bbc analyst. Thank you for being with us. What doou make of the example the president was setting . He w in florida today, where they had 11,00 new cases yesterday, not wea a mask. The president of the United States has aoral obligation to show leadership by his actions. V wenot seen the president wear a mask. We have heard he has worn a mask in pvate. We have not seen him do it in public. One of the ways we can really flatten this curve is for americans to take allephe necessary to flatten the curve. One of those, of course,ar is g a mask. From the top i think it sends a mixed message to americans. Laura 67 of americans apparently dapprove of the way the president s handling the epidemic. That is what t polliay shows. It is bein reporte the president will wear a mask tomorrow when he goes to a micotary hospital. D that help . Actions speak louderhan words, but i dont think a oneoff of the president wearing a mask in a particular situation cuis parrly going to inspire people. What americans are looking for is a cohesive national strategy, a guideline, a blueprint, if will, for all of the governors in the United States to follow to allow their county Health Commissioners to say at a bare minimum, he is what the floor should look like and here is what the ceiling could look like. The president wearing a mask has givenns ameriause for concern. Where isl there a natio Cohesive Strategy . Laura it is 116 days until the president ial election. It is the Campaign Going to be defined by the president s handng of the coronavirus outbreak . I think there are three things. The souring national economy, the coronavirus outbrea and the unrest in our citieand towns. This is going to be a referendum elecenon. The presjust months ago thought he would be ableo cruise to victory based on economic performance, but now peoplere scared. They are scared about their jobs. They are scared about racial unrest, and they are scared thout whafuture holds. Can he and 116 days find a y to reassure people, or will he continued to play to his base, which only antagonizes voters he needs the most . Laura how mh nervousness is there behind the scenes and republicans in republican circles about h play out in the house and senate . There is aat g deal of trepidation. There is a sense that if trump does not turn his numbese around and in the polls, we will lose the Senate Republicans loseny chance of regaining have one party, the democratic party, running the house, senate, and white house, and republicans right now are saying what can we do to get off the titanic and bailout before the president brings us dow . Laura ron christie,jo thanks fr ing us with that analysis. Always a pleasure. Laura mexico is one of the countries in tinmerica most badly affected by coronavirus. The shutdown there has gone on for months, leaving many people unemployed, a the government has been accused of not doing enough. But now, som of mexicos most powerful drug cartels is stepping in. From dusk to dawn, ts cartels operations never stop. The pandemic has not stopped them making money for misery, from trafficking harrow into selling firearms. Edousands lives destroy but the safe house usually used for drugs and weapons is where Cartel Members now pack food and toilet paper ready for distribution. Each bag bears the name of the drug lord, el chapo guzmaow jailed for life in the u. S. [speakg spanish] mexican cartels have long used aid and welfare as a way to win support, but the lockdown has ft many more people out of work, giving the cartels a new opportunity. [speaking spanish] dozens of dg cartels in mexico have made similar gestures. Many are sharing videos, but the distributions have angered the mexican president. [speaking spanish violence driven by drug cartels has led to record murder rates since lockdowns started, murders have risen to almost 3000 a month, many of them innocent bystanders. Authorities say eight packages are not a selfless act, but a calculated business move. [speaking spanish]sl n] the Sinaloa Cartel admits that loyalty is the key to their success. Despite their firer and the support of local peopleit, could be their greatest weapon. Bbc news, mexico. Laura how the cartels are trying to win support in mexo. In other news fr around the world, the u. S. Supreme court ruled on thursday that nearly half of oklahoma, including altulsa, within native american jurisdiction. This is significant because it could reshape the criminal Justice System by preventing state authorities from prosecuting native americans. Police in india say they have killed a high profile gangster a y aer he was arrested. Officers say he was shot when he tried to escape. Questionsou are being raised e Police Version of events. A petition was filed in court hours before he died warning of the risk that he would be killed in custody. Ashe accused of multiple murders and extortion. Venice has been testing its multibilliondollar flood defense system. Is made up of 78 mobile barriers to stop tidal surges from the adriatic sm. The syste will not come into full operation for at least another eight teen months. You are watching bbc world news america. Still to come, how chinatown, one of new yorks mt vrant neighborhoods is hurti as coronavirus takes its toll in very different ways. Turkeys president has sned a decree that has turned one of will turn onef e countrys most important buildingshagia sophia, back into a mosque. This follows a court ruling that the building should not have been turned inta museum. It is not a surprise. We hadeeexpecting it for some time. There was a lot of political commentary and choreography indicating the decision would go this way. D we expecte the announcement to come before the 15th of july, whichth is anniversary of the failed coup attempt against president erdogan. There was a widespre expectation that moves loan prayers might be held at hagia sophia that day. We have had a statement from the court that the decree made by the tuish cabinet back in 1934 under the founder of the modern turkish republic turning hagia more. A into a mosque is now no laura saturday march the 25th anniversary of the massacre ofus thousands of inserve as limbs in the town of 70 the ou nds of bosnianserbians in the town of server needs a mass gathering. Is mark by a this year, it will p takece using social distancg rules. It was the worst atrocity on european soil since the nazis. 8000 men and boys separated froh r families, murdered, and thrown into mass graves. A United Nations peacekeeping force not only failed to stop muslims to their killers. The shared International Shame of that echoes down the deces. It is not as if we didnt know it would happen. Mass murder had been part of the bosnianserb military campaign for years, a campaign they emselves called ethnic cleansing. The crimes committed rank ong the most heinous known to humankind. In the hague, he was one of several convicted of genocide. The tribunal was the first experiment in International Justice since the nazis were tried at nuremberg. Even with quite a considerable number of people who have been convicted not only in the hague but in local courts as well, a considerable number of people have been identified in the mass graves. There is still something missing. And what is missing is the suffering and the pain. But genocide denial persists. In o age oy freel available alternative facts, many bosnians refused to acknowledge the scale or nature of what happened. That rewriting of history has already had deadly consequences. Lastma year, a whi suprest murdered 51 muslims at friday prayers in new zealand. In the minutes before the murders, he had been listening to a song glorifying the bosnian serb leaders convicted of genocide. Mass murderers repurposed as heroic defende of a White Christian european heritage. This man survivede the genoc only because he worked as an interpreter for dutch workers. There are wider ramifications of the genocide and they have come home to work to roost. They are still burying the dead. It has taken 25 years to find and identify some of the victims. About a thousand are still missing, and the survivors liv a in world where some still say it has all been exaggerated or never happened at all. Bbc news. Laura em rring the horror. Here in new york city, chinatown felt the impact of coronavirus long before the rest of america. Chinese Restaurant Owners heard from family back he about the mystery virus, and then touristi started ng the area. There has been the double whammy of theirus and the president blaming china for spreading it. I haveeen finding out how chinown is faring. Chinatown has beennc evolving si the first immigrants settled here. Usnow, coronav is creating up people. He started this restaurant in 1968. He serves loyal customers inside. Its a new world for my customers. Nwe a used to they are used to dining in. They are used to sitting down for a meal. You are not going to be u td to takit same meal to go. Its not the same when he get home. His busess only accepts cash like nrly a third of the restaurants here. This dim sum parlor uses a delivery app. It has been tough fornany chinatown to apply for government lns. English may not be their first language. You even get through the paperwork and figure out what to do, that is step one. Item on the docket that folksher might not have access to. Na cwn is not only suffering fr the health and Economic Impacts of the language of the president of the United States to contend with. Health and Economic Impacts of the coronavirus. There is also the language of the president of tho United Statesntend with. The rhetoric of 2020 is shocking, but not surprising to those here. I classical politics. You want to create an enemy. Itss an neor the president of the United States. I have seen the direct correlation of his use of words, his racist statementand comments affect me personally, the institution, how Asian Americans are viewed at every turn. Racism was rife in chinatown when the pandemic began. Y they would wear a mask or sit further away fr. What is it like now . I dont have that sense that they are looking at us like we are the disease anymore because there are so many other tndngs going ar and t more peoplen us having the disease. Chinatown is subdued now. There is a history of resilience here and a determination to bound and thrive. Chinatown will be back. Before we go tonight, chicagosa us field museum will be reopening. Next we they have had some rather special vip guests. A pair of penguins played of the paid a visit the other day, is the end are when waddling through the museum. Narrator funding for this presentation of this program is provided by. Language specialh,ts teaching spanrench and more. Raymond james. 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