Very good of you thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. And well start with a quick update on the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections around the world that us now risen to above 4300000 more than 293000 lives have been lost but more than 1600000 people have recovered. And with tight restrictions slowly being lifted all around the world people are starting to think about life after lockdown from walks in the park to perhaps the 1st vacation experts there were sounding the alarm because examples from asia show the threat of a 2nd wave of infection is indeed real for instance the chinese city of work over 90 was 1st detected was one of the 1st to lift restrictions due to the success of its Strict Lockdown measures however a new cluster of cases has recently theyre in emerging cities authorities are planning to test all residents with the next 10 days in a bid to stop the spread. South koreas also been praised for quickly managing the pandemic which
Straight news i. As the care for those with coded 19 dominates hospitals around the country some cities are looking to utilize facilities that are now empty are to correspondent natasha sweet is in los angeles where one Medical Center is looking to reopen. On centralist county officials are rushing to reopen this hospital to treat cold 19 patients that were closed back in january after the owner declared bankruptcy and officers are using state funding to reopen this hospital a trend that were seeing nationwide hard times are ahead harder than what we saw in 2008 we are today sure your emergency order. That says to wall hospitals you must increase your capacity by 50 percent ask over 1000 patients flood hospitals throughout the country state governors and city officials alike are looking for ways to serve more people for treatment well hurst hospital has had capacity and theres about 545 beds a year and theyre all filled with cold with patients as new york works to take care of the skyr
Extradition act of 2003 doesnt say that people cant be extradited on police for political offenses even though there has always been well understood well how even though the extradition treaty with the United States seems appropriate and that does worry me that worries me a great deal well it should worry us all because Julian Assange is a journalist ok i mean the way hes being treated me go to jail or here also in london the way hes being treated here is if he said terrorists i mean the the layout is theres alexander macarius just told us i mean this is treating him as if hes a danger to society in themselves there is no evidence in his past to to prove that they have this justified whatsoever he is being treated like a terrorist because hes a political prisoner and theres no 2 ways about it go ahead taylor. Yes youre exactly right peter in fact we know that Julian Assange has been in london belmarsh prison which is often referred to as the u. K. s Guantanamo Bay and we also learned e
Consequential damages to the marketplace yeah you know already communist china is saying they might even be shutting down some of their pop up hospitals what does it say about health care the most Expensive Health care system in the world the United States in terms of tax capita income in working this out in the United States the Coronavirus Response in general as it relates to the markets the big question is how overrule ruly end now damaging will the buyers be and so if its 10 times worse than the flu and thats going to have a consequential damage and major stress on the u. S. Health care system yeah but it was many you just said if you just said in defense of that you have taken defensive positions why is that and whats it like actually at sky Bridge Capital right now as the information filters in and you get new cases every other hour or so every other day i mean this is my 30 and i was in the white house for 11 days prior to that. That and after that and ive been doing this for 31
A fair trial go ahead our or what i have to say there are certain aspects of the trial which to cause me a great deal of unease are i dont want to go into the. Details too far but firstly are i have to have genuine concerns about the physical layout of the courtroom the fact that he is kept kept behind a glass barrier hes been complaining that this is limited hes contacts with his lawyers there is incidentally case law which says the physical layout of the court room can have bearing on whether a trial is fair or not so for our all or his protests about that have been disregarded but beyond this i am becoming worried by the trend of some of the legal arguments in the very interesting really the process. Seems to have accepted i should say the crown seems have accepted the the things that he has been charged with are political offenses but the argument now seems to be that that isnt relevant at all in extraditing him because the u. K. Extradition act of 2003 doesnt say that people cant