Hello and welcome again to rewind and fully back to. Since the launch of aljazeera english back in 2006 weve built up a library of Award Winning documentary s. And here on rewind weve been delving into the vault to pull out some of the best of them today were going back to 2007 to a poor South African neighborhood just outside cape town where music honor and tradition come together in an unusual annual competition. In recent years south africa has seen huge political upheaval and corruption scandals and cape town south africa 2nd largest city has been feeling the impact of Climate Change and struggling with drastic water shortages a decade ago south africa seemed to be moving towards a more inclusive post apartheid world yet in the poorest suburbs of cape town local communities still maintain their distinctive identities based in the cape flats the Muslim Community holds an annual singing competition for the silver fez jovi and in 2007 the witness series was there to film this contest
Which has set up its own testing for covert 19. And mobile phone alerts and electronic responds how technology is helping stop the spread of the virus but what does that mean for our privacy. Hello the United States has become the country with the highest coronavirus death toll thats according to latest figures from John Hopkins University this one month after the World Health Organization 1st declared a pandemic well back then there were over 4000 confirmed deaths and in 30 or days or so that number has surged 2100000 the epicenter of the virus has shifted as well moving from china and asia to europe and north america right here in the u. K. Officials have again reported more than 900 hospital deaths in the total number of deaths is nearing 10000 in spain however there is cautious optimism theyve just seen the lowest number of daily deaths in more than a fortnights while in the u. S. The governor of new york says the number of people are being admitted to hospital continues to decline
Smith who is president and ceo of the National Association of broadcasters. Senator smith we appreciate you coming into the studio for this interview. Always a pleasure, peter. Even if it is just approximate. You and jonathan. Thank you for having me. Host in this age of coronavirus how has this affected americas broadcasters . Guest in many ways it has affected us but i think perhaps its unfortunate but it seems that the United States and our citizens become aware of broadcasting indispensable, irreplaceable role in the firmament of American Life when there are natural or other catastrophes and calamities that befall us because it is then that the architecture broadcasting, one source of content to everybody in a geographic area, without stress on the System People began to realize how valuable broadcasting remains and survey after survey continues to show that broadcasting remains the most important source of journalism when people just want the facts. But you know the nab since its
Response how technology is helping stop the spread of the fire is what does it mean for our privacy. Hello the United States has become the 1st country to talk 20000. 00 coronavirus deaths thats according to latest figures from John Hopkins University its one month since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic in that time the death toll has gone from 4000 to nearly 810000 here in the u. K. Officials have again reported more than 100 hospital deaths on the total number of deaths is nearing 10000 the u. K. Peak could be weeks away in spain however there is cautious optimism theyve just seen the lowest number of daily deaths in more than a fortnights while in the u. S. The governor of new york says the number of people being. Its a hospital continues to decline but that good news is offset by the total u. S. Figure the number of dead there has now overtaken that of italy u. S. President donald trump has been heavily criticized for his handling of the crisis our White House Corr
An online to let you know if youve been in contact with someone whos infected. The u. S. Now has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world 20000 people thats tally past italy on friday across the u. S. At least half a 1000000 people are infected more than half of the u. S. Deaths are in 3 States New York new jersey and michigan the epicenter remains new york the surge of deaths there has overwhelmed Funeral Homes and the city is using a mass burial site but the state governor says for the 1st time theres been a drop in intensive care admissions new york city has decided to shut Public Schools for the rest of the academic year. You can see that the numbers somewhat. Stabilizing but it is stabilizing at and horrific rate. 783 people 777799 these are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and pain john hendren is joining us now from chicago under cuomo there saying that these are incredible numbers what does this mean for the u. S. Well rob every day we seem to hit