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Hello everyone were focusing on education this hour something which has been defined as a human right but they stay in the middle of a pandemic has become a source of Great Division all over the world as a new Academic Year begins for millions of families and educators are trying to decide how how do you balance going to school while still protecting every ones health. 3 examples for you here france 1st of all 12000000 students returned to classes on choose day but then there was a jump of 9000 infections on friday and for some schools to close again in spain teaches students and parents have been protesting in malaka of a say measures to stop the spread of covert 19 schools across the south just arent good enough but then you have someone like mexico as well students starting distance classes and communities rallying to fill the gaps at the a tortilla shop in mexico city which is offering amongst the food Free Internet free books and tutoring. Well were going to focus this hour on to other countries that is iran and afghanistan now in iran the schools have been closed since march and the governments made it clear they want to reopen in what are considered high risk districts well have that report shortly were starting though with this from charlotte bellus on how afghan teachers are focusing on catching up particularly their female students on their literacy. After 5 months school is back across afghanistan with many more rules and Public Schools like hed only students in the last 2 years can return they Must Wear Masks sit apart and Hand Sanitizer on the table here they used to be 45. 00 goes to a class now its kept at half that what they will that. We are very hopeful after 5 months of closure we will try our best to get these classes back on track with their curriculum so their school year can be saved we have professional teachers and i are very confident they will be able to catch them up. Many students have tried to learn from home most read books and watched lessons on t. V. By the ministry of education only 20 percent of afghans have access to the into news so Online Learning was difficult for meaning. And 17 year old shabnam says shes happy to return to school but is worried about exposing the family to the virus i think its good if we are following the instructions that 1st both of us has given us a for not following in that its dangerous for every student to come to school and to study i think helped us more important study. Coronavirus has been widespread in afghanistan the country has officially recorded 38000 positive cases but a sample Antibody Test of the population found one 3rd of afghans have had coronavirus thats 10000000 people. Shared names family has been vigilant staying home taking vitamins and eating move fruits and vegetables. We were a lot about shabnam as most of the students do not follow the Health Guidelines we advise her to wash her hands use a mask and social distance we were a lot about her getting infected coronavirus is a serious disease and the school is a big gathering place. Ok the stuff we consume to feel compelled to continue my fam is also worried about me that im coming here to teach my students but this holy job we have to come on we have to teach our students so far they take as many notions as possible for them and their students education must go on a shell of dallas. Right so thats a case study number one afghanistan were going to look at iran now and that tussle between the government in the provinces over how and when schools should reopen there is a bank with more. Temperature checks a disinfectant tunnel. And social distancing is what met students returning to school into iran journalists were invited to this school to see iran Safety Measures president has and rouhani addressed the flag waving children by a video link. Today the education starts it means education doesnt shut down even under the toughest conditions it is the teachers responsibility to remove anxiety from the minds of students and their families anxiety will prevent students from beginning the educational here. Some in the country have questioned the governments handling of the pandemic that wrong is still considered under irans red zone for krone virus infections and despite measures put in place in schools like this one some parents are still reluctant to send their children back into school and nick out of the take ask i have lots of stress and im worried one of my son says allergies and i disagree with him attending school in this situation i think i wont let him go to school because his health is a priority over education their kids they Touch Everything and then they touch their faces the children however seemed less concerned. I think its good to come to school with stayed at home for nearly half the year and studied online yes there are concerns about the virus at school but we should just observe the Health Protocols class time to have been reduced to 35 minutes students attend on alternate days and an Online Learning occasion has been introduced. The Education Minister to try to reassure parents. The health of students is our most important concern we dont want to put Students Health at risk we trust the Health Ministry has had great experience fighting the virus we hope families also trust us and will be sure that the Education Sector is following Health Protocols. More than 100 people a day a dying from the coronavirus in iran and about 2000 are becoming infected the government may want to return to normality but it still looks it has a grip of the spread of the virus said big al jazeera to her on what were off to carefully in wales now to speak to deb barrie Child Development specialist and a Senior Advisor for Emergency Response that save the children nice to have you with a step. Emergency response it actually is an emergency in many ways isnt it the way that children have to adapt to this it all happened very quickly when the schools initially shut down and now all this uncertainty about whether theyll reopen whats your take on how children have been affected already leading up to this point where were trying to reopen. Right and as we look around the world at the synopsis were actually in just over 100. 00 countries around the world and talking to our staff on the ground were seeing these really common things happening to children you know theyve had lots of different experiences over the last few months where they have been taken out of school they quickly havent had a chance to say goodbye to friends theyve lost out on many of those things the real life moments that children will never forget things like their problems their exam results in being able to do their final concepts all of those things which have milestones many important milestones children have now been taken away from them and now expected to go back to school and were seeing around the world children saying to their parents saying to their friend heres my concerns heres what im really worried about and those concerns really very quite considerably for some children its about catching up with schoolwork some of them is well my friends we know me now will we be able to share those same experiences and other children it is the real the at of you know will i bring this home to Family Member its you know something to interrupt you i generally take your point that you were saying about events which children are missing out on a particularly older children they could be actually an academic knock on that we see in a few years of kids who missed their final exams and that younger children though i can be pretty resilient and i certainly seem anecdotally a lot of kids have dealt with the idea of Online Learning and not being at School Pretty well kids its a quite robust sometimes. Absolutely and i think you know one of the things that weve definitely seen around the world is that you know in some countries we actually have more children now being able to access some of the educational kits that are out there because up to this point they have been working on the streets they have had to go work out in the fields and now as weve been preparing some of our. Facilities were actually able to reach more children who are out of school but children in developing countries like the u. K. The rest of europe you know they are being really resilient and i think we have to give credit to these children and to the parents who have worked so hard trying to build an environment for them but i love the creativity that some of the children have done during lockdown you know these younger children who have really embraced it and so much what i think we all see in the news you know Young Children who have decided to go out and find what is a little boy a few months ago given who raised thousands and thousands for the n. H. S. As a 5 year old just being an inspiration to so many other children and i know firsthand ive got nice nephews you know who have gone out of their way to do soon gets into link into the communities during this time youre thinking you know we want to be in care we do more that we can learn a lot from that cant wait so our focus today there deb is about the reopening of schools now there is no one size fits all solution here for any country for any part of the world for any type of so many variations that said i want your take on the idea of children going back to school in these conditions Wearing Masks having to socially distance some kids in some days some kids not in the other days is it a lot for them to take in is it damaging the school experience. It is an opportunistic in but i think youre going back to what you said earlier on children are really was the most important part of all of this is having these conversations openly with your children really early on find out from them what is it that youre most concerned about right now and then try and think it really practical ways for those solutions to be so what is it a you need to have in place so talking to friends who got their children who are preparing in different parts of the world you know for some of them its still about getting your child excited to have the right kind of backpack and the stationery to go back to school so they have that sense of well see the other childrens about you know what is you know practice at home wearing the mask what does it mean for you to wear the mask how are you going to be able to wash your hands if theres not much water around how do you go away or how do you nicely tell your friends to also keep socially distancing and youve got a whole play this really early on with Young Children about you know how am i going to interact my friends how my if i have a concern when i come home at the end of the day how can i talk to my child more about it and that is going to be crucial that every day feeling and then just changing some of the language that we use as well you know even as adults if were really worried about them going back trying to hold back some of that the air so that were not putting it on to them right and i think you know really looking to us but guidance so you know those traditions that you happen to go to the 1st day of school you know try and keep those traditions because those are going to be so important for the child to have that sense of normalcy great advice there from barry with save the children joining us from wales today thank you deb thank you some other coronavirus news for you infections which are now past 4000000 in india rafter registering another record on saturday was 86000 this time the 3rd country to pass the 4000000 mark after the u. S. And brazil the indian governments pushing to reopen businesses to revive a shrinking economy. And authorities in iraq are warning hospitals may lose control of the outbreak within days more than 5000 new infections were announced on saturday which is the highest rise yet their iraqs hospitals have suffered those well from years of conflict and inadequate funding and neglect baris in baghdad for us this saturday spoke to a little while ago youve got some new figures apparently from the iraqis. Yes the Health Ministry has announced the latest figures and in the past 24 hours across the country more than 4644 cases were reported and 63 people have died as a result of covert 1000 these numbers are just so the latest increases that weve seen after the commemoration of the shore and that is the holy day that show muslims get themselves to karbala in southern iraq to commemorate the death of a man who say it was the prophet of the is the grandson of the late prophet this is a very important day and authorities in iraq did not choose to close the shrine of imam hussein in karbala and as a result were seeing an increase in cases across the country this something thats very significant because the numbers that were seeing are actually not accurate in a completely completely because were hearing that many people are just not getting tested theyre not going into hospitals and that with hospitals themselves of one of the main areas where people are becoming infected just over the past 48 hours over 300 people in baghdad alone were infected with cobra 19 in hospitals or medical facilities so there is a lot of concern that in the days ahead the numbers will actually continue to go up so the iraqis talking about a potential loss of control over the coronavirus pretty serious and what are they actually doing to try to prevent it. Well there are a number of measures in place that have been in place for a while there is a partial curfew in baghdad from 10 pm to 5 am only 25 percent of Government Employees are going into the office there is a rule of we have to wear masks in public but its not enforced very strictly i have to say just driving around coming into work i could see about maybe 40 percent of the population Wearing Masks in public commenee of the Street Vendors and. Street shops are open across the city there is a concern that the authorities havent been able to enforce the rules that they put into place so the economy as a result of a complete lockdown that was in place for 3 months has suffered drastically unemployment has nearly doubled as a result of the pandemic and the lockdown and the people that we see that take to the streets on a daily basis in baghdad to protest unemployment say that they are out of money and they just cant afford to stay home even if there are restrictions so the government is in a very very difficult position but the World Health Organization warns even for sure that iraq was in a very very precarious position that they had to try and control of the spread of this pandemic at any cost. With the update from baghdad thank you heres whats coming up for you on this news hour. Violence and arrests in the u. S. City of portland by protests against racism and Police Brutality and nearing their 100th night. 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For us president ial candidate joe biden is strongly criticize Donald Donald trump after reports the president mocked americas war dead this came from the atlantic magazine which quotes unnamed sources who say trump has made several offensive comments including the Fallen Soldiers were quote losers and sockets the Associated Press says it is independently confirmed many of those remarks when my son volunteered enjoy the United States military as the attorney general went to iraq 3 year won the bronze star and other commendations he wasnt a sucker the service men and women he served with particularly those did not come home were not losers if these statements are true the president should humbly apologize 7 no it was a fake story written by a magazine that was probably not going to be around much longer but it was a totally fake story and that was confirmed by many people who were actually there it was a terrible thing that somebody could say that kind of things and especially to make those that dont work for the military then almost anybody else. Reza jordan with us now from alexandria virginia to talk about this roseland the the president s controversial comments and whether he said them or not. They can be they can be so many of them and they can pass quite quickly in this case theyre not is that just because of the election or is it the nature of these particular comments. I think its a bit of both come all and thats because what the president has said in essence has been said before during the 2016 president ial Campaign Donald trump angered a lot of people when he basically dismissed the experience of the former senator and president ial candidate john mccain who was a prisoner of war during the vietnam war the basically said that he didnt like people who were captured on the battlefield and he thought that was more about their lacking character than about how th