Welcome to to the point im peter craven and my guests are rafidah who is a freelance journalist from lebannon who believes that the coronavirus is hitting the poorest areas the hardest and giving some governments an excuse to restrict political freedom. Also with us is dont chevelle ozone ship on the chin below hes an editor with d w business here in berlin and he says the e. U. Use huge rescue package could derail european efforts to reset their partnership with africa and a woman computer Andrew Gilmore executive director of the berlin based conflict president privet Prevention Organization of the backhoe foundation he argues that disease and conflict feed off each other so it is vital that countries in the west however cash strapped they might be dont cut back on Development Aid and peace assistance. Thank you all 3. Being is today would like to begin with you want to this is clearly a Global Crisis and we tend to say that it impacts everybody but it doesnt impact everybody in the s
And a slowing economy plus a taste for innovation with ramadan markets banned malaysia street food vendors take their meals online. A powerful cyclon has killed at least 84 people enough to many more homeless in eastern india and bangladesh cyclon on porn battered west bengali no dishes states with winds of up to 170 kilometers an hour as sister oid homes flooded streets uprooted trees and cut power to millions of households hundreds of thousands of people have shifted from low lying coastal areas tanveer charger is standing by with the latest from bangladesh but 1st lets speak to premarriage holes on skype from kolkata in india as west spend guy. Got of course is well a cycle made landfall. Almost 24 hours ago now and as feared the death toll has gone up. To 72 baptist my chief minister the bad news she has said and the last time that west bengal saw or cycle in close which was very big was in 2009 which was. Even the chief minister has gone on to say that nothing compares to walk wes
Children born globally but there are still more than 13000000 children around the world who miss out on vaccination we know that the number will increase because of course 19 already polio vaccination campaigns have been put on hold and in some countries routine Immunization Services are being scaled back or shut down it should he says it will soon begin a phased reopening of its economy but the u. K. Says its too soon to relax any measures and the hayward reports the latest in europe britains Prime Minister back at work after recovering from coronavirus with a warning that there will be no letup in the lockdown yet i can see the long term consequences of looked down as clearly as anyone and so yes i entirely share. Your agency its the governments urgency. And yet we must also recognize the risk of a 2nd spike more than 21000 people have now died from corona virus in new k. Hospitals in one of the worlds worst outbreaks the government has announced that the family is a National Health
This figure could be as much as 10 percent higher because it does not account for those who have not been tested or who got the virus without being tested for it so certainly these are exceedingly grim figures indeed in the midst of this president continues to insist that the testing protocols are more than sufficient saying that it is the best in the world to twice as many people being tested in the u. S. As in any other country had a meeting with Corporate Leaders in the course of the day but still mixed messages emerging from the white house Vice President mike pence the mayo clinic in rochester and there he did not wear a surgical mask a mask to cover his face many observers commented on this the video footage from the pool accompanying the Vice President show that he was the only person without a face mask at that particular clinic now the Vice President s spokesperson subsequently said that the Vice President gets tested for the virus once a week and therefore there is no need fo
From seoul. Its almost 2 months since churches like the Catholic Church decided it was simply too risky to hold masses and services instead preferring to hold Services Online and its only now this sunday that the Catholic Church has decided it is safe for people to come back to churches but only under the most stringent of precautions were at the main cathedral here in seoul its able to take a congregation of up to a 1000 people but the congregation for each mass is around about a quarter of that only 260. 00 people are being allowed in for each service and the older to get into the cathedral you have to turn up early you have to take a number when all of your details are taken who you are where you could be contacted in case there is a case of infection they will know exactly who is in each congregation its all part of the Contact Tracing that the South Koreans seem to be so expert at then you have to line up a 2nd time to get into the cathedral with the usual precautions being taken