Protest. Morning thanks for joining us this is our international. Students across the world are back in class schools reopen after the summer break but for many face to face wont be the same they snoozed school year with anti coronavirus measures being brought in to prevent further outbreaks september 1st is known as knowledge day here in russia and its traditionally a big celebration for School Children and parents alike. Lets get more on this now from our piece on culture hes outside of Moscow School good morning to you don a different start then to this school year. Good morning neil well yeah its that time of the year again its time for kids all over the world to go back to school and many of them wont be sitting in virtual classrooms just because of the pandemic here in russia september 1st is a very important day everyone gets dressed up usually parents and grandparents see off the children to school but this year the celebrations have been canceled for the large crowds that they usually gather and on top of that many students may not even be returning to school because parents are given the option to leave them in Remote Learning since many are afraid that schools are just going to close down again after the 1st call off the authorities have even said that theyre still considering a return to Remote Learning lets see what they had to say. Yes it is possible as well as with influenza now there is between factions now in the u. K. They have a bit of a different approach for months they have actually the authorities have been telling parents that schools are safe to reopen instead of deciding on the last minute to lay down some guidelines for example they said just several days ago that kids over 11 years old should be Wearing Masks in the hallways and common areas and also that secondary students should stay could stay home every other fortnight if theres a local lockdown but that hasnt exactly made teachers very happy. Weve been asking for months and months and months wolf susan to close down because of. Thats been seen as a kind of act of heresy and yet here we go all the front you know it before the weekend schools get over it really isnt the government funded but then theres france where the Education Minister has even said that theres no reason in hesitating to send the countrys nearly 13000000 students back to School Although the minister did admit that not all classrooms were safe to be could be safely reopened and microns said that president warned that a new lockdown could take place in france as the countrys cases are continually rising exponentially so as you can imagine teachers there werent too excited either. As soon as they would be in contact with one another re going to try and get them to our stair hands but lets not fool ourselves we know that with 25 pupils we wont always be able to keep an eye on them. So this years 1st of september is clearly a just as important for the authorities as it is for students and schools it will be a big moment to see whether or not things will return to normal or or if another lockdown will require return to Remote Learning permanently or at least for the near future so only time will tell many things thrown on the spot there outside of Moscow School for us. Now the World Health Organizations representative to the Russian Federation will be joining us we hope later in the program to discuss some of the measures being implemented to make sure schools are safe for students. In the meantime fronts a seen a spike in covert 19 cases during august the number of new infections increased on average by a record 3000 per day thats led authorities to reimpose some protective measures with masks compulsory in workplaces as of tuesday one sector thats been hit particularly hard by the pandemic is one of frances proudest wine production. Looks at how it seems to have lost its sparkle. It should go hope but this is champagne harvest will be little more than a fizzle consumption of champagne is expected to fall by as much. This year and the unprecedented loss of around 1700000000 euros now while champagne great growers have agreed to leave grapes on the vine cutting production by around 20 percent even though efforts may not be enough and there are fears that little can be done to salvage the situation with some describing it as being the darkest year in the history of the sparkling we are experiencing a crisis that we have value waits even worse than the Great Depression in terms of economy for champagne. When i hear that other sex has received help even without any reference to their profits i say look we continue to work and we need to support workers were switching to the principles of our gannett winemaking and besides we only asked to compensate social benefits and only for the period of the current 19 pandemic but we will pay at least for now and have the feeling that we will pay the full price the covert 19. 00 pandemic has hit the industry hard not just because orders from staple buyers like restaurants and hotels are down but also because the harvest is about to get underway and there are fears of a break amongst Seasonal Workers some 100000 arrived hof of them from Eastern Europe but due to the nature of the work champagne growers say social distancing is impossible as there is never to be going to be close mix in the mystery board a flare up of infections in Seasonal Workers often cramped living quarters the European Center for disease prevention and control has already outlined how clusters. Prove it 19 have been reported by workers who carry out Seasonal Work such as fruit picking there have been several outbreaks at farms in the south of france raising concerns among those that live in the champagne region particularly as the area has so far largely been spared from frances recent spike in infections free testing has been set up for Seasonal Workers however anyone who tests positive would have to self isolate and lose their wage hardly enticing the problem is the Migrant Workers arent coming to get tested because they know they will lose the jobs they test positive we can force them to come for champagne an area that is used to helping people celebrate in style 2020 is turning out to be a bit of a difficult potion just swallow so its even ski r. T. Paris. Ok lets go back to our top story this hour children across the world heading back to school as the summer break comes to an end after months of homeschooling because of the pandemic the schools have introduced tight restrictions to prevent virus outbreaks including smaller classes and flexible timetables lets speak now to dr levine of it choose the w. H. O. Is representative to the Russian Federation joins me live on the line so good morning to you believe the school year about to begin very exciting time for many people but more nervous than usual i suspect though today just how safe do you think it is for children to be going to school. Good morning. All is the most important thing in the life of children i sing and not only children because it prepares children for life it enables 2 socialization ensures their future so indeed this is the right question and we have to say that the schools are part of the by the community and they have to be seen so so if there is good control in the Wider Community that ensures quite a lot for the schools and we have to take that into consideration however there is no 0 risk we have to think about that but with the knowledge we have about over the last the practically 8 months and all the efforts that are being put into place yesterday. That record for Regional Office for europe dr hans to get mad with representatives of the Member States of the european region most of the ministers of Health Ministers of education and discuss online all the measures being taken the policy is the know how on how to protect children or any of the outs who are actually working with them in the school we do believe that this is the right moment of the skill set to move on to return children to schooling but in a safe mode as an aside what are the sort of measures that will be brought in the will make schools look different this time around the measures to protect children to protect the teachers even protect parents. We have one most important thing is the control of coverage in the community and that is were talking about Community Transmission or cluster transmission so if we are not having a Community Difference vision that means huge numbers which have. The world into lockdown in the beginning of this year then a number of measures have already been announced by various countries and by various schools and the mitchell has actually based a lot of its recommendations on these guidelines there are various guidelines including for example some schools in the world going for testing of teachers before the children starts. The social distancing very possible ensuring distance between the children of one metre or more varying mass the back depends very much are on the age of the children and on the sat on a possibility of the childs. Face however safely it is about the riding the movement of children of various age groups in the school so that they do not mix together it is about for example teachers speaking their lunches in various places or even in their cars or a number of measures being taken and qantas exchanging these experiences but the most important thing is what to do if a child death thought if youve already basically if a child develops symptoms and then it is confirmed that the child is positive or to start as well and this has been very important in the discussions in many countries and i happened to be out just in the 2 sectors so it is basically immediately taking the child into a safe place in the school. Would. In protective gear are those who are. Watching the child which is basically a mass but also some schools and some concerts and also some kind of are are covers getting child to health care basically calling health care in and then going to a huge ricks type of teaching which means most likely that grass will go on learning depending on the number of cases in the school who tested positive so the j. Protocols the tick the algorithms have been. Sounds like almost every angle has been covered what precautions to take and what follow up action to take as weve seen though with covert. Its very hard to predict and its extremely effective of finding ways of infecting people do you still expect there will be outbreaks in the schools will have to be closed down. As you have served there is no 0 risk for anyone. Because of it and you have rightly pointed that out or this decision will depend on the epidemiological situation but if will depend very much on that how we managed to teach the children to fight against. The measures that we have imagined mentioning anything is going to be very challenging the smaller children the issue of social distancing everything will be difficult but if we leave the young generation out of this life to carve it we havent done anything and that history has shown us that we can bring the children especially the teenagers into searchlight in a very responsible way but yes you are right in case an outbreak happens it will grow to love dolphins are the closing of us also as we have seen in some countries but thatll depend on the speed of reaction. If a child or an adult have symptoms they are isolated they are treated and all the others who were in direct contact which is defined are actually in a self isolation for a certain period of time 14 days as you know hopefully preventing schools closure you talked about children showing symptoms what about children who might be infected but be without symptoms asymptomatic what about the risks that they pose mixing spreading the virus among among children that may head back to their families maybe grandparents what about the risks they pose of infecting elderly from family members. We have of course learned a lot about the virus but not everything and the issue about i said to magic persons and asim to my children and spreading and how much and how more earl remain very very topical the key will be not to forget all that we have learned about college both entire lives and out of them but what we have seen also case studies for example the u. K. Have done a lot for example in schools there have been more cases of adults being infected and getting infected or spreading transmitting the virus to others it will however require quite a lot of discipline quite a lot of strong capacity started traction and for speed reactions but as i said there is no. Many thanks for your time later talk to me later version of it too is the w h os representative to the Russian Federation pleasure to have you on thanks so much for your time thank you bye. Ok our social bytes you guys will take a very short break to join me for more news in just a moment. Thank you. Max geysers financial Survival Guide liquid those that you can convert music thats why it is really. To keep in mind though as it would mean the place of. Record. Is your media a reflection of reality. In the world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. By. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or remain in the shallows. Or come back in the United States the 2 main 2020 white house race rivals have clashed over the unrest this crippling the country citys democratic run and joe biden blasted donald trump on monday for refusing to condemn col rittenhouse a supporter facing murder charges after killing 2 people during a protest in konoha wisconsin last week. That was an interesting situation you saw the same tape as i saw and he was trying to get away from them i guess it looks like and he fell and then they very violently attacked him and it was something that were looking at right now and its under investigation but. I guess he was in very big trouble he would have been i he probably would have been killed tonight President Trump declines to rebuke violence he wouldnt even repudiate one of his support is he was charged with mudda hes too weak to scared of the hatred he has stead to put an end to it the elections that take place every 4 years in the United States generally polarized the country to some degree or other but 2020 is taking things to a much higher level clashes on the streets between black lives matter activists praised by democrats and from supporters are starting to look almost like civil war. You. Think of. A member of the right wing Patriot Prayer group was shot dead in oregon and thats just days after a 17 year old was charged for shooting 2 antipolice brutality protesters in can no show wisconsin now some on the right have hailed the shooter in can osha as a hero meanwhile some on the left have celebrated the death of the trump supporter. I have come. On. Donald trump has taken a heavy handed approach to the protesters with 0 tolerance and joe biden has also denounced the violence but early on you had a different message i said in the right to be fact angry and frustrated and more violence for any more people is the kind of answer the question but are totally correct the deadly violence we saw were of a night in portland is unacceptable shooting in the streets of a Great American city is unacceptable i condemn violence of every kind by anyone whether on the left or the right and i challenge donald trump to do the same both candidates feel the situation has gone too far and both candidates now blame each other for the chaos. Here gas was used to remove these protesters people to read about it is happening under Donald Trumps watch we are not safe in Donald Trumps america the hard truth is. You wont be safe in joe bidens and theyre. Sure to like joe biden you should not have had to have a poll tell you that americans dont approve of riots in the democrat cities cities in which may is allowed the burning of businesses in communities murders and pain they all bite and riots. Donald trump is running as the quote law and order candidate now thats an unpopular position in some circles meanwhile biden is on the defensive as conservatives label the unrest the biden riots with the election just 2 months away and the country spiraling out of control its unclear if either candidate really has any idea how to fix the situation it will mop and artsy new york. Well for new lawmakers have given the green light to a bill that will force companies to have at least one board member from a minority background by the end of next year the state says that the move will help to overcome racial disparity. People of car must have a seat at the table especially in a state as diverse as california builds on an earlier law which stated that Company Boards should include at least one woman this will rise to 3 for most larger firms by the end of next year and by the end of 2022 at least 3 people from minority communities as well as signed off by the governor the law will be the 1st of its kind in the u. S. For corporations we debated the issue with political activist and involved is right and social issues commentator antony. It is of course very sad that we needed Government Intervention and for more diversity on these corporate boards the bottom line is that there have always been qualified people of color unqualified women who just dont have the access to these corporations and its just important that we do and its also beneficial to these corporations for their bottom line when they have people on their boards who are representative of their consumers thats better for their bottom line and weve seen that as expressed in Forbes Magazine in bloomberg magazine as well actually you know the bottom line of these companies they already do it ok because at the end of the day theyre trying to make money go to the most important part all that matters is have it the most qualified people on the board in a company to have your company get the best chance to succeed ok if it fails and if they fail but having the government intervene and say hey you got to hire that person that person and that person wont change it actually thats called communism and weve seen a rat in tried and tried and failed and failed and i or that is not communism that is not common i didnt say oh and if were going to speak to the to do sheeple lets be honest lets lets be honest lets be honest about what those precepts are now unfortunately what anthony is doing is conflating anyone theyre going to go into the street and just pick any person of color off the street to be on a board were talking about qualified people we know for a fact in this country we know for a fact in this country about my being able to hire a tree that people of color space specifically says me scuse me if i can finish my point africanamerican women latino women and Indigenous Women who have masters degrees or so in making less money than white men with High School Diploma lets name 3 of the most lucrative businesses in the history of the United States of america Apple Microsoft and facebook all founded by white men who didnt even finish college so this idea that white people are being men are being discriminated against when they can still make money with a High School Diploma. With a High School Diploma excuse me if i could just finish my point. If i could just give us my point if i could just finish my point with if i could just finish my point a High School Diploma are still making money more money than black brown and Indigenous Women with masters degrees so this idea that white men are being discriminated against unfortunately is a bootlicking paradigm by the republicans and some of their black talking points like mr anthony is on right now he knows very very well that white men can walk down the street get pulled over by an officer and not be worried about getting shot so you know i mean talking about jobs these are starting in maine so motivated me just like myself ok i come from poor environment next to nothing and now im very successful ok because i started my own thing i thought it wont business ok where in america everyone can do they are right theres no need to put me here or to put somebody else who does that is absolutely not true ok if i had my own business i didnt if you hadnt i better get out of. It i dont want a government telling me who i can take and i have all my. Black Household Wealth at 17000. 00 a year and white house would welcome 177000. 00 a year on average these are good responsible policies and of businesses want them to be dismantled then do the right thing and understand that diversity is not just about numbers but also about shared power the best way to go bad is they have freedom in the country not so much government regulation the best way to go about is have less regulation always rates a less bureaucracy that helps all of those grow whether you want to be an employee or stars are all Business Rates a less regulation less brain great freedom in america. Well another chapter in a long running saga Donald Trumps former National Security advisor Michael Flynn has lost an appeal for the criminal case against him to be dismissed and the flip was convicted of lying under oath during the russia gate probe charges were dropped on orders from the Justice Department but the latest ruling means the case still has to go d through the District Courts federal judges ruled 8 to 2 against flynn his attorney said he called the decision disturbing split as expected a long line 7 from the tone and tenor of the judges said oral argument it is a disturbing blow to the rule of law some background to the case Michael Flynn was questioned by the f. B. I. As part of the miller investigation into alleged russian meddling in the 2016 u. S. Election they resigned after initially pleading guilty to misleading the f. B. I. But later claimed prosecutorial misconduct that stages new lawyer produce documents revealing the f. B. I. Had set out to entrap flynn and had no valid calls to interview him in the 1st place legal analyst and u. S. National security commentator jennifer de musta believes that the case against french should have been a nonstarter not only the exculpatory documents that Sidney Powell did provide that show that this case should never have been brought not just that but the entire reason that the judge is holding this case out is because glenn pled guilty to a document that he has never seen so we have to think about that a document he has never seen that the public has never seen that the court has never seen that his original interview what they called the original 3 which Sidney Powell has been asking for so in most legal cases theres a process of discovery we need to see all of these documents doc just an edited version they have never even produce that original interview and i think their plan is to pass about november but its certainly important hopefully theyre going to be ways or methods where they can go that doing this to make this go through faster this is an absolute travesty of justice. 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