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But its leaders are defending themselves against a damning criticism that theyve mishandled the coronavirus pandemic the sunday Times Newspaper or points the finger directly at Prime Minister baraks johnson it accuses him of wasting precious time in stopping the spread the paper usually supports Johnsons Conservative Party but it says he ignored scientists warnings he failed to replenish stocks of protective medical equipment and he failed to attend 5 initial emergency meetings about the outbreak since then more than 15000. 00 britons have died in hospitals thats the worlds 5th highest National Death toll and the 2 total could be much higher the government statistics dont include the deaths of people in care homes for the elderly that total is estimated to be around 7 and a half 1000 ok for more on this lets talk to paul brennan whos live for us at westminster paul lets talk about the newspaper report 1st of all how is the government reacting to this. Well front page news here there and comfortable reading for the government and spread across 2 pages inside as well pages 6 and 7 of the sunday times. As you say its pretty damning stuff i mean the essentially the accusations are that there was complacency there was mismanagement there was bad judgments and essentially there was political inertia and that valuable weeks were lost in that period between the tail end of january when the real scale of what was happening in one hand on the International Implications for really started to be warned about by scientific officers early march which is when the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson attended his 1st National Crisis committee thats the cobra is its acronym criticism of that the government has come out and rebuffed the narrative that the sunday times is putting forward the Cabinet Office minister michael gove has been doing the rounds of the sunday morning t. V. Political shows the idea that the Prime Minister skipped meetings that were vital to our response to the growing of us i think its protests and the truth is that the other meetings across government so much richard by the Health Secretary some chaired by other ministers but the Prime Minister took all the major decisions and i think anyone who considered what happened to the point is just a little while ago nuki can see that the throwing heart and soul into fighting this virus and all of this against the backdrop of the virus this is spreading through the u. K. Were getting some more data i believe about how the corona virus has been affecting people in care centers in the u. K. Yes we heard yesterday from england who estimated that 7 and a half 1000 deaths above and beyond what would normally be expected at this time of year had arrived in the last 2 weeks now what theyre not saying is that all of those are definitely down to coronavirus but its a massive spike and unexpected today sunday were getting another reinforcement of those this time from the National Care forum which looks at well its an Umbrella Group for the norm for not for profits care homes and theyre estimating that coronavirus deaths could be as many as 4000 in the u. K. And the implications for that a serious it essentially means that the government is chronically underestimating the impact of coronavirus in this country both deaths and infections and its down to the lack of testing until the tail end of this past week people who were living in care homes and the staff who worked there were not being tested for coronavirus so many people who most likely were dying of coronavirus were not being assessed as such that the deaths were being put downs of other factors such as the underlying conditions and its important because without a really good handle on exactly where coronavirus is whos being affected by it its very difficult for medics and the government to set out a policy in a strategy to combat it paul brown of bringing us up to date from london paul thanks a lot well earlier i spoke to sonia pernelle whos written a biography on Boris Johnson and she says johnson is unsuited to the role of Prime Minister. The fact is i think it is possible that person some will now go down as one of the worst Prime Ministers that weve ever had and weve had him in charge all illegibly in charge during this time and nick the sunday times describes it as a spiders web of failure even that i think may be an an underestimate people are losing their lives have lost their lives lost their livelihoods people are grieving because thousands of extra people are grieving because of the failings of this government run by paris johnson it is a grotesque having to use that word its a grotesque failing at the house of government is it right to to hold the promises soley to blame or should those advising him and surrounding him also be held to account over this well of see never just one person but this is become a sort of cult of personality in the u. K. This government its all about Boris Johnson it is almost as if hes a president rather than a Prime Minister so whatever he says goes he won that big majority of 80 seats at the last election his his you know his word was supreme and like school and not word unfortunately was we shouldnt take this pandemic seriously we should go around shaking everyones hands we should shut turned down offers of help of protective equipment of testing of ventilators and tell it was too late and britain is now heading for the worst think is probably in the world apart from possibly the United States this is an appalling state of affairs were it did have a bit of warning of this and did nothing with that time just awful how significant is it do you think that this report is coming in a newspaper which is widely regarded as being supportive of the conservative party barres johnsons own party. Well i think one shouldnt a little too much tension to that the sunday times has always been a very good insight to even pick has always been very good at exposing wrongdoing and failings by politicians that said the prominence and the time given to this to suggest that there is exhaust the ration at the highest levels of perhaps you know the sunday times on c its Rupert Murdoch i mean thats a nice sort of speculation it is interesting that the sunday times was the paper who ran this but i have to ask you know myself and ask other journalists why they were also not doing this kind of investigation the failings have been clear the problem with our Prime Minister is that his kind of mindset is why should i do this why shouldnt i just do what i want and of course a look down all those measures you have to take to deal with a pandemic totally against that kind of outlook they also go against a brick set i mean. Triumphal it about you know breakfasting from the e. U. At the same time as this Global Pandemic was on its way to hit us it was as if they were celebrating this at a time the and they really shouldnt have been doing sentient being concentrating on on this instead and the sunday times has been ambivalent about brechts it clearly now if we go ahead with with it then there will be yet another came and we simply cannot cope with the pandemic as it is. Also on our increasing scrutiny for its handling of the pandemic is the United States the question of when to ease lockdown restrictions is dividing the country as it and donald trump keeps pushing a positive message he says there are signs covered 1000 has passed its peak but experts are warning that moving too fast could be disastrous and a gallaghers in florida with that story. After weeks of stay at home odors hundreds flocked to the reopened beaches in Jacksonville Florida the medical of this controversial move as essential activity even as the state hit more than 27000 coronavirus cases its what authorities call a pathway back to normal life. But in other parts of the u. S. The scenes a very different across the country a small but growing protest movement is calling for restrictions to be eased from utah to wisconsin in both republican and democratic led states people are taking to the streets urging a return to normal life we are still a free country at least for now and people have to make a decision and thats their personal decision if they dont want to be 6 feet apart or 7 peter peter parker i cant i cant dictate to that to them despite declaring that individual governors are in charge President Donald Trump seemed to encourage the protests in a series of tweets on friday all 3 states have democratic governor as his tacit support is seen as deeply political in a time of crisis and you know it is there are a lot of protests out there and i just think that some of the governors have gotten carried away you know we have a lot of people that dont have to be told to do what theyre doing theyve been really. Doing everything weve asked him in new york the epicenter of the pandemic measures to ease restrictions still far off the states governor says this is no time to play politics how does the situation get worse. It get worse quickly if you politicize all that emotion we can not go there thats where i work so hard when anyone raises any political agenda to me i work so hard to distance myself from it. Some states are beginning to ease restrictions many are still battling the coronavirus and testing is in short supply the desire to get back to some kind of normal is clear the careful approach to doing so vital thank you very much a nation divided it was perhaps inevitable the politics would play a part no matter what challenges lay ahead throughout this crisis the mantra has been were in it together but any sense of unity now seems to be falling apart conservatives believe the cure is worse than the disease others and has to be a more science based approach the fact remains many states a yet to peek in their coronavirus cases the decisions governors make now will be crucial but that hasnt stopped some trying to score political points at the gallacher aljazeera Miami Florida odonnell times accused of stalking islamophobia as well but after raising questions about social distancing and mosques during the holy month of ramadan White House CorrespondentKimberly Hauck it has more. There are increasing questions about a retreat by u. S. President trump on saturday accusations he may be stoking islamophobia in the United States the reach we read lets see if authorities enforce the social distancing orders for mosques during ramadan like they did churches during easter i asked the president about this retreat heres what he had to say didnt put him back on the list that the moms wouldnt follow so i think i just had a call with a mom so i just had a call with ministers rabbis we had a tremendous call with the faith leaders no i dont think that at all i am somebody that believes in faith and it matters not what your faith is but our politicians seem to treat different faiths very differently and they seem to think and i dont know what happened with their country but. The Christian Faith is treated much differently than it was and i think its treated very unfairly now when it comes to enforcing social distancing the department of justice did take on the case of at least one church in mississippi where worshipers attended in their automobiles with the car windows rolled up the department of justice said that these worshippers were simply exercising their right under the 1st amendment of the u. S. Constitution now many in the United States watching very carefully to see if this same effort will be applied when it comes to those who may want to celebrate during ramadan which begins in the u. S. On thursday. Turkey has overtaken iran as the country with the highest recorded number of covert 1000 cases in the middle east but it has figures push it up to 8 highest in the world just after china coronavirus in turkey has also killed nearly 1900 people more than 82000 infections have been confirmed and nearly 3800 of those cases were diagnosed in the past 24 hours a lockdown has been extended for 15 days prohibiting travel between 30 of turkeys biggest cities then id shellac is the managing editor of daily south its a progovernment english language newspaper in turkey and he says residents are complying with lock down measures and theyre happy with the governments handling of the pandemic majority of the people regardless of what car or what party they come from and even if they do have some sort of criticism they support the way the way the government has handled this this issue in fact the trust for it for the for the Health Minister for example has been like skyrocketing like no other ministers before how he has handled the information sharing the transparency with regards to that has been largely supported by the public and in fact the reason why. You know of course the numbers are rising in turkey but this has a lot to do of course with our population with the numbers of testing and you know it has passed us in our neighbor but if you look at the testing numbers we have done tookie has done double the tests in iran so far and the measures prior to the 1st case in turkey are significant post 1st case and treat when it comes to treatment for example d the situation of the Health Care System in turkey is not comparable to its neighbors. In the neighboring region. So yes there is of course there is there will be some criticism regardless of how the government is acting in there may be some room for a bridge in india but i think overall if you look at a big picture 2 years handled this virus in a successful way fire has damaged one of the largest migrant camps in greece the blaze and silence started hours after the protest of 47 year old iraqi Asylum Seekers who are being cleared of having coronavirus died in the overcrowded camp refugee camps in greece have been under quarantine in recent weeks the authorities trying to keep residents apart from locals John Psaropoulos is joining us now from athens john just give us some of the background as to why this far far began. It seems that a lot of the people staying in the camp were worried the woman who died had died of corona virus she had been to hospital a week earlier with a high fever she had been diagnosed negative coronavirus evidently Something Else was the matter because she died days later in the camp but these facts were not known to the people who started this protest and it seems sort of court house of hand part of the administrative facility has been burned down mainly offices belonging to the european and the Greek Asylum Services which have been suspended since late march because of corona virus so there was no activity there and no one in the camp was hurt thankfully the camp is also under strain because apart from the general anxiety refugees have about catching coronavirus in overcrowded conditions there are also restrictions on movement to the government weeks ago decided to allow people in and out of these open reception sensors on the 5 eastern asia and islands under certain conditions for shopping or for medicine but not to come and go as they wish and that creates an extra strain there also tents for people to be tested outside the camps in time the government wants to turn those into field hospitals for kit for positive cases because it wants to keep the refugee cases separate from any cases from the greek population which will go to the general hospitals regionally we have had camps with positive tests but they are here on the mainland 28 people tested positive in the last few weeks in 2 camps north of athens and those camps have been placed in quarantine the tracing work has been done from the original infected of the alpha patient as it were to the people closest to them and or thirtys are satisfied that those situations are contained. But refugees are very worried and they dont have the same level of information about this that the greek population does they dont have News Services that case it to them so they are worried that people arent looking out for them and that is why this riot took place John Psaropoulos in athens thanks very much indeed john. Music talent and hope united millions for an Online Charity concert in the fight against corona virus some of the industrys biggest stars join forces to Honor Health Care workers around the world events so far raised more than one 120000000. 00 for the uns covert 19 Response FundVictoria Gate reports. Hes performed for huge crowds in stadiums but on saturday night Stevie Wonder sang from his living room the fans watching this superstars abuse it world were united in a common cause in a time of crisis. This time our leaders that we needed to strengthen the Health Care Systems all round the world so that crises like this never happens again. 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