The freeman foundation. Um judy and peter ovler foundation; pursuing solutions forne americas neglectes. And by contributions to this pbs station viewers like you. Thank you. Im ros atkins. The former governor of spain has been linked to a corruption scandal. The United States is preparing foron the number of cirus death in ironic is three times higher than what has been reported. In italy, genoas bridge has been replaced fromllhe one that sed two years ago. Welcome to this edition of outside source. Fother king has been under pressure for weeks after being uilinked to a corruption i, and he has written to his son full ebay his son saying departing the country. Says i inform you of my decision to go into exile outside of spain. He says he will be available hiosecutors need to contac in june, spainrs s court opened an investation into his involvement into the real contract in saudi arabia. We have the latest. It is interesting trying to interpret it. There was a letter om father to a son, making clear the allegations at a time when he was licking himself, when he was the king himself, trying to he makes it clear the allegations against him are very publicnd damaging, and he says is for him to go to sowhere else, to leave the country so his son is able to govern in a way he describes as being tranquil. That is his intenon, hisope. We shall see if that ishe case. Even though he iseaving the country, the various investigations will ntinue. They are on two fronts, domestically, back in june, this of panic ni the S Supreme Court will look at the allegations that came to light after a swiss publication said this money had been received as a result of this contract arinvolving saudia and cash had came from the late saudi king. Have swiss financial authorities you have the swiss financial authorities looking into a prolonged investigation. You think that continues as well. Interestingly, there has been a statemen from the Royal Household that says it wants to underscore the role the king played would also,an how democry the rule of law, making sure justice prevails, ty are important qualities that spain wants to uphold. Now and in the future. Ros let me update you on the pandemic. We will start in iran. An investigation found the number of covid19 deaths is nearly three times higher than the official figures. The first death occurred a month before the First Official case was reported your Montage Health ministry projected this a says the figures it gives to the World Health Organization are accurate. He is the story. A gasping for in the last hours of life, he became the First Official coronavirus victim on the 19th of february. His brothers posted this video on social media. After that, officials were left with no choice but to admit that covid19 was killing iranians. But it turns out, his death from the virus was not irans first. The bbc ha seen what up. Two government documents that contains every document of patients who died with a virus. Together, they show irans epidemic started earlier than the official date. We know the first death was r actually fnths before officials came clean. The data suggests in some day in february or march, covid19 deaths were 10 times as higher as what officials were announcing. In total, 41,900 52 people have died in hospitals after the 20th of july. Threey times as m as the official death toll. This figure puts iranmost the five most hardest hit countries in the world. This is an extraordinary the fines include a vast amount ofca personal and medetails. Names, androgens names, addresses, phone numbers. There are nearly half a million records listed. The bbc has made strenuous efforts to authentice the data. A recent lawyer tells us passing on this information was dangous, but worth it. Risking my i lim sending you the lists of coronavirus fections and aeath a the hospitals of the country. I urge you to publish theseee figures as you fit so we can save some patients lives. Hyould iran cover up the pue scale of the outbreak . Thedemic started up in the runup to pliament of elections in february. It was after those elections iran started imposing some restrictionso stop the spread. At the economy was already in a deep recession, the government let businesses reopen. Leaders of these any sign of weakneay be used by its enies. Maybe that is why ty hid the truecale of the pandemic. Ros the u. S. Remains the countryhs with the h number of confirmed cases. Here it is f with tr countries that follow with the u. S. , a long way ahead of them. Presidt trump repeating his inaccurate argument that the high number of ces in the u. S. Because of big testing, and he wants to open he that is not the planet some of the states. To the u. K. , there are 938 confirmed new cases in ure latest 24 period. You can see from thi chart, the number is rising. Important news in the u. K. Because two different tests, which can detect covid and the flu are being rolled out in hospals next week. The third of testing taxg test takes longer than 24 hour to process. But they are close to 100 accuracy. Katy, a hospital pharmacisd is being tesr covid19 and she will only ve to wait 19 minutes for the results. Just one nasal swab in this i machine detect there is any genetic material from the virus. It can reject the sampl if it hasnt been gathered properly. They have been trying it out of this londonospital and it has made a difference to h they manage patients coming in for treatment. Preously, weere having to wait 24 hours or longeto get our swab results back. This meant we were needing to use lots of to isolate patients, and this mea we n actually couple the right patients to the right places. Had a hightech factoear oxford, another Rapid Testing covid19 is being proced. Initially for use in hospital, but for care homes another health locations. Flu viruses as well, anetecting important aspect to winter. When p y those two together, it will result in pendle wanting to test more, the more we test, the more people get confident, and the more people will test. Hese two briti innovations, along with others in development to produce fast test results, have been praised by the worldtiealth organi. It is really incredible, the amount of testseing developed in the fact we have rapid tests beingel ded, this is a positive thing, and this will help control efforts. Some experts have cled for more detail on the performance of the different testing systems. Iis really important that we get good data to understand the compromises in inaccuracy for having a higher speed test. These technologies will be s cused on hospitals in the testing of patied staff wouldve the big question is, can they be expended can they be extended to testing in different plas . Me social Care Organizations have complained of problems getting any virus tests. This care homes looks after disabilities and have had no supplies of kits and weeks, so there is skepticism about the last ancement. No will there beh tests to rule this outoc amongstl care to stefan resident . We have been told so many this on whether this will materialize into something o not. Walk in and drivethrough testings have drivethrough testing have expanded rapidly. But the result take 24 hours. Rapid results from kits on site would be a big step forward. The new system represents a start. Ros returned to australia. Melbourn is its secondlargest and now, it has a nighttimes, curfew, too. Can only lve home for work, medical care, or caregiving. The government has shut shops and nonessential businesses. Around one million workers will have to stayathome in the short term. Here is the reason why all of this shows the number of new daily cases. It is on the rise, despite earlier lockdown measures. The state of victoria recorded 429 new cases overnight, and 13 more deaths, equaling the deadliest day since the pandemic began. There is much mo on the pandemic on the bbc website. We switch to genoa. We haveeen a new bridge inaugurated, two years to the day since 43 people were killed when the previous bridge collapsed. Here is theew bridge. The structure is designed by a renown architect who w the city. They are ensuring the highest level of safety. This is the moment that the Prime Minister cut the ribbon, followed by a flyt p with a smoke trail, and of course, many peoples minds turned back to these images of the morning on the 14th of august, 2018. That was the moment the old bridge collapsed. Eroded cable tore apart two meters of the bridge crashing down. It has taken over a year to build a bridge in a country where Infrastructure Projects are slow. This is a very,ne ver structure, sleek, steel and concrete construction th sweeps across the valley, designed by a renowned architect known the New York Times headquarters building. They have worked at break speeds to get this done. It is being inaugurated. The president and Prime Minister iofly are here. The presidt s met the relatives of thee3 victims of collapse. It was one of the worst astructure disasters in modern history. The families of the victims are boycotting the ceremy, many saying they are too anguished to come here today, but they have met privately with the president of italy, and he saiin a tceremonyt the wound does not heal and t pain only gets less. Ros we willalk about tiktok, owned by a chinese tech firm. President trump says it has two weeks to lea the u. S. , or have th u. S. Rmament bought by microsoft. One of the architects of the ireland has died the age of 83. The former he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his part in forging the peace agreement. Among those paying tribute, the foer primeinister tony blair. Without john hugh, i think there would not be peace in northern ireland. He really made it happen. He began on the journey of peace when most people thought it was completely impossible, when there were high levels of violence. Many people died. He was right at the outset. Utid this could become a reality and he turned to be right, but for many years, it looked as if he was wrong about a, but he turned out tbe rig he was wrong about out to be right. Ed ros we are here in the bbc story. In spain, the former king has announced he is leaving the country aftebeing linked to a corruption scandal. Lets talk about cru some have just begun operating again sincehe pandemic arrived, and we have covid19 outbreaks already. Focusing on two ships, one in the pacificne and from norway. 40 passengerand crew have tested positive on this one. The ships the ship was in the arcti docked on friday. Four crewmembers weresi tested ve. 180 passengers were allowed to disembark the ship. The authorities had t locate the all. By sunday, theynd had happened they were told to selfisolate. The ships owner has suspended its operationsnd in a atement said, a preliminary evaluation shows a breakdown in several of our internal procedures. The senior travel editor is joining us. Some people may be surprised to know that cruise ships are. Operating at a they are operating on a limited extent, and these cruise ships e sticking to one country. In norway, a wonderful journey up to the oligo. Lacrosse on the other side of the world, across the other side of the world, another one. Most of the passengers on the norwegian ship were from norway. Those on the french one was a nationalities. As a mix of there are very local cruisesta ng place in germany, basically in the baltic and northea. There will be other similar cruises very, very modest in lill and other parts of the world, but nothie the global industry, which is effectively shut down in the four months since the pandemic really began. And of cose, some of the stories we first remember from that, the diamond princess, which became a coronavirus hotspot in its own rights. Some motherships sailing for weeks and stirred some other ship sailing for weeks looki for a port. Ros if i were to tal cruise now, how would that compare to one in 2019 . It would look and feel very, very differently. E entire cruise industry is based on 100 ccupancy, and we will not get to that in years. On top of that, there is a huge focus on the restaurant ceexperi, on the Entertainment Offerings on the variousels vessels. They wil all look and feel very differently. For passenger, it will nobe as gratifying. Owners believe will be disastrous in terms of their business model, but nothing tore como the past few months. Ros you talk about the cruise operators. If a crue bears an outbreak, who bears the cost of that . Simon we have seen viruses spread a great deal at the start of the pandemic. I will have a look at thefi res from the centers of resease control in the u. S. , making meticulourds of all the outbreaks, and they run one a month. Shipping line might offer the passengers may be a free cruise or money back live there is v ay little legion taking place. Whie is a basic rule, everybody has to get insured. That is going to be a huge problem, particularly for older travelers,ho will find the premium could cost man the cruise. It is anxtraordinary state of anaffaira glance of one of the many, many problems before this giant industry can restart. Ros simonthk you very much for taking us through this. Appreciate him helping us with that story. Want to switch to afghanistan because th is taking that declared hundreds of prisoners. 29 people died, including prisoners, civilians, and security forces, as well as 10 of the attackers, too. The battle took around close to this is the scene outsi of the prison. The men are Afghan Security forces. That noise in the background is that noise in the background is gunfire. Some inmates have a scapegoat of most have been captured. 300 are still on the run. It began outside of the prison gates yesterday. Some gunmen entered the compound, others began fosing from athe road. We are told there were 1700 inmates inside of e e prison at me. Officials say around 1000 of them managed to escape and have been recaptured, but 300 remain unaccounted for. This attack camton the l day of a threeday ceasefire. This attack was claimed by the Islamic State group, which was not part of that agreement. The Islamic State group are much less powerful than the television. Recent months, they lost a controlled in afghanistan, but clearly have the ability to carryks out daily att ros this attack happened on the final day of the temporary ceasefire between the government and the taliban. Many taliban inmates were released to bolster peace talks. This was meant to be a steppingstone to the first talks between the government and the taliban, but they had been longdelayed because of concerns in the Afghan Government. 400 highrisk detainees that the taliban insist should be freed, but the government has not wanted to. The president said he wie convening a grand assembly lat this week to discuss the i. If he gets approval to release the detainees, we could finally see the fit direct talks between the taliban and the Afghan Government later this month, but as this attack shows us, that doesnt necessarily mean there will be aimmediate end to the violence. Ros we will talk about tiktok. U ve microsoft, the u. S. Tech giant and talks to buy the u. S. Rm of tiktok and then you have President Trump threatening to ban. It. Pr trump i have set a date of september 15, at which point it will be out of business in the United States, but if somebody, whether it is microsoft or somebody else buys it, that will be interesng. Ros the trump has warned that tiktok is a Security Risk becae it is owned by Chinese Company. We know the app has 80 million active users in the u. S. , and most of them are in their teens or early 20s. They watching these videos, and they are engaging with this platform. In 2019, we saw it was o of the biggest sort of downloads online, more than 2 billion people have downloaded this app. For microsofts perspective, this is a potential meymaker and a huge social media hit. Ros tiktok is owned by Chinese Company in the u. S. Is that user data may have to be given to the chinese government. Mike pompeo on sund accused the app a feeding data directly to the chinese impair the white house as the administrations has concerns over tiktok. Ewe continue luate future policy. While thein atration is evaluating it, they are getting involved. Microsoft is in talks to buy the new zealand and United States and Canadian Arms of tiktok. He says he appreciates the importance othe president s concerns. He appreciates president trs involvement. Tiktok says all u. S. User data this stored i u. S. , or a backup in singapore. The general manager says the company is behaving responsibility. Cash behaving responsibly is microsoft says it would bring all of the data into the united increase a lot of the safeguards that are already on tiktok any you would increase that as well. Microsoft says it will go above and beyond in termsg of try protect peoples data. Ros the chinese governmt is far from impressed by this, qs in the u. S. Of double standards and discriminating against chinese companies. The u. S. Has been stretching without evidence. Only based on f guilt. Nit is threatening cert businesses and goes against market economy principles, and has exposed its hypocrisy in upholding fairness and freedoms. Ros we will seet we outcome is, but understand what is going on, experts sayate need to loohe wider context of u. S. Chiprelations while identrump has been in the white house. Donald trump, when he was campaigning to be president ,d e combative stance towards china. He wanted to make it out that he would have a specl relationship with president xi, but since he has been in office, we have had a trade war and has not gotten that trade deal through. If anything, you can say the tensions have ratcheted up, and what we are looking at as a tential tech cold where cold war, where technology is the battlefield in many ways. Tiktok needs to be seen in that wider context. Ros narr presentation of this program is provided by. Language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. 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