Were going to discuss all right its time to boost your news i knew. The right directly tween the United States and iran is heating up even more today threats are being volleyed from both sides after a Close Encounter at sea for more on increasing fears for a full on battle breaking out between iran and the u. S. Our teams Rachel Blevins is joining us from the news room with more to this rachel well manila does not appear that either the United States or wrong is backing down following a dispute in the persian gulf President Trump said he stands by the order he gave to the u. S. Navy and if any iranian vessels get too close to an American Ship he expects the navy to quote shoot them out of the water we dont want the room. In our budgets and traveling around our boats and having a good time we dont want him anywhere near a bus and say you know the order it gave it all they got to say it again but ive given that order its a threat when they get that close to a vote and they have guns they have very substantial weapons on those boats but will shoot them out of the water. Now in response to terms of warning the head of irans revolutionary guard fired back and said his forces have been directed to retaliate against any American Forces who threaten the safety of their military or nonmilitary vessels. Will he tell you we have ordered our naval units at sea in case any warships or a military units from the naval forces of americas terrorist army wants to jeopardize our commercial vessels in that selection or that they must target those warships or naval units. While the u. S. Accused iran of dangerous and provocative maneuvers in the persian gulf last week or ron has argued it was forced to increase its patrol presence after the u. S. Fell to follow protocols iran has presented the dispute as an issue of National Security noting the proximity to their countrys border irans foreign minister took to twitter writing quote u. S. 6 forces have no business 7000 miles away from home provoking our sailors off our own persian gulf shores the latest conflict also follows the launch of irans 1st military satellite pentagon officials were quick to argue that the launch was evidence of threatening behavior claiming a secret military Space Program could be a step towards creating ballistic missiles. I dont tell you exactly what the intelligence is because thats classified information but what i can tell you is that when a very long way if you have a missile that goes a very long way. Whether or not to put a satellite in space or not i wont go into those details but it would a very long way which means it has the ability once again to threaten. Their neighbors or a large that we want to make sure that they can never throw the United States while u. S. Officials claim the launch violates International Law reports of noted that satellite launches do not violate irans 2015 International Nuclear accord which the term been astray she pulled out of back in 28 team after removing the u. S. From the deal trumper. Target are wrong with increasing sanctions attempting to cut off the countrys oil sales altogether but now that oil prices are historically low iranian president rouhani says his country is not hurting nearly as much as other countries because their economy no longer relies on oil exports meanwhile oil prices are on the rise again with the Global Benchmark surging nearly 40 percent on thursday after hitting a 21 year low earlier this week this reminding the world of the power that comes with even the prospect of an International Conflict as it remains to be seen whether the latest exchange of threats between the u. S. And iran will develop into a military conflict reporting in the newsroom racial blevins r t. In a confrontational tweet President Donald Trump is ramping up tensions between the u. S. And iran when he instructed the u. S. Navy to shoot down and destroy any iranian vessel that harasses American Warships along the persian gulf now this amid the coronavirus pandemic with u. S. Numbers nearing a 1000000 and iran leading the way out of the middle east still the persian gulf remains a tinderbox just one move away from a flare up so joining us to discuss former u. K. M. P. George Galloway George we know that trump is the 1st politician to use twitter for diplomatic relations or i guess in this case diplomatic but now even his former National Security advisor john bolton is doing the same thing hes weighing in on iran yesterday tweeting this he said quote irans launch of a military satellite is proof we are still not applying enough pressure deterrence has not been restored and coronavirus is not slowing down the ayatollah irans goal remains i. C. B. M. s capable of carrying Nuclear Weapons they cannot be trusted now george people thought once bolton was removed from his post that things went with iran would simmer down apparently not now well. No definitely although it could all be just a ploy to drive the oil price up and if it is its working. President was very clear that he would do anything to rescue the us or learn gas business so driving up the price is a good way of doing that but on the assumption that one slip can let loose the dogs of war its a very troubling time and it contrasts completely with the call by the secretary general of the United Nations right at the beginning of this demick and the. Guns should be stilled sanctions should be lessened instead sanctions are being ramped up and guns are evermore ready to bark and indeed are barking in other theaters but in the persian gulf the clue is in the name manila the power of 7000 miles from the United States where the u. S. Navy is provocatively patrolling the most likely spark that could lead to a very big conflagration but the u. S. Has forces in colombia maneuvering on the borders of venezuela you wouldnt be surprised to wake up and discover that military action had begun and i was shocked even i was shocked when the ancient treasure of palmira in syria one of the wonders of the world was actually bombed by israel this very week israel is still bombing syria even in the middle of the corona yeah so it sounds like the u. S. And israel have very similar plans going on during coronavirus but george why do you think President Trump has this i dont know how to describe it except maybe a fascination with iran is it because his predecessor. President obama had a breakthrough with that nation or could there be something deeper than that and also george i realize that Boris Johnson has just recently recovered from coronavirus but we havent heard americas allies speaking up. No i think the british and the europeans are very anxious about the ramping up of rhetoric trumps behaving a bit like dr strangelove correct area or rather the man that got astride the rock and headed for russia in the epic who brick movie of that name so i dont expect youll hear much support of rhetoric coming from europe because people are worried. You know one ward one slip and the dogs of war are unleashed and cry havoc and what i have or it would be the straits of hormuz well 30 percent of the worlds oil passes through this geostrategic. I think President Trump is obsessed by president obamas breakthrough on the Iran Nuclear Deal or a but i also think hes actually cracked on much really close to saudi arabia and people in his own family even more close and i think the iran with a vengeance because saudi arabia does too. And lastly george looking back at American History since president jimmy carter 1st accused iran of state sponsored terrorism virtually every american president who followed has told that same narrative why is that. Well the United States could not have been closer to the lee shah of iran the greatest tyrant the middle east has ever known and theres a lot of competition for the title since he was overthrown and the United States was revealed the revelation was necessary to have been up to their neck in. Friending says people rose up in their millions to overthrow. The picture has been as bad as it could possibly be between the United States and iran ironically it isnt people really love america they really love america they would like to be more like america but every time the United States is the screw with more and more sanctions the danger of more and more war in the middle class the young people that would otherwise be quite cruel america. Because ive been surprised. How people actually would much rather have good relations with america rather about those dagos drawn all the. Time believe you hit it hit the nail on the head there george i will have to leave it right there George Galloway appreciate your time today. But youre. Right there is no doubt the u. S. Economy is in peril the latest unemployment numbers are out bringing the total number of americans out of work to 26000000 meantime Many Americans are still waiting for their government stimulus checks to arrive all the while there are reports now that dead people have already gotten theirs are to spare in front i can joining us in studio shes been following the story so far and how i dont fill me in here how is this even possible dead people getting checks right so on the surface it looks really bad but theres actually a whole thing going on here and what that is is that dead people yes again have already gotten their stimulus check the government has even admitted to this happening but its a double edged sword because the i. R. S. Is trying to send out these payments as quickly as possible as everybody is suffering but each state keeps track of death records which are that reported to the i. R. S. But while the coronavirus is killing tens of thousands of people theres obviously going to be a time lag and that is ultimately another development. Boy do we know how many how many deceased people have received money so we do not know that number right now but we do know that the i. R. S. Has issued 80000000 payments and ultimately some 170000000 people will be getting paid but unfortunately this is not the 1st time that weve seen this little fiasco happened back in 2009 during the Great Recession we had 52000000 people they got a check for 250. 71 of those people were dead which was a good 17000000 dollars and one percent of those payments given out now you do have President Trump saying that you know hey sometimes you give the bad check to you give a check to the wrong person were going to try to take it back but then you have legal experts monella saying that if you were alive when this stimulus plan passed and then you die legally you are entitled to that check so it would go to next of kin maybe possibly this is all New Territory fair and i know so ok since were on the subject subject of checks there are alive people that are also not getting their checks so what about those unemployment numbers so it is not looking good at all the dow jones actually predicted that last week there would be 4300000 new jobs our new unemployment claims it was actually little higher than that 4400000 now you can see by looking here at this chart the only good news is that last week there was a decline of 810000 but that still its 4400000. 00 that is would be the equivalent to everyone in the entire city of chicago and phoenix filing for unemployment now the department of labor comes out with their new rate calculation in 2 weeks but its projected to be around 23 percent the rate during the Great Depression was 24 percent of the grand total over the past 5 weeks 26500000 this has protesters continuing to take to the streets in some states not following the social distancing rules and calling for the country to get back to work arguing that these stay at home orders are destroying the economy by employers lets have those go in those upper stored in the capital work. Were struggling because we dont have the other half of what im looking to help with friends and family members that i know that have been impacted by this. Thing their business is on the verge of cant sustain a story longer so i have friends and neighbors know these businesses that are dark theyre dying theres a lot of businesses that will not be able to reopen. Now the house is expected to vote and approve the 484000000000. 00 corona virus relief bill which the Senate Passed on tuesday so its not the house that will be sending it over to the president s desk which president has promised to quickly sign it now this bill is geared toward Small Businesses and hospitals and another big ad is the 25000000000. 00 for coronavirus testing in manila this bill follows a similar one approved a last week however that one actually ran out of money so fast it was scooped up mainly by restaurant chains and National Hotels so that resulted in this latest bill having to be put forth through the house still a lot going on there in france i thank you for filing that report. Right so can advanced technology solve our social distancing problems and how much of your privacy is at risk on this so were going to talk about that with our friends one coming up and then at sports regina ham brings us an update on the penalties for the Boston Red Sox that. People are really remarking that 2020 is a mirror image of 2008 is the exact same problem banks over leveraged blew themselves up in are now demanding a bailout at the point of a gun from the fed and other Central Banks and except this time the dislocation in the economy combined with the coronavirus is so great that weve tripped over into medieval ism so messed up this. The world is driven by a dream shaped by. The dares thinks. We dare to ask. Is youll be via reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Tyson nation will community. Are you going the right way or are you being led so. Direct. What is true what is faith. In the world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Aura made in the shallowness. Tech geeks are thrilled over a wall ways release of the mate pad 10. 4 chinese retailers like j. D. Dot com and the mall the companys official we bow account have already listed the phone on their sites mobile phone tech fans are talking up the phone slim slate high density pixel resolution support full h. D. Plus display and of course the slim bezels surrounding the screen looks pretty cool. And with millions of americans on the verge of returning to work for the 1st time since the start of this nation wide stay at home order many businesses will require employees to abide by the 6 foot social distancing rules but how do you actually enforce that while technology of course and her eggs start up company landing ai has created a workplace monitoring tool that issues an alert when anyone is less than the desired social distance from a colleague so joining us to discuss the mess cohost and investigative journalist ben swan so ben how does this social distancing detector actually work. Yeah it sounds like a terrible way to work doesnt mean the way this works is one side you have a live feed essentially of people going about their work working inside of a factory or work inside an office on the other side of a monitor you have essentially a different screen that is monitoring how close those people are from each other in a soon as somebody comes within 6 feet of another person the screen goes from green a little square around them from green to red and it shows you that theyre too close to each other and this is already being deployed by the way in certain warehouses in a certain factories including foxconn you know the big developer of i phones the ones that actually manufacture and make i phones in china they are now instituting this is well as Companies Like amazon which have their own version of it where they are monitoring employees to figure out whether or not employees are in their words violating social distancing orders amazon has warned employees that you can be fired if you go within 6 feet of another employee oh no my word ok thats a bit much but ok i guess theyre really trying to take this seriously so a number of companies are also buying thermal Imaging Equipment to screen workers temperatures maybe when theyre walking in or what have you how much demand is there for this kind of technology right now. Well it turns out theres actually a lot of demand theres 2 Companies One called clear systems the other one is called seek thermal incorporated and apparently both of them are struggling they say to keep up with the demand right now for those thermal imaging cameras which again would be inside of Office Spaces and warehouses monitoring peoples temperature as you walk by the cameras essentially looking at you and trying to determine whether or not you in fact have a fever and youre running a fever and by the way some of these companies you know as i mentioned amazon says that theyre now employing thermal imaging cameras so theyre not only monitoring it for social distancing amazons also putting in these thermal cameras they have not said who theyre using for this technology but those 2 companies i just mentioned fleer and seek thermal both of them saw that their stock price rise dramatically after amazon said they d are employing this because as amazon goes so goes so many other companies and then one step further on this as a chinese startup called rowe can i think develop some thermal imag