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This is every day. This routine about stretching my bad. Area no longer has a place to live shes been sleeping in her van for a year now. Looks pretty nice you know you dont see it doesnt seem to you live here but you do i have seen people with their cars so messy and things all over the place how can i go to work with my life like that i mean has to have a little order you know because this is what we need to continue it is not that perfect but its. Thats the way i won and it makes me feel better. Just like maria around 30 other people sleep overnight in their car in this free parking lot nevertheless most of them work their Security Guards who were drivers secretaries or even computer technicians. Gloria is a cleaner and a care exhausting work that she does 7 days a week. Well it. Depends where my car 8 is if its like this i wont have to be flat because my back hurts if its like better. To provide some comfort for all these people an organization that has supplied them with a water point portable toilets and a small outdoor kitchen where maria prepares her Morning Coffee before going to work. This kind of wood while it broke up in the kitchen as a famous in the United States. Reus fall from grace is a situation that affects thousands of other americans. For a long time she had everything she always wanted. She was married and lived in this beautiful house. But after 5 years of living together her blissful marriage suddenly fell apart. She could adopt me dump me as ok it didnt work bye bye ok bye bye see ya later there were no i dont have. No bed no no furniture or no house. Its just my car i have a seat here. And. Now thats the way it is maria didnt get to keep a single thing she preferred to leave everything to her exhusband and turn over a brand new leaf but over the last several years in california the cost of rent has risen so much that her salary of 1500 euros was not enough to afford an apartment ever since then every morning before heading to work she goes to this gym she exercises for 45 minutes but she mainly comes for another rather urgent need i have to take this decision because i have no place to shower. One time i can shower for a week feel farrel let me tell you you feel like a home and. Thinking. That why should i be doing if i thought oh but you him so i came here of. Her membership costs her 40. 00 euros a month the cost of continuing a near normal life. Upon leaving the gym no one would notice that maria no longer has a house and that she sleeps in her car. In the quandary job because of that because if i dont shower nobodys going to hire me im going to be homeless no car no not kill myself. Cesc if he gets it. Maria is just one of many middle class american citizens who have in recent years fallen into poverty. And officially america is great again since the 2008 crisis the economy has never been stronger a record breaking growth and unemployment has dropped to a historical low less than 4 percent an upturn for which don. Trump has claimed all the credit. There has never been a better time just start living the American Dream but despite what the president firms the famous American Dream is far from being achieved in the United States 40000000 people are living below the poverty line and millions of workers will go to Great Lengths to stay above it to get my mail plus i get that i did it twice a week becoming homeless overnight is what these americans fear most because here the system is not very kind of those short of cash but a catch up real quick for youre going to have a judgment of possession against you and get a ticket in some states being late on your rent is no laughing matter. Here one by one tenants are they good at gunpoint women awfully active even the whole thing about need. For these americans on the verge of ruin seeking medical treatment can cost a fortune hard to eat and take your medicine to because you may not get one or the other. So some people are standing up in solidarity making sure theyre taken care of free of charge in field hospitals not unlike those found in a country at war and insight into the lives of those who cannot scrape a living in the heart of destitute america. San diego in Southern California 300. 00 days of sunshine a year beaches as far as the eye can see an idyllic setting a picture postcard california san diego is also one of the most dynamic cities in the country here unemployment is practically nonexistent. This dream lifestyle was once an everyday reality for eric he was a successful computer. Engineer earning 7000 euros a month today at 53 years old this man lives alone in his car and to eat for free hes made an agreement with the employees of a pizzeria. Hello. How are you today. It looks yes. Thank you. But do you take your that these are the slices that they have in their display that they havent for too long then they put them in the fridge for me so that they donate them. To. Eric comes every evening to pick up some pizza. Thank you very much very much appreciate it ok bye. Hes going to share these unsold slices with other victims of poverty because for a year and a half eric has been sleeping in this parking lot the one where maria the cleaner also lives with his pizza he makes his neighbors very happy. Theres a lot. Like lorella a 55 year old driver next. Door. Our hungry. Do not today no no no i had to drive on did. In his former life eric also worked a lot 50 hours a week but 4 years ago he suffered a burnout as well as a series of Health Problems including problems with his heart he could not work and received Unemployment Benefits for 6 months and then nothing at all i can handle i thought i would get better. But its not a full enough for several years on how to stay on with doctors now and throwing furniture my savings. I ended up. Basically burning through everything and was the. Afford to stay in a farm and. Eric is trying to pick himself up nowadays hes doing temporary work in a saving up to be able to rent an apartment. After a long day at work maria is back. To her. Yeah its where i work its a little hard if. I have to lift a lady shes gay had a. Back and forth back and. 9 hours is. If its a lot of hours but im ok. Thirsty my food the bed im ready to jump in my bed if it comes time. At half past 9 at night the gates closed from this point onward no more cars can enter the parking lot at night there isnt a Security Guard and even though there hasnt been any attacks this doesnt reassure maria. I close the door put the we know down like this much and put the alarm if somebody is trying to break in i will know i come at the 1st break. And my head might cut or some a trying to break in she spray. Because. You never know. And that. A few meters away eric is getting ready to spend another night in his car even though the passenger compartment is full to the brim the former computer engineer will sleep sitting behind the wheel certainly far from the comforts of his old life. And one thing that ive really found out about this is that you know the typical stereo. Of. You know the homeless person being lazy and not wanting to work or being a drug addict. That may be the case in some places and some and some but the people ive come to in this program most of them are very hardworking people who want to get ahead that either have some some Health Issues or have some of how district about luck or for whatever reason. Theyve you know come into this is this this situation some people are able to get out of it quickly some people take longer. California is a state of stark contrasts despite being the 6th largest economy in the world more and more of its workers can no longer afford somewhere to live but there is another state where the system is even more unforgiving. This state is virginia right next to washington d. C. And in particular its capital city Richmond Richmond is a former Industrial City here a quarter of the population live beneath the poverty threshold. Richmond also holds an unfortunate record this city has one of the highest rates of addiction in the United States there are 3000. 00 the actions per year thats 25. 00 times more than in paris. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. 6. In seoul you cant get away from advertisement jeanne you change your appearance. Many local. People see Plastic Surgery as a prerequisite for a successful career employers are often most interested in a job seekers appearance as a graduation present parents often give daughters Plastic Surgery for an extra few feet in the eyelids to make their eyes look bigger. Almost every korean teenager dreams of looking just a needles. The addictions are a routine job for officer loyal from the Sheriffs Office several times a week he distributes these yellow documents. How you. Can just live here ok this was a notice set up placed on your door sort of action notice you need to get in touch with a management property manager here if you feel the same correct but we said eviction for august the 7th at 9 oclock. Ok thank you maam. In the state of virginia the law is strict if the rent is late by 5 days the landlord has the right to begin the eviction process a few weeks later the tenant receives a notice on their door. You know what you know to. Go for the one week you know you. Will take it out. Sometimes carried away by his own enthusiasm officer loyal is not always accurate. How are you are you are you. Now the she there here now this is. This house morning nick. This woman who has nothing to feel guilty about got away with nothing more than a fright. Im sorry maam were at the wrong apartment thanking. The threatening tenants have one week to settle their debts otherwise they face eviction by force and officer loyal does not show much sympathy. This morning he and his colleague must take the person that lives in this house. Its the. Sheriffs office. And just like arresting a dangerous criminal. They enter the home armed with guns. Sheriffs office. Right now the tenant is not at home and clearly has not had time to vacate the premises. And on youre ok. As for the landlord he immediately reclaim his property on average in france it takes a year and a half to evict someone whilst here it happens in almost an instant in less than 2 months everything is settled change everything im checking the windows. To make sure there is a secure. The tenant has just arrived and is in shock. She had been renting the house for 7 years a single mother to a grown up daughter she works but has frequently struggled to make ends meet she can only pick up her belongings the next day otherwise everything will go to the junk yard at her expense. That. Is just going to be easy on you like to be a chorus in a backyard or whatever if you were having removed because if he has a token ring remove it and as an added expense that youd be looking at yes i mean just to think all this is. You act like its hard not you gotta do we gotta do what i gotta do what i gotta do what are you going to sleep why am i going to sleep now that if we can all say about me. Yes i can yeah you have a good day shes thrown out on the streets with no room for negotiation this is the only way it moves originally. Thats up to her if thats the only way she said she would move before this and move. Maybe she knew what it. You know she never did say that to me. There are around 10 divisions just like this one every day in richmond as a consequence of this express just as Budget Hotels on the outskirts of the city have become a refuge for those whove been kicked out of their homes some people stay there for a very long time this is the case where david a 38 year old gardener. Was going. Sammul sam on new day. David has lived in this motel since his addiction 2 years ago at the weekend this divorced fathers children come to stay over and his 10 square meter room for which he pays 1300. 00 euros a month. This is it managed as our bed bedroom living room family room everywhere and this is the Little Kitchen which i cooked our eggs last night and made hamburgers and clean the dishes you know we played video games and bathroom. You know got a shower but thats about all. During the week david shares the single room which is bursting with things with his new partner. He didnt look too hot. For 2 years here man on one cramped in ike obviously if you put 2 people in the same room for a long enough time its theirs you know bump heads and have arguments and stuff his girlfriend has a stable job in the Insurance Business as a couple they could buy themselves a bigger and less expensive apartment yet they remain trapped in this tiny room because their past a big one continues to haunt them but at the time she was trying to 1st and when you get so be down by going to places and stuff and im not theyre not giving you a place because theyre like oh you had an addiction its you know shows that you didnt pay just like 2 months or Something Like that and it definitely was detrimental to it you know there was no way of getting anywhere. It is almost unthinkable in europe but here landlords are able to access the past of bad tenants with a few simple clicks a systematic surveillance that has been denounced by martin veg bright a lawyer and defense attorney for tenants. So. This database is a public database i mean anyone can go onto this database and look at it and you can search by name so lets try a common a common american name or we get america less speak ok. There we go and you can see 5 on lawful detainers lets see 10 years ago this tenant had a series of late payments despite being small amounts like this 291. 00 they can bear heavy consequences. So if im a landlord i can look at that and say well that was 10 years ago but i think shes too much of a risk i dont want to rent to her if anything bad happens to you whether its you know you get your hours cut back at work whether or you break an ankle when youre off work for a month whether you got that car repair bill or that hospital bill or any thing that just throws your budget off slightly you better catch up real quick or youre going to have a judgment of possession against you and get addicted so the tenant really is living under the sword of damocles. With such a system its difficult to imagine how david could one day leave his motel and buy himself an apartment in which he could properly house his children. In a situation like this too if youre depressed and you sit in one little room by yourself alarm or he end up trying to enter on you know doing something stupid and thank god jenkins my only advice right now. Trying to be. A decent person and going to. David is far from an isolated case 6300 people are addicted throughout america each day although in the city finding accommodation is the main source of anxiety there is a region where for some the main worry is simply being able to put food on the table. Welcome to Rural America the appalachian in the eastern part of the country a mountainous region. Appalachian was once widely known for its Coal Production these days almost all the mines are closed down it is often said that the American Dream got lost somewhere along the way to here. The Appalachian Region with a predominantly white population is where the poorest counties in the country are found. During the summer at lunch time this food truck travels up and down the disadvantaged areas of roanoke. Loose and stacey are 2 volunteers that give out free meals to children. In the School System you get lunch and you get breakfast so a lot a lot of families depend on that lunch or breakfast that they dont necessarily have to buy if that makes sense because a sole School System will provide it for them. But in the summer from june to mid august theres no school so then where theres most coming from so thats where we kind of step in they serve up to 200 meals a day. And every time they arrive they are eagerly awaited. I dont know how you know. Because. They are begin to see how sick hungry yes i am starving. Them get. On todays menu a sandwich a carton of milk and a kiwi in this family both parents do not work they receive 1200. 00 euros of social welfare a month but as a family of 5 its barely enough to live on. Well ill try to get in at least 2. 00 to 3. 00 but towards the end of the month when the stamps from. Maybe one. Of the articles will now be on the them all i dont want to i want to have this when i usually skip breakfast to launch. For us to watch in the night and thats only if you know yes only right being poor to the point of starving yourself to see tomorrow they did not write they. Already this reality is nothing new in the Appalachian Region. 1964 during his Election Campaign president johnson visited appalachian he was horrified by this poverty once elected he launched a master plan to put an end to poverty today here and now declares on the foundation no war on poverty in america. One of his ideas was to create food stamps which were food coupons given free of charge to the poor. And. Still to this day the government distributes these food stamps to 40000000 American People in this Mobile Home Park in the heart of the appalachian the majority of families benefit from this food in. With the American Flag hanging from the front steps this is the mobile home a 58 year old siren e. A collins a former marine siren ia no longer works following a long term illness she receives a pension of 700 euros so every day she tries to get by. In the troubled 19 seventies a group of killers rampage through parts of Northern Ireland that was coordinated loyalist attacks to take the only catholic population in belfast tens of thousands were forced to flee their homes and what was striking to point these attacks was that the are you see the Police Actually took part in the attacks so instead of preventing it they were active participants in the burning of coal streets in belfast at the time more than a 100 innocent civilians were unloaded as the review can seniors and we found out more i was surprised about the extent and of the crates which the pollution was involved in some of those cases they killers would later be named into then and were getting i think it went to the very very top i think it is for all the water where all the taste you on and give the go ahead to. The simple things workshops hymns and petersburg our public spaces where adults with learning disabilities can engage on equal terms with creative activities like graphics sewing ceramics. Cookery and joinery. Just living do you should whats in your 4. 100 yard justice what did you give one case a couple of. The underlying idea of the workshop is a calendar of happiness which they feel thrilled to find joy in the Little Things of. If. If. Welcoming our viewers from around the world live from Central London this is r. T. U. K. The u. K. Prime minister and Commission President agreed that there will be no extension to the brics a trade talks beyond the end of the year. The report finds 25000 patients were discharged into care homes without being tested during the peak of the u. K. s Coronavirus Infections we hear from a former regional director of Public Health. The government is urged to fast track the publication of a study into how to protect minority communities from coburg 19 after an earlier report failed to provide any recommendations for the reaction of an n. H. S. Doctor. And Boris Johnson has announced plans for a course Governmental Commission to look at racial inequality in society such as Oxford University of african and caribbean societies says they no longer feel comfortable working on outreach programs that encourage other black students to apply ill be talking to an activist. Prime minister Boris Johnson claims the e. U. And u. K. Are far apart on agreeing a trade deal after both sides accepted that there wouldnt be an extension beyond december 31st but it comes as e. U. Leaders insist that brussels wont sign up to a deal at any cost raising the prospect of a no deal exit what it took us through the latest developments are to you case well he said thank you very much been going on. Well Boris Johnson the Prime Minister has been holding a Video Conference call with the european Commission President blondel lyon and of course theyre trying to pick up the reins where negotiators left off there i have already been for rounds of talks between the 2 sides with very little progress made and mr johnson is on the line and perhaps hoping that they can take things further with the on the line saying that things do need to intensify if a deal is to be done by the end of december which is when of course the transition period ends. We supported the plans agreed by chief negotiators to unset densify the talks in july and to create the most conducive conditions for concluding and ratifying a deal before the end of 2020 this would include if possible finding an early understanding on the principles underlying any agreement we underlined our intention to work hard to deliver a relationship which would work in the interests of the citizens of the union and of the United Kingdom we also confirmed our commitment to the full and timely implementation of the withdrawal agreement. Council president Charles Michel has also taken to twitter to say that a broad agreement is in both sides interest saying the e. U. Side are ready to put a tiger in the tank but not by a pig in a poke i believe what he means by that is that the e. U. Will not be willing to accept any deal which doesnt meet their own negotiating red lines of what they believe are less standards full and a good deal now have been a number of Sticking Points on these talks one of them includes a comprehensive trade a lot full that would take we take a look at some of these past ticking points lead you would like to see a comprehensive all encompassing trade deal that covers all sectors and industries while the u. K. Would like to have sector by sector agreement on a case by case basis the we also want there to be a level Playing Field in terms of u. K. Businesses not being able to drop that africa up environmental food standards or labor regulations which would give them an advantage of the European Companies fishing rights as well of course the e. U. Continue to want access to british waters but for many british fishermen this is long been a question of sovereignty and its something which the british side will likely not bite on and then of course there is the irish border which was the main Sticking Point leading up to the u. K. Actually leaving the European Union at the end of january what to do with the border what kind of checks will be in place at fort hood and people well the u. K. Has until the end of this year to figure out whether they want to have an agreement an extension to apology the end of this month to agree whether they want to have an extension to that transition period but today another outcome of that phone call is that both sides have agreed that will not be an extension to the transition period beyond december 31st which means both sides do need to intensify their talks as they have said both Boris Johnson and on the line coming out of that meeting that there needs to be renewed energy the needs to be renewed impetus in talks if an agreement is to be struck in time if thats the case thank you very much. Now reports has revealed thousands of u. K. Hospital patients were discharged into care homes without being tested for corona virus during the peak of infections. The National Audit office has confirmed that between march the 17th and april the 15th around 25000 patients were discharged from hospitals into care homes hospitals were advised to move or medically fit patients without symptoms not all of them were tested for covert 19 before being discharged the policy was implemented to increase capacity and free up beds for acute Health Care Needs and it was changed on april 15th war than one in 3 care homes subsequently declared an outbreak with at the peak over a 1000 homes dealing with positive cases or care homes account for around a half of all coronavirus related deaths in england in response to the reports the department of health and social care spokesperson defended the governments actions. We have been working tirelessly with the care sector throughout to reduce transmission and save lives and as a result 60 percent of care homes have had no break its whole according to the latest Public Health england statistics of the war on corona virus and u. K. Care homes are now joined by the former regional director of Public Health thats Professor John ashton john thank you very much for joining us 25000 discharged back into care homes without testing thats a shocking number. Well shocking is the word i was going to use and its also very sad and you know were looking at probably around hard of the 60000. 00 covert deaths have taken place in care homes. Here we have a government spokesman. Being very proud of the fact that only 40 percent of current homes have had cases thats something to be ashamed of you know hong kong hasnt had a single death in occur theyve quarantined the patients who became poorly in them and theyve prevented it from happening what we had here is that because the government was desperate not to have the embarrassment of the National Health service not coping they discharged very large numbers of people about a 3rd of the hospital beds were emptied out to unable to take patients and. Weve seen this awful situation where people obviously carrying the virus have taken it into care and fired off a 2nd epidemic thats been running through the current homes of a sense that the government have course for the crisis in. Well were told marrow as they minutes of the Sage Committee have gradually been released that they were very concerned about holmes at the beginning and you know this is yet another example of where the government has said over and over again were following the science but they know the advice of sage when it came to the importance of having care homes on their radar and they allowed this to happen i mean it was made worse by the failure to provide personal protective equipment to the care homes so that they at the dome it was able to take off like wildfire been the worst situation. In durham where they had 26 deaths of residents 26 deaths in want her home you cant call for this becoming a criminal they sure. Id like somebody to explain to me why this is not manslaughter because this was entirely predictable and i want somebody to explain to me why this is not been slaughtered well theres also newspaper poll claiming that the government relaxed strict controls in hospitals at the height of the pandemic princess avoiding using agency staff and then allowing that to happen again. Well yes i mean you know this is typical of whats going on im afraid every step over us every step has been flawed in the management of this outbreak its been run as a political payoff exercise not as a Public Health exercise informed openly and transparently by the evidence of Public Health people who know what its like on the ground to protect peoples d health its been treated as a p. R. Exercise the people running the press conferences and running the messaging have been people who normally running political campaigns. Just as this group around the Election Campaign last winter when the problems were down here he hasnt been that its a medical decision to decision to discharge but of course there was pressure he said himself in hospitals to free up the beds wasnt the same as a balancing act well as you say i mean this is what they barricade now that the governments put a concert you know it was for the medics to decide whether they were less out of the hospital or not but because people hadnt been tested because of the failure to have adequate testing then people they conditions were working in the dark you know so here weve had several things coming together the failure to take the care home situation seriously the faily its a test the failure yet again to have personal protective equipment and really regarding elderly folk you know the treasures of everybodys family life so regard them basically as cannon fodder for the epidemic and finally that john the guidance that was given to care homes and said to me should have been a medical issue rather than a political issue shouldnt it. Absolutely that guy should have been led by the Public Health of fortunately there were no practical Public Health people involved in advising the government and it seems that its always just a good trip to be assertive enough with their advice speaking truth to power with the politicians and the political mess messaging dominated thats the problem thats the tragedy of this m wave 60000 families they raved those with relatives think its incredibly sad it shocking its tragic and i think someone needs to explain why this is not been slow to professor joshua thank you very much indeed for your fals thank you. Started coming down. The government 35 to study into the effect of chi but 90 dont think one or 2 groups alter that here at home well to get the right recommendations probably talking to an n. H. S. Talked. To says across the Governmental Commission to look at regulating inequality in u. K. System i think after weeks of black last night i protest but thats wrong spent african and Caribbean Society say they dont feel comfortable working on that week programs aimed at encouraging other black students to study that we hear from an activist. Is your media a reflection of reality. In a world transformed. What will make you feel safe. Isolation or community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Directly to. What is truly what is great. In a world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. Or remain in the shallows. Welcome back a group of families in the u. K. Whove lost relatives to covert 19 are demanding an urgent Public Inquiry into the governments response to the pandemic the family has a calling for a review into the life and death steps that need to be taken in order to stop the spread of the virus they also want to guarantee from the u. K. Government that all documents relating to the cove in 1000. 00 response will be kept on record. Or meanwhile the Prime Minister is also facing calls to urgently publish a report with recommendations on how to protect s think minority communities from coronavirus. It follows the recent publication of a Public Health England Review which exposed that black asian and other ethnic minority people are dying at a greater rate from the virus the government document was heavily criticized over its failure to include pages containing recommendations about how to protect ethnic minorities or darning street has since confirmed a 2nd report is due to be published this week including evidence from 4000. 00 ethnic minority individuals and organizations it reportedly includes safeguarding measures including improving Data Collection about ethnicity and religion Compulsory Health risk assessments for frontline workers and tackling racism in the Health Service but a scientist who was asked to peer review the unpublished recommendations says withholding information from parliament undermines the review if you consult the public you must publish the results otherwise youve wasted their time youve wasted your own time youve wasted taxpayers money and youve lost the trust. Public Health England has defended its execution of Counter Measures in its initial review saying these were supposed to be separate. The government commissioned Public Health england to conduct an epidemiological review to analyze how different factors can impact on Peoples Health outcomes from coal that 19 in parallel professor kevin fenton on Public Health englands behalf engaged with a significant number of individuals and organizations within that the a. M. E. Community to hear their views concerns and ideas about the impact of covert 19 on their communities this important to engage in that work will inform the work the qualities minister is now taking forward we intend to both formally submit this work to the minister next week and well publish it at the same time. Well have more on the 2nd Public Health angered reports joining us now is n. H. S. Doctor dr action and ive got to thank you very much for joining us why isnt time so important when it comes to publishing recommendations like things. I think its important because partly weve you know the society is starting to open up and i think its very important that as we see is this is a nation starts to mobilize in some sort of way that we do have some guidance in place around who are the hardest risk and i think its not just necessarily sort of the be a i mean population but actually since youre looking at how do we restricted by the majority of people that were asking to go back to work without the knowledge sensual shops opening or whether that will still be for our front line of it yes well the report is due to be published this week how do you expect the findings to change things. I dont think it changes things i think it highlights something its probably formalized something weve known for some time in specially when we talk about the recommendations and i think recommendations car you know if we look at some of the true cools it why are the am me and im an individuals affected more you know a lot of it is based it is multifactorial obviously but you know when we when we refer to things like overcrowding or multi generations living in a home or the fact that majority or a lot of proportion of key workers are from from machination. I think were more she said i think the reality is is that were not going to say well you cant go to work and i think thats going to be the advice get me understanding individualized risk and using a rich stratification tool to ensure that everybody has that number one member to i think weve got to start to make testing a lot wider and i think you know whilst it is there for front line workers now what you you know were very welcomed but i think certainly for why the population testing would need to be start to be commenced well the 2nd report reportedly also cites racism and discrimination as a major reason behind why i think minority cave in 1000 deaths writes is that youre here. To be very you know my my view is my view and i think if the reports suggest that and i think that there you know we have had a lot about sort of what was cut out of the 1st report and why it was kept out but the reality is is people who are clearly feeling that this is an element behind some of the outcomes and i think if it is kate that it is and the reality is that you know i think my opinion here probably is not so relevant but one report did find that social economic factors are the only ones at play could there be something genetic behind this. I think there is an element of. You know what sort of predisposition do we have those you know are im of Indian Origin originally and theres one thing i can say about my own population is that we are predisposed to developing diabetes we are more predisposed developing sort of outcomes post might occur in the virus or heart attack so we know that there is something there and the reality is is that we just need to make sure that it does go back to that the fact that we need Lifestyle Changes that are across the board not just in be any individual and finally dr angela very briefly if you dont mind what do you think needs to change to tackle this issue. I think we need more transparency we need to do things a lot quicker i do often feel you know ive been on the frontline since this all started out not have pretty much a day off really and the reality is that things just cant happen quick enough you know this huge amount of learning we can take from this globally we were arguably not the 1st country to. Experience opposed to this i think things could have happened quicker we could have been more transparent about things and quite frankly i think. Once you start to struggle with just keeping your show time which at which it felt like that for much of this pandemic that you know we needed more organization not to and then i got to thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you thank you. Now the u. K. Prime minister has announced plans for across Governmental Commission to look at racial inequality in society as a response to the black last night of protest what i really want to do is Prime Minister is change the narrative so we stop the sense of victimization and discrimination we stamp out racism and we start to have a real expectation of success. But that use of the word victimization has led to some groups describing Boris Johnsons comments as condescending to the community is pledging to help it comes as black students at Oxford University have expressed disappointment with the institution with one claiming they cannot in good conscience tell any black student to apply the oxford african and Caribbean Society says the university needed to to do more to foster an inclusive antiracist environment. There is a general perception that the university continues to indicate that it is more offended by the identification of racism than the actuality of his lived experience it is with Great Sadness that we have seen a number of students disillusioned to the point that they no longer feel comfortable being involved with University Access and outreach initiatives while oxford has previously been criticized for a lack of diversity with the no to be low number of black stuff and students but they have since financially invested in diversifying it also comes as demonstrators protested in favor of removing the School Statue of the imperialists esle wrote the universitys vice chancellor has admitted to failings. While much is being done by many committed people we acknowledge that we are rightly reproached for our collective failure to address the issue of systemic racism properly and that we have work to do well for more on this issue are now joined by maya garbus from the Oxford Brookes University African and Caribbean Society the neighbor of Oxford University my thank you very much for joining us i mean do you have much contact with your colleagues from oxford gini is the feeling at the institution there the same. Yes we do have contacts with Oxford University especially with the African Caribbean Society we work with each other on events and more so and obviously both universities being in oxford we both study and have our social lives within the same environment so yes it is as though there is a type of do you truly believe that the outreach programs that are going to help on tackling racism. Representing Oxford Brookes university i know that we are trying to have modern. Forms of outreach programs for example we have webinars and chats so that prospective heaters can talk to students that go to the university and they can select country filters and degree courses and for our our University Student ambassadors anyone can apply however we definitely can understand and sympathize with the fact that for more traditional establishments such as Oxford University. It may be more challenging to implement diversity and inclusive measure so your point of view my what are the main issues. I believe the main issue is and not just specifically with. The Oxford University outreach system but with. Institutions and organizations throughout the world that an issue is a lack of communication between the people at the top of these industries the head teaches the bosses of companies and the people that live and work. In these environments bennys to be a space for communication of people shared experiences and their suggestions and feedback so that these. Forces and head teachers can actually provide programs that will help the people and in terms of the programs themselves the Access Programs how can they be adapted or could be adapted to make them better there is always room for improvement and i think a main factor that needs to be recognised as important is feedback and listening to the students this definitely needs to happen because as i said we are experiencing the day to day life of whatever these systems are designed to be so yeah in needs to be very clear how our experiences can be translated to them so that they can actually implement change that works for a while some people have refused to get to stay involved in some of the Access Programs where do you think that in refusing to stay involved would be detrimental to access i mean you could only change things from being on the inside going to. What ive learned from being in the African Caribbean Society of briggs university and im sure what some of my other Committee Members can vouch for is the thought that its definitely good in certain scenarios as long as you are mentally and physically healthy and comfortable enough to be within organizations to have the power and the platform to make certain changes and the influence however then needs to be a constant dialogue with the people who are on the outside or the feelings of those within your organization and im sorry my very very quickly your mind finally has your university has Oxford Brookes university responded positively to. We have been working very hard as a society to make sure our voices are heard. Other black students as well have created a black shouldnt campaign to create the space for the dialogue between the university the union and the students experiences and so i think progress will happen it remains to be found out in the future but theres definitely steps being taken and we are having regular meetings when i go over thank you very much indeed for talking to us thank you. Mourners in half an hour here again this. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond chill and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics sport im showbusiness ill see you then. We are witnessing the rise of a new secular religion and its called gives them a moment in a short history. And racism well everything is now considered races the believers in this cold demand obedience criticism who really never told how racism is to be eradicated or how it helps serve the interests of working people of all colors. 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