Welcome to the International Committee of the Red Cross Responder Awareness Explainer for the COVID-19 Guidelines. This video is part of the ICRC's Management of the Dead training material. It presents additional information relating to COVID-19. COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, has spread around the world and caused the infection and deaths of many people. COVID-19 is highly contagious and spreads very easily from person to person, no matter who they are or where they are from. When an infected person talks, shouts, coughs or sneezes, small droplets of liquid from their body can infect someone nearby. It might even be possible to become infected by touching something that has the virus on it, such as door handles, clothing or personal possessions, and then touching your eyes, nose or mouth. It is vital to protect yourself from getting or even spreading COVID-19. In day-to-day life, you should try to keep your distance from other people, called physical distancing. Wash your hands regularly, stay at home if you can, and wear a face mask when in public or around other people, even if you don't think you have the virus. Some people infected with the virus might have a very mild illness or not show any symptoms at all, but others, especially those with pre-existing conditions, can get so sick that they pass away. Contact with an infected body or body fluid has the potential to spread the infection. This means people like us, body handlers who are going to recover, move and take care of the dead, may come into contact with many potentially infected people and dead bodies, particularly in places like hospitals, temporary storage facilities and homes. However, body handlers can stay protected from the virus, but only if you are specially trained, very careful and follow important safety procedures. It is vital that you have read and understand the management of the dead field manual and that you follow all those procedures and precautions as normal. In addition, the COVID-19 General Guidelines document contains new information and special precautions which you must read and know in order to avoid infection from the dead. This video is an introduction to these guidelines and a summary of the procedures that you will be learning. As always, before travelling to or entering an area, you should assess whether it is safe for body handlers to work. It is extremely important to learn how to wear and use your protective personal equipment or PPE. Proper use and disposal of PPE is vital to protecting yourself and your family from infection. And of course, never reuse disposable items or use items that are damaged or torn. As PPE is vital to protecting yourself from infection, you should ensure you have enough PPE at all times and find out how to best get new supplies before you run out. You should avoid touching your face and mouth at all times. When you are wearing PPE, you should never touch personal possessions, documents, water bottles, door handles or furniture. It is more important than ever to learn proper procedures to disinfect yourself and the equipment you use before, during and after handling bodies. You should wash your hands regularly, especially after safely removing your PPE. The virus can be removed from your hands by washing thoroughly with soap and water. The virus can be removed from surfaces and objects by using common household cleaning products or bleach. You must learn how to disinfect all surfaces you may come into contact with, including cleaning non-disposable equipment, as well as stationery and other tools used during the collection of information. As always, deaths must be confirmed by a qualified healthcare worker, and all deaths must be reported to the authorities before the scene and body is disturbed. Body waste and any fluid on or from a body must be assumed to be carrying the virus and could infect you if you're not careful. You must be properly protected with PPE according to the level of risk before handling anybody or contacting anybody waste or fluid. You should only use heavy duty or infectious disease body bags when recovering and transporting the dead. Where these are not available, you can instead use two regular body bags. All surfaces and objects in the area should be assumed to have the virus on them. This includes the personal possessions of the deceased, which should be carefully cleaned and disinfected before being returned to the families. Environments, surfaces and vehicles where the body was present should also be disinfected. You should also learn to inform healthcare workers, families and workers at mortuaries, storage facilities, religious centres, cemeteries or crematoriums that the body may have the COVID-19 virus and care should be taken at all stages. Whether or not someone has died from COVID-19, it is important that the dead are treated with dignity throughout the process, and their identities are maintained. The dead, their families and loved ones should be treated with respect and compassion. You may be going into an area or home with very different cultural or religious practices to your own. It is very important that there is understanding between the families and body handlers on what will be done with the body of their loved one, that the body should not be kissed and may not be touched without supervision and appropriate PPE, and why extra precautions are being taken to prevent COVID-19 infection from spreading. If a family member wants to put something personal into the body bag, container or coffin, allow them to do so safely and without risk of spreading infection. There is a lot to learn about how to safely operate in a time of COVID-19 infection, but by following the COVID-19 general guidelines and all normal management of the dead procedures, you and the team can remain safe from infection, give dignity to the dead and provide closure to families. For more information, contact your local ICRC forensic specialist or visit icrc.org.


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Hey there guys, I know that you want to convey your own stories to a lot of people, that's why you are doing YouTube. But what about those stories who want to change cultural perspective and motivate people and to see or expose a dilemma that sometimes they need to have social changes in their community. Today guys, let's talk about how you can create these videos so that you can motivate and also expose dilemmas that they need social change. But before we do these guys, you know what to do, like, subscribe and gong that bell. Hey Freedom, my name is Nelden and welcome to Freedom Central, the home of all Freedom content. I don't want to make social changes as well but I don't have that quite of a topic yet. The topic in my mind right now is that DND is way better than video games but guys I digress. I know that you guys have your own stories to spark social changes and on this episode you are lucky because today we will be helping you out with that. So without further ado guys, Freedom, quick tips. Alright guys, first things first, you gotta be the change. When you say change, you have to embody the very thing you aspire to change in the world. When you change a certain perspective on a certain ethnicity, make it a point that in yourself you have assimilated yourself to that culture. If you're against racism, make a point you condemn acts of racism and other points of perspectives. You have to stand up to what you believe to make you look legitimate and authentic in your videos. Now that you have this first step in the bag guys, let's talk about how you can define your message in four steps. Number one is, what's your point of view? What do you want your audience to walk away with? It's a special idea or angle that you want to impart to your audience. Your point of view must be very clear and vivid because this is the message you want to impart to your audience. The clearer the picture is in your mind, the better your perspective appears to the people. Number two is why do you care? Whether it's a personal story, belonging to you or someone else, communicating your reason behind your interest in an issue can be very effective. Number three is what actions do you want your audience is to take? Consider giving your audience a positive action to take after they watch your video. Do you want them to spread awareness? Discuss the issue with your friends, go out and vote. The sky's the limit, but you'll want to be as specific as possible. Number four, how do you want this content to be consumed? Is your goal to spread awareness, to have your videos used in a classroom, or request action? Your intention and method of distribution can guide key decisions about content. So now that you have those four steps answered and ready to go, let's start crafting your story.  So in order for you to create this, we'll teach you the basic formula for a story, which we can call an arc. Number one is the setup or an inciting moment. The setup is like the introduction part of your story. You set up the current situation of the characters involved. There's also a brief period where you can showcase the characteristics of your characters, where they live, who are their friends, and what are they doing and stuff like that. Number two is confrontation or rising action. This is where in the part of the story becomes interesting, because this is where arguments or actions that requires confrontations from both parties. This is where the story peaks and the most interesting part of it comes in. Number three, resolution where the hero succeeds or failed. To give you insights on this, you might be making a documentary about YouTube vloggers. This may be a good example of a story art. The setup is you showcase the vlogger and the vlogger is an entertaining dude who makes gameplay videos, haunted challenges, videos, videos going to beaches and living life, and just having a really, really good time. Number two, the rising action is vloggers suffered a financial blow because his videos has been taken down by YouTube because of community guideline violations. The resolution is vlogger adapts to the community guidelines, but the idea for the content still stays the same. That's a basic story right there, and if you want to create that, you can go ahead. I give you my permission. Let's say now you have made your topic. Do you have any idea on how you can creatively approach people with the topic you have picked? If not, don't worry, I got you guys. Number one is explore perspectives. Can you experience a part of someone else's culture through dress, food, sports, or religious event? Is it what you expected in the life of something like that? You could also challenge stereotypes to highlight how we treat each other by asking, why do certain stereotypes exist? Are they really accurate? Be sure you're informed on all of the obvious sides and see what you can learn. Number two is share stories of those who are affected. Consider interviewing people who have been or are suffering. Perhaps they are targets of online hate speech, minority groups, or people just trying to figure out their life. Number three is co-create videos within your target audience. Video-starring community members may resonate more. For example, you are very fascinated in the culture of the Philippines. Maybe you can co-create with a Filipino or a Filipina so that you can get more out of it. Number four, celebrate diversity. Highlight relationships and friendships that cross racial, ethnic, religious, or other barrier. You can show the value of diversity in your community. Document day-to-day instances of cultural or other exchanges. Celebrate diversity with diversity. Number five, infuse, humor. Humor has been shown to play an effective role in undermining hateful narratives and can make your videos more engaging to your audience. Can you reflect on a serious topic with lightheartedness? If you can, that would be amazing. Lastly, guys, inspire action. Make sure in your videos you ask people who share the same perspective as you to make an action in their own way. If you manage to steer their emotions, you must be able to challenge them in a friendly way so that you can proactively cultivate your perspectives and views. And that's the episode, guys. Let us know down below if you have other tips for us so that we can make videos that can affect social change. Also, guys, these tips came from Creator Academy, so I suggest that you guys go ahead and go to Creator Academy to learn a few things about production. Share this to a friend who wants to make videos for social change so that you can help them out. Before you leave, guys, please leave a like, subscribe, and gong that bell. My name is Noel, guys. Bringing you tips on how to grow your channel, always remember freedom. Quick tips. I'm gonna be seeing you guys on the next episode. Goodbye.


Another new summer season of anime is about to begin and with that comes a whole ton of shows. Now here at the channel I decided to pick out 10 series that I recommend you'd watch. Hey everybody welcome back to the channel Geo here let's get on to it this list is in no particular order I went through so many titles it was a little bit hard to choose 10 shows that I think you might want to check out I picked a little bit of everything however there are two returning shows from the previous season and that's because there's enough episodes to warrant me recommending it so enough of that let's get started with the actual list the first one I'm going to talk about is Ms. Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S. The wacky Dragon Maid is back again this is a very wholesome show and it's often mislabeled simply because of the edgy humor fan-servicing jokes but there's a really heartwarming wholesome story underneath especially Toru working once again as Kobayashi's Maid as well as the other dragons Kana, Lukova, Favnir, Elma and just so many other wonderful characters in this series that you know it's mostly a comedy and there are fantastic elements because you do have dragons involved and they're able to shape shift into humans but you also have that wonderful slice of life element that I really enjoy and shows where you can just make funny awesome wholesome adventures out of mundane life moments and you can inject a little bit of humor and wholesomeness into it and yeah it just happens to have a few little fan-servicing bits here and there but that's alright don't worry about it. Now I know last year when Crunchyroll debuted their originals programs some shows were a little hit or miss but for the most part I enjoyed a good portion of what I saw. I think this is something worth checking out and it is of course Fena Pirate Princess. Now this is a collab between Crunchyroll and Adult Swim with Production IG. This stars Fena Houtman and I do apologize for butchering names but she remembers little about her childhood orphaned and raised as a servant in a brothel her life changes when she escapes to an island of pirates where she discovers the truth behind her family with Fena being the only one able to unlock her family secrets and a formidable crew of female pirates on her tail. She must take her place of captain of her samurai crew for a high seas adventure. I love when you're able to do stories like this it looks really cool I enjoy the trailers for it and it's streaming on Crunchyroll so I do recommend checking it out. I think it's going to be worth your time if you like what seems to be historical fiction mixed with a little samurai action action adventure the high seas of course the element of pirates and all that stuff I think you have a winner on your hands. The next series I want to recommend is the Aqua Tube on White Sand. A former idol goes to the island of Okinawa and finds a new life helping a struggling aquarium from shutting down. This is from progressive animation works I'm a huge fan of them I recently enjoyed Apare Ranman for example and I'm pretty much looking forward to this. Not only do I like slice of life shows I like where you can get stories like this that rely more on drama and human interaction and the fact that you're able to animate that stuff really makes it extra special in my opinion it looks gorgeous can't wait to check out Aqua Tube. The great Yahi will not be defeated that's my next pick on this list it is a comedy series starting the great Yahi the Dark Realm's second in command cuts a frightening figure feared and revered by all but when a run in with a magical girl results in the destruction of the precious monocrystal the Dark Realm falls transporting the newly puny and powerless Yahi to the human world. Unfortunately plotting the revival of the Dark Realm from a cramped crumbling one-room apartment is no easy feat when you have rent to pay and a job to keep. So this is based on the manga of the same name and it is adapted by the folks at Silver Link another the biggest fan of Silver Link and their shows however I do want to give it a shot the premise sounds kooky and wacky enough where you have elements of slice of life mixed with supernatural stuff you know them being demon lords of another darker realm stuff like that and just that you're able to get something comedic out of it is fun it reminds me of like Dropkick my devil where it really has this mix of the bizarre with slapstick and I think Yahisama as it's known in Japan shows potential it looks cool I kind of want to recommend it just on that alone now if you know me and this channel I'm a big fanboy for Studio Mamba and their latest series that I want to recommend is of course the Itaten deities no only peace as demons wake from their great slumber descendants of battle gods called Itaten as well as humanity get ready to fight back look I don't know much about it but it's Mamba they're killing it as of late all in all their ten years in the business I have loved almost every single show that they've done and yeah this is a really interesting say in a type show with demons and fantasy aspects the color palette on this thing is insane just for that alone I really recommend checking out Itaten I don't know we'll see how it goes eventually I will get back to this and review it but it looks really stunning in my honest opinion worth checking out I think for this next one you know there's always that simple and kind of hilarious premise that gets to me whether it's somebody being reincarnated and essentially starting out a laundry for a fantasy world or you have characters involved in farming or commerce or whatever it may be just the task of taking like mundane activities from our world and injecting that into a fantasy setting with all the tropes and the characters and the creatures and all that I think it's pretty fun and this is no exception I usually enjoy shows like this this is drugstore in another world the slow life of a cheat pharmacist Ragee Keedio was a corporate wage slave who did nothing but work all day every day on a typical day of walking to work with a hollow look on his face he suddenly found himself in the forest of another world oh this must be one of those isekai reincarnations people keep talking about the two skills he has are appraise and drug discovery those don't sound too impressive well whatever except these turn out to be particularly overpowered skills he's able to produce the healing medicines that were sorely lacking in the world one after another leading to an overnight fortune no one will ever force him to work like a slave again he decides to adopt a deliberately slow life and opens a drugstore and so a story about following the slow life philosophy while running a drugstore in another world begins with that description I mean you already know what you're getting yourself into I like the idea that and yeah it's another isekai series I know I know you're probably sick and tired of hearing word isekai and watching all those random isekai shows that aren't that great but eventually one or two of them hit the nail on what makes the genre fun and it's taking the idea of a character that doesn't really have it made in our world and he gets another shot because you know wish fulfillment that's a thing I'm not a fan of gaming mechanics inserted into fantasy settings like they'll have access to abilities and you see a drop-down menu like it's an RPG I'm not a fan of that because it sort of breaks the illusion for me of a character being you know spirited away to another world I sort of want them to land there you remember the old-school 90s isekai before isekai was the thing where they just land there and they have nothing and they have to learn everything from that world and don't necessarily rely on a Deus Ex thing like having a drop-down menu with abilities like appraise and stuff like that you learn that naturally within that world and not sort of fourth wall breaking if that makes any sense but still I like the idea that instead of doing the big old you know we're gonna defeat the demon lord and save the world and all that or maybe it's a comedic twist here you have something so mundane that he's using his appraisal and drug discovery to actually build a drug store which is needed in a fantasy setting that doesn't have the conveniences of the 21st century next up on the list remake our life this is a comedic series that I think has a wholesome potential Hashiba Kiyoya is a 28-year-old game developer with his company going back room and him losing his job he returns to his hometown looking at the success of creators of his age he finds himself regretting his life decisions as he lay distressed on his bed but when he opens his eyes he finds that he has traveled ten years back to the time before he entered college will he finally make things right this is a story about a failed person who is given a second opportunity to follow his dreams I'm going into this without knowing I know it's based on a light novel but I'm going in at this completely blind just under premise alone which I immediately love I think this is one of my favorite plots from everything that I'll discuss in this video just the fact that yeah I wish fulfillment and you have a character that's getting a magical second opportunity but who wouldn't want that in real life and I look forward to older characters I'm so used to I mean I've been watching anime since 1996 or 97 something like that it's been a while it's been some years and I get it the main demographic is a younger crowd but you from time to time you want to see characters out of that trope out of that norm and to have an almost 30 year old almost close to my age it's a breath of fresh air and yeah there's time travel the hijinks and all that stuff so you already know some of the story beats and the tropes and all that but still I want a route for the character so we'll see how the story progresses now I know I know don't get bad but I wanted to include this because the first 12 episodes were simply breathtaking I'd love them so much and this is Tokyo Revengers we already had the first half of this season this is a story of Takamichi Hanagaki a freelancer that's reached the absolute pits of despair in his life he finds out that the only girlfriend he ever had in his life that he dated in middle school had been killed by the ruthless Tokyo manji gang but they are for hearing about her death he's standing on the station platform and ends up being pushed over onto the tracks by a herd of people he closes his eyes thinking he's about to die but when he opens his eyes back up he somehow had gone back in time 12 years so he's back and he's going to try and fix things and if you watch the first half of the show so far you know that there's a lot going back and forth in the timeline trying to prevent you know he not does death and fix the problems with the gangs and all that stuff and just when you think they've got things resolved they throw another plot twist at you and things changed dramatically and where we left off as of me making this video is really shocking and harrowing and I cannot wait to see how these characters bounce back I cannot recommend it enough if you've seen the time-traveling series erased it's like that but in the modern era with gangs and a lot of cool pompadours I do wholeheartedly recommend Tokyo Revengers another cheat on this list of course I have to do it to your eternity it is one of my favorite ongoing manga and the anime to me has been knocking it out of the park a really stellar job from Brainspace they've done an amazing job at reproducing the manga and what made it so special you have all these wonderful characters and a really interesting sci-fi story but at heart it's more about life and the meaning of it and friends and family and the journey that we go through and the journey that is life obviously it's hidden behind elements of science fiction and drama and really cool visuals with characters displaying epic abilities fighting the knockers and all that fun stuff but at its core it's really a beautiful examination of what it means to live and keep moving in life in all you know adversity and challenges all that entails and how do we move forward and the bonds that we make with other people how you form these bonds with family and friends and how that shapes you as the person you're destined to become things like that are explored into your eternity I don't want to spoil anything but I do recommend what watching it it's only a 20 episode season we've already seen the first 12 if I remember correctly I am including it in the summer listing and hopefully you guys check it out if you haven't already last but not least we wrap things up with the detective is already dead when the story begins without its hero Kimi Hiko Kimizuka has always been a magnet for trouble and entry for as long as you can remember he's been stumbling across murder scenes or receiving mysterious cases to transport when he met siesta a brilliant detective fighting a secret war against an organization of pseudo-humans he couldn't resist the call to become her assistant and join her on an epic journey across the world until a year ago that is now he's returned to a life that is normal and tepid by comparison knowing the adventure must be over after all the detective is already dead I don't know too much about it but I like the animation style I like the premise I want a good detective story and the visuals itself look really awesome I am looking forward to this and seeing all the plot twists and turns because if you're involving detectives and murder and conspiracies and all that fun stuff and pseudo-humans what could possibly go wrong so there you go guys 10 shows that I recommend for the summer 2021 season if you're not watching these shows and you're watching something else let me know in the comment section down below also I will be reviewing more shows beyond these 10 I typically do seasonal reviews on this channel typically a live stream so look forward to that it won't be at the end of the three month journey probably in the halfway point or something like that I will do a spoiler freed live stream so look forward to that on the channel thank you everybody for tuning in stay safe out there God bless I will catch all of you on our next episode


Hello and welcome to Daily Debrief brought to you by People's Dispatch. I'm Pragya. After the devastating earthquake relief and rescue on in Syria and Turkey, but is the devil of discrimination in the detail, in Ohio, United States, toxic after effects of a train that derailed 10 days ago and the government steps into repressed reports of toxic discharge. A massive health workers protest against the conservative regional government in Madrid. Estimates say over a million people angry over the neglect of public health hit the streets on Sunday. Is the world ignoring Syria's urgent need for relief after the devastating 6th February earthquake? The quake affected Turkey and Syria, but Syria is struggling to access any aid that's available. As developing countries come forward to help the country, is the West just looking on? Abdul from People's Dispatch has been reviewing the situation. Abdul, thanks for joining us. Abdul, so it's been about 10 days since the earthquake now and we're hearing a variety of reports, especially from Syria, from the affected areas about a sort of, shall we call it discrimination in terms of how the aid is flowing in. Can you just give us a sort of lay of the land? What is happening? Well, it looks like discrimination, very clear discrimination if you say, if you look at it. See, the US, after a lot of pressure from the human aid groups, from the countries across the world, from the UN, finally announced temporary sanction relief last week. But if you see, no other country except Italy has come forward, Western countries, has come forward to provide any kind of aid and relief to Syria yet. If you see Turkey, there are the number of countries including the US are active on the ground. They are providing all kinds of relief possible. But when it comes to Syria, as I said before, except Italy, no other country has come up, Western countries. Though there are terrible countries, there are developing countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, they have come forward and provided are providing relief on the ground in Syria. But when it comes to Western countries, no one has come forward. If you see, UN has to kind of issue repeated appeals asking more donation, more relief work for Syria. So it is quite visible that there is a discrimination going on. Also, if you see within Syria, there is much more eagerness to kind of from the Western countries to provide aid to certain organizations, they think are affiliated to their cause, are quote unquote fighting against the Bashar al-Assad government in Idlib and in some parts of Aleppo. But even that aid is not reaching, has not been reaching to these reasons. Though the number of people, the number of casualties, the number of area, the amount of area affected by earthquake in Syria is relatively lesser. But given the fact that Syria has been under the war for more than a decade now and the government has been under sanctions imposed by US and other Western countries, of course Syria needs much more attention. But that attention is not coming. And this has been repeated by the UN, this has been repeated by the international organizations and other human groups as well. Abdul what explains the situation? How do we explain this discrepancy and how the aid is flowing? Well, it is quite clear that this is the repercussion of the larger global politics in which the US and its allies have seen Bashar al-Assad as someone who is basically who does not fit into their scheme of things for the reason and for the larger global politics. So that explains it and they are not ready to let it go even at the time of the crisis despite their so called commitments towards human rights and humanitarian work and so on and so forth. Meanwhile, there is one positive development as we know that there has been a kind of disagreement over the ways and means through which the aid can flow to Syria between the UN and Syria. We had discussed earlier in this show, if I remember correctly about how the cross border aid was an issue of contention. Thankfully Bashar al-Assad government has agreed to the UN demand of opening much more border crossings into the rebel areas of Syria so that the aid can flow much more easily to the reasons as I said before Idlib and Aleppo which is controlled by the anti-Bashar al-Assad forces. That may provide some kind of relief. But at the same time as the regional left groups and the human rights groups have come forward with a joint statement demanding the complete lifting of sanctions on Syria as China has also reiterated yesterday that all the sanctions need to be lifted because sanctions are the politics which basically blocking all kinds of aid to Syria. It is hampering the Syria's health sector in particular which is very crucial at this time from accessing medicine, required medicine, accessing required equipment, medical equipment to deal with the kind of the casualties, the kind of health crisis which has been created due to the earthquake. But the US has not though despite the fact that as I said before that there is a temporary relief, that temporary relief does not provide enough confidence among the countries in the west to basically start delivering, require medicines and medical equipment to Syria and start pumping more and more resources into Syria which would strengthen the health sector there and strengthen the government machinery to provide much faster and better relief work in the earthquake affected reasons. And that one thing need to be highlighted again and again that there is an urgent need that all the sanctions imposed on Syria are lifted so that all the countries and all the groups across the globe who are willing to provide relief can easily do that. Alright Abdul, thanks a lot for joining us. First, a fire raged for days. Now toxic fumes are said to be spreading in a neighborhood in Ohio in the United States. Over 50 cars of a Norfolk Southern train derailed on 3rd February and chemicals in at least 10 may carry long-term health risks. Has a control release of the chemicals gone terribly wrong? What is the deeper reason behind the series of events? Natalia from People's Dispatch joins us with an update on the government and company's response. So it's been 10 days. Is it that the local authorities went wrong and how they were handling the containers that had these toxic chemicals? Can you just tell us what the latest is? Yeah, so you know this accident happened on 3rd of February where 50 train cars out of 100 derailed in the town of East Palestine, Ohio. Several of those train cars were carrying toxic fumes and the company Norfolk Southern Railroad did a controlled release of the fumes a few days after the accident. But the effects of those fumes on the local population are still pretty unknown and some troubling reports are coming in. So locals are reporting that animals are dying, pets, you know, a news site obtained video of fish dead in the river, the Ohio River. And so people, you know, it's not totally clear what the effects will be on the population, but public health experts are saying that there could be some sort of cancer possibly decades down the line. I mean, again, like these fumes are things that can have effects for years and years and years down the line in the future. So it's not completely clear, but there is a lot of outrage because of the way that the accident happened, the reports that are coming in, the fact that the Ohio authorities are denying any reports of animals dying. You know, the, you know, unionized rail workers are saying that even the reason that the accident happened in the first place was because of cost cutting measures that have been implemented across railroads in the country. Again, you know, rail workers did attempt to strike last year over these sorts of conditions, overworking, lack of sick days, you know, trying to make few workers do the work of many. And, you know, very infamously, the government completely shut down that strike, rapidly passed legislation to make it illegal to strike. And, you know, workers are saying that if what they had been fighting for had been implemented in the first place, this sort of accident wouldn't have even happened. Natalia, I remember discussing the railroad workers protest last year, and we also talked about the legislations the government was bringing in. What were the laws? Can you just sort of tell us how they crashed the protest and also the railroad itself? What's its history? What have they been up to? Yes. So, you know, again, as I was saying, very infamously last year, Biden and Congress completely shut down the rail workers' strike. They took away their legal rights of strike. Essentially, they could not strike on penalty of arrest because of just the sheer power of the railroad workers. You know, the government had been sort of fear-mongering about the strike for a long time because rail workers are so essential to the economy. If they stopped working, the entire U.S. economy could have shut down, which, you know, there was a lot of fear-mongering about. But again, it also could have been easily avoided by simply acquiescing to the workers' demands of getting sick pay. And they were eventually forced to work without sick pay by the government. And none of their concerns about overworking layoffs were addressed, which again could have prevented the sort of accident. But just about the railroad itself, you know, railroad companies make huge, huge profits, right? So this company alone made a record of $12 billion in revenue last year and also announced a $10 million stock buyback program. And yet, at the same time, you know, like many railroad companies, they are always complaining that any sort of safety measure will cost them just like an exorbitant amount of money. So, you know, this company delivered $6 million to Republican Party campaigns during the 2016 election cycle. This, of course, is when Donald Trump won the presidency. And when Trump was in office, lobbyists for Norfolk Southern successfully shut down a measure that would require train cars carrying hazardous materials, hazardous flammable materials to be equipped with electronic brakes, which are more effective than conventional brakes. Again, very related to the accident that happened where these train cars were carrying flammable materials. Obviously, the train cars burst into flames once they derailed and all of these toxic fumes as well. And they complained at the time in 2016 that this rule would impose tremendous cost. Again, this is a company that makes billions of profits every year. They can definitely afford better safety measures to prevent these sort of accidents.  And so, again, there's so many different ways that this could have been prevented.  Yeah, it's very, very much linked. And again, very preventable. Right. Natalia, now, what are the people in the neighborhood in Ohio planning to do in East Palestine? Are they considering court action? What kind of measures are people talking about? Yeah, I mean, I'm not entirely sure.  They can try to trace it back to the toxic fumes. But, you know, it's, there's a certain amount of repression people are suspecting on the ground because the Ohio authorities are denying, receiving any reports of dying animals, even though there are several public-facing reports of animals dying in East Palestine. And also, more recently, the police in Ohio arrested a reporter for allegedly speaking while the governor was speaking during a media conference. Although this was very much not the case. I mean, he stopped speaking immediately when the governor started speaking, but he was tackled to the ground and arrested in front of media. And obviously, this caused outrage. He was released the same day, but still people are suspecting that something is going on. If journalists are getting arrested, obviously, that's not a good look. But as of now, I'm not sure entirely if there are, you know, any protests or lawsuits, but I'm sure that that's very possible in the future. Right. Thanks very much for joining us, Natalia. No problem. Organizers of a massive protest by health workers say more than a million people showed up in Madrid on Sunday as anger rises against the neglect of the public health system workers are demanding that the government fixes the poor staffing situation. They say government healthcare must be strengthened, but that their local government has been dismantling it instead. Ana from People's Health Movement joins us over Zoom to tell us how workers and the public see the situation. Ana, thanks very much for joining us. So, you know, the Madrid health workers strike is something we've spoken about before on the show. But the sheer scale of the number of people who are out on the street seems to be tremendous. Can you talk about why it became so big? Yes. So, you know, last Sunday, so it was February 12th, we saw again a massive strike, not only of health workers, but also by people supporting the health workers and wanting to see a better and more holistic and a wider health system in Madrid. And so, the last one was just the latest one in a series of protests and of other actions that took place since November. So, I think we discussed here before also that around the 13th of November, the people of Madrid took to the streets and protested against the very harmful health policies that are being implemented by the People's Party government there. Among their grievances are long waiting lists and long waiting times for actually getting to see primary healthcare physicians, including pediatricians. So, that's one of their concerns. But also some changes which are being made to the emergency departments, the health emergency systems, and also overall because of the commercialization of healthcare that has been promoted in the Madrid area for decades now. And so, this latest protest which we have seen has shown that the interest and the feelings about the people for the topic have not diminished over time, as probably the government would have hoped, but that people are still quite interested and still ready to fight for a universal public healthcare system. How has the government actually responded to this growing swell of opposition? I was reading that the main issue people are saying is that they want public healthcare and not private healthcare. And can you talk about that? Well, yes. So, essentially I think it's interesting to compare how the government has responded also to the health workers demands which the doctors in the primary healthcare system in Madrid had been on strike on and off from the member also. So, that's you know, I think that if we look at the whole time they spent on strike together, it's about nine weeks, which is an extremely long time for something as essential as primary healthcare. And the government in that regard has been stalling and has been avoiding having any significant conversation with the workers. So, we have seen, you know, last time that the health workers actually took to the streets and protested was about a month ago, so in mid-January. And by then the government did not want to actually pick up on any of the points that they advanced and put forward for the health workers. So, what we are seeing is that, you know, the standard response I would say by conservative governments that they're not actually taking the pressure seriously enough and they're trying to find a way, in any case, to avoid the topic and maybe, you know, to postpone as far as they can and then see if it blows down a bit. But yeah, but what we are seeing here is that essentially instead of winding down, the protests have spread to other parts of Spain as well. So, you know, we have seen protests for better abortion care in Castilla de León, but also strikes and protests in Catalonia and in other places, in other regions of Spain. So, that's indicative of the feeling that people and health workers in Spain share at the moment. Right, Anna. And thanks a lot for joining us with that update. And that's all we have for you today. Thank you for watching Daily Debrief. Do come back to us tomorrow. 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