it also has tesla. and a factory owner who was reopen the plant in defiance of stay at home orders and what. muska stretton to take his factory elsewhere if he doesn't get his way and the president has tweeted his support of the fact is reopening i'm phil graham in berlin and this is the day. i'm happy to come back to work this thing there for you heard the president. speaking for the listing of the places where it's are. that it appears that they're going forward with. calling on the c.d.c. protocol to. be the best we can get to a solution and just do it soon and you know let's not have. you know let's have people working safety i mean with the basketball and the mastering you did measure

the temperature before you walked through and sometimes you set it up for anything . else on the day of russia jumps to 2nd place in the global league table of confirmed corona virus infections but many russians are yearning for the no malice that they knew before the pandemic. that's a good thing the restriction should be in place for 3 years why not make it 5 there just messing people around. look around people are out on the streets anyway no matter what restrictions there are. no u.s. president to donald trump has weighed into the raw between electric car maker tesla and their california county authorities that refusing to or that it's factory reopened because of the pandemic the president has tweeted that california should allow the plant to reopen now and that it could be done quickly and safely tesla's outspoken c.e.o. even musk is announced that the production company's only u.s.

factory would resume regardless of local lockdown orders. there was a reporter rebecca richards has been looking into the story for us welcome rebecca bring us up to speed well philip it on mosque has been in a standoff with all star he's about the lock down version so weeks now he's been pushing them to be able to open his frémont factory in northern california which has been closed since march 23rd now on monday he tweeted that the would be resuming production he wrote to his lawyer is restarting production today against alameda county rules will be on the line with everyone else if anyone is arrested i ask that it only be made now it has re-opened now the compound is full and as we saw earlier we've been we've been hearing from people returning to work it employs around about 10000 people and some of the employees told local media on the ground

that they've actually been there since friday so this is definitely happening or has happened is past tense now california state law can issue fines of up to $1000.00 per day or up to 90 days in jail but despite musk's sort of you know almost taunting for arrest in that tweet there it doesn't look like any will be mad and there's been back and forth for a month police said that they don't intend to arrest anyone the authorities say it's up to the police now we just heard. donald trump chime in as well so this tit for tat is just escalating and tesla itself is suing the county yeah that's right on the over the weekend has a filed a lawsuit against the county seeking injunction against that order to stay shots but the county has deemed the factory non-essential business so this of i don't have the right to open now he got his thumbs out again over the we can on twitter.

threaten to move its headquarters completely out of california so are the texas. made it lee and suggested there it is the tweet that he might he might take all manufacturing out of california which would be of course a huge blow to the economy and it's important to point out here that mosques most recent grievances stem from the fact of where the factories low cases it's in a part of california that has stricter rules than the rest of the state last week the governor of california devaney's them did announce rules to allow some manufacturers to re-open but county law supersedes state law when the law is a strict so that's what must is really countering here so besides this particular drama centering around his factorial must cause being quite vocal about coronavirus research in general yeah he has he's really made his opinion very known and he's probably one of the most high profile people in the us to be playing down the seriousness of the coronavirus he's got an audience of 34000000 people on twitter

so he's got quite quite an audience there and at one point early on the pandemic he called it dumb with no further explanation he also tweeted that kids are essentially immune to the corona virus then he tweeted a link to youtube video recently that suggested that quarantines reduce immunity to the virus so that video has actually since been taken down for violating terms and conditions of you tube but you know it's very clear what mosques opinion is of the crisis so it'll be very much interesting to watch what happens next i can't tell you how this is going to end but i can definitely tell you that this is not the last of it did we report rebecca recently thank you. but russia has begun to down despite a surge in corona virus infections the country now has 230000 cases 2nd only to the

united states and today spokesman was hospitalized with. despite the rising tide of cases president putin is going ahead with his plan to roll back restrictions across the country but hard hit moscow has introduced new rules for people not have to wear gloves and masks in supermarkets as well as in taxes on public transport. reports. without gloves and a mask and tell people. the many market in the center of moscow is sticking to the city's new rules despite a huge drop in profits due to lockdown measures the store can now only let people wearing protective gear shop. we all know that these are precautionary measures that people are unhappy about them it's hard to find gloves and masks at the pharmacy at the moment otherwise we would give them out to people so that they could buy things that our store restaurants and non-essential stores

remain closed in the capital but construction work has now started the words have said that workers aren't at risk of infecting the public. on monday president vladimir putin announced an official end to the so-called period in russia allowing a gradual easing of the lockdown across the country. based on an analysis of the situation and on the opinion of the chief medical officers the heads of each individual region will decide what restrictive and preventative measures should be in place and on how and in what order they can be gradually eased or maintained. and. moscow has been the hardest hit by the coronavirus over half of russia's cases are in the capital but the lockdown is also a huge blow to russia's economy and that is the main worry for many people now. more the most and i don't think it's too early to come out of lockdown most people don't have any savings and people need something to live on

a way to feed their family and pay their rent. and that nothing is easy the restrictions should be in place for 3 years why not make it 5 there just messing people around the barcode conflict around people who are out on the streets anyway no matter what restrictions there are. political analysts argue that the kremlin's decision to ease restrictions is politically motivated as surveys show trust and bloodier putin has fallen to new lows. the main reason for these changes is that russia doesn't want to fall behind the west many european countries have already started coming out of core until they've been successful in their battle against the pandemic things are going back to normal there putin knows that if he falls behind he will lose out when it comes to public opinion and russia. meanwhile off the worries in the capital have been frantically working to expand

the number of beds for cover 1000 patients turning buildings like this exhibition center into temporary hospitals after all thousands of new cases are still being reported in russia every day. and the other fix is program director for international affairs of the cobra foundation and specializes in russia european security and eastern europe welcome to d w can we start with one of those final points in that report that russia is in this lockdown despite a catastrophic situation that shows no sign of easing is it your belief that this is about keeping up with the west. well russia is indeed overtaken european countries when it comes to the numbers of infected people but it is still behind the united states but russia is many other countries has suffered significantly economy with regards to the economy so i think this is by either one of the main reasons we extra week of lockdown is a heavy toll on the western economy the economy economic activity has decreased by

33 percent tax of in use have increased by one 3rd in the last month. so this is an additional measure to try to bring the russian economy back on track ok so like the rest of the world the column is being hit hard what sort of government intervention has there been to help people who have been laid off and companies that have that have closed as we've seen in europe and the united states. you know actually helped in a rather modest response when it comes to the economic support package so they have been measures like interest free loans they have also been state payments for companies to keep their workforce there's also been support announced for airlines for regional budgets the list with this is demichelis wherever the business is that should be supported but many have couldn't say that these measures have come too late in these measures too little too late compared with other you can countries

the support package of russia has been significantly lower. and so what is the thinking there on the streets in russia do people believe that the president is handling this crisis well. there has been a poll about 2 weeks ago by the independently valid data center and this is 2 weeks ago when the numbers were still low there the opinion poll was divided half were satisfied with the measures half were not satisfied with the measures what is interesting however is that satisfaction with regional governors or mayors was higher than with the federal it is this is also one of the reasons is that the federal government and especially the russian president have withdrawn in the describers and have left the stage to the regional governors to undertake significant measures do independent nick so given the president

a sort of withdrawn from the public is there any likelihood of his position being challenged in the course of this crisis. but there have been at the voices that have emerged for instance the mayor of moscow of a status of beyond in this played a significant well he has been one of the 1st to impose significant restrictions in moscow but this is of course not an opposition or is that when it comes to a position politicize this of course and exam only he was criticized the government for the handling of this crisis that he has a much lower reach in the public. before the thunder make it vladimir putin had started to implement changes that would allow him to stay in power after his presence after his present term ends in 2024 how does this crisis affected that project. well the last step in this project was to be a nationwide vote that should add additional legitimacy for this project of

constitutional changes changes to keep the russian president of in power or at least to give him the possibility to remain in power this nation may bode has been postponed but it has not been cancelled so this will certainly not be the end of this attempt of constitutional changes to keep the president in power at the moment the main priority is however to avoid a further drop in trust and approval ratings for the president and for him not to be identified with the crisis that is also why he is rather in the back wound leaving the stage for other we general actors in russia at the moment to handle this quest i say thank you good talking to me on a fix from the foundation thank you. so until there's a covered 19 vaccine people around the world are looking for ways to protect themselves but what if one of those ways involves an addictive substance scientists

in paris a recession whether nicotine can stop people contracting the disease but the w.'s go gratis reports. take a deep breath to get ready for what's coming next before covered 19 francis' reputation as a land of heavy smokers sparked only negative headlines but in the middle of the coronavirus crisis the fact that more than a 3rd of french people smoked like doctors to discover something they found hard to believe every morning i was a i was. noting whether the patient well or not smoker and then i have seen that we have virtually no. your instructor is in hospital. the professors hypothesis is that smoking could protect against covered 19 he

teamed up with one of france's leading neuroscientists who suspects nicotine might help prevent coronavirus from invading the body but just i mean my life which is there all night. that's a year you know a few weeks we were able to build up with these. i meet accept and the french academia of science and again it may take a few weeks we are right on clinical trials where both health workers and covered 1000 patients were aware nicotine patches have been approved at record speed the french authorities also followed the researchers that vice tourists tricked sales of nicotine products in pharmacies to stop people from stockpiling patches and gum . if trials are successful that would undermine the current world health organization's advice that smoking likely makes people more vulnerable to covered

19. the french doctors say nobody wants to believe them so does that include the w.h.o. what do you make of these findings. because in 1000 is a respiratory illness and smoking causes damage to the longest and there are a number of studies out there that have been published that have found that smoking leads to more severe disease development of severe disease and puts people at higher risk for being put on a ventilator being in i.c.u. and for dying the w.h.o. also warns that increased contact between lips and fingers while smoking or even sharing a cup are coproduct is an additional infection risk. the paris based scientists do not recommend taking up smoking. not smoking. smoking is getting in fancy about $70000.00 people oh yeah it's even more than that it will be

90. the scientists in paris are working day and night as well as looking at nicotine they are exploring alternatives which would not be addictive. or we are trying to design a study was more of this compound. confidential was horrible. and we know that this compound. effect as well the nicotine patches don't try this at home the team strongly warns against self medicating and unless the trials come up with definitive proof hopes of a new coronavirus treatment could still go up in smoke. but you take a closer look at this with dr mikhail. neurobiologist at the university of medan in italy is also researching possible links between tobacco and covered 19 treatments welcome to the doubling what do you think of this french study. i

think that the neurological evidence concerning smoking. will delimitation. if you're going to cover evidence is rather strong. friendship in the knowledge needed research that showed a rather low incidence of percentage of smokers in could maintain patients but if you look back to other studies you find that everywhere in the world smokers are not many in among the patients. i say i do think. and you think it makes sense to us to begin this sort of investigation with nic a tame as a potential lifesaver rather than any of the other cocktail of chemicals that are ingested when people smoke. it's a reasonable guess because nicotine there are a lot of compounds in smoke there are something like 5000 compounds in his mug but

among them and the contin is certainly active he's in high concentration and it's already known that he does a lot of effects on the body and among them one is very interesting in this context because it. until inflammatory as an anti inflammatory effect and so. he's already use the some disease in some. diseases as a drug and also some other diseases there are trials showing that can be protective so it's not by itself very strange that nicotine can have the kind of action ok so there is as potential hair for dangerous and confusing a messaging being sent out to the public that smoking might help fight covered 19. of course yes that's the real danger that's

a real danger because so said smoking drugs. when i have an interview about this. just to members of the very easy to understand you need to be we had something like 30000 deaths for d.d. and we have every year 80000 that were smoking so. it's not by itself a therapy to some thinking smoking could be proven but it could be over but not smoking no doubt ok good talking to you thank you so much for joining us dr mikhail is only from the university of medina thank you. passenger trains have resumed services after 7 weeks suspension prime minister narendra modi announced the world's biggest lockdown on the 25th of march which

included the country's huge rel white now in delhi thousands of passengers turned up at the station for a chance to finally make their way home. just will reports. it's already been an exhausting day clean up a day and. she started to walk 20 kilometers to the t.v. station. to gadgetry and do multiple of this. she was visiting her daughter debbie when the lockdown was declared since then she has been unable to return to her husband and 5 children there were guys been stuck for 7 weeks we've been trying to get a ticket for days we finally spent 2 hours on the line to book my ticket. i left home at 230 am i came here on the 1st. after almost 2 months india is resuming operations for 30 special passenger trains. a

fraction of the $12000.00 trains before the lockdown frequent disinfection temperature check and distancing are the new norm at the station that usually sees a 1000000 passengers a day but dick it's only will be live a long life. that's been a challenge for us to meet up with jodie who doesn't use the internet put relatives in delhi are asked to do leave because they didn't have enough food she says she's been steeping of the really station paul weitz hoping to get back to mumbai. closes the lot i've been trying to get home but how do i leave their children as they keep telling us everything is closed to us and i tried to get a ticket today they say booking online but i'm not educated i don't know how to book tickets online. she's now pinning all hope will be on her teenage daughter in mumbai to book one. and it isn't just stranded visitors today who was scrambling to

get out. while passenger trains have started running from today special trains for migrants have been running for over a week now however migrants here tell us that these have not been easy to get all. these migrant construction workers from be hard also walked 15 kilometers to the railway station this see it is impossible to get on the special subsidised transport migrants some. couldn't even find out how to apply for a ticket and others said the wait was too long. they paid 3 and a half 1000 rupees or over 40 euros for their tickets. 10 times the usual fare. but with no prospect of jobs all the ages this simply had no choice. we don't want to stay here. if i feel like returning otherwise i can spend my life farming about karma i just want to get back to. the service today well they're all lying no one is telling the truth they keep saying they're giving this and that we

haven't received a single thing which again. put these men social distancing is an observed concept. in delhi 6 of them crammed into one room which this did or didn't waiting to finally get on the train home the why this is the least of their why the. and that was the day i was ever the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter. don't forget to use a hash tag the day of family life here is so returning to normal after the lockdown the city's museums have begun to reopen after almost 2 months subject to the usual social distancing roles and your advice to buy your tickets. take a look. at

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