like a backyard to go out on and a lot of people are stuck in their apartments. the virus reaches the hamptons in april it arrives more slowly than in new york city within a kilometer radius around the big 3 hi i'm 90 percent of residents to find themselves as white. around 2.6 percent live close to or below the poverty line and prepared to make unemployment levels well under 2 percent. at the peak of the crisis since in times more people dying in new york in the hamptons. so how do societies more privileged members deal with such social injustice to new deadly pandemic. is it katie carrion showing off ones who've. everything. i'm sensitive about what the girls post on their instagram all the time i'm like really why i've never been well you know something i mean but that's my opinion it's their brand and they should you know what they want to do with

their with their instagram you know it's not for me to say or to control it it's their brand just don't like i mean people sometimes. if it was my brand i wouldn't i wouldn't do what they do but that's not that's not what i don't have i'm not going to my gang i'm talking about we don't i'm like no no i'm just saying your brand is about you guys your lifestyle young you know that's what that's what it is that's what i think is magnetic about it and what attracts people and and i'm just saying it's not it's not my particular brand or lifestyle or what i would choose to post if i you know you've seen my instagram i guess i do not and that i own brand in my own writing but i got it got it. came in for me but now his life is an intermission and i train senior without any innings and perhaps more importantly without a stage. no exactly. the

karma. was down. to her camp and church has taken the place of the theater. still on the world even if it was to charge. it for. the 1st few were like oh this is kind of weird this is kind of kooky and then i got you know used to it as best as i could it's just it's not as fulfilling you know to be able to look into people's faces and and and hear them singing along with you and standing up and clapping and waving their hands it's. it's a much different experience so it's been a challenge for me to to try to keep my performative energy up speak and only as a pastor i'm like maybe i shouldn't preach maybe you should just sing the whole

time because it's so you know spirit filling you know and so uplifting more. people have lost mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers people are suffering they feel lonely they feel isolated they've lost loved ones and so there's kind of a very it was a heavy heavy mood and it was difficult pastor in that context we call who is. source of comfort and strength what the sunday shows not the real religion is an anchor for kevin especially now. like for so many others and foremost isolation is tough being able to come here and still getting to worship you know getting to sit and listen to the pastors you know sermon like firsthand in and be in the space you know has been amazing for my a levels and my stress levels. after church back in queens kevin's neighborhood the story of. this neighborhood is fine and collected

ethnically mixed and diverse it's there it's a great shopping area and shopping district. there's a great middle class neighborhood lots of families lots of young people young transplants. in the one kilometer area around kim's apartment 74 percent of residents define themselves as white. the average annual household income is around $74000.00. 11 percent live around or below the poverty line. before the pandemic around 5 percent unemployment. the number of coronavirus cases here in april was around 40 percent below the new york city average. i felt very safe actually during the pandemic i thought like this is a good neighborhood to sort of weather the storm and sort of and i felt

a little bit protected i felt really lucky that we were not at the epicenter of infection. but economically the slowdown has been. just harrowing. and the reach of the moon doesn't feel it all safe in the broads but now she's got something to look forward to her youngest son isaac is coming home in 4 days time the 13 year old has just finished his school year on line with me and my dad he made it. should be very proud of yourself and what are the circumstances you was quite another shocker in the times and you did it lose focus of anything you fell behind of that which was able to you know catch up and it's not how you start it is how you finish it you finish are you still yourself around the clock. maybe focus on these and everything else is like my 2nd has been living

with his grandmother. answers so i'm very excited for him to come home i love smelling my kids and his life nothing you know to sniff in their hears never their neck has something about our kids now you know and it just takes me back to when he was a baby like oh my goodness. it's june and after almost 3 months of total lockdown in new york a cautiously begins to life and up again some businesses like head dresses are allowed to reopen under certain conditions. at the same time the effect the pandemic has had on new york is becoming clear. unemployment has risen to above 20 percent almost level it was at the time of the great depression our research shows that in may 1 1000000 new yorkers were suddenly left without work the number of people who could no longer afford to feed themselves doubled to over 2000000

a crisis already existed the coronavirus exacerbated as. anyone who can afford to do so has already left the city by only my almost a quarter of new york's uptown apartments are empty. and this country is very very wealthy the reason that we. don't meet the needs of our poor citizens is not that we don't have the money it's that we have had years of tax cuts and tax loopholes and. you know quite lax treatment toward outright tax evasion there are people actually who are literally getting richer as pandemic before and we are afraid to ask them to do civic duty by just paying their fair share and we merely have to ask people for true money for 2 to bumi of fairness fees to tell deal with this but. it's july the 1st not far from the b.k.

residence the poor of new york protest at the gates of the city's reach legislation has been passed cut welfare spending the savings to plug the massive fiscal cliff by the coronavirus pandemic. the protesters are demanding that instead of punishing the poor the city should tax its billionaires. march can continue to live their lives now we have to queue up in endless moans for a meal while not 7 the coming year. approaches doesn't make it as fine as the b.k. family's house it will be prepared to pay higher taxes he tries to play. his pont hate me how are you doing he's become a mentor to people like james his film in turn has just finished college we're growing and came in a 2020 excited for me as i'm looking at my job search challenge it's it's

challenging this is what i try to also say to myself. every day you know i think this is a moment in time yeah i mean that's that's that's it i want to do something that passion about that i'm excited about. that that there. was at that precise feet the everyday life of an influence a doesn't stop because of the current affairs i was. in southampton shopping is allowed again with the mosque. was. this bastion of the ultra rich design of the catastrophe ravaging other parts of the country. i would just say it's like an idyllic seaside town because remember the ocean is just around here and it's a summer place but it's a year round as well if you're in new york city you go to the hamptons and that's pretty much what it is so i'm in germany that's what the hamptons is for us.

the equivalent of like a summer town. the next day back in the bronx in the ratio waits to see his son i say for the 1st time in 3 months i hope brother bring seem high. i'm just really excited by that the last time i see my baby was i can purchase something. and he's actually here so that's good he's healthy he looks tall he looks amazing my son was very great and now he's here and so on the hoping that life can get back to new. found me yeah. i'm very good now we're going to go oh oh oh i'm going to.

use veterans in my home. and like you i like to hear it's true is different to feel so much safer than before a much larger do. that is today nothing's going to spoil them both in the reach of more financial hardship is already looming on the horizon. camera rolling takes. march 11th 2020 was the last day of what i knew as normal kevin is putting on a performance in his own front room it's part of a seizure project that combines monologues and dance document to new york his experiences of the pandemic the director gives instructions fog conference call. i was kevin's wrong a choreographer who feels totally blown off cool spy the lockdown. as an artist i have i connected with being lost at the beginning of cold not knowing

where my art and inspiration was going to come from to take this art and use it to help work through our fear my own feelings it was really awesome and that's that's one of the beautiful things about what actors get to do. all right. through. the dance might help kevin process the experiences of the past few months but it won't ruin him much money the good. you just you can't answer any question you get in addition to unemployment benefits kevin gets him 600 dollars a week coronavirus subsidy but now that scheme is to be wound down i'm optimistic i generally am positive. i don't think they're going to be be able to justify cutting that $600.00 totally i think so many americans would fall off literally fall off

a financial cliff i wouldn't be homeless but with the 600 and the base you know i am able to pay my bills. but that's exactly what happens it's august and the new york case numbers have fallen significantly even the rockefeller center is open to visitors again. kevin has to dig into his savings his. there are no more subsidies available. only in beaky is back in the city he shows us his apartment on manhattan's upscale uppity side. we have these little. lovely dogs that love to destroy a case they've hardly used the apartment space left empty while many new yorkers don't know how they'll be able to pay next month's rent a look at someone like me and look at our family and look at the life that we have

and that we lead we have not been so affected by covert 19 certainly from an economic standpoint because of the opportunities that we have and the flexibility that we have we have options. but a lot of people don't. see. the military to remain can't afford her rent and now she's paying in installments she's been saved to buy a food bank in the apartment block basement canned foods and pastor to get her and her son isaac through this difficult time. in the reacher is in freefall but there's no social welfare in it to catch it and she's not the only one. among those who are declared eligible we only see it on average about 70 percent of them actually getting their unemployment check. that's even lower for african-americans it's only about 55 percent at. the recent opened in pure prosy and one that makes

many mistakes. and the rate to stay strong for his son of god in the backyard is his therapy. how am i supposed to tell my son and i when i talk to him and you could be whatever you want to be this too shall pass god is a good god and then i'm in the living room on my god the bills being doubtful can do that. evening on manhattan's upper east side he and having dinner with his mentee james. is the 1st time they've met in person for a long time. james has great news that you got a job working at a real estate or. small developer but i want great people and die there are able to offer me a full time opportunity despite everything going on right now looking towards a future things are certainly must must must certain when they were 8 months ago

but i think that everyone kind of does their part and does the things that they're supposed to deal with everyone will be a better place i still do think it's a moment in time however i i had the same time feel like the crisis is much deeper and more than i did several months ago a lot more people are unemployed that means there's a lot less spending that affects other businesses so it it it becomes a vicious circle. in the bronx the mood is growing tense. here and marriage is holed up in her apartment. since the start of the some of the number of shootings has kept rising in august it was more than double the number in the previous year. knowing what to eat a fire and all it is is happening. sometimes poteen can descend into a shootout in just a plank of a 9 afro i used to live in constant sound like firework you can find

a difference between guns and power until you wake up the next morning her own. good half a bottle full of all the things that we just came out of it's not getting better it's getting reckless the shooting event happened near you. and then if you witness it and if they see you you've got to look down or run. to kevin things start looking up in september everything he thought he had lost has suddenly become possible again. in new hampshire the 1st teacher is opening up again and he's directing the production. i'm very excited. i've been so inspired over the past week as this transpired in the past week and a half or 2 so you know solidified over the past week and i've just been inspired

coming up with choreography and ideas talking about costumes and lighting. dancing in my kitchen. 600 kilometers away but at least kevin gets to make his directorial debut. now it just needs to get off the ground. i wanted to do it immediately i jumped at the chance it's very important to be able to start that engine again and so i'm honored to be a part of that to be a part of starting the movement towards making life to happen again. it's mid september and it's fashion week in new york summer and shops in sofia from the hamptons to getting major how. soviet i also serve as editor as. a magazine the daily fresh which is featured in the

hamptons in new york city and l.a. . and today we're going to start our day off with a line which means it's one of very few knowledge events most efficiently this is happening on. one with a fun week part about fashion week getting all glammed up because otherwise # i don't wear any makeup really and so that's always a fun. if it is a normal fashion week it's literally from morning to night now 4 days to 5 days or . so then i'm a little nervous because they will get on each other's nerves and they will have fights and so i have to. have to be there to pick up the pieces but this particular fashion week in coven is so far going to be very relaxed. and they found that ian is on his way to central park. i want them both to have perspective.

and i think in any situation to be the best that you can be you have to have perspective and understanding for the situation that you're in. the benefits that you have the opportunities that you have and not to take those things for granted he used the word privilege. you know do they really understand the privileges that they have and you know could they be doing more with that. we don't feel privileged we're lucky to be in our position but. you have to wrap yeah everything yeah we have to know how to you know ok. what feel to new hampshire . the town of 2200 has hardly any covert cases kevin smith kirkwood

is getting ready for the premiere it's amazing to be up here because i already love the place and because i think it's safer i was instantly able to just sort of exhale. this fish is one of the 1st in the whole country to open up again. kevin has had to quarantine and get tested like everyone on his team were rehearsing in their her storeroom in masks and trying to sing and dance the show in a hostile mass not easy but we did what was necessary oh oh gosh she was hot we did have to make some concessions artistically because of the pandemic we we knew that we had to we couldn't let adrien similar kiss the big day is here to go as arnie allowed him to see the performance under the tightest safety mischa's television teams aren't allowed in under the new rule use was.

was kevin's done it has restored a little bit of normality in the midst of a pandemic we're successful everybody is healthy things are clean the theatre sanitized and people came tonight it sat and watched and laughed together. it was amazing week it's october and the city is trying to get back on its feet 6 months ago this was the epicenter of the pandemic new york is a still traumatized and you want outside without a mask is viewed as anti social masks are only taking a few feet at the new established curbside restaurants they're allowed to fill a quarter of inside c.c. but few people take the opportunity. the number of people applying for unemployment benefit has dropped again shopping but it's still 8 times what it was in 2019. empty office blocks across the city has meant many small businesses reliant on

office workers have packed to close. new york is facing a massive tax deficit with no end in sight and despite all the hope precaution some districts seeing a rise in coronavirus cases again. people line up for food every part of town without a job savings spent on rent and it's the poorest who had it struggling to survive for many it's worse the $911.00 previously the worst catastrophe to hit your. $911.00 targeted particular parts of the city but it didn't shut down the whole economy. you know and it certainly didn't go on for so many months there was a lot of emphasis on getting things back to normal as soon as possible and that obviously this pandemic isn't over in the region around noon to feel trapped in

your apartment and the regime doesn't want to some to go back to school in case he catches the virus came home schooling is made possible thanks to an i pad from school and an old computer the status of a couch just making sure. i'm a really like being inside most of the structure breaking into watching a show before i don't play games or watch a show i just sent my band. but yeah i get slow. and marie to hasn't found a new job and she's broke soon she won't be able to forward this apartment. now mark receiving anything because of the pandemic. agreement that the government is doing is on a pause so my feet the still strong are. smiling and i'm taking one day at a time instead of planning out my life you can't plan any more you just have to go

with the day. care ambition is to finally get out of the bronx. the big meeting for dinner. mom was so it's not long until the presidential election it's a topic with a professional who is discussing the summit to friends. you know. so if we don't talk about politics i'm not saying yeah i know there's a lot of closet alarms a lot of closet it would be a fix of the pandemic have made the pekinese reflect sophie has her doubts now about the wound if you will and since i say i didn't hear it makes me want to go and where i can tutor kids that can't be tutored don't have laptops or don't have parents who can help educate them it makes me want to. really do more i

think the gap between the poor the rich and certainly even the middle of the middles a huge margin but the gap has become too large and people are suffering as for i think the president has to really work on the pandemic as has exacerbated it in my opinion and brought it even more to light but the underlying issues were there before. popcorn for the televised debates between joe biden and donald trump. kevin is concerned about the election and the future of his country because you're. sure that every person has to be i am one of the people who whose lives will be affected directly by the choices that are made. in our country i don't have a. cushion i'm an artist. you know i don't have i don't come

from a trust fund family of an artist blackman where mitt you know and so these kinds of decisions affect to me seems you know despite the crisis kevin smith kirkwood has achieved his big debut the broadway remains closed for now. financially emerita run is a real question but remains optimistic. the big 3 family has gained a new perspective on this sushi been their life tree lives tree wolves on city. the contrast existed long before the pandemic but the coronavirus has amplified it and cemented the gaping division in society not just in new york the supposed is the metropolis of inequality but also across the whole country the challenge facing

the united states and its new president. electric emission free officiant the sustainable future of mobility and the wheel is arrest. warrant at least it was so that 19 appears to be footing in the brakes on this development ordinary cars plan for avoiding ones are back on the block and they're really even know what alternatives. made in germany. today. don't mean. entering the conflict zone with tim subash. yes.

china is roiling the west and europe along with the u.s. in many countries is pushing back on that issue a growing list of human rights concerns including hong kong's new security law my guest this week from beijing is one cool yallop wise whose country folk in so many fights these days aware of a new media conflict zone. 90 minutes on t.w. . young moroccan emigrants. they know the police will stop them. they know that the road is not a solution. they know their flight could be fatal. but going back these is not an option. i'm on and rabbiting are stuck in the

spanish border area along side other young people there waiting for a chance that will probably never come. shattered dreams starts january 18th on d w. this is news and this is our top story in the u.s. hundreds of donald trump's supporters have stormed the capitol building in washington protesters entered the chamber where lawmakers had been meeting to certify joe biden's election victory the mayhem forced no micah's to take cover as police try to.