as italy see as nearly 800 deaths due to the crime of virus in the past 24 hours alone russia offers to lend a helping hand the nation's worst hit by the crisis. in neighboring france and police officers threaten to quit unless they're provided with better equipment to protect themselves from the virus. also this hour volkswagen becomes the latest car giant to halt production amid the covert 19 outbreak of the health crisis with ever more jobs at risk. and a number of u.s. senators are accused of insider trading after they sold off their stocks just before the recent crash.

you're watching r t international bring you a live new claimed more than 12000 lives worldwide the number of confirmed cases is edging towards 300000 italy has seen nearly 800 fatalities in the past 24 hours alone in total the pandemic has now killed more than $4800.00 tonnes significantly more than in china and russia is stepping in to help the defense ministry will be something a plane load of disinfection equipment along with 8 teams of biologists to italy are just on i've joined me earlier in the studio with the details. there is no other place in the world where it is as bad as it is in italy right now so amid this crisis russia is indeed going to help out so what is it doing firstly moscow will be sending personal protection to italians such things as mosques for example also russia is promising to ship mobile disinfection units truck based essentially

so that italians can air assault the streets with in fact and spray also russia will be sending some medical equipment to help diagnose and treat more italians all of that will be sure it will be shipped through the russian defense ministry in this small school is joining beijing's efforts china has already promised to help out italians china being the 1st country origin country of the covert 19 so obviously they have right now they have way more experience with dealing and containing this disease than any other country in the world and the situation in italy is indeed for instance some italians have been massively outraged when it was revealed that their country allowed the united states to ship out of italy and into tennessee. almost half a 1000000 of covert 1000 testing kits italians saying that how on earth can this be

going on when they are dying by the hundreds in italy and there's not enough means to help the italians and their government is giving in just giving it away in the past 24 hours alone almost 800 italians have died let the let the figures sink in for a moment in just the past 24 hours now this number is particularly large because italy is stressing that they are counting not just those who were killed by covert 1000 itself but also they're counting those who died of preexisting conditions that were because of covert 19 so this for. 800 almost 800. is these 2 groups of people combined so this whole thing has put a massive strain on funeral homes in essence and in fact crematoria are saying that they might stop accepting new bodies because they're overwhelmed and obviously this

situation creates an abnormal amount bringing us to an emergency phase making us very likely to hold for a few days in order to be able to recover some space. for us to use our premises dedicated for the final farewell as you can see this farewell room has become a provisional space so just to give you another example in the town of birth and it's only some some bodies are literally out there in the streets waiting to be waiting to be burnt in the crematorium because they simply cannot it's a small town and it has been hit particularly hard. even even by italy's standards and so a lot of people are dying by their bodies cannot be all processed by the existing means also for instance in palermo in sicily soldiers patrolling the streets to ensure that people are indeed stay home and not expose themselves dangerous so it is really bad and it seems that russia's help will be more than welcome at this

time of crisis. and italian lawyers association earlier addressed an appeal to president putin it mentioned the european union's lack of support for italy during the crisis we heard from alexander maria terrelle a president a bilious criminal chambers of european and international law one of the people who penned that letter. i can understand very well the reason why italians are not very very happy because each as you know as they your old time and they're required to access to this to you know to the central bureau and we are completely aware that in case of need we don't receive almost everything we eat directed to direction federation because we understood that you wrote was not you know very trustful on there this is this is reality and now i have a very clear provision that. could be to 2nd count

treat her u.k. to move out from european union despite the tragedy unfolding and italy and there are still some positive stories one doctor from the city of bar come out who like thousands of his colleagues across the country is battling the disease recently became a father for the 3rd time. i was on duty in the covered 19 ward when my wife who herself had previously tested positive for the corona virus went into labor but i still tried to stay in touch with her as much so i could and i heard from her until the moment she was taken for a c section my friends and colleagues from the hospital she was asked to let me know as soon as my daughter and it was born they told me she and my wife were right my biggest fear at the time was that my wife would have a risperidone crisis during the delivery and would end up in intensive care that didn't happen we were very lucky that my little girl was tested for covert 19 and the result was negative we will tell our daughter that she was born in

a very difficult time for europe but that she was holding out like a really morea and we will tell her how much we love. infectious disease specialist about a cow that believes a lockdown in adelaide needs to continue to prevent an even worse catastrophe. epidemic is a dramatic and we are facing a very big epidemic we should keep a very strict measures. down in order to reduce the risk of spreading the virus at the same extent that in the center 60 and in this part that of it so you have to remember especially in the north the reason a shortage of. such as a physician nurses able to face of these that demick very few infectious disease expert are available now with the and it is

a whole sort of the fact that a considerable number of alcohol work has been put them in the in the not working optimistic view is a defective that day by day that is a constant percentage of increase of the new cases in respect of the total number of our target our goal is to reach as soon as possible d. level 'd all below 10 which means about the transmission as a celebrated that and we can look at the future with a little more hold. her reasons pay tribute to the doctors and nurses on the frontline of the battle against the deadly virus a chorus of applause was heard from across the capital on friday night. thank you. more than 12600 cases have been

confirmed in france 450 dead all regions are now back there despite a nationwide lockdown the french health system is under in march a strain frenchie and shared with r.t. france a statement from one medic who bombed here to work with a lot of patients. my 1st day in intensive care for corona virus patients. i'm tired 12 hours in closed premises i want to share my feelings today i've seen terrible things and i've never in my life seen such. a superior in critical condition. because of everything that could take care of yourself take care of. everyone. meanwhile police officers enforcing the lockdown in france are threatening to strike they claim they don't have the basic equipment needed to protect themselves from the virus charlotte reports. as millions of people in from own saw in confinement there is

a cool group of workers who are continuing the daily grind including police offices . yet many continue to flout these regulations despite hefty fines and the risk of being locked up in jail. the authorities are tearing their hair out over france's citizens known compliance

with the confinement restrictions. there are people who think they're modern day heroes by breaking the rules while they are in fact. when i see people still going to the park to get together or heading to the beach or to open markets they seem not to understand the message from the authorities a lot of our fellow citizens are still taking this too likely but as they blame people for not abiding by the rules the authorities themselves are being accused of not taking proper care of those they placed on the front line unions are furious that the ministry of interior hasn't provided offices with basic equipment such as face mosques so much so the biggest police union has warned its members will walk out unless such things are made available there is no reason why we should be victims of a government failure to plan we want to carry out our duties to their fullest but need to be able to guarantee. our own safety if the police themselves become

contaminated or strike who will monitor the streets seducer security offices police and other people who are. in the country you need to be protected all this process does not distinguish between police medics and other citizens we're not even sure that we police officers not potentially infecting people when we do our checks so we need mosques and other protect quitting and to keep us safe and others. if the police get infected who will be able to keep the peace to morrow as force is quarantined drags along each day the list of what citizens can do is being tightened the police are called part of keeping order here if they walk out if an infection takes hold within the ranks so could face an uphill battle to carry out its plans in the war on cozied 19 solar jeevan ski r.t.

tars economic ramifications of the virus are starting to hit major companies the world's biggest carmaker volkswagen is suspending production of worldwide the company which owns browns like skoda audi and porsche built more than $10000000.00 vehicles just last year given the present significant deterioration in the sale situation and the heightened uncertainty regarding parts applies to our plans production is to be suspended in the near future factories operated by group bronze that decision fall similar moves by other auto manufacturers tire b.m.w. were not and are among those push up their plants during the crisis in the e.u. alone the sector is responsible for around $14000000.00 jobs in the latest episode of artes a boom bust automated expert the car coach for infix told us auto industry will take a long time to recover from the difficulties caused by the crisis. for the auto industry of global basis we're looking at

a huge impact with every single manufacturer pretty much shutting down production we're not just talking about high end cars but every day cars we've already seen a huge negative downturn when it comes to china they're off by about 80 percent so far for the 1st quarter but that may change they're starting to get back on line but here in the u.s. we're looking at last year's sales at 17100000 cars. is recommending and they're stating there are some around 14900000 we have not seen a downturn like this since 2008 this is going to impact a lot of us because if you look at the dow jones half of it is impacted by the auto industry either by a supplier or something that supports the auto industry so this is going to be a huge impact and it's going to go a long time for us to recover. i don't to be too doom and gloom here but we have had guest after gas telling us we are already facing a recession maybe even a depression is coming will all of these auto manufacturers the giants will they make it out of this crisis or we could see consolidation what is going to happen

moving forward i think you're going to see some consolidation it makes sense that companies partner to share technology to share platforms to share drive trains everybody makes it to a leader turbo engine if more people start sharing that technology what that's going to do is allow them to make it personalized when it comes to the vehicle the features themselves so i think you're going to see a lot of consolidation i don't think we're going to see them going out of business but the impact to the stocks is going to be a long time to turn around there's also some talk about the auto industry wanting to delay the implementation of the u.s. embassy a trade deal known as the new nafta do you know what's going on there. yeah the u.s. n.c.a.a. supposed to start on june 1st but everyone's now off no one's working and so this is a problem so they can't get the regulations in place so they're asking to push it back to delay because that's going to make 75 percent of cars being built here for north america using north american components which is good for restarting the industry but we don't have the regulations in place so they're asking to push it back just

a little bit it's supposed to go in place june 1st and that all depends on this pandemic and how long it takes for us to start we're covering the pandemic is starting to show up in the u.s. job market figures with the country's unemployment rate seeing one of the largest spikes on record the u.s. labor department has reported several $100000.00 claims being filed recently we spoke with jeffrey tucker editorial director at the american institute for economic research and he warns that the global economy is under severe strain because there were i don't even think economists have heard that it's not a recession it's not it's it's it's imaginable levels of of shock and the data are going to. give you a clear prediction what the unemployment numbers are going to look like that we're going to be seeing soon but i almost certain that millions have already lost their jobs and this just cannot go on much longer without dismantling everything we call

civilized life just just cannot go so the pressure is growing by the day by the hour by the minute or for the politicians to line up their decisions public policy decisions with actual documented health risks which are becoming ever clearer as testing has is going on. still to come several u.s. senators are in the spotlight for selling millions of dollars of shares just before the recent market crash details on that after this break.

last 10 or 15 years we've lived here a big data where so much from our reality of our environment our society is governed by experts interpreting data and now thanks to corona virus this is all being stripped away it's all nonsense the crown of viruses now bringing back to america some intuitive sense of self-reliance is going to be difficult just don't don't get.

welcome back for us hundreds are being accused of cashing in on the coded 1900 pandemic through insider trading they offloaded millions of dollars worth of shares just before the market nosedived a lesson allegedly using their privilege and i'm from ation one of them is north carolina republican senator richard burr caleb often has the story. richard burr u.s. senator and head of the senate intelligence committee reassured everyone that the us government had the coronavirus situation completely under control here is what he said back in march luckily we have a framework in place that says put is in a better position than any other country to respond to a public health threat like the coronavirus is word sounded quite calming especially from someone who receives daily briefings about the spread of the coronavirus although a few days earlier he was telling a group of wealthy donors and constituents of a very different story here's a secret recording of richard burr speaking at the capitol hill club.

she is. probably. even offered some advice to his wealthy friends every company should be cognizant of the fact that you may have to travel you might have to look at your employees and judge whether the trip they're making to europe is essential or whether it can be done on a video conference why risk is needless to say accusations are now flying that richard burr used his capitol hill inside info to help out his pals financially you remember when the stock market tanked right and tonight stock market futures are pointing to a higher open after the biggest point drop in history the dow losing more than 2000 points today and lot of investors repriced that a little shelf to crash we started markets in the 2000 point swing on the dow fears over the coronavirus leading to the biggest point drop in history today well

richard burr was pretty well unaffected because the gun loaded up to 1700000 dollars of u.s. stocks just a week before the plunge now he says this is not because of any insider information he had overnight solely on public news reports to guide my decision regarding the sale of stocks on february 13th but richard burr is not the only capitol hill do well or to make some slick stock marc. just the right time. as into tam and sent to bergen private briefings coronavirus. then you know how bad it would be to tell the truth to him spouse adonis showing the public thanks we

will find that she sold off 1006000000 other home he needs to resign senates a but should resign and prepared to spend some quality time with the federal grand jury that maybe there's an honest explanation for what he did if there is he should share it with the rest of us immediately otherwise he must resign from the senate and face prosecution for insider trading now all of them are saying they had no control over these investment decisions they're also emphasizing that this was just good luck they had no insider knowledge well looks pretty bad especially for senator burr and laughlin who are pretty well connected of course senator byrd the chairman of the senate intelligence committee he was privy to you know secret briefings on the coronavirus and what the response to the coronavirus was going to be and how bad it might be all of that would be a problem for him as for the senator from georgia she has

a nother problem and that her husband is the chairman of the new york stock exchange presumably pretty well connected and she's on a committee that oversees the health industry the bigger picture here is that we have public servants we have members of congress who are using their power and position not only in stock trades the problem is that the u.s. government has too much good. used to give out so it's impossible for some of these people to resist a minute ashville crisis americans want their political leaders to be solving problems managing the issues and getting things done it seems like they're certainly doing that but on a more personal level caleb mopp and r.t. new york meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state has accused several countries including russia of spreading false information about the pandemic. issue with this information is there any particular locus for this decision or mission or is it. pretty diffused unfortunately but we've certainly seen it come from places like china and russia

and iran but there are coordinated efforts to disparage what america is doing and activity to it to do all the things the president trying to set in motion here because there's well accusations against russia disinformation and thanks to the coronavirus spread in europe and the whole world are a big disinformation and fake themselves let's take a look at the presumption of innocence is there are. avid institution out of them there can be any claims action you know it can be used as a part of such an aggressive informational. earlier donald trump place the blame for the spread of the coronavirus at china's door alleging that the situation would now be better if he'd known about the virus earlier the president added that the world was paying a very big price for beijing's suppose it in action pump a 0 joined in the blame game accusing china putting lives at risk a chinese foreign ministry spokesperson took to twitter to lash out at the accusations demanding the pompei oh stop lying she noted that china's efforts have

actually saved lives citing the world health organization. anti-war activist ken stone things washington's accusations fall and long running pattern of blaming others. while the whole world's been looking with our admiration at the way socialist countries such as china and cuba have handled this pandemic. the us administration has been exposed completely as an apt in dealing with the corona virus trump has discovered that the easiest most least controversial way to deal with a problem in the us is simply to blame it on russia or china. on a lighter note many people facing quarantine will probably turn to video streaming services to help pass the time but can they cope with a spike in demand and will you be left disappointed artie's pica has been finding out self isolation where being on ist is as much about spending time with

netflix as it is about saving your ground law from coronavirus. catching up with your favorite shows that are only getting a certain quantity content a guilt free. definition but as we're all settling in to this floor indeed stream of thought brand which are our animal videos. metrics and you tube have let us all down this concern that the volume of netflix and chilling which is about to take place will break the internet very reducing less streaming quality by 25 percent just when we needed to the most guys pornhub is offering its premium content for free now that its customers.

for this hour but if you're looking for more head on over to our website r.t. dot com for countless articles and all of our shows and containing it. he says this outbreak really highlights that our system for global governance is weak and add that not only is it international health regulations which dozens of countries are currently violating but it's just the broader system in which we tackle these challenges and i think this highlights we need to do better in the future i mean for one thing certainly when so many countries are breaking international regulations to make sense to revisit that instruments after this outbreak is over but also our system more broadly for how we govern those challenges that transcend national borders.

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welcome to redacted tonight and this is a comedy show where. americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents i don't have to tell you that things are bad we're in the middle of a global pandemic the economy is collapsing and perhaps scariest of all the w w e is performing their advance without an audience it's going to be a slaughter. that . seems oddly romantic now doesn't spend it feels like they're about to make out at any moment and i think we could all use some of that right now . so you all probably know every last detail about coronavirus right it's all over

the news which is why i'm not going to give you those stories those tired stories i'm to give you the hidden stories and here's one of them this pandemic has been made worse and continues to be made worse by toxic nationalism which is hilarious considering the virus doesn't get by your borders it doesn't care if you put up of or you speak a different language or you're an immigrant or you got circumcised in a ceremony where the shah minute chanting and buckets are mangoes and there are bagpipes playing virus doesn't give a 3rd are talking about how one country is better or worse or whatever right now during this pandemic it's like you've all heard of angry rhinos was stampeding towards you and you're talking about how you have nicer shoes on than the guy next to you.