it was the right. hello there i'm manila chan you're watching in question broadcasting live from r.t. american national headquarters in washington d.c. where the current time here is 2 pm on the east coast 11 am on the west coast and 6 pm over in london we want to welcome our viewers from all around the world today our top story of course coded 19 and it's constant ripple effects around the nation and the world the total number of infections worldwide now topping over 358000

cases with about 15000 deaths china of course still leading the way with 81000 cases followed by italy topping over 59000 and the u.s. now coming in number 3 with 39000 cases now taking a closer look at this nation with reported deaths topping 450 cases so in an effort to fight the rising numbers of these cases across the nation the u.s. national guard has been activated in the 3 hardest hit states new york california and washington state now almost half of those u.s. cases about 20000 of them are just in new york state alone now several states have been issued stay at home orders for its residents with some even ordering non-essential businesses to shutter its doors this means stay at home and avoid going out as much as possible unless it's essential now current restrictions include the 3 biggest cities in the country knew your. york los angeles and chicago

overall the policy affects millions of people here in the nation's capital republicans and democrats are clashing in the senate as the coronavirus rescue bill fell short of the votes needed to advance on sunday night and they're back at it today debating all that that bill and more are to spare fronsac has been monitoring the senate floor all morning she's joining us now so what's it looking like today was there another vote well unfortunately at the moment still no vote but both sides they are hoping to push through something by this evening now lawmakers were hoping to pass this nearly 2 trillion economic rescue package by sunday evening after the bill was 1st introduced by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell thursday night both sides of the aisle have vowed to work across around the clock to actually get this bill passed but this is just another example of bipartisanship failing democrats at the $1.00 trillion dollar economic rescue package doesn't go far enough to get health care and unemployment aid to americans and gives a $500000000000.00 quote slush fund for corporations when that money should go to

hospitals medical workers and supplies but republicans say the economy it also needs to be revived otherwise it could send the u.s. into a massive depression that could be impossible to get itself out of and when the 4 opened up this afternoon it was back to bickering on both sides we did so well after 911 we did so with the financial meltdown in 2008. here if we are phrase and to me that is visible. equally devastating to the health of the people and their health of our economy so one of the reasons the bill actually fell short sunday evening is you had 5 republicans not present because of self quarantining now which is now posed this question should senators be able to vote remotely well president trump says he sees no problem with it. i was thinking about it today i mean we could be. in this

. look with what's going on nobody's ever seen anything like this you could have a lot of people in there from. from congress and it was it would certainly be they tell me there's a reason constitutionally and they may be but i would be totally in favor of it on a temporary basis. the news broke sunday night that senator rand paul tested positive for corona virus which now have others putting themselves under quarantine i imagine yemen also at this moment only 3 lawmakers actually have tested positive one senator and 2 congressmen you can see exactly who here on your screen as we said rand paul and mario diaz balart and ben make atoms all have put themselves under quarantine which with rand paul testing positive 3 who work closely and even sit next to him in the senate those are senators cory gardner mike lee and mitt romney all 3 of place themselves under quarantine after learning of paul's positive test results paul's team tweeting earlier that they expect him to be back after his

quarantine period is over and that 10 days ago his d.c. office actually started operating remotely so no staff has been in contact with paul but there were reports that before paul got his test results he was actually using the senate gym using the senate pool to which paul's team also responded tweeting that he had 0 contact with anyone and went into quarantine and the that the accusations are completely false and irresponsible not also breaking this afternoon an announcement from minnesota minnesota senator any club which are tweeting that her husband has actually tested positive for corona virus and that she is going to continue working in the senate to do all she can to get help to the american people now as far as what republicans have in this bill that the senate is still arguing over at this hour it would direct payments of $1200.00 to each other actually to most american adults $500.00 for each child $350000000000.00 towards small businesses which would actually push them billions toward hospitals in the unemployment insurance system along with a $500000000000.00 program for businesses states and also cities and i'll be

monitoring the senate floor and give you an update on when and if the senate does vote today coming up at 3 also tell you that if this bill does pass how is congress going to divvy out all this money coming up at 3 for now reporting in washington fair and fronsac. and over to europe where. france has now surpassed 16000 confirmed cases 674 people who have died most of those were over 70 years old so for the public alarmed there is also a growing dispute from medical professionals who say the french government reacted too slowly against the spread of the virus charlotte dubinsky brings us the details the infection rate goes up but here in france we are hearing from french medics they are unhappy that they feel that not enough was done enough to stop the pandemic here in france they've actually filed a legal complaint against some of france's talk officials including the prime

minister and the former health minister who's ill what they say is that these officials knew as early as january how bad things were going to get and yet they didn't do enough some of the evidence for their complaint comes a real interview with the former health minister herself who had talked about france holding the 1st round of municipal elections just over a week ago and saying it was a masquerade and saying as she stepped down from her job as health minister she did so crying because she knew that a tsunami was coming. for the medics has told me that the government was simply lying. we're dealing with a government that's lying to us they say we'll be taking measures and they'll say again we need to do this we need to do that the truth is we've lost the advantage and struggle to catch back up if you want an example you must remember the president stark speeches last week when he used his warlike tone as commander in

chief to convince those that marched will arrive soon because mass are the main tools in this war they help medical workers where are those markets. where the french government says it's doing all it current to handle the crisis in regards to those shortages we have heard from the french prime minister philippe requisitions have been made and requested be made to manufacture some researches to come up with new prototypes for things such as mosques this is more of what he had to say because of all see we have asked the ministry of the economy and the ministry of defense to find alternatives more precisely to engage in the wide range of industrial activity to some research either to multiply the production lines or to come up with alternatives disposable or usable well another accusation from the medics told us about was the lack of testing. they think that this is a problematic no fault isn't the only country that's been experiencing shortages

for the kids to test for the many of the countries experiencing the same shortages that the other medical supplies as well we've been hearing about this over the past few weeks and that is why the current health minister says that it's just not possible to test. today we don't test automatically so far we made the choice like most countries and as per the european recommendation to reserve the priority members of the public the targeted people are just like in neighboring european countries those who are most at risk. 19 is course panic across the. is handling the crisis in the way that it feels is best it could of course be months before we see a fax developed and a vaccine. or make humans and what governments including the one here calling for is a sense of togetherness that we are all in this together this is

a sense of unity so perhaps it would feel at the moment a legal complaint like this is particularly unwelcome. meantime in russia new measures are being implemented across the moscow region to contain the spread of coded 19 residents age 65 and over and those with chronic health conditions are being told to stay home russia says there are 438 known infections in that nation but there have been 71 new cases in the past 24 hours all of them in moscow but their suspicion of broad about the relatively small official figures are to take a look at why the numbers are low at least right now. how ohio how of this too few infected in russia why hasn't the pandemic hit russia harder why aren't there more infected and that is a question you hear more and more often in the western press pundits are asking

brittany with disappointment the how is relatively simple it's action was she and then and others were busy bashing trump for his racist policies and restricting air travel with china russia shut the entire border of thousands and thousands of kilometers without no frills while western leaders politicians were busy shooting their business leaders and cooper a boss's russia established quarantine and he would arrive in the country was self isolated at home and talk about tests russia has conducted 856000 coronavirus tests the united states up until march conducted just poor 1000. and stead they have grasped its true size in fringe opposition and conspiracy theories that allege

a widespread coverup of putin's machinations that putin is hiding the true infection rate well even the world health organization has denied these rumors i am 99.99 percent sure i get there are no hidden cases i don't see that recurrence see some cases where people have not come forward because they didn't want to self isolation but breaking through the network that catch. and understand and advise * such cases must relate or while russia has been fortunate soufan few expect the pandemic to completely pot. russia by hospitals and clinics are increasingly being prepared to receive the infected to wook in quarantine mode about 60000 people in russia either under quarantine self isolation or under medical observation for the moment the surveillance so

well done indeed community acquired new morning as we are all other which are all nested for all that i think we would see also have our c.v.s. cases are. that it because of the wrath structure in russia we've seen an increase a sharp increase in that and finally i can tell you i haven't formally you know i'm say next where are all people i never been in russia. or do you know someone who knows someone who is in hospital for the hour. and i couldn't find a single person who answered that who could have predicted that the sanctions intended to borrow and cripple russia would save it. in these times of worldwide economic recession see the point of those sanctions was to deprive russia

of this of dollars in europe saloons and financing for the central bank the government or the companies and businesses to what russia did was switch to this. the rule of now foreign debt is that the record low russia produces almost everything it needs 90 percent of what it needs russia now your culture produces for its not the other needs to china now russia is set up to where the storm with the hof trillion dollar fund that it set up just in case now is that case. russia will be a bit better off than other countries because of its experience because of sanctions and because of reserves when the virus threat busses it's possible things will come back to life foster in russia than in other countries because they won't be the negative drag of that the end result has been the chills supermarkets and

shops still packed with everything you could while there has been something wrong the supermarkets and shops in the holding well they still sell tore the playbook and cleanse you all the. meanwhile europe continues their struggle against 1000 with numbers continuing to rise and italy and spain one discuss this next with our guest and then later in sports we're going to hamm brings us breaking news out of the tokyo olympic games will be right back. to the future we go through. every the world should you.

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yeah. artsy america brings you stories of world wide significance news the corporate media uses to show you from social movements to civil wars to tech breakthroughs to epidemics because our journalist and audience ally dear to question more. coronavirus coverage continues across the pond where all across europe numbers are

varying quite dramatically in italy now becoming the new virus hotspot both in confirmed cases and death toll meanwhile german chancellor angela merkel goes into quarantine after the realisation that her doctor tested positive for coded 19 but russia who shares a border with china where the pandemic is believed to have begun has only had infections in the low triple digits so joining us to discuss former u.k. m.p. george galloway george good to see you happy and healthy across the e.u. the disparity of of these confirmed cases is just so wide ranging why do you suppose that is. well of course there's a curve and people are different stages in the curve it's a truism here in britain that we are 2 weeks behind it all in which case there's going to be a lot of bells tolling in britain in the next couple of weeks because the bell has

well and truly told for italy quite staggering or overwhelming numbers of dead and misery in the north of italy can almost be felt elsewhere by those who love italy and italian people but the good news there is that the rates of death in italy while still staggeringly high have fallen for 2 consecutive days fewer people died on sunday than on saturday and fewer people are dying today according to the figures just out of italy saw the social distancing the quarantine the discipline which is belatedly setting in in the north of italy might be working france is in a bad place britain too but spain is the 2nd war stuff by far some shocking footage out of spanish hospitals of patients lying on the floor patients

lying in the street and so on it is it is extraordinary as you say and i was thinking when i was listening to your french report there it is amazing that countries like france like britain that go around the world projecting themselves world powers which are fantastic really rich haven't even laid in for a rainy day stocks of facemasks i mean i've got off this mosque in manila yeah because i have an asian wife who laid them in years ago just in case we'd ever need . them you'd think these big powerful countries might have done the same absolutely i am and myself and asian wife and we have a stock of those for any given reason because you just never know and as early as we know the backlash amongst asians across the world for having the stock of

mass and that's a whole different topic george staying in europe you mention these staggering numbers in italy glad to hear that they are finally beginning to fall at least the death toll is but do you think that that italian officials acted fast enough. nor i mean nobody to fast enough in europe or north america for that matter the russians acted fast as you've just been hearing i was in st petersburg and more score a few weeks ago and was the tourist industry in st petersburg and particular is hugely dependent on chinese tourism there wasn't a chinese tourist to be found because russia had sealed its borders and stopped all traffic from china the 1st drop this covered 19 virus and so some governments decisively and some did not the british government is not even

yet according to much of the public opinion down decisively enough there's obviously a tension between address only in measures personal freedoms and so on the needs of public health but i suspect that the latter is winning out what i will be announced in the next day or 2 with that said for the time being the u.k. is still a acquires i member of the e.u. should there be a uniformed response among e.u. member states to also follow suit like russia and shut down all borders or or do other measures to help flatten the curve. well it is wrong that we've taken back control in order to a low flights from the most infected there is charging up 2 italy are still arriving right no british airports it's quite extraordinary i believe i'm old fashioned i believe we should all follow the world health organization on issues

like. mix these have nothing to do with national sovereignty or politics it's fun to a stooge be casting aspersions on this or the part of the world we all need to pull together the best advice is the best advice wherever it came from me i trust doctors rather than politicians and my own doctor warned me many many weeks ago that this was going to be a thought again disaster and george before we go we got to go real quickly but until a merkel as of now we don't know if she has actually tested for kobe 1000 but she is self quarantining at this time because she has come under exposure of a confirmed case u.s. senator rand paul has officially tested positive for the virus he's the 1st us big named official to be confirmed. to be confirmed rather as positive but mr paul staff says that he was showing no signs he was asymptomatic so the western then

comes to you having been a lawmaker yourself why was mr paul tested do you suppose that given the scarcity of tests here in america our public officials like u.s. lawmakers are they cutting the queue and should that be taken by all other global leaders. spreads the drug don't often predominated that's the will of the world the. door got tested positive here just a couple of weeks ago a lot of people were upset about. because virtually nobody in britain has been tested and a list of arrived at the hospital already sick and of course the big 4 that ron paul has a shilling or 2 for his own interest it's not the way we would all do the world but i guess is the way of the world all right we'll leave it right there as always

appreciate your insights george galloway thank you. welcome taking a look now at other stories making headlines around the world croatia's capital was hit by a magnitude 5.4 quake the sunday this registers the capital cities strongest earthquake in 140 years earthquake caused widespread damage injured over a dozen people and forced hospitals to evacuate. and the u.s. has scuse me pardon we're going over to the world of sports with regina hamm regina you're sitting in there there has been a major announcement after announcement after announcement about the olympics so what's the deal it's really been a case of back and forth manila and when it came to the decision about holding the tokyo 20 summer games in now seems the international olympic committee has actually made some steps forward that an i.o.c. member dick pound said that the committee made the decision to postpone the games based on the information about the current virus they had available mr pounds of the parameters going forward have not really been determined but the games are not

going to start on july 24th japanese officials including prime minister shinzo ave voice their opinion the games should not go on as planned in 2020 a statement of details will be released likely in the coming weeks with the postponement date i had for summer 2021 tokyo's 2020 organizing committee had also not said anything on the matter but prior to the announcer president said athletes would not have their voices ignored the i.o.c. decision came after the canadian olympic and paralympic committees issued their decision not to allow athletes to compete in their games had they gone on as planned and manila that is really an interesting thing there to see that a country such as biggest can of they had 340. teen athletes compete in the 2016 real games they are one the large delegations they will not be in the 10s if it still went on and a lot of athletes are not able to train as normal due to the coach at 19 putting their participation at risk countries including norway australia and brazil called for the i.o.c. to postpone the games but canada was the 1st to threaten to not send any at all 3 joint state of the canadian committees said this is not solely about athlete help

it is about public health with kobe 1000 in the associated risk it is not safe for our athletes in the health and safety of their families and the broader canadian community of athletes to continue training for these games. and canadian libyans took to social media they are unhappy about but they supported the decision to miss rosie maclennan saying it's an honor to represent team canada in a sport i love i am so proud to be part of a team that prioritize health of the team canada postponed today conquer tomorrow track star sage watson also called on the i.o.c. to make that decision saying put our world 1st and 2016 wrestling champion erica we bay said she is heartbroken at the decision not some athletes but we are standing on the right side of history and hopefully in manila that is the side wrong with this decision people are getting sick it is affecting people going to 40 those are prime ages for olympians absolutely there's a lot more than just the 3 olympians themselves so we see how this unfolds we're going to have thank you so much all right guys that's it for right now make sure you keep up with everything and question at all times by downloading our brand new

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