look bleak i'm not sure really is such a quick thing you know i'm sure you look better now than when you had hair come along it's nice of you to say so but i know i went cold when i was 25 i knew it wasn't so great that. hello there i'm an electron you're watching in question broadcasting live from our team american national headquarters in washington d.c. it is 3 pm here on the east coast 7 pm in london 10 pm in moscow we want to welcome our viewers from all around the world on to our top story today covert 19 of course and its constant ripple effects around this nation and the rest of the world the total number of infections worldwide now topping 358000 with about 15000 deaths china still leading the way with 81000 cases followed by italy with about 59000 and

the u.s. now in the top 3 with 39000 confirmed cases now taking a closer look at this country with reported deaths topping 450 cases in an effort to fight the rising numbers of cases here in this country the u.s. national guard has been activated in 3 of those hardest hit states that would be new york california and washington state now almost half of all the u.s. cases about $20000.00 of them are all in new york state alone several states have issued a stay at home orders for its residents with some even ordering non-essential businesses to close their 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 new york city los angeles and chicago overall the policy affects millions of people now here in the nation's capital republicans and democrats are clashing at 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 of that. has been monitoring monitoring the situation on the senate floor all morning she is joining us now found what's it looking like when all of the vote to move this nearly 2 trillion. or economic rescue package well it failed again about a half an hour ago this after the bill already failed sunday night now both sides of the aisle have been working around the clock to come to some kind of agreement but ever since the bill was introduced last thursday by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell now you could say that a wrench has been thrown into the mix house speaker nancy pelosi and her fellow democrats just minutes ago have released a counterproposal that's more than a 1000 pages long saying that they're calling the take responsibility for workers and families act now pelosi says that the current senate bill drafted by republicans puts corporations 1st not workers and families but some elements in this new democratic bill already exist in the bill the senate is still trying to work out but in this new democratic bill corporations would not be allowed to use

taxpayer money for stock buybacks it would boost unemployment insurance strengthen child tax and earned income tax credits and inject $40000000000.00 into schools and universities now as far as what republicans have in their bill that's now sending them back to the drawing board yet again after a failed vote well their bill it would direct payments of $1200.00 each to most american adults $500.00 for each child $350000000000.00 toward small businesses which would push billions toward hospitals and the unemployment insurance system along with a $500000000000.00 program for businesses states and cities democrats say 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 also needs to be revived otherwise it could send the u.s. into a massive depression that could be impossible to get out of and on the floor opened up this afternoon it was back to bickering on both sides we did so after 911

we did so with the financial meltdown. in a. here if we are phrase and enemy that is in this poll. equally devastating to the health of our people and to the health of our economy so one of the reasons that the bill actually fell short sunday night you actually have 5 republicans not present because of self quarantine now that has posed this question should senators be able to vote remotely or president trump says he sees no problem with it i was thinking about it today i mean we could be. it is. was 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 would certainly be that mean to me there's a reason constitutionally and it may be but i would be totally in favor of it on

a temporary basis now some say this new bill brought forth by speaker pelosi is a power move to put pressure on the senate to reach a deal while republicans say the democrats well they're just trying to take advantage of a crisis for their own wishlist but on a separate no if both if both sides can come to an agreement and a bill let's say is passed where most americans would get at least $1000.00 u.s. treasury secretary steve says that his department would be responsible for either sending out checks via mail or direct deposit and hypothetically if there is a bill passed by the senate this week newton says that most americans could actually see a check as early as april 6th reporting in washington fair and fronsac. and while the impact of the coronavirus is being felt across the country it has left a wave of uncertainty here in the nation's capital where businesses have been forced to close and across the country unemployment numbers have skyrocketed artist rachel blevins continues our coverage on cove at 19 with this report. as the united states

prepares for the worst of the coronavirus hundreds of thousands of businesses have been forced to close across the country resulting in a level of job loss that experts warn will have a devastating impact on the u.s. economy while residents are ordered to stay home and practice social distancing at all costs the increasing list of business closures and layoffs are coming at a major cost to the u.s. economy from popular clothing stores to famous restaurants to historic museums the national push to halt all gatherings of more than 10 and the boarded up businesses here in the nation's capital are a reflection of what is happening across the country with stocks falling and unemployment numbers skyrocketing in response to the latest calls to the economy the president of the st louis federal reserve is warning that national unemployment could hit 30 percent higher than it was during the great depression and 3 times more than the 2007 to 2009 recession experts are now warning that the shutdown for the coronavirus could cause layoffs like the united states has never seen before

they note that while the worst month for job losses during the financial crisis was 800000 in march 2009 forecasts for april 2020 range from 500-0025 1000000 while cities across the u.s. are moving to protect residents by expanding eligibility for unemployment insurance offering financial assistance for businesses and stopping evictions and utility cut offs many americans warn that will be nearly enough as they face life without a paycheck i have 2 kids oh my god take care of if you know man get through this we don't know how long when you have no idea how long that will be how can you predict if you will make a shelter in place orders are being put in place across the nation from philadelphia to dallas here in washington d.c. the attorney general shared his support for the move and said he believes it would reduce the spread of coronavirus and keep residents safe but with the millions of americans staying home is the closure of all non-essential businesses implemented

to combat. the impact of the coronavirus many worry about its impact on the economy is only just beginning in washington rachel woman's artsy. teenage genius has created the co-head 1000 tracking website now by millions daily we're going to talk to him next and then later at our sports h.q. we're going to hamill bring us more on the decision by the i.o.c. to postpone the 2020 summer olympic games will be right back. called the future we don't agree on. every the world should in theory of the ego and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to just.

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you. go by. car to america brings you stories of old white significance news the corporate media uses to show you some social movements to civil wars to take breakthroughs to epidemics because our journalists and audience alike to hear to question more. right you may have already heard of my next guests he is a 17 year old computer coder who has been tracking coded 1000 he's been doing this since december since then his website has gone totally viral millions of people

from around the world have viewed this impressive i mean look at it this impressive work this high schooler now known as the coronavirus watchdog 8 is joining me from his home in seattle obvious schiffman is here welcome to the show aviv thank you for being with us so 1st off thank you what inspired you to build the site i mean are you interested in medicine or engineering i mean what inspired you. to. share with the news articles about the good of a long time ago i noticed that it was really hard to just find the information you know it was really hard to just you know get the numbers that you needed you'd have to go to chinese government website news articles that were probably outdated but so i would be cool to combine some of the skills i was working on and just make a website that would check the current affairs and so it gets the information from all those sources that it's able to just you know. just go into one stores and. it's pretty cool yeah it is pretty cool and it's definitely like

a one stop shop for all these numbers it's like a simple platform easy to read there's no you know ads popping up along the way which we should also add you're not making any money from all of this so i mean if you're not what are you getting from beth and other words if you're not make it ad money why do it. on a. number we'll put it on i say it's a big fan of we're going also like oh you know minimalistic it is to just find the information and i don't want to you know put that behind ok well kind of thing so you know i guess what i'm getting from this is you know the person is and so if that come from you know. internships and. person stuff but it's also just it's really old with technology especially not so that's for your a lot of the cool you know that i get you know people are generally helpful on the website pretty cool and you said that you wanted to obviously create a website that was easier bringing how is this different from other web sites

especially like the government ones like the. yes i'm in a lot of people. like that i mean i mean when i started a web one day about there's it doesn't work at all if you're trying to visit their own system possible like anything but my website on of instantly works on you get the quick fix like right there and then you know 80 percent of my i think is from mobile users so i've been catering to the mobile experience a lot i mean that's because you open it up. well you know just. so yeah i think our connection is a little little sketchy right now i want to try to reconnect with you another time and that's ok we'll try to get back with you later on today or later this week.

all right over to europe france has now surpassed 16000 confirmed cases of the 674 people who have already died most of those people were over 70 years old so with the public very alarmed there's also a growing dispute from medical professionals who say the french government government reacted too slowly against the spread of this virus charlotte dubinsky has those details the infection rate goes up but here in france we are hearing from french medics they are happy that they feel that enough was done enough to stop the pandemic 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 to an interview with the former health minister herself who had talked about france holding the municipal elections just over a week ago and saying it was a musket rate and saying as she stepped down from her job as health minister she did so crying because she knew that a tsunami was coming. the medics has told all to see 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 will struggle to catch back up do you want an example you must remember the president's stark speeches last week when he used his warlike tone as commander in chief to convinces that masks will arrive soon because mass are the main tools in

this war they help medical workers where are those masks. well the french government says it's doing all it can to handle the crisis in regards to those shortages we have heard from the french prime minister edward phillipe 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. we have asked the ministry of the ministry of defense to find alternatives more precisely to gauge an wide range of industrial activity to some research either to multiply the production lines or to come up with alternatives disposable reusable well another accusation from the medics told us about was the lack of testing for 19 they think that this is problematic now from isn't the only country that's been experiencing shortages for the kits to test for the virus many of the countries are

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 everyone. today to automatically so far we made a choice like most countries and the european recommendation. for the priority members of the public to targeted people are just like in neighboring european countries those who are most at risk. of 19 is course panic across the world and each country is handling the crisis in the way that it feels is best and it could of course be months before we see a fax developed and a vaccine usable humans and what governments including the one here in france are 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. in our coronavirus

coverage. news across the pond where all across europe numbers are varying quite dramatically it only now becoming the new virus hotspot both in confirmed cases and death tolls meanwhile german chancellor angela merkel goes into quarantine after the realization that her doctor tested positive for cocaine 18 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 earlier i was joined by former u.k. m.p. george galloway to discuss here's what some of what he had to say. well of course the curve and people are at different stages in the car of it's a truism here in britain that we are 2 weeks behind italy in which case there's going to be a lot of bells tolling in britain in the next couple of weeks because that is well

and truly told for italy quite staggering or overwhelming numbers of dead and the misery in the north of italy can almost be felt. by those who love it to the. people but the good news there is the the rates of death in italy while still staggeringly high how fallen for 2 consecutive days fewer people died on sunday than on soft of the few our 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 for france is in a bad place britain 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 friend's report there it is amazing that countries like france like britain that gore around the world projecting themselves as world powers which are fantastic really rich haven't even laid in for a rainy day stocks or fleece mosques i mean this mosque in manila 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 mentioned 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 fast enough in europe or north america for that matter the russians are fast as you've just been hearing i was in st petersburg and moscow all a few weeks ago and whilst 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 sealed its borders and stalked 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. nuff there's obviously a tension between a dress worn in measures and personal freedoms and so on the needs of public health but i suspect that the laughter 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 quite as 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 control in order to a low flights from the most infected there is charging up 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 us to be casting aspersions on this all of our 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 u.s. 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 question then comes. 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. sprues the drops don't often primitive aid the will of the world the. door got tested positive just a couple of weeks ago a lot of people were upset about that because virtually nobody in britain has been tested unless they've arrived at the hospital already sick and of course for that ron paul has a shilling or 2 for his own interest it's not the way i would order the world but i guess that is the way of the world all right we'll leave it right there as always

appreciate your insights george galloway thank you. let's head over to the world of sports where we can find regina hamm sitting in regina there was a huge announcement from the international olympic committee that just broke recently so what was it it was very simple it was really much of a surprise because a large numbers of sporting events have been canceled or postponed due to the current virus now it does seem though that the fate of the tokyo 2020 summer olympics is no longer up in the air that are in canadian i.o.c. member dick pound to the committee made the decision to postpone the games based on the coronavirus information available to them mr pounds of the parameters going forward have not been determined but the games are not going to start on july 24th japanese officials including prime minister shinzo ave voice their opinion that the games not go on as planned in 2020 a statement details will be released through likely in the coming weeks of the postponement date i had for summer 2021 the move comes after i.o.c.

president thomas bach that it was originally could take up to 4 weeks for a decision to be reached tokyo's 2020 organizing committee hasn't said anything on the matter just yet a prior to the announcement present your share more you said athletes voices would not be ignored. did a little order. is because we have our fleet see mind that we are going to get me to be frank it is extremely regrettable that athletes are raising boys to say we are not thinking about them with down south leaks there is no lympics that's an absolute given for what we're doing. the i.o.c. decision came after the canadian olympic and paralympic committee has issued their agreement to not allow athletes to compete at the games had gone on as planned canvas and $314.00 athletes of the 2016 games in rio 'd the year one of the top 10 largest delegations in attendance many athletes are unable to train as normal due to code 19 putting their participation at risk countries including norway australia and brazil have called for the i.o.c. to postpone the games that canada was the 1st to threaten to not send their

athletes through a joint statement a canadian committees said quote this is not solely about athletic health it's about public health with kovan $1000.00 in the associated risks it is not safe for our athletes and the health and safety of their families of the broader canadian community to continue training towards these games canadian olympians though they took to social media to voice their support for the decision to miss rosie maclennan saying it is an honor to represent team canada in a sport i love i am so proud to be part of a team the health of true team canada postponed today conquer tomorrow track star sage wasn't in the i.o.c. on the their decision saying put the world 1st while to a 16 olympic wrestling champion erica we base said she is heartbroken by the decision but believes they are finally standing on the right side of history and i think manila the i.o.c. also came to the same agreement they want to be on that right side of history with many athletes ranging 20 to 4 years old those are actually some people who are being part of the it hit very hard excuse me and hospitalized yeah it can hit any age regina so little it doesn't discriminate well they were right there thank you so much for joining ham all right we got

a lot more news coming up at 5 pm today we'll talk with a member of the team working on vaccines and treatments for viruses and we'll get his insights on developing vaccines for the current coded nightly virus all out of more coming up at 5 i'm going to chant. that's it for now feedback by. the luck. of actions all a little bit messed up by a d.n.a. in some way or another look at the i'm told that surely isn't such a quick thing you know i'm sure you look better now than when you had hair come along it's nice of you to say so but i do i went cold when i was 25 i'm going wasn't so great then. as the democrats gear up to officially start their 2020 presidential primary it is fitting to assess donald trump's performance in office

a report card of sorts where is he kept his promises and where has he come up short plenty of this really matter. just. one. world according. to santos jesse ventura and jimmy door off the grid we're all doing our part to curb the spread of the coronavirus by limiting the number of staff in our studios so today i'm joined by my friend host of redacted tonight and author of the new book bullet points and punchlines camp he's joining me from our headquarters in washington d.c. to talk about the numbers behind the outbreak in america we'll bring you everything we know about the situation so far and later in the show dr eddie fattah cough joins me with tips on how to reduce your risk of coming into contact with the virus

levy thanks for being here today this is awesome thanks for having me i thought about shaving my head to look like just me but i don't think i could have pulled it off. hey we're doing our part of this social distancing seeing you through a monitor you know that's that's the best we can do right now i've been living off cocktails of whiskey and just a hint to appear oh you just put a splash in there. doesn't work and. it's disgusting all right everyone we got a lot on our plate so sit the show starts now. the world. for our top story today officials at the u.s. based the centers for disease control and prevention have released a projection model for coated 19 with input from epidemic experts around the world when it comes to estimated transmission rates in the united states experts project that 160000000.