president trump expresses his appreciation for medical aid sent by russia and china to fight the drone a virus which is now infected more people in the united states than anywhere else. governments around the world face a stark choice between saving their economies and saving lives we look at how convinced are trying to strike about. one of the world's largest refuses to pay rent on its schools in germany due to the knock down sparking fury from politicians. global news headlines this is r.t.

international. let's start with the latest figures in the global pandemic kovan 19 more than 786000 cases have been confirmed around the world an increase of 9 percent in just the last 24 hours more than 37000 people have lost their lives 165000 have recovered. russia around the u.s. have agreed to work together to counter the pandemic president trump and president putin spoke by phone and discuss the economic fallout earlier russia and china sent several planeloads of medical aid to the u.s. and speaking outside the white house the u.s. president voiced his appreciation. i have to say we've had great relationships with a lot of countries. china said just some stuff which was terrific russia said as a very very large plane load of things medical equipment which was very nice

other countries said just sings that i was very surprised that very happily surprised we learned a lot we're learning a lot. new york has now confirmed more cases of covert 19 that any of the city in the world empire state building is even lit up in the colors of an ambulance in honor of frontline medics and such as reports from the big apple. the situation in new york worsening by the hour the state accounting for more than a 3rd of coronavirus cases in the country hospitals being pushed to the brink i've never felt so. easy clean and emotionally burdened in my life i've never felt so deeply sad and distraught with more than 59000 confirmed cases in new york and more than 8500 hospitalized officials are scrambling to deal

with the influx of patients at the hospital itself their overrun with patients you know or your message last night broken record we handle 6500 calls a central park now a field hospital with 68 hospital beds but officials say the worst is yet to come take a look at this crew video it shows teams setting up a makeshift morgue outside of bellevue hospital hospital in queens the bureau with the most coronavirus cases in the city possibly hit the hardest well hurst hospital has hit capacity and there's about 545 beds in here and they're all filled with cold the patients the u.s. navy ship comfort finally arriving in new york a quick get the 1000 hospital beds and 1200 medical personnel to vessel is sorely needed to help aid the coronavirus fight in new york as the city remains the epicenter of the outbreak in the u.s. the idea here with the corps of engineers with fema. and with the state and local officials is to work in collaboration so that we can provide skilled medical

professionals. to take some pressure off the local and state health care system without with our army professionals as the contagion continues to strain the capacities of hospitals and brick and mortar facilities new york remains on lockdown but we put in place in new york pause program today i am going to extend it to april 15th the directive that non-essential state work. forced continue to work from home the c.d.c. also issuing a travel advisory for new york new jersey and connecticut rhode island national guard was door knocking homes mandating all new york visitors south korean teen this is not a lock there is a travel advisory to be implemented by the states meantime president trump has extended social distancing guidelines through april 30th reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . the governor of rhode island in the u.s.

has ordered a 2 week sofa quarantine for anyone the arriving in the state for non-work purposes you know raimondo initially applied the rule only to people coming from new york so expanded those restrictions after the governor of new york threatened legal action i don't think the order was called 'd for i don't believe it was legal i don't believe it was me or burley a few days ago how i did an executive order with respect to new york then yesterday morning i signed an executive order superseding that having the regulations apply to all travelers from any state. the rhode island governor said that the measures are needed due to the high rates of infection in nearby states new york has more than 67000 cases of covert 19 compared to just 400 in rhode island so of coroutine will be strictly enforced those who refuse to comply will face fines or prison time when asked about the legal threats from governor cuomo you know remand her priority

is keeping rhode island a safe. i will say i think it's odd that governor cuomo is focused on this sort of politics at a time that we're fighting disasters but i don't know how i can be any clearer i was crystal clear yesterday colonel manning is crystal clear the national guard is clear i have a job to do which is to protect you the people of ireland and that's what we're doing. and i wish governor cuomo all the best with the crisis he has on his hands florida's taken a similar approach the state governor the result of the 2 week quarantine for anyone traveling from new york the highway checkpoints have been set up to screen drivers arriving from the north. lawyer and former candidate for the new york city council explained how the containment measures are working. the governors are trying to you know use the laws in the way they can to protect their citizenry under the c.d.c.

i'd also public health was states our own law. to let's say. stop other citizens from coming into order under this sort of the solid health emergency and you are able to do that at the same time what you want the governor to she singled out new york license plate once she changed and said anybody coming in we're going to check. you know post or acting on. everybody she's allowed to do fire or the bad. mexico has declared a health emergency to took over 19 the country has more than 1000 confirmed cases 28 people that have died but the infection rate is still far lower than in the united states the protest is taking place at the border with people trying to prevent americans from entering mexico just as blocked roads with vehicles and held

up signs telling us visitors to go home this is saying anyone entering mexico should 1st be tested for the novel coronavirus you heard from one of those campaign is josie luis this. now it's your decision to block the border with the united states was due to covert 19 we call on the mexican government to take more responsible measures arrivals from the us need to be conscientious and stay at home to prevent mexico from descending into chaos we will monitor the government to check it takes necessary actions but if it doesn't we will come and block the border again. there are u.s. citizens who come to mexico to buy our products on a large scale like rice we ask americans not to come to mexico they will leave us without our essential they must not. tensions will grow and we as citizens will need to take measures stay at home don't come to mexico we won't be able to cope with a pandemic. or the threat of the pandemic has caused widespread panic in mexico last

week a group of 70 people broke down broke into a supermarket taking everything from the shelves. an. errant. as it was and under the gun says the government's not doing enough to keep the country safe. in every single part of mexico the government should take tough measures because we don't have enough hospital capacity to deal with the virus our country isn't ready economically or infrastructurally if the situation around the country becomes drastically worse and makes in government isn't taking any of the necessary measures when it comes to checking on a citizen and americans when they arrive in the country and not taking preliminary measures to address the issue. many governments around the world now seem faced with the tradeoff between saving their economies and stopping the virus aunties and i guess they have reports finding

a good outcome is almost impossible. whatever they do there's there's going to be people who when the dust settles who come out and say what if we had done things differently and the only onset of that will be that there was no good choice the answer why some tools to quarantine and some tools to keep society of business who put these cool cool math we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself we're not going to let the cure be worse than the problem i don't want to see it i'd like to avoid it but i wouldn't be surprised if we saw 100000 let me explain the 2 different approaches the countries are taking the 1st one locked down these clues all business to introduce quarantine shut everything down and limit the spread of the infection the 2nd is to try and stay open lead people would recommend that they stay at home but you make them you let the infection spread and take

a look at the log down 1st many if not most of the population will get infected eventually but it's happening gradually there are enough hospital beds enough ventilators you you save thousands of lives so a small percent of people die but the economic impact is huge just for example let's say one trillion dollars is lost that's. a lot of taxes that's a lot of business that's going bankrupt the cost of giving millions of people unemployment benefits obviously the humane thing to do is to lock down but it's not an easy choice the survivors when they see the bill will be shocked their children's children will still be paying for it indeed a regional state finance minister in germany seen the numbers choose to take his own life rather than leave with the cost that germany is paying his main concern

was whether he could manage to fulfill the huge expectations of the population especially in terms of financial aid he clearly couldn't see any way out he was desperate and so he left us that's a shock to us has shocked me now look at what many american states are doing or sweden which is staying open they're letting everyone infect each other this isn't going to look good in a few weeks hospitals will be flooded and people will be dying not because you can save them but because there aren't enough hospital beds enough doctors enough equipment people with utterly treatable illnesses will also be dying because all the beds of form because everyone is busy treating the infected the end result is that many more people a likely go in to die but the economic damage on paper will be much smaller although we have no way idea how it will pan out let's just say for example it's $200000000000.00 what governments around the world the doing is they're facing this

choice shut everything down and save as many lives as possible but the survivors start off much poorer and take decades to undo this damage or keep everything open literally led people who didn't have to die die just so that the survivors the economy can keep going so this. this burden on future generations who could texas whether you tend to just. look at texas where the lieutenant government is claiming that the elderly are ready to sacrifice their lives for the economy no one reached out to me and said as a senior citizen. are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping of the america that all america loves for your children and grandchildren it's an ugly choice either way no one can

predict how bad this is going to get how how room all our economic models how long it will take to recover or how many lives are going to be sacrificed so that the dow jones index stays high. europe's largest schools with us is refusing to pay rent on its stores in germany because of the current lockdown the move has angered politicians that respond to all of the ripples stay at home to save lives as being the all encompassing mantra of this pandemic but for those that can't work from home well it has meant losing their jobs for some and having to rely on state benefits for one of the world's largest sports money factor is it's meant them well refusing to pay for some of the stalls they've been forced to close off what adi to us is done and it's drawing fire from the german government it's indecent and then acceptable if financial destroying firms now just stop paying

their rents. the brand famed for their 3 strike design made over $3000000000.00 in profits last year and they're being accused of trying to save a quick buck in times of crisis with some european leaders saying they're not going to buy the dust product ever again us responded by saying they weren't the only ones but that appropriate arrangements had been made and that smaller landlords would get their money they're not the only ones to be sure clothing giant h. and m. as well as german giant stores like soft or medium are have also announced that they would be either suspending all delaying the pagan reds in the future. by the way these are the last pair wajda to swivel by such a shame that a global corporation with 3200000000 in profits in 2019 is exploiting an all protecting tenants existence. but what about the private renter and landlord

slightly more than half of the people in germany own a home last week the german government promised well over 800000000000 euro in emergency funds to tackle the financial fallout from corona virus one of the big pieces of legislation is that all the victims will be suspended from april until september of this year with the option of actually extended not until july of 2021 something which is pleased the unions politicians must send a clear signal the home must be safe but where this leaves landlord sees well a little off in the air renters must pay if they can but what happens when or if they can't that's one charted territory one would presume that they and it falls to loans of some kind from the hundreds of billions that have been put forward by

anglo merkel's government but just how one goes about getting all of these loans how much will be made available nobody really knows just yet what we're seeing is that as governments are trying to stop the actual spread of the coronavirus they're also trying to insulate business and financial systems from infection of their own kind peter all of our party. so they come this hour russian researchers are hoping for a breakthrough in developing a coronavirus vaccine details after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy foundation let it be an arms race. the very dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist

i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. micrographs friends aren't slights against you know whites or men for example there's their slights against women or nonwhites so it's always you know the idea is that statements that directed toward a privileged group are interpreted differently than a statement directed toward an oppressed group and so that's kind of the whole framework and it's a it's a political framework that's used the result is of course focusing at least on certain kinds of minor slights and say well rather than a northern door then we need to call attention to them but it's not all slight so it's a very political in this context. pharmaceutical

firms still around the world are now in a race against time to develop a code 19 vaccine. went to meet the director one such company here in russia the full version of this interview is available on the website. but there will be for you start coming up with a vaccine you need to find something similar in all strains of the virus and only based on that a vaccine can be created to identify one or several similarities hundreds of strains of the virus should be analyzed. i haven't seen what's wrong with it why is it hard to create one because even if you create a vaccine strain of the virus it still can interchange its parts with wild strains of that virus so the solution you have now won't be effective in half a year or same as with no flu formula but not really the flu doesn't mutate

this fast when trying to present a 30 to 60 strains of the virus identified during 2 months of the epidemic these strains already contained 149 mutations we can see that so far we don't have a medication with convincing positive effects against coded 19 all we have now is some fragmentary data which are collected from specific clinics but just aggregate information and signal their progress what's lucian may be effective the problem with this kind of data is that clinics have too few patients so statistically analysis is impossible so the point of the quarantine is not to prevent infection itself but to prevent this is jewish and when everyone gets infected several to use the right indeed almost everyone will be infected sooner or later. russia has registered $302.00 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours bringing the total to more than $1809.00 people have died and partial lockdowns have been imposed in

moscow and large parts of the country so far russia has stopped short of a total lockdown as seen elsewhere in the world here in the capital starting from yesterday people are only allowed to leave their homes when absolutely absolutely necessary including to take out the trash buy food or to even go to work if the jobs are deemed essential walking the dog is also permitted if a national went to find out how one family's adapting to the new reality. 4 generations of one family whole self isolating together in a 4 room apartment 6 adults 2 teenagers and 3 young children. but it does feel a bit crowded here 6. as

you can see live go zone even when you are cooped up indoors for this family that means keep doing all the things you love best as much as you can self isolation does not have to be boring. and the other kids has some concerns that. all of us stay home it's always good when the family's home but well too used to that normally all of us a whole when the weekend know we have to work study and self organize but not everyone is good at it just can't wake up some people early. and know like of course she's absolutely mant. was. the schools may be closed and doesn't mean it's time to relax all universities colleges and schools in most cases have moved on line so to keep studying all you need is a good internet connection.

keeping people online is the job of their dad andrei he works at one of moscow's biggest providers nowadays remotely and says they are fully prepared for the new reality. but don't think efficiency will fall a lot so it's still possible to work from home because our company is people like to call it now is digital most important thing is to have remote access working and i think it's going to be fine the company. will happily. with people unable to go to work the self-employed i remain the most vulnerable anna runs her own business together with her sister. just this year i work in the creative sector both in it and then die under damus fear will just stop working this worries me even more than the fact that they can also get sick i'm a photographer and they call and work from home i need to interact with people cell phone is

a lesion just impossible is what they do ludmer is 79 has more than ready to handle the challenges ahead. of. us back in the soviet union we had a saying when the party says do it the calm small replies yes and today we have to follow the same principle if the government says it has to be done that has to be done people say western democracy is the thing to strive for that's how we have to live but there's a big problem when we see that democracies can unite in theory they are doing that but in reality each stands for itself. love him remember is how his daughter in law courts swine flu back in 2009 he believes call the 19 is no worse than that and the world will survive. good. she got sick with swine flu or it was a very worrying time back then we didn't see such a big panic. everyone is gathered in the kitchen listening to president putin's

address to the nation this is just one of many russian families and families worldwide who decided to self isolate before even any request from authorities and an official lockdown hoping it will help stop the virus spreading and understanding only uniting their africa can counter this global threat reversion r.t. from moscow and please stay healthy. thing to you from our studios here in moscow as well as london and washington d.c. to stay with us here at r.t. for round the clock coverage as we bring you the latest updates on the coronavirus pandemic. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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time and not enough time to devote to reading a tale to cities i want to read the rest of that quote from the opening of a tele to cities because it's quite relevant i think to our time because that book was written in the period leading up to the french revolution and then through the reign of terror which i think is similar to what we have today it was the best of times it was the worst of times it was age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness it was that of belief it was a part of incredulity it was the season of light it was a season of darkness it was the spring of hope it was the winter of despair we had everything before us we had nothing before us well well done charles dickens captured the guys at that moment to make a christmas carol being a condemnation of capitalism osama yes you know the ghost of christmas future was neoliberalism visiting upon the president to try to warn people what happens when you.