german officials accuse sportswear giant added ass of exploiting a law that was supposed to protect low income tenants says the firm refuses to pay rent on its store stoop to the coke that $19.00 locked down. governments around the world face a stark choice between saving their economies and saving lives and look at how countries are trying to strike a balance. as a trump expresses his appreciation for medical aid by russia and china to fight the corona virus which is now infected more people in the united states than anywhere else.

with your global news update thanks for joining us here on r.t. international. here are the latest figures in the covert 19 pandemic more than 800000 cases of now being confirmed globally that's an increase of 9 percent in the past 24 hours well and 39000 people have lost their lives 172000 have recovered. the global movement is gathering pace calling on landlords to stop charging rent for housing during the ongoing health crisis and one multi-billion euro firm has latched onto the idea added us is refusing to pay rent on its stores in germany due to the current lockdown politicians furious to all of reports. to stay at home to save lives is 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 made them well refusing to pay rent for some of the stores they've been forced to close off what adi das is done and it's drawing fire from the german government it's indecent and then acceptable if financially strong firms now just stop paying their rents the brand pay for their $3.00 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 bodied 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 a little 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 extending not until july of 2021 something which is please do unions politicians must send

a clear signal the home must be safe but where this leaves landlords is well a little up 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 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 one 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 r.t. berlin. and many governments around the world are now faced with a tradeoff between saving their economies and stopping the virus and auntie's my guess the a report finding a good outcome is almost impossible. whatever they do there is there's going to be

people who when the dust settles who come out and say put what if we had done things differently and the only option for that will be that there was no good choice the answer why some chose to quarantine and some juice to keep society and business open 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 deaths let me explain the 2 different approaches the countries are taking the 1st one the lock down these clues will be sustained introduced quarantine shut everything down and limited 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 look 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 subject us has shocked me now look at what many american states do it or sweden which is staying open they're living everyone in fixed 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 yet 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 lead people who didn't have to die die just so that the survivors the economy can keep going so this list burden future generations look at texas where the lieutenant governor is claiming that the elderly a ready to sacrifice their lives for the economy no one reached out to me and said senior citizen. are you willing to take a chance on your survival in exchange for keeping a b. 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 are how long it will take to recover or how many lives are

going to be sacrificed so that the dow jones index stays high. pharmaceutical firms around the world are now in a race against time to develop a covert 19 vaccine. went to meet the director of one such company and russia. before 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 the virus so the solution you have now won't be effective in half a year or so same as with not flu similar but not really the flu doesn't mean you take 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 $149.00 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 and fragmentary data which are collected from specific clinics but just aggregate information and signal their progress what's aleutian may be effective the problem with this kind of data is that clinics have to thewe patients so the typical analysis is impossible so the point of the quarantine is not to prevent infection itself but to prevent this situation when everyone gets infected several to use the right indeed almost everyone will be infected sooner or later. russia has registered 500 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours that brings the total to more than 2317 people have died and partial lockdown has been imposed in moscow a large part of the country president putin addressed the nation on monday urging

people to stay at home. i thought we were. special focus should be on the elderly who are in the risk group today explanatory work is very important here everyone people over 65 and their families should know that people in this age group must stay home now they must be told if you want to stay healthy and alive you must stay home we care about you but please care about yourselves too. so far russia has stopped short of total lockdown seen elsewhere in the world here in the capital starting from yesterday people are only allowed to leave their homes when absolutely necessary that includes to take out the trash to buy food or to go to work if jobs are deemed essential walking the dog is also permitted i went to find out how one moscow family is 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. ok it does feel a bit crowded here 6 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 then other kids has some concerns that. all of us stay home it's always good when the families hope but when to use to that normally all of us a whole when the weekend no 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 met. with. the schools may be closed but that doesn't mean it's time to relax all universities colleges and schools and mosques 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 follow loss 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 are among the most vulnerable anna runs her own business together with her sister.

i work in the creative sector both 8 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 selfies elision is just impossible is what i do ludmer is 79 has more than ready to handle the challenges ahead. you know. 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. ludden remembers how his daughter in law

courts swine flu back in 2009 he believes called the 19 is no worse than that and the world will survive. 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 african pound this global threat reversing our see from moscow and please stay healthy. so breaking news is just coming in the chief doctor at russia's main hospital treating covert 19 patients has tested positive

for corona virus that's according to state t.v. so far there's been no official statement from the hospital which is located in moscow that is spread saying you see the widely seen as the public face of the country's containment strategy against the coronavirus he regularly gives media interviews and we've shown him here on r.t. in the past few days the hospital where he works is currently treating several 100 patients. presidents trumpets and have agreed to work together to counter the covert $900.00 pandemic we'll bring you that story after this break. the world is driven by shaped.

thinks. we. ask. all the alternative all. and as i say the stage show that was called real choice binary choice and only choice is it. and both binary thing is not a chance for the arab states to sort of buy the new architecture revive the call ted and start negotiations with. israel they don't invited to negotiate. to think about what's being put on the table.

welcome back to russia and the united states have agreed to work together to counter the global health crisis don't trump the blood in the pigeon spoke by phone and discuss the economic fallout russia and china send several planeloads of medical aid to the united states 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 sent us 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 to us things that i was very surprised that very happily surprised we learned a lot we're learning a lot. new york now has more confirmed cases of 19 that any other city in the world

the empire state building has been lit up in the colors of an ambulance in honor of frontline medics trinity chavez 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. physically and emotionally burdened in my life but 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 they're overrun with patients you know 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 screen 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 pick a 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 post 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. hundreds of people in mexico have blocked checkpoints on the u.s. border over fears of infected americans entering the country mexico has around 1900 cases compared to more than 160000 north of the border with the protesters blocks lanes with vehicles and hold up signs telling us visitors to stay at home activists are saying that anyone entering mexico should 1st be tested for the novel

coronavirus we heard from one of those campaigners jose luis and on this. the decisions of the border with the united states has jews equated 19 we call on the mexican government to say more responsible measures arrivals from the u.s. need to be conscientious and stay home to prevent mexico from descending into chaos we will monitor the government takes necessary actions but if it doesn't we will come at 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 and they must know. what tensions will grow and we as citizens will need to say measures stay at home americans don't come to mexico we won't be able to cope with a pandemic. in the chinese city of ham where the covert 19 outbreak began life is starting to return to normal there's been no new cases registered in the past week

and doctors brought into the city back in january they are returning home restrictions on movement are gradually being lifted across the country allowing factories and businesses to reopen a number of active cases has been in steady decline since february we spoke to john ross senior fellow at the chung instituted renmin university in china he says that countries need to learn from china's experience of tackling the virus. situation is actually getting back i wouldn't call normal. but it is less abnormal what people don't understand is that the outbreak in western europe and the night states is much much worse than the one in china because this is it's not very meaningful to make comparison absolute numbers when china's population is some much bigger than that of other countries it's more than 4 times the case of the size of the united states population 23 times the size of italy's population that means that for example that when you have the same number of cases in italy and in china this

actually means the situation is 23 times as bad in italy and intensity of the situation in the united states in terms of the population is 10 times as bad as the situation and this is because they're not taking extremely rigorous measures but not making mass wearing compulsory they're allowing people to go out and if you do this the number of cases will continue right then unalterable people stay at home you know put in place a tremendous infrastructure you've got to do the food to them you've got deliver essential medical supplies certainly it's an all out social mobilization and the fact that john adams corrects uncrate so so far throughout western europe and throughout the united states a number of cases of drugs and very fast. remind of our breaking news story this hour the chief doctor at russia's main hospital treating coded 900 patients has tested positive himself for the corona virus that's according to russian state t.v.

channels but so far there has been no official statement from the common arca hospital which is in moscow and he spread saying can he see that is 44 years old he's widely seen as being the public face of the country's containment strategy against covert 19 he's given several t.v. interviews in recent days including to r.t. the hospital where he works is currently treating several 100. people. here r.t. we continue to bring you round the clock coverage of the corona virus outbreak and any other major news stories from our studio here in moscow as well as our centers in the u.k. and the united states do stay with us if you can as we hand over now to r.t. u.k. be here with dates for you in around 30 minutes time. is your media a reflection of reality. in

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