several countries prepared to lift the lockdown but the world health organization says restrictions must stay in place warning that permit your steps could be disastrous. european leaders fail to strike a deal when it comes to a massive new financial stimulus package which would have included joint european union debt for the very worst hit nations. and in other news an inmate's dies of covert 19 at the prison where wiki leaks founder julian assange is being held is that while the u.k. court rules that assad and his extradition trial will go ahead despite the ongoing

lockdown. great to have you with us here with your global news update this is r.t. international. so let's begin as we do each hour with the latest figures on the covert 900 pandemic and the number of cases worldwide 'd now past warm point 4083000 people have lost their lives the united states has the largest number of infections followed by spain and italy and worldwide 308000 people have recovered from the disease. so let's head 1st to france where the death toll from cove 19 has passed 10000 the

health minister has warned that the peak hasn't yet arrived and that the nationwide lockdown will have to continue and so the world health organization has supported that view saying any countries that lift restrictions to early could trigger a new wave of the pandemic artie's correspondent in paris. reports. 4 weeks into lockdown in france and the country's economy is being brought to its knees will probably be more than the minus 2.2 percent in 2009 versus the magnitude of the economic shock. as the pandemics taken a stranglehold on the country's health it's been tightening the noose around its economy to with suggestions that's taken a nosedive of more than a 3rd or normal and annual g.d.p. is predicted to drop by 3 percent for every month the locked down this is a crisis like no other. never in the history of the i.m.f.

we have weakness the world economy coming to a stand still. we are now in recession it is where you were 6. then the global financial crisis that stark warning has whipped up a frenzy amongst global leaders with calls for an immediate and coo warton ated international action to stage the fight back in 2008 to $10.00 the immediate economic crisis could be surmounted when the economic fault line and the capitalization of the global banking system was tackled now however the economic emergency will not be resolved until the health emergency is effectively addressed the health emergency will not end simply by conquering the disease in one country alone but by ensuring recovery from covert 19 countries the world's economy has

come to a judge or a halt the question is how does it power up again in china with the virus 1st hit the lockdown has lifted with business is going back to work but how to return to some semblance of normality is also being asked here in europe australia is set to become the 1st country to ease restrictions but the government is warning there are still months of restrictions ahead keep to the measures avoid social contacts keep your distance and public spaces germany is also drawing up a war next plan it includes mandatory masks in public and a limit on gatherings but some schools are in shops are expected to reopen in france there have been rumblings about the end of the lockdown which is tentatively scheduled for next week but the health minister has already warned that confinement

remains necessary we can see that the worsening of the epidemic is being curbed by containment and the measures put in place but it is continuing so we are not at the end of our efforts for now rules in france are still being tightened with some cities and towns to make masks come. pulse rate while outdoor exercise in paris between 10 am and 7 pm is now banned a return to normality is clearly far from here and the world health organization is also urging not to end measures too soon it's like when you're sick if you get out of bed too soon and start running too soon you risk a relapse and complications governments face tough choices ahead between an attempt to try and keep people safe but not kill off their economies the only thing that is perhaps clear is that 2020 is the door of a very different model nearer the whole economy of the world is it's hard for

some and it's only gradually become a pickup and i think it's going to be much worse than people expect it's not going to last for another month probably 3 or 4 months minimum before things pick up gradually for the economy there is definitely a possibility you're saying the same scenario of having a double peak because people get out quickly because it's spring time and people love to go out and go too close to their friends so governments need to be tough and they should stick to confinement at least for the dangerous groups like the senior citizens for a much longer time but for the younger people people who work for schools for example they could probably be reopened but they should be tested regionally the forest for example that's what they're thinking about i'm sure the governments are

very careful they are afraid that this double dip and there will be very careful trying to do anything. you can to serve to reach an agreement on a large scale stimulus to keep their economies afloat during the pandemic on tuesday finance minister spent several hours trying to strike a compromise for several nations refused to support a plan for shared e.u. dirt on his correspondent in berlin peta all of it explains. initially there was huge upset among citizens of spain italy over what they saw as a slow response to the coronavirus from the european union now what we're seeing is the bloc struggling to come to a consensus over water being called a bonds these would allow the debts that are be racked up to be sprayed even between member states spain italy and france are in favor germany austria and the netherlands very much against speaking on monday german chancellor angela

merkel said that germany's economic future was tied to that of europe it's good. germany it will only do well in the long run if europe is doing well if you just look at how we could reason to wind we're now experiencing what happens when the free movement of goods is not guaranteed therefore the answer can only be more europe and the strongly europe and that europe works well all of its parts that is all its member states. angle of merkel favors using the 2012 european stability mechanism that was used during the previous financial crisis but that has left a brutal demand the french finance minister pulling his hair out saying that some countries will recover quicker than others using that route nothing would be worse for europe them for richard states to get off to a quick starts while those who cannot afford it start slowly we all need to recover

at the same speed in order to guarantee the k. he's in solidarity and unity of the eurozone and our common currency to go back to that idea of more europe that anglo merkel was talking about well the european commission president is also a big fan of on the line putting forward a big european fiscal plan to try and tackle fallout from covert one thing many are calling. right now for something which is called as marshall plan well i think the european budget should be the marshall plan we're laying out together as a european union for the european people also getting on side with the wartime metaphor has been the spanish prime minister better sanches europe has to establish a wartime economy and put in place measures for the defense reconstruction and economic recovery in europe we can turn this crisis into not unity to rebuild a much stronger european union european politicians are under

a lot of pressure right now not only looking after the health of their citizens but knowing that if they fail to deal with this virus or perhaps even worse they're perceived to a failed to have dealt with this it could well lead to the rise of more extremist politics mccrone believes that nothing will be quite the same again when it ends there will be a great sober mood for populist war says on both the far and the left the for in the european the global but he also believes there will be a desire for proven leaders and in the version to further disruption there's a lot of people focused right now on what will happen after the battle with the virus will we end up with a more powerful more unified european union or one that the set by extremists at both ends of the political spectrum be troll ferrante belin. italian historian

pilar bennett in your belief the tragedy unfolding in this country has revealed deep problems with the way the e.u. operates. go america we need a stronger and. stronger bigger national and with international we need to be. in the regions we need a stronger. local council because you connected. on the local but it's very difficult to direct at the moment barber so i understand in the centralized boy and more the real. so i think that they are taking advantage. of these ponded. powers. at least one inmate has died of 19 belmarsh prison in the u.k. where julian assange she's being held that we can leaks founder has been behind

bars since last may after he was evicted from the ecuadorian embassy in london and arrested for skipping bail we spoke to kristen harass and the current editor in chief of wiki leaks is a lot by the conditions are much. well 2 weeks ago when she decided to not grant him bail the size of the fact that there was no cases of covert to inside the prison in belle mars and she had full faith in the prison authorities in controlling the situation. only a few hours later that same afternoon the 1st instances were confirmed in belmont and they've been growing ever since and might i am absolutely certain that their cases are much more than they are reported he has not been tested as most prisoners are now spending the time most of the day most of the entire day. in the cells but in some instances they have to share cells of course. they try to move us a little and are forced not to move. in the prisons where they are stripped of all

our to vittie food is brought to the souls but the prison guards common go and they are the real danger of reading the call that inside the prison and that is probably what will happen and has already happened. a british court has ruled that an extradition hearing for julian assange is will go ahead in made despite the current lockdown his lawyer had asked for a postponement he argued that he's been unable to communicate with his client for 3 weeks now because of the pandemic and it will be impossible to hold a fair trial in may made that request for a telephone conference call with westminster magistrates court the judge refused saying it's too early to tell whether or not the courts will be operational in may wiki leaks is question the court's decision. 2 weeks ago judge refused bail to julian assange which saying that he and all other prisoners would be cif in belmarsh prison today the b.b.c.

is reporting 1st deaths in belmarsh with many other prisoners infected. it is absolutely absurd to not take into account the situation and not to move the here in which is planned for may 18th for the down the road it's not just the situation probably will be still very bad and there's a lot of witnesses that have to fly it's not possible to to continue without their presence in the courtroom also keep in mind that now for 3 weeks the lawyers have not been able to see julian ourselves they have not been able to meet him documents on and actually discuss the case how on earth can you continue as nothing has happened when the lawyers have not been able to confer with with their client he was not not even able to take part in the hearing the video link because it's simply not safe to move around inside the prison and to go to

a holding cells and then into the booth where other prisoners are using to appear the video only. you know just the. growing fatality rates. and african-americans are being disproportionately affected explain after the break . join me every thursday on the elec so i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to give us a little bit. for those of those i'm sure. i don't trust medical authority at all ever and the reason for that is i had

this horrible autoimmune disorder growing up and it turns out it was completely alleviated with very drastic dietary measures and i went to a number of doctors to discuss what happened to me and i was basically laughed at like diet has nothing to do with autoimmune disorders so my suggestion to people who have health issues they can't figure out if they're going to see a medical professional and they've been going for 10 years and they're still in the same place and they should probably take it upon themselves to start testing things out testing out diet testing out exercise and try and figure out things on their own.

you know just. since the start of the coronavirus. 100 deaths were registered bringing the total to almost $13000.00. and the latest findings suggest that black americans are the worst affected demographic due to a whole range of factis kellam open expects someone rich and famous referred to the pandemic as being a great equalizer. doesn't care about. the great equalizer well the queen of pop was dead wrong as the united states tops the world in terms of coronavirus cases and voices compare it to $911.00 or pearl harbor it's anything but equal and who's being affected we are seeing the disparity because right now slightly more than 70 percent of all of our deaths are among

african-americans and that's a state where less than a 3rd of the population is black these kinds of disproportionate results are playing out throughout the country in michigan african-americans are only 14 percent of the overall population but they are 40 percent of coronavirus deaths in illinois 15 percent of the population is black but so far african-americans account for 29 percent of coronavirus cases and 42 percent of deaths the mayor of chicago a major city where african-americans represent over half of coronavirus cases and 70 percent of deaths did her best to explain the situation this is not just about racial and ethnic disparities in the outcomes the distribution of this disease is tells a story about resources in any quality a story about unequal health care access job access and community investment it would be naive and in fact scandals to ignore the point that the virus there is

a disproportionately negative impact of one of the low income and the low income one to new jersey and the who. puerto rican community and with tito community and made of america immunity most of all you often thought it was afraid to say so but 8 people in a native american hold living in 2 or 3 world cups so yes this is a question of a book quiet us and rates but it's not only in terms of direct introspection the unemployment rate is expected to go as high as possibly above 30 percent and for many african americans losing a job doesn't only represent loss of income it also represents a loss of health care this is a post from a nurse in new york city that went viral who's going to pay for it last words i'll never forget the response my patient gough's doubt between labored breaths to me and my team have to explain that he needs to be intubated and placed on

a ventilator. if you test positive for coated 19 and require treatment you could be financially devastated hospital bills for coronavirus patients usually add up to between 42074004 those who are uninsured or for those who get treatment that is deemed out of network by their insurance company and even for those with insurance using in network providers the out of pocket expenses can add up to $21000.00 or even 38 $1000.00 that's not a bill most americans can afford it because of our of for profit health system. hospitals have been closed clinics have been eliminated oh and you have a disproportionate number of core people who like those basic health services and so what we are seeing with this pandemic is that some of us the fact that is the pandemic itself but the pandemic has exposed the structural contradictions

of economic system this is a fake issue that goes across communities it is manifest though in their dramatic ways in the black and brown and the digital communities because of the historic oppression of those communities but it also impacts of poor whites in the white working class of their real serious class contradictions in the us that this pandemic is is exposing a very graphic waves growing numbers of observers are saying that the u.s. mishandling of this crisis isn't simply about a shortage of masks and ventilators it's about the long standing inequalities and the irrationality of the profit based health care system kaleb up and artsy new york meanwhile don't trump claims that the crisis in the usa spot is the fault of the world health organization and he has threatened to cut funding the. w.h.o.

that's the world health organization. received their surveillance of money from the united states to be very china centric they missed a call they could have called it months earlier they would have known. they should have known and they probably didn't and so we'll be looking into that very carefully and we're going to put a hold on money spent to the w h o we're going to put a very powerful hold on it and we're going to see last year the world health organization had a budget of $5600000000.00 the united states contributed almost a 10th of that back in january the organization declared 19 a global health emergency and has been coordinating global efforts since then but it took trump until mid march to declare an emergency on u.s. soil financial analyst wang when believes the soaring death toll in the u.s. is downs of policy failures on the national level. if you're comparing china and

you know he is being completions he has to tool of mouth you can feel very difference early obviously on early china for us to fall. out of this these are both regions grow new virus and. china proved that we need an african community a community could name and he states and 20 days later china. 100 feet clear the national emergency and dad in the end of the affair or in china basically you can shoehorn spreading of the virus but harder than anything else you have you sleep at the end of the generally the 1st case has been found in the united states but white house did nothing except save the stock market and you aren't and you know much so i'm just

a was very warm. americans are people because their white house. the deed to new york a lot of people even know where the. masks china now needs are not of a mask not organic or abuse are these do not use these i feel. even if you are in china we were caught routes to fight against. me while china has lifted the lockdown in the city of where the 1st cases of code 19 were recorded the region itself was closed off in january people are finally able to leave and enter the city freely around a virus fatalities in china have slowed now to almost 0. well as the current virus pandemic continues we will of course here at r.t. be keeping you right up to date with all the latest information on this coverage on

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certainly excels at the former and maybe is the big tim of the latter we are told mention of mental health is off limits to what degree does the public have the right to know. cross talking joe biden i'm joined by my guest jan kearns in new york she is a g.o.p. strategist contributor to the daily caller as well as founder of women for a great america in washington we have jason nichols he's a democratic political strategist also in washington we cross to walter small logic he is a answer coalition organizer rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate jan let me go to you 1st i mean i said in my introduction here i mean you know you have you have a lot of gaffes coming from joe biden and he's been known for it ok it's not you know all of a sudden but the intensity of them are is mounting and that maybe just because of

the media's watching more closely i'm trying to be really fair here but we i think we have every right to know about the mental facilities the capabilities of someone that is running for the highest office in the land i mean how do you come out on this go ahead john. well i agree i said last tuesday on super tuesday that the good news was for joe biden that he won the primaries and i also said at the same time the bad news is he won the primaries and that the spotlight would soon be getting super hot on him and his numerous gaffes i mean this is a man who wakes up and on a daily basis is not too sure what state he zen he only called his wife his sister last week and the list of gaffes really go on and on and on and luckily there are always video cameras around to to record those and you're very right peter of the hypocrisy from the left is rich here because they began calling.