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them back to the program our reminder of our breaking news has postponed moscow 75th victory day parade on the 9th of may as well as other mass advance to honor the victory over the nazi regime as due to the high risk still posed by the corner virus pandemic this is what the president had to say. i would change the sheer joy and postpone the rehearsal for the military march on red square and postpone all of the mass gatherings to celebrate 75 years since the great victory what we realize is that this wasn't an easy decision to make this was an incredibly important parade that was going to happen a host of world leaders had been invited to attend this is the diamond jubilee of the defeat of hitler's germany on this day in the 9th of may 1945.

hitler's germany capitulated to the side to surrender. to 75 years commemoration and this this was an event that is that this could be unprecedented and to have to cancel it. must of cool but you know gladly if we did say that they have to weigh the risks they have public safety against remembering the sacrifices that the country made during world war 2. we're now facing a tough choice the 9th of may is a special day for us but the life of every single person is priceless to hold the parade on the 9th of may we need to start rehearsals now but the risks posed by the epidemic as well as its peak which we haven't post yet still high that's why i cannot stop the rehearsals for the parade under the public gatherings it was still up in the air until until this last moment with just weeks to go until the paraded

celt russia was spared in the initial stages of the pandemic infection numbers here had been very relatively low and there had been you know there had been hope that perhaps with follow the scenario that happened in singapore in south korea where the infection was contained unfortunately it is growing more and more people every day in russia. becoming infected and we haven't yet reached a peak as veterans groups had urged that mutant and the government to postpone to perhaps council public events public festivities the parades itself for food safety reasons and eventually the government looking at the data it had the spread of the pandemic decided that you know eat it's better to postpone it here that it hasn't been council it has been postponed we will perhaps expect some sort of

commemorations during the night that make this perhaps televised speech is. that there certainly will be events just not public was not the parade that self which is grown in scope and which is happens where you live for a quarter of a century nor the march of the immortal regiment and this is this is perhaps more important than the military parades itself where hundreds of thousands of wouldn't be russians marched through the red square behind me holding putrid portraits of their family members of their relative abscessed as grandparents grandmothers who died fighting the nazi war machine which was which was stopped. its majority in russia which is where he lost most of these suits moves that these fire power adds a tremendous cost to russian lives tens of millions of people died stopping him stopping his armies but the battles the sacrifice the russian me was tremendous was

unimaginable and uncountable and the memory has preserved that he's been preserved in russia people remember the tremendous suffering of those is. the deaths the the agony of the rule and the government has made a point by showing that by the. latest military hardware its jets its troops demonstrating to the people. this will never ever happen again that russia will be ready to repel any invade in the future and that the people that the children of the. world would keep in the country safe and secure from here that their children wouldn't have to do what previous generations when so in this case again the parade house be pushed to a later date 2020 the march of the immortal regiment as well as. we are to expect some facilities and commemorations in some form or another book the

sensible thing the sensible decision has been made we're in the middle of a pandemic and if the veterans themselves are saying don't do this you know this new point carrying on with a march through the red square. the 75th anniversary of victory day parade has been much anticipated and not just by russians on the other side of europe french resistance fighters are playing their part against german occupation of the country and the ability told us about his role in the operation. i'm going to. force a book on you plus each other. you do because you don't know the lingo but me. going to broader me don't.

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discuss this breaking news we cross live to journalist and broadcaster neil clark that may 9th is one of the most important dates and russia's calendar it's a huge thing for every single russian what does this postponement really say about the situation that we're currently facing. well it says quite clearly we're in a very serious situation this was an important anniversary this was just and the anniversary this was extremely important 75th anniversary of the great victory in world war 2 and it had to be disposed which is very very sad indeed because i think that this was an event that would have brought people together not just people in russia but around the world to mark this commemoration and it just shows you what's happening in 2020 it seems that we've had a whole list of events now because the olympics we lost the european football

championships the last major sporting events and now we've lost this so i think it's very sad yes. i think email hit the nail on the head there when you said that this is an event that really does bring people together which is most likely one of the reasons why put in didn't stress the fact in his announcement that may the 9th still needs to be a day when we are honoring the battery and when there will be some sort of commemoration what kind of amends do you think we'll see given that there is no possibility of the parade or the immortal regiment or i think 1st of all it's very good that it hasn't been cancelled it's been postponed so hopefully fingers cross will be able to have this if they play 2 more that he has to be out very full to be held but i think on that day. whether we lock down or semi lockdown or whatever i think we all need to do something come out of our houses out of our flats pictures up hope because up we need to do something to mark that event to show that even though at the moment we're in a pretty grim situation in russia globally as well in britain i think we need to do

something together to kind of link up on that day to show that we are in this at the will of course the world were together on this and i think that would be a very nice way of doing it to show that even though we are. really restrictive we can't have the you can't have the parade we can still do something which would commemorate it in the right way and then there's no doubt that something will happen on the day itself and as you mention president putin did stress the fact that it's not cancel yet postponed that there will be some sort of parade later on in the year what do you think that's going to look like is it going to be scaled back or is it going to be even bigger. well it all depends of course what what happens next in britain today at the time of just be can we just heard the news that we've got another 3 weeks of locked out which isn't what people want to hear the government said there's no they're not going to give a date as to when they slow down will be lifted so it could go even beyond 3 weeks

and of course even when these various lock downs and they do vary from country to country you have a slightly different one in russia to us here in britain when that happens we aren't going to get it for a lot of quite successful considerable time i think a return to the kind of things we were doing before big gatherings i was at the problem speaking with horseracing festival in march and they were there 150000 people there over the over the 4 days something like that will be happening and so that's the issue about the great obviously we do have hundreds of thousands of people coming out for that and it may have to be done in a different format given for to what it would be done normally but i think we it does need to take place as long as it's done safely and indeed i mean consideration of the be good probably measures which will still be in force probably for most of the year now even when we hit the lockdown finish we're still going to have i believe to have some kind of social distancing you maintained for several months at least you see what we're facing at this point in time is truly unprecedented coben

1000 has claimed 135000 lives but there have been numerous pent up banks over the course of history with far greater loss of life and yet we have never seen lobel action on this scale what makes this so different. that's a very good question jacqueline and i think that i think what's happened is that it was the it was the potential that this thing could do i think it was the we the government in britain initially was following a policy people could herd immunity while that at the swedish model who what the swedish government to do was be to have sort of the most vulnerable people in them to stay at home but the rest of life carrying on as normal as possible but when they got the report from the imperial college of britain which said they could be 250000 deaths in britain alone then that's when they began to panic and look at so i think it was the fact this is a new thing and a novel thought it was a novel virus i think that's what's made governments. on the side of caution

of how they become too cautious because here in britain we have a new debate now about people that death is came out for the 1st week in april and it was actually a record since we started collecting these data or the number of people who died in in the 1st week of april and about half of those would be put down to corona half of them would and there's a concern that the longer the lockdown goes on the greater the number of deaths from other reasons and people not going into hospital because they're frightened of getting carona they're not having their medical treatment done also this mentally shellfish use suicides at the most dramatic but people's feeling down about being looked down health sophos so it's not a 0 sum game this is the point is not a 0 sum game the longer the lockdown goes on the more i think we're going to have other problems arising from it and they'll become a point where the number of deaths from the lock down may exceed the number of deaths from not having a lockdown and that's the call the government's got to make isn't it when to lift

this. he's doing it in a phased way that seems quite sensible i think in other words to say look this week we're going to allow certain shops to the next week of the shops and then put pubs and restaurants further down the line that could be the best way to go i think but certainly there is a big price to pay if we do have a soviet looked out going on beyond more than say a month or 6 weeks. there are still a lot of questions at this point and we do seem to be seeing day after day more restrictions and more events counseled if we come back to the victory day celebrations donald trump was actually originally planning to attend this year on the parade in moscow but of course had to cancel to expect him to attend if that is moved to later on in the year is that a possibility even. but i think i think that it's very hard to answer that now it will depends what happens at the u.s. special us presidential elections having. this yahoo search i think a lot will depend on the next to the 4 to 6 weeks are we going to see

a sustained all in all the number of deaths and use cases and if that is the case my own view is that if you look at the history of pandemics and respiratory tract infections viruses we do see you know all of them fall in cases and fatalities in the summer. the dimming date is great for the main system surveys that come out showing that we need to be getting a lot more that human day with the dimming the deficient of prolonged cold a long cloudy cold winter and obviously when the sun comes out we get more victim in day so there's a logical and then medical scientific reasons to hope and to be reasonable to mistake that the better the weather that we're going to get and we are having here in britain already we have a heat wave i hope it's the same moscow. 6 that will actually lead to a fall in cases in deaths and if that happens when there's a good reason to believe that will happen then i think it is possible that donald trump could actually by the end of the it come to moscow and we could by the end of

the it be getting back to say 80 percent normal to what we were doing before the virus struck. well of course it all depends on what the borders are looking at looking like at that point as well another in gotten part of the celebrations on may the 9th is the immortal regiment when thousands upon thousands of people come out on the streets and they're carrying those pictures of their loved ones their relatives people they knew who of course perished or you know worked gave up their lives during the war that has also been postponed put in again gave hope that that would still be able to happen later on in the year and that's actually an event that has gone world why do you think if there is a day picks later in the year for the russian mortal regiment to take place that other countries will follow as well and it can happen there. that would be wonderful to see that would not be great because of that. to this because we know the 27000000 soviet citizens that many of the russians lost their lives in world

war 2 and we remember them all they will be of course this is will be a very sad year for other reasons to the code it gets and so there will be people for whom this event would have been moving enough anyway at least incredibly to the event i watch it every year r.t. that it is astonishingly moving i've always wanted to go to moscow to take part in it myself to be honest obviously but it will be doing that this year next year who knows and i think that this year will add you know added paypal's to that and remember not only the people who died in the war but also of the great country people but also those who set the cost away this year from one covert so i think that the i think it's important very important one way or another to have this effect to have this march to have this event to commemorate the fall of the war we have to do it we simply have to do it and i'm sure that russia will be able to plan this and be able to do it in a in a safe way possible but it needs to be done and as i said i'm so encouraged that

president putin has said look this is cancel we are going to do it this year he said he's perspire and i think it's so important for the memory of those people who gave their lives in it in the war which was defeating with you know the soviet union plane actually critical if not the critical part in defeating the nazis so i think i think it's so important that it's going that it goes ahead. as we try to look beyond the pandemic which can often feel rather difficult at this point people are making various predictions over the long term change changes that will have to live with from the end of cheap air travel to a prolonged economic crisis bigger than the great depression possibly what's your view. i think that the longer we know the figures how many 1000000000 a day lost through each day of lockdown. the the impact of this the longer it goes on the greater the impact a lot of small and medium sized businesses will go to the wall there will be we know that the british government has said that you said that there will be

a price to pay there will be i'm afraid there will be. intrusion i think i think it's up to us the people to say look it's wrong the governments should be to be more proactive in this they the governments should i think do all they can to make sure we don't hit what economists are predicting to be a far greater economic depression than what we had in the 192-819-2030 extension 37 straight question economists are saying will be worse than that and i don't think we can allow that i don't think we can allow that to happen because the consequences for people for their lives. for jobs is just too extreme i think i think we need to have. planning and this is when countries of the world to come together i think quite extraordinary now that you've still got the u.s. sanctioning iran we still got sanctions on russia this is a time to lift those sanctions and for peoples of the world or the world to come

together now and urge that government stop these feuds and to to actually work together on a global plan to make sure we don't have a sort of 1929 style great depression coming in which would be catastrophic the people having survived 8 demick so i think that's that's that's the pressure we should be putting on a couple to say we're not going to sit back and accept you coming on our t.v. screens and saying sorry economies crashed we got 25 percent unemployment not much we can do about it you know we but it's up to the people to make sure our representatives do the right thing. we've been speaking with journalist and broadcaster neil clark thank you for your time and your comments. france has recorded its worst single day death toll from code in 19 when 1400 fatalities were announced on wednesday bringing the total to 17000 according to the health minister at the spike in the numbers is due to a delay in reporting after the 3 day easter weekend meanwhile the nationwide

shutdown is taking a severe toll on the economy he reports. this week president told from the look down wood and on may 11th while that means citizens will apparently be able to leave their homes and some businesses will we start that's not the case. you are some lonely people however public places restaurants cafes and hotels cinemas and museums will remain closed at this stage with no end date for when they can reopen some restaurants and cafes are starting to stress this year. through all the challenges that. i never arisen over the years with. strikes on the make sure the terrorists attacks and so we kind of always go in confidently. with what is happening now really has. got

to the war where we actually do anything small businesses cafes such as this pallet in and restaurants are seen as being the life blood of the national economy of france and that is particularly true in paris when they were shut down as being no one essential business is back in march some claim that that would herald an economic catastrophe and those warnings are serving true the worst figure in france in 1945 was minus 2.2 percent in 2009 after the financial crisis of 2008 we will probably be very thought beyond minus 2.2 percent this year the government has announced packages worth tens of billions of euros to help save jobs and prop up the economy but poor baron again says though this is

a did his employees own this like himself have been left in a tight jam. there's been no is that as owners we're not salaried per se with both companies so at this stage there has been no help for us this is the 1st time in my life that there is that strangeness of going to pay my mortgage how am i going to you know you're on the table and so i guess the stress of that is real thing a business owner and i look at it. months probably before we're. in trouble business is feeling the pressure can apply for loans but paul says the interest free period is only a year and he doesn't think taking on debt with so much uncertainty is prudent they can give as many loans to the cows come home. but it is but we don't want to do is get to too much debt because then i had this idea that it would be very hard to get

out of it i think what would help us is that instead of just freezing social security just basically saying hey look you don't have to pay. his debt and that's probably one of my biggest expenses is a sense of security since they came out and said look the c.e.o. and the basis of security at all and that would give us the kind of hope that one back home we don't have coming off. each month when cafes and restaurants reopen they may also have to contend with full tourists that will certainly hit hard hit in paris now added to that concern is that even locals may be feeling the pinch from the recession and less likely to part with a catch so perhaps treat such as a specialty coffee or eating out may be off the menu putting even for the strain on small businesses such as these poll describes himself as being an entrepreneur and he told me that with the right help his business will pull through even if that

means adapting and changing how they operate but that to happen it needs to start with one key ingredient clarity from the government so they can say that they are open for business so let's even ski ot see paris. pubs in the u.k. are facing a similar crisis they've been shut for almost a month now and one landlord in norwich posted a video showing a rather sad sight o. gauge was no money was going. and there it is kegs of beer are tipped down the drain according to some estimates $50000000.00 pints will go to waste at the lockdown continues through the summer we heard from the man in that video philip cutter who explained why he had to dump his supplies the problem is that we had beer.

and just know that he would just go vents and get in our cellars so we had to work on the train just to be able to dispose of it in that short period time that was 5050 gallons or so being the rest of the big and on saturdays we look at it almost a 1000 gallons of that obviously replicate across the country just that you could change the whole system in the short term we can certainly look at. paying our bills and keep the overflow for probably about 6 bombs but we've been well established a fair number of years i've worked since the age of 15 and that was 33 years ago. there's hope that there have been trading for as long as well established. good cash flow so they are the really really struggle. here at r.t. we are splitting our coverage between our studios in moscow london and washington d.c. in an effort to help fight the spread of the corona virus but we will keep you up

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live from the world headquarters of the r t america in our nation's capital this is the news with rick sanchez and here we go hello again everybody i'm rick sanchez and we want to welcome all of you from all over the world who are watching us especially those of you who are watching us on portable t.v. app in places like india where we understand tens of thousands of people are tuning in to watch us every hour and we're glad you're there the white house today the white house today will unveil its plan regarding what to do about opening the economy or maybe not opening the economy we don't know what the decision is yet the president has been he did obviously if you've been paying attention.