as the president postponed the upcoming 75th anniversary of victory day parade coronavirus for the world war 2 commemorations will still go ahead late in the. french teachers and doctors criticize president micron's plan to reopen schools by mid may calling it from a chore and. a french actress carrier is the latest nato warship to suffer an on board outbreak of code 19 but secretary general installed it looks as though he's more worried about russian aggression. by the welcome here with your global news update this is r.t.

and tonight. we start with the latest figures on the coded 900 pandemic more than 2100000 cases have been registered now worldwide and 147000 lives have been lost the united states has the highest death toll followed by italy and spain and so far more than 550000 people have recovered from the virus globally. let's turn 1st to russia which has seen a sharp rise in corona virus cases with $4000.00 infections registered over just the past 24 hours it brings the total in the country 232000 with 2 $173.00 fatal disease the president has postponed the annual victory parade on red square which is due to take place on may 9th they say vladimir putin said that the pandemic has made preparations impossible. we're facing a tough choice the 9th of may is

a special day for us but the life of every single person is priceless too 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 have imposed is still high that's why i cannot start the rehearsals for the parade under the public gatherings the president went on to say that the parade will go ahead later in the year it's been an annual event in moscow since 1995 attended by world leaders and veterans of the war since 2012 russia and many other countries around the world of holt immortal regiment commemorations on the same day they were to honor the relatives of those who fought in the war on t. senior correspondent frank as they have looked to the importance of the event. the 75th anniversary of hitler's defeat the destruction of the nazi abomination at the price of tens of millions of lives

a few short months ago the very idea of pursuing commemorations the parade the march of the immortal regiment would have been unthinkable to so many russians this is the biggest day of the year a tribute to the courage and sacrifice of the generation that stopped hitler and for which they are ordered every year. the diamond jubilee this year's parade and commemorations were to be truly grand leaders from all over the world had been invited it was a global sacrifice in part the scale of the commemorations is supposed to remind us all of how many. well last

a catastrophe never to be repeated most russians have relatives a grandmother or grandfather who died in that war yet through their children every year they march again in victory. veterans to the precious few left those who remember the horrors and agony of the 2nd world war this was supposed to be their day indians to the still we were waiting for liberation hope saved us we kept holding on to the end my clearest memories are from when the soviet army came to liberate us it was very moving we never thought we'd survive but life is life the pandemic caught us all off guard that's when scoops were among those that came out and called for the paraded commemorations to be pursued as it became clear the infection wouldn't spare russia

reason conscious prevailed the parade will still happen when it's safe the heroes of the greatest generation will still be on the 9th of may there are already plenty of ideas from online immortal regiment marches to shoes but for now and for the 1st time in a quarter of a century the stands on the red square will remain empty and the veterans will stay at home at home but on and in the hearts and minds of the world we have one journalist neil clark and historian mike jones about the significance of postponing the parade. just at the end of the street this was extremely important 75th anniversary of the great victory in world war 2 and it's had the perspective which is very very sad indeed because i think that this was an event

that would have pull 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 we've lost the olympics we've lost the european football championships the last major sporting events and now we've lost this so i think it's very sad it is not just about the spread of the condom a consortium about the risks to the participants on the program particularly the overly hurts her i'm down it would be there were big hurry through to perth that turns who survived the most corrosion of fighting in world war 2 risk in the pariah so i think it reflects the seriousness of the part that make producer marks how much russia and russia of god church the lives of the surviving draft terms of the great country under one. runs has europe's highest death toll from covert

99 standing in almost 800000 but the number of new delhi cases has been in decline for several days as the micros now calling for schools to reopen by midnight but many teachers think that needs premature shall do be secure the ports. schools could start to reopen from may 11th that was the announcement from president not growing prompting a wave of criticism not just from teachers but doctors too this choice reveals an absolute lack of logic it is very difficult in a school environment to enforce social distancing measures and now the 1st environment that the president wants to reopen is the school environment how does it no longer carry the same risks while the federation of french doctors says it's worried the target date could generate an unnecessary risk and its premise sure children do not necessarily follow instructions they will naturally play together

and risk bringing the virus home that criticism seems sharper perhaps given that almost in the same breath not core announced its restaurants bars cinemas in museums would not be reopening until further notice that's left some teachers groups reeling. who are we going to return with young children and adults packing the small classrooms 20 square metres maximum the school cafeteria is a crammed with 500 people inside it's completely incoherent to leave bars and restaurants closed because of 20 people yet at the same time open a school with some 502-1500 students one of macros given reasons for reopening schools gradually was to fight against social inequality phone that amount only to many children notably in poorer areas in the countryside are deprived of school without access to digital tools. since schools closed in more teachers have

been educating their students online they have been public television services broadcasting lessons to the nation yet despite these new concerns from the government about students for ling behind the education minister genre show blanca recently advised that they should take a break the easter holidays the one teaching union there is a clearer motivation behind the return to school we have the impression that we are being 1st in the auto of the economy it seems like the school is being used to the big childcare service so that mom and dad can go back to work that's also the belief of the teaching collective the red pens. this is an irresponsible decision driven by economic interests life is more important health is more important than the economy. the red pens also say there needs to be

a concrete plan to protect not just those who work in schools but the pupils too. what we're waiting for is a more viable situation mass testing including immunity tests masks in large quantities and although i won't be ready in $26.00 days it's impossible a full plan hasn't yet been formulated about how schools will reopen schools will though be disinfected and full classrooms will be out of the question that's according to france's education minister shore michel but for many teachers the devil will be in the details will they get face masks how will they enforce any social distancing that still mandated and if as longer says the return will not be obligatory how can the government be sure that the most deprived 2 students well actually come back to the classroom show but even ski arty paris.

one in 3 sailors on board a french aircraft carrier have tested positive for covert $9668.00 people out of almost 2000 on board the shuttle de gaulle which is currently docked of the country's south coast and is not the only one to watch it to suffer such an outbreak.

that's what the risk to sailors lies the nato secretary general believes that the real danger lies elsewhere and stoltenberg is accused of the 70s leading russia of trying to exploit the pandemic the security challenges have not diminished because of call the 19 on the contrary potential adversaries will look to exploit the situation to further their own interests terrorist groups could be emboldened we

see a continued pace of russian military activity all were operational readiness remains diminished. all forces remain vigilant and prepared to respond to in the thirty's we spoke to a retired u.s. air force lieutenant colonel who thinks that france should have learned from america's recent experience of an on board how break the group that is most sickened by this is not normally age group of soldiers or. servicemen so you know it's not that dangerous procedure like in terms of life and death but in terms of our operational capability yet bethink because if a 3rd of your crew is sick and not functional then your ship is not functional well he'd like to think that social distancing and things like that that work with those things are not going to be possible on a close quarters ship but i actually am surprised that the navy doesn't

seem to have reacted and learned from that type of situation because we had that months ago it see how it was handled and also what the vulnerabilities were very much a bureaucratic response as opposed to real leadership it seems a little too little too late. farming sectors in the grip of a staffing crisis through to the pandemic and hundreds of workers are being flown in from romania to cover the shortfall in sheer the u.k. needs around 90000 seasonal workers in order to harvest fruit and vegetables but has received only 5 and a half 1000 applications this year most of those from within the country most of the applicants as well have no experience of farming patrick holden from the sustainable foods trust says that the industry cannot function without foreign labor. the farmers definitely would like the remaining to come and indeed they'd be

coming here for quite a few years now in the same way that all the eastern european countries also provided the workforce to harvest all vegetables in relation to what is being called essential work because there is a case for. people who have specific skills. travelling in order to undertake this essential work and i would argue that people harvesting vegetables and fruit and doing cultural work are highly skilled people i'm probably should be allowed to travel the best workers we ever had came from eastern europe and they had a fantastic work ethic and they were highly skilled and they had a really positive asked suit but there are many workers being brought to the you count charter flight the company arranging the transport haitian has said that the passengers will have their temperatures checked and observe social distancing there are no plans to test them for curved 19 hold in the game says that it's unlikely

the farm workers will pose an infection risk. the fear should be the other way around this more likely probably for a group like the group which the united kingdom contracts in the virus the other way around the super safe once the provision for testing becomes more widely available one way of insuring against the risk of transmission between countries would be to have a positive release system where the workers were tested to cope it before they returned personally i would much as i said this cross at risk of transmission especially in rural areas. and employment in america is at its worst level since the great depression yet some 1000000000 as are doing better than ever story angle to the press.

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welcome back to the united states has recorded 34000 fatalities from covert 19 and economic shock that is being felt nationwide a total of 22000000 job claims have been far since lockdown measures were introduced but while many families have been left with no income whatsoever the country's richest man has seen his net worth skyrocket killer more than explains. jeff bezos was already the world's richest man before the pandemic yet with everyone staying at home he is now roughly $24000000000.00 richer his wife has seen her net worth vastly increase as well and at this point amazon has reached an all

time high and it stocks on tuesday valued at market over $1.00 trillion $1.01 thing we've learned from the kovac $900.00 crisis is how important amazon has become to customize we want you to know we take this responsibility seriously and we're proud of the work our teams are doing to help customers through this difficult time business is booming 75000 new employees and amazon warehouses are being hired in addition to the 100000 that were hired over the past month they are called heroes by amazon as they take a great risk of exposure in order to bring in bay's owes billions. right now delivering the things people need has never been more important. to all of our hamazon retail heroes will continue to do everything ok and. healthy safe and protected many say that amazon has not been working to protect its heroes the

company has been slow in working to ease its paid sick leave rules and it's been behind on providing personal protective equipment and social distancing on its facilities a report suggests that as many as 74 amazon employees have been infected while on the job and beginning of march i seen some ploy become sick around me in a domino effect some to look for tea they would dizzy some of them in that their stations they couldn't finish due to doubt we shipped there was very alarming is very scary we only been protective start april so that doesn't really help the situation i mean may help slow down but the virus started spreading already the virus been. around for a few months in a country as been in these buildings for a few months and we're just now starting to p.p. . base so mask in the glove that we need it in the beginning. it's

a late in the game and it's already multiple cases and multiple build is. employees who speak up publicly about these issues are getting fired 3 more employees of had their contracts terminated instead of firing employees who want justice maybe jeff bezos the richest man in the world can focus on providing his workers with paid sick leave a safe workplace and a livable planet amazon insists it's putting proper safety measures in place the u.s. federal reserve seems to be concerned about the safety of amazon as well amazon's shareholders that is they've been pushing the stock price higher and higher the combined net worth of the $500.00 richest people in the world has increased by 20 percent since its low on march 23rd in line musk bill gates warren buffett mark zuckerberg among others are the real winners of the pandemic meanwhile 22000000

americans are newly unemployed these billionaires capitalizing on coronavirus to capitalize in the expense of a workforce that capitalizing on. human life is a life or death situation in. the way these policies are made your work or your workers on the front lines have to continue to go to work in order to pay their bills or stay home and be unpaid and it's not it's not right it's not fair it's blood money that's what i call the money that's being made by the billionaires for the entire time dependent is in this country our of even all around the globe is blood money this is greed is nothing more than just greed in though they should have been using this money to help out the medical field said aletta lead this virus spread is not provide testing for their workforce. meanwhile the coronavirus pandemic has revealed severe shortages of medical supplies in some of the world's most developed countries they lack of ventilators

a musk says but thousands of lives at risk on his or mine culture of looks at how the prob. as being tackled here in russia. artificial ventilation operad us or mechanical ventilation systems are essential when a patient reaches a critical stage still the machine requires a lot of consumables something that many hospitals around the world lack russia's iraq's saddam and its subsidiaries decided to prepare for similar scenarios at home . which. that is what is so why did we start to produce it a week ago there was high demand for vows like these in europe and especially in italy when the number of patients dramatically increased i'm talking about patients who need mechanical ventilation apparatus private companies and it's and he started printing 3 d. models of the valves we decided not to wait for such a problem in russia we have enough power reserves to produce up to 5000 of the vows if there is demand to get more materials and we will be able to produce tens of

thousands of them to supply many medical institutions it's akin to a more than 2 hours to friend said these in 2 or valves well before they get taken to a customer i have to do one more thing. put them in a solution. and now they are ready to be delivered to various officers he is and they can't go ventilation systems this 3 d. printing lab doesn't limit themselves to producing valves for mechanical ventilation systems they're also making other elements that are now in high demand but interested it interested me in particular were simple things for everyday life something like this guess what if this is for this is to press an elevator button to go like that and some other things like this one for example what do you think this is for well this is to open the door if you don't want to touch anything and of course i think this particular engineer was

a little bit bored he created something like this means the curl of a. 3 d. printing is one of many projects of russia as a result of healthcare a company that quickly adjusted to the current demand for some state corporation has a cutting edge technology week safe and environmentally friendly traditional flyer truly a medical supply this country or simply needs at the southern health care we've already started it's to this issue of medical mass is there in higher demand you know last week were also stars as their decision was made to google group equipment for collecting storing and transporting by materials all could be going to this sterilization center has always been sassed with disinfecting medical devices edible plant products and other goods as well today however medical masks and vials

for virus transportation are the priority employees here are working in 3 shifts around the clock trucks full of crucial products for doctors fighting coal bit 19 make deliveries to this mosque or region sensor 247 the turnover is already high but here they're ready for more significant numbers. in april out goal is to sterilize 150000 sample test kits in may 300000 kits and starting from june we want to sterilize $550000.00 every month as for masks we can sterilize 10000000 a week but the targets are 60000000 the coronavirus reached russia much later than the rest of the world given its sign to prepare and stock up it's hoped that advanced knowledge and timely action will help prevent large scale fate how it sees . it was such a course i hope that 3 d. printing will evolve most importantly it should benefit us we don't want to have

a situation like twas in different parts of our planet where everything was produced in a hurry with me to cool and there were one who has a similar equipment kind responded with form the team and together we're trying to speed up the process. i stay with oxy as we keep iran up to date with the corona virus pandemic our website social media channels al live broadcasts from moscow london and washington d.c. stay informed stay with. one else chose seemed wrong. when old rules just don't. mean you

get to shape out just to become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered. what kind of economic recovery if there is going to be one can be expected after the pen demick has run its course how has the pandemic changed economies and is there any chance of returning to pretend any conditions.

to cross and more i'm joined by my guest william luther king employee he's an assistant professor of economics at florida atlantic university as well as director of the sound money project at the american institute for economic research and in beijing we crafted to go he is the vice president of the center for china and globalization carjacking crosstime groups in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ok let's go to william 1st in florida. just a few hours ago unemployment data was just released now we're up to over 20000000 people applying for unemployment in the united states who would have thought even 6 weeks ago it's extraordinary and being a historian by trade i know the history of the great depression depression very well not only in the united states but globally so when i see these numbers come

out it's terrifying to hear how it is you know this pandemic will be resolved it's only a matter of question and resources and patients because i understand that because i've been locked down for a month now and it's getting very very tiresome. how is this pandemic going to impact the recovery if there is a recovery and i never thought in my lifetime i would ask about is there going to be a recovery because we're seeing such amazing numbers that are just terrifying to the average person frankly go ahead will you know that we are we're dealing primarily with a temporary supply shock right it's a pandemic and so the most likely outcome is a v. shaped recession that is a recession that has a recovery that's just as quick as the downturn.