but. the german government has to gradually lift the nation wide lockdown saying that the covert 19 outbreak is under control however the refugee shelters there are seeing infections rise dramatically also to a couple. of those larger state sponsored pandemics this is the 3rd or 4th pandemic that came out of china u.s. politicians continue to blame china with one republican senator saying that washington should respond with sanctions. on the holy fire is lit in jerusalem the filthy dogs things the celebrations get under way thousands of churches around the world to stand dempsey and.

hello there it's nice to have you company watching r.t. international where it's just gone 6 pm here in moscow this saturday evening now let's start start with the latest figures then on the pandemic because confirmed cases have now passed 2200000 more than 156000 people have died from the virus most of those fatalities are in europe and also u.s. so far just over 582000 patients have recovered from the disease. you know. he like a would be corona virus outbreak in germany appears to be under control after a month long lockdown and according to the country's health minister germany has

a much lower death rate than other major european countries and restrictions on movement being partially lifted with some shops reopening as early as next week however a government spokesperson has stressed caution is neat. skipped. the city in fits there are no guarantees that the infection kovel keep flattening out there are also risks and when we take these small careful steps into opening up we must keep an eye on the infection curve and what it means for our health system and our hospitals. as in many countries germany shut down has devastated the hospitality sector dresden restaurant workers here set out empty tables and chairs to you on the central square to highlight the crisis that they are dealing with and the meaning people did hold a safe distance demonstration calling the lockdown disproportionate while most of the population is staying safe refugees meanwhile in shelters much higher risk is peter all over reports as germany gets set to ease coronavirus restrictions

not everywhere in the country has been successful in stopping the spread of the forces at war in the south of the country almost half of the 600 residents tested positive this week do you feel mood and isolation we suspect that maybe people with coby 19 who've been in the facility for a long time and that they've shown no symptoms of the disease and that they could have passed on the virus the facility in but involved in bird houses people from nigeria iraq syria turkey who are waiting to have their asylum applications process the action taken by authorities to this localized outbreak is causing concern there seeing these people as a kind of threat and danger it seems to be an acceptable strategy to pack the police outside and make sure nobody comes in and nobody comes out it's another center not far from frankfurt there's a similar picture with around 60 residents testing positive out of 170 in the far

northeast of the country the refugee council of mecklenburg west pomerania has voiced some serious concerns about an asylum application center on their patch with bomb. bads the required minimum distance of 1.5 to 2 meters cannot be maintained this is added and anyone who recklessly last people leave in a massacre mandation in this situation their health authorities in the region which just so happens to be represented in the book the start by chancellor angela merkel have been quick to rubbish criticism of the way coronavirus is being tackled among asylum applicants in coordination with the health authorities every effort is being made to prevent the spread of infection within the country's primary care facilities and in community commendation in the current emergency situation infection control for asylum seekers and the population is a priority that comes as berlin is quite rightly being praised for having tackled

coronavirus nationally in a robust and fact based way on friday health minister yen spahn described the situation in germany as under control. we have moments to bring the dynamic growth back to linear growth the infection numbers have decreased significantly is bitchy with relative increases from day to day the outbreak has now become manageable uncontrollable again ultimately what these localised outbreaks in asylum sent to show is that if you drop your guard for just a moment when it comes to fighting or trying to stop the spread of this virus then it will be exploited peter all of our r.t. berlin. president trump has said that he expects between $60.65 americans to die of covert 19 although that is substantially less than his previous estimate of 100000 the president claims that the country's infection rate is pate and has

revealed plans to gradually ease the knock down truth each of us has more. white house pushing to get the economy moving again our approach outlines 3 phases in restoring our economic life and we are not opening all at once but one careful step at a time issuing new guidelines to get the country up and running the 1st phase officials must see a 2 week decline in the number of people with covert symptoms and the percentage of people testing positive for the virus must also decrease than face to allowing all non-essential travel school activities and elective surgeries to continue some states will be able to open up sooner than others. but hard hit new york and new jersey have to wait state continues to see an increase in covert cases new york governor andrew cuomo extending stay at home orders he calls new york pause until may 15th but it could be longer what is the final conclusion of this rb chapter i

still believe it when we have a vaccine with more than 226000 infections and more than 16000 deaths new york is still seeing around 2000 new cases a day city remaining the epicenter of the outbreak officials working to open testing sites in the city's poorest and hardest hit communities so we're talking about folks in some of the lowest income communities in the city people in communities of color that have borne the brunt of this crisis immigrant communities while governor cuomo is issuing an executive order directing all public and private labs in new york to coordinate with the department of health to ensure prioritizing of diagnostic testing he says that's still not enough to test the millions of people needed to reopen new york's economy we don't have a testing system that can do this volume or there can be ramped up to do this von. we don't have a public health casting system by the way it's de minimis if you look at what our

government departments of health have we need a good. we did approach between the federal government and the states right now the means testing lab for the state can perform about 300 antibody tests per day while officials believe they can grow that number to 2000 test a day in the coming weeks with nearly 20000000 residents in new york the governor says the state needs all the help they can get from the federal government. and while u.s. politicians do continue to blame china for the pandemic on the republican senator lindsey graham has suggested that washington should punish benching with sanctions . the largest state sponsor of pandemics this is the 3rd or 4th pandemic that came out of china what should we do to the largest state sponsor of pandemics on the globe which is saying china well since the current of arson paid in december numerous conspiracy theories have flooded the internet an idea that the virus was

created in a bio weapons lab and we and has gained widespread coverage in the us media the trumpets and his administration have been more than willing to fuel the speculation . that a lot of people are looking that seems to make sense they talk about a certain kind of bet but that was it in that area if you can believe this that's what they're doing to know is vats but that is not in that area that was in seoul that went zone it wasn't sold there that bad is 40 miles away so a lot of strange things are happening but there is a lot of investigation going on and we're going to find out if we know they have this lab we know about the what markets we know that the virus itself did originate in so all those things come together are still a lot we don't know. however a member of the white house coronavirus task force has debunked that theory that the virus being created in a lab and he found she was a leading expert on infectious diseases said the passing of mutations shows that

the virus jumps directly from an animal to human meanwhile china has the us to stop making claims with no scientific basis. have repeatedly stated that there is any evidence that new coronavirus was produced tree many well known medical experts in the world also believe the so-called liberal talk to sis has no scientific basis we want british foreign secretary 2nd the anti china rhetoric coming from washington from nic rob said that there can be no business as usual with beijing after the crisis and that hard questions do need to be asked about how the outbreak started journalist daniel is our belief that the brain being led by donald trump is merely a way of deflecting responsibility clearly what we're seeing here are charges that are political in nature i mean trump has mishandled this whole crisis so

gambles. america has got a few cases having more cases than any other country in the world in a matter of 2 months and trump has been contradictory have parted in effect saying one thing one moment and another thing another moment so this crisis began so clearly trying to strike out and distract attention from his own there's more record. by attacking china that's just plain as the evidence so far is that the against the allegations that they're really fighting an uphill battle they have nothing to go on it's religious based on pure anti chinese. but millions of orthodox christians around the world are celebrating easter today in a much anticipated ceremony has taken place in jerusalem earlier on saturday the holy fire it was going to be for the house of poker that event happens each year

inside a chapel in the center of a church with orthodox believers do you consider to be the 2 of christ traditionally thousands of pilgrims to travel to jerusalem to light candles from the flame that is now happening this year though holy fire is now on its way to the orthodox christian nations of greece before making its way to russia for this live reports more now on the celebration. the holy fire has always been a symbol of hope hope that the end of the world has not yet come but this easter the most significant religious holiday for some 300000000 people things are different this easter is different we will not go to our villages we will not barbecue in our yards we will not go to our churches and of course we will not gather in the homes of relatives and friends for us to continue bringing together this year we stay apart there are no good fido positions no had examined kisses no joyous celebrations that christ has risen this is the main church where the miracle takes place but it is closed as part of

a nationwide lockdown it's all part of the government's attempt to push back on the coronavirus and as a result is banned all mess gatherings something that has the country's ultra orthodox jewish community up in arms. i do not think i was lucky. i all across the world churches urge people to pray and stay at home some churches even live stream through social media other christian communities celebrated easter 7 days ago with pope francis praying alone in st peter's square many christian churches urge programs to speak. this holy day at home. or so they are reporting there now russia has registered more than $4700.00 coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours and it is the highest single day increase so far the death toll stands at 313

well here in moscow the mayor has updated a digital past system which did have some glitches earlier in the week although it is now automated taylor explains. 15th of april new measures which to use here in the capital which is suffering the brunt of the creative virus in russia essentially has been out of chasses which means that you need a passport everything specially to travel to and from what is now the must commit today announced that passes do will be extended until the 1st of may he did also admit that the imposing of the past is jim did have its steve thing issues at the very beginning. so the main issue that we sold out was the time that was needed for sorties to visit to check each and every part of it which is why as part of the new match starting from the next wednesday the 22nd of 81 everything will now be done and

automatically so there's a cost with detroit cut that he used to travel on the metro from next wednesday you have to link your travel permit to that card so essentially if you don't do that and put your car down and try to get what the bar has just went open and be allowed to travel through we also saw a build up of cars especially in the size 24 hours of process don't was introduced we had stories of people waiting for up to several hours as authorities very diligently checks through all that document that also is going to be made much more efficient because now cameras will be chatting and scanning which cars have the right how it's and which don't now us against the plan and that's the most magic you recognize of course this is not a plan for a one. nation is causing to financial and psychological distress to a lot of people but that it is necessary and that it is bringing results so in that mix he said that while the numbers of rising in russia that are actually not growing exponentially 'd and he actually to pad moscow to new york because their

cities are roughly the same population and he said this so thought here in washington managed to avoid the development of that american it's. no you. still come through this hour the u.n. is warning that economic hardship caused by nationwide shutdowns could cost more lives than the coronavirus itself will have a look at why in the details on that just after the break. as a financial survival guy stacy southfield let's say i'm the troika. of

the fight. thank you for. destroying that's right. that's slavery. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. spearing dramatic probably the only really. i don't see how that strategy will be very critical. to sit down and talk.

again you with economists making diet predictions for the long term impact of the pandemic according to the international monetary fund the u.s. will suffer its worst recession since the great depression to china the impact is already hitting its economy. i'm sure you can see there's a sudden attack of code 19 has indeed had a pretty big impact on the economic performance of our country in the 1st quarter major economic indicators clearly declined but we must also see that in march there is indicators showed signs of a rebound and a decline has been reduced the oxford economics research firm is predicting a global recession in the 1st half of 2020 far worse than the last financial crisis of 2008 they are saying global output will contract by 7 percent and china is facing a 12 percent downturn financial commentator charlie paul told us he believes the impacts will be long lasting. most of the economies around the world will have

recovered from initial shock but people have to understand. their economy before it's not going to be the same and after there's going to be a permanent loss and destruction of that economic productivity. because people they should be doing nothing for 2 or 3 months economically it's going to take years together so i think this is a global problem pretty much everyone's got the same issue but if you remember what happened before we came into this crisis we already have large levels of debt in the world and. this is are as a direct result and in my opinion on the back of the years of austerity never really got over 3 dimensional crisis in 2008 so this is really going up to nancy to try and make our entire system a lock for a start i think it will get the people to harvest in pretty much every country we're going to have to again increase the deficit and the debt and future

generations are going to have to pay. the head of the un's world food program when while has warned that the economic shock of the cave 19 pandemic could in some countries be deadlier than the virus itself he says at least 30000000 people are at risk of dying starvation if critical funding is cut one quarter has more. as the world's battle with the coronavirus rages on one has to wonder what will happen when the smoke clears tens of millions of people are already dependent on the un's world food program for meals if that were to lose funding all of those people would be threatened with starvation if we lost all funding a minimum of $30000000.00 would die over a 3 month period that would be 300000 people dying per day that's why leaders have got to balance out the response with keeping the economy going because otherwise a lot more people will die from starvation and economic deterioration than from kofi itself even before the pandemic the world had

a serious food crisis on its hands the world economic forum says that over 820000000 people were going to bed hungry now many organizations are indicating that the situation can get much much worse we fully agree with the 1st. of the measures that they can in place of police report but we also believe that will gum pulled the food chain. to be able to hold up by low for consumers to move the potential risk over on the north and of course it's a crisis of the international markets under the lockdown the very supply chains of transnational corporations are breaking apart food can't be processed delivered or received between countries within countries everywhere for the developing world that means famine could be just around the corner especially now that humanitarian relief is also being obstructed by the lockdowns widespread poverty

a reliance on imported food and rising prices are all a recipe for disaster according to the united nations for the millions living in lockdown countries that fit that criteria is running out across africa clashes between hungry people in the police are already taking place. was. i. many governments of the developing world are struggling with a terrible dilemma see their people die from the coronavirus or see them die from starvation while in the developed world of the main dilemma is containing the corona virus through look downs and then dealing with the economic impact in the developing world apart from containing the virus and dealing with the economic crisis the biggest worry now is people dying of hunger that doesn't mean the journey from farm to plate isn't obstructed in the developed world in the united states dairy farms are dumping thousands of gallons of milk

a day because they can't be sold at the same time retailers are fearing a shortage of milk and they're limiting the amount that consumers can buy as for fruits and vegetables $5000000000.00 worth had been wasted for the same reason one of america's largest pork processing plants has even been closed because of the virus the closure of this facility combined with a growing list of all the protein plants that have shifted across our industry is pushing our country perilously close to the edge in terms of all meat supply it is impossible to keep all grocery stores stalked if not running the chaos of the free market is rearing its ugly head in more ways than just one week by week millions more are flocking to unemployment lines and food banks the early indicators of a global food crisis are there before our very eyes we should ask ourselves how much farther can the global food supply chain bend before it breaks down quarter reporting that when a senior economist at the u.n.

so you deny cultural denies ation to tell us that the crisis needs a concerted international response been people to stay home and work at the state home obviously create the option to value for food no food good harvest to be processed. for the shell obviously maybe disruption. in this line because of the lockdown and because of the fact that people are looking at physical work it cannot probably move around from one place to another so that is want to the problem of the other sort of problem is that not of people especially poor people if they don't go to work they don't have any don't have the money they cannot buy the pool we're talking about also countries where malnutrition already is huge government would need to have you know finances of safety net to be able to reach these people and to make sure that they have to be more. if you really need it the problem is these countries cannot afford it so they

need help they need support and the help has to come from the richer countries if the richer countries today are very much engaged of course for their own people the message from f.a. always do not forget the poor what you caused it's a problem is not resolved locally you will come back and haunt everybody again. now through from the international space station has returned to find a very different situation from one night left a team of u.s. and russian members did land safely in kazakstan after spending more than 200 days in orbit as precaution one against with one thing they were drinking quite changed had spent a month on the medical observation however amid the global lockdown the space travelers might find a pic difficult to get back to their homes one cosmonaut needs to get back to moscow to astronauts that they need to get back to houston in texas. where residents of one madrid neighborhood have found a new way of communicating at the same time evening they doing step out on to their

balconies and wife mocked at each other saying friends came up the idea because they lived on the same street but were unable to leave their homes the idea swiftly caught on spain has lost 20000 lives to the coronavirus mostly the 1st hit country in europe and a whole. people in jakarta here has to medical robots assisting frontline health workers each robot can deliver medicine to patients rooms allowing doctors and nurses to keep a safe distance indonesia has over 5000 confirmed cases of cope with 19 with almost 500 deaths. so that does bring you up to date you can keep across all the latest developments as usual on our social media pages and you tube channels and of course i will be reporting from around the clock from our studios in moscow london and also washington to do stay informed and state but.

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this show what does a u.s. funded u.k. lawyer mean when he references a case of secret cia nuclear warhead the blueprint smuggling to iran as a benchmark for a songes extradition to virginia we talked to the espionage act convicted form a cia spy named checked in court jeffrey sterling and 24 hours ahead of the 120th birthday of the u.k. labor party whose trade unionist and socialist beginnings began a new age in political representation of the working class we ask a former labor cabinet minister whatever happened to raising the scarlet stamp to tie all the small coming up today is going on the ground 1st extradition proceedings are underway today in london as the usa tries to get its hands on the most famous publisher and journalist in the world julian assange faces 175 years in jail in the q.c. for the usa james lewis is citing former cia spy jeffrey sterling to secure the australian wiki leaks found his removal to virginia geoffrey sterling now joins me via skype from st louis in missouri jeffrey thanks so much for coming on the show

so you know all about the tactics of the u.s. deep state racism persecution at the cia what do you make of your name being quoted in court if i didn't get their name dropping. the course of their position and saying i guess they're referring back to the sentencing. oh so reasonable it can be one thing to mention was that in my prosecution persecution over us you know our there was absolutely no evidence yeah they they obviously said it was circumstantial evidence so the us authorities say but james lewis has his q.c. his exact words were your case and the case did involve pretty bizarre cove work to smuggling of nuclear warhead blueprints to iran to perhaps create war who knows specifically lewis said you and that case was a relevant bench.