thinks. we do here to ask. e.u. leaders scramble to draft a final coronavirus rescue plan as the worst hit countries accuse the other bloc both of not doing enough. the us is gripped by protests against looked down measures that as the pandemic leaves millions of americans out of a job and small business it's on the brink of collapse. as italy hopes to turn a corner and it's fine to get skopec 91 former patients from turin shares with his story of how he was admitted into intensive care but managed to beat the virus. in the beginning as positive when the situation worse than only was that the corona

virus is truly. and with the global lockdown forcing schools and universities to go online not everyone's lessons appear to be going to plan as parents and students struggle to adapt to the new academic reality. about them but it. was. good morning from all of us here at r.t. international it's 11 am here in moscow good to have you with us let's begin with the latest figures on covert 19 the global pandemic is still raging as there are 2600000 coronavirus cases confirmed we're also seeing a death toll increase as it has reached 184000 that's. of 723000 people

have recovered from the virus so far. european leaders are back at the negotiating table albeit remotely via video link for another round of discussions on a package to address the economic impact of the pandemic and agreement already approved by finance ministers is expected to be reached on a 500000000000 euro lifeline for the bloc but deep disagreements between certain member states could still be rail talks at the final hurdle let's cross live to our correspondent peter all of enough you think great to see you another tough day of talks. oh. yes what we can expect out of these talks though is some statement some result at the end this is an aftershock michel the european council president said he wouldn't be pushing for

a joint statement from all of the heads of government which proved to be such a problem last time after italy said there was no way they were going to put their name to a statement that they were they were they had come to what we are expecting though is to hear something coming from this meeting it's often said that the e.u. doesn't agree on anything until it has to well it's really getting to the situation whereby it really does have to come to some form of agreement in fact we heard from the euro group president just recently he described just how dark these financial times potentially are the i.m.f. confirm that we are facing the worst economic downturn since the great depression this calls for urgent and decisive action. well there's again a lot of talk about north versus south in europe the harvest and have nots economically southern countries like spain and italy have been the hardest hit in

the continent from covert 19 what we heard from the italian prime minister just sepic conti is this very keen to warn his friends in the north that if italy suffers financially ultimately they will also catch that virus as well. our economic systems are connected with each other and interlinked when one country has problems it triggers a domino effect and that's something we should absolutely avoid what's needed here is the european union's full firepower namely through the joint issuance of bones. well the spanish prime minister. chairs this also backed that bond issuing scheme in fact himself and just said because they have talked about the princely sum of 1.5 trillion that's with a t. euro worth of bonds being issued in order to aid fiscal burden sharing across the block sanchez was quite confident about an agreement being reached on thursday 'd

it was a little bit out of the european council must welcome the economic package agreed by the euro group demand the finalization of its preliminary works but it's a good old instruments are ready by no later than june the 1st this is the key to europe and this is the key to our country not. well the main opposition to corona bonds as they've being called comes from the netherlands and from germany although the german chancellor has perhaps somewhat warmed a little more certainly been seen to have warmed a little more to the idea in recent times however in the past she's been very clear that the only way the only a package is that germany was going to give its full backing to you with those mechanisms that already exist. instrument the kind of force and i can imagine since

you know the down the line more generally i would like to say that germany not only wants to act in solidarity but that it will act in solidarity. well the german chancellor has been addressing the bundestag on thursday morning she said that germany could only do well if europe is doing well and she talks an awful lot about solidarity there is she addressed the german parliament we're expecting this video call to get under way at around 3 o'clock in the afternoon brussels time i'll be bringing you all the latest throughout the day and we'll see if those words coming from angola merkel in the bundestag on thursday morning turn into well a german attitude changing towards corona bombs and debt sharing across the block across the e.u. that is in the wake of the coronavirus so it's watch this space thank you for that report that's not easy to all of us. now the u.s. is the hardest hit country in the world when it comes to the pandemic it currently

has more than 800000 cases with over 47000 death but americans generally are being negatively impacted by the pandemic but country has seen widespread protests with people outraged by the lockdown measures and with the jobless rate storing small businesses are also on the brink artie's kellett more pain reports. with the united states as the global epicenter of the pandemic protests and broken out against the lockdown measures the national guard has been deployed to keep order i am 7 on my. i am going to go back to her that we are not. economic collapse actually our enemy at this point one in 3 americans cannot pay their bills 22000000 americans have filed for jobless benefits in the past month these are the worst numbers since the great depression half of all low income

americans have lost jobs or wages my employer let have us go and those who have are struggling to have that are working or struggle because we don't have the other half of what i'm looking to help me with friends and family members that i know that have been impacted by this i off and on their businesses on the verge of cancer stay in the story longer so i have friends and neighbors nobody's businesses their dogs they're dying there's a lot of businesses that will not be able to reopen the big corporations are not ready to lend a hand they are scrambling to protect their profits not their employees 4000000 hotel workers are expected to lose their jobs in the coming months furthermore the hotel chain known as mariya is expected to furlough tens of thousands of workers the same goes for the employees of general electric and dreams will not come true where the thousands of employees of walt disney were expecting a furlough in florida however the government says it will protect those who are

losing their jobs millions of american sacrifice their jobs in order to battle the virus and save the lives of our fellow citizens where have a solemn duty to ensure these unemployed americans regain their jobs and their livelihoods the major corporations are tapping into government relief money intended to help. small businesses meanwhile the 4 biggest banks in america have been hit by a lawsuit saying they're giving unfair priority to big corporations and not providing loans to the small businesses that desperately need help the issue with with big chains getting funding that was was message to as big or small business outing understand what that means a company that's doing tens of millions or hundreds of millions a year in revenue. is going to be 1st in line with a big bank when it comes time to apply for one of these things and if you're a little guy you know chances are you're going to the back row i like government

has been apologetic i was pleased to see that shake shack returned to the money intent of this money was not for big public companies that have access to capital many see the big corporations as putting the needs of their employees last and manipulating the system in order to protect themselves however they don't turn to helping the little guy soon the coronavirus pandemic could be a catalyst for a violent backlash the corporations you know they really shouldn't be getting anything a lot of the big companies before this occurred they're loading up on cash there's a dash for cash there are a flat lot of these companies are fraught with cash you know those who have the correct connections here with a tremendous ration they'll do quite well i mean a good example are the airlines the airlines are getting 58000000000 dollars the big corporations are are are quite well taken care of and you know it's the folks in the middle it's the middle classes the small business they're the ones that are

paying for it and we'll see what happens in terms of divisions in the country in a country by this is a disaster and it's only going to get worse in the united states is this is an administrative disaster. still ahead in the program mexico is being urged by the pentagon to reopen some of its factories after u.s. defense giants complained that being. by lockdowns across the border. for us medics are also facing tough times with launch numbers of co the patients admitted daily many on the front lines feel let down by their government the national nurses united organization who staged a protest just outside the white house demonstrators read out the names of medics who lost their lives from covert 19 while on duty they claim that the government's actions have exacerbated the health care crisis. bursted across the country have also been demanding that president trump and congress scale up protection

production of personal protective equipment and against the p.p.d. that we need. congress has now passed 3 coronavirus bills and none of them have anything to protect us really hard to take care of patients day by day with nurses that are going out sick on a regular basis instead of being placed feeling hospital to also be complete. and the united states government has what this happening. with a medical director of a hospital in massachusetts shared his experience of the pandemic with us. there have been employees that have tested positive and that obviously emotionally it's really difficult to see people that you work with who are said this experience has probably been one of the best and one of the worst things simultaneously done and the worst is related to some of the things we talked about before the seeing patients who are dying seeing people who are healthy and reduced to distribute critical illness. the scope of it the number of people that are affected it is

painful to be heartbreaking. and it's only the number of coronavirus cases has now surpassed 187000 more than 25000 people have died but the nation spirit several so being cheered by some remarkable recoveries on wednesday a 100 year old woman was discharged from hospital in northeastern sicily off the beating kovac 19 she's one of a number of italian centenarians who have beaten only odds during the punk demick but there are many remarkable tales of recovery. jumpy aereo capillarity is a former coronavirus patient who had to be put into intensive care he's told us how terrifying the experience was. in the beginning i viewed it as an negative positive later when the situation worsened i realized that the corona virus is truly a monster and that's when the fear and terror started i quickly went into respect

to treat crisis doctors informed me they would have to interview me at this point i called my wife it was 2 am terrified we were both terrified thank god that this doctor sort of obligated me to be insured baited because if we waited another day it could have been too late from when the doctor arrived telling me that she was going to me i felt i was unconscious after 5 minutes and in these 5 minutes i had so much fear she told me it can take more than a month but i got better in 7 days the most vivid sight that i can recall was when they removed the troops the doctor told me look now you have to start breathing on your own so he removed the tube and said cough a few times and start breathing and i started breathing and that's how another life for me started. the club a lockdown has seen schools and universities embrace the digital era with cloth is going online but the new way of delivering lessons hasn't exactly gone to plan for everyone to report. it's 2020 that is the pandemic your parent let's

be honest this is probably your reality yet again i gather they think about that i think of it as. a something i do every i know you cannot always come. to me and then they're going to get what i mean. i'm or i get 2 kids and i am sick of them all non parents out there are probably chuckling but others are struggling to see the funny sight because coronavirus apart from threatening our house and our finances is not jeopardizing the education of 1500000000 children as a married man has taken over the computer has become the classroom but we all know sometimes technology just isn't our friend online portals in a number of the straight and cities crashed on the fast day and in the us one virginia schools technological fadia and that this is special of all face to face classes and then when the system still couldn't cope the cancellation of all

classes leaving parents in the deep end it's making me a homeschool mom there is a reason i send my kids to. add never wanted to be a home school mom that's a headache for those with a computer and a decent wife like connection now imagine you come from the most area but has no signal or you come from a low income background and you couldn't even dream of having your own laptop remote mining is exacerbating the difference between rich and poor meaning only some will get the education they have a right to. have access to the internet and don't have that so once it's in the world there are some parents and there are also households who all that. but what do those children think they don't have access to the private education system we're going to see their exams in just like we got to learn generally they are going to say i'm going to go through what are we going. this too and then i would suggest that let's actually provided something that was even provided. the right

education but right now as far as i see all of these children are being unfair now wheels and not wanting to wake up and go to school one or 2 mornings a year will all but that's now turned into a chronic problem and a strict attendance is hard at twin post online there are fears that mass absenteeism will mean many will have to repeat it yet and that offends some students say there isn't much tanning awful with the standard of online classes disappointing that poor quality in fact triggered one student in new zealand to start a petition demanding a refund for the entire academic year what i think a bad this is that i pay my money to the university and i should get the product that i'm looking for it's put out here and there is no complaint it's not the best quality then that's the question of safety zuma has become the hero of quarantine life bring together dozens of people and different continents all for free and all

on a single cool but it's also been drawn into a debate on its misuse of pastoral day sat and then that as soon bumming the f.b.i. is now warning that these virtual meetings can be hijacked you can have the g. injure type of actor profile are you going to have the cyber criminal that really wants a listener in a security floor at ows uninvited cyber guest to hack into and disrupt soon cools which michael's a harmless giggle footboard students if they want for the reports of racial slurs pornographic images and swastikas being shown but even if all these problems are fixed does one way divide classroom will always fall short and people bouncing ideas off each other teachers not just spewing facts but engaging with their students none of us can delude ourselves that we're able to replicate the high quality of what you do in normal circumstances in schools isn't just about people delivering. promotion is about you then engaging with it being asked questions

being assessed on it the gift of a great teacher to be able to explain things to listen to your answers and be able to give you feedback which is something that technology and the robots simply can't do as well as the human's life the full and off the coronavirus will likely look a bit different businesses will close people will travel as we might not shake hands but as you know asco is warning if there's one thing we don't want to stick around it's online learning. more they stories coming your way after this short break. the world is driven by a dream shaped by one person. who

dares thinks. we dare to ask. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy going foundation let it be an arms race is on the off and spearing dramatic development the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk.

welcome back while the us ground poles with the pandemic it's still urging its neighbor mexico to reopen production so as to aid the american defense industry last off the pentagon encourage some mexican factories to resume their supplies to u.s. defense giants. we are seeing impacts on the industrial base by several pockets of closure internationally particularly of note is mexico where we have a group of companies that are impacting many of our major problems today i am writing the mexican foreign minister to ask for help to reopen international suppliers their these companies are especially important for us airframe production . mexico has not designated hist its defense industry as a sensual heading to the closure of most of the sectors factories however thousands

of mexicans have continued working in factories used by the u.s. for its cheap labor leading to protest there have been reports of coded 1000 death among workers of mexico currently has over 10000 confirmed cases of coronavirus the number of fatalities reaching nearly 900 we discussed the pentagon's request with our guest. the president of the parents is prioritizing it's own needs. the expanse scar mexico and this is what is more. about their needs there are there are i mean the needs of great use arms the need there were for priorities of the people and at the moment often done and this is very in these times are very complicated with regard to human and it makes it might be united states our friends are supposed to be friends as president trump has different occasions but regards to the president of mexico and mexico we should be should be

a plan b. and the production can be done in different times i mean because this time you're going to put people at risk the same as seeing for mexico so far from god so close the united states seems to ring true than ever they want to now they're using the corona where is the big dummy very scary time and it's across the border in the mccue as of mexico is still demanding supplies and mexican workers have been on strike as the why should we put ourselves in a risk how is it in the interest of these mexican workers to be risking their lives and the lives of their loved ones to produce these supplies which are anything but essential. speculation is rife in the u.s. media that the leader of north korea is extremely unwell after undergoing surgery reports ranging from kim jong un having contract to coronavirus or even being brained at all flight nameless u.s. government sources. u.s.

official with direct knowledge tells me that the u.s. is now monitoring intelligence that kim jong il health is in grave danger this is following a recent surgery north korean leader bring dad according to 2 u.s. officials he recently had cardiac surgery and slipped into a coma according to one us current and one former u.s. official n.b.c. news confirms and adds to c.n.n. scoop. breaking multiple u.s. officials tell one american news network that kim jong un card could 19 from a chinese doctor flown in to help with his heart valve surgery he appears to be in stable condition for now south korea and china have both dismissed the health room as pentagon officials also say they have no reason to believe that kim jong un is in poor health and donald trump says the reports have not been confirmed i think that he does that place much trust in that well these are reports that came out.

we don't know we don't know i've had a very good relationship with them i wouldn't. you know i can only say this i wish him well came out with very very serious medical reports nobody's confirmed that it's. the c.n.n. that came in and so when c.n.n. comes out with a report i don't place which credence and. despite the denials there's further media speculation on who might replace the north korean leader they've named kim jong kids' younger sister as a possible candidate the story 1st emerged from a south korean web outlet itself citing a single thought in the north media analyst lionel's they say this story is symptomatic of the current state of mainstream media news. in a world we live in right now where there are being claims bandied about of every version of misinformation and disinformation and the like how is it and all the

times by the way advanced by c.n.n. how in the name of all of that is rational how could the in good days epoch this particular way of thinking could they ever countenance or agree to something of this international prominence when you have cavalier statements that maybe kim is dead maybe he's brain dead maybe he's unable to. continue as leader maybe maybe this this this kind of off the cuff almost negligent so to speak you know whatever what are you going to do this attitude 40 years ago would it would have been just unheard of but when you look at what the title connotes fake news under the rubric within that may be unverified undocumented negligent. slipshod. reckless what you are seeing right

now is emblematic of the complete and total collapse of mainstream media news. and i was in world news in brief germany has seen more protests against lock down restrictions even though these are gradually being lifted nationwide in nuremberg people are demanding the right to assemble in groups during their rally in the city they still maintain social distancing. staying in germany where coronavirus inspired graffiti and artwork is appearing in some of burlington's park's famous movie characters such as gold from the lord of the rings and start from ice age holding toilet paper it can be spotted bear drawings of ventilators people arms monkeys wearing face masks could also be spotted around the german capital. the port of un's work powers become the 1st to test a smart to test a smart bracelets to prevent corona infection on the work floor the new coded

bracelet aims to remind workers of social distancing by emitting a warning signal whenever employees come too close to one another the bracelet also has a contact tracing feature which allows workers to know whether they've come into contact with an infected colleague. thank you for joining us here on r.t. international we hope you're safe and well and we're back in just over 30 minutes with all the latest. has changed american lives but pharmaceutical companies have a miraculous solution. based drugs to people who are chronic pain and believe that

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