e.u. leaders scramble to draft a final coronavirus rescue plan as the worst hit countries accuse the other bloc members of not doing enough. as italy hopes to turn a corner in its fight against covert 191 former patients puncher and shows with those his story of how he was admitted to intensive care for months to beat the virus. in the beginning i was on negative positive on the situation worse than i realized that the coronavirus is truly one step. the u.s. is gripped by a protests against lockdown measures as the pandemic leaves millions of americans out of a job and small business is on the brink of collapse. 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 . that. some of the i'm going to. go to. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with me. let's begin with the latest figures on covert 19 the global pandemic is still raging with 2600000 cases confirmed the number of lives claims by the by corona virus has now which 185000 but a total of 727000 people have recovered.

you were paid 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 agreements already approved by finance ministers is expected to be reached on a 500000000000 euro lifeline for the bloc but to deeper disagreements between certain member states could still be rael the talks at the final hurdle peter all affair has the details we can expect out of these talks low is some statement some result at the end this is after shall be shown 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 but 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 these calls for urgent and decisive action was again a lot of talk about north versus south in europe the harvest and have nots economically southern countries like spain and italy have be the hardest hit in the continent from covert 19 what we heard from the italian prime minister just to pick on today is this piece very keen to warn his friends in the north that if it's really suffers financially ultimately they will also catch that virus as well our economic systems are connected. 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 bombs 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 $1.00 trillion dollars with a tin euro worth of bonds being issued in order to a 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 so that all instruments are ready by no later than june the 1st this is the key to europe and this is the key to our country well the main opposition to corona bonds as they've being called comes from the netherlands and from germany although angela merkel the

german chancellor has well perhaps somewhat warmed a little more certainly been seeing 2 of 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 aid packages that germany was going to give its full backing to were those mechanisms that already exist in the county. and i can imagine since instruments know that 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 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 it german attitude changing towards corona bonds and debt sharing across the bloc

across the e.u. that is in the wake of the coronavirus. in italy the number of corona virus cases has now surpassed 187000 more than 25000 people have died but the nation's spirits have also been cheered by some remarkable recoveries on wednesday a 100 year old woman was discharged from hospital in northeastern sicily northeast in sicily after beating cove at 19 she's one of a number of italian centenarians who have beaten all the odds during the pandemic but there are many more than markable tales of recovery. jumpy arrow company is their former coronavirus patient who had to be put into intensive care he told us how terrifying the experience was. i leave it alone in the beginning i viewed it as the negative positive later when the situation worsened i realized that the coronavirus is truly a monster and that's when the fear and terror started i quickly went into respect

to treat crisis doctors informed me that 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 open the gates of need to be intimidated because if we waited another day it could have been too late from when the doctor arrived telling me that she was going to interview 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 truth 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 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 deaths but americans generally are being negatively impacted by the outbreak the country has seen widespread protests with

people outraged by lockdown measures and with the jobless rate thawing small businesses are also on the brink artie's scale of more pain reports. with the united states is the global epicenter of the pandemic protests broken out against the lockdown measures the national guard has been deployed to keep order 7. i. thought. but. the economic. enemy at this point one in 3 americans cannot pay their bills 22000000 americans have filed for joe. lost 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 half of us go and those half are struggling that are working we're struggle because we don't have the other half what i'm

looking to help the friends and family members that i know that have been impacted by this and they are in. their businesses on the verge of cancer stay in history 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 of

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 out even 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 want to. 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 the 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 in 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 are before this occurred and they're loading up i can assure there's a dash for cash there are flat lot of these companies afloat with cash you know those are one of the of the correct connections here with the drug administration they'll do quite well i mean a good example of the airlines the airlines are getting 50000000000 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 class is the small business they're the ones that are paid for it and we'll see what happens in terms of divisions and economy could increase by this is a disaster and it's only going to get worse in the united states is this is an

administrative disaster. and with america divided over whether to reopen its economy the pentagon wants mexican factories to come out of a lockdown to resume supplies to u.s. defense giant would have the full report on that later in the program. and u.s. medics are also feeling the strain with large numbers of patients admitted daily and many on the front line feel let down by their government and national nurses united organization 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 be health care crisis. this is across the country have also been demanding the president and congress scale up for tax reduction of personal protective equipment and against the p.p.d. that we need. yet congress has now passed 3 coronavirus bills and none of them have

anything to protect us very hard to take care of patients day by day with nurses that are going out sick on a regular basis instead of being played feeling awful come on to be complete. and the united states government has but this happening. the medical director of a hospital in massachusetts shot his experience of the pundit with us there have been employees that have tested positive and that obviously emotionally is 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 reduce to distribute critical illness the scope of it the number of people that are that are affected it is painful to be heartbreaking. well global lockdown has seen schools and universities embrace the digital era with clauss is going online but the new way of

delivering lessons has to exactly go to plan for every one of the reports. 2020 a pandemic your parent let's be honest this is probably your reality yet again i didn't know they even got that i think it. said i do have a i don't got it with don't name. me and then they're going to get what i mean. i'm or i've got 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 you might not it 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 met the suspension of all face to face classes and then when the system still couldn't cope with the cancellation of classes leaving parents in the deep end it's making me a homeschool mom there is a reason i send my kids to. i had 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 moat 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 way there are also some parents and there are also households who although. 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 that if you go to learn generally they are going to say a brain will fall behind what are we going. this too and then i would suggest that let's look that should be provided something was even provided from a show that says the right education because right now as far as i see a lot of these children 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 to 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 tony not full 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 about this is that i paid my money to the university and i should get the product that i'm looking for this product here now is not complete it's not the best quality then it does the

question of safety zuma has become the hero of quarantine life bringing together dozens of people of different continents all for free all on a single call but it's also been drawn into a debate on its misuse of pastoral day sat and then that as soon bomb an f.b.i. is now warning that these virtual meetings can be hijacked you can have the g. injure type of actor profile or you can have the sever profile that really wants a listener in a security floor and aus uninvited cyber gets to hack into and disrupt soon cools which michael's home is giggle for board students if it weren't for the reports of racial slurs pornographic images and swastikas being shown but even if all these problems are fixed there's one way device classroom will always fall short and people bouncing ideas off each other teaches not just spewing facts but engaging with that 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 learning isn't just about people delivering information it's 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 is something the technology and the robots simply can't do as well as the humans lived before and after coronavirus will likely look a bit different businesses will close people will travel less we might not shake hands but i do you know esko is warning if there's one thing we don't want to stick around it's online. most always coming your way after this short break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is off and spearing dramatic development only slowly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. shows seem wrong why don't we just don't all. get to shape our just becomes active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

welcome back while the us crowd polls with the pandemic it still loading its neighbor mexico to reopen production so as to aid the american defense industry now it's off to the pentagon encourage some mexican factories to resume their supplies to u.s. defense giants. we're 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 primes today i am writing the mexican foreign minister to ask for help to reopen international suppliers there these companies are especially important for our u.s. airframe production mexico has not designated its defense industry as the essential

leading 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 process there have been reports of coded 1000 deaths among workers mexico currently has over 10000 confirmed cases of coronavirus the number of fatalities which in nearly 900 we discussed the pentagon's request without. the parchman of the ferry is prioritizing its own needs. at the expense mexicans and this is what is more. about their needs there are there are i mean the needs of great use arms the need for priorities for the people and at the moment often done and this is very in these times are very complicated with regard to human lights and if mexico and the united states are friends. who 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 these 2 men you're going to put people at risk the same as 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 coronavirus very very scary time. across the border in the much. well as of mexico is still demanding supplies and mexican workers have been on strike as why should we put ourselves is at risk how is it in the interest of these mexican workers to be risking their lives in the lives of their loved ones to produce these supplies which are anything but essential. speculation is rife in the us media that the leader of north korea is extremely unwell after undergoing surgery reports ranging from kim jong un having contract to corona virus or even being brain dead

all site 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 brain 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 caught code 19 from a chinese doctor flown in to help with his heart valve surgery he appears to be in stable condition for now while 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 doesn't place much trust in the. well these are reports it came out. we don't know we don't know i've had a very good relationship with him i wouldn't. you know i can only say this i wish him well the 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 too much credence in it. despite the denials there's further media speculation on who might replace the north korean leader they've named kim jong his younger sister as a possible candidate the story 1st emerged from a south korean web outlets itself citing a single source in the north media analysts lionel's raise that this story is them to mattick of the current state of mainstream media news. in the 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 today's 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 discussion of off the cuff almost negligent so to speak you know whatever what are you going to do this attitude 40 years ago what it would have been just unheard of what you are seeing right now is emblematic of the complete and total collapse. of mainstream media news. for now some world news in brief germany has seen more

protests against lock down restrictions even though these are gradually being lifted nationwide in nuremburg people are demanding the right to assemble in groups though during their rally in the city based on maintained social distancing. and staying in germany the councillors do you know wave of covert inspired graffiti in one park you can see gollum from lord of the rings eyeing some toilet paper that's being squirrelled away by scouts from ice age and monkeys sporting face masks can be spotted among the trees. holds on to work has become the 1st to test smart bracelets to prevent corona infections that work the devices remind workers of social distancing by omitting a warning signal whenever they 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. thanks for joining us and wherever you are we

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oh max guys are all all i'm back stars are you know are still on lockdown and it's fantastic to tell you the truth. reconnected with my inner. zen like peace. i just feel great stacy well you're looking very town that's because we spend all of our days at corona beach during the sunshine and i have been noticing that all is not so great out there in the land of pandemic because there is that everything bubble that we saw over the last few years but now we're seeing the almost everything bail out and this is where when you find out whether the person where no shorts at the poker table or when the tide went out one man who had that in a metaphor if i ever heard one i think people understand will understand i i

combine 2 of warren buffett's famous sayings but they imus says half the world has asked for a bailout remember 100 percent of the world can't get a bailout half of it has to pay for half of that have to be the suckers at the poker table so half the world has now asked for a bailout the i.m.f. is saying that 100 countries have asked for some form of bailout from them about 10 percent has been given out to 10 countries anyway and they expect half the other countries to get some within the next few weeks the i.m.f. is ready to use its full tool box and one trillion dollar fire power of lending you know i have a question for you so going back to 2008 and remember the i.m.f. came in as part of the troika that the whole greece meltdown in ireland the down at that time you know are leading up to that crisis the i.m.f. was rumored to be bankrupt or i'm f. was going to go out of business because there.