the coronavirus is so great that we've tripped over into medieval islam that's our master this to. be your leader scramble to draft a final coronavirus rescue plan has the worst hit countries accused other block members of not doing enough. this is lee hopes to turn a corner in its fight against covert 191 former patient from children shares with there's his story of how he was admitted into intensive care but managed to beat the virus. in the beginning i viewed it as i'm back it's a positive one the situation worse than i realized that the coronavirus is truly a monster. the us is gripped by protests against lockdown measures as the pandemic leaves millions of americans out of a job and small businesses 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 . if you don't like about it. come up with. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me nicky arun let's begin with the latest figures on covert 19 the global pandemic is still raging with more than 2600000 cases confirmed and the number of lives claimed by coronavirus has now reached 185000 but it's a total of 730000 people have recovered. you.

know 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 agreements already approved by finance ministers is expected to be reached on a 500000000000 euro lifeline for the blog but deep disagreements between certain member states could still be rael the talks at the final hurdle peter all of a 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 off to 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 this 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 been the hardest hit in the continent from covert 19 what we heard from the italian prime minister just sepic conti is this very king toward 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 bond 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 teeny euro worth of bonds being issued in order to aid fiscal burden sharing across the blog. 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 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 8 packages that germany was going to give its full backing to were those mechanisms that already exist. 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 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 turned into well it german attitude changing towards corona bombs and debt sharing across the block 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 the northeast in sicily after beating kovac 90 she's one of a number of italian centenarians who have beaten all the odds during a pandemic but there are many more remarkable tales of recovery. gian piero capillarity is a former coronavirus patient who had to be put into intensive care he's told us how terrifying the experience was. i leave it alone in the beginning i viewed it as a negative positive later when the situation worsened i realized that the coronavirus is truly a monster that's when the fear and terror started i quickly went into respect

retreat crisis doctors informed me that they would have to intervene 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 integrated 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 psych that i can recall was when they removed the truth the doctor told me 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 the jobless rate is soaring to just over the last week some 4000000 u.s. citizens have filed for unemployment benefits and small businesses are also on the brink as artie's caleb maupin reports. 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. but. economic. management at this point one in 3. akins 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 have a struggle that are working we're struggle because we don't have the other half what i'm looking to help with friends and family members that i know that have been impacted by this i off and on their businesses on the verge of can't sustain this very long or so i have friends and neighbors you know these businesses they're dotting 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 who are 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 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 return 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 before this occurred they're loading up on cash there's a dash for cash there are a flat lot of these companies are flat with cash you know those are one of the of the correct connections here with a tremendous ration they'll do quite well i mean a good example of the airlines the airlines and in 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 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. and with america divided over whether to reopen its economy the pentagon wants mexican factories to come out of lockdown to resume supplies take us defense giant but we have a full report on that later in the program. here with medics are also feeling the strain with large numbers of covert patients admitted daily and many on the front line feel let down by their government that actual nurses united organization has staged a protest that just. outside the white house demonstrators read out the names of medics who loaf spell lives from 19 while long do you say they claim that the government's actions have exacerbated the health care crisis. across the country have also been demanding the president and congress scale up protection production of personal protective equipment and i guess that b.p.

that we need. yet congress has now passed 3 coronavirus bills and none of them have anything to protect that's very 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 hospitals and also be complete. and the united states government has but this happened in. the medical director of a hospital in massachusetts has his experience off the pandemic with us 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 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 heartbroken. the global lock down or things goals and universities embrace the digital era with classes going online with a new way of delivering lessons hasn't exactly gone to plan for everyone as head of a port. 2020 a pandemic your parent let's be honest this is probably your reality yet again i think that they think about them i think of it as. a something that they certainly aren't going on it was going to. be and then they go on i want i mean. i'm all right we'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 side because coronavirus is often threatening our house and our finances is not jeopardizing the education of 1500000000 children as remote learning has taken over the computer has become the classroom but we all know sometimes technology just isn't our friend online

portal's in a number of australian cities crashed on the fast day and in the us one virginia schools technological fadia and that 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 but i had never wanted to be a one school mom that's a headache for those with a computer and a decent life i connection now imagine you come from the motor area where there's no signal or you come from a low income background and you couldn't even dream of having your own laptop remote learning 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 will there are some parents and there are often households who all the. i mean i'm

culverts enough but what do those children think who don't have access to the private education system with regards to their exams and just never got to learn generally they are going to their brain will fall behind what are we doing to these children then i would suggest that laptops that should be provided or something must have been provided some initial access the right education but right now as far as i see a lot 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 fall 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 should 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 that's the question of safety zoom has become the hero of quarantine life bringing together dozens of people of different continents all for free and all on a single call but it's also been drawn into a debate on its misuse of possible de sac and then that as soon bowman the f.b.i. is now warning that these virtual meetings can be hijacked you can have the gene ager type of act or farm or you can have the cyber criminal that really wants a listener and a security flaw at ows uninvited cyber gas to hack into and disrupt soon cools which michael's harmless giggle for board students if you 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 teaches not just spewing facts but engaging with the

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 which is something that technology and the robots simply can't do as well as the human's life before and after coronavirus will likely look a bit different businesses will close people will travel less we might not shake hands but as you know esko is warning if there's one thing we ready don't want to stick around it's online knotting morning is coming up after the break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy on sunday should we let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic development

that only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical guy time to sit down and talk. welcome back all the u.s. grapples with the pandemic it's still urging its neighbor mexico to reopen production and so as to aid the american defense industry also if the pentagon encourage some mexican factories to resume best applies 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 as defense industry as 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 protests there have been reports of covert 1000 deaths among workers mexico currently has over 10000 confirmed cases of coronavirus the number of fatalities reaching nearly 900 we discussed the pentagon's request with. the partment of the ferry is prioritizing its own needs. at the expense of 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 the 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 there should be a plan b. and the production can be done in different times i mean because this time when 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 using the coronavirus me very scary time. across the border. in the mccue as of mexico it is still demanding supplies and mexican workers have been on strike as why should we put ourselves at 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 thank you lation is rife in the us

media that the leader of north korea is extremely unwell after undergoing surgery were polled to ranging from kim jong un have a contract to corona virus or even being brain dead all slight lameness government 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 south korea and china have both dismissed the health room

as a principle officials also say they have no reason to believe they came john is in poor health and donald trump says the reports have not been confirmed to adding that he doesn't place much trust in them. 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 the came out with very very serious medical reports nobody's confirmed that it's. lucy and then 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 a story 1st emerged from a south korean web outlet itself fighting a single source in the north media analyst lionel sais this story is symptomatic of

the current state of mainstream media news. in a world we live in right now where they 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 this rational how could the in today's epoch this particular way of thinking could the ever countenance or agree to something of this international prominence when you have a 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 it would have been just unheard of what you are seeing right now is emblematic of the complete and told

all collapse of mainstream media news. and some world news in brief now 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 though during their rally in the city they still maintained social distancing. staying in germany the capital is seen a wave of covert inspired graffiti in one park you can see gollum from a lot of the rings eyeing from toilet paper being scrawled away by scouts from ice age and monkeys sporting face masks can be spotted among the trees. the forces on tour pass become the 1st to test smart bracelets to prevent corona infections at work the devices remind workers of social distancing by emitting 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 here on r.t. international wherever you are we hope you're safe and well that's safe in the studio here in moscow but we'll be live from london in just over 30 minutes have a great day. people are really remarking that 2020 is a mirror image of 2008 is the exact same problem banks over leverage blew themselves up and are now demanding a bailout at the point of a gun from the fed and other such all banks and except this time the dislocation in the economy combined with the coronavirus is so great that we've tripped over into medieval ism that's how messed up this.

has changed in american lives but pharmaceutical companies have a miraculous solution. based drugs to people who are chronic pain and believe that they're ok prescription is working for them on the remedy be certain to. price at the. close of dependency and addiction to opiates the long term use that really isn't scientifically justified and i'll study actually suggest that. the long term effects might not just be the absence of benefit but actually that they might because we want to.

welcome to the island some i'm sure from stricken our. ensure that we continue our examination of the subject course of consume the planet of this year that is novel coronavirus and the spread of covered 19 today on the show we speak to 2 international experts on the way on the frontline of fighting this pandemic 1st professor of human the international x. on intensive care and then to dr chris smith of cambridge university special someone who on this show an early federally warned of no uncertain terms about the

scale of the threat imagining from the east what you've potentially got is something which while it's less lethal than sars is much more infectious than cells and about as lethal as the 1918 flu pandemic and everyone susceptible to this like they were for the $918.00 spanish flu pandemic so if this were allowed to escape and go to its logical conclusion one possibility one worst case scenario is it could be as bad as 918 so therefore why weren't the alarm bells ringing for policymakers across the western world i will ask that very question later in this program before us to of your twitter messages i'm going to emails we've had a fantastic response to last week's show and christ we hear from mike from seattle who says greetings enjoyed your insightful analysis today on the show gratitude and solidarity with you in this we despondent time.