good luck. after weeks of lockdown large parts of europe announce their easing restrictions facing a hard choice between kickstarting the economy and putting lives at risk. french doctors petitioned the prime minister to boost the relatively tiny pay a foreign medics working on the frontline of the country's coronavirus battle. to keep these doctors in a humiliating position both in terms of salaries. and a u.s. senator calls to block chinese students from studying and america in case they steal a coronavirus the vaccine even though it hasn't been invented yet. we're

watching r t international coming to you straight from the russian capital let's get started with your live news update this hour. we begin as always with the latest figures on kobe had 19 the global pandemic is still reaching a number of confirmed coronavirus cases when the world has now surpassed 3000000 more than 923000 people have recovered at this point but the number of fatalities has risen to more than 211000. germany's mortality rate from come in $1000.00 has been much lower than some other e.u. states that's encourage it to already reopen some small shops and schools but with political pressure growing to go much further to kick start the economy scientists

fear that could trigger a deadly 2nd wave of the virus so to fully left the lock down or not there albert reports. one of 2 of them politics is elder statesman has ruffled a few feathers with his comments putting economics over health when it comes to the corona pandemic if there is an absolute value in our basically we're told he's human dignity he's untouchable but it doesn't rule out that we have to die so of the president both gun schauble as words cold blooded of those saying that it's a realistic view that some people will die but all businesses shouldn't have to. we must not leave decisions to the viral juice alone but must also weigh up the enormous economic social psychological and other implications to simply decommission everything for 2 years would have terrible consequences but whatever you make of the former finance minister's words one german company that is set to receive financial aid is the budget allying cond or the economics minister saying

that they good for the over 500000000 euro worth of loans they're set to receive the company was a parishioner a healthy and profitable in normal times and has good prospects bailing out condo has turned attention towards a potentially much larger risk you package for aviation colossus and german flag carrier lufthansa 10000000000 euro could be required keeping the airlines planes grounded as costing a reported $1000000.00 euro per hour and cash reserves are running out economy minister altmire wasn't giving anything away on the details of that deal but has said as far as the government is concerned there's a future for lufthansa we want large and important companies that play a role in the world market to remain competitive after the crisis while a lot of attention is turning to relaxing restrictions and opening germany back up the advice coming from scientists and doctors remains sorry if we're coming across

as the bad guys economically but if you don't want to spread the virus you've got to keep it locked down in germany people see that the hospitals are not overwhelmed so they don't understand why their shops have to shut they only look at what's happening here or not of the situation in say new yorkers pain this is the prevention paradox and for many germans i'm the evil guy who is crippling the economy european union transport ministers will hold a video conference on wednesday where they'll be discussing the future of air travel across the block as we end so what should be the busy summer holiday period for airlines people. party breaks down the options the government's facing. but we can use corona and different either you use it for the master aren't you of the people so. a step or a shit will tell sister if you want to start with. a criminal record to us you do something like the german government anyway it was screwing with the care of each

where they see. who you are all for the big companies have to give 50000000000 euros for small companies and for the social system and a lot don't. want to bring forward good luck to all of us kept all the time this is the only. way you have to see what we can do tristan to be licensed so if you got not what the case is that. this is leading you to a dead end street. the french government is set to announce the easing of quarantine restrictions as some e.u. members look to return to us someone's a pre-buy or us life to go live now to charlotte timothy and paris for the details charlotte tell us exactly what's already been announced and what are we expecting to be said. well we know that the french 5 minutes there will stick to the plan which is to add gradually ease the lock down from may the 11th here in france that

means some schools and businesses will start to reopen after those kinds of already been attacked by teachers who are unhappy that the schools are reopened meanwhile restaurant owners that is either happy that their business is and not amongst those there are set to open on may 11th however we also have been told that social distancing will remain in force here in france for the forseeable future but many people i can say to find out from the prime minister is exactly what will happen so the nitty gritty the details of this now this all comes as a poll has been showing that many people don't trust the government was 62 dissent and saying that they don't think that the government will succeed with its plans for the de confinement and it appears that the french themselves are becoming a bit sort of fed up with pain locked up cooped up in their apartments over the last few days there have been several instances of people blatantly flouting the

lockdown regulations including one street party in the market district of paris. now and also working towards de confinement with face to beginning on the 2nd of may it's already be confirmed that the subsurface occasion this is the permission slip to leave the house will continue will be obligatory in a city ad but the list of acceptable reasons as to why people couldn't leave their homes are expected to be extended i travel bans though will remain in force with the exception of those people who are cut off from their primary residence when the lockdown took place in italy and they will be able to back to that let's have a listen to what else giuseppe cultivate their italian prime minister had to say.

beyond all this plan which i will present to you now starts from the 4th of may so we're telling you many days in advance because it's well structured well articulated well for through and it must also be accepted by you so that we can put it to work in the best way possible in addition to the decree that we are preparing for economic measures we're also preparing a parallel measure to unlock the country here it is not enough anymore to unlock individual yards we must unlock this country block. well in spain major saw if our leases underscore teens are allowed to leave their homes the 1st time in 6 weeks that happened of the last few days that petra scientists the prime minister has said that while restrictions on exercise in general are about to be lifted when it comes to ending the lockdowns full he says it's going to be a salt wait and see. a movie alice i would like to announce

that if the evolution of the pandemic continues in a positive direction out as it is doing so far she will be starting from a the 2nd is that it will be permitted to go out for individual physical activity person walks with the people you live with the complete however you must still and here are the conditions laid down by the health authorities that yes well in the u.k. boris johnson is back at the helm of to just over 3 weeks following he's a rush with 90 though in very unusual boris johnson style his address to the nation lacked absolutely clear detail exactly when the instructions would be that. i can see the long term consequences of look done as clearly as anyone and so yes i entirely share. your agency if the government's urgency. and yet we must also recognize the risk of a 2nd spike. well it's over are for the british prime minister who of course at the

very beginning of the pandemic was determined to keep britain open now it seems he's being overtly cautious and not giving details as to when the lockdown instructions will end in the u.k. each of these countries to the spain you came from all seen the death toll related to coke 90 top the $20000.00 mark there europe's worst affected countries and each followed showing at daily declines almost every day now in the number of deaths related soko big 1000 and the number of people in intensive care but leaders and experts are still completely divided as to how to easy destructions to return to some sense of normality and there really is this balance and in this a competing balance between the needs of restarting at the economies which have just been choking napper weeks and weeks upon end and sort of managing that with the fragile balance between the freedoms and safeties and that is something that

still hasn't been fully tested here yet in europe are to charlotte bringing us the latest from europe thank you. france has suffered chronic medical staff shortages as it struggles to contain want to be ops worst outbreaks the system has been kept going by and large numbers of foreign doctors are forced to work at a fraction of the salary and benefits enjoyed by french medics psychiatry's i mean benyamin or explains why. the difference in wages depends on status we have a lot of interns these doctors are doing 3 year in turn ships in their case the salaries are between 120-1300 euros this is without duty allowances when these doctors complete their internships they work as junior doctors for 3 more years during which their work is evaluated during that time they get at most $2500.00 euros it's very little because often these doctors work under pressure they work in

the i.c. use and in the ambulance service these are people who work between 55 and 60 hours a week the salary problem is real the difference is really significant but what is even more difficult to see is the lack of recognition in the administrative sense to work in france you have to get a french diploma you have to be french this is a general rule that is respected but the system especially public hospitals are coping only thanks to outside employees i mean doctors with money you diplomas. benyamin are has about the scientists has published or at work fully explains why the petition wants better treatment for foreign specialists. the competence of non the e.u. doctors is not questioned everyone sees how they work especially during the crisis they have the same medical skills as their french counterparts it is not right to keep these doctors in a humiliating position both in terms of status and salaries and that's the problem

we want the prime minister must take urgent action so that those who are qualified who have proven their decency and ability to treat the french. would be recognized . here and russia there are more than $93000.00 corona virus cases with just under 6 and a half 1000 registered in the last 24 hours or $8000.00 in total have already recovered but more than 800 people have died here lockdown has been tough for most people but it's particularly hard for those in care homes when they have had essential routines and interactions put on hold but one such person mina has been lucky enough to get an offer from volunteer arena to sell files isolate an apartment provided by a russian charity our correspondent. spoke with them years ago you know how does your life will. be and i'm just happy. you don't you want to go back to hospital. you know definitely not like you and we'll try doing during the day. i was told and

he's now doing a friendship if i want to watch a movie i do actually it was a. need that just moved she said that at the beginning of the year she had one dream to meet football players. because before the korean team i said i want to meet russian some of the players and the training. and then the quantize she said she had another dream to move away from the residential can somewhere and the 2nd dream came true and. it's been more than 2 weeks since either have stepped outside of their apartment they cook downs and have even celebrated a birthday together or even told us earlier why she decided to self arsole and whether many others and russia are following suit. dr kulacz an article on. quarantine and residential care didn't look so secure people can't leave volunteers can't come in but the permanent workers are still there salaries are not so big so

most use public transport but in residential care such a close place if someone is infected that will be a tragedy as long as i've known enough she's always been a very optimistic person to all my questions she has always answered that everything's great but after residential care was close for quarantine i started to receive other messages that she's bored she feels bad not comfortable so i thought to ask nina to live with me taking into account all our messages i knew that we would find a way to live together comfortably in quarantine but of course taking people from residential care to quarantine is not a solution for everyone it as far as i know just around $400.00 people since the beginning of the pandemic have been taken from such residential care homes not a lot. arena as a volunteer at the life root charity foundation it was founded in 2009 and it is that classes training and creative interaction to help people with learning difficulties we asked

a lifer at fundraiser how they continue offering help in the challenging circumstances of the lock down. there was a beginning of the corner virus pandemic and koreans who had to still all are in many life programs now almost all of them are online it's an interesting moment to work with disabled people online requires a lot of skill and preparations even working person can be hard to make interesting for disabled people in online it's even harder sell here or it teaches and take colleges create new formats for example we have a computer class with resumes conferencing with teach how to shell acts or post. in another inspiring story an italian man living in siberia has swapped his teaching down for protective gear after bantering to help the elderly and disabled in the pandemic get a list of food medicines and other essential to deliberate throughout the day in the city of cross they are sick he told us why he puts all the masks and gloves and

gets to work. yeah but of all of that i'm a foreign language teacher i came to russia 8 years ago for an internal ship but one of the universities here when it finished i got a job and decided to stay in the country i deliberately wanted to live in russia it was on matters of principle for me but even there on the telly and language teacher here in russia how do you balance your main job with voluntary but this yes language teaching is my main activity and volunteering is also an essential part of my life is important to help people because by doing that we help ourselves in a way when you give something you'll receive way more in return emotional reward cannot be overestimated. more headline news coming your way after the short break.

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welcome back to the program u.s. senator tom cotton has called to ban chinese students from studying science in this country for fear they may steal the coronavirus vaccine that hasn't yet been invented but anti-church trying to right or it sweeping the nation cottons the price of rhetoric has gotten a lot of support artist and explains how bilateral tensions have moved to the classroom. the rivalry between the usa and china over technology continues even amid the pandemic some politicians are pushing it pretty far arkansas senator tom cotton suggested that chinese students studying in america should only study the humanities or else they'll have access to secrets and knowledge that they can steal

you know if chinese students want to come here and study shakes shakespeare in the federalist papers that's what they need to learn from america of a belt made to learn quantum computing and artificial intelligence from america tom cotton has been beating the anti china drum for a long time his recent remarks come across as pretty racist but he's not alone a number of voices are playing up the idea that chinese students in american universities are potential spies in addition to espionage and cyber theft by the ministry of state security the party task some chinese students and scholars in the u.s. and other foreign universities and research labs with extracting technology these are the words of h r mcmaster he's a retired lieutenant general in the united states army as well as a former national security advisor for the white house now he's speaking out about the need to stop china from spying all across the united states and stealing technology especially dia's students now it's not just politicians professors are

also speaking up. congress needs to move to restrict access by chinese students and researches to premier educational and research institutions and engineering and science labs the idea that we continue to educate scientists and engineers who will then work for companies owned by the chinese communist regime defines common sense these aren't just words american universities are shutting down cooperation programs organized through the confusion institute scientists who could be helpful in fighting against coded 19 have been driven out of the country by allegations of spying now these recent words from tom cotton suggesting that there should be restrictions on what chinese students can and cannot study are pretty shocking but they fit into an entire atmosphere of hysteria and hostility ala mop and artsy new york. we discussed the issue with joseph gregory mahoney a professor at east china university he says any such ban would do more harm than

good to america's tech industry fortunately it's not the most irresponsible thing that senator cotton has had in recent times he has been one of the main errors as an elected official of this you know on bioweapon conspiracy theory as an explanation of the teen outbreak he's politically close to donald trump he's a longstanding hawk on china so this sort of comment from him is part and parcel of his you know usual political rhetoric this trend is one that's been underway for several years and we've seen of course. this both within the academic and outside quite overblown and a lot of ways one of the things that we've seen in chinese students they don't tend to be you know flag waving communist who are going out to seek information to undo the united states they tend to hold us in high regard they want to go and learn to have a positive regard at the same time you know the fact of the matter is at this point

chinese universities have taking major leaps to ford where as you know the american universities need chinese students and a lot of these students once they graduate have gone on to work in american tech and science industries all in all i think that if this policy were to be put in place. you know it would be unfairly castigating chinese students but it also be harming us universities and even us technology and scientific development. you as the better and anti-war associations have written an open letter to congress leaders urging them not to give additional funding to the pentagon after the defense department was included in the latest phase of the white house stimulus package. the crew has made it crystal clear that federal spending is dangerously misaligned with our national priorities and the actual threats to human security the united states has chronically underfunded human and environmental needs while

particularly in recent years passing historically high pentagon budgets that forced the militarism in the war engine the waste and so corruption a lot of points out that the pentagon could find the money to fight coronavirus from an existing enormous budget unlike underfunded health organizations which are struggling to provide americans with the support they need the country is at the epicenter of the pandemic with more than a 1000000 victims and $56000.00 deaths. the defense department's budget has now reached $756000000000.00 including $10000000000.00 from the new stimulus combined war and security cost $60.00 trillion dollars with the u.s. spending almost 40 percent of the planet's entire military budget a spokesperson at veterans for peace one of the groups that signed the letter says it's a question of saving lives. basically the crux of our argument is that we need to we need to prioritize our right now and the combined budgets of the in i.e. c.d.c.

and w.h.o. roughly equals about a 7 known pentagon budget and that if these institutions would have been properly funded we could basically argue that there would we would have been better prepared the challenge of the cocoa the defense industry contributes a sizeable portion of funding for candidates of both political parties senators and representatives have the fence industries that reside within their electoral jurisdictions and really what it's about here is raising money for the party and getting reelected in doing so you have to keep your donors constituents. but i think it's also imperative that we say the united states maintain our hole will hit germany by maintaining our forces in our ally thing a sions and namely in the e.u. and to discourage the emergence of a multi-polar world i believe it would serve the public's best interest if we would realize the futility of trying to make in our global hedging mine instead focus our resources into infrastructure on the development social programs and to work with

nations around the world in a collaborative manner to focus on. the past has come back to haunt us presidential candidate joe biden with a tape of a phone conversation from 1993 landing him in the middle of a sex scandal in new lease surface footage the mother of terror read the former senate staffer who accuses biden of sexual assault appears on larry king live asking for advice at the time of the assault reid has confirmed the voice to be that of her mother who died some years ago. i'm wondering what. effort would. go through the press in washington my daughter is just there after working for a prominent senator and could not get through with her problems with. our 2 hosts rick sanchez discussed the sensitivity of such situations with larry king himself explain to our viewers because i think a lot of people want to understand this the responsibility that you have as

a broadcaster in a situation like this to take a call from someone who you literally don't really know who they are how do you deal with. i've been doing we'll have you know this friday of the 63 years i've been doing this when when someone calls in and they're all anonymous we never always calling in and says something like that and you give them the respect of the call we were respectful but one she said my daughter doesn't want to name the person where else do you go with the you know or something if you're if you hate the pershing kind of try to run with it if you learn but if you don't know the name of the person where do you go or something like that and i'm a going to browbeat someone into naming a daughter she doesn't want to name a daughter or spoke to her daughter the question would be why she call in i'm sure her mother was sincere and i'm sure the daughter was sincere why didn't they want

to come forward the only problem is when you're doing a show like that you know who's going to call in you know if she had said it to someone else and they had checked it out and confirmed it i would have made the whole rest of the show about it but of unfortunately you can't do that however it's so funny when something like 27 years ago suddenly shales are the woman's face the way and fox news this is the number one on their page right right. that's our world news wrap up for this hour but if you're looking for more head on over to our website all of us here at our hope you and yours are well.

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