please. the russian prime minister tests positive for corona virus the announcement was made during a video call with president vladimir putin. also nearly half of all people around the world could lose their jobs on the back of cobra that's the warning coming from u.n. experts who look at whether the pandemic is the sole reason for a wave of global warming. and ahead of traditional may day protests germany rules allowing public demonstrations despite the threat of coronavirus in the streets not social distancing no could face arrest.

just 1 pm here in the capital of the hawkins thanks for joining us this hour. and let's begin with the latest figures on team the global pandemic is into a new month those confirmed coronavirus cases are still soaring now supporting 3300000 there is some hope though 1000000 people have recovered the grim number you can see fatalities though now more than 234000. are we start right here in russia the prime minister. has tested positive for corona virus becoming the highest ranking russian official known to be infected. it just became known that the tests that i took for corona virus gave a positive result in this regard and in accordance with the requirements i must

self isolate and comply with the instructions of doctors i have to do this to protect my colleagues i'm planning to remain in active contact with my colleague dick via phone and video conference. yesterday it was reported that he had to see a high temperature for this night celsius but he leaves behind a system that is he is the most most high ranking official diagnosis with this 19 disease he announced during a video conference that you russian president vladimir putin in which she informed the russian media than beatles he hasn't been seen as that has to sell isolate which can wish him good health wish the mystique of race and pointed out that this case really underlines that this virus doesn't discriminate. what's happening to you now having to endure this cause i've always said you're someone who's very active and i want to thank you for the work that's been done up to now truly pushing me shifts in the land of this negro virus pandemic for him has been the

most biggest challenge as russia's prime minister is sort of 8 newcomer into this whole political game in russia because this is the most high profile position for him as well in his own career he in fact only joined the russian government says. only a couple months back earlier this year and so this $1000.00 pound damage and the economic fallout. he challenges the biggest challenges for him as a position now there have been some speculations some groomers in the media just in might not return to his post after he recovers from over 1000 that that brendan has the even lead tonight for instance a lot of improvements. or he said this is our question when we don't just him because he will be back right now lima putin appointed one of his deputies to the

russian government. well in russia there are more than 814000 confirmed cases of corona virus at the moment friday marked the highest number registered so far nearly 8000 over 13000 people have recovered in total but nearly 1200 people have died. nearly half of workers across the world are at risk of losing their jobs that's the start warning from u.n. experts although this crisis has been provoked to directly at least by covert 19 kellam open takes a look at why the labor market was already under threat. the jobs of 1600000 people are in jeopardy due to coated 1000 lockdowns around the world hours have been cut incomes have decreased unemployment is rising but the problems did not start with the pandemic for millions of workers no income means no food no security and no

future millions of businesses around the world are barely breathing they have no savings or access to credit. the international labor organization points out that roughly half of the global workforce has a precarious existence where their livelihoods their access to food and health care and other necessities of life can be cut off at any moment due to problems in the market they often have poor access to health care services and have no income replacement in case of sickness or look down many of them have no possibility to work remotely from home staying home means losing their jobs and without wages they cannot eat 2 to 3300000000 people function within what's referred to as the informal economy they are self employed or they have short term contracts their wages have decreased by roughly 60 percent during the 1st month of the pandemic for them the pandemic is not just a time to stay home and relax they have very real fears about how they are going to pay their bills as the international labor organization predicts massive losses in

income are ahead for them in terms of the economic and social effects of this and demi it discriminates massively and above hold it discriminates against those who are at the bottom end of the well before those who don't have protection and those who don't have the sole say as those who don't have recourse to the types of things that we regard to see essential oils of a normal life not everyone is in the same boat amid the pandemic a new study shows that the $500.00 plus us billionaires have seen their combined well surge by roughly $282000000000.00 with 8 of them gaining a $1000000000.00 each since the beginning of the year meanwhile the weekly jobless claims keep rising and rising with roughly $30000000.00 of them in the last 6 weeks gallup poll shows that one in 7 americans would avoid seeking medical treatments if

they had some key symptoms of coded 19 fever and dry cough because they're afraid of medical costs. and it gets worse when framed explicitly is believing to have been affected by the novel coronavirus 9 percent still report that they would avoid seeking care adults under 30 nonwhites those with a high school education or less and those in households with incomes under $40000.00 per year how the groups most likely to indicate they would avoid seeking out cap the crisis in the economy is taking on the identity of its own i would argue and it's not just now being driven by what's happening with the virus slowdown it was really quite obvious in the us in advanced economies you could see it in the commodity producing economies especially oil that was already slowing down the price was already decrying you could see the global trade war $2.00 was barely growing global g.d.p. that was slowing so you know the process was already underway and it probably would

have. unraveled in a much slower way and clearly though the virus of precipitated in the exoneration of the contraction it clearly does discriminate it is hitting the working class harder and certain segments of the working class even even harder while there may not be many big parades with red flags this may day it seems that the pandemic has made it apparent many of the issues that working class organizations have been trying to highlight for so long it will come up and r.t. new york. with billions around the world shot inside a german court has ruled in favor of allowing public demonstrations showing the pandemic a social distancing must be aired here to protest this can only cover their faces with surgical masks police have already been busy dispersing those broken the rules the demonstrators in the capital were out in force on thursday evening out of

a christian festival your thirty's could be seen rounding up those not social distancing. others who choose not to protest outside were out on balconies on rooftops burning flares may day protests across germany are expected this friday which have in the past been marred by violence auntie's control of reports on. may the 1st demonstrations are always a big deal with loud confrontational is frequently spilling over into violence i think this year's demos were given the go ahead against the backdrop of the global pandemic and that raises some issues when it comes to anti corona virus measures it's illegal in germany to cover your face at a demonstration or strike or make any effort to try and conceal your identity from

the police the times for this year's demonstrations have resulted in a change of the rules if you cover your mouth and nose with a surgical mask or a scarf there would be fine but if protesters holes away or who do use baseball caps or sunglasses we would have to consider the intention behind those items and might request their removal gatherings of over 20 people are banned here in the german capital and more than 5000 police officers will be deployed to keep a watchful eye on friday the city's minister of the interior said the chief role of those officers will be making sure that social distancing rules are upheld which at a demonstration you can't imagine is going to be easy many german local authorities banned all protests but a ruling by the country's top court said the right to assembly cannot be tonight the local authorities had incorrectly assume that the provision by the has the state government to fight the coronavirus included a general ban on gatherings of more than 2 people who don't live in the same

household and has therefore violated the constitutional right to assembly. earlier this week around 100 people were detained at an authorised demonstration it's hard to imagine that there won't be more people joining friday as people turn up for demonstrations in the past i've looked like this they are going to be expected to adhere to keeping a distance of 1.5 meters to wear a face mask to gather in groups of no more than 20 for a limited period of time picture all over all to. one industry has been demonstrating in a plea for help german travel agencies are calling for a rescue fund to be set up as tourism ground to a halt earlier this year among the demands a comprehensive shield that would support not only big corporations but small ones as well respect for the organizers of the protests in munich. we don't have as everybody not

a new income no new commissions because we cannot do bookings in the moment and we have to pay back our earnings of the last year sometimes until june 19th and this is a real big problem and in germany are not of their situation and asked and that was a reason why we got on the street even. if the politics listen to us they have to act now and it is nearly it's a like a last minute acting because if they wait for more weeks many of our companies. crossers labor day celebrations are in lockdown with people expected to mark the day from the balcony with a lot of demonstrations but later in the program we look at how a lot of the unfolded people have been staying safe.

the pandemic has in some instances put conflicts on hold but has opened up a more. global battle as well we spoke to some of those risking their lives in the art of states and russia are about the strains of health care and work health care work in 2020 and you can watch covance frontline warriors later right here not international of course you can always had to a website. and take a look at the. birth as. possible. so the coronavirus outbreak has changed the world no one can see for sure when it might and for now news bulletins look more like dispatches from the front lines some countries are run out of conference and others are digging mass graves. of the day so we approached some to ask how they are coping with the

outbreak and what to expect. with streets deserted across to grow the globe fronts correspondent shot at the ski has a report from paris coming up after the break. we go to work so you can stream home.

join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. this is like a horse race or it's like a marathon there are $200.00 horses on trees more than $200.00 participants in this marathon and the question is which technique plays out to save most lives and companies because it's a matter of saving both. the program and death toll in new york continues to rise rapidly the virus outbreak that has left funeral homes overwhelmed with dozens of decomposing bodies found stacked in a truck while broken police that's off the locals complained about the smell audi's

20 chavez has more. as new york continues to come down the curve there are still hundreds of people dying from cova 19 every day new york city the epicenter of the outbreak struggling to keep up with the mounting coronavirus death total one funeral home in brooklyn so overwhelmed it resorted to storing dozens of bodies on ice in an refrigerated rental trucks had to deal with this for weeks now while. they're filling up the tractor trailer with bodies who will trucks. to let you sit on the street at least a 100 bodies were discovered by city officials after receiving complaints of odors surrounding the funeral home i just saw that the sparks be cheryl blunt. body bags this video showing workers moving the bodies into refrigerator trucks provided by the city just see them pick them up but even. just knowing what's going on here that. you see what it's about some lawmakers pushing for

a bereavement committee to ensure the proper handling of the city's dead i don't understand this case in the funeral home i heard something about a driver didn't show up or something like that why on earth would they not either alert the state who regulate them or go to their the n.y.p.d. precinct and ask for help do something rather than leave the bodies there it's unconscionable to me but while coronavirus continues to grip the state governor cuomo says the number of new coronavirus hospitalizations continues to decrease falling below a 1000 new covert cases slightly down 933 but still unacceptable and as new york continues to work its way down the curve one month after docking in new york harbor the hospital navy ship comfort is charting back home to its base in virginia the vessel was originally brought in to treat patients for overwhelmed hospitals the plan changed when the need for coated beds was more pressing the hospital ship treated 182 patients while in new york.

meantime some good news on the treatment front health experts say the a bullet severe could shorten kuvin $1000.00 recovery time a promising step for what's to come it's the 1st step in what we project will be better and better drugs coming along either alone or in combination drugs of this type and drugs addressing other targets of the virus so it's good news but i was very serious when i said this is not the total answer by any means but it's a very important 1st step meantime back here stateside officials are working out ramping up testing throughout the state currently conducting about 30000 test a day just yesterday over 4600 people tested positive for what 19 a strong reminder that this is far from being over but the governor says well testing is important here so it's contact it's extremely important to identify those people who are coming into contact with someone who has the virus and he

estimates it'll take about 30 contact tracers for every 100000 people reporting from home in new york trinity each others are to. may day celebrations and for all seen in recent years have been remembered for scenes of tear gas and clashes with police since covert 19 a string business isn't left many without work the scale of protests this friday are expected to be huge but restricted to being on line or balconies some people have attempted to hold loan demonstrations already this friday even those who had police involvement scuffles correspondent looks back at a may day we want you more familiar with in paris if it weren't for locked up. maybe. being the traditional day of rally by unions here in france now normally here tens of thousands of people would be gathering ready to march for workers' rights.

in recent years the big protests have been hijacked and they have descended into chaos now i was here back in 2018 on the may day when i saw what has been some of the worst violence i have ever seen in france and it started on the street basically when people began to throw petrol bombs at this fast food restaurant and then going inside to complete the russian. claim to be the work of the so-called a black blocks these are all the far left and the case that much of destruction continue down this street smashing windows until they got here where they've been to be equals outside the shop that released

a huge plume of smoke into the air that burnt it felt like for at least an hour releasing potentially dangerous toxins into the air and putting the people who live in this building out race. not. as covert 19 has been in a wave of protests in france but at least out on the streets instead unions of called for people to take to their balconies and to on the spirit but with the friendship pent up inside and having no way to really vent their anger frustration against the government perhaps global economy or even the environment there is real concern that when the confinement starts to ease up on may the 11th radical groups

will have something. up their sleeves groups on social media have been calling for people to get ready for a new spate of action our own goal will not be confined was the slogan that i saw on one poster now these calls on social media are already being tracked by the intelligence services who fear that violence will be used to seize public attention very active ultra right and ultra left networks have to prepare a number of attacks police also see the calls on social media as being an opportunity to display their hostility towards the police one militant site describes offices as being a greater threat than the virus itself and during the lockdown there has already been issues where the police have been accused of were talented particularly towards ethnic groups in the parisians suburbs that lead to nights of violence.

while the look turn for the most part has been peacefully observed there is a real fear that france has become a bit of a pressure cooker and not anger towards the government hasn't gone away instead it's building up its own boiling away when people are released paris and in other cities they could have open revolt on their hands. ski r.t. paris. it's been a month since the coronavirus locked out was introduced in russia allowing people to leave their homes for essential trips only it's left to many big cities and popular tourist spots as the ghost towns.

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this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm french born in washington. following dismal numbers for u.s. economic growth europe has followed suit taking a major hit at the over 19 outbreak continues to weigh heavy plus as we discuss the impact of the pandemic on different sectors how are sports fairing we do a deep dive on the subject we have a packed show today so let's dive right in. and we leave the program with more concerning economic get out of europe the eurozone economy contracted by 3.8 percent for the 1st quarter of 2020 this marks the biggest drop in g.d.p. for the 19 countries block since 1905 according to the european statistics office euro stat the e.u. economy had expanded by point one percent in the 4th quarter of 2019 and of course contraction is expected as the crow virus pandemic continues to wreak economic havoc but it should be noted that walk down in the e.u. did not actually start until early march so you still have 2 months before those

lockdown. place weighing heavily on the economy now looking at some of the largest economies in the block france's g.d.p. felt by 5.8 percent over the quarter as spain's economy declined by 5.2 percent now german officials had also announced this week that they expect their g.d.p. to decline by 6.3 percent for the year overall meanwhile the european central bank announced thursday it would keep interest rates where they are at 0 but added they will continue stimulus measures until the economy stabilizes. and here in the united states new filings for unemployment reached 3840000 for the week ending the 24th of april now this brings the total number of claims over the last 630000000 despite that doesn't lessen the economic data an incredible number of unemployed americans markets are on pace for the best months and decades today of course excluded so let's get some expert analysis on the situation with tobin smith c.e.o. of transformer research.