i i. 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 will lose their jobs on the back of covert 19 that's the warning coming from u.n. experts look at whether the pandemic is the sole reason for a wave of global warming. and out of traditional may day protests germany rules on allowing public demonstrations despite the threat of coronavirus on the streets not socialist and sing no will face a rest. from

moscow thanks for joining us today on r.t. international hawkins. welcome to the program. let's begin with the latest updates on covert 19 big lobel pandemic is into a new month those confirmed cases are still soaring that now surpassed 3300000 there is some hope that 1000000 people have recovered the grim number you can see though in terms of fatalities now stands at more than 234000. but we start right here in russia where 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 colleagues via phone and video conferences but yesterday it was reported that he had to see a high temperature this night celsius but he leaves behind a system that is he is the most most high ranking official diagnosis with this and he goes on at night saying that their disease he announced during a video conference russian president vladimir putin in which she informed the russian media than even beetles he hasn't seen his name is and has to sell isolation which wished 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 otherwise cause i've always said you're someone who's very active i want to thank you for the work that's been done up to now pushing me shift in the end 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 big 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 if this 1000 pound amec and the economic fallout become he challenges the biggest challenges for him as a position now there have been some speculations some rumors in the media just in might not return to his post after he recovers from over 1000 that brandon has the even lead to night for instance a lot of improvements. or he said this is our question when we don't just in because he will be back right now lerner putin said one of his deputies to the

russian government well russia there are more than 114000 confirmed cases of coronavirus currently. the highest number registered so far nearly 8000 over 13000 people have recovered in total but 1169 have died. many hoff of workers across the globe are at risk of losing their jobs that's the start morning coming from the u.n. experts though this crisis has been provoked thought regular at least by covered 19 . explains why the labor market was already on the 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 knowing come 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 the 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 then terms of the economic and social effects of this pandemic it discriminates massively and above all that discriminates against those who are at the bottom end of the world before those who don't have protection and those who don't have a soul says those who don't have the balls to the types of things that we regard as you send chills 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 and the advanced economies you could see it in the commodity producing economies especially oil that was already slowing down the price was already declining you could see in the global trade which 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 celebration of the contraction it clearly does this criminal 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 shut inside a german court has ruled in favor of allowing public demonstrations during a pandemic social distancing must be adhered to and protesters can only cover their faces with surgical masks but he some have already been busy dispersing those breaking the rules of demonstrators in the capital or out on thursday evening ahead

of a christian festival your thirty's could be seen rounding up those not social distancing . others who chose 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 on tuesday to all the reports from. may the 1st demonstrations are always a big deal in the lives loud confrontational and frequently spilling over into violent i i. i. this year's demos are 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 so 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 found here in the german capital and more than $5000.00 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 will be more people joining friday people turn up for demonstrations in the past look 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. one industries been demonstrating in a plea for help sherman travel agencies are calling for a rescue fund to be set up was ground to a halt earlier this year among them all as a comprehensive shield that would support not only big corporations but soon as well we spoke to the organizer 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 to 19 and this is a real big problem and in germany are not of their situation and asked and that was the 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 as if they made more weeks many of our companies. close. labor day celebrations are in lockdown with people expected to mark the day from the balconies all with demonstrations that later in the program we look at how it might have all unfolded if people had been staying safe. this

pandemic has in some cases put conflicts on a hold but has opened up a more global battle to we spoken to some of those risking their lives in the united states and russia are about the strains of health care work in 2020 you can watch coverts frontline warriors later here not international or you can always had to websites dot com. sorghum a good bookstore. or google earth just. like any. other should be a city. but also a sense of. the corona virus outbreak has changed the world no one can say pretty sure when it might and for now news bulletins look more like dispatches from the front lines some countries have run out of conference and others are digging mass graves doctors and nurses to be sure it was something day so we approached some to

ask how they're coping with the outbreak and want to extract some. streets there's a lot across the globe a false correspondent shot of durban ski has a report from paris that's coming up just after this break. join me every thursday on the alex i'm i'm sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. one else chose seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. let me. get to shape out these days become active. and engaged equals

betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground. this is like a horse race it's like the marathon there are $200.00. countries. do 100 participants in this. and the question is which technique plays out to save most lives and companies because it's a matter of saving both. to the program to the new york continues to rise rapidly the virus outbreak that has left funeral homes overwhelmed with dozens of decomposing bodies files doctor truck brooklyn police after locals complained about the smell. was 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 toll 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 while. they're filling up the tractor trailer with bodies you 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 thought that these bodies be shareable one. by this video showing workers moving the bodies into refrigerator trucks provided by the city just so you can pick them up but even. just knowing what's going on right . 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 is 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 bull the drug test of year 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 racers for every 100000 people reporting from home in new york trinity each others are to. may day celebrations in france in recent years have been remembered for scenes of tear gas and clashes with police since cloven one team though has strained businesses and left many without work the scale of protest this friday is expected to be huge but restricted to being online or balconies some people have attempted to hold mon demonstrations already this friday even though the police involved in scuffles correspondent shot to do looks back at them a day we might have more familiar with if it weren't for the lockdown. major is seen as 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 in the may day when i saw what has been some of the worst violence i have ever seen in france and it started only street basically when people began to protest at school 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 blogs 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 burned vehicles 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 an end to a wave of protests in france but at least out on the streets instead unions are called for people to take to them balconies on the main gate 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 so. i think 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 already being tracked by the intelligence services who fear that violence will be used to seize public attention very active rights 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 with the police and we need queues to be talented particularly towards ethnic groups in the parisians suburbs that led to nights of violence.

while the look done for the most part has been peaceful he 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 in some boiling away when people are released paris and in other cities they could have open revolt on their hands. ski altie paris. let's put a month since the krona virus was introduced here in russia allowing people to leave their homes for essential trips only it's left many big cities and popular tourist spots looking like ghost town.

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a reflection. and of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. tyson lation whole community. are you going the right way or are you being led some. way. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or remain in the shallows. as the us economy was booming growing numbers of people when they need homes. you can work 40 hours in a week and still not have enough to get housing everybody believes america still

has the lead up to the reality of it is we're not financially equality and the lack of affordable housing living minimum wage gave many people no choice you know there's been a problem with the city knows turn to bitch and told to stay away i don't listen. to songs of concerted effort is no answer because the answer requires resources the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible comes. we go to work you straight home full.

time after time. i'm called gratian to repeat the same mantra sustainability very important to accelerate the transition to sustainable transport sustainability stay in her manner the more equitable and sustainable well. they claim their production is completely harmless followed. the be. done because the models and it does not the present companies want us to feel good about buying their products while the damage is being done far away this is something else this let's keep going down even as i am steep loses the moon in unison we didn't dream and i'm strengthening any bets about understand that look who is going and. he wanted a government about its lack of preparedness for a coronavirus fan demick even a decade and a half ago all these former senate majority leader and medical doctor bill frist

and he's here with his take on donald trump's response took over 19 as this edition of politicking. one of the politicking on larry king in 2005 send a bill 1st proposed the 6 part pandemic for vernace plan for the u.s. government it was instrumental in helping to pass president george w. bush's 80 $1000000000.00 package to combat aids in africa and he's now one of 16 leaning out the experts calling on congress still fund billions of dollars and called the dream testing before it can safely reopen the country for bush storming united states senate majority leader republican from tennessee and a host of the proud care so 2nd opinion rethinking american help us bill frist he joins us from his art farm in virginia gardens good to see you again. good larry

great to be with you appreciate the chance to have this conversation my pleasure tell me about this letter you and 16 other help they actually want the government to do or the letter the letter without my last monday you know went to the president of the united states and to the united states congress and it basically has 3 parts all of which center on the really critical failure that this country has had in the last month but also the opportunity that it's all built around testing we have this enemy the us but right now a lot less you have an s.t.d. you have don't who has it who doesn't but it does infect people even if they sometimes do so what this letter does it basically says testing testing testing at the federal government through our midst and. it should step or i get the number one priority and it puts or tips a contact trace things if you test positive if you.