chris chris. 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 mind team that's the warning coming from u.n. experts look at whether the pandemic is the sole reason for a wave of global unemployment. and ahead of traditional may day protests in germany rules on allowing public demonstrations despite the threat of growing a virus goes out on the streets not social distancing though will face arrest.

and they're just going for pm here in moscow thanks for joining us on r.t. international i'm daniel hawkins welcome to the program. and let's begin with the latest updates on covert 19 the global pandemic is into a new month those confirmed coronavirus cases are still soaring now supporting 3300000 there is some hope 1000000 people have recovered the grim number you can see though fatalities now stands at more than 234000. so we start to right here in russia the prime minister. tested positive for corona virus that makes him 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 yesterday it was reported that he had a. high temperature this night celsius but he leaves henderson it is that he is the most most high ranking official to have. with this and he goes on at night saying that it is easy and now hearing that in the sense he said he is the russian president vladimir putin in which she informed the russian media than your beatles he hasn't been and isn't as to self isolates which 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 too many words 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 no true 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 still to this $1000.00 pound amec and the economic fallout. 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. he said that this is our question when we don't just him because he will be back right now lerner putin said one of

his deputies to the russian government. well in russia there are more than 114000 confirmed cases of corona virus at the moment friday mark the highest number registered so far nearly 8000 over 13000 people have recovered in total with 1169 succumbing to the disease. only half of all workers across the globe are at risk of losing their jobs that's the stark warning from u.n. experts though this crisis has been provoked directly by covert 19 elam open now explains why the labor market was already under threat. the jobs of 1600000 people are in jeopardy due to coated 1000 lockdowns around the world ours 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 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 $3300000000.00 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 world of work those who don't have protection those who don't have the sources those who don't have recourse to the types of things that we regard as the essential 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 2. $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 and gallup poll shows that one in 7 americans would avoid seeking medical treatments if they had some key symptoms of code 19 fever and dry cough because

they're afraid of medical costs and it's worse when framed explicitly is believing to have been infected by the novel coronavirus 9 percent still report that they would avoid seeking cat adults under 30 nonwhites those with a high school education or less and those in households with incomes under 40 $1000.00 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 declining you could see it 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 effect as precipitated then the acceleration of the contraction it clearly does this woman a 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 mop and r.t. new york. with billions around the world shut inside a german court has ruled in favor of allowing public demonstrations during the pandemic social distancing must be adhered to protestors can only cover their faces with surgical masks police in berlin have already been busy dispersing those breaking the rules 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 protect or to protest outside were out on balconies and rooftops burning flares may day protests across germany are expected this friday which would have in the past marred by violence artie's peter all of reports from bergen. may the 1st demonstrations are always a big deal and loud confrontational is frequently spilling over into by. i i i 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 and 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 $100.00 people were detained in berlin at an on authorised demonstration it's hard to imagine that there won't be more people joining in on friday as people turn up for demonstrations that. passed of looked like this they were 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 industry has been demonstrating a plea for help german travel agencies are calling for a rescue fund to be set up a 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 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 19th and this is a real big problem and that 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 new really it's a like a last minute acting because if they wait for more weeks many of our companies. close. france's labor day celebrations are in lockdown with people expected to mark the day from the balconies of online demonstrations that later in the program we look at how would one fall that if people have been staying safe at home.

with a pandemic in some cases at least put conflicts on hold but has opened up a more global battle as well we've spoken to some of those risking their lives in the united states and russia about the strains of health care work and 2020 you can watch over this frontline war is later right here on our international or of course you can always catch up on a website called. he's. been murdered before. birth . but also. the corona virus outbreak has changed the world no one can say for 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 those of the days are we approach some to ask how they're coping with the outbreak and want to extract something. with streets that across the global fronts correspondent shot up as a report from paris that's coming up after the break. this is the central plank so for diagramming to call them right they stopped.

the program the death toll in new york continues to rise quickly the virus outbreak that has left funeral homes overwhelms with dozens decomposing bodies found stacked

in a truck by brooklyn police after locals complained about the smell. as the details . 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 you can pick them up but even. just knowing what's going on it's hard

. to 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 if 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 corona virus 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 covert 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 while testing is important here so is 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 in france in recent years have been remembered for scenes of tear gas and clashes with police since covert 19 a strain businesses and left money without work the scale of protests expected to be huge but the strict it's being online or on balconies some people have attempted to hold blown demonstrations already this friday even those who have the police involved and scuffles correspondent. looks back at the may day we may be familiar with in paris if it weren't for a lockdown. maybe the scene is 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 russians. 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 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 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 brutality particularly towards

ethnic groups in the parisians suburbs that lead 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 revolts on their hands. r.t. paris. it's been a month since the groan of virus lock sound 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 as ghost towns. i.

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and sell you take shouldn't. here in united states as we get deeper and deeper into the fight against covert 19 we are seeing more and more new stories and expertly crafted publicity campaigns calling attention to the. the hundreds of thousands of doctors nurses and other medical workers and support staff who are quite literally on the front lines fighting to treat and save the lives of the more than 800000 u.s. citizens or infected by this virus they deserve our thanks our praise and our support new york governor andrew cuomo aptly referred to these workers as quote the troops fighting this battle for us but while the praise and heartfelt thanks are unquestionably appreciated many in the field are starting to wonder if our paul politicians thanks and cheerleading will amount to nothing more than the just words

and pageantry much in the same way that those politicians treat our military veterans all parade and no real help or substance new york position elizabeth may recently pointed out a very sobering problem for health care workers writing for the intercept she observed public health public expressions of support for health professionals are meaningful but they are also insufficient to drown out the deafening silence from capitol hill in response to mounting cries for relief measures cheap among them educational debt forgiveness you see because we here in the u.s. do not consider their good work as vital to the infrastructure of our country unlike they do and say the united kingdom and other nations around the world quite frankly it costs an arm and a leg to become a doctor or nurse here in the united states of america and shar goes on to point out almost 70 percent of all nurses who who staff the truest front line in this pandemic graduate from training with 42150000.