un tightening the screws france begins its easing of lockdown with the government convinced that it has the virus on the run many though fear a lessening of restrictions could actually backfire. at the time simply to look down this week the british prime minister there reveals . steer the country back to some semblance of normality but the states puts for now with a new coded alert system to monitor progress. and a 33000000 americans have been left jobless by the crisis the mayor of the hardest hit city employees billionaire reimagine post virus america.

good afternoon welcome this is r.t. international. let's 1st of all bring you up to speed on the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections that is now above 4100000 294000 lives have been lost more than 1500000 people have recovered. you know. france is taking its 1st tentative steps back to normality today it's a down is being eased back although some restrictions will remain in place for instance masks are mandatory on public transport while some see the overall move as being positive this fear it could lead to a 2nd spike of infections explains. from today that's monday many

shops will be able to reopen schools will start to reopen public transport will be running more efficiently than it has over the last 8 weeks people hoping to get the taste of freedom for the last 8 weeks every time they've left the house of had to have a personal permission slip and act to say exactly why they are leaving the house for a select narrow set of reasons that has now been disbanded with them people will be able to move freely within the towns and cities of the country is split into some regions still in the red zone which means there are a heightened concerns in regards to the fires in those regions and here in paris is one of those regions this is what the prime minister said when he. was definitely going to be the easing restrictions from. the president of the republic has

confirmed that given the latest results the progress of lifting of the measures can start on may be. it's another step in the fight against the epidemic it is good news for france and for the french people well not so much good news is that public parks and green spaces will be reopening for the moment that's expected to take place. which they're hoping will start late june now already. people coming into the. sanitizer but now shops will also be able to. mandatory wearing or face mosques they are also mandatory on all public transport in france with people not wearing at the age of 11 facing a fine of 135 euros now there has been criticism over the plans as to how that's going to. transport network saying you know they didn't have enough people on the ground to be able to enforce that and looking for. help and in

fact this morning many fronts t.v. stations have been showing some of the chaotic scenes not just in the metro here in paris but also in stations and connecting stations around the country showing carriages full of people not respecting the fact that despite there are moved freedoms now that social distancing is according to the government in parity of those also criticism of teach from teachers saying you know we shouldn't be opening the schools while some businesses are concerned that some of the advice from the government hasn't being exactly clear and no not really sure what they can and can't do there are also those businesses who can open switches cafes and restaurants and bars you off serious that they haven't been included in this easing of the restrictions and there's also criticism from the public a sense from the public that they not quite sure that the government's got perhaps the right strategy all the government is going to succeed in its strategy one poll

showing that 74 percent of people didn't think public transport would be safe to use another poll showing that some 58 percent almost 6 in 10 people didn't think that the government would be able to successfully implement its exit strategy and of course there is also this fear that while many people are hoping to see more freedoms down to get out and about that they will be that predicted the 2nd wave of the coronavirus and the french government has stated very clearly if there is a 2nd wave if there is a rise almost restrictions that people are hoping to have seen the back of they will be back. with life in the united kingdom put on hold for almost 2 months now and the prime minister took to the nation's t.v. screens on sunday night to outline the way forward there will be a gradual easing of restrictions although every step will be strictly monitored so no exact date when the full lockdown will be lifted but these are the has more details from london. the u.k.

prime minister boris johnson addressing the country on sunday evening analysing his plans to resolve a lot of the measures that the prime minister was also keen to stress that the country isn't in a position to lift those lockdown measures in any meaningful way it will know this is not the time simply to end the lockdown this week but would be madness not to throw away that achievement by allowing a 2nd spike we must stay alert we must continue to control the virus and saved lives. now with the u.k. having the highest death toll in the whole of europe mr johnson announced perhaps a new strategy moving forward the announcement of 8 fight it system ranking the threat from covert 90 similar to the type of anti terrorism threat level assessments we've seen in countries like the u.k. and elsewhere with

a ranking government from low level one all the way up to critical level 5 and obviously the lower the rating the more those locked out restrictions can be lifted to chart our progress and to avoid going back to square one we're stablish in a new alert system run by a new joint bio security center could be the alert level will tell us how tough we have to be in our social distancing missions the lower level the fewer the measures the higher level of the tougher and stricter we will have to be now to have been some accusations that mr johnson wasn't particularly clear when he came to explaining some of the measures for example saying the people who couldn't work from home should go back to work but of course many workplaces like restaurants like theaters remain closed so unclear exactly how those people could go back to

work now this is johnson also of course announcing gradual easing of restrictions on wednesday we could see unlimited exercise being allowed in public places like parks but again there are fears that the public could just take advantage of that to flout the law rules that later on in the summer we could see the lifting of the strict sions on children going to primary school and secondary school for example and also later on in the summer we could also see for example bars and restaurants opening one small albeit with social this. measures in place but mr johnson was also keen to stress that should we see one small increase in the rate of infection or even in the number of people losing their lives after testing positive with coke and 19 then the harsher restrictions could once more be put back in place we'll be monitoring our progress locally regionally and nationally and if there are

outbreaks if there are problems we will not hesitate to put on the brakes and a test stop turned author malcolm kendrick believes that the easing of restrictions will be good news for patients with other conditions who now get more medical attention. really relaxing restrictions now because of the rules or the problems that we're not they're not talking about you are not coming to a hospital because they're got chest pains if you are staying at home children only really going to want to diabetes which the major problems are too much to do says children are rising each of us it was. terrifying to bring them the hospital because we're told that so so there's a lot of times that it's going on and. you know pieces with cancer not being treated patients with other serious conditions that are not immediately life threatening are not being treated so i think even just from an old perspective not an economic perspective we should definitely be

a lot in this in my opinion we should have planned it earlier i think that they now recognize that actually we shouldn't be trying to fill up share homes with people who are either got booed or potentially have got what i call someone an exploding. oh it's all right they don't have any so you know and then listen. to her recognize that this is not you know the. belgium's also joined the ranks of those taking their foot slightly off the log down under its plan course sectors including the retail industry will be allowed to open up from today but there are concerns restrictions are being lifted fast enough putting the economy under even more strain angry hospitality sector workers state protests in brussels last week they laid down hundreds of chef's jackets to denounce the government's decision not to reopen bars and restaurants until at least 18 they also say that they've been left out in the cold claiming there's been a lack of aid for their trade the 3rd largest source of jobs in the country the

government says that it will look at additional support measures for those sectors hardest hit by the crisis. bogan which brought in its restrictions in mid march is already looking at a steep economic slide of nearly 7 percent this year the travel tourism entertainment and hospitality sectors they're all expected to be among the hardest hit prompting fears millions could lose their jobs organizers of the protests call for tax breaks and extensive economic support. the government and much of the sick that we'd be banquet in the coming weeks when they see it as i really want to see i mean for the sake of you we care and or lurd also order sounds to players of different measure that we asked you to morrow and the 1st one was to see for all your wisdom and to work out on your 6 goals and because for the moment when you run for some exemption far as your security contribution and that

was 2 of those and 20 and now went to really as core so that. they built the check they can be $100.00 books i'm now at the divinity for a major company. a fire that broke out at a hospice in the russian city of cross nagorski overnighters claimed 10 lives early reports suggest the fall was caused by an electrical fault was also revealed the home was registered as residential with no commission to carry out functions as a hospice criminal investigation has been launched the owner reportedly is being questioned. new york remains the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak in the united states as it struggles to deal with a rapid rise in infections however some neighborhoods in the bronx queens staten island have been hit far harder than wealthier ones as a new r.t. documentary highlights.

the. quarantining new york is a little bizarre because there is there's like 2 worlds right so we're in a world 2 where we feel very isolated we're working from home but we're still working and then there's this like other part of new york that we don't see when you look at like the map of how home it is politically some of the wealthier neighborhoods it's been far more contained and the numbers are much lower than some of the flora neighborhoods it's like 2 different worlds. service i'm all evil how many absent certainly allowed to be early we probably don't argue over the last 2 weeks and we have more than 100 more to go and we're

going round going in new york which considered one of the or areas. of the really world the of the core population are dying water because in everyday circumstances when you go to a hospital in new york city and probably not any of. the 1st thing they actually are is you having to put the body of the in to you will ya please do you think this is a real. in the. meanwhile the new york state governor is already outlining his post plans but his decision to call on america's richest to help out with this problem to dying or in the big apple a lot more but has the story. united states has the world's top number of coronavirus deaths and 33000000 americans have now filed for unemployment u.s. officials are saying this is

a catastrophe on par with 911 or pearl harbor many have accused the u.s. government of dropping the ball failing to provide adequate health care and effectively mobilize relief however the new york state governor andrew cuomo has found some saviors to help reimagine new york in the aftermath of the pandemic billionaires. cuomo has given eric schmidt the c.e.o. of google the task of helping to reimagine new york in the aftermath of the pandemic with talent health remote learning and broadband probably the best mind in this country if not in this on the globe to do this is i believe a true visionary especially in the field of technology and that's eric schmidt and we've asked him to come work with us now google has already earned the distrust of millions with their project nightingale that acquired the personal medical records of millions and their ownership of fitbit.

the new york governor has also decided to bring bill gates on board bill gates the microsoft founder and billionaire is set to help revolutionize schools across the state bill gates is a visionary in many ways and his ideas and thoughts on technology and education he's spoken about for years but i think we now have a moment in history where we can actually incorporate and advance those ideas advocates of public education have slammed his initiative as pushing privatization . both the gates foundation and your coma have a history of pushing privatization and agenda that have the potential to destroy public schools this collaboration raises a red flag and real questions about what shape our reimagine public schools will take post pandemic and whether there will be recognizable as public schools at will

the gates foundation or big advocates of common core and initiatives aimed at advancing america's performance in education which is already quite low especially in the field of mathematics the program actually has made things worse since 2013 when it was implemented at this point test scores are at a historic low. former new york city mayor mike bloomberg has been drafted to help out in the field of health care you set to create a human contact tracing network mayor michael bloomberg has volunteered to help us develop and implement the tracing program we thank him very much for taking it on because it is going to require a lot of attention a lot of insight a lot of experience and a lot of resources big tech wrong based out of southern california is now setting up shop in the big apple many fear that while this could create billions of dollars

in profit for the silicon valley monopolies it will result in even more dependence from new yorkers on these mega corporations can't think of a worse or more dangerous development than this one hope new york education and health care unions are getting prepared for defied of their lives. trying to take out the troubling democracy play acting goes straight through by billionaires monday gates tuesday smits next abbesses to imagine the future of the economy and is it compared to imagine news friday maybe black or just ruins everything. 1st bill gates and now eric schmidt these are all people who should determine for us how best to provide services to everyday new yorkers instead we should tax them all so people whose job it is to decide state policy can do so more effectively now the pandemic is far from over and my seat is still shut down but the race to dominate the postcode at 19 world has already started and not surprisingly the billionaires have gotten

a head start you know it doesn't surprise me in hollywood you sell you know let me tell you about that are real new yorkers see what. we see that just in the recent state budget he cut $2000000000.00 from medicare cuts $400000000000.00 from hospitals in the middle of a pandemic i mean we see have we have any and also you never taxes are all you never never taxes objects so many proposals and status every on to tax the millionaire surtax corporations you know to me it's like a bunch of billionaires getting together and creating new institutions and this post our own they live in this echelon this is rural and they're all and i was you know and you really see how they lose touch with you know the normal ordinary person. across a presidential hopeful joe biden is perhaps feeling more confident now in the sex

abuse scandal he's been dragged into recently and after the media started to play on the front one of his accusers noirs appeared to be a long standing supporter of president trump while the other one previously worked for the russian news agency sputnik all that ignoring the fact the alleged sex assault happened in 1903 details after the break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see if. the world is driven by shaped by one person.

a day or thinks. we dare to ask. some years ago there was a global solidarity to annihilate the scourge of fascism from here this will be unique in its western allies prevailed against nazi germany today such global solidarity is sadly missing in today's the current. in what walks this very necessary solidarity.

what makes the words less trustworthy in the current us political and media circles it seems any connection to russia or president trump the woman who accused democratic nominee joe biden of carrying out a sexual assault back in the 1990 s. he's now being treated as a russian agent for exactly that looks at what stands behind the accusations. so many of us do not doubt be the perfect time to explore new things in my days of solitude i think how do you my skills and i want to show you guys something of what i call it the diary of a ball sheet democrats the 1st character. russian troops a couple times that evolution of the president ok i'm ready. like my photo i was blindsided by the section some of accusations made against you by to by someone tara reid i mean i know some woman has come forward for accused by reason of your already on caught with that snipping and touching and there are all

those photos of him and then there's the hash tag keep job i said but i think such a convincing no no something's fishy here and of recent days new evidence has come tonight revealing reid's accusations for what they really are a huge russian conspiracy an attempt to get that pop it up and that it not to fasten our bells when i saw who is representing reid torah regis go to new lawyer his name is douglas wigdor he supported donald trump in the 2016 election and gave $55000.00 to the trump campaign and the r n c juror in that cycle surprised coincidence i think not i mean we do did also donate to a bunch of democratic candidates and 516 and he defended fox employees and a gentleman ation case and he did so represent christine basis for when she confronted by counting up but that was my argument that let's just forget also

making the super suspicious the other lawyer being defended by one of the tour knees working for terror read is bill moore and a former employee of sputnik the russian government's english language propaganda arm i mean i couldn't put it best at this very professional and i'm biased and i said see john list between that and read alexandra lawyer who was fired from sputnik yes that sputnik could get this incorrectly reporting a wiki leaks story something about this whole story and its timing stinks to high heaven also stinking to high heaven the fact that we tell is clearly a wash plant i mean she criticized america for its imperialism whatever that means and last week talked about president putin back chested on of course she literally wrote a love letter to the murderer trying to keep biden from the white house. yet the new york times is calling for the d.n.c.

to establish a truth. and investigation for what we all know the real truth here the kremlin has been cooking us up for decades baseball all the way back in 1000 times to the bike one day president so they plucked a random young doctor put herself in a life long psychologically damaging situation to say she quit outpointed when he finally got close to keeping trump out of the white house but they had to make it believable so they got several people in on it to be like her ex-husband on several occasions petitioner tara reid related a problem that she was having at work regarding sexual harassment and u.s. senator joe biden's office and her ex neighbor i remember her saying here was this person that she was working for him she added lies to him and he kind of put her against a wall and he put his hand up her skirt and he couldn't spinners insider she found that she was assaulted and she really didn't feel there was anything she could do

and even a mother i'm wondering what. would you do besides go to the press in washington my daughter is there after working for a prominent senator and could not get through with her problems i mean like he's on t.v. payroll so you contrast that i think that comes out of his mouth anyway that when the cavanagh case came along they probably thought they had it in the bag and women do not get or are making these things up these women have come forward knowing they have everything to lose they thought that will do it these women who hounded cavanagh comments like double standards to that over presumptive presidential nominee who should not be running on character for the president the united states you want him to withdraw i wish he would well have a home because what a woman says nice things about russia and goes off to my candidate the only one that's not. shaky on his 7 year old life on a pious much receives i could fit into my hash time's up.

so what you think. you'll find too subtle that's going to get. legal on the stand for the must of release of the whole sex scandal around joe biden who's proved the hypocritical the teacher of the entire me to movement. the truth is now that we're seen this with joe biden with cher reid is that it's not me too for all women it's me too only to protect the women that accuse donald trump or his associates it's only me to if you accuse somebody who we don't like if you'll excuse one of our guys we can't really believe what you say that's absolutely duplicitous and it's exactly what this movement and similar movements have been supposed to stand against this is complete apocryphal and we're finding out more and more that the democratic party in america and that includes a lot of the mainstream media outlets that the mainstream media the democratic party in america are just they're just interested in helping themselves they do not

care about women they only care about women that are going to help their political and their social causes that's all they care about as women for their own political gain if it hurts their political gain those women could be tossed aside. appreciate you being with us here and all to international jewelry for help and i was time. time after time they were going underground from the country with the worst

coronavirus death toll in europe as countries across the continent begin to ease their lock downs and curfews coming up in the show risky business how to interpret our politicians of the podiums of a 10 day give us a life or death advice on coronavirus we investigate risk literacy with risk and rationality scholar at the max planck institute harding risk literacy center director professor good grounds and 1st class passengers on a sinking ship has covered $900.00 further exposes deepening cracks in us as your money power we ask award winning sociologist richard blackman how mass mobilization can now transform the neoliberal world order only a small coming up in today's going underground 1st all around the world our politicians will today be telling you how to live your lives and not be killed by coronavirus how to decode what they're saying and bypass the politicized spin incompetence and malfeasance joining me via skype from berlin is director of the harding center of a risk literacy professor good grounds and thanks so much greg for coming on to as

i say we're going to all be watching our politicians tell us about the fact that they are following the science how should we interpret what those politicians tell us in the in the context of risk and literacy i think it would be really important that people themselves think about the risks to get into or only with their behavior i'm also not sure politicians know what's the best thing to do this is a situation of uncertainty where we can't know what kind of political risk but where we can. know things and also relax a little bit and do reasonable decisions rather than hurt decisions that grew from fundamentally and this again in the context of for instance masses of numbers of ventilators were bought for coronavirus that it turns out we don't need one.