with the u.s. hitting $3000000.00 coronavirus cases and accounting for a quarter of all of the world's since not leaving so much maybe love from canada and mexico also to come this hour a report by u.n. investigator concludes the killing of iran's top general was the u.s. the start of the year was unlawful and angela merkel said the party forward plans to fill half of all posts within the party with the queen in the next 5 years. what are you watching i think national just gone telling. that the us has hit $3000000.00 coronavirus cases and now accounts for about

a quarter of deaths globally nevertheless donald trump is still trying to convince everybody that washington is leading the fight against the virus however canada mexico and even the you convinced and expect over 130000 americans have died from cold at 19 and the number of those infected across america has surpassed the 3000000 mark but that hasn't stopped us leaders from bragging claiming that the usa is the leader globally in fighting the virus i think the world is looking at us as a leader and 19 we showcase. 99 percent of which are totally harmless. results that no other country can show because no other country is testing that we have now the rest of the world isn't buying that one bit the us is neighbor to the north canada says they are doing a better job fighting the virus than the united states is we were able to control

the virus better than many of our allies particularly including our neighbor non-essential travel between the usa and canada has been shut down since march now some people want to open up again on july 21st but most canadians say they want to keep the americans out canadian prime minister to skip his meeting with donald trump in the mexican president earlier this week the reason he gave the safety concerns of course but it looks like prime minister wasn't missed at least by trump gushed over his southern counterpart spin a profound privilege to have you with us today and it's april found privilege to have you as my friend we've had a great relationship right from the beginning the mexican people are incredible. they upheld our highest values god family and country now you might remember that a big beautiful wall was the central plank of donald trump's campaign well things have taken an interesting turn sense now local residents on the arizona u.s.

border have been blocking the roads to keep americans out of mexico and mexico actually installed just impaction tunnels for travelers from the united states none of this has not been any wind out of america's sails the u.s. government is convinced that their allies across the atlantic will accept america with open arms. is technical progress and now we need to draw that to a conclusion and then they'll be a system a system to monitor and measure to make sure that we get the timing right that we get the toggle switches right both sides of the atlantic want to get this back up and both sides understand that our economies depend on the deep important relation trans-atlantic relationship matters and harsh facts still remain the european union has banned all non-essential travel from the united states for all of its swagger and self-proclaimed status and fighting code in the world is keeping its distance america is isolated a pariah like never before been artsy new york but

a former transportation safety board official has been looking at whatever travel is like for americans during the coronavirus pandemic he made this report for r.t. america. ok well we boarded our we're on our way to the airport now able to see how to change what changes have been made by the airports on checking in and every action trial is going to be like now until the. 60. 6th. they think you. are taking the goober to the airport and i have to say we got here very quickly because there's not a lot of traffic right now not as many people are traveling as they were prior to the pandemic and so you can see that there's a lot of people here and so it's pretty easy to practice social distancing right

now the 1st thing you do before you go into the airport but sure that you're wearing your mask and when you're inside the airport and throughout your travels make sure that you wash your hands frequently for 20 seconds and sign away and or using hand sanitizers. we're in the southwest check in area at national airport washington d.c. you can see that there's a limited number of kiosks here usually i would say that there's probably about 3 times as many kiosks here if you look at the airport it's empty. i can tell you right now we've been here for what 3045 minutes and this is the most people watching the airport all morning to go check our bags and it's natural. for the t.s.a. security point here at washington national you can see there's a limited number of travelers here going through security so the chances of your being delayed for security are pretty slim right now during these times when nice

means people are traveling like they were prior to the pandemic the c.s.a. is also trying to maintain social distance and you'll notice on the floors they put some marks to remind people to maintain 6 through the port and social distances. t.s.a. has no institution new rules and regulations on how their interaction happens between the passenger and the agent it's no longer will the passengers hands or their boarding pass or their electronic device to the agent the agent will absorb it from them or that or the passenger holds it up for them. as well as showing them to their id. if you're thinking about food you might want to think about something before you get to the airport that you can bring with you is when this more affordable the restaurants are very limited and the ones that are open. and the ones that are open they're kind of because there's not many options for people to

go. people are just waiting in the waiting areas like they normally do i don't know if there are in kind of rules require regulations or certain airports are putting in restrictions placed far as observed here and in nashville and also at national airport in washington d.c. it didn't seem like it was there any kind of rules or stipulations or regulations on being enforced on people be sitting sitting separately or or or maintain social distancing. for during the flight itself it really was kind of an unremarkable. other than that everybody had on masks and some food for a flight felt less they maintained the middle seat and the flight was pretty full and as airline good as now it's what kind of cleaning that they were doing with the plane in between every flight and also the plane that they're doing every night with different planes and not use now we're here in nashville so let's go get our baggage.

a little glimpse of what air travel is like in the us at the moment snack health care workers have been the ones on the front line throughout the global pandemic but they've also been putting their own lives on the line to you in the order to help those in need and you are to documentary has been hearing from the relatives of medical workers who succumbed to the virus you can watch the full documentary here on r.t. later today and it's also available on the r.t. documentary website but his a quick taste of what it's about. before he came to america mainly i mean does this owner and this little. minds are my mom she was. their stride it was. just sisters.

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that suits she will also go. again and make that decision far and then. i feel like if i would have said. killed or. of course we were very hurt and sad but we weren't right to say they said dane separable and. we were very very close family. with never imagined just what our parents and their last days in their lives here. to just watch a car. you know bring them to the majority place. to 1st time i met michael as in christmas. and my questions are being asked.

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you know and you know but yeah. 6 months since arounds top general customs of the money was killed in the u.s. drone strike near baghdad a u.n. expert has concluded that the assassination was in fact a violation of international law my report of an annex presenting a case study of the targeted killing of iranian janeiro because some saw in many concluding that ease was a violation of the un charter governing the use of force and an arbitrary killing the international community must now confront the very real prospect that state may all opt to strategy clearly eliminate i rang king military or fi shows outside the context of a non war and seek to justify the killings on the ground of necessity not imminent

. but however also described iran's retaliate for a missile strike as an illegal on the 3rd of january this year president trump ordered to drone strike in general to the man in the baghdad international airport 9 others were also killed back then washington justified the killing by saying so the man he was planning an imminent attack on u.s. interests in the region however it's never put forward any evidence to back up that claim last month around issued an arrest warrant for the us president and 35 others in connection with the killing. presented a report to the u.n. human rights council from which washington with 3 in 2018 however that didn't stop the u.s. state department from hitting back at the accusation this to downshift and tedious report undermines human rights by giving pass to terrorists and proves once again why america was right to leave the council it for them international crime of grave nature of threatening international peace and security to the us and this posted

the u.s. drones operations the responsibility and must be held to account for this loyalist behavior and criminal act but we asked a professor of political science at the university of tehran about whether the report will have any influence on the u.s. . it's not going to have any actual influence on their behavior nevertheless we have to remember that under the trumpet ministration the us soft power in the world has been declining and by soft power we mean how popular the american way of life the american political and economic system is and the reason for that is because during the trumpet ministration the americans have conducted a very controversial policies where there are we doing from international organisations carrying out illegal strike such as the killing of us and so they money or even the trade wars that they started so under the trump and ministration

us influence in the world has been declining and i think in the long run this will have an effect on american power and standing in international relations still ahead this hour more than a 100 all those and academics to sign an open letter highlighting the dangers of so-called cancelled culture however the move has sparked a backlash to take from both sides of the political debate the have a look at this present the stories just after the break.

you can't be both with yeah you're right. i am. the past 3 presidential election cycles demonstrate voters are against reforms and one nation building nonetheless both remain high priority for the only elites why is this our voters say foreign policy any exactly why should us and why horses stay and. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure when i'll be speaking to a guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see of and . welcome back you with r.t. now with all my stuff of course cabinet headed by women jim he's already one of the

most progressive european countries when it comes to women in politics but ny the chance to see the new policy wants to go a step further and introduce quotas so that women make up hof of the entire party within the next few years with more details his. german conservatives the c.d.u. looking to dramatically shake up the demographics of their party top brass this week approved quotas for women in senior positions with quotas for those standing in elections under consideration this decision was long overdue the quote is a crutch it doesn't solve all problems but it is the 1st important step to better involve women if women continue to be represented in offices and mandate as little as before they can have no influence in shaping the future so how will this work the plan is that in the coming bundestag election 30 percent of the positions in

the christian democratic union will be held by women rising to 50 percent by 2025 in order to proceed the equality proposal has to be approved by party membership in december that may not be so easy with critics saying that position should be based on ability not gender shouldn't quality counts instead of a quota or there was a would be for a quota based on various professional qualifications economic sectors and years of work outside of politics criticism of the movie isn't just coming from men with some c.d.u. women saying this attempt at equality is simply or just it could end up back firing a quota or 40 and 50 percent does not correspond to the proportion of women in the membership if in the future it is easier for women to get a position in c.g. than men it will be unfair while others say this will lead to the achievements of women who reach senior positions being belittled i myself would have opposed it if

i had been told that you came into this office because you were quite a woman many women find undervaluing to assume that they only came to office because of their gender more than women don't want to be stamped the c.d.u. already has a woman in the country's top job of course angle a miracle is. stepping down at next year's election and there have been allegations of her potential replacement being pale male and stale opposition in the green party you have the scribe the equality gold will have to wait until december of this year to find out what cd party faithful think this role of aarti berlin. marina is a professor of eastern european politics at the university of genoa and she believes there's still much to be done to integrate women into politics. it's not enough as i said it's a starting point of but then we realize the debt to these women have many

difficulties to go on with their or political career to improve their. positions political positions and maybe to become also party leader. so they are more used to just to see ok we have females in our parliaments we have the meal that among our ministries and sometimes they do not have important let's see i mean it's. so new usually there and they get position for shame unease for 2 gender opportunities or so policies which are not considered very interesting and very important for the national government and if you look down to. i mean history of or in all defense policy so it's not enough in the it's not so easy. now famous academics and celebrities to have written an open letter calling

for more tolerance in society because the current climate of so-called cancel culture where people instantly shun or boycott those they don't like is unhealthy and say that there should be more debate where the letter was signed by prominent authors and academics including linguists named chomsky poet and novelist margaret atwood and also harry potter author j.k. rowling who's recently faced away that rage after expressing views on the issue of transgenders and per minute. resistance must not be allowed to harden into his own brand of dogma or coersion the democratic conclusion we want can be achieved only if we speak out against the intolerant climate that has set in on all sides well we have come to expect this on the radical right since sorious ness is also spreading more widely in our culture and intolerance of opposing views of vogue for public shaming and ostracism and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty while the latter instantly to

a backlash though from both sides of the political divide left this quickly denounced it is a display of elitism and fear of accountability while those on the right pointed to the hypocrisy of some of the signatories who have themselves boycotted opposing views.

well following the backlash there a couple of the signatories have apparently even disavowed the letter and we spoke to the political studies professor roger berkovitz who is one of those who signed the letter he believes the online reaction only demonstrates further the importance of the message they are trying to spread. in our society for a long time there's been a general ideal or idea. that. whatever the the orthodoxy. we at least hear and are open to dissent and experimentation and new ideas within within reason there are always certain limits and i think that the response to the letter on the fact that's so many people have are talking about the letter shows that this is all a live issue hasn't been decided in our in our culture you know most of the

critiques of the letter that i've seen again don't critique the content of the letter by the way the content of the letter is quite simple you know we should have vigorous and open debate i mean to me that's not a very controversial point of view but most of the critiques of it don't actually address that what they address is the people who sign the letter and say oh j.k. rowling signed it or you know david brooks signed it or someone and we don't like these people and therefore it's a bad letter that's not argument that's character assassination that's assassination by affiliation and to me that's. deeply and science electional and i thought. it was not international that brings home tonight from islamabad most stories in a math 85 minutes. we

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down from one students to return to classes this fall school administrators aren't so sure dr drew pinsky joins us on this edition. of the politicking on larry king why u.s. covert 19 infection rates soar and the death toll tops 130000 president trump wants to open all the schools how reasonable is that expectation for that i'm joined by dr drew pinsky internist addiction specialist host a podcast including ask dr drew and dr drew after dark he is here in los angeles

ok what what do you make of this threat is there. as a good i did open all schools you know larry the fact that politicians and journalists are involved in medical decision making to me is just sort of extraordinary. the american academy of pediatrics has come out very forcefully that they want schools open in the fall for sure they have taken the position that lack that withholding further socialization and education is going to have untold harm on children i can tell you personally i'm not a pediatrician but i certainly would back america to be a pediatrics in their opinion but i've been hearing that constantly from parents of 18 to 15 year olds that the level of distress depression anxiety fear is so high that i'm afraid we are change the trajectory of an entire generation by scaring them to death that literally they believe that by going outside they and their

family will be destroyed so of course of course you tell that to an 8 year old they're going to concoct a fantasy where that's their reality going back to school would give them a sense of normalization re entering the educational process i mean we all know how important that is so again i don't see it as a political issue i look to the american academy of pediatrics and do what they tell me you must hold off the father she in high respect what i do and then why i am wanting this all the time what con what does concern you drew about this wealth and i'll take my dogs can hear i knew we were going to have a giant uptick i mean that's what concerns you right now the doctor found she is someone i've been looking to and and been a guy for me since the since i was working in the aids epidemic back in that early eighty's and back then he was incur is the reason i got involved in radio actually he was he was encouraging young physicians to go out there and educate and change behavior we were sort of marching with the orders that if we didn't change behavior to.