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on one side, there were issues withth corona parties that i personally didn't come across yet butut i've heard of those. on the other side we experienced how thoususands of young people really got together and showed solidarity for older generations, organized actitivities,, tried to keep thm moving,, menentally, tried to provide any care needed. so thatt is r really impressivei find. anchor: a few weeks ago t the climate crisis was bringining people still out on to the streets. how is this corona crisis changing the future? >> it's huge. the two polars of our movement,, the bibiggest cries of humumaniy and urgenent one, are r really a new sitituation rightht now bece we have a new crisis that i is emerging that is k keeping us hohostage in a sense and we have the issue that we can't protest on the streets anymore. we find it's time for us to show solidarity for olderer genenerations. we a are asking for generational justice. that's what we're showiwing rigt now. so we want to provide any help, any support we can give during thesee times of crises while at the same timime obviouslyly sti

indices closing lower once again at the two one hundred sharp losses of one and a a half percent there butut despite coordinated measures being announced by the bank of england and the chancellorr of the exchequer. all trying to combat the corona virus pandemic well the u. k. was the first u. g. seven country to unveil a double pronged coordidinated approach to suppot the econonomy from the effects f that outbreak. withh an emergency rate cut coming from the central bank a just ahead of the budget announcement from the british government. analyst describes stimulus is the kind of measures that are needed to stabilize the financial markets at least in the short term although the remain mixed views on just how effective they'll really b be in supporting the economy. in the face of thatat newly declared pandemic donna. this is our reports. after a decade of. a turning point in britain. the incoming chancellor of the exchequer unveiled the u. k.'s first budget post brexit. rishi sunak pledged to increase spending on public services by two point 8% a year. and do whatever it takes to mitigate the

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the ruling could spell big c changes not just for uber butut for france's entire gig economy again reports. its bad news hat number in france the ride sharing app insists that its drivers aren't employees but independent contract is. allowing the company to skip many of the usual cosostly responsibilities of an employer. like taxes social charges and paid leave. but this wednesday francis hi quartet held the twenty eighteen decision to reclassify drive his relationship with uber as an employment contract when connecting to the ibr digital platform. a relationship of subordination is established between driver and the company hence the driver does not provide a service as a self employed person. but doesn't employee. the court said that has a- but drivers are not free to choose their own clients fix that tariffs will define their own working conditionss they don't qualify as self employed contractors. it't's far from the firsrst timime the company has faced a lawsuit of this kind in march twenty nineteen overpaid out twenty million dollars to try this. in california massachusetts. second th

into the real economy safe a few weeks down the line it's not just markets having sort of crazy days butut actual economic contraction because his big selling point remember and he's been saying this and or his right is that we have the greatest economy that we've ever had in this country credible quitete under incrededible economy thanknks te that's what he's saying said. that rather than joe biden will but he's on his running any one of them is really going to be the thing that he will be judged so i think more of it more than anything if thatt conley g g. lee does slow which is why i think it will be interesting to see.e. from now n he he actually route at this. needless package that he wants congress to pass. which would involve mass tax relief basically kind of. preemptively injecting a kind of financial drug into the body of the u. s. economy. to make sure that it doesn't kind of going to some shop shut down. in a few weeks from now but for now he's just focusing on this fifty billion dollars which is going to go. on you know public health measures but i think there are still questio

it takes a while butut will be done at unprecedented speed because of the funding we are putting into it and the emergency food assistance and including free and reduced lunch and no longer having access to those meals. it also provided paid sick leave and family leave someone has to leave work because of the coronavirus he can still paye te bills. most importantly, the paid leave is providing 100% from the federal government dollar for dollar amount on the small businesses and that is important. larger businesses tend to have paid leave. the. the crisis is unprecedented. in the interest of public health we have effectively chosen to pump the brakes on the economy. we decided to do that as a country because it is in the best interest of the public health but that means businesses of all sizes, small, medium, large are having to either loshutter their doors or slow dn the production, letting people fgo. so many parts of the economy are feeling the pain and discredit or slow down. applications for unemployment is weak compared to last increased 20 fold. that means there was a 2000% incr

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it is a function both of the age of the people ininfected butut o of thehe capabability of the mel care system to take care of them. so if we can protect the medical care system, that is keep the number of patients coming in at a rate they can be cared for with adequate icu beds andd ventilators, etc., and also healthy medical care folks, we rate low,hehe fatality or at least lower than it would have been without that. amy: we're going to go to break and then come back to this discussion. we're going to talk about strategies to keep yourself and your family healthy, what to say andhildren -- dr. goodman dr. lessler have children -- how you are talking to them about what could be, to say the least, extremely frightening for them, as it is for the whole population. and i want to ask dr. lessler about the study he did in china come comparing wuhan and how it dealt with the coronavirus with the community right next door. we are talking to dr. stephen goodman. he is associate dean at the stanford medical school. and justin lessler, johns ofkins bloomberg school public health associate profes

coronavirus not only an issue of someone coughing or sneezing or getting droplets on another person, bututhis whole questionon of what d does it meo be aerosolized? can bee, sars 2 aerosolilized if y you're doinga procedure e which vigorouslyly causeses massive a air selection likekely intimate somomeone. -- intubate someonone. there we 4000 health-care care workers in china that actual got infefected. the lovely thing about infecting young peoplple is that ththere'a much smaller, even though it is really imporortant to thinink at ththe young peoeople, the mtatay ratete in yoyoung peoplple is mh lower. butt letet's go back to t this ququestion of air slilicing. this has t to do with the sisizf the d droplets and how they're actually suspendeded in the air. the size of the droplet for sars 2 o or covid-1-19 are larger withins and they falll six feet which is whyhy we havea sisix what d distance e we are g people to stay awaway from.m. although, health care workers are at much higher risk k when ththey d do aerosolizing procedures.. wewe need to be careful about that. in sars s 1,, actually,

everything from the paid leave, keeps on the repeated now workers will have paid medical leave -- butute hear it as wel less than 20%. reduced a and reduced over thehe weekend through negotiationsns with nguyen. -- mnuchin. is usinguck proroposal trickle-dodown economics. gigiving moneyey to the corporas and maybe it will trickle d down to ordinary citizens. wewe know from the past, it is t going to happen. the 2017 tax bill did not lead to m more investment, did not ld to s significantntly higher wag. it led to biggeger -- almlmost 1 trillion of share buybacks. as you say, what we need is s a bottoms up approach. what s she was pointing out is thatat if you givive money to te industries, they a aren't goingo necessararily behave well. and you see that so clearly in the fight ththe big companies fought against paid d sick leav. let me say, that is really important. it is not jujust helping the woworkers, it is helping all o f us. because if they y don't get sick leleave, they're going to work. it will help transmit the disease. peopleeed a system thatat can say, if i am sick, i don't .e

itit looked d they might even go mike bloomberg butut that all ce back to biden and it has provided him a firewall that i am surpris that bebernie sanders has not yet been able to break through, right? work k onive years to this proroblem. this is what happened to him in 2016 against hillary clinton. i think it deserves serious analysis to try y to figure out whatat his messasage is not impacting g that c community whe has had d so l long to work k o. the earlier guestst chuck made a good point that bernrnie seems o haveve maybe inroads with the latinx community, but it has not worked with the black community, the s southern black communityy specififically. we -- want thing that analysis is somehow southern older blacks are just "more conservative." there is no evidence that southern black voters are more socially conservative than other voters in this primary when you look at the fact that all of the candidates running are basically in lockstep on the social issues. all of the candidates running to support a woman's right to choose. all of the candidates ran to susupport gay marriage.

we need a guarantee of paid leavave not t just for the coronavirurus, butut if people e sick. we don't want them coming into work. there's a lot of work that remains to be done. amy: but what is happening? what kind of pressures are being brought on the house? let's talk about that paid leave. yes, in the end, apparently with nancy pelosi negotiating with mnuchin, the exemptions were made for companies that had more than 500 workers were less than 50. at first the bill passed, would affect maybe 20% of workers getting paid sick leave, but now it sounds like it is going to be much l less than th. >> it is an adequate. we believe itmy, should apply to companies s like to than 50500. the problem is we are negotiating with trump and mcmcconnelell to get anything d. i do believe that we have a lot of leverage. this president neeeeds a deal. the economy y is on the vevergef realal crisis. we shohould make sure e we are pushing for r things that are actually going too help. wewe know from old e economists, that meaeans paid leave. it means getting money into thte popockets of t those

earlyating ndc essay even january to give us moree breathing room for the publilic health resesponse, bututhe government sat on its hands. first it said we're not going ee the who world health organization tests and we're goining use our own. they ran into the implementation of the tests and had to start from scratch. we gotot three months ininto the pandemic with no real publicic health response from our national government. then we had the sosort off contradictory set of pronouncements from the white house. the presidenent underer place te seriousness of thehe epidemic while scientists like dr. seeony fauci says we could 200,000 deaths in this c countr. we had sort of a a collapse of leadershipip from t the cdc alle way up to the white house in which we were quite, frankly, with our pants down for aa pandemic that was swsweeping the world as early as january we could have anticipated this. amy: as we move forward, professor, from any be dominated -- epidemiology perspective, how did the neoliberal popolicies of the united states, a and defined that term "neoliberal" the kind of private he

we are buying sewing machines to make masks, butut this is notote way should be done. amy: we will speak with the former baltimore health commissioner an emergency room doctor leana wen. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has now topped 15,000, with over 340,000 confirmed cases. italy remains the epicenter of the pandemic in europe with nearly 5500 deaths -- 650 of those just on sunday -- and nearly 60,000 identified cases. prime ministerer giuseppe conte instructed all residents to stay at home except to procure medicines and food, and ordered non-essential businesses to shut down for the next two weeks as italy scrcrambles to slow down e outbreak. italy has drafted its military to enforce l lockdown orders in the hard-hit lombary region. it has also appealed to the u.s. military to assist with medical needs. a group of over 50 cuban doctors and nurses landed in italy sunday to assist with the fight against coronavirus. cuban dodoctors hav

i do believe the convening authorities should have that power to not only correct any mistakes butut also to grant pue clumsy because that traditionally was their role and that is where the comments he came from, not from the appellate courts. cen i was -- to use colonel glasses analogy or statements a baby judge, i would very rarely comment on what i gave as a sentence and when i became a little more seasoned after seven, eight years i perhaps on more than one occasion would give those comments but they were very limited because perhaps i was concerned and i sat on the appellate court and i can recall receiving records of trial going why did the judge say that and it was a bit concerning to be worried about what might be evaluated and what i said and if i said something was i going to be challenged in the next case because i made a comment about why i judge a certain sentence.hi maybe i should have been more deterred of some of the things i did say but i did make comments about sentences onse occasion ad some of those might have been in the cases that did not reach appellate review

we had to fight for that on the democratic side, butut it became bipartisan in the end. we worked to provide more paid sickth leave because we don't think it's a good idea for workers who are living paycheck to paycheck to feel like they've got to go to work when they are sick, even if it means they are going to potentially spread the virus. we want to make sure that they can pay the bills at home and stay home and not spread the virus. the provision in round two regarding paid sick leave was good. there are still big gaps in it. so how did, how did rounds one and to come to pass? i hear talk over here, this is all a house initiative. a bipartisanas initiative. down withhouse sat speaker pelosi, secretary mnuchin with speaker pelosi here they hammered out rounds went into in a bipartisan fashion. they came to the united states senate and they were passed. with big bipartisan votes. we need that same bipartisan spirit now. i've beenio listening into somef the floor. first of all i keep hearing there are not democrats on the floor. well, we are coming. the other thing i ke