thanks come to this choose day life from out international's world news center here in moscow i'm kevin irwin with a 30 minute round up for us at stand so far today and we're beginning the program with the latest on the covert 19 figures the pandemic still has a big grip around the world with over 3600000 coronavirus cases confirmed the number of deaths is now risen above a quarter of a 1000000 but more than 1200000 people are known to have made a recovery as well. world leaders have pledged almost 7 and a half 1000000000 euros to fund development of a coronavirus vaccine at a video conference held on monday falling just slightly short than of the target set by the european commission which is the old gold in a station that organized that fundraiser in the 1st place with more who stepped up to the plate and crucially who didn't show up to is our europe correspondent peter oliver. monday's online psalmist ended with a presentation hosted by european commission president on the line and which they said how much these nations were going to be giving and why this was an important joint cooperatio

today thanks for watching this thursday live from artie's world news center here in moscow i'm kevin irwin with this 30 minute round up for you 1st the latest covert 19 figures to start with and since the outbreak began 3800000 people are now known to have been infected around the world with the potentially deadly virus the number of deaths as a result has now surpassed 265000 but the number of people making a recovery 2 is also rising but currently stands at 1300000 today. europe may be moving on from the worst of the pandemic now but there's new trouble ahead the e.u. says the region's on course for a recession of historic proportions with already hard hit countries suffering the most here's our europe correspondent peter oliver. gloomy times economically are being talked about as a result of coronavirus the e.u. spring 2020 economic forecast is looking at a 7 and a half percent contraction of g.d.p. over this year just a few months ago although same analysts were talking about a small rise in that index over the same period now those in the know talking about say an economic downturn of

the company this friday afternoon here live from new center of moscow my name is kevin irwin with his 30 minute round up for 1st the latest covert 1000 figures as they stand there and sad to say we're heading towards another somber milestone the number of infections globally is now close to 4000000 in terms of fatalities more than 271000 people are known to have died many are also recovering from the illness of course to that figure currently stands at over $1300000.00. in today's headlines then russia's health ministry says more than 1200 coronavirus patients are currently on ventilation nationwide the country currently ranks 5th in the world in terms of infections and over 187000 the daily death rates been rising rapidly health officials though say there are enough beds and ventilators putting people on the lifesaving equipment is a process that's not only traumatic for the patient but stressful for the doctors to put this differently from. the very. people on ventilators as a last resort measure for doctors it means it's become all but impossible for the patient to breathe on a did

there good morning thanks for company this monday life marty's world view center here in moscow i'm kevin irwin with a 30 minute round up for you as it stands today and let's begin with the latest global infection figures since the outbreak of the new virus last december there's been more than 3500000 registered cases around the world the number of deaths is heading towards a quarter of a 1000000 but on a more positive note more than 1100000 people have recovered so far. so today's other developments the u.s. is again trying to keep the focus well and truly on china with the u.s. secretary of state saying that enormous evidence that the outbreak started with a leak from a lab in that that in contradiction to the united states' own intelligence community says that assertion is far from certain have you seen anything that gives you high confidence that it originated in that will here in the lab where there's enormous surface that that's where this began train has a history of infecting the world the intelligence community concur with the white scientific consensus that the covered 19 virus was no