mikhail gorbachev rejects criticism of his leadership.ld take moscow four years to bring all its troops home. but to what kind of a country were they coming back? the soviet union had gone, russia was struggling, the returning soldiers were low priority. vyacheslav had commanded a tank battalion in germany, the 16th guards division. its mission, he says, was to defend the motherland and moscow‘s allies in eastern europe. they were an elite unit, but there was nothing elite about the conditions to which they returned. there were no facilities, there was no accommodation, nowhere for their families to live. it was almost as if they‘d been forgotten. you know i think that in many ways, vyacheslav‘s story encapsulates what happened to his country after 1989. the soviet union, this giant superpower, suddenly found itself dumped on the sidelines of history. and as a result, russia felt abandoned, it felt lost and it felt humiliated. perhaps if the end of the cold war had brought instant prosperity to people here, then maybe this loss of status,

but you take a closer look at this with dr mikhail.neurobiologist at the university of medan in italy is also researching possible links between tobacco and covered 19 treatments welcome to the doubling what do you think of this french study. i think that the neurological evidence concerning smoking. will delimitation. if you're going to cover evidence is rather strong. friendship in the knowledge needed research that showed a rather low incidence of percentage of smokers in could maintain patients but if you look back to other studies you find that everywhere in the world smokers are not many in among the patients. i say i do think. and you think it makes sense to us to begin this sort of investigation with nic a tame as a potential lifesaver rather than any of the other cocktail of chemicals that are ingested when people smoke. it's a reasonable guess because nicotine there are a lot of compounds in smoke there are something like 5000 compounds in his mug but among them and the contin is certainly active he's in high concentration an

now a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world russia's prime minister mikhail was just and has tested positive for the coronavirus state media say the 54 year old will now enter self isolation the 1st deputy prime minister and rebellious of will be his temporary stand it. in libya's civil war rebel leader has announced a ceasefire for the muslim holy month of ramadan the statement follows international calls for a truce but the country's internationally recognized government says its forces will can fight ing citing a lack of trust in upholding the proposal. to the u.s. now where more than a moment 2 dozen states are moving ahead with plans to relax coronavirus restrictions and reopen their economies federal social distancing guidelines to cub the spread of the virus expire at midnight local time on thursday and are not being extended speaking at the white house president again spoke of the need to restart the economy despite warnings from infectious disease experts or possible resurgence of the outbreak. but at the same time we have to get our country open aga

the city which is a very high number even for moscow and the fact that the russian prime minister mikhail new shoes didn't tested positive for the virus was shocking news that could be a wake up call for some people here. that was g.w. moscow correspondent. now for a brief look at some other stories making headlines around the world greece is moving hundreds of migrants out of the net tory asli overcrowded morea refugee camp on the island of lesbos the refugees will be transported to the mainland because of the danger of a corona virus outbreak on the island. british prime minister boris johnson has been giving more details of his covert 1000 or dia he says he became so ill doctors were getting ready to announce his death johnson spent 3 nights in an intensive care in london before recover and. germany's cologne cathedral has held its 1st sunday service since the start of the lock down the number of worshippers was limited by social distancing regulations a safety screen a separate at the cardinal from the congregation. students in israel are returning to school after 50 days at home unde

present it next week so more money potentially available but as you know is chief political editor mikhail kushner tells us it won't be a handout. well they want to put those 500000000000 euros extra on the table but that comes with some terms attached i've got the paper here they want to see europe a much stronger from this crisis now and arguably everybody does want to see their own country emerge stronger but also the whole question of whether that could lead to more responsibility shifting towards brussels is a debate they want to have notably the whole euro bond debate is off the table certainly that particular what many in france have been on the opposite end of that debate for a long time now they demonstrate unity and the willingness particularly of germany to put more money on the table because after all 27 percent of everything that's decided upon within the e.u. budget would be. let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world members of the extremist group boko haram have killed at least 20 people in a village in northeastern nigeria eyewitnesses said the is

let's get some perspective on the story now we can speak to dr mikhail is only he's a neurobiologist at the university of montana in italy doctors only thank you for joining us i want to get your take on this because you are also currently a looking at any possible links between tobacco and the treatment of covert 19 so what do you make of this french study. i think that certainly the. wrong the word is rather interesting in fact. we should expect that smokers are in a higher percentage than most smokers in the population of people of. theirs i would say certainly because there are many studies about this they're less than what the suspected so there is a racial basis to think that something is more king could be cookin can exert some kind of protection against the infection then it is certainly true what they heard just a few minutes ago that the smoking is very bad and that there's more who who has the disease can have less chance to survive so that's another point all right so there is some conflicting information out there but we do know that the world health organization is sayi

russia's prime minister mikhail mishustin has tested positive for coronavirus.quarantine. president putin has appointed an interim prime minister to deputise for him. russia has so far recorded almost 107,000 cases, with just over 1,000 deaths linked to the covid—19. us airline delta says it will require passengers to wear face coverings on us flights from monday. young children will be exempted. other major airlines like united and american are providing masks to travelers, but not requiring their use. amazon says its profits for the first three months of this year plunged by 29% compared to 2019, despite a surge in revenue. while more people have turned to online shopping and entertainment during the pandemic, the company says it is spending more on hiring, wages and safety measures for employees. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, has said that the uk has passed the peak of the coronavirus outbreak. but those hoping for an early easing of a nationwide lockdown will have been disappointed. mrjohnson was speaking at his first downing street daily briefin

russia's prime minister, mikhail mishustin, has tested positive for coronavirus.arantine. president putin has appointed an interim prime minister to deputise for him. russia has so far recorded almost 107,000 cases, with just over 1,000 deaths linked to the covid—19. the eurozone's economy shrank at its fastest pace on record in the first quarter, due to the covid—19 outbreak. gdp contracted 3.8% from january to march. that's even worse than during the financial crisis. separate data showed a steep fall in economic activity in france and spain over the same period. amazon says its profits for the first three months of this year plunged by 29% compared to 2019, despite a surge in revenue. while more people have turned to online shopping and entertainment during the pandemic, the company says it is spending more on hiring, wages and safety measures for employees. us airline delta says it will require passengers to wear face coverings on us flights from monday. young children will be exempted. other major airlines like united and american are providing masks to trave

it's an agreement signed and initially by ronald reagan and mikhail gorbachev to allow on surveillance flights over that two countries to promote trust and peace. trump is not saying the us copper made part of the treaty subject to repeated violations by the russians return denied violating open skies. to technical issues what began as a bilateral accord now has some thirtyty five countries signed out. it't's a troubling history this latest move to pull the us out of a major global treaty. u. s. dollars to set stroll might not have. kind of a good. study has more i in washington. thank you says event or- has approved. our members stayay frm over certain areas of. the russian and terror treat including at the e exclave of kaliningrad which is located between. p poland and the baltic states do it is at the land mass the russian land mass closest. to europe and that's something and that and the americans are not too happy about that russia also are preventing some points over certain areas at certain moments saying that the military exercises. so they didn't want to add any member state f

herbert walker bush jim baker in the secretary of state in the president himself that they had with mikhail gorbachev president of the soviet union and where sharon i.z. the foreign minister about you know how to reunify germany and how to get the soviet union out of the east. sure in other countries guarantees were made about nato not expanding. security baker said you know nato is in the post cold war and are more of a political institution than a military institution but somehow the united states lost track of the asian nato today is very much more a military institution and a political institution when you say military institution to confront who'll if we say you don't want to have a problem with russia if you want to peacefully co-exist then why do you have a military alliance whose sole option is to control and russia nato is time is long past and it's time for europe to us we got a better way to spend you know its defense money being part of the of in order to have an alliance who dates back to the late 1940 and reach early 1952 when the world was a completely different place as no r

russia's prime minister says he's putting himself into isolation after testing positive mikhail misha sin is the highest ranking politician there to be diagnosed is deputy will take his place for the time being russia has so far recorded more than 100000 cases and in excess of 1000 deaths. wealth already has in the chinese capital beijing have eased travel restrictions in time for the labor day weekend which could see millions travel for short holidays one of the city's most famous landmarks has reopened its doors off to being shut for 3 months because of lockdown measures the forbidden city which houses an imperial palace used by various industries will only allow up to $5000.00 businesses every day. a funeral home is being investigated in new york after the discovery on wednesday of dozens of bodies in an refrigerated trucks the owner says he had no option but to store bodies on ice in the rented vehicles because he ran out of room the discovery in the area of brooklyn was made after neighbors reported a smell coming from the vehicles it's unclear how many of the people there died f

says among those new cases of course was russia's prime minister mikhail much just been there now he was ill and going into self isolation last week the latest case blood human you have question of the construction and housing minister alongside his deputy they've also now tested positive and they're seeking treatment in hospital so what comes next the maid a bank holidays of course now if the weather was not so dull and radiant right most people would be out about celebrating going to the countryside going to parks officials have said no such thing this year in fact they've been very clear that if people choose to flout. lockdown rules to get out of about to run but this is by social distancing that will lead to a strengthening of quarantine measures on restrictions rather than an easing which of course is what most people here want to see and what's been happening slowly step by step in some european countries so despite some positives in times of us we say around pick up such thing lower mortality keeping things relatively under control we all still far from seeing a plot so that

this comes as russian prime minister mikhail mishustin, who had been appointed by president vladimirutin to lead the response to the virus, has been diagnosed with covid-19 and is self-isolating. two other cabinet members have also tested positive for the virus. on wednesday, president vladimir putin said russia should not rush to lift coronavirus-related restrictions. >> preventative measures need to be preserved or expanded. somewhere it is possible to plan a reasonable lifting, but only based on the opinion of scientiststs and specialalists e taking into account all facactos and popossible risks. i ememphasize we must not rush o lift coronavirus-related restrictions. any negligence or haste can result into a breakdown or step backward. she price of the mistake is a the safety lies in the health of our pepeople. amy: putinin's apprproval ratins dropped to 59%, the lowest it's been i in 20 years. for more, we go to moscow, where we're joined by joshua yaffa. he's the new yorker's moscow correspondent and the author of "between two fires: truth, ambition, and compromise in putin's ru

russia's prime minister mikhail mishustin is also recovering from covid-19. president putin announced monday a phased relaxing of restrictions, even as the country is experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases, and has the second highest number of confirmed cases behind the u.s. in spain, health workers at two hospitals in barcelona held protests tuesday demanding better working conditions. many of them held signs that read #rightsinapplause and "we aren't heroes." this is pediatric nurse paula cano. >> it is only now that we are heroes because it is covid-19. is it like that. we are heroes every day of the year. we face every single virus that exists in the world. but from the outside, that cannot be seen. we continue to carry out the same job day by day, year byby year. amy:y: in bangladesh, garment factories have reopened despite nationwide remain-at-home orders, with workers reporting minimal protections and no enforcement of physical distancing measures. this comes as bangladeshi suppliers say some of the biggest retailers in the fashion industry -- inclu

the mayor want that up to one in 50 residents could be infected affecting even the prime minister mikhail me shooting who announced that he tested positive for coverage 192 days ago . the country has been in lockdown for 5 weeks yet the infections continue to grow exponentially the worst may yet come so any diagonal al-jazeera. the number of coronavirus deaths in the u.k. looks set to overtake italy soon as the worst. news barker explains the death toll edging up in the past 24 hours news of $620.00 or more deaths bringing the total death toll to $28131.00 that's only several 100 behind it's really the worst affected country in europe and despite the fact that the u.k. was several weeks behind the infection spreading widely here in the u.k. 2 weeks several weeks. so the u.k. could have used some people say to prepare in a much more organized way it's reached its targets of carrying out 100000 tests a day. however some don't cause some dispersion as to whether or not those figures are actually accurate accusing the government of inflating the figures given that some test was simply posted

arsenal boss michael mikhail arteta says at that risk restarting football in england should not be brushed expanded himself successfully recovered from the corner virus he was the 1st reported positive case in the english premier league while players recently started training again individually at a team training ground. a caution about resuming matches any time soon jane online chat with gunners legend the right. to know how this thing is going to get to a date it really is and everybody. knows. you know you will be very soon in the protocol. when we get olympics there. we cannot rush it you know we have a. place. to sleep. we have that so we just have to be ready when everybody said go out. and get. teams in brazil including international back in training despite a growing numbers of koran a virus cases in the country and nearly 8000 deaths players arrived wearing their training kits and went straight to a tented to undertake covert 19 testing president gerald made no secret of his wish for the game to return sooner rather than later arguing that players are less likely to die from the v

they are still planning to host this season's champions league final in istanbul arsenal boss that mikhailarteta says that restarting football in england should not be a rushed the spaniard himself successfully recovered from the coronavirus he was the 1st reported positive case in the english premier league and while e.p.l. players recently started training again individually acting training grounds are said to urge caution about resuming matches any time soon during an online chat with the gunners legend in right. on the scene is when they get to a date they please everybody. you know you will be very soon in the protocol. stage where we don't know makes 0 minutes. we cannot write you know we are playing we should learn to play sports. we have that ability so we just have to be ready when everybody said go ahead. and get on teams and brazil include internationale back in training despite growing numbers of corner virus cases in the country and nearly 8000 deaths while players arrived wearing their training kits and went straight to the tent to undertake over 1000 testing president bush a

mikhail varshavski, aka, dr. mike. what did you make of what dr. fauci was saying yesterday?e: good morning, dagen, i think dr. fauci speaks confidentfully and and i like he's taking optimistic tone. everyone wants to have successful vaccine so we can return back to normal as soon and as quickly as possible. if we have vaccines that are available late fall, maybe even early 2021, i think that's going to make the process a lot easier because what the vaccines do is they bring up immune system to a level where it's prepared to deal with covid-19 where we do not see devastating strain so far. dagen: businesses are beginning to reopen like requiring face mask and installing plaxyglass. >> i took my dog to the vet, you approached the door, you call, they come out and take information while they are wearing masks and they take the dog, you don't want into their facility at all and the doctor calls you while you're with your puppy, they allow you to walk back out and then you get your dog. it's about decreasing the possible risk of transmission and, dagen, i will tell you the most c

mikhail varshavski, aka dr. mike, great to see you, dr. mike, thank you for being here.us about the updated symptoms that we need to be aware of. mike: good morning, maria, good to see you. with covid-19 what we are seeing in severely ill patients, that's the most important caveats that we had here, the overwhelming majority of people will recover from covid-19 and will have rather straightforward symptoms if any symptoms at all but what makes us takes the virus seriously is there's situations where the virus start acting outside of the lungs, first when the virus is quite severe and second is when the body's own immune system start overreacting into the body and creates inflammation cascade where you essentially have too much inflammation and exaggerated response and it actually harms other organs in the body like liver, brain, kidneys as well as others and the final one is a medication side effect, there's plenty of medications we are give to go patients from hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, antiinflammatory medications, it's possible that patients can have side effects

russia's prime minister mikhail issues than has tested positive for the coronavirus state media say the 54 year old will now enter self isolation 1st deputy prime minister and rebellious of it will be his temporary stand in. this is the news from berlin you can follow us on twitter at news of visit our website d w dot com. april has been a horrible month for the world the coronavirus pandemic peaked in many places but not before claiming tens of thousands of lives as we bid good riddance to april many places are flattening the curb and lifting lockdowns and there may be a new treatment from an old drug tonight predictions for me there will be no banks seem probably no cure and we will need just as much patience as ever before brylin this is the day. of the few desirous in our country it will be here for months. to see if we have succeeded in putting the brakes on the spread of the fibers and that has to be our main focus. who puts you in the reproductive rate is estimated at 0.76 this means that according to these calculations on average one infected person now infects less.