to research clinical pharmacology at the university of toronto fascinating discussion with you dr we appreciate your insights tonight thank you. and. the kobe 1000 pandemic has had a devastating effect on the global economy in the united states alone tens of millions of people have lost their jobs unemployment is at a level not seen since the great depression europe's largest economy germany has slipped into recession governments on both sides of the atlantic are spending trillions to save jobs and to resuscitate entire sectors before it's too late the damage done can be measured in lives lost and jobs axed but what about the long term risks the world economic forum has just released a study looking at a post pandemic world the pitfalls and opportunities the report lists the 10 most likely falwell's now the top 3 include a prolonged global recession followed by a surge in vague rhapsodies of small the middle sized businesses and the failure of entire sectors to ever fully recover interestingly enough at the bottom of the top 10 the least likely of the most likely is a 2nd outbreak of

professor diana fu from the department of political science at the university of toronto is an expertelegation from the national committee on us—china relations. good to you, thanks very much for that being with us. how bad do you think this law will be for hong kong in the eyes of hong kong pro—democracy activists? yeah, i think that this security law is very, very bad news for hong kong as who ca re bad news for hong kong as who care about political and civil liberties. beijing is essentially declaring that it will define which activities are considered subversive, which activities are considered secessionist, and not the hong kong people and not the hong kong people and not the hong kong government. beijing does not deal very lightly with those in charges with subversion. the mainland china activists charged with subversion are often given long jail sentences. this is a warning for hong kong protesters who could potentially be charged with subversion under state power. carry on, what is the beijing side? i think for beige income of this law is in direct response to months long pro—

researcher for the citizen lab we are a cybersecurity and human rights research lab based at the university of toronto in trying to canada. great to have you all of the you get i'm going to start with and how does your online show called start here they looked at civil institute in this era of a global pandemic and wondered how far east see far in terms of invasion of privacy so i'm going to hand over to saundra if our men and the media and what is out to help us track of it 98 quantify covert 19 there's an app for that crucial recognition g.p.s. glue to make it easy. cameras and drones keeping honest to this is a kind of mortar should be very surveillance is really spreading to everything working it's all about tracking people to contain the spread but some want to know who's policing the police. does jhana as adults in terms of technology and what's possible what if you see what is exciting for. yes from my standpoint looking at it from the public health response is missing when we talk about contact tracing the role for technology could be very big in that now i'll preface by just saying that priva

engineers at the university of toronto designed the device which attaches to a fingertip probe.a wi—fi. 60 more satellites were launched into orbit by elon musk‘s spacex starlink mission, joining 360 that are already up. spacex says it will eventually have 12,000 satellite in space with the aim of providing global internet coverage. and finally it was the 50th anniversary of earth day this week, with celebrations taking place mainly online. the european space agency beamed a powerful message of human unity from stephen hawking out across the planet. when we see the earth from space we see ourselves as a whole. ok, school is back and that means for parents at home, we have to start helping our children with their lessons. the bbc‘s bitesize has had a huge upgrade. sometimes you have to work it out in your head. it has hundreds of bits of interactive content, following the national curriculum for both primary and secondary students. also there is the oak national academy, which is backed by the government here in the uk, and that's designed by teachers and provides video lessons,

researchers at university of toronto saying summer will not make this go away. know that. more public health interventions areas had in place the bigger impact on slowing the epidemic growth. here to discuss fox news medical contributor, author of, make america healthy again, dr. nicole saphier thank you very much. thank you for being here. we heard a lot about tests. how definitive is this? because early on the assumption was, hey, heat, sunlight, warm weather will be good. what do you say? >> well you know traditionally, historically talking about a respiratory virus you do see, seem to see a slowing of the spread. you have hotter more humid months. this global survey reported in the canadian jama, actually when it came to the novel coronavirus, temperature, latitude did not have direct effect on the epidemiological growth of the virus or spread of it but what they were showing there was a direct relationship with the social distancing measures which i'll be honest, we kind of already knew that. we've seen that here in the united states. all the stay at home m

really is it sounds just close enough to toronto to a big city region feel if you're completely out of the mix. but you know very granola veterinary university there that's that's wonderful affirming university and good people a lot of artists a lot of musicians and one's great it's nice both in toronto a lot of butter tarts love love for my butler leonard right there. the phrase i'm glad i don't have any on this current scene but i would be overdoing those yet devoured i mean. this is so you know i've been talking to people lately about the corn gene and i think you know what everybody knows the travails we're facing now and god god knows my travails are not anything compared to the poor people who are truly afflicted by this wish them well i say my prayers some of them you know for not predisposed to prayers but i do think about the human suffering but i also think at some point i need to talk to people once a month something else because it is it is an onerous cloud over him and he said right now you will get 0. you know doing ok obviously it was 6 weeks ago it was terrifying you know and for many people even today it's terrifying and i t

we can talk now to university of east anglia's climate change science professor, corrine le quere, who leads that research, and from toronto david miller, who is now director of international diplomacy at the c40 cities, a global coalition of mayors promoting climate action. what was that drop? not by itself. but the way people now go back to work and the government putting on their economic stimulus package, this could make a big difference. which pandemic policies should city's keep? first we have a concern about the pandemic. but thinking about the pandemic. but thinking about how to recover from the pandemic they are looking at policies that will address an economic recovery and also a health recovery in a low carpal way. a numberof recovery in a low carpal way. a number of cities have surplus roads in favour of active transportation, cycling and pedestrian sensitive cars. we are seeing cities like london making public transport safe. and a numberof london making public transport safe. and a number of cities working on issues of housing including ways to make our buildings more energy efficient making better buildings,