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Other thanks for joining us here with your global news update this is r. T. Starting with the latest figures on the covert 900 pandemic over 2200000 cases have now been registered will wide and 147000 lives have been lost the United States has the highest death toll followed by italy and spain and so far almost 560000 people have recovered from the virus globally. Russia has seen a sharp rise in coronavirus cases with 4000. 00 defections register over the past 24 hours and brings the total in the country 232273 faith tallaght the president has postponed the annual victory parade on red square due to take place on may 9th this years event would have marked 75 years since the defeat of nazi germany and speaking late on thursday night in a pigeon said the pandemic has made preparations simply impossible. Were now facing a tough choice the 9th of may is a special day for us but the life of every Single Person is priceless to hold the parade on the 9th of may we need to start rehearsals now but the risks posed by the epidemic as well as its peak which we have imposed yet still high thats why i cannot stop the rehearsals for the parade under the public gatherings. The president went on to say that the parade will go ahead later on in the year its been an annual event in moscow since 995. 00 attended by World Leaders and the trends of the war and since 2012 russia and many other countries have held immortal regiment commemorations on the same day 30 on are their relatives who fought in the war on t. Senior correspondent ryan goes the of looks at the importance of the event. The 75th anniversary of hitlers defeat the destruction of the nazi a bomb a nation at the price of tens of millions of lives a few short months ago the very idea of pursuing commemorations the parade the march of the immortal regiment would have been unthinkable to so Many Russians this is the biggest day of the year a tribute to the courage and sacrifice of the generation that stopped hitler and for which they are ordered every year. The Diamond Jubilee this years parade and commemorations would to be truly grand leaders from all over the world had been invited it was a global sacrifice in part the scale of the commemorations is supposed to remind us all of how many were lost a catastrophe never to be repeated most russians have a relative a grandmother or grandfather who died in that war yet through their children every year they march again in victory. Veterans to the precious few left those who remember the horus and agony of the 2nd world war this was supposed to be their day the indians to the still we were waiting for liberation hope saved us we kept holding on to the end my clearest memories are from when the soviet army came to liberate says it was very moving we never. Thought wed survive but life is life the pandemic caught us all off god thats rins groups were among those that came out and cooled for the paraded commemorations to be pursued as it became clear the infection wouldnt spare russia reason conscious prevailed the parade will still happen when it save the heroes of the greatest generation will still be on a 9th of may there are already plenty of ideas from online immortal regiment marches to shoes but for now and for the 1st time in a quarter of a century the stands on the red square will remain empty and the veterans will stay at home at home but on and in the hearts and minds of the world we heard from journalist neil clark and distort in mike jones about the significance of postponing the parade. Just at the anniversary this was extremely important 75th anniversary of the great victory in world war 2 and its had the perspective which is very very sad indeed because i think that this was an event that would have people together not just people in russia but around the world to mark this commemoration and it just shows you whats happening in 2020 it seems that weve had a whole list of events now weve lost weve lost the european football championships the last major sporting events and now weve lost this so i think its very sad that its not just about the spread of the pond dam a consortium about the risks to the participants on the program particularly the overly voxer and im down it would be it were big hurry through to perth that turns who survived the most corrosion of fighting in world war 2 in the pariah so i think it reflects. Upon them a bit to do with her marks how much russia and russia of god church the lies the surviving draft terms of the great country under one. Prince has europes 3rd highest death toll from covert 90 now standing at almost 18000 but the number of new delhi cases thats been in decline for several days president micron is even calling for schools to reopen my midnight however teachers think that the move is premature good report. Schools could start to reopen from may 11th that was the announcement from president might call prompting a wave of criticism not just from teachers but doctors too this choice reveals an absolute lack of logic it is very difficult in a School Environment to enforce social distancing measures and now the 1st environment that the president wants to reopen is the School Environment how does it no longer carry the same risks. Well the federation of french doctors says its worried the target date could generate an unnecessary risk and is premature children do not necessarily follow instructions they will naturally play together and risk bringing the virus home that criticism seems shock but perhaps given that almost in the same breath mark or announce that restaurants bars cinemas and museums would not be reopening until further notice thats left some teachers groups reeling. Who are we going to return with Young Children and adults packing the small classrooms 20 square metres maximum the School Cafeteria is a crammed with 500 people inside its completely incoherent to leave bars and restaurants closed because of 20 people here at the same time open a school with some 5021500 students one of macro given reasons for reopening schools gradually was to fight against social inequality or dont fall in that amount only too many children notably in poor areas in the countryside are deprived of School Without access to digital tools. Since schools closed in march teachers have few educating their students online there have been Public Television Services Broadcasting lessons to the nation yet despite these new concerns from the government about students for ling behind the Education Minister genre show blanca recently it flies that they should take a break in the east of holidays for one Teaching Union there is a clearer motivation behind the return to school we have the impression that we are being hurt in the auto of the economy it seems like the school is being used to the big Childcare Service so that mom and dad can go back to work thats also the belief of the teaching collective. The red pens. This is an irresponsible decision driven by economic interests life is more Important Health is more important than the economy. The red pens also say there needs to be a concrete plan to protect not just those who work in schools but the peoples to. Get what we are waiting for is a more viable situation mass testing including immunity tests mosques in large quantities and although i wont be ready in 26. 00 days its impossible a full plan hasnt yet been formulated about how schools will reopen schools will though be disinfected and full classrooms will be out of the question thats according to frances Education Minister. But for many teachers the devil will be in the details will they get face masks how will they enforce any social distancing that still mandated and it says longer says the return will not be obligatory how can the government be sure that the most deprived students well actually come back to the classroom. Altie paris. One in 3 sailors aboard a french Aircraft Carrier have tested positive for covert 198668 people out of almost 2000 on board the shuttle de gaulle currently docked off the countrys south coast and its not the only nato ship to suffer such an outbreak. Despite the risk to sailors lies the nato secretarygeneral believes that the real danger lies elsewhere against altenburg has accused adversaries including russia of trying to exploit the pandemic security challenges have not diminished because of called with 19 on the contrary potential adversaries look to exploit the situation to further their own interests terrorist groups could be emboldened we see a continued peso Russian Military activity all were operational readiness remains diminished and our forces remain vigilant and prepared to respond to in the thirtys we spoke to a retired u. S. Air force Lieutenant Colonel who thinks that france should have learned from americas recent experience of an on board outbreak. The group that is most sickened by this is not normally the age group of soldiers or. Servicemen so you know its not that dangerous per se like in terms of life and death but in terms of our Operational Capability yet bethink because if a 3rd of your crew is sick and not functional then your ship is not functional well hed like to think that social distancing and things like that could work with those things are not going to be possible on a close quarters ship of any type i actually am surprised that the navy doesnt seem to have reacted and learned from that type of situation because we had that months ago and we can see how it was handled and also what the vulnerabilities were very much a bureaucratic response as opposed to real leadership it seems a little too little too late. U. K. Farming sector is in the grip of a staffing crisis juta the pandemic and hundreds of workers are being flown in from romania to cover the shortfall and cheer the u. K. Needs around 90000 Seasonal Workers in order to harvest his fruit and vegetables the sector has received only 5 and a half 1000 applications this year most of them coming from within the country and most of the applicants involved have no experience of farming or took hold and from the Sustainable Food staff says industry cannot function without foreign labor but the promise definitely would like. To come and indeed theyd be coming here for quite a few years. In the same way that all the Eastern European countries would also provided the workforce to harvest all vegetables if relation to what is being called essential work. There is a character. People who have specific skills. Travelling in order to undertake this exceptional work and i would argue that people. Harvesting vegetables and fruit and doing coke for work or highly skilled all but probably should be allowed to travel the best workers we ever heard of Eastern Europe and they had a fantastic work ethic and they were highly skilled and they had a really positive asked suit well there are many workers are being put to the you can charter flights the company arranging the transport to said that all passengers will have their temperatures checked and that theyll observe social distancing but there are no plans to test them for covert 19 and took hold and again says that its unlikely the farm workers will pose an infection risk. The fear should be the other way around this more likely probably for a group like. That which the United Kingdom contracting the virus the other way round the super safe once the provision for testing becomes more widely available one way of insuring against the risk of transmission between countries would be to have a positive release system where the workers were tested. Before they returned personally i would much as i said this cross at risk of transmission especially in rural areas. Unemployment in the us is at its worst level since the Great Depression however some billionaires theyre doing better than other story after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond short and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics or business im sure business ill see you there. Welcome back to the United States has recorded 34000 fatalities from cova 19 and the economic shock thats being felt nationwide a total of 22000000 job this claims have been filed as a lockdown measures were introduced but while many families have been left with absolutely no income the countrys richest man has seen his net worth skyrocket morgan explains. Jeff bezos was already the worlds richest man before the pandemic yet but with everyone staying at home he is now roughly 24000000000. 00 richer his wife has seen her net worth vastly increase as well and at this point amazon has reached an all time high and it stocks on tuesday valued at market over 1. 00 trillion 1. 01 thing weve learned from the kovac 900. 00 crisis is how important amazon has become to customize we want you to know we take this responsibility seriously and were proud of the work our teams are doing to help customers through this difficult time business is booming 75000 new employees and amazon warehouses are being hired in addition to the 100000 that were hired over the past month they are called heroes by amazon as they take a great risk of exposure in order to bring in bays owes billions. Right now the laboring the things people need has never been more important. To all of our hamazon retail heroes will continue to do everything ok and. Healthy safe and protected many say that amazon has not been working to protect its heroes the company has been slow in working to ease its paid sick leave rules and its been behind on providing personal protective equipment and social distancing on its facilities a report suggests that as many as 74 amazon employees have been infected while on the job and beginning of march i seen some ploy become sick around me in a domino effect some know what t. They were dizzy some of them in that their stations they couldnt finish fitted out with shift. There was very alarming was very scary the only been protective started april so that doesnt really help the situation i mean may help slow down but the virus started spreading already the virus been. For a few months in a country as been in these buildings for a few months and were just now starting to get p p e. Bay so mask in the glove that we needed in the beginning is this a late in the game and its already multiple cases in multiple buildings. Employees who speak up publicly about these issues are getting fired 3 more employees of had their contracts terminated instead of firing employees who want justice maybe jeff bezos the richest man in the world can focus on providing his workers with paid sick leave a safe workplace and a livable planet amazon insists its putting proper Safety Measures in place the u. S. Federal reserve seems to be concerned about the safety of amazon as well amazons shareholders that is theyve been pushing the stock price higher and higher the combined net worth of the 500. 00 richest people in the world has increased by 20 percent since its low on march 23rd in line musk bill gates Warren Buffett Mark Zuckerberg among others are the real winners of the pandemic meanwhile 22000000 americans are newly unemployed these billionaires are capitalizing on the coronavirus to capitalize in the expense of a workforce that capitalizing off human life is a life or death situation in. The way these policies are made your work or your workers on the front lines have to continue to go to work in order to pay their bills or stay home and be unpaid it is not its not right its not fair its blood money thats what i call the money thats been made by the billionaires for the entire time dependent is in this country are of even all around the globe is blood money this is greed is nothing more than just greed in the they should have been using this money to help out the medical field said aletta lead this virus spray is not provide testing for their workforce. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed severe shortages of medical supplies in some of the worlds most developed countries the lack of ventilators and musk has put thousands of lives at risk of looks at how the problem is being tackled here in russia. Artificial ventilation operad us or mechanical ventilation systems are essential when a patient reaches a critical stage still the machine requires a lot of consumables something that many hospitals around the world lack russias iraqs saddam and its subsidiaries decided to prepare for similar scenarios at home which was what is what is so why did we start to produce it a week ago there was high demand for vowels like these in europe and especially in italy when the number of patients dramatically increased im talking about patients who need mechanical ventilation apparatus private companies and its me started printing 3 d. Models of the valves we decided not to wait for such a problem in russia we have enough power reserves to produce up to 5000 to the vows there is demand to get more materials and we will be able to produce tens of thousands of them to supply many medical institutions its akin to a more than 2 hours to friend said these into or valves well before they get taken to a customer i have to do one more thing. Put them in a solution. And now they are ready to be delivered to various officers he is a mechanic all ventilation systems this 3 d. Printing lab doesnt limit themselves to producing valves for mechanical ventilation systems theyre also making other elements that are now in high demand what interested it interested me in particular were simple things for everyday life Something Like this guess what of this is for this is to press an elevator button to go like that and some other things like this one for example what do you think this is for well this is to open the door if you dont want to touch anything and of course i think this particular engineer was a little bit bored he created Something Like this means the coronavirus 3 d. Printing is one. Of many projects of russia as a result of health care a company that quickly adjusted to the current demand for some state corporation has the Cutting Edge Technology for weak safe and environmentally friendly traditional flour troyer medical supply this country recently needs at the Southern Health care we were just on it its to these issues of medical medicine is that in higher demand now last week were all stars as their decision was made to google Group Equipment for collecting storing and transporting by materials. Could be going to this Sterilization Center has always been sassed with disinfecting medical devices edible plant products and other goods as well and so they however medical masks and vials for virus transportation are the priority employees here are working in 3 shifts around the clock trucks full of crucial products for doctors fighting 19 make deliveries to this mosque or region sensor 247 the turnover is already high but here theyre ready for more significant numbers. In april out goal is to sterilize 150000 sample test kits in may 300000 kits and starting from june we want to sterilize 550000. 00 every month as for masks we can sterilize 10000000 a week but the targets are 60000000 the coronavirus reached russia much later than the rest of the world given its time to prepare and stock up its hoped that advanced knowledge and timely action will help prevent large scale fate how it sees. It one such it is that of course i hope that 3 d. Printing will hold most importantly it should benefit us we dont want to have a situation like twas in different parts of our planet where everything was produced in a hurry who. Made a call and there were one who has a similar equipment kind responded with formed a team and together were trying to speed up the process thanks very much for staying with us here and i wanted to nationals we keep you up to date on the coronavirus pandemic website r. T. Dot com as well as our social Media Channels because a lot of broadcasts coming to you from our studios here in moscow as well as washington d. C. And also in london indeed it is time now to hand over to our t u k will be here with updates for you. The stories that were told d to this point are going to seem. Instantly and were great to have a whole busy new generation of storytelling moving forward our very definition of what a hero is one of knowingness whats sessions are all of that change smoothing into the future our whole value system thats shifted and change. Greetings and sell you terry shoes. This week while talk of impeachment Reigns Supreme on our cable news airwaves and social media news feeds the trumpet ministration tighten the federal rules regarding work requirements for millions of americans currently on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or snap this move effectively leaves an estimated 688000 jobless souls living in the United States without access to discounted or free food also the u. S. Department of agriculture can save the government 5500000000 dollars over 5 years or roughly a little over a 1000000000. 00 a year meanwhile the business of politics my friends is booming the wall street journal is reporting that spending on political advertisements is projected to hit a new high in 2020 surging 3600000000 above the most recent president ial Campaign Year and how high you ask 9900000000 according to group m. The Worlds Largest Advertising Media company so a close to 700000. 00 americans will soon be without Food Assistance just to save the federal government a buck or 2 Political Parties and their gilded corporate sponsors are more than happy to waste close to 10000000000. 00 on Campaign Commercials that works out to a little over 14000. 00 per person who is now without food stamps but guess what that 9900000000. 00 might be on the low end of estimates group m. F. Global president of Business Intelligence brian weezer told the media that quote our understanding is that in the typical campaign 60 percent of funds raised may be deployed in the media spending consequently we recognize that the current political cycle could lead to higher levels of spending than we currently incorporate into our forecast that means that by tuesday nov 3rd our illustrious Political Parties could spend well over 12000000000. 00 just to get themselves elected do you really really think they spend numbers like that because they really really really really really want to be humble public servants. Not a chance and that is why my for