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To accept an arms embargo thats about to expire while other nations join us or can we see a diplomatic war all right so tight its time to boost your new i. Q. 10 years to unfold with cases now topping 3700000 with 260000 reported deaths now here in the u. S. There is more than 1000000 cases 71000 deaths as the number of infections are decreasing in some states others havent reached their peak yet still more than half of the country is easing up on restrictions now but what does that mean for the Coronavirus Task force especially since theres still no vaccine well to answer these questions heres arties eternity. Just one day after President Trump said the Coronavirus Task force would be phased out today hes striking a different tune saying the task force will remain in place but rather shift its focus to reopening indeed come to me that i think next year. I think were going to one of the best years weve ever had this as rick wright a government scientist takes aim at the president in a whistleblower complaint filed tuesday alleging the trumpet ministration ignored his dire warnings about coded 19 and was demoted for resisting a malaria drug trump was pushing despite little evidence that it actually helped keep it constant keep it consistent with the process transparence we can bring innovation to the table and with more than half the country starting to ease restrictions many are still seeing an increase of cases the state of georgia reopening nonessential businesses despite new concerns were all areas in that state could soon see coronavirus hotspots the virus robbing Desmond Tolbert of georgia residents of both his parents within 48 hours the group you care. About today. New jersey also seeing a rise in cases up nearly 1200 bringing the new total of confirmed infections to more than 131000 and while hard hit new york plans to reopen regions and phases as it comes down the curve hospitals are still seeing more than 600 new cases of covert 19 a day the death toll slightly up from 230 a day earlier to 232 in the virus continues to take a vicious toll on the citys Nursing Homes new data revealing as of may 3rd more than 4800 people have died from co but 19 in Nursing Homes the governor now investigating all Long Term Care facilities in the state to ensure they are following state regulations and as the virus rages on new york city the epicenter of the outbreak struggling to manage the citys Homeless Population only still out hundreds seeking shelter in subway cars amid the outbreak to this guy. But now for the 1st time ever officials are shutting down all city trains overnight for deep cleaning meantime of fish. So say they are moving the citys homeless to designated hotels while the n. Y. P. D. Has assigned more than a 1000 officers to secure many of the 472 transit stations reporting in new york Trinity Chavez r. T. So as the pandemic puts a strain on air travel some homeless in the Los Angeles Area theyre taking advantage of the less crowded airport or to correspondent atocha sweet has the details from l. A. X. One of the busiest airports in the country is nearly empty as flights are limited with travel restrictions in place some argue life in l. A. X. As a place to call home for at the time being as airports like l. A. X. U. S. Travelers in los angeles theyre now seen more homeless and some say they believe the emptier airports are safe place to be right now making it easier to social distance then on the streets according to l. A. X. Police over the last 3 months theyve counted 121. 00 Homeless People at l. A. X. However Officials Say theyre seeing a downward trend only county 94. 00 at the end of april an airport spokesman believes the Police Crisis Intervention Team has helped to bring that number down there working to help guide those experiencing homelessness or Mental Illness to organizations with Available Services Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti says he also wants to ensure those without a home are getting tested for covert 19 im proud to announce our city will surge a deployment of street medical teams to help fight covert 19 among angelenos who are experiencing homelessness well send out field teams to provide rapid results field tests for people showing Symptoms Health and welfare screenings and high density encampments and in the same way new yorkers are seen Homeless People seeking shelter in city subways the homeless here in los angeles are turning to other forms of transportation for safety. Or security serious moksha. Fire range of their. So you see these lines. Well. You see the stores in the shelter. So right now subway trains are being disinfected once every 72 hours but now warren says as of may 6th the cars will be cleaned every 24 hours while the system is closed essential workers will be provided alternative transportation by way of buses and vans the m. T. A. Are issuing new guidelines for subway riders person is allowed to remain in the station for more than one hour and no one is permitted to remain on a train after it has been taken out of service now airport Officials Say there are still rules here at l. A. X. Even though its not business as usual if people are caught here when an airport is closed they could receive a citation reporting that eliots untouched suites r t. 75 years ago today the 2nd world war came to an end in europe with germanys surrender while it was a day to celebrate it also show the reality that more than 400000 americans lost their lives and werent coming home lester is often shown through the lens it was written thats where you hear that phrase his story well after world war 2 and American History books this was the moment that the u. S. Was officially seen as a global superpower and it was the u. S. That helped the world win this war but is that actually correct well talk more about this i am joined by the host of politicking Larry King Larry its my 1st time meeting you virtually its an honor to talk to you today now larry 1st things 1st of all i know how thrilled you must be i really am you know i am thrilled because you and i actually share the same birthday now then i wasnt even a thought in my grandmothers mind when this was going on back in 1905 but you were actually 12 years old when this big surrender was announced do you remember that they had all. Oh i do yeah now it was a big day but it wasnt the end the war because we had another year in the pacific is suzi end of the war in europe and i was a tremendous down member of how happy everyone was and we were gathering on the streets but it got bigger a year later when the japanese surrendered but this was the german surrender we made it unconditional that is there were no conditions to their period they had to surrender on this date and as you said 400000 died yeah and there is a lot of the American History books though that are necessarily correct what did america get right and what did america get wrong in terms of world war 2 larry what we got right about i thought we were right in. Absolutely right going to war i thought the a bomb im still not the a bomb ended the world war 2 completely in the following year im still not sure whether it was right to use it world war 2 could not have been won without the russians russians came from the the americans came from the west and hitler made an incredible mistake he turned away from he was bombing london daily stub doorknob and turned to the russian front and thats stalin grotty got wiped out and russia won that war for us we we could not have run it without russia russians in one or the us it was combined of the 22. 00 countries russia and the United States ended that war in europe and you know you actually just brought my point my next point up there and i know many are going to say this because this is r t but you know the americans like i have mentioned they did lose almost 40900000 man russia actually lost 24000000 people both civilian and military deaths like you just mentioned russia we could not have won this war without them that is. That why do you think that they dont get a lot if not most of the credit for helping the United States get help when really cause the cause of the cold war occurred almost right after that and we. Churchill was the one who turned to the cold war and he said that we now have empire we were fighting the communists and once churchill said that he made that speech in the United States. Turned into another kind of war in one shooting war and as that we were tended in america to not give the russians credit when obviously in retrospect world war 2 could not have ended without the russians and. We should all be thankful that the way those people held up my cousin served in world war 2 and he met up with Many Russians in germany at the end that are war and we were very thankful to have them and they were thankful to have us coming from a wish for could not have been one as you point out without both countries russia and the United States defeating germany and you know Larry Summers story and they say that the u. S. After world war 2 you know the u. S. We were actually looked at seriously as a global superpower that at the time you also again as we mentioned you had russia that was 12 so after these 2 countries are fighting on the same side of the war now having hostilities towards each other how does that happen and why did how does this change the history. In changed we was our fight against communism communism was our next mortal enemy patton or or the American General he wanted to go right through to russia after we got into germany he wanted to take on the russians in in battle which would have been insane looking back at it but it was all communism versus capitalism tom ism became americas enemy and the rest is history it took a long while for that cold war to end some people think its still going on. Now larry when it comes to the master interviewer you are considered the go which is why im excited to talk to you the greatest of all time and youve interviewed hundreds of people are there any interviews that stand out to you that you know kind of are related to world war 2 any memory or monumental answer that you encountered about it what can what can you tell us oh ive done ive done many many interviews with members of the American Government interviewed russians. I was very fortunate to be placed in a position of having the opportunity i guess ive interviewed. All of us people guess of it a 1000000 ive been doing it 63 years so the memories dont pop up to quickly but i interviewed many of the world war 2 generals at the end and then they went on to fight in korea. You know it seems weve never stopped fighting. It was a sad sad day that war ever was and i still have never figured something out why do people kill each other while war makes no sense war is insanity. Yet we keep on keepin on we just told you a war somewhere. Now we have a war against a virus. Which is a worldwide war in which we better shot up with our and our allies shot a whole world yeah yeah but youre absolutely right larry i couldnt have said it better myself to my new Birthday Party buddy larry king thank you so much for coming on and talking to us see you next time youll remember jeanne. Thanks larry. Other headlines making news around the world kenya is now calling for an investigation after a plane carrying medical supplies crashed in somalia killing all 6 people on board now a somali official assert that the aircraft was shot down based on a report that a projectile was fired from the ground and hit the plane as it approached the airstrip that airstrip is a base for the Ethiopian Military under the multinational African Union mission combating al shabaab over to russia president Vladimir Putin is chairing an on line meeting with top officials to ease lockdown measures in the country but do so with caution putin said that the restrictions should be lifted gradually to avoid another wave of infections the nation wide self isolation is due to end formally on may 11th. Iran vows a crushing response of a u. S. Led campaign to extend a u. N. Arms embargo is approved by the Security Council can iran count on russia and china were going to discuss that with our guests and later over in the sports h. Q. Regina hamm has some big news about one of the greatest hockey players ever to hit the ice youre not going to want to miss it were back into. The underlying narrative some call it a myth of American Foreign policy is the countrys exceptional position on the world stage this is the artist in consensus no longer the reality is very different the Global Pandemic has demonstrated the u. S. Should focus on its own exceptional. The world is. Shaped by. Thinks. We dare to ask. I. Know its an obvious right that side by iranian president Hassan Rouhani when talking about lifting a United Nations arms embargo on to run later this year however the United States wants and plans to extend that embargo to which ronnie threatened a quote crushing response so for more on this and all thats going on we welcome investigative journalist Gareth Porter garrett thanks so much for joining us now last month secretary of state mike pump aoe started this process to extend this arms embargo that is set to end this coming october so why all of this reaction today and now why. Well i think its because the United States has been taking the initiative politically to raise this issue and make it a propaganda theme. Primarily because its the United States this really pushing this theres really nobody else in the world who is it is eager to take this message up its part of the propaganda theme of that the Trump Administration has been sounding ever since my own pail became secretary of state and its really aimed at portraying iran as more or less a defeated state or defeated nation that does not have the normal International Rights and privileges of the other state in the International System i mean theyre saying that iran does not have the right to have and its own weapons of it does not have the right to defend itself this is part of a larger theme that is has been built up over the last couple of years so so its really part of a broader effort to promote the idea that iran irans government is really not long for this world that regime change is still possible this is the thing that might come pay it was very fond of of trying to get across to the world now look at the other side according to the International Atomic Energy Agency it says iran is going to run a minute lee no longer is complying with several elements of the nucular deal to which thats why the u. S. Administration believes it has a case to make that the embargo should not be lifted what say you. Well the iranians have every right to pull back from full compliance with the joint deal that the joint the j. C. B. Away if you will because the United States had promised as part of that deal which was absolutely central to the deal that it would in fact and all of the sanctions economic sanctions against iran that had to do with this Nuclear Program and of course now the Trump Administration has torn up that part of the deal and is acting as though there is no agreement that that would would cause iran to be able to to have its full full exercise of its economic rights in the world system and so you know under International Law there is no question that iran has the right to to selectively withdraw from parts of the agreement and thats exactly what theyve done however theyve made it clear as i think most of your listeners or all of them are aware they made it very clear that they are ready to negotiate. A a return of fully to their responsibilities under the j. C. V. O. A. If the United States goes back and agrees to carry out its fundamental commitments under that agreement now here at the u. S. Is trying to muster up any allies that it can obviously to get on the bandwagon of extending these embargoes do we know who strong with on iran. Well i can tell you who is really opposed to it i think the europeans dont dont want to have anything to do with a with an arms embargo against iran i think that you know perhaps the british might be willing to go along with us on this but definitely russia is not going to support it china is not going to support it its clear that they believe that when this embargo and is in october under the u. N. Security Council Resolution of 2015 that iran will have full rights to have to to be able to trade with other countries and get armaments as well i might add as to the to export armaments to its own l. O. s and by the way this has been part of the u. N. Supposedly this been part of the u. N. Security Council Resolution that its not supposed to be able to export but of course Everybody Knows that iran has been doing it and thats been a dead letter from the very beginning and you know you mentioned the u. N. Security council to piggyback off of that they actually endorse the 2015 nuclear deal between tehran and world powers as we know President Donald Trump he pulled america out of the deal back in 2018 and as we saw imposed harsher sanctions on iran this decision though on to lift or not to lift it could alternately come down to that same u. N. Security council so what do you think the outcome will be gareth. I have no doubt that that this of ending of the ban on armaments. The ability of iran to buy armaments on the international in the International Arena is going to go through its not going to be reversed by the United States so theres no way they can do that the Security Council is going to have to be unanimous in order to restore that and its impossible that that could happen i mean so so the United States is again i would just emphasize that this is part of the propaganda offensive more than anything else and this of course just just to recall a little bit of history thats extremely important the United States has been carrying out its own arms embargo and getting others to join them arms embargo against iran since iran was created back in 1079 as soon as the iran iraq war began u. S. Imposed. All right well Gareth Porter investigative journalist thanks so much for talking to us today gareth see next time. Thank you. Other news making headlines today Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg was hospitalized on tuesday with an infection caused by a goal stone despite that the 4 time cancer survivor remains active with her duties joining her fellow justices by phone and from her hospital bed to take part in Court Arguments now the 87 year old justice was even heard on the day that she was hospitalized taking part in a case related to using tax funds to fight aids around the world over to texas regulators there are now relaxing rules when it comes to companies storing oil underground now environmentalist groups immediately raised concern about these new rules pointing to potential groundwater contamination and other dangers up until this point companies could only store oil underground insult caverns because it was seen as the best option for preventing leaks now with the new rules other geological formations will now be legal to use to look at this incredible scene in this massive wall of dust you see right there that was suspended in the air above its capital city turning the sky into a crimson blood red eye experts say that the static sandstorm is actually the result of a weather phenomenon called colima that originates from the Sahara Desert no major disruptions were reported and we had over now to regina sitting in our sports h. Q. Regina most hockey fans can name 5 of the best players in the game and now one get actually gets the chance to shine brighter in the spotlight and im sure between the 2 of us you and i could probably name about 30 but some of those names bobby or Alexander Ovechkin gordie howe and bobby hall all those names are key to the deep history in hockey but there is one man more synonymous is the sport and he has a chance to tell his story the greatest hockey player to ever play the game away gretzky is said to be the feature of a new documentary called the great one. As we know him he is one of 3 athletes to be highly documentary called in search of greatness former had written earlier is joined in the piece by soccer great paley and football legend jerry rice the piece asked the question what makes some of the greatest athletes better than their peers in gretzkys case thats true both on and off the ice 59 year old gretzky still holds a record the age all for most goals assists and points but when asked what separates the best from the rest the great one had some interesting thoughts take a listen most times and if we screw my god im going to the microscope the pressure of being. Able to farm set. Very well this is what it was like when i was 9 years old. Back yard or at a Community Center and thinking and dreaming of one day being in this position and they embraced it and. She better. Be of great tennis great athletes chancellors around the world are stuck in their homes with no way to practice or train however one star didnt manage a way to find his way to the courts and then found himself in a bit of hot water a. T. P. World number one you know that joke which publisher to give himself trading at the point the Romano Marbella tennis club in spain the country did relax some of the lockdown measures that were in place since march but many Athletic Clubs opted not to open till next week job which is a quarantine in the spanish coastal city and apologize for his actions spain said they do allow 7 athletes to work out by themselves but clearly as we see he was not alone on the court and speaking of great ones like joke of it and Wayne Gretzky we wish a happy 89th birthday to another great one willie mays a very big hole there you go in right there i cannot wait to see that documentary not a lot of people know that i actually started in sports before i went and crossed over to news but one of the things that i love about Wayne Gretzky is he really changed the game when he moved to the l. A. Kings i think its one of the it was the 1st e. S. P. N. 30 for 31 of the greatest ones was kings ransom if you havent seen a check it out its how he changed the game of hockey and he was really revolutionary. Awesome regina thanks so much all right well we have more news coming up for you at 7 pm military jets fly across the blue sky in america to boost morale and show support to a public hit hard by the coronavirus but is this really what americans need right now and is it the best use of taxpayer money were going to have that story and a lot more coming up tonight at 7 but thats all for now to keep up with everything in question make sure the portable t. V. s and go ahead and follow me on fair and balanced on twitter well see assume. Its. Because each of us are using google you do you think you could i mean you take you to get out of egypt and you do its a bit you can. Still see leave. The clue to someones mcgillis content isnt it you want. Them to sure i mean its the easiest and this is. Just the. Theres a long. 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