Donald trump insisted there was ministrations doing a great job getting the country back 6. On the member of victory in europe exactly 75 years after the defeat of nazi terror any correspondence in berlin and paris tell us how the town of verse is having to be marked differently. Hello there good evening things should come through this friday evening 8 pm now here in moscow live from martys World News Center its kevin i am with you for this 30 minute round up. Im going to start with the latest covert 1000. 00 figure is this hour as we know them sad to say were heading towards another somber milestone the number of infections globally is now close to 4000000. 00 in terms of fatalities more than 271000 people are known to have died many are also recovering from the illness though of course that figure currently stands at over 1300000 people. Here russias 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 at over 187000 the daily rate has been rising rapidly Health Officials though say there are enough beds and there are enough enter later this course putting people on ventilators is a last resort measure for doctors it means its become all but impossible for the patient to breathe unaided leaving many gravely ill in some countries different ratios up to 80 percent of patients needing ventilation do not survive here in russia that figure is 50 percent meaning one in every to lose their lives when someone does recover enough to come off until ation it can be a really emotional time for the hospital staff to have done so much along the way to care for that patient to get them to that position. Lehman brothers applies sometimes we the doctors started to cry when the managed to get a piece you know flung into the emotions are impossible to convey sometimes you have tears on your of these masks we dont hide or tears and emotions i believe there is Nothing Better than this feeling. Coming off until ation treatment is only part of the long journey back to good health a lot of patients need rehabilitation in breathing swallowing even walking one survivor told us about his recovery and what its like to have a machine to control your breathing. I was put on a ventilator in the 3rd hospital in a row i was admitted to being in intensive care already after a prolonged fever the doctors found out that my lung capacity was not enough to continue effective treatment waking up on a ventilator was a very unusual feeling as if i had been underwater i had a lot of tube sticking out of my mouth the machine was breathing for me i communicated with the medics by gestures and hand written messages on a sheet of paper it was rather inconvenient for me given that i had lost a lot of energy and even writing down simple sentences was at 1st very hard and unfamiliar but as time passed i got used to it the doctor started to understand me i gradually got used to the tubes the machine and the need to lie on my stomach almost all the time to help the ventilator work with my lungs while on the ventilator i often imagine myself being the hero of black sabbaths iron man song that character has turned into an iron idol due to time travel and he couldnt talk to anyone and warn of a coming disaster that he had to survive in the future when i was taken off the ventilator after coughing and spitting some i cited a line from that song vengeance from the grave but since no one understood me i just asked them to bring me breakfast everybody was glad to hear that i was feeling better right after they took me off i had a few seconds to catch my breath and start breathing independently it seemed to me as if it had been an eternity i felt a massive surge of energy and i was glad i managed to overcome it from that moment i realized i could be happy about Little Things like the ability to breathe by myself every morning the recovery was rather hard for me but step by step i overcame the difficulties day by day but i started to win back my normal life and im still doing it because the treatment isnt over yet i dont want anyone to experience what ive gone through all these months i spent in hospital on a ventilator were no joke i hope that nobody watching this will end up that way. And that they behave responsibly. While europes leaders struggle to forge a joint response to the pandemic the German Foreign minister is highlighting another unresolved crisis now i commerce is angry at the sluggish pace of the e. U. s migrant policy which he describes as inadequate. Horrible thing is that we have been dealing with this problem in europe for a long time i think its the greatest sign of inefficiency for the e. U. Now with the corona crisis its even more obvious meanwhile anti migrant protesters caused havoc in northern greece on wednesday vandalizing 2 hotels after discovering they were reportedly going to host over 50 migrants each police later confirmed indeed that around 150. 00 people it also attempted to prevent buses transporting the migrants from reaching their new accommodation heres what some of the locals told us. They saw the incidents that happened are condemned by our whole community and we believe that this wasnt out there. As it is the me right now there are already 100 migrants in the space of 2 kilometers i believe that people here can take in more migrants there are people who dont have work and they were under the streets in my opinion theyre not as dangerous as they are correct or right but theyre people that have no connection to panetta greece is currently trying to take the pressure off its overcrowded island refugee camps driven partly by the need to prevent corona virus from spreading the authorities have been transferring hundreds of refugees to facilities on the mainland greek political analyst petrus a good o. Told us is triggering friction among the locals though. Undeniably there is some far right. Or. The situation. d where a look at this is real these are. The people who are most or just think these are going towards it but this is where the said the moon is against the rear vision and. My view is being transferred to the surface there are the people who are out of goodwill their programs the good of our accumulating none of them is being so its the girl who was making it even about the stimulus to Martha Stewarts for people to accept. The Trump Administration has rebuffed detailed recommendations on reopening american issued by the countrys top Disease Control bonnie it was supposed to be published last friday but the agency was allegedly told the guidance would never see the light today apparently because it was too prescriptive the rush to get the country moving again comes in spite of the growing number of infections and deaths that new york side of open another temporary mold refrigerated trailers were seen arriving at one facility with bodies of being stored to date the u. S. Has registered more than 1200000 infections and 75000 deaths a 3rd of those in new york state. Is through they grew some new reality. Some makes me just aware of the. Stream nature of time that were living in the fact that you have to temper in this. Process bodies. Pretty pretty often i try not to think about the ramifications of opening up the country but when i see Something Like this it reminds me that if we had the proper leadership would we do things in a more organized manner and a safer manner so what it reminds me of is the fact that were not doing. I think in an organized way. Because that was. The race to find a vaccine some of a cut most came right now with mysterious symptoms of being found in children who tested positive for the grown virus leaving doctors scrambling for answers as to the cause covering the americas trinity child is now. Today an urgent new warning about kids and kovan 19 dozens of children falling ill across the country from a rare illness officials are calling pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome new York State Department of health confirming at least 64 suspected cases in the state most of the children testing positive for corona virus or virus antibodies sparking new concern the 2 illnesses may be linked to that uncertainty. That comes with it a disease that still is not fully understood by the Global Medical community. A disease that we all wonder about in terms of our own personal lives the rare but serious injury which inflammation affects the heart and other organs can send the body into a state of shock common symptoms include fever rash abdominal pain vomiting and red or irritated eyes the illness leaving so many questions unanswered parents Pay Attention so when they see the symptoms reach out to their doctors early because the most important thing in this situation here again is not only diagnosing it early. In the appropriate treatment early this is new york officials reported an unexpected spike of nearly a 1000 deaths on wednesday following a change of reporting meantime many new york leaders under fire as researchers claim their delayed response to code in 1000 helped spread the deadly virus throughout the u. S. The west and we have to take from this as not only new yorkers but as americans our nation wasnt in position in terms of testing and we can never let that happen again the findings which are drawn from geneticists tracking signature mutations of the virus travel histories of infected people and models by Infectious Disease experts suggest the virus quickly swept from new york city through much of the country before the city began putting social distancing measures in place new york city quickly becoming the epicenter of the outbreak accounting for roughly 30 percent of infections in the whole country makeshift morgues and freezer trucks filling the city streets new Yorks Brooklyn pier which usually hosts live music shows a Ferry Terminal and shipping warehouses is now hosting a fleet of refrigerator more trucks filled with thousands of dead from the corona virus pandemic reporting in new york Trinity Chavez r. T. All the numbers to funny all aspects of the pandemic how frankly staggering with livelihoods and industries almost unrecognizable from just a few weeks ago in the United States record unemployment now is worse than the Great Depression nearly a century ago lets go live to new york kind of motions that tell if its a riff infection still coursing through the states people pulled in Different Directions either stay at home or go to work but one inescapable consequence is that Economic Impact so big. Indeed the latest numbers confirm that we are at Great Depression levels at this point 20500000 jobs have been lost and that brings the official Unemployment Rate to about 15 percent now this essentially represents an entire decade of jobs lost basically all the jobs gained sense the 2008 financial meltdown have gone away now donald trump is speaking up and saying he should not be blamed for this that this is not his fault this is us president donald trump. Its totally expected theres no surprise Everybody Knows that somebody said oh i look at this well you know even the democrats are blaming me for that those jobs will all be back at up be back where easter. Now we have heard at least one democrat voice that has blames donald trump take a listen this is president trumps economic legacy cracks in the economy as a result of his trade wars and tax cuts have now spread wide open as a result of his ignorance and incompetence. So whos the hardest hit well jobs have been significantly lost among hospitality workers as well as leisure retail workers and professional and Business Services but the interesting thing about those statistics is they dont include a lot of workers in the United States many of written about how in the usa we have more or less a gig economy where we have workers without contract workers that are independent contractors theyre not officially counted among the unemployed when they stop getting work for the for example like drivers and many others in this good economy they dont you know get factored into those unemployment statistics so the actual rate of job loss and income loss is significantly higher now Silicon Valley has been pretty badly hit many tech giants have apparently laid off workers and guber has at this point reduced its staff by 14 percent we had the opportunity to talk to some americans about these numbers and about the unemployment and the economic toll of the coded 1000 pandemic here is what we heard. They have an obligation to themselves the company to keep it going to be cant afford to pay people when people are spending money. Its its said to trickle down effect you have money to spend it is boost the economy if theres no money coming down to peoples pockets they cant spend it so how do you expect to pay your place. Now in total of 33000000. 00 americans have filed to receive Unemployment Benefits sense mid march and around the country were seeing these protests calling for the opening up and lifting of restrictions the antilock down protests however many people look at those anti lock down protesters that are calling for the lifting of Health Regulations and saying that by gathering in big groups by by being loud in assembling and being in close proximity to each other theyre probably making the Health Measures that caused these regulations and a lockdown to be put into effect theyre probably making the Health Situation worse so quite a bad situation economically in addition to the Ongoing Health effects of the pandemic and absolutely so much take it as the stay safe while over there thanks for updating this kind of movement in new york city. Its quite a buzz date in the evening in the last few hours of may the 8th as it is which for many nations today mark the date which heralds the end of the 20th centurys bloodiest chapter exactly 75 years ago now to see germany was defeated in the 2nd world war in europe was over this years landmark anniversary was planned to be a thanksgiving spectacle in many countries with president s Prime Ministers and royalty leading their nations in thankful tribute but not now i got more early on how locked down europe is marking the day from our correspondents in paris and burn it. To you 1st song by reflections no doubt where you are there in germany yes thats right there had been a number of large scale commemorations planned theyve had to be canceled unfortunately because of the covert 19 outbreak what we have had is a one off Public Holiday here in berlin theres been plenty people out and about angle americal the german chancellor shed also had to cancel her plans which had been to travel to moscow to take part in the traditional victory day parade which isnt going ahead this year she instead spoke on the phone with russian president Vladimir Putin the 2 of them paid tribute to the memory of the millions of victims of the 2nd world war and according to a German Government statement that was put out talked about calls for close cooperation between peoples in states to promote peace and understanding now frank the german president and head of state also took part in a wreath laying ceremony earlier on friday he had it this to say. There is no end to remembering there is no salvation from our history because without that memory we lose our future only because we germans look at our history because we accept the historical responsibility the people of the world gifted our country with a new trust and this is why we can trust ourselves to this germany. There is a changing attitude does seem amongst german politicians at least to the way in which this day is marked for many years and nothing much happened here in berlin particularly from the the governmental sides but what weve heard from from there also from the foreign minister is that more emphasis needs to be put on making sure that german the next generation of germans realize the role germany played in starting the war and also to try and make this day a day of celebration also for germans a day of liberation from them from the horrors of naziism. Up some from the nurse confront Shiloh Dubose Cruz in paris so charlotte again Public Holidays are arranged parties play a military display. Being marked further west in europe where you are well certainly not how many expected as you mentioned there were due to be these large scale parades picnics out in the streets parties on the streets but that hasnt happened what we saw in fact in paris was a very solemn and downplayed ceremony as president mark on and around 20 others all socially distancing stood at the ark to tee off while they watched him really light the flame of the tomb of the unknown soldier that something he saw a very very new to me a present michael was also due to be attending that victory day parade in moscow on saturday and again he wont be attending that now either as its been canceled across france it was pretty much the same small ceremonies being held in some places just the local mayor turning out to acknowledge that today was happening victory in europe day is meant to be a big celebration every year they host parties flags waving all across the country but not so this year it was a much more somber affair now across the English Channel in. The u. K. Similar scenes there although it did come across as if there was a bit more pomp and ceremony for example the our air for the Royal Air Force is a red arrows did a fly by in a display and there were some street parties taking place but again with people socially distancing so perhaps not recreating that atmosphere though hoping to recreate from the scenes of those parties after the victory back in 1945 it seems really that silence has replaced the rejoicing this is what the british Prime Minister johnson had to say well get a new struggle against the growth virus which demands the same spirit of National Endeavor and that means we cant hold the parades and street celebrities we enjoyed in the past. Us who. 45 are acutely conscious that we are we most value to the generation who won the 2nd world war you know the u. K. Doesnt normally go big every year on victory in europe day its not normally a holiday in the u. K. But this year because it was such a poignant anniversary the 75th anniversary of the u. K. Government actually changed the may Day Bank Holiday from monday early this week to friday but of course thats all gone down like a damp squid because of course people havent really been able to recreate that atmosphere once again and whats really perhaps important to remember kevin is that this day was not just about celebrating the victory against the nazis but also an opportunity for people to remember the fall of heroes and the veterans who are still alive who took part in that victory many of whom will probably never see such a great anniversary again. Theyre in paper all over as well though because of the time difference the time zone difference victory day in russia was marked tomorrow may the 9th major celebrations of remembrance were planned but of course about how to change that none the less i will be about tomorrow some special live coverage for you here on r. T. Whatever happens. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond short and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business im show business ill see you there. Again good evening from moscow their member before the pandemic there was another threat supposedly threatening to undermine the United States but weve got a russia gate update for you tonight the u. S. Justice department has dropped criminal charges against Donald Trumps former National Security advisor Michael Flynn he did miti lying to the f. B. I. About his interactions with a russian diplomat during the president ial transition but the Justice Department now says there are no reasonable grounds for further prosecution the deal g. s not persuaded that the jury 24th 2017 interview was conducted with a legitimate investigative basis and therefore does not believe mr flynt statements were material even if untrue moreover we do not believe that the government can prove either the relevant false statements or their materiality beyond reasonable doubt Michael Flynn served as National Security adviser in 2017 he was questioned by the f. B. I. In his contacts with a venn Russian Ambassador over the possible lifting of sanctions flip was fired amid accusations that he lied to agents about said conversation it eventually led to him pleading guilty indeed to one count of misleading the f. B. I. Double trump now says he expects consequences for those who went after flynt. He is a great gentleman he was targeted by the Obama Administration and he was targeted in order to trying to take down a president and what theyve done is a disgrace and i hope a big price is going to be paid so now the charge is a drop in somewhat cast doubt on the initial accusation since flame was the main catalyst a cause for launching the whole russia gate process in the 1st place lets have a quick reminder of how the claims sent the us media at the time in the 5th gear. Michael flynn is a liar why did the f. B. I. Witness tampering now it is possibly treason but mike flynn is what people thought about when theyre thinking when hes talking people might have gone long as thats a oun how many terms did Michael Flynn take his place Anthony Bourdain of treason i think this is a profound set of developments in those all these started to remember here that u. S. Government had secured the plea from general flynn it and the judge additionally did not let him withdraw as guilty plea and now we have just over the u. S. Attorney and i think 6 louis reviewing the oil and saying there never was a basis to investigate a crime here i think it is going to prove to be the biggest scandal in American History and thats a lot far bigger than watergate this is a major scandal and were just beginning to see controversy but we will are a lot more in coming days. Over a 1000000 people heading back to work in south africa as the country begins relaxing its covert 1000 restrictions statisticians had earlier warned the president about the catastrophic consequences of prolonged closures. Our latest estimate is that south africas lockdown will cause a loss of life at least 29. 00 times greater than the loss of life it stands to prevent it would be no exaggeration to say that each week of continuing lockdown will in the long run result in more loss of life than the virus itself. So far south africa has seen a rather low pandemic death rate compared with other countries its less than 200. 00 the overall number of cases a month for more than 8000. 00 the easing of the lockdown and deciding what is and isnt acceptable been tricky too its led the South African surfers to protest earlier this week some Outdoor Activities like jumping in cycling in been allowed for instance but surfing has been prohibitive. The oceans are safe play shirts on their hips are saying mentally and physically and to take that away from us it sucks if we could go surfing thered be less people walking together and wed spread the load out i dont think going surfing will increase your risk any more than walking on the beach or walking on the right theyve been try as best they can to contain more coronavirus and population much hotter than live under the poverty line so the issue at hand for them how can they actually feel 5 will probably live when the fight you based around market life when they need to be buying or items it makes it very hard for the average person to actually you know live their life and eat well theyre not the only stopping people from day to day excursions to get there and the look down if continued might even lead to rest and violence and be people rebel against the actual government itself im a bit left it to some n. G. O. S and one of the biggest corporations to give it driven travel rifle and nearly and you know small flute for family this is not enough therefore they need to find a balance between containing 2 in a barrel and providing the actual. And thats the way things are looking tonight from moscow this friday the 8th of may hear it out see our teams around the world continue to work around the clock to keep you posted on t. V. Online and on our social media im kevin 0 in back with you tomorrow Morning Bright and early for victory day coverage meantime as ever thanks for watching do stay safe and well and either which way have a great weekend. Time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability very important. Transitions to sustainable prize board sustainability stay number may not be more equitable and sustainable world. They claim their production is completely harmless. It. 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