Why there were few watching this from a very good morning to you thanks for joining us here on r. T. Now before we get to our breaking news story lets have a quick recap on the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections is now more than 4300000 over 293000 lives have been lost and more than 1600000 people have recovered. Germanys highest court is demanding the European Central bank prove its bond buying scheme designed to bring stability to the euro zone is legal or otherwise is threaten to stop any further monetary cooperation the move as enraged the e. U. Commission peter all of this taken a closer look at the spat. The coronavirus pandemic is putting pressures and strains on many relationships one of those thats feeling the pinch is not between brussels and when it comes to financial burden sharing in the eurozone germanys highest court said the European Central banks corona bond plan would need to prove it was fit for purpose if the single currency is largest
Very good of you thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. And well start with a quick update on the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections around the world that us now risen to above 4300000 more than 293000 lives have been lost but more than 1600000 people have recovered. And with tight restrictions slowly being lifted all around the world people are starting to think about life after lockdown from walks in the park to perhaps the 1st vacation experts there were sounding the alarm because examples from asia show the threat of a 2nd wave of infection is indeed real for instance the chinese city of work over 90 was 1st detected was one of the 1st to lift restrictions due to the success of its Strict Lockdown measures however a new cluster of cases has recently theyre in emerging cities authorities are planning to test all residents with the next 10 days in a bid to stop the spread. South koreas also been praised for quickly managing the pandemic which
Unless it improves its function within 30 days. From. The. Welcome to the program judges are germanys high court. Spying on them by germanys foreign intelligence agency. That surveillance of journalists violates the. Rights to privacy and freedom of the press the challenge was brought by 6 foreign journalists. And the Advocacy Group Reporters Without Borders a court is giving the spy agency unto the end of next year to change the way operates. From on this im joined by hans brandt from our parliamentary studio here in berlin hans it was john listen journalist organizations that brought this complaint to the court what does the verdict mean for journalists lawyers and Civil Rights Networks from all over the world basically it means that they have have the same protection under the german constitution as a german journalist in germany or german lawyers in germany would have in other words what the court has ruled is a very fundamental basic principle that the german agencies the German S
U. S. President has threatened to pull the u. S. Out of the organization and cut off funding for the director general of the trump improvements based on his criticisms within 30 days he accused the u. N. Agency of being too close to china. Is calling. Into q. Shirking responsibility is to support. Final decision and folly to fund the w. Even before trump had issued his incendiary letter to the World Health Organization it was clear he was about to attack. And i think theyve done a. Very sad job in the last period of time and again the United States pays them 450000000. 00 a year china pays them 38000000000. 00 a year and theyre a puppet of china. China centric to put it nicer but theyre a puppet of china you know it was those comments at a white house event were quickly followed by a trump tweet he links to a letter accusing the w. H. O. Of making a series of missteps over its response to the pandemic in it he warns that if the World Health Organization does not commit to major substan
Afternoon great to have you with us this is r. T. International. Will begin with the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections is now above 4300000 more than 293000 people have lost their lives more than 1600000 have recovered. Taught restrictions slowly being lifted around the world people started to think about life after lockdown walks in the park through to a possible 1st vacation expose a sodomy alarm because examples from asia show the threat of a 2nd wave of infection is very real for instance the chinese city of newark over 19 was 1st detected was one of the 1st to lift restrictions due to the success of its Strict Lockdown measures for the new cluster of cases recently emerged the citys authorities are planning to test all residents in the next 10 days in a bid to stop the spread. Of koreas also being praise for quickly managing the pandemic which to a large extent was due to its high level of testing the sort of from last week the country also witnessed