Thanks for joining us here with your global news update this is r. T. International. The latest figures in the covert 900 pandemic the number of cases worldwide has now surpassed 1200000 the us has the largest number of infections followed by spain and italy 70000 people have lost their lives and 271000 people have recovered. Germanys accuse the u. S. Of modern day piracy for that italy seizing a plane load of respirators in thailand which was intended for berlin the u. S. President this week invoked wartime powers to prevent other countries from getting hold of protective facemasks during the ongoing pandemic donald trump defended the move we need the masks we dont want other people getting and thats why were thats why were instituting a lot of defense production act. You could call it retaliations because thats what it is its a retaliation if people dont if people dont give us what we need for our people were going to be very tough and weve been very tough usually we dont have to use