hasn't been able to end the war putin won't let him. he promised to end the war he should at least start doing something this war has been done for 6 years and nothing has been done. so let's start with the latest a verbal tussling between the united states and china and the apparent unwillingness on both sides to tone down. the rhetoric the latest flashpoint is taiwan u.s. secretary of state mike pumpin allowed to bitter from beijing after he congratulated the taiwanese president on inauguration a condemning what is what he said it was interference in the china's condemning what china said was his interference in domestic affairs beijing of course claims sovereignty of the island which is governed itself since the communist came to power on mainland china in 1949 this is the latest in a catalogue of disagreements on trade technology amongst other things and more recently of course the us president blaming beijing for what he calls a massive worldwide killing of the coronavirus pandemic president she claimed this week the chinese acted

|j the clear propaganda value that mr putin has attached to it? i think for central europe, going back to 1945, it is very much what one might have seen then as an mutilated victory, to use that phrase. large numbers, about 200,000 polish soldiers, as a good example, had fought under british command it and in the polish army in the west through world war ii, and in many cases had made decisive intervention is, for example in the battle of britain, the 303 squadron, the battle of monte cassino, the battle of brick, the campaign of narvik. they were very proactive in what we consider to be the european war, and for those soldiers that were still going in 1945, it would have been a great relief that the war was over, but tainted by a real concern for what their own future held and for what their own future held and for what their own future held and for what the future of poland held. for many of them, they either had no home to go to because the areas of eastern poland had been an exploit of the soviet union so they had nowhere to go, and many other

putin and mass arrests, killing a protester even so the pressure on vladimir putin did mount and something we are watching, who will emerge as potential new leader of russia, shifting away from him to others and hopefully among others who view the future more as maligned in the west then china's communists party. >> you are a student of authoritarian governments, china, north korea, russia, coronavirus pandemic strengthen the hand of authoritarian leaders? >> it is weakening their hands, something we try to capitalize on. lookout china handled this? human to human transmission aspects of this disease, most dangerous aspect of the disease, by do their own people, lied to the international audiences, subverted the world health organization, stopped internal travel before stopping international travel and the ham-handed approach to promote china as the solutions of a problem. in china let alone the rest of the world there is a real backlash against china for this. let's go to north korea which has no case and iran, iran, because of its servile relationship, they got infected in a big way and

vladimir putin there is a complicated relationship western presidents and prime ministers have long considered marigold to be a putin whisperer she who best understands the enigma inside the kremlin but today merkel did not whisper when she implied that there may be a criminal inside the kremlin merkel pointing the finger and raising her voice and then we'll putin will put an even raise an eyebrow i'm brooke gulf in berlin this is the day. the honesty it pains me there is hard evidence that russian forces are working to do this i find it outrageous too by the way. i try to improve my relationship with russia every day still i will continue striving towards good times with russia but it doesn't make it any easier. also coming up will summer holidays and vacations become yet another big dim of the coronavirus pandemic in europe the answer is maybe maybe not what we want to do is to restore freedom of movement and the integrity of shame and allow you p.s. to travel look at. but to be able to do that we need to how we make travel in a safe way in this new normality. our viewers on p.b.s. in the un

the moon is a boon as it hasn't been able to end the war putin won't let him. i'm convinced his promises came from the heart he really meant it he just doesn't know how to make it all happen. he promised to end the war he should at least start doing something this war has been done for 6 years and nothing has been done. but so. i'm disappointed and i voted for him but i'm really disappointed right now. i think selenski is an honest man but he's really trying it's the people around him that are the problem. and they calmly ukrainian policy existed in quite an interesting phase at the moment to me as a landscape not the only high profile figure to take office there however any other ukrainian a mr scott. well that's the thing he is only one of whole a cohort of people from showbusiness that have made their way into politics apart from him he was this country's most famous stand up comedian and actor we have ukraine's most famous rock musician. who predictably set up a party called voice he seems to have slightly lost interest in day to day politics and has kept o

ational of crimea and so of course putin has hope to the boycott would finally believe that this year for the 75th anniversary but then the coronavirus put a stop to put his grand plans to and russia's political isolation and yuri what's the sickly russia's relationship with germany today. well i think german russian relations are still very good 75 years after the end of the war they had to say heyday in the early 2000 russian economy was booming and trade relations were extremely good between the 2 countries after that came with an extension of crimea by russia into the allegations of russian the feelings in the us elections the us and the imposed sanctions on russia over the ukraine crisis which has caused a real a shadow on the relations between russia and germany as well as there was never a warmth between president putin intentional chancellor americal but the 2 lead there is have managed to maintain a constructive dialogue despite all of their political differences president putin was hoping for chancellor merkel to be one of the leaders to attend the parade on red square here

presiding over a time of national crisis putin faces plenty of challenges ahead. i'm joined now by gustav grass or senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations because afaik so much for joining us how important are these victory day celebrations for the national psyche and russia's collective memory. well actually if you shoots a lot on the list a made them they moved sort of at the center stage of the denationalize fry national identity thing the big 3 in the 2nd world war after many projects a cold war should be the sort of theme russianness should be about the russian exceptionalism should be about came out basically on talks or after orthodox conservative vision or or other experiments basically the. world war 2 is the most undisputed topic and was made the center stage scene of patriotism and reeducation in a patriotic sense of russia so he says jest a major show of patriotism these anniversary celebrations that were meant to also be a show of power for president vladimir putin one he surely could have used as the country's had hired by t

the 2nd world war it was also meant to be a major showcase of power for russia's president vladimir putin how is the president being affected by the reality that all of these planned commemorations have been scaled down well this has been a major setback for putin has it not been he had. initiated changes to the russian constitution there was supposed to be a referendum now that would effectively allow him to since remain in power forever or until his death but. you know those those plans along with the commemoration of the 75th anniversary have been postponed not canceled for sure going oh well once once coronavirus goes away i'm sure putin will come back to his agenda and pursue it best relentlessly as he house up to this point. now you mentioned just a short time ago that people who actually lived through the war many of them are no longer with us we know that veterans of the war have always played a central role in commemorations in a russia what about the young generation though how important is this history to the new generation of russia. well it is it is interesting and i find it

putin rarely appears without him, at home or abroad. there's a strong chance the two could have been in close contact. to allay fears, peskov has insisted there's been no in-person dealings between the two for over a month. the kremlin says putin has been working remotely from his residence outside moscow, although he clearly takes some meetings face-to-face, like this one with the head of the russian state oil company. it's a risk in a country reporting more than 10,000 new infections every day. there are growing signs of the strain. at this hospital in st. petersburg, at least five coronavirus patients were killed in a blaze on their ward. over the weekend another died when a fire broke out in a moscow hospital. emergency workers say both incidents were caused by faulty ventilators bursting into flames. all this as the kremlin moves to lift restrictions on a national lockdown. but the coronavirus in russia shows little sign of easing. in fact, jake, it seems to be getting even worse because the country now has more than 230 confirmed

presiding over a time of national crisis putin faces plenty of challenges ahead. i'm joined now by gustav grass or senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations because afaik so much for joining us how important are these victory day celebrations for the national psyche and russia's collective memory. well actually you should not underestimate them they moved sort of at the center stage of the denationalize frei national identity thing the big 3 in the 2nd world war after many projects a cold war to be the sort of theme russianness should be about the russian exceptionalism should be about came out basically on tops or after orthodox conservative isn't or water experiments basically the victory in world war 2 is the most undisputed topic and was made the center stage scene of patriotism and reeducation in a patriotic sense russia. says he says just a major show of patriotism these anniversary celebrations that were meant to also be a show of power for president vladimir putin when he surely could have used as the country's had hired by the crow

well they're going to lose you know because it's totally irrational and now it is shifting to china putin doesn't make a good target and so hard to do red baiting without a read you know and then you're just was reading the i need to view a lot of people in russia i was there for the l.a. times when gorbachev was there and i read his book on perestroika from moscow news and from the l.a. times and you know that was the end of russian communism in full came in as a basically whatever his background everybody or russia had something to do with the r.t. but the fact is he came from the leningrad group and he was a reformer 'd and he was the choice i was there at and they he's the one day position and everybody forgets who ran and is the one who defeats the communist party that remains and russia is an anti-communist is you going to brace the u.s. the docks religion and so forth so he makes a lousy enemy china. is still a communist country you know and so is vietnam by the way by a communist party but date as opposed to our image of communism as an international conspiracy they are quite nati

putin's inner circle. the president's spokesman is hospitalized with covid-19. cnn's nathan hodge, our moscow bureau chief, joins us now, monitoring this story from london. good to see you, nathan. so, russia's president has been struggling with this pandemic. the numbers show that. they tell the story well. and now, of course, the infection and hospitalization of his top aide. what is the latest on all of this? >> well, rosemary, you know, this pattern of increased cases over the past ten days have really shown that the pandemic, that the virus is really spreading not just in moscow, where the bulk of the infections initially were, but to the rest of russia's regions. and what a contrast it is from let's say about six weeks to two months ago, when russian president vladimir putin was very confidently projecting that they had things under control, that they had managed to sort of nip the virus in the bud. very different right now, where the kremlin seems to be on the back foot and russian president vladimir putin seems to be somewhat detached. he's been leading

so the pressure on putin for who will emerge as a potential new leader of russia. and it certainly will be a shift away from him to others and hopefully among others who view russia's future more aligned with the west and the chinese communist party. >> as authoritarian governments talk about china, north korea and russia , this is the pandemic to strengthen the hand of the authoritarian leader? >> it weakens their hand. that's what we try to capitalize on. look at how they handle this initially. with the human transition aspect of this disease and to the's international audiences and subverted the world health organization and now with this ham-handed approach to promote china as a solution to the pro one - - to the problem. there is a real backlash against china for this. so now go to another authoritarian regime. and then i ran. because of its servile relationship with its patronage to china, they got infected in a big way that the government denied it and didn't put in the measures that were necessary and in iran protest against the government in corrupt order.

there is also news involving a close aide to vladimir putin. here's ian pannell now. >> reporter: tonight, a new outbreak in wuhan, china, where the pandemic first erupted. the city apparently clear of any cases for days. but now a new cluster and a ten-day battle just launched to draw up one of the most ambitious testing goals in the world. to have the ability to check every single one of wuhan's 11 million residents for the virus. this, as south korea also battles a fresh outbreak. we visited the city of daegu in february. this is now the biggest outbreak outside of china. we're in the city center, or in one of the main urban areas. just listen to how quiet it is. after months of aggressive testing, the country was down to less than ten cases a day. but as nightclubs reopened in seoul, the numbers spiked. >> i was passing by. there was too many crowd here. >> reporter: one 29-year-old man visiting five clubs, later testing positive. thousands are now being tracked and traced. phone records, credit card bills, even cctv being used to identify

presiding over a time of national crisis putin faces plenty of challenges ahead. i'm joined now by gustaf grass or senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations because afaik so much for joining us how important are these victory day celebrations for the national psyche and russia's collective memory. well actually you should not underestimate them they moved sort of at the center stage of the the national pride national identity thing the big 3 in the 2nd world war after many projects a cold war to be the sort of theme russianness should be about the russian exceptionalism should be about came out basically on talks or after orthodox conservative isn't or or other experiments and basically the victory in world war 2 is the most undisputed topic and was made the center stage theme of patriotism and reeducation in a patriotic sense of russia so he says just a major show of patriotism these anniversary celebrations that were meant to also be a show of power for president vladimir putin one he surely could have used as the country's had hired by t

presiding over another time of national crisis putin faces plenty of challenges ahead. now earlier we spoke to gustaf gristle senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations we asked him for an assessment of russian president vladimir putin's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. oh. she tried to get sort of get the responsibility to the local governors quite early on in a crisis which is if something sepia in russia happens at c b a domestic crisis he tries to delegate this to other people and especially too many other people sure he can try out basically the fire the incompetent all them promote the more competent members of. government. coronavirus is no exception. now the relaxation of lockdown measures in taiwan caused excitement among baseball fans on friday as a small number of them were allowed into stadiums to watch their teams play the lucky ticket holders had to undergo temperature checks before they were admitted while social distancing and mask wearing were also required crowds were limited to $1000.00 people per stadium far below the usua

presiding over another time of national crisis putin faces plenty of challenges ahead. earlier we spoke to gustav aggressive a senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations we asked him for an assessment of russian president vladimir putin's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. well. he tried to get sort of get the responsibility to the local government quite early on in a crisis which is if something sepia in russia happens to be a domestic crisis he tries to dedicate this to other people and especially to many other peoples who he can try out that basically the fire the incompetent old and promote the more competent members old greats of government. coronavirus is no exception let's turn our attention now to the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic the number of confirmed covert 1000 cases has passed the 4000000 mark that's according to the tally being kept by the johns hopkins university in the u.s. more than 776 sided 277000 have died of the disease egypt's president of belfast tel sisi has approved amendments to the country's state

the battling -- of putin, there was a heroism seldom matched. the last foot hole, and what had seemed iraq fortress, we waited the inevitable loop. the fortunes, of the united states and its allies were at the lowest. but the japanese, we're soon to learn that their home man was vulnerable to a surprise attack. 16 be 25 bombers led by james do little, prepared to take off from an aircraft carrier. their target was tokyo, and four other major japanese cities. it was only nine days, after the fall of bhutan. never before had such a carrier based operation been attempted. the psychological effects of the raid on tokyo, was worse than the material damage it affected. it showed we had the will and the wherewithal to carry the war to their homeland. three weeks later in the united states struck the japanese fleet, a damaging blow in the coral sea. the worst naval battle in history, to be fought entirely with aircraft base aircraft. bhutan while the navy, was starting to make a comeback, general wing right surrendered. a proud soldier who had fought an

i think the pressure on putin is certainly going to amount and i think it's something we'll watch his for who will emerge as a potential new leader of russia. not that putin is good lose power benefit power is certainly going to shift away from him to others and hopefully among others who view russia's future more as in line with europe and the west than with chinese communist party. >> you are a student of the authoritarian governments, we talked about china and north korea russia, does this coronavirus pandemic strengthen the hand of authoritarian leaders? >> think it's really weakening their hand. this is something we ought to try to capitalize on. look at how china handled this initially, suppressed the human to human transmission aspect of this disease most dangerous aspect of the disease. lied to their own people. lied to the international audiences, subverted the world health organization, stopped internal travel before they stopped international travel and now this handy handed approach to try to promote china as the solution to the problem. i don't think it's funny in china l

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well president putin seems to be observing the are digital you shouldn't let a crisis go to waste so what we're seeing internationally is that the russia has sent aid to italy it has sold or send aid to the united states it has sought to in a sense reestablish itself as a key player in the united nations general assembly by proposing a resolution which will be it was not passed which would have seen an end to economic sanctions so russia has internationally seeking to take advantage of the situation but domestically as as your question suggests the country is facing a crisis and it's a crisis that that is getting increasingly cute so while russia quite. rapidly almost at the early stages of the of the pandemic to close its border with china in late january since then the kremlin has has largely been doing what or thora terry regimes usually do in these situations which is to to bully marginalize those people who are who are trying to speak out and tell the truth so we've we've seen a number of doctors for example in russia. be been marginalized. in the kremlin has cracked down on the

against vladimir putin because freedom loving people in america and russia should be opposed to putin, it would be helpful if you didn't disparage putin and -- he accidentally said to me, you accidentally referred to our problem as russia when you meant putin. so i think i've learned that lesson with regard to russia but i think a lot of us around here don't always sufficiently distinguish between china and the chinese communist party. so i just wanted to affirm and underscore your message not just good legislation that is good for americans, is good for investors in the u.s. and abroad, is good for a level-playing field, but as we oppose the bad action of the chinese communist party and their intellectual property theft and manipulation of currency and numbers and public health data and on and on and on, our opponent is not the chinese people and we should say that both so the american people understand it and so that the chinese people understand it. and so i commend you on the way you introduced your legislation. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. menendez: madam preside

putin is not the only strong man leader humbled by his handling of covid-19. yeah, bolsinaro, the trump of the tropics, a populist, pushes back against lockdowns, actively encouraging public rallies to demand businesses reopen, and has now lost his second health minister this month over covid-19 differences, even as rio teems with infection and national rates rise. covid-19 in is no respecter of strong man lodge. it thrives on ineptitude. >> i was at the hospital the other night where there were a few coronavirus patients and i shook hands with everybody. you'll be pleased to know, i continue to shake hands. >> even boris johnson was failed after upstaging the virus. a month later after he said this, he was close to covid-19 death in icu. president xi autocrat did what really powerful leaders can do, shuttered regions down, stopping the virus in its tracks and deflecting blame for the spread beyond china's borders. but even he isn't immune to covid-19's peril. his outreach of medical aid to the borworld, too little too la many. that coupled with the economy co

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russia is seeking more military facilities and not a time access in syria president vladimir putin has ordered 2 of his ministers to hold talks with the syrian government russia already has 2 permanent military sites in syria an air base in the taqiyya province and a naval base a task force on the mediterranean. well russia is the syrian government's main ally moscow backs the syrian president while washington says it supports moderate rebels who want to remove bashar al assad russia intervened in 2015 targeting so-called terrorists from its naval facilities at tartus and home i mean airbase but the western syrian opposition say it's been mainly opposing anti asaad rebels russia's involvement helped the syrian government make gains around homes in the south towards daraa and along the coast in the taqiyya well as claims to keep us out of power and secure its military influence in the region. joshua landis is director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he says syria is more than willing to accommodate russian interests. russia wants more land made availa

brent: that was russian president, vladimir putin. we spoke to emily s. in moscow and asked her whether military parade is important -- why the military parade is important to the russian people. reporter: when the victory day parade was postponed, that was a signal that the russian government really was taking this coronavirus pandemic seriously. and i think now, the fact that putin has announced the parade will be happening, that is a signal that things could be going back to normal. this parade is hugely important to the state as a kind of display of military power, political power on the world stage, but also very important emotionally to a lot of russians. an estimated 26 million soviet citizens were killed during world war ii. everyone has a story about a family member who was affected. this is really important to russians. brent: here are some of the otother stories making headlines this hour. a glolobal conference has raised more than $650 million to support migrants in venezuela. the refugee agency has praraised the result as exceptional. more th

among those infected is this man, dmitry peskov, president putin's spokesman. the bbc‘s sarah rainsford is in moscow with the latest. well, dmitry peskov has confirmed he does have coronavirus and is being treated in hospital, as is his wife. she has given a little more detail. she says that mr peskov got sick first, her husband got ill first and she suggested that it was him who brought the illness back from work, as she put it. as i said, they both are being treated in hospital. she said that they are both ok. she says she's coming out of it, but that he is also ok. now he has also clarified it has been some weeks since he has been personally in direct contact with president putin. so, the chances of him passing it on to mr putin are nonexistent as far as we understand. but certainly it's interesting as of course vladimir putin has been out of public contact for some weeks now, working from his residence outside moscow. holding video contest his ministers and regional governors, very much away from contact and possible infection. dmitriy peskov appears to h

was a big question for everyone whether the parade was going to happen and on april 16th president putin decided to can. to make sure that none of this happens on this may 9th clearly because of all the dangers but let's just have a look at what the. parade looked like exactly one year ago. now kevin like you said of lattimer prove he is about to lay flowers and address the nation so 'd let's have a look at what the russian president is doing right now and what he's going to say . or a world.

wanted him to win when all the evidence was putin was preparing for hillary clinton to win. and more specifically, the fbi had information that pilot preponderance was actually working with hillary clinton -- putin was actually working with hillary clinton. and that didn't stop the fbi from trying to work with hillary clinton and her people too in a joint operation to take out trump. it's mind-boggling. and this is why the flynn unreallying was -- up ralphing is -- unraveling is important because it exposes kind of the fundamental basis for the whole mueller operation which was the flynn investigation and trump's concerns about it had no foundation. lou: right. oh, but there is, there is an explanation for the russian connection with hillary. don't forget she helped rush is shah get 20% -- russia get 20% of our uranium reserves. that was awfully helpful. perhaps they felt they should reciprocate in some helpful manner, who knows? >> tens of millions of dollars laundered into her foundation from russia interests. no investigation of that of. in fact, it was suppressed by the

sponsor difficult the announcement was made during a video call with the russian president vladimir putin. also this hour nearly half of all people across the world will lose their jobs on the back of covert 19 that's the warning coming from u.n. experts we look at whether the pandemic is the sole reason for a wave of global unemployment. and ahead of traditional may day protests germany rules are allowing public demonstrations this is why the threat of coronavirus those out in the streets and not social distancing though will face arrest. live from moscow thanks for joining us that n.r.t. international just gone 2 pm in the capital on daniel hawkins welcome to the program. and let's begin with the latest figures on covert 19 the global pandemic is into a new month and those confirmed coronavirus cases are still soaring now over 3300000 there is some hope that 1000000 people have recovered the grim number you can see the fatalities now standing at more than 234000. we start right here in russia the prime minister. has come back tested positive for corona virus becoming the highest ranking

russia wants more land made available to it just a few days ago it appointed a special envoy for putin named to sebastian are there mr f. him off as a special envoy so clearly president putin is trying to is trying to get better returns for all the money and effort spent in syria there has been no back and forth especially with the all the cough undertones we've seen with roma loot the cousin of the president who has had his industry stripped from him the russians have been putting pressure on the syrians to to deliver economic goods and to begin to invest in the economy and to try to make some reforms and this is a way to i think gain leverage in syria for greater things the more things the russians want because the russians have tremendous leverage if assad wants it the province back that wants the north where the kurds live in americans are positioned back about a 3rd of syria is still occupied by rebel forces he needs the russians to do it because they're the only ones who can pressure turkey and begin to get this land back for syria so he has a captive right now to russian interes

he's talking to america's chief adversary, vladimir putin, and saying to him that this was a hoax on the day that the flynn prosecution is dropped, and after the united conclusion of to interference agencies was and did try to attack our election. and it's beyond belief. >> that's right. and, remember, andrea why flynn was fired in the first place, because he lied to the vice president about the contacts and the nature of the conversations that he was having with russian officials. that is something president trump said apart from any investigation into michael flynn. so now you see the president not only defending michael flynn, defending this decision and this recommendation by the justice department, again, underscoring as you point out that he intends to have more and significant interactions with the russian officials in the wake of all of this. i also think it's worth noting, andrea, the fact president trump said he would be open with the possibility of potentially bringing flynn back into his administration. now, it's going to be up to a judge whether or not he actually accept

russia is seeking more military facilities and maritime access in syria president vladimir putin has ordered 2 of his ministers to hold talks with the syrian government russia already has 2 permanent military sites in syria an air base of latakia and a naval facility at tartus on the mediterranean joshua landis is the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma he says syria is more than willing to accommodate its russian interests. russia wants more land made available to it just a few days ago it appointed a special envoy for putin named to sebastian are there mr f m off as a special envoy so clearly president putin is trying to is trying to get better returns for all the money and effort spent in syria there has been no back and forth especially with the all the caught under tough we've seen with the cousin of the president who has had his industry stripped from him the russians have been putting pressure on the syrians to to deliver economic goods and to begin to invest in the economy and to try to make some reforms and this is a way to i think ga

place on the 24th of july event was postponed in may because of coronavirus restrictions president putin now says the country has passed the peak of the outbreak. spain is to hold 10 days of mourning for its covered 19 victims from tomorrow flags on the country's public buildings and naval ships will fly at half mast in 27000 people died in spain's pandemic making it one of the world's worst hit countries. french president emmanuel macro has announced an $8000000000.00 euro plan to save the country's car industry from last missed calls by violence lockdowns a car sales in france are fell by about 90 percent in april compared with the previous year. or even though many coronavirus lock downs are being east lots of us still don't want to go shopping and that's having a catastrophic impact on the vitale in the street a survey by the german retail trade association shows that nearly one in 3 non-food retailers is fighting for survival. saturday used to be shopping day but that doesn't seem to be the case any more. expensive it's eerie here everything's changed to a few passes by people too f

presiding over another time of national crisis putin faces plenty of challenges ahead. with millions around the world living in refugee camps health experts warn that an outbreak of coronavirus in one of them could prove catastrophic lebanon's camps in particular are cramped and overcrowded making social distancing all but impossible a 12 year old girl is using social media to warn about the risks of covert 19 but many are more concerned about getting enough to eat than about getting infected. spaces at a premium in shatila just apartment blocks lots of people and not much green space this is one of the biggest refugee camps in lebanon and it's where knowledge she lives with her family who fled from palestine a 12 year old was born in shitty places her home and now in the coronavirus is here to be trying to stay safe in the crowded streets is not easy most people here don't wear masks and the though there are hygiene rules few stick to them no idea things people don't realize how dangerous the virus actually is the mind that instead of that i work laughs animosity and i

officials say putin has been working outside moscow in his home. but opposition figures have branded him as a scared old granddad, hiding in his bunker. hardly the strong man putin image that we're used to, wolf. >> matthew chance, thank you. in what may serve as a warning to the united states, a new coronavirus scare is forcing dozens of schools in france to close again. less than a week after they actually reopened. cnn's melissa bell is in paris for us. melissa, what are you seeing? >> reporter: wolf, some bad news for french authorities here today as they continue to try and lift restrictions on the economy and on the movements of people in the face of the covid-19 epidemic. the schools in this country, 40,000 of them at least, have now been reopened for less than a week. and there's been a scare in the center of france, wolf, where a number of schools have to be closed, 70 of them in all, which doesn't mean they had covid cases in all of them, simply that the scare had led 70 schools to close down. this is these sorts of incidents that are bei

this was supposed to be a big year for putin and now we have the coronavirus. what will this mean for the future of russia itself and relations between russia and the west? >> guest: it's challenging. with the celebration of putin's ability to rewrite the constitution and extend his role until 2036. instead, what they have is the continuous stagnation in the russian economy and the economic crisis outlining a severe drop in the prices. this is even before it hit russia and now of course it's exacerbated. i think the kremlin will be seen as complicit in the drop of the crisis at least initially with a price war with saudi arabia and then of course when the bottom has fallen out and begins to expand with russia i think that he will become under additional pressure. everybody ought to remember it did create a lot of the trends but look back a few months ago when putin tried to control who could run there were huge protests so i think that the pressure is certainly going to mount and as to who will emerge as a potential new leader i think power is certainly going t

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presiding over another time of national crisis putin faces plenty of challenges ahead. more than 7000 people have been left homeless in the kenyan capital nairobi that's after the government forcibly evicted them and then bulldozed their homes authorities say the settlement was built illegally on government owned land but according to residents the evictions could not have come at a worse time amid economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic. returning home to scavenge things to sell or to help themselves build new temporary accommodation. like this. i'm scared to the government everything that is happening around the demolishing our houses with no notice very early in the morning 5 in the morning when you are sleeping especially at that time is there when that is ok. but i'm sorry to say that the government is not seeing as us as human beings. good so ships on monday because. this is mostly when people were sleeping at home with their families. when whatever they came in demolished our houses and we have nowhere to go now are just the markets now they shoul

tests positive for corona virus the announcement was made during a video call with president vladimir putin. also nearly half of all people around the world could lose their jobs on the back of cobra that's the warning coming from u.n. experts who look at whether the pandemic is the sole reason for a wave of global warming. and ahead of traditional may day protests germany rules allowing public demonstrations despite the threat of coronavirus in the streets not social distancing no could face arrest. just 1 pm here in the capital of the hawkins thanks for joining us this hour. and let's begin with the latest figures on team the global pandemic is into a new month those confirmed coronavirus cases are still soaring now supporting 3300000 there is some hope though 1000000 people have recovered the grim number you can see fatalities though now more than 234000. are we start right here in russia the prime minister. has tested positive for corona virus becoming the highest ranking russian official known to be infected. it just became known that the tests that i took for corona virus gave a posit

russian president vladimir putin has announced that the annual military parade to mark world war 2 victory day will take place on the 24th of june event was postponed in may because of the coronavirus restrictions president putin now says the country has passed the peak of the outbreak. south africa's president. has announced that churches and other places of worship will be announced will be allowed to reopen from june when the country eases lockdown restrictions attendance will be limited to 50 people. international donors have pledged over 3000000000 euros to support refugees and migrants from venezuela as the coronavirus pandemic deepens their plight the pledging conference was hosted by the european union and spain and involved around 50 u.n. agencies and financial institutions more than $5000000.00 venezuelans have fled economic chaos under president nicolas maduro and here's a story of one of those exiles. it's a job no one else wants to do grueling dangerous work recovering bodies of covert 9000 victims. used to work as an electrician in his native venezuela before he migrated to p

some breaking news for you this hour president vladimir putin says he's been assured by specialists that they coronavirus has now passed its peak in russia he went on to reveal that moscow has postponed victory day parade commemorating the defeat of nazi germany will now be held next month let's get more on this from our senior correspondent our i guess you have laurent how significant is the news for russia. well one must understand how important victory day in victory day celebrations are full of the average russian because the country made such a tremendous sacrifice suffered through the worst of the horrors of the 2nd world war you know a 5th of the population was killed during the 2nd world war you'll be hard pressed to find a russian family that doesn't have a relative who died fighting against hitler's nazi war machine so the celebrations and the festivities and the memorial service will very important and we knew that like me and putin that the government didn't want to phone it they they left it until the last movement back in the back in april to decide whether to pursue and be

but the mass processions were off postponed by the pandemic president vladimir putin did lead a scaled down ceremony at the eternal flame war memorial. but not a word about the virus instead his speech was a rallying cry to the nation. if you are of the view we know and firmly believe that we did we are invincible when we stand together but i think of us congratulation you're on victoria day or about. a day of pride in russia's past. but people here have plenty to grumble about corona virus infections are on the rise and the economy is shrinking. presiding over a time of national crisis hootin faces plenty of challenges ahead. i'm joined now by gustaf grass or senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations because afaik so much for joining us how important are these victory day celebrations for the national psyche and russia's collective memory. well actually you should not underestimate them they moved sort of at the center stage of the the national pride national identity thing the big 3 in the 2nd world war after many projects about what should be the sort of them