Start with a look at the latest figures on the covert 900 pandemic more than 2100000 cases and i would bridge that will wide 146000 lives have been lost the u. S. Has the highest death toll followed by italy and spain so far more than half a 1000000 people have recovered from the virus globally. Russias president has postponed the annual victory parade on red square which was due to occur on may 9th now this years event would have marked 75 years since the defeat of nazi germany and speaking late on thursday. The covert 900 pandemic has made preparations impossible. You know me were facing a tough choice the 9th of may is a special day for us but the life of every Single Person is priceless too to hold the parade on the 9th of may we need to start rehearsals now but the risks posed by the epidemic as well as its peak which we have imposed yet still high thats why i cannot stop the rehearsals for the parade and other public gatherings the president there went on to say that the parades will go ahead later this year its been an annual event in moscow since 1905 attended by World Leaders and veterans of the war and since 2012 russia and many other countries around the world of held in mortal regiment commemorations on the same day to honor their relatives who fought in the war are the Senior Correspondent radagast year looks at the importance of the event. The 75th anniversary of hitlers defeat the destruction of the nazi a bomb a nation at the price of tens of millions of lives a few short months ago the very idea of pursuing commemorations the parade the march of the immortal regiment would have been unthinkable for the so Many Russians this is the biggest day of the year a tribute to the courage and sacrifice of the generation that stopped hitler and for which they are ordered every year. The Diamond Jubilee this years parade and commemorations would to be truly grand leaders from all over the world had be the invited it was a global sacrifice in part the scale of the commemorations is supposed to remind us all of how many were lost a catastrophe never to be repeated most russians have a relative a grandmother or grandfather who died in that war yet through their children every year they march again in victory. Veterans to the precious few left those who remember the horrors and agony of the 2nd world war this was supposed to be their day the indians to the still we were waiting for liberation hope save those we kept holding on to the end my clearest memories are from when the soviet army came to liberate says it was very moving we never. Thought wed survive but life is life the pandemic caught us all off god thats ruins groups were among those that came out and cooled for the paraded commemorations to be pursued as it became clear the infection wouldnt spare russia reason conscious prevailed the parade will still happen when its safe the heroes of the greatest generation will still be on the 9th of may there are already plenty of ideas from online immortal regiment marches to shoes but for now and for the 1st time in a quarter of a century the stands on the red square will remain empty and the veterans will stay at home at home but on and in the hearts and minds of the world we have from journalist and historian mike jones about the significance of postponing the parade. It was just at the anniversary this was extremely important 75th anniversary of the great victory in world war 2 and. Dispose which is very very sad indeed because i think that this was an event that would have people together not just people in russia but around the world to mark this commemoration and it just shows you whats happening in 2020 it seems that weve had a whole list of events now weve lost the european football championships the last major sporting events and now weve lost this so i think its very sad that is not just about the spread of the crime drama consortium about the risks to the participants on the program particularly the overly hurts her and it would be there were big hurry through to her the turns who survive the most corrosion of fighting in world war 2 remember her oh so i think it reflects. Upon them a producer how much russia and russia go church the lives of the surviving rap terms of the great war ok lets bring you up to date with the numbers that are just come in about russian cases of coronavirus russia has logged 4069. 00 new cases of the virus within the last 24 hours that brings the countrys total to 32007. 00 now there have been 273 faith tallaght is from coven 1286 people have recovered. France has europes 3rd highest death toll from coven 19 it now stands at almost 18000 that figure but the number of new delhi cases has been in decline for several days president mottram is now calling for schools to reopen by mid may many teachers though think the move is premature so the dubiously reports. Schools could start to reopen from may 11th that was the announcement from president that call prompting a wave of criticism not just from teachers but doctors too this choice reveals an absolute lack of logic it is very difficult in a School Environment to enforce social distancing measures and now the 1st environment that the president wants to reopen is the School Environment how does it no longer carry the same risks while the federation of french doctors says its worried the target date could generate an unnecessary risk and its premise sure children do not necessarily follow instructions they will naturally play together and risk bringing the virus home that criticism seems sharper perhaps given that almost in the same breath not core announce that restaurants bars cinemas and museums would not be reopening until further notice thats left some teachers groups reeling. Were going to return with Young Children and adults packing the small classrooms 20 square metres maximum the School Cafeteria is a crammed with 500. 00 people inside its completely incoherent to leave bars and restaurants closed because of 20 people yet at the same time open a school with some 5021500 students one of macros given reasons for reopening schools gradually was to fight against social inequality phone that amount only to many children notably in poorer areas in the countryside are deprived of School Without access to digital tools. Since schools closed in march teachers have fear educating their students online they have been Public TelevisionServices Broadcasting lessons to the nation yet despite these new concerns from the government about students for ling behind the Education Minister genre show blanca recently advised that they should take a break the easter holidays the one Teaching Union there is a clearer motivation behind the return to school we have the impression that we are being stuck in the auto of the economy it seems like the school is being used to the big Childcare Service so that mom and dad can go back to work thats also the belief of the teaching collective the red pens. This is an irresponsible decision driven by economic interests life is more Important Health is more important than the economy. The red pens also say there needs to be a concrete plan to protect not just those who work in schools but the pupils to. What we are waiting for is the move viable situation mass testing including immunity tests masks in large quantities and although i wont be ready in 26. 00 days its impossible a full plan hasnt yet been formulated about how schools will reopen schools will though be disinfected and full classrooms will be out of the question thats according to frances Education Minister shore michel but for many teachers the devil will be in the details will they get face masks how will they enforce any social distancing that still mandated and if as longer says the return will not be obligatory how can the government be sure that the most deprived students well actually come back to the classroom show it even ski r. T. Paris. One in 3 sailors on board a french Aircraft Carrier have tested positive for covert 9668. 00 people out of almost 2000 on board the shoulder goal which is currently docked of the country south coast and its not the only nato war ship to suffer such an outbreak. In the meantime the nato secretary general you and stone bags accused adversaries including russia of trying to exploit the pandemic security challenges have not diminished because of call the 19 on the contrary potential adversaries will look to exploit the situation to further their own interests terrorist groups could be emboldened we see a continued pace of Russian Military activity all were operational readiness remains under meanest. And our forces remain vigilant im prepared to respond to in the thirtys. We spoke to a retired u. S. Air force Lieutenant Colonel who thinks affronts should have learned from americas recent experience of an on board outbreak the group that is most sickened by this is not normally age group of soldiers or. Servicemen so you know its not that dangerous procedure like in terms of life and death but in terms of our Operational Capability yet bethink because if a 3rd of your crew is sick and not functional then your ship is not functional well hed like to think that social distancing and things like that could work with the that those things are not going to be possible. Close quarters ship but i actually am surprised that the navy doesnt seem to have reacted and learned from that type of situation because we had that months ago it see how it was handled and also what the vulnerabilities were very much a bureaucratic response as opposed to real leadership it seems a little too little too late. The u. K. Farming sector is in the grip of a staffing crisis because of the pandemic and hundreds of workers are being flown in from ramona to cover the shortfall each year the country needs around 90000. 00 Seasonal Workers to harvest fruit and vegetables but the state has received only 5 and a half 1000 applications this year most of those from within the u. K. Most of the applicants have no experience in farming country cold or from the Sustainable Food stressed believes that the industry cannot function without foreign labor. The farmers definitely would like that remain to come and indeed theyd be coming here for quite a few years now in the same way that all the Eastern European countries would also provided the workforce to harvest all vegetables if relation to what is being called essential workers there is a case for. People who have specific skills. Travelling in order to undertake this exceptional work and i would argue that people harvesting vegetables and fruit and doing our cultural work or highly skilled people and probably should be allowed to travel the best workers we ever had came from Eastern Europe and they had a fantastic work ethic and they were highly skilled and they had a really positive asked suit and the remaining workers are being brought to the United Kingdom on charter flights the company arranging the transporter said that all passengers will have their temperatures checked and observe social distancing and there has been no mention of coronavirus testing actually hold on again says that its unlikely that the farm workers will pose an infection risk. Oh the fear should be the other way around this more likely probably for a group like the group at which the United Kingdom contracting the virus would be all the way around the super safe once the provision for testing becomes more widely available one way of insuring against the risk of transmission between countries would be to have a positive release system where the workers were tested to cope it before they returned personally i would much as i said this cross at risk of transmission especially in rural areas. As millions in the United States fall for unemployment the countrys richest doing better than ever will explain all after the break. The stories that were told to this point are going to seem. Instantly and were going to have a whole busy new generation of storytelling moving forward our very definition of what a hero is one of no one is whats excesses are all of that changes moving into the future our home value system the sideways shift and change. When almost seems wrong. Just dont. Get to shape out just. How to. Engage with equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Welcome back the u. S. Has recorded 34000 fake teletypes from covert 19 and economic shock is being felt nationwide sort of 22000000 job list claims have been fall since lockdown measures were introduced but while many families have been left with no income whatsoever the countrys richest man seen his net worth skyrocket on the scale of more parables. Jeff bezos was already the worlds richest man before the pandemic yet when everyone staying at home he is now roughly 24000000000. 00 richer his wife has seen her net worth vastly increase as well and at this point amazon has reached an all time high and it stocks on tuesday valued at market over 1. 00 trillion 1. 01 thing weve learned from the kovac 900. 00 crisis is how important amazon has become to customize we want you to know we take this responsibility seriously and were proud of the work our teams are doing to help customers through this difficult time business is booming 75000 new employees and amazon warehouses are being hired in addition to the 100000 that were hired over the past month they are called heroes by amazon as they take a great risk of exposure in order to bring in bays owes billions. Right now delivering the things people need has never been more important. To all of our hamazon retail heroes will continue to do everything ok and. Healthy safe and protected many say that amazon has not been working to protect its heroes the company has been slow in working to ease its paid sick leave rules and its been behind on providing personal protective equipment and social distancing on its facilities a report suggests that as many as 74 amazon employees have been infected while on the job and beginning of march i seen some my employees become sick around me in a domino effect some know what t. They were dizzy some of the army that their stations they couldnt finish started out with shit. There was very alarming was very scary only been protective started april so that doesnt really help the situation i mean may help slow down but the virus started spreading already the virus been. For a few months in a country as been in these buildings for a few months and were just now starting to get p p e. Bay so mask in the glove that we needed in the beginning is this a late in the game and its already multiple cases in multiple buildings. Employees who speak up publicly about these issues are getting fired 3 more employees of had their contracts terminated instead of firing employees who want justice maybe jeff bezos the richest man in the world can focus on providing his workers with paid sick leave a safe workplace and a livable planet amazon insists its putting proper Safety Measures in place the u. S. Federal reserve seems to be concerned about the safety of amazon as well amazons shareholders that is theyve been pushing the stock price higher and higher the combined net worth of the 500. 00 richest people in the world has increased by 20 percent since its low on march 23rd in line musk bill gates Warren BuffettMark Zuckerberg among others are the real winners of the pandemic meanwhile 22000000 americans are newly unemployed these billionaires capitalizing on coronavirus to capitalizing off the expense of a workforce that capitalizing on. Human life is a life or death situation in. The way these policies are made your work or your workers on the front lines have to continue to go to work in order to pay their bills or stay home and be unpaid it is not it is not right its not fair its blood money thats what i call the money thats been made by the billionaires for the entire time dependent is in this country are of even all around the globe is blood money this is greed is nothing more than just greed and though they should have been using this money to help out the medical field said aletta lay in this virus spray is not provide testing for their workforce. Of the coronavirus pandemic has revealed severe shortages of medical supplies in some of the worlds most developed countries like a ventilators a mask has put thousands of lives at risk and looks at how the problem is being tackled here in russia. Artificial ventilation operad us or mechanical ventilation systems are essential when a patient reaches a critical stage still the machine requires a lot of consumables something that many hospitals around the world lack rushes are all solemn and its subsidiaries decided to prepare for similar scenarios at home which was what is what is so why did we start to produce it weeks ago there was high demand for vowels like these in europe and especially in italy when the number of patients dramatically increased im talking about patients who need mechanical ventilation apparatus private companies and its me started printing 3 d. Models of the valves we decided not to wait for such a problem in russia we have enough power reserves to produce up to 5000 to the vows there is demand to get more materials and we will be able to produce tens of thousands of them to supply many medical institutions its going to more than 2 hours to friend said these into or valves well before they get taken to a customer i have to do one more thing. Put them in a solution. And now they are ready to be delivered to various officers he is a mechanic all ventilation systems this 3 d. Printing lab doesnt limit themselves to producing valves for mechanical ventilation systems theyre also making other elements that are now in high demand what interested it interested me in particular were simple things for everyday life Something Like this guess what of this is for this is to press an elevator button to go like that and some other things like this one for example what do you think this is for well this is to open the door if you dont want to touch anything and of course i think this particular engineer was a little bit bored he created Something Like this means the coronavirus 3 d. Printing is one. Of many projects of russia as a result of a Health Care Company that quickly adjusted to the current demand but sometimes they are persian have the Cutting Edge Technology for weak safe and environmentally friendly traditional flood troyer medical supply this country recently needs at the Southern Health care we were just on it its to these issues of medical mass is that in higher demand you know last week were all stars as their decision was made to google Group Equipment for collecting storing and transporting by materials all could be going to this Sterilization Center has always been sassed with disinfecting medical devices edible plant products and other goods as well and so they however medical masks and vials for virus from sports ation are the priority employees here are working in 3 shifts around the clock trucks full of crucial products for doctors fighting coal big 19 make deliveries to this mosque or region sensor 247 the turnover is already high but here theyre ready for more significant numbers. In april out goal is to sterilize 150000 sample test kits in may 300000 kits and starting from june we want to sterilize 550000. 00 every month as for masks we can sterilize 10000000 a week but the targets are 60000000 the corona virus reached russia much later than the rest of the world given it some time to prepare and stock up its hoped that advanced knowledge and timely action will help prevent large scale fate how its hes young and it was such at that in the course i hope that 3 d. Printing will have wolf most importantly it should benefit us we dont want to have a situation like twas in different parts of our planet where everything was produced in a hurry who. Made a call and there were one who has a similar equipment kindly responded with the team and together were trying to speed up the process. Watching out international staying with us who keep your to date with the details of the corona virus pandemic virus our website slots on r. T. Dot com plenty of information our social Media Channels of course were still broadcasting live to you from our studios here in moscow as well as london and washington d. C. Stay informed and stay with. It is easy. To spot that same. Old. Vocal just to. Show. You some more push. Pull you put its not just on thoughts. So that. Kind of Economic Growth rate if theres going to be one can be expected through the pandemic has run its course almost the pin jimmy changed economy. Is there any chance of returning to pretend. Oh welcome to show because visionary means you know the sheer nonsense but during times when its hard to say what next week have in store for us one thing is clear the world has changed what will be like after the close of mind to condemn the. Talk about race with Thomas Drake Jr future is at the digital. Thomas frey executive director into near futurist at colorado does that change just great having with so much to talk about now all the convention of the moment that things up to condemn make will never be the same like the ones like the post 911 will write there will be a past corona world but why are we so sure because they did back the world not after 911 we really didnt end up being the