President flouts social distancing measures again as infections keep rising in latin americas hardest hit countries. Thank you very much for joining us its been the worst hit country in europe with the highest coronavirus death toll outside of china but after 8 weeks in lockdown italy is beginning to ease restrictions imposed in response to the pandemic is just gone 10 am and the bustle is returning to the streets of its towns and cities this is the capital rome right now the government says measures will be east further if the infection rate continues to drop almost 30000 people have died in italy that speak to Francesco John better tony who joins us from a smear line on skype thank you very much francesco for being with us so tell us exactly whats restarting to. Day and how italian feeling about the easing of restrictions. Well after almost 2 months of lockdown the phase 2 of the emergency begins immediately today more than 4000000 people went back to work this morning as italy straw
Eases long don restrictions in some places fears of a new outbreak emerge in the north of the country to end the race is on to find the formula for immunity against a virus but its an expensive and difficult process to the end from a to lead to india i knew working week has begun with the lifting of many of the restrictions imposed to fight the corona virus but some are questioning whether its all too soon its only has recorded nearly 29000 deaths the worst still in europe but it has begun easing knock down measures allowing people to return to work and visit family many businesses are also opening across the world there have been more than 3 and a half 1000000 infections and some Health Experts fear that reopening in many countries will lead to a 2nd wave present donald trump says hes confident of a vaccine by the end of the year but the u. S. Is not joining a european led conference aimed at raising more than 8000000000. 00 in a worldwide effort to speed up a Vaccine Research now let
Relaxed in thailand but without tourism many still need food handouts. Welcome to the program the global hunt for a Coronavirus Vaccine and treatment took a leap forward on monday with World Leaders pledging billions of dollars to the fight the European Commission hosted a virtual Fund Raising Conference a nations promise to contribute more than 80000000000. 00 towards research 3 and a half 1000000 people have now been infected by the virus about a 3rd of those have recovered but about 250000. 00 people have died and gradually country by country in some instances even city by city lock downs are being lifted one of the hardest hit countries italy was among the nations that began easing restrictions on monday will be live initially a little later now so join a whole begins our coverage from oxford where scientists are working on a potential vaccine. Coronavirus is going away so the world must find ways to live with it better ways of testing for it more effective ways of treating it most
There thanks for joining us here with your global news update this is r. T. International. Lets start with the latest figures on the covert 900 pandemic there are now more than 2400000 confirmed cases worldwide around 165000 people have lost their lives the majority of those coming in europe and the United States and 629000 people have recovered from the virus. Lets turn 1st this hour to germany which is starting to lift its month long lockdown after declaring the corona Virus Outbreak under control the economy minister has sworn that the measures could be reinstated if the situation deteriorates starting monday shops in some regions are allowed to open the schools and restaurants they remain closed meanwhile in berlin the restrictions that caused widespread frustration with some people even taking to the streets lets go live now to the german capital of course for peter oliver is in city there for us peters takes through and how are people been reacting to the containment measures. We
Want to looking all to city lights. We are thrilled to have Samuel Woolley with us here tonight celebrating a very, very important new book called the reality game how the next wave of technology will break the truth. It is from our friends at Public Affairs book. He is a a writer and researcher specializing in the study of ai, emergent technology, politics, persuasion and social media. Hes an assistant professor in the school of journalism and Program Director for competition all Propaganda Research of the center for media engagement of university of texas at austin. Dr. Woolley founded and directed the Digital Intelligence lab at the institute for the future which is a 50yearold think tank based in the heart of silicon valley. He also cofounded and directed the Research Team at computational propaganda project at Oxford Internet institute at the university of oxford. He has written on political manipulation of technology or a variety of publications. These include wired, the atlantic