Now perhaps in Critical Condition buckling the new disease. More on rats the under lockdown in the french capital was the most power save poorest registering some of the highest mortality rates from kofi 19th in all of france also ahead. Of a stop the export of these viruses from china the virus was spawned in china as the largest sponsor. Washington ramped up the pressure on beijing with threats to sue china over the pandemic back to donald trump says hell cut only u. S. Ties to a chinese virology lab which for a state significant Financial Support from the a bomb a administration. Very warm welcome to you youre watching R T International with me. And us begin with the latest figures on covert 19 since the outbreak of the new virus in december last year over 2500000 have been infected with it the number of fatalities currently stands at over 177000 but more than 697000 people have managed to recover from the deadly disease. The u. K. s Health Secretary has responded to allegations tha
Down we expect more tragedies but its still going to be. Also coming up he left prison today a free man Australias High Court has thrown out the conviction of Cardinal George pell 1st child sex abuse. I would like to pray for all those who suffer unjust sentences and resulting from persecution. And to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with americans asking what is the coronavirus doing to our democracy it is a valid question especially today especially in the state of wisconsin residents there have been told by their governor to stay at home in order to slow the spread of the virus but at the same time they are being asked to go to the polling places and cast their vote wisconsins president ial primary is taking place today the governor postponed the election yesterday but the u. S. Supreme court ruled against him wisconsin is now the 1st u. S. State to hold a president ial primary since the stay at home orders were issued fo
Also coming up he left prison today a free man Australias High Court has thrown out the conviction of Cardinal George pell 1st child sex abuse. I would like to pray for all those who suffer unjust sentences and resulting from persecution. And to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with americans asking what is the coronavirus doing to our democracy it is a valid question especially today especially in the state of wisconsin residents there have been told by their governor to stay at home in order to slow the spread of the virus but at the same time they are being asked to go to the polling places and cast their vote wisconsins president ial primary is taking place today the governor postponed the election yesterday but the u. S. Supreme court ruled against him wisconsin is now the 1st u. S. State to hold a president ial primary since the stay at home orders were issued for much of america. Tests are critically important for we
Crude carnage im joined by my guest was me in beirut hes a professor of economics and International Affairs in irvine we have pai and he is an independent economic and geo political analyst as well as a former commodities trader and in toronto we Cross Alexandre Bruno he is an analyst at gulf state analytics sorry gentlemen crosslike rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate pilot may go to you 1st in irvine because you got up early as for this program here all right it all happened quite quickly and a lot of analysts werent too surprised by the deal that the russians and the saudis had collapsed. The russians didnt go along with what the saudis wanted to do and the saudis reacted and now we have carnage on the oil markets here what is saudi arabias gambit here because you know in the if you look at its budgetary constraints it can afford to have low oil for a very long time and we throw in the coronavirus that is also hurting crude demand all
This would be a way for people or some people at least to go back to work if they could prove that they already have had covert 19 and therefore its assumed that they have an immunity i would be able to get it again or pass it on but the w. H. O. The World Health Organization is not keen on this idea for this reason well we do certainly understand the intention of trying to see who can go safely back who were who be of ranch. Risk free also expecting other people but unfortunately from the scientific point of view we simply dont know if the person who has been infected with. 90. 2. Gets this immunity and if it gets the immunity how long this immunity is lasting now there are always problems with the immunity passport idea to start with for one thing its very divisive if you have some people who are allowed to go back to work and some people arent at a time when most governments are trying to unify their populations and say were all in this together but this verdict from the w. H. O. Th