The International Community to suspend them all while the Islamic Republic faces the west corona Virus Outbreak in the middle east joining me now via face time from gone is dr Samadi Torabi director of the research that Strategic Studies Institute sam thanks so much for coming on im going to ask 1st of all youre in quarantine how is the situation in go home even though obviously the United States has more coronavirus cases in absolute terms and obviously proportionately. Yes actually doing quite well it was the 1st place that the pandemic started in iran and also weve been pretty much you know south korean singing ourselves since the end of february so thank god the numbers are have come down and bombed and also as you might have heard in the media you know theres no panic buying you know everythings well stocked and people are going about their lives pretty normally except for the strike of course but theyre not congregating in public but thank god its common and going well and right
Josh, walk us through what we know. Josh we started the week with the president saying he has absolute authority. This plan gives governors widely way to make wide leeway to make their own choices. You can jump into phase one immediately if you have met certain conditions. The governors will have a lot of leeway to determine if the states have met that. He is recommending that if they do not see outbreaks or meet certain conditions, subject to their interpretation of those conditions, you can get back to normal in about four weeks. This will raise questions about the risk of a second wave. Whether the u. S. Has the Testing Capacity to respond. Call the president had a with senators and governors today. What do we know about that phone call . Josh we have seen this thing brewing for a while. Protests in michigan this week against what they view as stringent orders. The governor of michigan is democrat who could be joe bidens running mate. What he heard what we heard on that call, republ
Room and then and even the secular leaders of it like being gorean who was very secular all saw this not just as a nationalist project but the redemption of the human race is what he described i mean not the jewish people but the human race as a whole and its in and it tells the jews exactly what will be them that it will other states will submit to them they will provide their wealth honey milk will be coming to them and they will rule over this and in a sense this is what were talking about it is a Judeo Christian civilizational project for the middle east it always always was that and now it is be actualized and the American Ambassador friedman was very clear in the soft of the meetings and me. Stroma at the white house he said listen you know this is the bible being actualized i mean living in the Old Testament holiness and then it only the Old Testament the jewish bible the Old Testament and so this is what is coming and relieve the deal of the century was the sort of laying the f
Nigerias the Security Forces killed 18 people will and forcing lockdown measures thats more deaths than from the virus itself and the drift for 2 months hundreds of written job refugees are rescued but at least 24. 00 die from starvation. Welcome to the program we begin in the u. S. Where a 3 phase plan for reopening the country for business is about to be launched double trucks guidelines are being revealed just hours after unemployment figures a showed just how many jobs have been lost to the coronavirus pandemic since President Trump declared a National Emergency on the 13th of march thats just over a month ago 22000000 americans to file for Unemployment Benefits 5200000 of them in the past week before the pandemic unemployment in the Worlds Largest economy was at a near record low well lets cross to our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett we are expecting to hear from the president kind of any moment now but what do we know already about these white house guidelines. Well th
Coming up with the plan that the president will recommend . I think that what we need to do, we need a nuanced approach. I think in pennsylvania weve got too far. The governor shut down construction, even online car sales. That is too much. We need to make sure were not hurting the economy unnecessarily while were still protecting Public Health. So for example, we should let local counties make the decision, even local muse municipalities where population is most dense, most rural, combat this with nuanced, balanced approach rather than painting with a very broad brush stroke. Elizabeth here is what the president is saying. Governors, you will call your own shots. You can start reopening before may 1st. Well give you county by county basis when it comes to outbreak of covid19 on a county by county basis. He will say the onus is on you, the buck stops with you governors to reopen. Half of u. S. Cities are facing lay offs of their own city workers, that means cops and firemen. No federal