Saying he plans to pull funding from the organization well tell you what thats all about all right its time to boost your news i q. Mark over 1000. 00 continues to live up to its name as a Global Pandemic the total now topping 1400000. 00 cases with 83000. 00 deaths and some 300000 recovered cases and the u. S. Still leading the way now with 400000 confirmed cases and 13000 deaths and about 22000 people have recovered now a new report shows between just yesterday and today more than 1900 americans have died because of this virus that is a new one day high now take a look at this chart here it shows. Just how quickly the outbreak has gripped the nation now the number of infections in the u. S. About a month ago about a 1000 people and today that number up a staggering 400 percent so with millions of americans staying at home to flatten the curve imagine if you had Internet Access during your quarantine well for one thing you probably would be able to watch this broadcast and more importantly you would be uninformed on almost everything happening in this global fight that is why voices are growing louder to make the internet a public utility including some voices here in the u. S. But based on the f. C. C. History on this topic making the internet a public utility is far from reality heres the f. C. C. Chair. Does the government and how we rule in subsidizing parts of those arenas or do you think the more important part is encouraging the private sector to take the lead and the reason is that there is only so much money that the c. C. Has under its purview. Right fair and transact has been following the story shes joining us in studio do we know exactly how Many Americans dont have internet well its funny that you ask that because honestly we dont really know now the f. C. C. They actually did a study and they found that 21000000 americans dont have the internet but then microsoft they did their own private study and found that it was actually 163000000 americans that dont have the internet and living with the coronavirus right now its going to reveal the cold hard truth about this big Digital Divide especially for students where like you see in this tweet many young people they are relying on free wifi it starbucks mcdonalds for work study even submit job applications and thats no longer an option during these mandated stay at home orders so with almost virtually everything online it really is calling into question whether or not the internet should be a utility the same way that we now see electricity monella wow well parent now we did happen to see some people on capitol hill talking about some of the money from the coronavirus aid going towards stuff like this like the internet our Internet Companies chipping in at all in all 5 of them thats right you know shockingly the most awarded hated to company in america is known as comcast did recognize whats going on and said that they would be offering for a limited time free service they want to pull the plug on people and even hook up new customers and when it comes to those students who arent connected well then you have School Stepping and giving kids i pads and laptops to kids who couldnt afford them but that doesnt necessarily mean that they will be connected to the internet still but this again will its all nice for right now but the big question is what happens when this is all over thats where many say its been proven more and more that we should have the right to have Internet Access and here. These are Good American companies their profit motives dont line up with our social needs to make sure that everybody gets access theyre not in the business of making sure that everybody has reasonably priced Internet Access thats how we utility functions and thats the way we need to treat this commodity theyre in the business right now of finding which neighborhoods and harvesting just making more and more money from the same number of people. Is this strictly like an american problem or other countries experiencing the similar problem well europe is definitely not but there is another country thats experiencing it with the United States and its india actually theyre dealing with this Digital Divide the United Nations actually says that Internet Access it is a human right and in europe thats what you do see but citizens you know they do have internet but they have to pay a tax for it so with this whole fight on this Digital Divide it puts both countries in the dark as far as the United States and india in the next wave of high Speed Internet where manila United States was the country that invented the internet so its like come on guys pick it up here can you imagine right now being trapped in your home and absolutely no i have no internet just wow just mind blowing to think about something we take for granted. Thank you for that update. Coronaviruses also taking a toll on latin america where many countries are struggling to keep up with the pandemics rap particularly in some of the poorest areas are to correspondent john hardy has more for us from miami. And ecuadors coastal city of y a q cardboard coffins were stacked up outside the more the country of 17000000 people as more than 4000 cases of corona virus and at least 200 deaths Ecuadors Health care system is having a hard time keeping up with the rising cases increase in fatalities particularly in some of the poorest rural areas where bodies like this one sometimes lay in homes for days before being removed. Many latin american countries are seeing a sharp increase in coronavirus cases adding stress to the already fragile economy in mexico social distancing is required as streets are sanitized and neighborhoods disinfected mexico has close to 3000. 00 cases of coronavirus and rising. In peru the military is guarding the countrys borders with ecuador and chile to prevent people from illegally crossing over peru also has close to 3000 cases of corona virus and more than 100 deaths chile has the 2nd highest number of coronavirus cases in south america with more than 5000 at this point and 43 confirmed deaths brazil has the highest number of cases more than 14000 a number that continues to soar 3 weeks ago brazil a country of 212000000 had less than a 1000 cases of corona virus brazilian president. Has been one of the worlds skeptics when it comes to the deadly virus at times disregarding his own Health Department social distancing and isolation orders. There have been daily protests against full sonora by those quarantined in their homes banging pots and pans as a sign of anger and south paulo open graves remain ready for what will be an influx of bodies as the countrys death toll has increased 30 percent since the start of the pandemic there to more than 700. 00 meanwhile in the Central American country of nicaragua the countrys president Daniel Ortega hasnt been seen in public for more than 25 days now not even attending the funeral of a close friend recently ortega has also been one of the more vocal skeptics of the coronavirus allowing schools and businesses to mostly remain open in his country nicaragua is only reporting 6 cases of the virus and one confirmed death some say perhaps this is strategic by ortega laying low staying out of sight and then reappearing just in time for Easter Sunday for a. John hardy. Uncertainty is nations in that hemisphere brace to face the worst economic consequences of this virus analysts share some dire predictions of a potential lost decade for a latin america so as government struggled to respond and access liquidity in need for rapid action in response at least 81 countries have requested emergency loans from the i. M. F. So joining us now to discuss this and. Hes an economist and former f. A. A. Dorrian Central Bank Official and i thank for being with us so as we just said there can you 1st address that remark coming from some bloomberg analysts predicting that this pandemic could be a loss of basically a full decade for latin america. High miller you know good to be here a definitely were in for you seeing a very very severe economic recession due to the coronavirus is some people are projecting a negative 30 percent. G. D. P. Shrinkage this year theyre more conservative the minus 5 percent but the situation is dire the United NationsEconomic Commission is predicting that over 30000000. 00 people will join the ranks of everybody in latin america this year and 23000000. 00 out of those will be extremely poor which means less than 1. 00 a day so this ration is extremely bad. Unfortunately the projections are not optimistic at all. And that is what has been the response so far from Central Banks in that region with you know this rapid and uncertain spread and Foreign Investment just walking out the door what tools do the Central Banks there now have to fight the pandemic. Well that weve seen a huge outflow from developing countries us most certainly also in that in america we are the verge of currency. The crises in the region and what are called currency competition doesnt even make sense why because theres nothing to export anyway most markets are paralyzed around the world in this situation is dire we have the. 1000000 people that could die in latin america according to impute Imperial College study that was published recently and in that case basically governments now have a role to save lives save lives by providing Health Care Equipment and health care services. Originally at the mergence a level but also enough food for the people aisha and also enough income because most people who have been excluded from working and enough in america around half of the Adult Population is not a salaried workers at the happily population lives from day to day so we need to inject liquidity as soon as possible and thats what Central Banks are trying to coordinate with governments but we will need support from abroad especially an extraordinary special a special drawing rights on behalf of the left and on that note i mean more than half of the 5 percent of workers across latin america are part of whats called the informal economy so how realistic is the the need and the implementation of the stimulus package and how is it going to get to those people and these people are off the books. Right so weve been working on that for several years and its in countries in that an america and live we propose right now is an urgent moment for Central Bank Digital currencies right so basically what people even if they dont have the Bank Accounts they do have a cell phone and the cell phone can be a. Temporary account number and Central Banks can credit in those cell phone numbers with money and then have automatically just. A quick decision have a cell phone numbers become account numbers and then do all the know your customer Due Diligence later this is a humanitarian emergency so thats what weve been going with the central Banking Community for a while now and i think its the moments to move forward unfortunately in countries like when theres a little back the currency was already and cemented him up and running with over 200000 accounts the current president learning what i know decided to shut it down to favor the Banking System now a different that hes regretting that decision absolutely looks like it and lets go lets talk about your home country lets go to ecuador your home country has seen some devastating consequences from this virus if the pattern holds up for for all of latin america could we begin to see protests on the streets across all of latin america and more political divide and even some social consequences. Yes most definitely the situation is very critical and the estimates that we just saw in the industry. Are. Simply on the low end just yesterday the minister of health and now the number of deaths possibly that related to grown a virus double the amount thats been officially reported because we dont have enough testing so people are definitely getting very mad their activity and social network is already very explicit and very critical because people cant really go to the streets and protest perhaps that will slow down the possibility of the protests but the activity online is definitely already a proxy of what is to come now we are also on the verge of elections early next year and if there are no certainties as to the possibility of a change in government or if there are attempts changing the date of the elections like there have already been in ecuador and and thats happened in other countries as well people will definitely take to the streets they dont they wont even care about the virus because. The situation is so complicated absolutely a lot of complicated fires burning all across latin america i wonder as out own this economist and former Central Bank Official thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us today. Thank you manila to get right to the president on take a jab at the World Health Organization but not without getting back were going to discuss that later at the sports each kill regina hampshires a boxing birthday and the wednesday edition of this day in sports history all the right that. Thank you earl. What is the difference between embarrassing gaffes in elder abuse joe biden certainly excels at the former and maybe shes the victim of the love we were told mention of Mental Health is off limits to what degree is the public the right to know. And. 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President trump is the last thing that ever you h l n says he will pull u. S. Aid because he claims that the World Health Organization is covering up for chinas failures to fight the coronavirus so joining us now from our global out of iris our faith desk with all the latest on this ben swan also cohost of the us as a band what is going on with President Trump and his newest beef with now what the devil you h. O. You know hes that pretty angry with the w. H. O. Basically the president says if you go back and you look at the way the w. H. O. Has handled the coronavirus pandemic from start until now he says basically theyve called it wrong across the board when they said you know it was not time to close borders when they refused to call it a pandemic for a long period of time the way they dealt with china across the board he says theyve been wrong so the president is saying that the u. S. Should cut its funding which comes out right now manila to about 400000000. 00 for 2019 which was approved for the w. H. O. He says it should be cut thats about 15 percent of the budget the w. H. O. For their part is saying dont do it now is not the time to cut funding in the middle of a pandemic so not really surprised i would say that right here i dont think any of this is really a surprise and hate to break it to you but its really not so these ones i mean are are they separate from the cares act like that p. P. P. Program what is it sure you know theres nothing new in terms of these funds these are funds that are already been allotted by congress and designated by congress to go to the w. H. O. The u. S. Pays about 400000000. 00 a year to the w. H. O. Every year so this is money thats already been approved that is separate of course from this 2. 00 trillion dollars got a couple of headlines for you about that though because theres a lot going on with this remember this this s. B. A. Program so theres 2 of them ok its important for people to understand theres the p. P. P. Which is the payroll Protection Plan which was essentially funded by congress to the tune of law. 350000000000. 00 thats where Small Businesses go to the government through the s. B. A. And they say hey these are my lost wages for payroll for the last 2 and a half months can you can you cover it for me and if you dont lay off workers you get that money that is separate though from Something Else which is the e idea which is the Emergency Loan Program now under that rule and under that ideal program manilla businesses were told apply for this grant its a grant you dont pay it back its not a loan you get 10000. 00 if you apply within 3 days about the occasion this started on friday but as of today wednesday nobod