Lets start with a look at the latest figures on the kofi 1000 pandemic almost 2200000 cases are now being registered worldwide 147000 lives have been lost in the states has the highest death toll followed by italy and spain and so far more than 550000 people have recovered from the virus globally. 1st of all lets turn to russia which has seen a sharp increase in corona virus cases with 4000. 00 infections registered over just the past 24 hours it brings the total in the country 232000 with 273. 00 fatalities the president says 1st both the annual victory parade on red square which was due to occur on may 9th and this years event would have marked 75 years since the defeat of nazi germany and speaking late on thursday d it was in the putin said that the pandemic has made preparations impossible. Were now 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 havent posed yet still high thats why i cannot start the rehearsals for the parade under the public gatherings the president went on to say that the parade will go ahead later on this year and its been an annual event in moscow since 995. 00 attended by World Leaders and veterans of the war and since 2012 russia and many other countries felt in mortal regiment commemorations on the same day 80 on of their relatives who fought in the war the Senior Correspondent ryan gets the f. Takes a look at the importance of the event. The 75th anniversary of hitlers defeat the destruction of the nazi abomination 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 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 were to be truly grand leaders from all over the world had been invited it was a global sacrifice in part the scale of the commemorations is supposed to remind us all of how many. Well last a catastrophe never to be repeated most russians have relatives 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 indians to the still we were waiting for liberation hope saved us we kept holding on to the end my clearest memories are from when the soviet army came to liberate us it was very moving we never thought wed survive but life is life the pandemic caught us all off god thats rins 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 honored im a 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 and home but on and in the hearts and minds of the world. We have from journalist neil clark in the story in mind jones about the significance of postponing the parade. Just at the anniversary this was extremely important 75th anniversary of the great victory it will walk to and its had the perspective 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 weve lost the european football championships the last major sporting events and now weve lost this so i think its very sad it is not just about the spread of the primetime a consortium about the risks to the participants on the program particularly the overly hurts her im down it would be there were big hurry through to her that turns who survived the most corrosion of fighting in world war 2 here in the pariah so i think it reflects. Upon them a bit to do with her marks how much russia and russia of god church the law of the surviving draft terms of the great war. France has europes 3rd highest death toll from target 19 it now stands at almost 800000 but the number of new daily cases thats been in decline and for several days is the mantra is even calling for schools to reopen by mid may however many teachers think that movies premature solid dubious cripples. Schools could start to reopen from may 11th that was the announcement from president not growing 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 can for 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 is premature 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 matt Court Announced that restaurants bars cinemas in museums would not be reopening until further notice thats left some teachers groups reeling who are we going to return with Young Children and adults packing the small classrooms 20 square metres maximum the School Cafeteria is a crammed with 500 people inside its completely incoherent to leave bars and restaurants closed because of 20 people you know the same time open a school with some 5021500 students one of macro given reasons for reopening schools gradually was to fight against social inequality found that a model of too many children notably in poor areas in the countryside are deprived of School Without access to digital tools. Since schools closed in march teachers have been educating their students online there have been Public TelevisionServices Broadcasting lessons to the nation yet despite these new concerns from the government about. Students for link behind the Education Minister genre show blanca recently advised that they should take a break in the stock holidays the one Teaching Union there is a clearer motivation behind the return to school we have the impression that we are being 1st in the auto of the economy it seems like the school is being used as a 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 a more viable situation mass testing including immunity tests mosques 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 but even ski arty paris. 1. 00 and 3. 00 sailors on board a french Aircraft Carrier have tested positive for covert 9668. 00 people out of almost 2000 on board the shard the goal which is currently docked off the countrys south coast and its not the only nato ship to suffer an outbreak. The. Despite the risk to sailors lives the united secretary general believes that the real danger lies elsewhere in stoltenberg accused adversaries including russia of trying to exploit the pandemic the security challenges have not diminished because of call the 19 on the country 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 our operational readiness remains under ministry and our forces remain vigilant and prepared to respond to in the thirtys we spoke to a retired u. S. Air force Lieutenant Colonel who thinks that france 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 the servicemen so you know its not that dangerous procedure like in terms of life and death but in terms of Operational Capability yet bethink because if a 3rd of your crew is not functional then your ship is not functional well hed like to think that social distancing and things like that that work with those things are not going to be possible on a 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. You can farming sector is in the grip of a staffing crisis because of the pandemic and hundreds of workers are being flowed in from romania to cover the shortfall and cheer the United Kingdom needs around 90000 Seasonal Workers to this fruit and vegetables the sector has received only 5 and a half 1000 applications this year most of those coming from within the country most of the applicants dont even have experience in farming are trickled in from the Sustainable Foods trust so that the industry cannot function without foreign labor. The farmers definitely would like the remaining woman 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 work force to harvest all vegetables if relation to what is being called essential work. There is a case for. People who have specific skills. Travelling in order to undertake this essential work and i would argue that people harvesting vegetables and fruit and doing coke to work or highly skilled people and probably should be allowed to travel the best workers we ever had a priest in europe and they had a fantastic work ethic and they were highly skilled and they had a really positive asked suit all the remaining work is being brought to the account charter flights the company arranging the transportation is said that all passengers will have their temperatures checked and that the observed social distancing but there are no plans to test them for the 19th century holden again says its unlikely the farm workers will pose an infection risk. The fear should be the other way around this more likely probably for a group like the group us which the United Kingdom contracting the virus with the other 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. Before they returned personally i would imagine as i said this crisis the risk of transmission especially in rural areas. Unemployment in the United States is at its worst level since the Great Depression but some billionaires are doing better than ever bring you that story after the break. Join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics or business im show business ill see you then. Has changed american lives but pharmaceutical companies have a miraculous solution. Based drugs to people who are chronic pain and believe that their opioid prescription is working for them and the remedy be certain to. Price at the. Close of dependency on addiction to opiates the long term use that really isnt scientifically justified in our study actually suggests that. The long term effects may not just be the absence of benefit but actually that they may because we want to. Welcome back the u. S. Has recorded 34000 fatalities from covert 19 and the economic shock that is being felt nationwide total of 22000000 jobs claims have been filed since lockdown measures were introduced but while many families have been left with absolutely no income the countrys richest man has seen his net worth skyrocket killing more than explains. Jeff bezos was already the worlds richest man before the pandemic yet with 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 our customers 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 in 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 the liberating the things people need has never been born. 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 ploy become sick around me in a domino effect some know what t. They were dizzy some of them in that their stations they couldnt finish that shit out was shit. It was very alarming was very scary the 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. D. Bay so mask in the gloves that we needed in the beginning so its a late in the game and its all you multiple cases and 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 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 are capitalizing on the coronavirus to capitalize in the expense of a workforce that capitalizing off 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 and its not it its not right its not fair its blood money thats what i call the money has been made by the billionaires for the entire time depend demigods in this country are of even all around the globe is blood money this is greed is nothing more dangerous green and though they should have been using this money to help out the medical field i said aletta lane is right. Spread is not right or their work or its. The coronavirus pandemic has revealed to severe shortages of medical supplies in some of the worlds most developed countries the lack of ventilators and masks that has put thousands of lives at risk arties around cost you have looked 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 russias iraqs saddam and its subsidiaries decided to prepare for similar scenarios at home. Which will produce wedges so why did we start to produce it a week ago there was high demand for vows 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 and he 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 of the vows if 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 akin to a more than 2 hours to print said these in 2 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 making an appeal 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 but interested interested me in particular were simple things f