Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

What in the world is going on behind the coronavirus curtain?

Many leaders are using this crisis to grab special powers and violate civil rights.

Veteran diplomat William Burns joins us.

And relationships under lockdown the good the bad and

the ugly with therapist honor Guralnick and sociologist Eric Kleinenburg.

Then... Well I think the Republican Party is... sociologist Eric Kleinenberg. Then,

Well, I think the Republican Party has failed tremendously on this.

As the pandemic surges, a leading GOP political consultant takes the blame

for his party's rejection of science and good government. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London still working from home

where today we take a look at the many ways coronavirus exacerbates global problems

both large and small. In China, where the outbreak began, the government says new cases have dropped practically to zero,

but the World Health Organization warns that coronavirus epidemics are, quote,

far from over in Asia.

And in hard hit Europe, while the death toll is still rising in Italy and

Spain, reports of new cases in Italy are declining.

The United States now has the most confirmed cases in the world at more than 170,000, with

New York still the nation's main hotspot.

And last night, Governor Andrew Cuomo described the effect it's having on health care workers

there.

This is what he said.

The staff is getting exhausted. I had one nurse say to me, more than physically exhausted,

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