RT News - May 07 2020 (13:00 MSK)

The European Union says it's heading for the 'worst recession in its history' with any fragile recovery period threatened by a potential 'second wave' of infections. In the hunt for 'how the virus took hold in France' we speak to a man who was diagnosed with coronavirus a month before the first official cases were registered. President Putin approves a 'three-step plan' to relax Russia's lockdown but tough restrictions will remain in Moscow, with masks and gloves to be mandatory in public. And, an 'American mercenary' claims he was tasked with 'capturing the Venezuelan president' and bringing him to the US, after two American citizens were arrested following a failed plot against Nicolas Maduro.