as the number of coronavirus fatalities shoots up in the wrong the country's leadership claims the crisis is being exacerbated by u.s. sanctions. with infection rates increasing dramatically in other countries 2 politicians are being hit hard as the outbreak sees ministers go into quarantine we asked the we're now in slovenia and philosophy how he sees the crisis affecting every day life. not the frame your. critics accuse the u.k. government of pursuing a high risk strategy for battling covert 19 after official suggested allowing those days to sweep through the population to create herd immunity we asked people in

london how they feel about the idea. that when you submit a group to say we're going to. put it up it will take up artists to watch it with me. and an independent inquiry into child sex abuse in the u.k. finds that the internet is due to the taking a sharp rise in the predatory behavior of police struggling to respond to the growing threat. of. a very warm welcome to you you're watching r t international with me niki air and. now with scientists around the world racing to find ways of combating covert 19 reports of claims that the trumpet ministration offer the german company quote large sums of money for exclusive access to any vaccine it develops but then has said however that any such deal is off the table the country's ministers are set to discuss the development in talks this monday

takes a look now at the alleged efforts to cash in on the crisis. in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king similarly in the land of the infected the man with the vaccine becomes a god the tubing in based company is researching a corona vaccine and the high pressure the years government wants to secure the rights to it exclusively the german government is trying to prevent this there are only 2 reasons why anyone would want a monopoly on a vaccine the 1st is money it would take a truly miserable creature to try and profit from a cure that could save millions of lives would have a capitalism to control over who gets vaccinated and if trump does get exclusive rights to a vaccine guess who'll be lost in the least for an injection harsh economic sanctions imposed by the trumpet ministration have contributed to

a shortage of test kits and medical supplies in the wrong school smocks and does affect ns i'm not easy to get at pharmacies they're all out of stock the situation is really a burden my family and i could be infected at any time in effect american sanctions against iran is by listicle missile program also include face masks and coronavirus test kits heck even an iranian app to help people identify the symptoms of a corona virus infection was banned by google because sanctions would take venezuela and miserable playground for american foreign policy. this is a time to demand that president donald trump lift criminal sanctions against venezuela so that venezuela can go into the market to buy everything it needs on a medical level to face this situation. if anyone ever tells you that the purpose of sanctions is to change

a government space here you go ahead and laugh in their face long and loud mass sanctions have one purpose to make life miserable for the entire population to make the public hurt and suffer to make them do anything to make the pain stop including overthrow their government. patients in hospitals don't even have water now imagine when the predominant like this that reaches us become for is going to be left alone we have to be quick in the plague has arrived here and the rules don't have any problems because they have the bunkers they have the clinics they have everything cubans most of whom have never known life without us sanctions being urged to make their own face masks so how do you get mosques when there is a lack of medical supplies very easy we can make them at home from materials such as cotton cloth linen their washable and we can carry cereal depending on the hours

that we will be in public places the end result has been the near collapse of health care systems in numerous countries tens of millions of people limited in the health care in medicine in essential it's basically tied hands and feet on the sacrificial altar of the coronavirus pandemic and if god forbid trump does get exclusive rights to the vaccine you can bet your life savings it will come with strings attached the situation is taking its toll on politicians too with the sickness striking down many of the current owners of power the growing number of lawmakers falling ill is causing concern over how effectively governments will be able to coordinate their responses to the outbreak.

there are far more politicians who have been infected than you would have by statistical chance politicians are overrepresented in the number of people the being diagnosed.

that's what. we spoke to the celebrated slovenian philosophers love always jack about the

pandemic now he likens the crisis to a wartime scenario and emphasize the need for meaningful international solidarity. east in previous cases people were thinking just about isolation and so on and today i sure hope we are becoming aware that we kept cool in the unite that coordinate that way we are all the entire humanity in we stayed in the same boat the big loser i think will be but if sally and nationality racist and i want within our country to isolate itself until of course we need to get an inch and all day when for example take europe we should act in a unite that racial pink tried to recreate great their street mosques what they would whatever is needed and go on and so on i think that. in this sense we should be straight if riyad in the middle of that military operation we should be

i'm not here appealing to some kind of abstract sense of solidity even in our interest in germany now. they will get an even stronger probably epidemic and kill him and to want so it shall think obviously that it is something that is demand from us but he decides if we think as a national it. will get better recruits step back and reflect what this our mobile go through life how should we change it because we should be aware of why i don't think it's not let me just go on galilee and into the month it will be over baby this epidemic. in the fall that are that if the day me get out of identical article about what it was i think that even when i think we'll go but it doesn't. it will not be the same nor miley miley

because we leave now we will have to change over mode of life. while many countries are implementing aggressive measures to contain coronavirus the british government has been shopping criticized as perceived lack of action at particular concern to many people has been a suggestion that authorities will attempt to control the rate at which cove a $1000.00 spreads whether the 2 developing white spot immunity among the population. in terms of building up or unity within the u.k. what i mean what sort of percentage of people need to have contracted the virus probably about 60 percent or so in britain the number of cases has exceeded 1300 with 35 people dead as a result a petition has been launched calling for schools to be closed across the country the government has also stated it plans to ban launches lengths of the delaying on the decision additionally the u.k.'s health secretary has said that people aged

over 70 could be isolated for up to 4 months when asked people in london what they think about the government's high risk approach to tackling the pandemic and it's probably true to take you what you think i don't really describes how the best protect vulnerable population which. nobody needs to be put at risk for a situation like this i can see the argument doing that but it's really i can also see the end to say we're going to you know a whole set of people to get that artist to speak with me and not read science we've come down to die. which is to follow this. we've got to carry on living. overseas i don't share your father's his age he can to about 10 weeks tell him so that's when i would get really concerned because we don't know yet is full range of data and he didn't say we would need to know whether or not we do become immune to

this virus simply yeah it's a great strategy for simply strong stretching we don't know but nobody seems to be given us all the range of the things that you want to hear. mike told us today as associate professor of infectious disease modeling at the university of warrick in the u.k. and he explains the thinking behind the government's approach. community is that when enough people have been in fact to find the virus then. the epidemic will eventually die out so essentially what we're still trying to do is we're trying to control the outbreak so we're trying to put in interventions that will delay the peak of the epidemic and also reduce the reduce the height of the epidemic at the point that a certain number of people would be infected then it could no longer infect any more people because essentially people had all their contacts and been infected and so it reduced to a low enough level that the epidemic would die out there's

a risk to we know that the over seventy's and particularly over eighty's. because they may have underlying health conditions are more risk so obviously you want to protect those. those people in the population which is why these sorts of measures are being considered it's really important now that we keep these good hygiene practices that have been recommended we keep necessary isolation and quarantine policies. and the crucial thing here is to reduce the demands on the health service to make sure that those people that really do need hospital cat have access to it. the leader of israel's blue and white party benny gantz has accepted an official request from the president to try and form a coalition government comes after the longtime rival of benjamin netanyahu was endorsed by a majority of lawmakers in the knesset following a 3rd can inconclusive election in under a year now ali i discuss the prospects of

a new that doesn't lead toward artie's middle east correspondent paula. what does this mean for benjamin netanyahu. well it's actually not good news i mean he's going to be hoping that there's going to be a 4th round of election he's also very surprised because he was the one who actually won these elections and. particularly from his voting bloc was that he would be the one to form the next coalition government what are the chances that guns can become the next pm look at this stage they seem quite small he's facing 2 main problems the 1st problem is that he's formed a coalition between our parties and a right wing political party belonging to a former army defense minister avigdor lieberman they are not natural allies so you will just have one issue that will erupt in the 2 sides will fall apart guns also faces threats from 2 members of his own party who say that because he's formed this coalition they are going to withdraw and if they withdraw he won't have the 61 majority that he needs at this stage however the country's president we've been rivlin has tossed guns with forming the next government or at least trying to take

the law gives you 28 days beginning tomorrow to form a government this is a short amount of time but given the current circumstances of national and international crisis even this is too long. i will do whatever it takes to form within a few days as possible national petri arctic and broad government so if guns doesn't manage to form a majority coalition one next. well then they're going to be 40 elections and the question here for everyone is how do you hold elections when you have the coronavirus epidemic at the same time israelis are really fed up we've already had 3 elections here in the space of one year and it's costing the country a fortune but that will be the ultimate solution or at least the next step. and if it goes through a 4th round of elections would that benefit actually all here or guns it will probably benefit netanyahu because we have really seen a lot of criticism from the guns camp he campaigned on a ticket where he said he would not have anything to do with the right wing

political party they now have come on board and they complained on the ticket saying they have no. thing to do with the arabs and here you see them forming some kind of alliance so that that kind of support is going to be lost also done city wouldn't have any kind of relationship with the extreme arab parties party called balad and he is having a relationship he needs them for the 61 coalition so people are likely to say the next time around can we really trust guns can we really trust the coalition that he's going to build now let him know his corruption trial was due to start tomorrow tuesday but it's been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic now what impact did his trial have on the elections where you might think that it might have had to make it to impact but actually it had the opposite in september he won 33 seats and this time around he won 36 seats so with these corruption trials going on behind the scenes his support particularly from his base has actually increased and this is because people say they must be unified against what they see as an attorney

general that has it out for netanyahu against what they call a liberal media so it's actually banded together the netanyahu supporters it was considered a risky move by paris both fronts went to the polls on sunday local elections as the country declared its largest spike in coronavirus death president of mine you defended the move saying discipline health and democracy go hand in hand. i am the guarantor of the safety and health of our citizens also of the democratic life of our country i think it's important to vote at times like these to have this discipline to respect these rules because i think it is important to continue to be with the free citizens. of the 1st round turnout was historically low less than 50 percent significant drop on numbers from the previous vote in 2014 but to try and confit is sanitary measures were up to polling stations with free hand gel and

science being regularly disinfected france has over 5000 confirmed cases of the virus and 127 deaths paris the move to close non-essential public spaces that just cinemas and restaurants president has said on lockdown is not imminent but gatherings have been banned across the country and i left many questioning why the local elections still went ahead. i wore gloves i have my own i have my id so we'll see. if it's a restaurant for him to do a little unfortunate that we've been asked to close i was struck this months but at the same time well out to hold elections it's completely contradictory these are 2 decisions that are in my opinion little responsible. reasonable and follow the guidelines i think everything should be fine. critics will you says elections are taking place in here but i would have preferred if they were postponed given the situation we heard from paris based political commentators on bricmont he thinks it

was unfair to close restaurants and cinemas while leaving the polling stations open . i think it is because what is so important about the democracy being postponed a few weeks. many people did not vote because of the insane to close oldest of the restaurant then the elections go i mean people are. injecting each other in the. polling stations and. now they have a problem because they don't know how they are going to have the 2nd because the so-called you know the situation is deteriorating by the day so they're likely to have 2 guns of the 2nd on that then the 1st one will not be illegal and constitutional because the 1st to her is of to be when we get past. the greek island of les paul's a sliding deeper into crisis with the number of asylum seekers that swelling and opposition towards them growing the prospect of coronavirus tearing through the eye of a crowded morea camp is also causing tensions to flare with even aid organizations

facing hostility evangelise the report. the greek island of les paul says a 3 week conflict on its hands as europe's front line to the migrant crisis some locals are taking more of a stance against the swelling numbers of refugees held up on the island and the ngos have been drawn into battle 2 reviews before people but not small couple of 100 they start blocking the streets stopping cars that many n.g.o.s a bunch so that was the big event are there which stuffing their rental cars and there was just much in them they can beat and then throwing stones at them they can be put out between people we can go in and. chasing also a bunch of b.s. so they said a big thing with the station amount of people that works and you know this is because they they. want to bust the message that n.g.o.s profit from human suffering finally we got the commission to dock in this part in a t.v.

need we think it's a very good sign from the authorities that they made it possible to sign also to say that it's not just a group of patients that are going to take over. how things work on this island the migrants remain in overcrowded facilities with lack of hygiene it's frankly living in terrible conditions in a desperate move to try to pursue some of them to go back home the e.u. is offering 2000 euros as bait but some of them have traveled so far is that money really enough to make them go back if i were going to kill me so to me $2.00 euro would not take me back to $1000.00 so that would be. almost $42000.00 euros is not enough i come to love my country for money i love because it wasn't safe there now if you protect it's. the 3rd front is the one created by a right wing groups we do not appreciate your picture a sick island turning into

a giant migrant camp. so you more getting up with us about that every day these people pass through our town without asking anyone they come and steal from us people here are fed up that's why we decided to make these barricades we gather here as often as we can to prevent the refugees from entering the town and force them to take another route we have never been aggressive towards them and we have never clashed with them on the contrary they come in gangs and try to argue with those police put on it but on the police or main goal is to protect the village the soaps and banks. where do they want to pass through here and since the growth of virus has been confirmed to me that's another reason to prevent them from entering here this additional struggle you are seeing local speed very big price tourist season has become something of the past that businesses have even been forced to keep them shutters for good and there is very much in our life here is horrible we were happier in the past they robbed us destroying our properties they even break

into our houses most of the shops are closed and the refugees are the reason there are $25000.00 of them and only a 1000 of us. says the island that has been suffering the most the morea camp is overcrowded with refugees i believe we all have to sit down and find a solution because we can't live like this anymore our town can't survive like this we are fed up. this island might be a tiny greek here it is that the sun shines all fuel around but down here on the ground it's clouded over here under certain. mental sets us from lesbos greece where r.t. . an independent inquiry into child sex abuse in the u.k. has found that the internet is facilitating a salt rise in predatory behavior and the police all struggling to respond to the growing threats according to the report's findings the 11 to 13 year old song most at risk is as many as $450.00 suspected paid of files are arrested each month and

it stresses that the scale of abuse is likely to be considerably higher than the official figures show the inquiry also knows that many internet companies are failing to provide adequate protection for youngsters using their services. guess.

you don't know where this images will end up and that is an awful thing thinking that paedophiles can just look at a line and get whatever they want is scary. you know the media now is bomb or will i feel that well we are just now aware of it not that it's changed protocol outraged. i feel that we need really equal changes to our whole criminal justice system we need a law that the police themselves are not equipped. to deal with the. methods that abuses use there of course is the british government needs to work with tech companies to counter online abuse it also say is the new tools are needed to prevent the posting of indecent images online as well as algorithms to detect

illegal content and also will schools to offer better guidance about how to stay safe online so the more legislation may be proposed which would enable nor enforcement to tackle the problem more effectively. we can arrest our way out of the problem we have to look at a far more holistic approach we are a such a ration point margaret on about her exposed a poor handling of the rochdale child abuse ring in 2012 agrees that the government needs to be working more closely with tech companies even with the right training in the u.k. we call a massive. deficit of police offices individual police offices are overwhelmed there are not enough of them and it's down to the government invest in the criminal justice system we need to address this because we need more police officers we need a real commitment to invest in dealing with this kind of crime but alongside that i

have to say the giants like google like microsoft imus and they have billions of pounds and legislation should make them culture abuse the funding to until the investment does the incentives to prevent the to files from destroyed in children's lives because that is not what is happening on a daily basis. sunday night saw the 1st one on one debate in the race for the us democratic party's presidential nomination held in washington d.c. and much of the discussion between the front runner joe biden and the self-styled democratic socialist bernie sanders revolved around the question of health care whether the us system is well placed to handle the covert 19 crisis with all due respect to medicare for all you have a single payer system alertly it doesn't work there we've got thousands of private insurance plans that is not a system that is prepared to provide health care to all people senator sanders

claims the coronavirus threat highlights the country's need for a universal health care system joe biden for the most part focused his fire in the trumpet ministration accusing it of badly mishandling the pandemic the president was quick to hit back posting this on twitter i must say there was a very boring debate by the light when he said i want to cut so should security and medicare that's what the all said 4 years ago and nothing happened in fact i save social security and medicare i will not be cutting but they will be careful the number of coronavirus cases has spiked dramatically in the u.s. with 3800 infections recorded in 49 states on saturday the house of representatives passed an emergency bill to tackle the crisis and mitigate his economic impact the legislation which has to be which still has to be approved by the senate would make coronavirus testing free for all citizens suspected of having the illness it also provides 2 weeks of paid sick leave as well as up to 3 months of family or medical

leave the measure however only applies to businesses with fewer than 500 employees kaleb more can explores the predicament currently faced by many american workers if their. authorities here in the united states are emphasizing the importance of self isolation as coronavirus cases continue to rise however one problem facing american citizens is a lack of sick leave legislation only 12 of the 50 us states actually mandate that employers give paid sick leave other states have various regulations now amid the crisis some corporations have adjusted their policies for their own employees only of course and in addition to that many americans are just facing the choice of risk health or lose money think about the restaurant workers the people who prepare our food think about what you do if your child's school closes down for a week for so many people taking a sick day means going without pay and even in some cases potentially losing your

job but not everyone agrees this is unreasonable employees are struggling our employers are struggling and it's not a cure for covert $19.00 to put a big new expensive federal mandate on employers who are struggling in the middle of this matter u.s. politicians are now rushing to change laws but some see this not as a public health necessity but as the unrolling of a far left agenda fortunately it appears at this hour that the speaker and house democrats and shows should produce an idiot logical wish list that was not covert closely. now the democrats are quick to present themselves as the good guys in this scenario but they haven't always been on the same page for years bernie sanders has pushed for paid sick leave and other benefits for workers and been castigated as a socialist only under the current circumstances have democrats.