the coronavirus death toll in italy overtakes that of china and in one city the army is drafted in to help transport coffins of the victims out of the area. and. also this hour moscow starts building a new hospital to treat cope with 900 patients and amid fears of panic buying we look at the supply levels in the russian capital. particularly sensitive subject like the toilet paper well. i need a budget any type of. this is clearly enough for everyone. and a nurse in the u.k. claim she was racially abused on her way to work as the country's health service comes under severe strain. these cops who. just come in physically

and verbally abuse to be fooled by race. it's now 1 am here in moscow this friday we're glad you decided to join us for your world news update this hour now 1st we bring you the latest figures on the coronavirus pandemic there are now more than 240000 confirmed cases worldwide and the death toll is approaching 10000 those numbers are changing on the hour and we'll be bringing you all the updates. the coronavirus death toll in italy has now surpassed that of china topping more than 3400 countries also recorded its highest number of infections detected in a single day but that was 4 and a half 1000 new cases the prime minister says the nationwide lockdown may need to be extended beyond april the 3rd while the army is also now been called into the

northern town of berrima to help move the backlog of confidence a video posted on social media shows trucks preparing to transport bodies the military moved in after the city cemetery became overwhelmed by the sheer number of dead which is located in the worst affected region of lombardy has seen at least $93.00 deaths and $4300.00 cases officials though fear the worst is yet to come. it is a heartbreaking image striking with the force of a 100 or even a 1000 punches medical staff on the front line in italy have been highly infected themselves at least 2629 have tested positive for the virus since february and that represents 8 percent of all cases in the country but it's not only workers under pressure but the whole health care system there's an increasing lack of staff and equipment there are not enough lifesaving ventilators or face masks while some retired staff are being asked to return to work in a bid to turn the tide against the crisis one of the country's leading public

health experts claims that governments brought some of these problems on themselves . the problem right now is the supply of protective gear the government should have thought of this some time ago we already have a limited number of doctors nurses under extreme circumstances we could even ask them to help working even if they tested positive for corona virus they should be equipped with protective devices to avoid spreading the virus further. the situation is really dramatic and there are 8 percent of workers who are able to center over all cases are workers who are and fact and there's nothing we can do because we have a shortage of medical personnel and it be our help healthy in the sense that they can are capable of who are can and they don't show symptoms that incapacitated them in some way and that's the only option otherwise the death toll will continue to

rise we don't know how many people are infected because we are only testing people who show symptoms and actually severe symptoms should definitely be efficiently more tasks the problem is that they do not have the resources to do so so they're desperately asking for help from the european union and from european partners that's not only way to really fight the disease is by testing as many people as possible. russia has registered almost 150 cases and most are in moscow the authorities are gradually implementing stricter measures to prevent the mass spread of the virus seen elsewhere among the action taken by moscow is restricted entry for foreign nationals people who enter the country from abroad must go into quarantine for 2 weeks schools will be temporarily closed from march 23rd and gatherings of more than 50 people are banned as the outbreak began moscow dedicated a brand new hospital just to treat coronavirus patients city authorities are

planning a hospital town just outside the capital will have its own sewer and water filtration systems and its own small part of the countryside in an exclusion zone. meanwhile the moscow mayor's office has warned about misinformation spreading online about the pandemic and the measures to contain it and includes posts claiming the russian capital will go into total lockdown or shortages of essential products in the shops some chains say they have enough supplies to last at least 8 weeks as the glue is the most popular items that are currently being hoarded by sam the russian ministry of industry and trade is assuring the public that grocery stores will not close. checked out the situation that a large moscow store. panic buying has become one of the key manifestations of the coronavirus scare all over the world so now we've come to one of most schools largest retail stores pos of europe so shown chain just to get an idea as to how badly this thing is affecting the russians in fact we're in the very same store

that had previously introduced so cool apocalypse shopping carts pre-selected bundles over essential goods for about $45.00 per cause it was a one time auction but it turned out to be a clear success because those are being already swept and they're nowhere to be found but now let's have a look as to how well this particular end a very large school is still to itself. 1st stop is well good old soap and the situation here is quite interesting because all cheaper ones they are gone like for instance here like 15 cents 30 cents by the i'm not making up the prices these are actual prices on the soap here they're gone but the more expensive stuff over here in abundance in fact let me show you one thing you can literally if you're a if you're in a panic situation if you are in

a panic mood you can literally buy soaps in canisters like this is liquid soap 5 liters of liquid soap but we're going to be opting for something different something. so. particularly sensitive subject lately toilet paper while. any type of budget any type of skin there's clearly enough for everyone and i feel like a plenty at home but for the sake of the experiment let's get some why not. well this is trouble all right because we're in the poultry section and the well it's been ransacked there are people all around filming on their phones as well together with us what's going on here but the store has put up a reassuring messages reassuring sign saying essentially that the products the

products are on the way don't worry if you haven't found what you wanted here it will be here we will restock it in the nearest future together with the supplies we're doing everything to maintain the needed stockpile. cheaper me like chicken or turkey more expensive mead like before you pour while it's gone just some of the most expensive stuff is here but here nothing. well judging by the amount of sweets next to me one thing can be said with certainty children are definitely not panicking and can be an example to us all. well this is of course just a symbolic cut it's not really serious but if i were to go all in and defy wanted to get everything that i needed for a nuclear winter scenario so to speak i would have had very very few problems with

doing so and even with that said supply is have been talking a lot and posting photos and videos of their storage is really filled up to the brim with produce saying that there is literally no reason to panic that whatever oh whatever. show that we've just seen well they will be filled up there will be back fully stocked so right now it looks good the appetite for panic buying here at least among muscovites is not that strong. but the whole world battling not only the pen demick but a wave of disinflation around the virus as well it seems that you knows who to blame and once again it's the kremlin something dismissed outright by moscow we notice that it was because. of this information from outside of the e.u. among others also from russia or from providers reach are based in russia or at

least some how to draw crimean sources you know there's well accusations against russia over disinformation and fakes about the coronavirus president europe and the whole world are a big disinformation and it's late i'm sorry let's take a look at the presumption of innocence i mean there are unique adventures with now evidence there can be any train that. it can be used as a part of such an aggressive informational campaign result in you know is this a new e.u. report claims russia is sowing panic and anger in the west over the coronavirus it is also states the aim is to undermine public trust in national health care systems trying to prevent an effective response to the outbreak professor at the national institute of language and eastern civilizations in paris bernard rescue believes it's wrong to blame russia for a baseless claims. it looks very. funny in a certain sense because the. western media has

a new western governments their french government especially because i'm basing my friends are so ridiculous in their in their their way day and day treated all decorum that there is. be demure from the very beginning so day to day they may do fake news and know their i.q. seeing russia and georgia. is it is not do only country with. which i ask questions about the origin of the epidemic and do behavior of different governments it's just ridiculous to. treat russia as derisive of fault of teams. we are witnessing all over the world now over to the us where donald trump has announced he's invoking wartime powers to force industry there to tackle covert 19. will be involved in the defense

production act and just in case we need it no words think you'll know what it is and it can do a lot of good things if we need it must sacrifice together because we are all in this together and we'll come through together meanwhile connecticut has become the 6th state to postpone its primary amid the outbreak harbor the democratic national committee has issued a warning that hastily changing the process may result in penalties on explains. all of society hunkers down in the face of a global health pandemic the democrats have decided to point fingers and play the blame game this crisis is going to demand more from all of us more from an administration and a president that has been far too slow in waking up to the scale of the challenges we now face i have been incredibly frustrated and concerned by the trump administration's missteps and slow response to this crisis so far the trumpet ministration has made

a serious of false promises about the country's diagnostic capacities spreading confusing in onto information about the availability of tests for the general public and so to hear the leader of the federal government tell us to work around the federal government because it's too too slow is just it's kind of mind boggling to be honest now there is no question that donald trump is taking this very seriously as a public health crisis we're asking everyone to work at home a possible postpone and this is a travel and limits social gatherings to no more than 10 people by making shared sacrifices in temporary changes we can protect the health of our people at the d.n.c. is very happy to call out donald trump but their own political goals are not on hold 5 states have canceled their presidential primary votes and now the d.n.c. says that there could be consequences each the 1st determining step must take place by the 9th of june if the state violates the rule on timing or any other rule that

could be subject to penalties including at least a 50 percent reduction in delegates we advise states to follow the recommendations of local health officials and prioritize health and safety of all individuals that's right the democratic leadership is now demanding that senior citizens and everyone else drop everything rushed to the polls and vote in the democrats' primary risking death in some cases now if you don't do it they say they will make you pay no small. sense of entitlement there in states that have had their primary vote the turnout has been rather low big shocker at this point all public gatherings movie theaters restaurants are shut down so why not the polls exactly it makes sense to close this down i mean there's just the you know any of these voting centers that would just simply be a centers for transmitting disease and it's the responsible thing is then to say look we can postpone this basically they can postpone it will the way up to late

may have all the put all the remaining primaries on on some day in late may and that is certainly a much more sensible policy than the holding primaries now when everybody's so anxious about the virus i think that they are thinking entirely in terms of the general election i mean the democrats have absolutely desperate to defeat donald trump they want to wrap this up as quickly as possible before the public has a chance to change its mind the rules across america are changing in the face of the coded 1000 health crisis but one thing certainly remains the same the only set of rules the democratic national committee plays by are their own and they demand that everyone else play by them as well kaleb up and r.t. new york. either way the primary race is now down to just 2 candidates bernie sanders and joe biden that's after hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard dropped out

and threw her support behind the former vice president who is now the clear front runner. now after tuesday's election it's clear that democratic primary voters have chosen vice president joe biden to be the person who will take on president trump in the general election so today i'm suspending my presidential campaign and offering my full support to vice president joe biden in his quest to bring our country together and although i may not agree with the vice president on every issue i know that he has a good heart and he's motivated by his love for our country and the american people shortly after the announcement job i'm going to go for her spot support tulsi found herself thrust into the spotlight last year when hillary clinton accused her of being a russian asset rejected the allegations and sued the former secretary of state 38 year old politician and to the race for the democratic ticket in february of last

year and with the last woman standing we heard from professor of latin american studies daniel shaw he says the primaries are being weighed down by a climate of fear. it will have to work the most are clearly of safety in are afraid to go out in it well and if they have children you know they are going to 'd be at home with their dog in the afraid so clearly be inside iraq primary is in crisis in a sense this tells the root of a woman of color who represents a columnist people who why i think a lot of people high hopes that she would support bernie sanders who is of course the most critical incident perry was candidate so to see her fall in line with joe biden in commend joe biden miller is clearly an establishment candidate who represents the continuation of u.s. foreign policy was clearly very disappointing and this is bigger than just a primary this is a movement for universal health care for us foreign policy it is diametrically opposed to what trump inviting him but i'm in the ruling class represent so this

movie is going to continue to fight notches in the electoral media arena but more importantly historically in the streets of the u.s. . and the u.k. the spread of the corona virus has picked up pace at more than $2500.00 people now infected and the pandemic also appears to be having a negative impact on people's behavior a british unearth claims she was assaulted and racially abused on our way to work artist john edwards reports. it may come as no surprise that the n.h.s. isn't exactly thriving what with being on the forefront of the fight against coronavirus staff shortages not enough funding and even a lack of clothing for medical staff professionals make it harder to help save lives but those were predictable evils was less an anticipated of xenophobia towards people who were treating patients but it happened to us who was allegedly racially abusing a subset just experience something that really opened my mind with today's society

so i was coming out from the train station just minding my own business usually get out through the barriers and to come to work as a nurse. and these cop who. just come and physically and verbally abuse me my race and it gets worse she was attacked on her way to hospital for an overtime shift to help her colleagues cope with the outbreak every really to come together you have any chance is struggling my goodness we have a new start no doctors no nothing people who need to wake up and realize that this virus is not an excuse to be racist or to discriminate against everyone period the sad reality is as a virus sort of originates in china and spreads across the globe so does panic and xenophobia for instance a singapore in student was assaulted in london by teenagers who punched him in the face screaming we don't want your coronavirus in our country he shouted i don't

want your coronavirus in my country you think this is et well no a vietnamese our current us dropped quite exhibitor earlier this month the u.k. are there because of fears that she would spread the virus the corona virus is causing much anxiety everywhere and fairly or not asians are being seen as carriers of the virus your presence on the stand would unfortunately create hesitation on the part of the audience to enter the exhibition space i apologize for this and hope we can meet and perhaps work together in the future these cases in the u.k. are just the tip of the ice are across the pond in new york amount of news an asian person on the lecture just for standing next to her and one. coming. so many and it's not only open aggressions are there people are now turning up their noses to asian cuisine and culture and asian people in general are being avoided a wiki pedia page has even been set up dedicated to covert 19 incidents of racism

with governments and international organizations now mate intervening countries the cautioned against actions that promote stickler or even discrimination in the eye with the principles of our top 3 of our. the coronavirus epidemic a sort of a disturbing wave of prejudice against people of chinese and east asian if the city and i call member states do their utmost to combat this and other forms of discrimination it seems increasingly true that in times of crisis and stray bring out the western people the idea of any racial i.q. racial. is something which we hope when all of the 2nd world war well our record has been that when a surge of anti chinese racism or the consequence of the 'd mislabeling in the midst. of this. ringback country for the lack of total. 'd lack of ability to come to mobilize society to maintain 'd

a system about health care and correlated support with less well partly government the government spends i think you so much of the people work together and use racism as a tool to divide and rule and much more important the administration comes sponsibility to make sure both the stock at work. which are multi-racial the more people are treated equally. over on our website you can check out the latest article by renowned slovenian phosphorus levels are tracked on the threat that covered 1000 poses to our way of life as online now at r t v dot com. dying patients are being told to say their last goodbyes to their loved ones over skype as part of a new guideline for british hospitals there are poorly designed to help medics stem the pandemic spread and besides the farewell recommendations the release document discourages family or friends from visiting patients in critical care some do find

any attempts distasteful will put the issue up for discussion. so on the face of it these guidelines and they are guidelines these are rules might seem distasteful and they might seem harsh of course but we have to be mindful of why these guidelines been put in place this is not about stopping the husband of a wife they've been together 50 years from saying goodbye to his wife for example this is around the extended family i speak for a time when a child the was the big health scare that's when i was a senior sister in the renal unit and in those days you know i'm afraid to say it our priority was treating our patients not the visitors you can use up these valuable staff time on relatives you can't have a situation where you still got other patients treated in intensive care units some patients in intensive care units have 101215 or more people who want to visit them

and we can't allow that to happen at the current time because of course that's putting those individuals at risk but also providing huge vectors to disseminate this virus we all took for granted as personal liberties they're all going to be taken away and i'm afraid we are there to treat sick people and it is really sad it is really probably only going to be confined to people on the i t you we have got to look at it from individual ism and we have to look at the heard of course we would want that patient at home the reality is for intensive care patients that is almost always not possible in that they wouldn't make it home these decisions are absolutely best left to the clinicians they're the ones who are in charge of the treatment you're looking at $60000.00 patient days on an intensive care unit on the best case scenario clinicians understand they understand how important relatives are but i'm afraid i do have to keep saying it's the herd is more important the staff are more important than individual feeling so we do not

want to think about the worst case scenario we're preparing for the best in the intermediate case scenarios the worst case scenario is going to hugely challenge our n.h.s. and really redefine the way we use health care services not just during this crisis but for many years to come there after. that's a news break down for this hour and that's all for me as well today but we're not come no one will be taking over in just over 30 minutes time thanks for tuning in wherever you may be. you are no offense but you no longer

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hi i'm max kaiser this is the kaiser report day 17 of the big walk down and the chorus as the saying goes when the going gets tough the tough make kaito cheesecake as you can see here. put together a delicious coke of it kiddo cheesecake in my insta pot and this is what's getting me through this horrible global lockdown and other good stuff like that stacey yes max we have been talking about of course the collapse of the markets and whether or not this can be like the great depression sort of error or in 1987 or 2008 because history often rhymes of course there are unique individuals and unique generations and unique societies encountering each wave of collapse all the way back to the south sea bubble so they're never completely the same but the human nature and

human instincts are often the same just like a virus is often generally the same they become very deadly and then usually they somehow are defeated i want to look at some of the stories we've been covering and i know everybody is probably stressed out there where stress like is not nice to have a pandemic unfolding around the world and it's not nice to see markets down 10 percent up 12 percent down 7 percent you know this sort of turmoil is distressing and the fact that we will have to shut down much of our economy for a month or 2 months is going to be a lot of hardship for a lot of people so it is a serious situation but in terms of what we've been covering for the past 10 years we've talked about the death of the dollar and the ultimate demise of the dollar and it's not just targeting the united states it's not just specific to them it is about the currency system because we have been on a new unique experiment since 1971 where we're on an all dollar standard and we

pointed out that on march 8th sunday march 8th the petro dollar era ended it was sunday march 8th that was the end of the petro dollar when saudi arabia flooded the walls with oil and cut the price of a barrel well even by $10.00 this past sunday. the 15th of march i believe was the actual and of the dollar when the fed cut on sunday night just as it had by the way in march of 2008 during the financial crisis in the beginning when bear stearns collapse here we saw emergency rate cuts of $100.00 basis points down to 0 it took them down interest rates down to 0 percent essentially and the markets tumbled the dollar is something we've been talking about for many years and it's the only store of value at the moment everything is collapsing against the dollar.