just. friday morning here in moscow in the headlines then the coronavirus death toll in italy overtakes that of china we can report in one city the army is drafted in to help transport coffins out of the area and. moscow starts building a new hospital complex to treat covered 19 patients that have made early signs of panic buying we look at supply levels in the russian capital. turn now to a particularly sensitive subject lately toilet paper while. any type of budget any type of skin is clearly enough for everyone.

plus to the story of a nurse in the u.k. who claim she was racially abused on a way to work because the country's health service comes under severe strain. these couple. just come in physically and verbally abused me for my race. good morning welcome to the program i'm kevin owen here at the international world to center with the latest 30 minute update the 20th of march that i was starting the latest figures on the corona virus pandemic there are now more than 240000 confirmed cases worldwide and the death toll is approaching 10000. and italy is now the worst hit country by the covert 1000 pandemic the number of deaths

a surge beyond 3400 more than in china and and promise to become tases the nation wide lockdown may need to be extended after april 3rd is the latest on it in an over city of berger mo the army's been called in to help move coffins of the victims out of the area is social video posted shows military trucks arriving the city cemeteries have become overwhelmed by the sheer number of dead. is in the body province for almost 2000 people have died from the virus officials though fear the worst is yet to come. it is a heartbreaking image striking with the force of 100 or even the fowls and punches medical staff on the front line in italy of falling sick too in large numbers more than 2600 of contracted the virus since february that represents around 8 percent of all cases in the country and the entire health care system is creaking under the strain this is a severe shortage of staff hospital beds and equipment lifesaving ventilators and

face masks are in short supply and some retired stuff are being asked to return to work when the country's leading public health experts claims the government's response has been slow. 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 and or extremist circumstances we could even ask them to help working even if they tested positive for corona virus still 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. center over all cases are workers who are infected and there is 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 working and they don't show symptoms that incapacitate them in some way and then and. it's the only option otherwise it all will continue

right we don't know how many people are in it because we are only. will show symptoms and actually sit here and it should definitely be infinitely more our task the problem is that the did not have the resources to do so so they're desperately asking for help from the european union and from european partners the only way to really fight it is by many people as possible. thus far russia has registered almost a $150.00 cases of novel coronavirus mostly here in moscow the authorities are gradually implementing stricter measures to try to prevent a large scale outbreak russia has closed its borders to foreign nationals with some exceptions and those who arrive from most countries then go into quarantine for 2 weeks schools will be temporarily closed from this coming march the 23rd and gatherings of more than 50 people have been banned as the outbreak began moscow

dedicated a brand new hospital just to treat coronavirus patients and city authorities are building a hospital complex outside the capital for the same purpose to it will have its own sewer and water filtration systems and to be surrounded the say by an exclusion zone meantime the moscow mayor's office has warned about misinformation spreading online about the pandemic and the measures to contain it it includes posts claiming that the russian capital will soon go to total locked with shortages of essential products in the shops some chains say they have enough supplies though to last at least 8 weeks that includes the most popular items that are currently being hoarded the russian ministry of industry and trades assuring the public that grocery shops will not close it was done of check to the situation in one 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 read. stores parts

of europe the shan 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-called apocalypse shopping carts pre-selected bundles of essential goods for about $45.00 per cart it was a one time action but it turned out to be a clear success because those cards have been already swept and are nowhere to be found but now let's have a look as to how well this particular and a very large store is stocked itself. first 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 there 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 releases 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 is 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. 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 about whatever whatever m.t.v. . shelves that we've just seen while they will be filled up there will be back fully stocked so right now if lopes the appetite for panic buying here at least among muscovites is not that strong. away from the practical side of it with the whole world battling not only the pandemic but a wave of this information around the virus as well it seems the e.u. now knows who's to blame for it all once again is the kremlin something dismissed by moscow we know is that it was because. of this information

from outside of the e.u. among others also from russia or from providers which are based in russia or at least some how to draw kremlin sources you know there's no i well accusations against russia over disinformation and paix about the coronavirus president europe and the whole world are a big disinformation and fake themselves let's take a look at the presumption of innocence is there argues asians you need evidence now evidence there can be any claims that moral gray it can be used as a part of such an aggressive informational campaign result in you know the whole new era pour claims russia is so in public anger in the west over the coronavirus it also states the aim is to undermine public trust in national health care systems trying to prevent an effective response to the break is story in progress ski believes the allegations against russia are absurd. it looks very.

funny in a certain sense because their. western media is a western governments their friends government especially because i'm basically friends are so ridiculous in their in their their way day and day treated all the coronavirus so be demure from the very beginning saw day to day in day make the fake news and know their i.q. seeing russia and georgia. is there is not do only country with. which i ask questions about the origin of the epidemic and. behavior of different governments it's just ridiculous to. treat russia as derisive bonds have been thought of teams. we are witnessing all over the word elsewhere in the us donald trump has invoked wartime powers to force industry to

tackle covert 19. will be invoked in the defense production act and just in case we need it for the words if you will 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 will come through together meanwhile connecticut has become the sec state to postpone the democratic primaries because of the break but the democratic national committee has issued a warning over it saying that pasting changes to the process could result in penalties as colored moped reports. 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 on true 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 and 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 that'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 weigh up to late may have all the put all the remaining primaries on and some day in late may and that's it it's certainly a much more sensible policy than 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 mopp and r.t. new york so is his son's democratic primary races no advantages to come that it's

pretty sound isn't joe biden much softer hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard dropped out and threw her support behind the former vice president when i was a merged as 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 am 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 will shortly after that announcement joe biden thanks for her support the congresswoman was thrust into the spotlight last year when hillary clinton accused her of being a russian asset you may recall rejected those allegations and sued the former secretary of state the 38 year old politician entered the race for the democrat

ticket in february last year and was the last woman standing in the we heard from professor of latin american studies danny sure he says the primaries are being weighed by a climate of fear. it will have to work the most are clearly affected in are afraid to go out in it well if they have children you know the algal 'd the only way they're doubly are free so clearly being inside iraq primary is in crisis in a sense tells the garrote a woman of color 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 a continuation of us 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 and biting him but i'm in the ruling class represent so this move is going to continue to fight notches in the electoral media arena but more importantly historically in the streets of the u.s. . in the u.k. the spread of the corona virus has accelerated with more than 2500 people now infected and the pandemic appears to be having a negative impact on people's behavior in places to one british nurse claims she was assaulted and racially abused on a way to work party sharjah edwards dash to report. 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 than anticipated is that a phobia towards people who are treating patients but it happened to the n.h.s. nurse who was allegedly racially abusing and. just experience something that really

opened my mind with today's society so i was coming up from the train station just money mound business usually get out through the barriers and who come to work as a nurse. and these couple who. just come and physically and verbally abuse me from my race and it gets worse she was attacked on her way to a hospital for an overtime shift to help her colleagues cope with the outbreak every really to come together here any chance is struggling my goodness we have new start new doctors new 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 or 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 are 3 of us drop 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 unfairly or not asians are being seen as carries a 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 far 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 other 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 set of a disturbing wave of prejudice against people of chaney's 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 that any racial like a racial thing is something which we hope when our or well our record has been that. the consequence of the 'd myth labeling in the myth or. ringback the lack of.

a lack of ability to mobilize society can maintain. the health care and automotive support. the government. but i think it's over the people work together and don't use racism as a tool to divide and rule and much more equal the administration responsibility to local brokers at work. which are more people are treated equally. just like you know on a website you can check out our latest article by the slovenian philosophy on the threat the covert 1000 poses to our way of life as ever he gives his informed a level head in his take on it if you'd like to check it out it's worth a listen for bits on line r.t. dot com. this is sad dying patients are being told to say their last goodbyes to their loved ones via skype it's part of new guidelines

for british hospitals they're reportedly designed to help medics stem the pandemic spread and besides the farewell recommendations the release document also discourages family or friends from visiting patients in critical care such sensitive issues but some say they find these new tips distasteful. we put it 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 serious sister on 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 feelings that we do not want to think about. the worst case scenario we're preparing for the best in the intermediate case scenario is 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 they're after you know the testing times are they keep small and best you can to fix a watch and that's the way some of the world news headlines are look at this early friday morning as reported from here in moscow my name's kevin owen here through the coming hours of any major breaking news as it might happen for you cross r.t. dot com one of our social media as well for so much more to for me in the rest of the team as i say thanks for watching the next programs or have you in your part of the world after the break.

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welcome to the alex salmond show from belfast here of the storm surge as reconvened after got over 3 years it was a further consolidation of the 22 year peace process but we're further political change on the word cannot produce hold in this free part seize on the future of northern ireland alex speaks to those who have enabled the peace process and then to members of both political communities after 4 years when northern irish politics was saying to stage largely because of its impact on the tight parliament arithmetic of breaks that we're now in a position where it just breaks it which is impacting on the politics of northern ireland the decisive christmas election in the u.k. helped break the assembly deadlock which had paralyzed provinces domestic politics

since 2017 and the storm an assembly. was reconvened within a month of pulling the british politician who had helped broker the deal was publicly funded by the prime minister and then promptly dumped from the cabinet and last month's reshuffle gillian smith held the post of northern irish secretary for a mere 204 days but he packed a great deal into his term of office and so after 3 years frozen in aspic this anger was back in business emboldened by the success the teacher called an election the republic only to find the trouble he got bogged down in domestic issues since they gain credibility from being back in government in the us the subsequent electoral breakthrough means that shane fein are competing for political leadership in both the north out of the sofa violent and on a platform of seeking a border people so what do these developments mean for the future of northern ireland as will become clear the process of bricks it unplugged changes taking

place in arlington north and south has caused both also acting on you thinking among both the nationalist i'm eunice communities now back to alex in belfast a peace process requires peace because politicians love the imagination to leap across history but it also has to be understood today i speak to professor duncan murrell norm i was foremost arcade emmott on the subject of arm to bigotry and reconciliation between communities professor morrow welcome to the exam and show thanks so much to be here. you are probably the most published academic in terms of reconciliation between the communities and northern ireland and indeed of course a view to expertise to help the n.t. say to drive in scotland import how do you get can.