russia starts with 19 vaccine trials promising to get results by the end of the year the country is also rolling out a number of measures to curb the spread of the virus we visit to moscow airport to see what's being put in place. there are 3 layers of good will control that will ride with passengers have to pass through the infrared camera there's a thermal camera and the passages temperatures that they could a brewer to the plate. over 10000 coronavirus cases being reported in the us from a shift the blame on the chinese if the shoe saying that they failed to share information about the outbreak early enough on the number of deaths in france jumped sharply as the country's interior minister. great music idiots some 4000

people have been fined for breaching the law. it's 3 pm here in moscow you're watching international the coronavirus pandemic has claimed more than 10000 lives worldwide more than 250000 people are infected with the disease at the moment and the death toll in italy has surpassed that of china's meanwhile the world health organization has begun trials of a possible vaccine but it is estimated it could take 12 months before it's available. you know. meanwhile russia has started its own code with 19 vaccine trials the country has

200 confirmed cases. of physics had moscow sheremetyevo airport to find out why the number of infections in russia is low compared with the west. welcome to sherry and that's in the airport where officials have invited us to reassure the russian public that they are doing everything possible to prevent the spread of the covert 19 virus here in russia now personally i would have taken them at their word and left it at that but juicy cools i was here last a month ago when strict travel controls just came into play ironed out for memories and did up in quarantine for almost 3 weeks. the. sanitation here is on steroids according to latest studies the

virus can survive in various services for up to 9 hours so obviously they need to keep everything very clean. so here the frontline troops the medics the needs and greet the arriving passengers and russia monitor them test them analyze them and send them to quarantine just heading to their desks a new jet has landed from europe. sanitation specially she's thermal cameras on board they walk through the almost points in those cameras a passenger's in their seats if the person is a healthy they can leave the plane there are 3 layers of thermal control that all

arriving passengers have to pass through there's this infrared camera there's a thermal camera and the passengers temperatures that they can a brood the blade. they gave us mosques which is good we also have to feel out of for i don't know what's happening next they're checking us with thermal cameras i think they're doing the right thing. so they all left the jet this is the baggage claim area they've just passed passport control at this 3rd their temperature has been taken 3 times 3 times already there finrod forums where they'll be who've been in contact with whether

they've been experienced really with infected. passengers going through sheremeta for time and they complete a form indicating a possible date or phone number and address you check their flight numbers give them a list of anti epidemic instructions and explain that they need to comply with these rules. are going to check them they're going to take their at their good advise them they're going to check through it. takes web samples and 7 may have to get tested after that one of these people are going to be said for say. the medics however at the stations day and night working in shifts while the infection may have slowed international travel to a trickle of its former self there are still thousands and thousands of people waiting to get back home. or a ghastly of their to moscow sheremetyevo airport where you can see the microscopic images of the 19 showing by russian scientists the russian health ministry says the

1st complete genome of the virus was deciphered from a sample taken from an infected patient. russian coronavirus patients are being sent to moscow's common arca hospital r.t. to discuss the pandemic with the hospital's chief delta he explained why the virus hasn't so far spread rapidly in russia. plus. the situation in moscow is very open we get constant updates on the overall situation which are accurate the age ranges going up the 1st patients were aged between 30 and 35 people returning from the travels no it's the people who came into contact with them who are typically 37 and older so far we're not seeing an exponential spread of the virus this is no miracle its due to the tough measures in place and moscow relating to contacts in corn team i see several ways this crisis might go if russia follows

the chinese example then i expected to end in may or june but if russia sees an italian style response then it won't end till september. meanwhile in the us the number of coronavirus cases there as nice a past 10000 and president donald trump has tried laying the blame to china's door he accuses beijing of failing to share information a statement that china condemns as more the story. the coronavirus pandemic is not just claiming lives it's also threatening to take down donald trump's number one boast a strong u.s. economy at this point with the stock market going while donald trump has decided to blame china if we had known about this a number of months earlier it could have been contained to that one area in china where it started and certainly the world is paying a big price for what they did in the world is paying a very big price for not for not letting them come out everybody knows that trump

has decided to even give the virus a new name i would like to begin by announcing some important developments in a war against the chinese virus the chinese virus comes from china to support this kind of language has of course infuriated beijing the country's foreign minister put out a strong message for those playing the blame game to. recently some u.s. officials have made insulting comments about china amidst the pandemic outbreak these comments none of the correlate with science nor with the decisions of the world health organization. triggered strong rage among chinese people we express our condemnation now it's not just china disapproving of trump on this one the world health organization has asked donald trump to cut it out viruses no new borders and they don't care about your ethnicity the color of your skin or how much money you have in the bank so it's really important would be careful in the

language we use less did lead to the profiling of individuals associated with the virus now for all those looking to blame china it's worth looking into their vast global efforts to stem the pandemic donating test kits to cambodia and planeloads of masks and ventilators to france and italy along with medical teams they've pledged to help the philippines spain and other countries chinese doctors are on their way to iraq and iran president she called. today health silk road pledging to get assistance where it's needed planetwide look at america's response overseas take a look at iraq iran is one of the countries that is worst hit with its health services dangerously overloaded officials are saying that millions could die but yet iran is being hit with more u.s. sanctions donald trump is maliciously tightening the u.s. illegal sanctions with the aim of draining neurons resources needed in the fight against covert 19 while our citizens are dying from it the world can no longer be

silent as u.s. economic terrorism is supplanted by its medical terrorism in a letter to counterparts hassan rouhani informs her efforts to fight the covert 1000 pandemic in iran have been seriously hampered by u.s. sanctions on them to cease observing him it is immoral to let a bully kill innocents cuba and venezuela are both in the early stages of an outbreak now both countries are going to face huge hurdles of crippling us restrictions if the us government is going to assist other countries let alone provide some kind of leadership role during this global crisis the 1st thing it should do is cause no harm and economic sanctions as the u.s. is applying against iran cuba venezuela and other countries cause amends harm to state the obvious the virus does not discriminate we're all in this together so why would anyone want to inflame international tensions or inflict economic damage to nations at a time like this caleb mop and art see new york. ok let's

discuss trump's comments about china a bit further because we're joined now by andrew long he's a political analyst a very welcome andrew is president trying to have a point here he's saying that the world is paying a big price simply because china didn't notify the rest of the world early enough about the outbreak of the virus in china itself. well i mean that's if they're at the beginning of course and the time is political system especially when this virus was totally new there was not sufficient evidence that it would pass from people who proposed the person so quickly so it was kind of understandable although in retrospect the probie make a mistake and the beginning and that's why recently china's set out and investigation in the past that the local officials for hiding some of the facts but then said that though china. come to grips with this in

a big big way as pointed out earlier in your put age china has now. got to such a situation well under control and then for the 1st time during the bulk of since the opening of the end of this virus china's reporting 000 s. that case i compared this what happened in the west and then the window of opportunity allowing the west to get the pair has been totally lost including in the united states and also. 111 just referred to the fact and also pointed out by the world health organization guideline is that you know you never read something wires according to country or race a typical example is what happened in the united states in the year 2000 and knowing 2010 when the whole kind of swine fever the h one n one. influenza was spreading from the united states to the rest of the ringback

world affecting something like 1300000000 people won't why resulting in almost all of a 1000000 deaths now out to use the same logic what that h one n one. well why pen. be branded the american influence or american response to the whole world i mean that's why the hero. of the sky is low in the country so just read this kind of virus according to country money to the. origin really work together to solve that was essentially all because viruses got bill bunbury is now one solace has passed andrew and we don't know how long that will be the big question will be will where did it all start how did it all start and presumably there's going to be

a lot of global cooperation but given trump's language and pointing the finger at beijing say worley what are the chances that these countries can work together to find out exactly what happened. i think there was already 'd a great deal of a corporation between try to pause and it up b.t.o. scientists working at the kind of vaccine and try to identify and share data on the origin of this vaccine and how many different strands the parents of this kind of a scene and so on so forth and also a great deal of cooperation between china and certain european countries for example and other countries outside the united states but trump is trying to do is that of course the most important for those staying on his mind is chances of this election campaign and then this. this virus it's threat threatening rattling them and that's why he's opening 'd up the the picket. line and shower the whole country

with a cup of money but i think that it's not going to solve the problem because money doesn't stop the virus and the lack of testing kits. don't don't the reason the number was so low in the beginning only about 200 cases at the beginning of march now it's over 10000 because there are more testing done so i think that we're only seeing the beginning of a true intrade army i mean all this number of cases assaulted by something like 80 times in less than a month in the united states and that is over 10000 and you can see such a great great kind of thing playing out and then where we only see what's happening in the law of the land was clear what about africa what about latin america and some of the developing countries why is there no case is this a game they have not been tested here. and also even don't only in the south have a sphere even in the of the hemisphere countries like india for example is still

reporting very very low cases and some of the asian countries because they simply lack the testing infrastructure and they held in press. a lot of people are in there all the way out of the blue but actually those. viruses already spreading i think is going to be a huge global. challenge we always see in the beginning sure ok andrew always good to talk to leave it there was a 100 on political analyst thank you thank you very much. in the u.k. the number of those infected by covert 19 has surpassed 3000 with the death toll reaching almost 150 british prime minister boris johnson has reassured the public though the u.k. can turn the tide on the crisis within 12 weeks the british government has asked the public to do a range of things among them stopping unnecessary travel working from home if possible and avoiding pubs however some are refusing to comply with the pub ban

including the prime minister's parker our correspondent at which daschle went to investigate whether stanley johnson is the only brit refusing to give up his social drinking. most brits are treating coronavirus very seriously heeding advice to stay at home avoid social gatherings and avoid travel completely so when the prime minister advised against going to pubs the sound that was fine we need people to start working from home where they possibly can and you should avoid pubs clubs theaters and other such social. well london's liquor lovers are waking up to a new hangover free reality but for others if you need a drink you need a drink especially if you played a part in creating the man behind this very strange change of sobering rules when you go to the pubs are not. the problems you think what you think you sounds going

to sideline just told you not who he said before going to the pub but if i have to go to a pub i go to a bar so the p.m.'s does go to plan for that one but then say use a bring up a storm online some are questioning why the prime minister's very own father is questioning his own coronavirus meshes is he wrong whereas others are saying well actually the situation has been blown up i mean larger than proportion what creates a need for want to go to the park after consulting with my father stanley johnson we are updating our coronavirus advice from now on anyone who developed symptoms must head straight for the pub can we stop bringing stanley johnson on to the t.v. he's not an elected official and he's a danger in the current climate. well we tried all day to find a single punter in london but to no avail well tonight might be a bit more fruitful at least not at this problem because there's no one here and

check out this part right in the heart of london it's wine time booze o'clock and not a single booze or insight on the story is no different in this pub either not exactly having a whale of a time with one of my friends halakhah me the world's greatest pub crawl but with a general u.k. lockdown looming it seems like pubs like this will be calling all stores anyway though it does seem that stanley johnson is the last man standing i wash idea i had was there was an investigation situation and i did go and have a look at the supermarkets amid a wave of panic buying. things you only see a global pandemic. very important because globalism that there's no trolleys. was. just the one lonely trolley can take out all. the freaking out. people queuing for bread. queuing for

a bridge. not funny anymore one ketchup bottle. section is really. based fish and chips and one. and all the meat that you could not but some you haven't become a carnival here at home searching to plant based diet and now there's no meat and loads of vegan stuff on the shelves whereas the bread. nothing. to do you look you know you don't know what you're looking for. nothing in the frozen food section. oh no wait there is something there is a massive queue for the checkout so i thought it would be a good idea to go to a chinese supermarket. i was wrong waiting to get in there one in one out don't want to believe them for the 1st ok one in one

out of $100.00 you know you're on there about every month you know ok ok why did you come here oh no did you think you would be smiling if you argue. with a total lockdown in france meanwhile the police have issued more than $4000.00 fines for violating the number of corona virus deaths in the country has jumped to $372.00 and as people continue to breach the lockdown the french government to sharply criticized citizens for not taking the situation seriously enough. when i see people still going to the park to get together or heading to the beach or to open markets they seem not to understand the message from the authorities a lot of our fellow citizens are still taking this too likely there are people who think they're modern day heroes by breaking the rules while they are in fact e.g. it's france went into a 15 day on tuesday you are only permitted to leave the house for certain specific

reasons like buying basic necessities helping a relative or walking a dog anybody caught leaving without a written explanation is fined $135.00 euros well as the strict measures were announced parisian packed their bags and started playing to the countryside on mass locals they were in the regions now afraid that they will bring the virus to them shove it up in ski reports on the. for many parisians the idea of a look down meant one thing only the holidays had come early and with that and those that could vacated the city before the confinement began but as parisians deserted their city on mass at their destinations they weren't exactly being welcomed with open arms i understand that presents wanted to go to the countryside but our ecosystem is fragile we must be careful we hold the present did not bring

the virus read them especially since our hospitals here are small but regions who go to build around despite being potentially contaminated do you think we have your hospitals no you have small hospitals which are overcrowded in normal times stop go into 2nd homes to flee will your potential cure yours in some rural areas signs of appeared essentially accusing parisians of spreading the virus others are concerned that those scenes we've seen of supermarkets ransacked by desperate shoppers who are who are doing food could now be about to hit their communities some say that's already happened there are also concerns that if the forest does take hold in the regions health services will be overwhelmed and able to cope there is clearly a risk of overcrowding for a local hospital we do not have an intensive care unit and we have to evacuate

patients to the mainland concerned about the influx of people trying to escape the city some sorties have taken action in one part of brittany all rental accommodation has been banned on 4 islands until the end of march warnings have also been issued to parisians reminding them that they are not on holiday things may not be about to get any easier. 15 days of confinement already felt like a lifetime to many here in france but it seems that they're going to have to buckle in for an even longer journey the country's director general of public health has warned an extension will be very likely necessary show that even ski. paris. now israel battles the spread of covert 19 with more than $700.00 cases registered the country's caretaker prime minister and his party have

been accused of using the crisis to hold on to power after inconclusive elections defying a ban on mass gatherings hundreds protested the anti outbreak measures by shutting down the core system for example netanyahu has effectively perspire on his own corruption trial on entry proceedings have also been suspended which opponents say stops them from pushing forward planned legislation against the prime minister netanyahu who is also under fire from anti surveillance activists for approving emergency spy powers to stop the spread of coronavirus or the prime minister says the moves are essential to deal with a pandemic but opposition and civil rights groups warn they are undemocratic. the 1st coronavirus dictatorship netanyahu lost the elections so under the pretext of fighting karuna he's close the israeli parliament ordered people to stay in their homes and this issue lots of emergency decrees he wishes this is called a dictatorship even in a time of crisis one should not lose the basic structure of the government. he

still has to remember that he's not a ruler of a country there is no judicial branch in israel there is no legislative branch in israel there is only an unelected government that is headed by a person who lost the election you can cool that by a lot of names it isn't a democracy we need to be very careful not to even approach the margins of dictatorship. ok release now or they're giving levy he's a columnist at newspaper in israel he joins us this afternoon and good afternoon afternoon she get in do you think that netanyahu here is really exploiting the situation for his own political gain or is he just taking measures that any sensible leader should dig under the circumstances. it can be both. these men are doing this crisis in quite a reasonable way i would show if these were the right measures but up till now

until now it seems that he manages the crosas quiet. way and in the same time he benefits a lot politically and he does anything possible to benefit as much as possible from this crisis and i don't see the contradiction between the 2 it's both what about the measures he's imposed to sort of track coronavirus for example people who've contract the virus and i sort of followed around using data from their mobile phone i think that was a nice before if you were thought perhaps to be a palestinian terrorist people believe these measures are going to sing far can you understand that. look for me all this discussion is always a little artificial and ridiculous because to speak about those measures and to forget that israel is using those measures for decades and much much worse measures we do much much less supervision. in the occupied territories is really

a little bit playing with ourselves in those who are so sensitive now to those measures you hardly heard them so out all the decades in which the same brutal the same secret services of israel be used those measures almost in an unlimited way on the palestinians so for me to be shocked now that for one week or one man's those measures will be also implied also in the israelis is not such a shock because look at what's going on in our backyard what are the political ramifications for israel because it's come at a difficult time for israel politically i mean rival benny gantz has been invited to form a government netanyahu is obviously looking to hold on to power how much of this is central say what people in israel are thinking about at the moment to relay are

they pretty much concerned about coronaviruses like elsewhere. here they're pretty much a concern about virus and maybe even more than other countries. but i think the drama in israel is maybe even stronger than some western countries daily endless endless reports on t.v. people don't speak about anything else but about cor a virus there's no other issue on the table and people are really concerned because it is so unknown it's something that we never faced before and yes politically always gaining out of it 1st of all because spreading fuse is a 2nd name and secondly because he as i said before seems to handle it quite in a way way and many people even many of his critics want to see him right

now. at the prime minister's office at least until this. crisis would be over and not to let this someone who is north koreans say he was never prime minister was never minister running this crisis so he gets a local profitable though very interesting look we're going to leave it there gideon always good to talk to you i was getting there been a columnist newspaper there in tel aviv thank you. for having the u.k. government has unveiled a new draft legislation that protects its military personnel and veterans from prosecution for alleged historical offenses in conflicts overseas. for decades the men and women of our armed forces have been faced with the prospect of repeated investigations by inquest and police despite the vast majority having acted in accordance with the rule of law and often at great personal risk that is why the government will today legislate to protect our veterans against repeated reinvestigation.