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russia starts with 19 vaccine trials promising to get results by the end of the year countries are also rolling out a number of measures to curb the spread of the virus we visit a moscow airport to see what's being put in place that. there are 3 layers of good will control that will ride with passengers have to pass through this infrared camera there's a thermal camera and the passengers temperatures if they could a broad played. britain's national health service start increasing medical students and retired staff in a drive to build an n.h.s. that is staff face increasing pressure. to corona virus burden. there's a lot of. questions left unanswered we need all the help we can get.
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more than 10000 coronavirus cases have been reported in the west from those shifts the blame to chinese officials saying that they failed to share information on the outbreak. follow their 5 pm in moscow you're watching international the corona virus pandemic has claimed more than 10000 lives worldwide more than 246000 people have been effect infected so far and the death toll in italy has now surpassed that of china meanwhile the world health organization has become the 1st trials of a possible vaccine although it will be an estimated 12 months before it's available .
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well russia has also started its own code with 19 vaccine trials the country already has 200 confirmed cases of his murder gassier visited moscow sheremetyevo airport to see possible reasons why the number of infections in russia is relatively 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 i don't have 4 memories i did up in quarantine for almost 3 weeks.
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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. here the frontline troops the medics that need and greet the arriving passengers in russia monitor them test them analyze them and send them to quarantine they're just heading to their desks a new jet has landed from europe. it was just so science haitian specialists use thermal cameras on board they walked through the aisles pointing those cameras at passengers in their seats if the
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passengers are 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 passenger's temperature is it taken abroad the blade. the more they give 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. this is the baggage claim area they've just passed passport control at this 3rd the temperature has been taken 3 times 3 times already they have been robbed for it was
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revealed to be who'd been in contact with whether they be. infected. when passengers go through sheremeta terminal f. they complete a form indicates impossible data phone number and address we check their flight and seat numbers give them a list of anti epidemic instructions and explain that they need to comply with these rules in the midfield to get a check from they're going to take. they could 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 i've cleared 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. but i guess moscow sheremetyevo airport now here you can
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see the microscopic images of the covert 19 shown by russian scientists the russian health ministry says that the 1st complete genome of the virus was deciphered from a sample taken from an infected patient the majority of russian coronavirus patients are being sent to moscow's. common or the hospital are to discuss the pandemic with the hospital's adult to explain why the virus hasn't so far spread rapidly in russia. most of. 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 in moscow relating to contacts in corinth
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gene 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 there's a number of those infected with cope with 19 passes 3000 in the u.k. and almost 150 deaths health officials they're introducing new measures to cope with the health secretary drawing on a wartime slogan and i'm saying your n.h.s. needs. we are calling on nurses and doctors who've recently left the n.h.s. to return we need you now as part of the national effort to fight coronavirus. as part of the plans to help britain tackle a crisis is national health service will try to recruit more than 65000 former health workers under the new drive with the slogan the n.h.s. needs england's top doctor and nurse of nurses have called out to former colleagues
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who have left in the last 3 years to register to help tackle what they call the world's greatest health threat in 100 years also final year medical students will be offered temporary paid jobs. there are enough trained who are who are experienced to do to deal with with the issue with coronavirus patients they're bringing in student nurses they're bringing in retired nurses a lot of doctors and nurses were concerned that it wasn't. the appropriate p.p. it be the protective equipment like masks and surgical gowns and the base there is the cover you from droplets the protection that you have when you're dealing with queries isn't enough you're literally just hoping that you will test negative i mean these these tests come back 3 days 3 to 5 days is fair enough if they come back 2 hours 8 hours after they've been tested but the fact that we're not getting
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the appropriate p.p.a. and the government is addressing that and i'm hoping they do address it quickly because it's just in them going to encourage the spread of the disease if the nurses and doctors are protected and that wouldn't further lower the starving levels. resilin the health working just heard from there also said that she was assaulted and racially abused recently on her way to an overtime night shift. out of nowhere and just elbows my ribs and pushes me to the side and then the female partner came from the right hand side then started screaming racial abuse saying at least where whites you effing see and code my nursing idea out and i showed it to her said look i'm a nice we're nasty and we're about to go into shit growing up here we're different different color. of the experience loads of different types of races and this fear
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and anxiety are causing people to look for someone to blame and the asian the asian. people are getting victimized come into work and people like you here the other day i was just standing and someone told me to go home but china to. me definitely this this pandemic because i would say. it is definitely been instrumental in increasing the amount of racial abuse being. directed to the asian asian population now while the n.h.s. does try to cope prime minister boris johnson has reassured the public in an update conference that the u.k. can turn the tide on the coronavirus 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 with possible and also avoiding pubs however some are refusing to comply with the pub
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ban including the prime minister's father correspondent shadi at which daschle went to investigate whether stanley johnston is the only brit refusing to give up his social drinking. most brits are treating coronavirus very seriously here to get advice to stay at home avoid social gatherings and avoid travel completely the new 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 theatres and other such social. well london's liquor lovers are waking up to a new however 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. problems you think what you think is sun's going to say
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they just told you not to he said before going to pubs but if i had to go to a pub or go to a bar so the p.m.'s dad's got a plan for that one stand but then say use a bring up the 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 one 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 was 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 pub because there's no one here and check
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out this park right in the heart of london it's wine time brews a clock and not single insight on the story is no different in this pop either not exactly having a whale of a time with all of my friends hardly 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 started johnson is the last man standing. there was investigating the situation involved when to have a look at the u.k.'s supermarkets amid a wave of panic buying. things you only see global. pandemic is global as now there's no trolleys. was. just the one lonely trolley and take out all. the freaking out. people queuing for bread. queuing for a bridge. not funny anymore one ketchup bottle.
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section is really. based fish and chips anyone. and all the meat that you could not but something ever has 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 to eat nothing. but 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 closed waiting to get in there one in one out i don't want to believe them for the 1st ok one in
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100 years no one i know you're not on there about that remark you know. why did you come here oh no did you think you would be smiling that you feel relieved to hear. but with paris being faced. since there have fled to the countryside. exactly met with. anyone just off.
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each simulating civilization would be able to run using a tiny fraction of its resources. hundreds of thousands millions of runs through all of human history almost all. beings with our kinds of experiences with them to simulate the box rather than on simulated ones and conditional that are good we should think we are probably one of the simulated ones. again you without saying now the 3rd day of total lockdown in front of the police if they shoot more than $4000.00 fines for violate says the number of coronavirus deaths in the country has jumped to 300 $72.00 and as people do continue to bridge
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the meltdown the french government has lashed out at 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 to likely. there are people who think they're modern day heroes by breaking the rules while they are in fact e.d.s. well france went into a 15 day quarantine on tuesday you're only permitted to leave your home if you have specific reasons for doing so like buying basic necessities helping a relative or walking a dog anybody caught leaving without a written explanation is fined $135.00 euros now ahead of the looming lockdown many parisians did pack their bags and started fleeing to the countryside on mass but many locals in the regions are now afraid that the virus will be brought right to
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their doorstep challenged reports. 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 or mass at their destinations they weren't exactly being welcomed with open arms i understand that presents want 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 is pressure since our hospitals here are small but regions who go to il durant despite being potentially contaminated do you think we have your hospitals no we 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
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have 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 poor 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 2 very creepy sions to the mainland concerned about the influx of people trying to escape the city so much storage fees have taken action in $1.00 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
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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 jollity. r.t. paris. now over in the u.s. the number of coronavirus cases there is over 10000 and president trump has laid the blame firmly at china's door he's accusing beijing of failing to share information something that china flatly denies more on the story his. 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 wild donald trump has decided to blame china if we had known about this
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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 that comes from china that's why 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. recently some u.s. officials have made insulting comments about china amidst the pandemic outbreak these comments know the correlate with science with the decisions of the world health organization. good strong rage among chinese people we express our condemnation now it's not just china disapproving of trump on this one the world
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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 iran iran is one of the countries that is worst hit with its health services dangerously overloaded officials are saying that millions could die but
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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 iran's resources needed in the fight against 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 edging 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's alone provide some kind of leadership role during this global crisis the 1st thing it should do is cause no harm economic sanctions as the u.s. is applying against iran cuba venezuela and other countries because
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a man's home 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 but a 1st time during the vote since the opening of all of. this reporting 000 s. the case compared to what happened in the west was already a great deal of cooperation between china horse and the. scientists working at the kind of vaccine and try to identify the data all of the origin is seen it also should between china and the european countries for. and other countries also like the united states but what's wrong with trying to do is that of course the most important. thing all is well busy is chances it will action. and then there's. this wire it's struck setting rattling them and that's why he's so openly
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on the picket. show the whole country with. but i think that's not good result probably because money doesn't so the virus. but israel battles the spread of covert 19 with more than 700 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 the following a ban on mass gatherings hundreds protested the anti outbreak measures by shutting down the court system netanyahu has effectively perspiring design corruption trial elementary proceedings have also been suspended which opponents say stops them from pushing forward planned legislation against the prime minister netanyahu was also under fire from antiphanes activists reproving emergency spy powers to stop the
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spread of the coronavirus the prime minister says the moves are essential to deal with the pandemic but opposition groups manly school and they are undemocratic. we need to be very careful not to even approach the margins of dictatorship. the 1st coronavirus dictatorship netanyahu lost the elections so under the pretext of fighting karuna he's closed the israeli parliament ordered people to stay in their homes and this issue will serve emergency decrees he wishes this is called a dictatorship while the last tweet there has angered netanyahu his son who lashed out at the israeli historian we ask it in levy a columnist at israel's her ex newspaper if netanyahu is indeed gaining political benefit from the spread of the pandemic in the country. with a always many aging this crosses in quite a reasonable way i would show if this were the right measures in the same time he benefits a lot politically and he does anything possible to benefit as much as possible from
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this crisis 1st of all because spreading fears is a 2nd. and secondly because he as i said before seems to have only many people want to see him break now at the prime minister's office at least until this. crisis would be over and ought to lead to someone who is no experience and was never prime minister was never a minister running this crisis so he gets a lot out of it lo though. another nice today the afghan government reportedly ordered military operations to regime against the taliban on thursday the defense minister the minister to declare a cease fire so we can concentrate all resources on tackling the coronavirus he also stated that afghan forces could move from defense to active defense.
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where he'd read it there has been no decrease in enemy attacks today when struck all our forces to adopt a more active defensive stance this means that there will be fewer limitations and wherever the enemy chooses to attack we will have the right to defend ourselves this all comes less than a month after the signing of a peace deal between washington and the taliban the agreement was much reached after more than 18 years of war and it included the complete u.s. withdrawal from the country a pledge to hold talks between the taliban and the afghan government as well as a prisoner swap however kabul was not party to the cream and we did contact the afghan ministry of defense to comment on the situation and will let you know what they say when they reply meanwhile political analyst mushtaq believes the deal was pretty much doomed from the very beginning of the negotiations well but responsibility for the given situation must be shared by all parties are the moment
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right from the beginning of the peace process the americans have been pushing the are one government close to the wall on making them to dig decisions in favor of the palace at a time where the taliban have been trying to. do sure as if. the current state and they don't want to talk to the students to tuition it's a very delicately poised situation it is and it's quite for a giant situation where the americans would have a deal with the taliban but be it won't be an interim agreement on the future of the country which leaves a gun and 3 very much exposed to. proliferation of the civil war you're watching r.t. going to have a company don't forget though as always plenty of stories to you and the latest on the coronavirus or break at our website you can find that at r.t. talk.
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