russia started the code in 1000 vaccine trials promising to get results by the end of the year the countries also rolled out a number of measures to curb the spread of the virus we visit a moscow airport to see what's been put in place. the freedom is of good will control the arriving passengers have to plaster there's the infrared camera there's a thermal camera and the passenger's temperature is they could a brewer the blade. also the commons the us take tough measures to tackle the corona virus the secretary of state blames russia for spreading disinformation over the pandemic. and britain's national health service starts recruiting medical students and retired staff and trying to build an n.h.s.

army at a south facing increasing pressure and abuse and in the corner virus where. there's a lot of. questions left on and on says we need all the hope we can get. you watching our to international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned 9 pm welcome to the program. first the number of coronavirus cases has now topped a quarter of a 1000000 the pandemic has claimed more than 10000 lives worldwide with over half of those deaths in europe alone meanwhile the world health organization has begun the 1st trials of a possible back scene it will not be estimated to be available for another 12 months.

russia has also started its own coded $1000.00 vaccine trials the country does have $253.00 confirmed cases which is relatively low compared with the west but officials point to the strict measures taken early on to prevent the spread they include comprehensive checks at airports as modesty it has been finding out. 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.

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 the needs and greet the arriving passengers in russia monitor them pass them analyze them and send them to quarantine just heading to their desks a new jet has landed from europe. over the society especially she's thermal cameras on board they walk through the aisles pointing those cameras at passengers in their seats if the 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 passengers temperatures that they can abroad the blade. the they gave us mosques which is good we also have to feel out of for i don't know what's happening next they have checked 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 run through it

was revealed to be who'd been in contact with whether they'd be experienced ready with the infected. when passengers go through sheremeta for terminal f. they complete a form indicates impossible data for a 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 and the medics here are going to check them they're going to take their ad 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 sam. 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. here you can see the microscopic images of the code red 19

shown 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 a majority of russian kind of virus patients are being sent to moscow's common arca hospital r.t. discussed the pandemic with the hospital. as chief doctor and he explained why the virus hasn't spread rapidly in russia. 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 were 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 and 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. the u.s. secretary of state has december mation over the coronavirus up break and mike pumpin made clear he thinks is responsible well mufon has the details. as the united states struggles to cope with the outbreak of corona virus fingers are being pointed at russia china and iran for spreading disinformation related to the outbreak this is what we heard from u.s. secretary of state mike palm pale the issue of disinformation is there any particular locus for this decision or missioners of diffuse it's pretty diffused unfortunately but we've certainly seen it come from places like china and russia and iran but there are coordinated efforts to disparage what america is doing in an arc 70 to it to do all the things that present trying to set in motion here no evidence has been presented to back up these accusations and now we've heard from

the russian foreign ministry which has made clear that these accusations themselves are just information as russia is not engaged in any dissin from asian operations and such accusations are in effect dividing the global community and hampering relief efforts this wow accusations against russia over disinformation and thanks 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 if there are accusations you need evidence now avon's there can be any claims moral right it can be used as a part of such an aggressive informational competing in fact u.s. leaders continue to hurl accusations such as donald trump continuing to refer to it as the chinese virus and to claim that china is somehow responsible for the outbreak because they hid information or somehow engaged in behavior that hindered

relief efforts now this is donald trump and the response to his words from chinese officials if we had known about this a number of months earlier it could have been contained to that one area in china where it stood 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 he. recently some u.s. officials have made insulting comments about china amidst the pandemic outbreak these comments nor the correlate with science nor with the decisions of the world health organization this triggered strong rage among chinese people we express our condemnation the resoundingly demand of the global community seems to be for a united international effort to defeat covert 19 and end the pandemic now it seems however countries continue to exchange these accusations and that international tensions haven't diffused despite the fact that there is such

a widespread call for united action to stop the pandemic british prime minister boris johnson has succumbed to pressure and finally ordered the closure of all pubs clubs and restaurants after britons ignored official advice to stay at home it comes as the number of those infected with coke in 1000 is over 3000 with death standing at more than 180 and counting. agreement between the 4 nations of the united kingdom all the devolved administrations we are quick to be telling. telly companies pubs and restaurants to clues tonight as soon as they reasonably can u.k.'s health officials are introducing new measures by the day to cope with the epidemic but the health secretary drawing on a wartime slogan. we are writing to over 65000 nurses and doctors who recently come off the register recently retired or left the n.h.s.

and saying that your country needs the n.h.s. and the n.h.s. needs you. england's top doctor and nurse have called out to former colleagues who have left in the last 3 years to reregister to help tackle what they call the world's greatest health threat and 100 years and finally are 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. appropriate p p e e p s the protective equipment like mosques and surgical gowns and the base there is that 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 days tests come back 3 days $3.00 to $5.00 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 the appropriate p.p. and the government is addressing that and i'm hoping they do address it quickly because it's just in them going to encourage a spread of the of the disease if the nurses and doctors are protected and that would in further lower the stuffing levels. rise all the health worker we just heard from also says she was assaulted and racially abused recently on a way to an overtime night shift. out of nowhere and just elbows my rig and pushes me to the start and then the female partner came from the right hand side he then started screaming racial abuse a least when whites you effing see and code my nursing idea out and i showed it

said look i'm a nice korean nurse and we're about to go into a shoot growing up here with different different color. of the experience loads of different types of races and this fear and anxiety are causing people to look for someone to blame and the asian the asian. people are getting victimized to come into work and people i hear the other day i was just standing and someone told me to go home but china take the coronavirus with me definitely this this pandemic is i'd say as it is definitely been instrumental in increasing the amount of racial abuse being. directed to the asian asian population. to discuss all this further we're now joined by viral jess and lecturer at lancaster university dr mohamed when you're now what i think people are often talking about of this point

is the idea of herd immunity that idea that if allowing the infection to spread to other in order to build a public immunity is that something that will work. well certainly a herd immunity is one of the things that is really proven to protect the population from any infection. but the major question is how are you going to acquire this ferret immunity if you go from the national course of infection then it is fine but intentional community is no good because it will come up with a lot of false then a lot of false but so many lives before the herd immunity village even especially for such a new virus because we don't really know for how long the immunity would sustain because if we store one thing in order to unity it may take over a year or so and also a year of the immunity that is developed were there were fewer years vanished that could mean that we will be back on to experience you know and all over costs will

start again. on the other hand surely locking down entire cities or countries has a devastating effect on the economy and the lives of the citizens should there be a balance between the 2 ideas while finding a middle ground that having a little social disruption while at the same time having i mean to get built either through the force of infection or other means unfortunately we don't have x. you know at this moment but if vaccine is available then certainly that is the option to you develop even to be against the popular in the population against this canadian but also that it's finding that balance needing to sort of get the burden onto the national health system if you scratch the car and we need to avoid developing because if we do so then we will have time to develop the vaccines and back vaccine won't become available we will have a better handle on them to link this infection something interesting to note is the

fact that despite being one of the 1st countries and affected by the virus japan is currently one of the least affected despite now lockdowns are mass quarantines is there any explanation for that. well certainly depending on folks for your home quote do they have the wonderful job mainly by identifying the cases once in the beginning and then facing off the contacts and then isolating those people who are both positive and the ones who are sick and started showing clinical signs we've seen them so time in the action and are you preparing that means he already controlling this infection in these 3 countries and i think that's a that's a very good blueprint for the other point was to follow and to really make sure that as they look back to the same way i was has been done over there to really have a little impact a negative impact on the population unfortunately the time that it was ongoing in those since we were made to be here in the europe and now we did already really if you applied those years that appeared to be very fruitful well and evidence is also

emerging that there needs to be at least 2 negative tests and order for recovered patients to be safely allowed back into society and yet we see in so many countries and cities that there's not enough test to test one so is there any hope of that happening over the certainly every country is falling fast to really new fires that we're all testing the past city and we need to get sand to the levels where they can test not only individuals before they admitted to the hospital but before they're really. from the hospital to be tested negative so that there is no chance that the person who is moving from also carrying the virus but on fortunately that is not the kids that. there are so many patients out there and what you can see now is that the population that is positive is lot more than the capacity of the health care system so as it stands now it's almost impossible to screen everyone in the society as a call impulse it will have more time to develop the cure that can be done easily

maybe at home or at the wild places now would be the time that we would be able to apply more than once but as it stands now it is already slowing the system will work. at this point we do know of a couple of vaccine trials taking place but how long will we have to wait before a real vaccine tried and true is riding well this time in this circle when. the information about to be provided by the chinese scientific community right from the beginning has been extremely helpful inch working the charting required for developing about 2 out of the experiments now we have a few vaccines that are running in a different state is up if you can try it so although the audit if miscarriages of unical started still there is a long way to go so he has to want to can expect for a vaccine to become available in the future would be many moment 8 months before that it's almost impossible to have a vaccine that is saved into community and i just want to highlight here is that some people we've already why is that so long time that trying to develop

a vaccine is meaning made in a month or 2 you could have a vaccine and many have already to model the vaccine that when you're trying to acquire is to look onto the safety profile of the laxey because the worst thing you want to see is that the vaccine is deployed in the field to come back in faction but the it does more harm than good so that's the worst case scenario we don't want to really go there for trying to. have because the enemy you know steve has a meeting and then pete that is me if i'm mistaken by are all just and lecture at lancaster university in the u.k. dr mohamed win here thank you for joining us on the program sherry expertise now while the government is busy with the n.h.s. and trying to stop people socialising played by cup went to have a look at the u.k. supermarkets and the way of a panic buying. things you really see a global. story a pandemic is global as now there's a trolley. cars. just the one lonely trolley until at.

least freaking out. people queuing for bread. queueing for bridge. not funny anymore. one ketchup bottle. section is really. based fish and chips and one. and all the meat that you could not buy something ever has become a con of all here at home searching to companies diet and now there's no meat and loads of vegan stuff on the shelves where's the bread. nothing. what do you do if 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. what to believe them for the 1st take a one in one out of $100.00 you know if you're out there about every month you know . why did you come here oh no did you think you would be smiling if you are here i thought that. was a 3rd day of total lockdown in france the police have issued more than $4000.00 fines for those who break ornstein rules the number of corner in the country has jumped to 372 and as people continue to breach the lockdown 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 too likely there are people who

think they're modern day heroes by breaking the rules while they are in fact e.t. its friends went into a 15 day quarantine on tuesday for only permitted to leave the house for certain specific reasons like buying basic necessities helping a relative or walking a dog anyone caught leaving without written explanation is fine of 125 euros. ahead of the looming lockdown of many persians packed their bags and started fleeing to the countryside must but many locals in the regions are now afraid the virus will be brought right to their doors charlotte n.c. 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 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 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 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 very create patients to the mainland concerned about the influx of people trying to escape the city so much 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 fronts 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.

paris. as israel battles the spread of covert 1000 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 100 protests of the anti outbreak measures imposed despite a ban on mass gatherings. people flew black flags as a symbol of a black day for democracy or protest as were detained by police near the parliament building by shutting down the court system that you know who has effectively postponed his own corruption trial elementary proceedings have also been suspended which opponents say stops them from pushing for a planned legislation against the prime minister who is also under fire from anti surveillance activists for approving emergency spy powers to stop the spread of the virus the prime minister says the moves are essential to deal with the pandemic but

opposition groups and analysts warn they are undemocratic. we need to be very careful not to even approach the margins of dictatorship the 1st coronavirus dictatorship and you know who lost the elections so under the pretext of fights in corona he's closed the israeli parliament or the people to stay in their homes and this issue and lots of emergency decrees he wishes this is called a dictatorship about last week has angered netanyahu son who lashed out at the israeli historian we ask you to levy a columnist at israel's parents' newspaper if netanyahu is indeed getting political benefit from the spread of the pandemic. the 3 always menage in this crisis is in quite a reasonable way i would show if this were the right measures in the same time he benefits and rolled politically and he does anything possible to benefit as much as possible from this crisis 1st of all because spreading fears is

a 2nd name and secondly because he as i said before seems to handle it and many people want to see him right now at the prime minister's office at least until this this crisis would be over and ought to lead to someone who has no experience and was never prime minister was never a minister running this crisis so he gained a lot out of it no doubt that's a breakdown of today's top headlines for now but if you're looking for more you can always head on over to our website r.t. dot com thanks for tuning in this hour.

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