but. russia starts tobit $1000.00 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. there it really is a good move controls the world arriving passengers have to pass through there's infra red camera there's a thermal camera and the passages temperatures they could a brewery the blade. also this hour as the u.s. takes tough measures to tackle the corona virus outbreak the secretary of state blames russia for spreading this information over the pandemic. and last orders in the u.k. as boris johnson poses all pubs and restaurants and while his government scrambles

to build and just army staff face increasing pressure and abuse i mean the coronavirus part. you're watching r t international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. first the number of corona virus 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 the world health organization has begun the 1st trials of a possible vaccine but it will be an estimated 12 months before it's available. russia has also started its own kobe $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 more aggressive 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. so here the frontline troops the medics that need 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. the society special issues 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 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 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 very good 3 times 3 times already they have been routed 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 terminal and they complete a form indicates a possible data phone number and address we check their flight 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 from they're going to take the 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 sanskrit the medics at least the state should. not let see while the infection may have smoothed international travel to its legal of its former self there are still thousands and thousands of people waiting to get back. here you can see microscopic images of coded 19 shown by russian scientists the

country's health ministry says the 1st complete genome of the virus was deciphered from a sample taken from an infected patient a majority of russian coronavirus patients are being sent to moscow's common arca hospital r.t. discussed the pandemic with the hospital's chief doctor and he explained why the virus hasn't spread rapidly in russia. most of. the situation in moscow is very open and 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 that 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 and corn. 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 season italian

style response then it won't end until september u.s. secretary of state has slammed this information over the corona virus outbreak and my pump am made clear who he thinks is responsible he'll often 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 deceit information 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 where there are coordinated efforts to disparage what america is doing in an arc to the to the to do all the things the president 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 distant from ation 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 with this information and thanks about the coronavirus spread in europe and the whole world are being disinformation and create themselves let's take a look at the presumption of innocence here is their occupations you know an avid institution out of them there can be any clean gesturing you know it can be used as a part of such an aggressive informational can in fact u.s. leaders continue to hurl accusations such as donald trump continuing to refer to it as the chinese the 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 would not. for not letting them come out everybody knows that. recently some u.s. officials have made insulting comments about china amidst the pandemic outbreak these comments know the correlate with. with the decisions of the world health organization. good strong rage among chinese people express 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 come to pressure and finally ordered the closure of all pubs bars and restaurants after britons ignored official advice to stay at home it comes as the number of those infected with cove in 1000 is over 3000 with death standing at more than 180 and counting in the country. but we need agreement between the 4 nations of the united kingdom all the devolved ministrations we are quick to be telling tele cafes 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 pandemic 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 also final year medical students will be offered temporary paid jobs there aren't 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 bases 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 for 8 hours after they've been tested but the fact that we're not getting the appropriate p.p.a. and the government is addressing that and i'm hoping they do address it quickly because it's just and then going to encourage a spread of the the disease if the nurses and doctors are protected and that would in further lower the staffing levels. rise all the health worker we just heard from also reported that she was assaulted and racially abused recently on her way to an overtime night shift. out of nowhere some man just elbows my rig and pushes me to the side and then the female partner came from the right hand side he then started screaming racial abuse saying at least where whites you effing see and code my nursing idea out and i showed it said look i'm

a nice we're now soon we're about to go into a shoot going 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 come into work and people i hear the other day i was just standing and someone told me to go back to china take the coronavirus with me definitely this this pandemic has. has it is definitely been instrumental in increasing the amount of racial abuse being. directed to the asian asian population and while the government is busy with the n.h.s. and trying to stop people socialising boy i went to have a look at the u.k. supermarkets i met a boy of of panic buying. things you only see global. story

a pandemic is global as now there's no trolleys. was. 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 anyone. and all the meat you could not but some you haven't become a con of all your ever researching took companies. and now there's no meat and loads of vegan stuff on the shelves whereas the bread. nothing. what do you think you. either do or where you live. 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 hour. what to believe them for the 1st ok one in one hour and $100.00 after you're done just about everything ok why did you come here oh no did you think you would be smiling if you argue. with things 3rd day of total lockdown in france the police have issued more than $4000.00 fines for those who break cornton rules a number of coronavirus tests in the country has jumped 372 and as people continue to breach the lockdown the french government has lashed out at simpson's 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.d.'s friends went into a 15 day quarantine onto say people are 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 a written explanation is time to 135 year us. ahead of the looming lockdown many persians packed their bags and started playing to the countryside but many locals in the regions are now afraid the virus will be brought right to their doors politicians kaye 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 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 prisoners did not bring the virus with them is specially 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 2 very creepy patients to the mainland concerned about the influx of people trying to escape the city some of 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 even ski. paris the world's biggest carmaker volkswagen is suspending production worldwide the company which owns brown's like skoda audi porsche built more than 10000000 vehicles last year more than any other car maker given the present significant deterioration in the sales situation and the heightened uncertainty regarding parts applies to a plunge production is to be suspended in the near future operated by group bronze . decision falls similar moves by other mass car makers toyota b.m.w. and more have all shuttered their plants in the global health crisis and the e.u. along the sector is responsible for around 14000000 jobs. is causing huge problems for the u.s. job market too with the country's unemployment claims seeing one of the largest

spikes on record the u.s. labor department has reported several $100000.00 claims filed forecasts are dire with some predicting that there will be millions of jobless americans by next week . at oriel director at american institute for economic research jeffrey tucker says the global economy is facing increasing pressure by the day. this is the kind of decision that the private sector has to make amends to some extent also the responding to demands to is for social distancing in and there's a lot of public pressure public sector pressure on private companies just to shut down which is in many ways tragic and i think there's going to be a lot of things to discuss after all this is over about who called for these shutdowns and why and the extent to which there was actually in a kind of a rational calculation between the health risk and the obvious catastrophic economic costs of what's taking place in the world economy right now the pressure is growing by the day by the hour by the minute tour for the politicians to line up

their decisions public policy decisions with the actual documented health risks as 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 100 protests of the anti outbreak rodgers imposed despite a ban on mass gatherings. as you can see people were carrying a black flag as a symbol of a black day for democracy protesters were detained by police near the parliament building by shutting down the court system netanyahu has effectively postponed his own corruption trial parliamentary proceedings have also been suspended which opponents say stops them from pushing for a plan legislation against the prime minister netanyahu is also under fire from

anti surveillance activists for approving emergency supply powers to stop the car virus spread. but the prime minister says the moves are essential to deal with the pandemic but opposition groups and else this war 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 is issuing lots of emergency decrees he wishes this is called a dictatorship that tweet has angered that you know her son who lashed out at the israeli historian we ask it in levy a columnist at israel's heritage newspaper if netanyahu is indeed getting political benefit from the spread of the pandemic in his country. the 3 always many aging this crisis is in quite a reasonable way i would show if these 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 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. 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 no doubt. the afghan government's report they ordered military operations to be resumed against the taliban on thursday the defense minister urged the militant group to declare a cease fire so it can concentrate all resources on tackling the coronavirus he

also stated afghan forces would move from defense to active defense status. where he. has been no decrease in enemy attacks today we instruct 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. that all comes less than a month after the signing of a peace deal between washington and the taliban the agreement was reached after more than 18 years of war it included the complete u.s. withdrawal from the country pledged to hold talks between the taliban and afghan government as well as a prisoner swap of a couple was not party to the agreement. we contacted the afghan ministry of defense to comment on the situation and we'll bring you any response we receive in all political analyst. believes the deal was doomed from the very beginning of the negotiations. well that is sponsibility for the given situation must be shared by

all parties are the moment right from the beginning of the peace process the americans have been pushing the of one government gloss to the wall on making them 2 big decisions in favor of the taliban at the time rather the taliban have been trying to to be sure that as if they don't recognise the current state and they don't want to talk to the state institutions it's a very delicately poised situation it can ease and it's quite for giant situation where the the americans would have a deal with the taliban but that won't be an intra of an agreement on the future of the country which leaves the country a very much exposed to. to a proliferation off the civil war that's all for this our nato allies but if you're looking for more ahead on over to our web site r.t. dot com for all the latest thanks attending on.

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post cold war you know polar moment be preserved but alas it would seem multi-polar world has already arrived. cross talking and multipolar world i'm joined by my guest james chatteris in washington is a former u.s. diplomat and former advisor to the u.s. senate republican leadership also in washington brian becker he is director of the answer coalition as well as host of loud and clear daily new show on radio or a gentleman cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate james let me go to you 1st the reason why i want to do this program at the end of the year is because we tend to look at events in a micro fashion you know what's going on in this country that country trump administration brags that you know which of course we do in the news media but i sometimes think that we love we miss the very big very big pictures of what's going

on and the major changes that are happening around the globe and and the international system. and this whole idea of a multi-polar world which is kind of foreboding to talk about in western media because by default it means the west loses something and somebody else gains something is that one of the reasons they don't like to talk about the coming of a multi-polar world go ahead james i think it is peter i mean look you're right i think a multi polar world is a de facto reality now unfortunately that is the last thing that the establishment in washington wants to admit that they are committed still to this unit polar notion that emerged with the end of the 1st cold war in the early 1990 s. the idea of the united states is the unique power the only really legitimate gray.