when so many find themselves worlds apart if we choose to look for common ground. welcoming our viewers from around the world live from central london this is r.t. u.k. . the u.k.'s 1st day on lockdown after boris johnson announced tough new measures to tackle the spread of coronavirus but many continue making the journey to work. the health service is under pressure is intensive care stop a force to look after more and more patients i'll be talking to a former n.h.s. boss. the u.k. apparently 2 weeks behind italy is outbreak and lockdown there are fears britain's death toll could not start the fire season european at the center. and gang violence could be set to surge due to a fall in demand for drugs due to social distancing according to

a report that says experts warn school closures could leave children at risk of exploitation i'll be joined by a community campaigner. welcome to r.t. the government has implemented long term measures across the united kingdom in response to the ongoing coronavirus crisis but with no clarity on essential work and no help so far for the self employed many continue to travel flouting rules on social distancing on to u.k. shouted at the staff who joins me now with the latest how the shot is so as we heard last night an extraordinary announcement by the prime minister about our people following the rules well none of us have had a message quite like it but of course the coronavirus crisis is now a situation that the united kingdom has never faced before and that's why boris johnson has described the united kingdom as in a state of national emergency of course the prime minister last night initiating

a lockdown scenario he felt he had no other option but the public aren't exactly listening to his messages in fact people are not heeding the message at all of course this day. one of the national emergency but it doesn't quite look like it on the cheap this morning in fact the chips were packed with passengers commuting into central london all seats occupied scenes where commuters were standing shoulder to shoulder as opposed to this 2 meter distance apart as advised by the government so what we're seeing now is even scenes resembling a normal rush hour service much of it could be attributed to the fact that all services are now drastically reduced in the last week that many of which could be down to the self-employed using a tear fell services as well much of which the government has been under scrutiny for not protecting this demographic of the self-employed despite that enormous alleviation that was just last week by pretty soon at the chancellor he indeed was facing questioning today in the house of commons but unfortunately he was not able

to put a timeline on when a solution would be given to the self-employed well indeed let's go back then to what the prime minister actually said so what do the emergency measures actually entail so boris johnson has announced the toughest restrictions to our way of life and he says without a huge national effort there will come a time that the n.h.s. simply won't be able to cope and more people's lives could be part of the risk so this is the message that came from westminster in downing street to all televisions across the country last night. to put it simply if too many people become seriously unwell but one time the n.h.s. will be on the board to handle it meaning more people are likely to die not just through cruel virus but from other illnesses as well so it's vital to smooth the spread of the disease because that is the way we reduce the number of people needing hospital treatment at any one time so we can protect the n.h.s.

his ability to cope and see more lives and that's why we've been asking people to stay at home during this pandemic. the huge numbers are complying and i think you will the time has not come for us to do. so from last night you will only be able to leave your house for very specific reasons including shopping for basic necessities including food and medicine you can only go outside for one form of exercise per day either alone or with members in your household this includes cycling or jogging gatherings of more than 2 are now banned you can leave your home for any medical reason or to care for someone like the vulnerable and you can travel to and from work only where absolutely necessary and when you cannot work from home now the health secretary much has stressed that the police have been given the powers to enforce these new measures these measures are not

advice there are rules and will be enforced including by the police with fines starting at 30 pounds up to unlimited fines for noncompliance for now though these measures will be reviewed and reassess as and when they will be when it's ok to do so but of course remember the government has always stressed to maintain that this policy is expert led by the medical and science professionals it seems like the government has been going by a step by step basis now is having to hurtle and sprint towards changing policy as the crisis ever evolves in such a fast moving way but of course the clearest besuch of the last few days is to stay at home indeed stay at home wives was shot if thank you. well the n.h.s. is under increasing pressure as medical workers in intensive care departments are forced to take on more patients than the rules previously allowed. well according to the health service journal intensive care nurses are now being told to look after 6 patients with help from 2 non-specialists nurses and 2 health workers well

under normal circumstances one nurse will be responsible for each patient also intensive consultants are being asked to take care of 30 patients assisted by 2 middle level doctors guidelines dictates the ratio between a consultant and patient should go beyond 1.8 to 1.15 there will absolutely be a lot of concern about this in the profession but it's the only option we've got available we simply don't have the capacity to increase our staffing levels quickly enough it would dilute the standard of care but that's absolutely better than not having enough critical castoff there's also a massive issue around the ability of critical care nurses not only to care for their patients but also monitor what the non-specialists in the teams are doing well meanwhile the dean of the faculty of intensive care medicine says the measures taken will enable staff to respond in an effective way as the n.h.s.

claims health care workers were not up to such changes in a sensitive way n.h.s. staff are working around the clock gearing up to deal with this unprecedented global health threat and as the professional bodies have said doctors nurses and other health professionals will rightly respond flexibly and compassionately in the meantime the public absolutely must now play their part by staying home to stop the spread of the virus and save lives before n.h.s. trust chairman roy really joins me now to discuss the crisis facing the health service roy thank you for joining us can the staff work effectively under this amount of pressure will be n.h.s. cope. good also drink well it's going to have to cut isn't it and we've seen what's happened in italy we know what's coming we've seen pictures in italy of beds in corridors of people ventilated in warehouses effectively and it's going to happen to us as well there will be more people than we have nurses and doctors to cough

using the normal ratios this is why this new guidance is coming and it's not being imposed actually on the doctors nurses it has been has been introduced in consultation with the leaders of doctors and nurses who understand that we're likely to be overwhelmed and by thinning out the have the talent that we have is the only way that we're going to be able to look after people who are going to be very sick looking off to people on ventilators is a tricky thing to do ventilating people these difficult mechanical ventilation not to sort of disguise it means putting it shoot down someone's throat and inflating your lungs and breathing for them then that's not something that every nurse can do so they have to be trained and of course in addition to that when people are very sick there's a likelihood of organ failure particularly renal failure and that means of that have to be on renal dialysis as well so this is a hugely complicated we don't have enough nurses and doctors all skilled no health

service does so all we can do is to upscale ones we've got and thin out the the town across the board it's not rates not of ideal it's not what we want to do but i think it's the reality of facing a pandemic indeed why not everybody else has to take the advice that of the general public in the meantime that if doctors aren't being tested for hiv at 19 then get sick the even fewer adults on the ward when the i think this is just beyond me what's happening in the world health organization say test test test is the only 3 things we've got to do now yes to die i looked at the numbers and we tested just out of a 5000 people the most. we have a test in the a from the numbers that i can access is just around 8000 now that's nothing neah the numbers that need to be tested now understand the soft new no 3 for the statement in the house of commons and the i think the leader of a majesty's opposition elevate the health secretary the shadow health secretary

from matches the opposition will be asking questions about testing it was clear from what was said yesterday that they are the government doesn't have an audience now we should be testing 200000 people 'd we should set levy testing and i just stuck off because if we don't that means that some will be will be i say symptomatic that means that we carrying the virus and not know it and to be spreading it through vulnerable people and others who will be sheltering at home because perhaps one of their members a family of shown symptoms and they perhaps may not be symptomatic so unless we tell you where this we test we don't know who it is super spread is going to bay and we won't know who's on the side of who really should be back on the wall it's i don't know what the issue is about testing that this is the stories about not enough not enough testing kits not enough of the reactions not enough people that they have to do it but it is the one urgent thing that is the priority to get to

invade and in the meantime then roy how do you think it's going to get another government measures going to work. well as far as the government measures it can see social distancing and all the rest of it frankly i don't think so i think a complete lockdown is going to have to come i think it was food issues jones is ready to study i mean clearly he's been studying this a little while law noted that the 1st step was the 2nd step and the 3rd step sorry frankly i think yesterday should done a complete time down i mean we still go building work is going to work on the chewed mixing up with n.h.s. what is going to be the way the mayor in london is limited the number of issues means that more people packed closer and closer together it's a policy policy life you said isn't going to get worse well yes of course it will spike won't come for probably another 3 weeks but the numbers are going up all the time and all that we can do is cross i think it's a royalty thank you very much for joining us. coming up after the break. 2 weeks into its corona virus outbreak the u.k.

is on track to match each of these deaths total. 100 posts in social distancing could feel a kind of audience to talk mornington on for drugs is expensive i said more school conscious could mean more children are exploited i'll be talking to the community campaigned on. well the past 5 or 6 years very aggressively people have sold dollars to buy these emerging market currencies because they can get a better yield on those currencies suddenly when all liquidity disappears during during the heisenberg uncertainty for x. market schrodinger's cat of markets everyone is then short dollars they have to buy those dollars back because they're out losing catastrophic play in all their non

dollar plays in the market and this is causing a runaway freight train of the u.s. dollar going higher. so it's seemed wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any gold yet to stamp out these days comes to capital and in detroit equals to trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back many countries are enforcing some degree of low down to tackle the coronavirus pandemic with mixed results italy is 10 days into a total long town but not everyone is hoping the rules speech will have

a. that if they go home this is not a film on t.v. this is a national emergency you know your little indie go home you can play ping pong go back to play stations you're not allowed to be here go play video games at home. they look. this is like a war bulletin because we are in a real war and now i turn to you you need to stay home don't you understand that people are dying 400 people are dying a day. and a fair mother this morning i found one of our citizens who was lovingly walking around with his dog i said to him hey this is not a film and you are not will smith and i'm a legend so go home. those videos they do make for a little bit of entertaining watching those mayors taking that hardline but the message that they're putting out is really a very serious message now the latest statistics going out of italy show that for the 2nd consecutive day the number of people testing positive has not increased

so doug what we're taking from that and what the experts are taking from that is that these isolation methods that have been put in place that they're helping stopping the spread of this virus as we know it's incredibly infectious the karoubi covert 19 strain of this this corona virus and the fact if you can keep yourself away and keep your loved ones away from everybody else stay 2 meters away from people on the streets if you do happen to have to be out of. well meanwhile one italian man has criticized britain's approach to tackling the virus georgiou gordie who runs the city of bergen mode is flying his daughters back to italy from the u.k. because he thinks they would be safer it comes as italy continues to battle its own outbreak with a number of deaths there supporting china less than a month after the 1st reported death but with the u.k. believed to be 2 weeks behind some fear the number of british deaths could match also pass the italian toll. so far italy has registered nearly $64000.00 cases of

covert 19 and just over $6000.00 deaths the u.k. has just over 6 and a half 1000 cases with $335.00 dying price of the government announcing it's locked down but research suggests the number of u.k. deaths is set to rise over the next fortnight as its trajectory has so far followed that if it's only. one expert in infectious diseases dr giovanni geraldo told me about the situation in italy and what we must do to tackle the virus in the u.k. . we have to change all that word because we need to pour intensive care unit and we have organized the hospital in different level of care according to the different directory needs of the patients and so we've got a special words for people who are let me say $100.00 or even symptoms of the so do not know if they are called a positive or not if medium level in which are there 'd are 6 or 6 department akira

but that's in largest so much in which we hear all that noninvasive figure later and of course the defense case intensive care unit it which is a more severe cases are but just to give an example my last dollar is 'd $700.00 beggar and at present there are more than $150.00 collocation of it and 7 looking down at his weight missing the numbers here i mean is there some hope in the fact that the death rate does seem to be slowing down in a survey so at least not a death rate actually because at least somewhat disparate you are seeing that number of new infections and that's nearly boredom because the somehow tell us the message that what the government the government did did in order to avoid people to gather together the works that we are still facing a huge mortality rate also remember that this is something that we still need to study and to understand because the mortality rate that was reported in the chinese if then it was 3 percent a while in europe in italy it's almost tempus as

a we are everywhere it because of the fact that for so we've got that much older population and we know that because all the people out there are all but apart from the mortality there is still a big burden of disease in middle age people. well social distancing could increase gang violence too tough on into monson trunks that's according to a report that says that that swarm school closures could leave children exposed to county lines gangs but else around me has my misanthropy life either he says i tell us more about how all of this is actually related to coronavirus where we see the release of a report by the policy exchange think tank called 'd policing at the pandemic and it says that the kuroda virus outbreak could increase gang violence now according to this report and its number of faxes which do contribute to this now this report says that drug dealers will be competing over the juiced market of course jujutsu

social distancing measures crime such as set off the short destruction buggery are likely to increase now that would be for example people getting fortunate 8 bells came to be for example from a government institution or people having that people knocking on their door to tended to be testing people cronut so these are all things people have to keep their eyes on and also regional delivery illegal drugs now of course if there's no clubs open the parties are raised kind of social events where drugs are usually taken and that means that drug sales are down and so ganz could be fights in over what are really the juice you know about reduced market and that makes them more desperate and as a result more violence and we can also see of course because police are distracted by making sure that the lockdown is kept in place that means that less police name in neighborhoods doing neighborhood policing the soil and that might also involved

and grow crime gangs to do whatever 'd it is that they're trying to do now of course there are other factors at play there are gangs potentially jockeying for market positions so that when the coronavirus crisis is eventually over a knife will turn to somewhat. the type of normality there will be of course fighting amongst people to try to get the best position to sell the most drugs to commit the most you know not it's a crime solving and so forth so there's a lot of that could be taking place but also other factors we saw last week the government announces schools would be closing except for key workers children and children with special education needs so that means more children at home if their parents aren't able to keep them indoors that could put children from particularly poor backgrounds at risk of being recruited by county line gangs who central going into the countryside and on top of that you see in such a big economic hit many households incomes taking a big loss and of course if that puts more in the pressure on the families again

children could be tempted into a lifestyle where there's easy cash easy money upfront and they get taken down a path of criminality is all of these things potentially contributing to a rise in crime during this lockdown period and they're trying to press impression if i'm to marry someone to very much. well for more on all of those issues i'm now joined by community campaigner cheryl faded. carol thank you very much indeed for joining us i mean how then can we protect children during the coronavirus and being groomed by gang members. i wanted it means it's not even that we want to look down i do strongly believe that family. and make sure the children are legal and a lot of. parents are but. we can't you know. try to find ways. so the solution would have to be make sure. all the seats but missed and also mentioned responsible adults around. not one of my main

concern is children with names who are easily influenced who do it at least the stuff that will strict standards of. leading to. prison is also. 'd something that they may or may not be so i'm glad i said i'm. outside. playgroup. sorry sure we're having a few problems with the sound there so i hope that you can hear me in the meantime then if that let me just come back to the right of the parents that i mean parents as you said have a role in look in protecting their children and also looking after the been a lot of parents are now working from home they can better supervise their children can't they. yet i can't get to see them but i've got that when you sometimes look

at maybe 6 inches tall and you'll try to also in the frontal lobes that look like they're only going to the parents so i don't know exactly but it's something does need to be said and done but you want some people who are actually believe it so and so just to parents who have children that are going yes you're right and. in i can be a little cheap of. difference as to how to go but. what. it would be but. i won't be able to. apologise for we do have a we do have a few issues with the sound they're well would have to be found i'm afraid thank you very much indeed for joining us cheryl phoenix thank you. now with the spread of coronavirus many theories about how to stop or protect yourself from the disease

has been circulating online but how do we separate truth from fantasy on t u k s martin unders has been testing some i think viral rumors. you suffering from information overload let's debug some myths and get the lowdown we have to separate the facts from the fiction. globus will keep me safe but it depends on how you use them because it's all about not transferring the coronavirus your face if you are in gloves whilst in about's and still keep touching your face which we can do up to 20 times an hour useless while gloves provide a barrier in a medical environment if you don't keep replacing them and if you're not very careful they would help. drinking water will kill the virus drinking water every 50 minutes has been heavily debated on social media the theory being that

swallowing the virus will kill it sadly professor treated like at the university of oxford says there's no evidence to back that up you can't wash away or spirit virus while it's good for overall health to be hydrated drinking too much water can also cause health problems to. the piracy is mutating. with 19 will act like all viruses in the fact that they all accumulate me tensions over time create a virus is no different a recent published study suggested that it had already me take to twice into one more aggressive strain and one milder form but some experts on convince all viruses might like. people of old over time as you say in the case of viruses like in to and so they need to. change. over the seasons but also even within any given season next year to be variations within a population. and this is this is what the virus does to me and she walks all over

it so she could extract the degraded virus will will change. as an artist is doing news as he used to. it will be gone by the summer some months can mean fewer transmissible illnesses but that's often because in the winter we're more likely to be an enclosed spaces being we can spread them but while something also weather by actually kill off the virus it's simply not the case if true viruses do thrive in colder conditions uncovered 19 appears to spread foss this 8.72 degrees celsius but the world health organization says that it can be transmitted in all areas around the world including hotter climates like africa and australasia that are in trouble too and you can forget about taking a hot bath so a long soap might give you a mental boost. knows myself there are many rumors about self

diagnosis flying around the internet so what is the viral self-help check and it's thought to be trusted in a post circulating on what suffering facebook post claims to be from stanford university post asks readers to take a deep breath and hold for 10 seconds if you can do without coughing tightness so discomfit your lungs are free from fibrosis and ultimately free of infection it's not since every 19 can affect people differently the only thing to remember is if you've got a high temperature or you continuous cough stay home and go into the n.h.s. one want online for more information don't go to the hospital g.p. or pharmacy you might pass it on. just the lowdown for today be safe because you wash your hands. as unwise was that i'll be back with more news in just over half an hour.

over the past 5 or 6 years very aggressively people have sold dollars to buy these emerging market currencies because they can get a better yield on those currencies suddenly when all liquidity disappears. heisenberg uncertainty for x. market schrodinger's cat of markets everyone is then short dollars they have to buy those dollars back because they're losing catastrophic lee and all their non dollar plays on the market and this is causing a runaway freight train of the u.s. dollar going higher.

greetings and sell you taste. welcome one and all to the next chapter of the great pandemic of 2020 and what have the previous chapters in this book shown us now well you have a variety of bad big hat trick tips to choose from really you have strange frightening inspiring courageous creepy me personally the adjective i like most of the scribe the last few weeks of this pandemic is. revealing yes revealing you see because it's in times of great stress obstacles that often show us who we really are especially who are chosen leaders really are like us congressman richard

burr who in his position of senate intelligence committee chairman heard the news of the impending pandemic. for the rest of us and chose to save his own ass set's while selling our physical and financial safety up the river or what about the united states department of justice who instead of seeking to help protect all of us is instead taking a page out of the bush administration's post $911.00 playbook and is looking to decimate our legal and constitutional rights under cover of national catastrophe politico is now reporting that according to recently uncovered documents submitted by the d.o.j. to congress that the justice department has proposed that congress grant the attorney general power to ask the chief judge of any district court to pause court proceedings whenever the district court.