welcoming our viewers from around the world live from central london this is our 2 u.k. . breaking news this hour 2 people are believed dead following an explosion at an apartment block in the southern russian city of miami thought was. the while the u.k. government publishes details of new police powers to help pull torches and poles social distancing measures. while the u.k.'s health service is under pressure despite plans for a brand new hospital and an army of volunteers as reports emerged of abuse being directed at n.h.s. workers. and the u.k. stands isolated as the prime minister refuses the e.u.'s offer to bulk buy key equipment like ventilators.

and we start with that breaking news story 2 people are believed to be dead and dozens have been evacuated after an explosion at an apartment building in the southern russian city of magnitogorsk this is on verified video believed to be from the scene which is circulating on russian social media the blast occurred on the 2nd floor of the 5 story building it's believed to be a gas explosion although it's not yet clear what caused this we'll bring you more on this story when we have more details. well meanwhile here in the u.k. the government has published details of a new police powers designed to help enforce a social distancing measures that's as the u.k. coronavirus death toll continues to rise well for more on this r.t. u.k. shadi and was dashed he joins me now hi there shoddiest so what are these new police plans so it's 3 days on since boris johnson of course announced the official

u.k. wide lockdown scenario and the idea is to get people to stay at home to protect the n.h.s. and essentially saved. people's lives now the government then has passed this emergency legislation to enforce those lockdown measures it essentially gives the police the powers to make sure the public is doing what it should be as a reminder then you are only supposed to leave your house under very specific circumstances you can leave to collect basic food and medicine the subsidies and basic food supplies one form of exercise per day travel to and from essential work and you can of course travel to a hospital or medical facility gatherings of more than 2 are now banned however if you break these rules then the police have the power to fine you 60 pounds 30 pounds if paid within 14 days for a 2nd offense the fine increases to 120 pounds and will double on each further offense a key section of this new law says that the police may use reasonable force to return a person home or disperse

a group of people although which physical measures may not be may not may use is not quite set out it also instructs parents to stop children from breaking the rules again another point which is not quite clear how that would be monitored there is of course much controversy of how long these wide reaching powers to please all be enshrined in law about how the house secretary has said though and confirmed they will only be in place as long as they are required to help tackle the crisis. well also how do you worry news about the latest death toll isn't yes the latest figures are indeed rather stocker ing today more than 9500 people have contract it with 9000 since the outbreak began with the death toll at $465.00 which is up $43.00 in the past 24 hours on the surface it appears to be the smallest rise of the week but actually the government has moved the times that deaths are recorded using a morning cutoff instead so potentially tomorrow morning we could see quite

a spike now of n.h.s. of course of course treating this crisis as one that will get worse before it gets better and the now preparing for what lies ahead the government just yesterday announced that a remarkable more than half a 1000000 people have put their names forward to help the frontline of the n.h.s. to try and alleviate the strains and pressures that they're under and therefore they're putting their name for to volunteer to help in certain circumstances like scorching patients back from hospital indeed delivering them medicines from pharmacies and also providing key support on the telephone for those that are most vulnerable we know that london is the epicenter of this crisis and that's why we're now seeing a new lead constructed hospital in the heart of the capital. i'm here. in central london just to make you the new make shift hospital truly making the cables for. the smores to be served very very seriously and you know i saw there 6 morning

come in and this is the saw use of google. on the size really is huge the 1000 go imagines the facility and this london will eventually hold full 1000 critical care beds spread across 2 wards each one being a kilometer long report say that the doors could open as early as monday with an initial 500 available for use by the facility is planned to be just one of potentially 10 crisis centers across the whole of the united kingdom all designed to deal with a surge of patients with breathing difficulties needing access to ventilate as now all of this comes as the n.h.s. staff have been told to hide their work identity back is when they're coming in and out of hospitals because believe it or not there has been a spate of incidents where staff of been targeted by marcus who want to get access to the free food and drinks that have been made available and offered to medical professionals while to say thank you to those on the front line of the n.h.s.

tonight the united kingdom will follow the lead to various european cities and pay tribute to the n.h.s. work as a campaign called cap for carers and they want people to stand outside of their homes or in balconies if they let them flats and clap and applaud the n.h.s. it's a very small gesture but it hopes to have a huge impact on the day boosting morale is exactly what everybody needs isn't it thank you or front line dr anna hemming thinks it's important to look at the y. depiction. you've got to look at the big issue are people worried about where they're getting food from are they worried about how the government pays going to affect them or are they just you know sadly attacking those people who could potentially save their lives are you ever scared i mean are you ever scared about the virus or also the fact you might come into contact with people as well who might abuse. i don't tend to worry about being attacked and i

think that we could all walk outside our front doors and that could potentially happen to us so i don't tend to worry about that myself i sincerely hope that it doesn't happen that at the moment there's nothing anyone can do to stop that from happening so i try not to worry a bit about it myself. as far as a way about the virus personally again i'm not a worrier so if i put everything in place and state harm and continue with social distancing and protecting my family then i know that i'm doing everything that is possible to keep them and myself safe and by being safe i'm then able to carry on with my work but what about your colleagues there how do they feel. there is a mixed picture but to be honest with you we've got a big job to do and by how everybody in the country at the moment is helping to protect the n.h.s. and that includes the facilities their parking spaces their food their identity

badges if they don't have an identity badge they potentially can't get to work so i think everybody in the country has. a responsibility to actually follow the guidelines that has been set out and help the n.h.s. do their job. boris johnson has suggested that m.p.'s consider new laws against black market profiteering during the pandemic it comes amid reports of recent panic buying and the raising of prices are essential products. am i right on boyfriend the prime minister assure me that he had regular contact with supermarkets and food supplies to ensure that goods are getting to the shelves where they are needed and will he join me in calling on people to only take what they need not to stockpile and to stamp out the disgusting scourge of black marketing profiting there yes yes indeed this is because i think the profiteering is something that we should be looking at from a legacy point of view in this houses as has happened before in this country and

but i can tell him that the supermarkets do have adequate supplies our supply chains is as moment friend knows are are very good relaxed delivery hours but it is very very important that everybody in their shopping reasonably and considerately. boris johnson's call comes as staff at retailer sports direct claim the company has significantly raise prices on a number of its lines among the items include skipping ropes raise from just under 3 pounds to almost 5 while a set of dumbbell weight saw an increase of 20 pounds to $6499.00 even those looking for less strenuous activity you have to pay more on of their dart boards has increased by $10.00 pounds to just under $41.00 sports direct say the increases were planned and have nothing to do with the pandemic while some goods have seen an increase in price at sports direct this is not the complete or accurate picture not

only were these goods originally discounted but even now they are under the recommended retail price. online marketplaces have also been told to do more to curb profiteering of key items on their platforms digital salaamed says that usually costs around $40.00 pounds have been seen on sale for as much as $300.00 while the price of hand sanitizer has increased $10.00 fold selling for almost 10 pounds sanitary products that normally resell for around 3 pounds have doubled and increases from baby formula have been found online for 4 times their original shop price well the government's call to crack down on profiteering comes as one of the companies selling coded 19 testing kits as a tory m.p. as a consultant owen paterson earns about $100000.00 pounds a year advise in randolph's libertarius peers kit is marketed at 120 pounds we've yet to receive a comment from paterson or randolph's but the company has previously defended its position as

a private company with the 40 years investment in and commitment to the diagnostics industry ran docs quickly developed a code 19 test and were able to provide that test with a home sample collection capability at a very competitive price that price is a matter of public record. counselor johns aswell told me consumers will remember the unscrupulous shops and sellers after the pandemic has finished. basic question of greed because certainly the virus here before covert 19 is grete and what we've said to our residents is to make sure look when you need help from the council we put in things like free one hour parking we've increased the the the enforcement team to help you and also the government has actually given you though their window of pain you'll be 80 in 8 years time making sure that you get access to grants and you'll start getting 80 percent of the salary and certainly

your business rates all these things are coming in and yet they still decide they want to profiteer it is unbelievable that people are so greedy at this particular time in particular you know this is never happened for the last sort of 100 years or so the only 2 other sort of events that mimic anything like what's happening today is the 2 world wars and yet people still find the opportunity to try and profiteer from ordinary human beings who are simply frightened just do you think that naming and shaming particularly now as we have social media as well do you think that's effective. i think i think it's a lot or what i would say to these shops is that these bad times are going to last forever and when they're done i think their own lot of residents look very angry and they will remember what they did when they needed their shopkeepers to step up to the plate there are you know the frontline services like the n.h.s. doctors they're put literally putting their lives at risk for these people and yet

with sit still trying to profiteer so certainly we will be looking into this and residents will not forget when this is over. having out after the break. their cave refuses the teams help to bulk buy them to lay to some able to criticize the response of sars and member states the coronavirus pandemic we hear from my europe are responding to. the world is driven by shaped by.

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within 4 gray walls the phone it's using hot. and all to help him to leave this room. the u.k. appears to be totally self isolating as boris johnson refuses e.u. help to bulk buy medical equipment to fight the coronavirus it comes to some any piece of criticized the response of certain member states to the pandemic artie's europe correspondent peter oliver has won the european parliament's been debating talking about these proposals that have been put through or put forward by the european commission to handle with the handle the immediate outcome from the coronavirus but also to deal with what will come in the future in fact this bundle of measures is being talked about as

a new marshall plan of the marshall plan of course was used to rebuild europe after world war 2 and in fact in the chamber on thursday we heard. of the law and the european commission president talking about the effect that this could well have on generations in the future that they wouldn't see the rubble of crumbling buildings as we did post world war 2 but that there was still would be an effect there one of these things that was put forward is a decision to group together to buy important medical equipment we talked musk's we're talking gloves and it all important ventilators the offer was made to the united kingdom to get involved in that downing street though has said no they don't want to be part of that they're going to go it alone on the line for her part though has come under some criticism for the way that the european union the european commission has addressed this she was speaking to in the empty european parliament that's partly due to the fact that many you. can't actually get to

brussels also social distancing precautions that are in place as well she said europe is now ready to step up to the plate at the story. from the last few weeks is partly a painful one to tell when europe really needed to be there for each other too many initially looked out for themselves when europe really needed an all for one spirit too many initially gave only for me response what we do now mattress for today as well as for the future and we all welcome the news that hospitals and sex unease took patients from lumber day while others from the grandest in fast and now bearing being treated in the gandu she and luxemburg this only goes to prove. that it only it

is only by helping each other that we can help ourselves by the u.k. response in turning down the offer to be part of that collective along with the european union was very simple they said we're no longer part of the european union so they will be going alone that will be to the united kingdom will be going alone when it comes to making their own precautions back to brussels and back to what was going on in the european parliament the standout performer in the debates that we saw on thursday was really mount on the old bridge the french army not only from a world impassioned and let's face it agricultural langridge language that she used in saying how essential it was that musk's were given out to those that need masks both in her own country of france and also across the european union but she also took time to scold those in europe who have used this crisis as an attempt to try

and seize power and also to try and turn a quick buck. and this also put us when we see that germany is following the guidelines for example some other states are just waiting for people to turn up at their hospitals but is doing well assuming total power with deafening silence for the rest of us the czech republic and italy are actually fighting over little if we have masks so this is the shameful face of europe which is terribly knighted no single state can do of this solidarity of people has to be something which provides a reason that true of europe the european parliament is expected to vote through these proposals put forward by the european commission later on thursday evening as i say though they are taking this seriously it's been talked about something the language that they're using to talk about it is certainly taking it seriously they're talking about it as a new marshall plan not only to deal with the virus now but to rebuild once it's passed. meanwhile public health england has announced $3500000.00

coronavirus tests will be available in a matter of days but that says the u.k. government faces criticism for not running out widespread testing much sooner artie's easer allen reports. as the fight against the krona virus continues the world health organization couldn't have been clearer about the best strategy to get the global pandemic under control. test test test countries which have rolled out wide scale testing like south korea have managed to get on top of the outbreak but the government here in the u.k. has been behind the curve initially saying it needs to prioritise the few tests available for those most in need while promising to increase the numbers quickly on our own testing just to reassure him we're moving up 225008 day public health in the now says mass testing will be available as soon as possible with 3 and a half 1000000 test kits on their way but that will come as too little too late for

many frontline n.h.s. staff this is the time of year where having a bit of a sniffle having a bit of a cough a bit of a runny nose is relatively normal and what we haven't seen is brilliant guidance on exactly what symptoms are imports and we've talked about temperature we know temperature isn't brilliantly predictive of how ill someone is so it may be that i suspect not 50 percent of the population but it may be that a fair number of health professionals have already had it what would that mean for them if they were able to get this test it would mean a degree of confidence would be reinstalled it would mean that they would still quite rightly use the personal protective equipment but there'd be less fearful for their own safety it might mean that they're more able to do more hours or more work and it may well mean that their mental health is better in the long term it's not to start off patients displaying symptoms have been refused tests being told that the only way it's possible is for them to be admitted to hospital where they're at higher risk of contracting the virus if they didn't have it before.

and then all of a sudden it just creech back up on you again. and it's just very strange like that like this morning i woke up. and i would suddenly get on really hot sweats and. went on to the internet well the what what was that i got for you to some the day mistreats or clinician. basically just said always like you so until you can't deal with your symptoms anymore. and then if it gets to that point you just ring no i know 'd knowing of sleep i asked if we could if i could be tested. because of his loss of a. sane life family except through a very worried about set. an offshoot minds at rest if we kind of knew actually what it was and then or sorry about that could be tested as well while some try to

recover at home there are others that don't need to fit the criteria it would seem world to get treated like royalty prince charles has tested positive for correct the virus targets house says he displayed mild symptoms on sunday but is in good health and under self isolating in scotland prince charles tests positive for the virus to supply displaying mild symptoms he's self isolating about moral with the duchess of cornwall who is not healthy and the rich are also in luck with tests absolute private harley street clinic available for the modest sum of 375 pounds so while the government is calling for an army of volunteers to help fight the virus there are still few guarantees that those on the front line and those that they treat will know if they're at risk the saudi ot the london. or the spread of coronavirus many theories about how to stop or protect yourself from the disease have been circulating online but how do you separate truth from fantasy

martin andrews has been testing some of the fire 0 room as. are you suffering from information overload let's debug some myths and get the lowdown way here to separate the facts from the fiction. the buyers can live ours yes it can experts say corona virus can remain viable in the air for a few hours while in plastic or stainless steel your mobile phones 100 this stretches up to 72 hours that's up to 3 days or more so when shorts clean everything thoroughly under wash your hands. the virus can live on my clothes again yes but it's likely that covert 19 will not supply volume on some surfaces it just says normal washing of clothes reduces the risk of germs being transmitted so it might be worthwhile making sure the load to date packages from china is dangerous

while the risk is very slim products how to get contaminated if the person huddling the products was coughing and sneezing all over them but it's very unlikely that those shipped over a period of days or even weeks will have any virus struck but surviving on them 5 g. wife i used to play. the internet is awash with conspiracies one came circulating on social media is that 5 g. causes coronavirus by sucking all out of your lungs some online groups say the radiation and suppress immune systems make us more susceptible to the virus and their evidence they say it's because will happen is where 5 g. was rolled out and it's all total rubbish is one of the 1st places with 5 g. trials but beijing shanghai and flying show parts. but i mean is this easily depot terms from a 10.2 basically because 5 g. is essentially following on the same technologies as 4 g.

which has been around. 1015 years now in the same way that the mobile data is transmitted over radio waves so he's 5 g. and you know these radio waves a basically non-ionizing meaning they don't damage the d.n.a. inside the saddles in the same way that corona virus does i think that it's get it's gaining popularity is a theory on social media because china has been quite instrumental in building the 5 g. networks that a lot of countries are using the united kingdom included a lot of europe the news that it was doing the rounds and cause more problems but governments in europe including in the u.k. where is that hallway which is going to china's biggest manufacturer is was one of really the only providers of this 5 g. network infrastructure here in ericsson which are red finish come to european companies they do make this technology but not at the same scale not at the same cost effectiveness as chinese manufacturers like so i can understand maybe why

people would put 2 and 2 together. protects me alessio scared of fun pie is probably not golic is of course great for lowering cholesterol and regulating pressure but the world health organization says there is no evidence that it will protect you from cars at 19 so if you eat too much you really will need to self isolate that's the low down for today be safe. and wash your hands. all wise words from us in that that's all the news for now i'll be back in just over half an hour i've seen you again.

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