confined within for green walls. it's using. art to leave defense room. i've taken. that has come out positive. u.k. prime minister boris johnson is the 1st world leader to track covert 19 he is now. united states finds itself at the center of the cove in $1000.00 pandemic with more confirmed cases that any other country new york accounts for half of the national total of the 40 percent surge in hospital admissions in just a single day. nothing compared to this we were over waiting for patients to kabul never now they just keep coming. by dealing with a health crisis on home soil the u.s. has ramped up pressure on venezuela and president tour of narco terrorism offering

a $50000000.00 reward for his capture. coffins pile up. with hospitals also overwhelmed as it really struggles to cope with the impact of the coronavirus. hi there with your global news update this is r.t. international. and we start with an update on the scale of the kovac 900 pandemic more than half a 1000000 cases have now been registered worldwide with 24000 lives lost so far 128000 people have recovered from the virus. growing number of countries have been forced either partial or full lock down to control the spread of the farts an estimated 3000000000 people that's more than

a 3rd of the world's population under various forms of restriction. let's bring you some breaking news that just commend the british prime minister has tested positive for 19 boris johnson who is 55 is the 1st world leader to catch the novel coronavirus. let's go live to london now our correspondent isa ollie who him self is in self isolation in london has the latest on this story isa bring us right up to date place yes the prime minister boris johnson he's been really at the front line in terms of updating the public that's the latest on the corona virus issue and holding daily briefings to the media usually either by the ministers or interestingly by his chief medical 'd and chief scientific adviser but

this morning the prime minister taking to twitter to release that video announcing that he himself has now contracted the disease i developed tomorrow symptoms over the coronavirus that's to say a temperature and a persistent cough and on the advice of the chief medical officer i've taken a test that has come out positive so i am working from home i'm so fice waiting and that's entirely the right thing to do but be in no doubt that i can continue thanks to that was reborn technology to communicate with all my talk team to lead the national fight back against corona virus. now the prime minister has been coming in for quite some ridicule because of course we know that the u.k. has been telling people that they have to self isolate and telling people to stay away from others well 3 weeks ago the prime minister visit the hospital where he

said he was happy to shake every 150. the bright eyed eyed shaking hands can decide that i was at a hospital the other night i think there were a few that are actually if you create a virus a patient and i shook hands with everybody you'll be pleased to know and i continue to shake hands. so that might be a clue as to where the prime minister constructed it from now where there have also been major criticisms in the country towards the prime minister and other prominent figures about how they're able to get testing in the front line n.h.s. staff who are working to combat this disease still aren't being tested many doctors nurses others feeling like they're putting their lives in danger without having been taken seriously having been considered by the government when it comes to resources and trusting now that all comes over the past 24 hours we've seen a rise of the death toll to $578.00 people dying in the u.k.

now that's a 24 hour rise of over 100 deaths previously the previous day it only risen by about 2024 deaths and so people were thinking that possibly the u.k. had managed to get on top of it and the deaths numbers were dropping however these dates showing that the u.k. very much still in the grips of its corona virus outbreak impact of the virus in the. quite apparent that many thanks for the update for us. meanwhile the artists ace is now at the center of the cove in 1000 pandemic with the largest number of cases globally almost 86000 americans have tested positive for the virus more than 1300 have died new york city's been by far the worst hit area within the 40000 cases that's around half the national total 466 people have died in new york state was a 40 percent surge in hospital admissions on thursday according to the governor

there and do cuomo and there's a severe shortage of hospital beds and ventilators more details from new york is 20 chabris. today hospitals in new york struggling under the weight of the pandemic people come in to get into bed if they die the cycle repeats elmhurst hospital in queens the bureau with the most coronavirus cases in the city in the center of the outbreak the hospital confirming at least 13 patient deaths within 24 hours right now it's every day it's nonstop literally and. unfortunately it's my get to suggestion you have to pick and choose what you're going to do are you going to do. as the doctor say a lot of people call the doctor the survivor to expire and you put the same machine in the not the 1st shot as medical staff operates out their limit hundreds of more people wait lining up outside to get tested for kovan 19 but officials say the 545

bed hospital is overrun and in desperate need of medical supplies yeah though the systems overwhelmed all over the place the shortage of safety gear out one new york hospital is so dire nurses have resorted to wearing trash bags the situation in new york worsening by the hour the state accounting for roughly half the cases across the country this grim video shows teams setting up a makeshift morgue outside of bellevue hospital something that was done during hurricane sandy and 911911 was nothing compared to this we were open waiting for patients to kabul never k. . ok now they just keep coming however a small sign of hope governor cuomo announcing that for the past few days the rate of hospitalizations is slowing although he cautions that the peak of the crisis could still be about 20 days away the governor as that while only about 15 percent of cases have required hospitalisation the state into supports 140000 people will need to be hospitalized warning that he does not have enough beds or lifesaving

ventilators and as medical personnel remain on the front lines we are learning about a member of mt sinai is nursing staff who has been treating coronavirus patients. has passed away from colvin 19 the hospital saying in a statement today we lost another hero a compassionate colleague friend and selfless caregiver meantime the hospital system initiating a procedure called plasmapheresis where they transfer antibodies from patients who have recovered from cold the 19 to those who are critically ill from the virus the procedure could be life saving reporting in new york trinity chargers r t. the containment measures in place across america forced businesses to close doors and to lay off staff jobless claims hit 3300000 this week smashed previous records the number is 5 times higher than during the peak of the 1992 recession meanwhile the senate has passed a 2 trillion dollar stimulus plan to keep businesses afloat.

of the u.s. battle to contain the spread of curvy 19 the state department is turning its focus elsewhere of a multi-million dollar bounty for the capture of venezuela's president supposedly for narco terrorism and goes dia reports. how they want to get rid of him they condemn didn't work a sanction blockade of venezuela hooping that people would rise up and overthrew him that. they organized dressed up and paraded the opposition and still nothing the only thing left this to plan drugs in him were not acting as the world's policeman were acting as policeman for ourselves and people are obligated to protect the american people keeping americans in america safe from venezuelans in venezuela only in washington does that

make any sort of sense or in the wild west where gun slinging cowboys went out hunting for bounties that they found on wanted posters this is an extreme vulgar and miserable action from donald trump's administration there for a least a set of false accusations and slander acting like cowboys racists of the 19th century they put a price on the head of revolutionaries but we are ready to fight them wherever they are the charges themselves are almost comical they include possession of machine guns you don't say the commander in chief of the venezuelan armed forces possesses machine guns why didn't they charge him with possessing an army jets artillery tanks but it's only funny on paper us sanctions have turned venezuela into hell on earth strangling the venezuelan nation in the middle

of a pandemic the problem of medicine and food of essential just to get mcdougal out of office and the venezuelan people under no illusions there's no light at the end of the tunnel. it is this they have always had what more sanctions have they given to venezuela look at what is happening here in venezuela the epidemic affects everyone and everyone is suffering now they come with more sanctions look how this country is more sanctions for what enough of the sanctions that they're giving to venezuela and then there where donald trump is not the judge noise here the world's prosecutor whatever has to happen happens really because already i say we can't stand this much longer it's a farce from start to finish america doesn't recognize him as president the guy that controls the country the military the ministers enjoys the support of millions

and sits in the presidential palace isn't president and the parenting when he isn't busy running a country of 30000000 he spends his free time acquiring illegal machine guns and selling coke we heard from venezuelan historian. thinks that the latest threats against caracas during a global health crisis in his opinion are pointlessly cruel. it's obvious that this administration feels that it can do whatever it wants the fact that bill barr has to start his conference by saying we are not the policeman of the world in fact speaks of the fact that this action is highly political and really reinforces the notion of the us as an imperial power able to dictate policy able to order the arrest of world leaders heads of states as it wishes so this is very much a clearly of a political more a moment a cruel inhuman action at

a time in which the country is reeling not only from the pandemic but also from the low prices for oil and also dramatic shortages created in part by the sanctions imposed by both the obama administration and now that trumpet ministration. italy has suffered the largest loss of life so that any country due to the pandemic will that 8000 have died and there are 80000 confirmed cases north of the country is the hardest hit this video shows a local crime and tour and that has been simply overwhelmed by the outbreak it is overloaded with coffins additional refrigeration devices have been brought in his workers there are unable to clear away the dead in time hospitals so swamped with doctors and nurses and long body under immense pressure.

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replacing the union's flag with a russian one at the entrance of his factory this video went viral we spoke to the owner about his gesture. we received information. russia people say you need to really. airplane full off month period. and the doctor ok instead of. gloss everything would be dark and i don't want to enter the political questions i'd prefer to change. who dropped all we from russia why is russia explain very lovely to each other only question i want only to give my birth to what i was sure for that. is the question why change this record i want to choose to work for a very firm direction we need a. european space agency has some tips on how to cope with

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in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowest. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back french police are threatening to stop and forcing the nationwide lock down that's been in place for almost 2 weeks unions are accusing the government of failing to provide protective equipment after an officer died from cova 19 on wednesday on the charlotte do basically has the story door in force when agencies

been particularly hard hit of this latest news that one of their own has lost their lives to cozied 19 what we know about that individual is that they were young dom 51 years old and as soon as they felt ill they were placed into self confinement but unfortunately the condition worsened on wednesday before the gendarme who's only been named is patrick g. in the french media it could reach the hospital he had passed away now that latest development has ratcheted up the threats from police unions that unless they are given the protective gear that they need that they will stop enforcing the law down this is what the unions had to say in a joint statement to the ministry of interior the eater union is issuing his solemn warning to the minister you the means of protection are lacking police officers will only carry out urgent missions and will no longer and force the lockdown where the lockdown in francaise been going on since march 17th and since that around

800000 finds have been given out by the police officers and john dams across the country there are around a $100000.00 have been deployed to do just that but they have been angry now since the beginning of that lockdown over fears of the lack of protective masks that they've had many police unions have talked about the fact not just that they fear because they coming into contact with so many people to issue these fines to check the permission slips that we need to be out on the streets in france that they could be liable to catch the virus but also then could be a vector of transmission. so this is something that's really been concerning the union since the start now the ministry of interior is infuriating police officers and the unions even further in the last few days after it requisition the f f p 2 masks these the highly protective masks took them away and said the police officers had to give them to the health workers now we've been talking to one police union in the last week about some of the fear is that they have for their members.

security officers police and other people who are. in the country need to be protected this farce does not distinguish between police medics and of the citizens we're not even sure that we police officers not potentially in fact some people when we do our checks so we need mosques and other pretext for equipment to keep us safe and others well laura nunez who is the junior interior minister says that the government is policy is to pass those highly protective mosques on to the health workers and that they are working to provide the police with other mosques and a working on alternatives for the situation but this is a lack of mosques isn't just a problem for the police it's been described by one nursing union here in france is akin to a state scandal and that's because france doesn't have enough mosques for its emergency workers and this is just the latest headache for the french government in

the last few days we also know that a group of medics filed a complaint of negligence against top officials here in france that includes the prime minister edward felipe saying that they didn't do enough to avert the pandemic of the virus pandemic here in france and this comes of course as france is trying to battle against kofi 19 as the numbers of infected and the numbers of those who have apparently died from covert 19 continue to rise. the european space agency's offer. ringgit help to millions of people who are now confined to their homes because of the pandemic if they held a free online conference aimed at connecting people around the world with space explorers and scientists one of the participants was samantha christopher wrathy holds the record for the longest uninterrupted spaceflight by european astronaut we got a chance to speak with her. on the international space station we have

a big space stations they have a lot of space so that it's not difficult but i can imagine people nowadays right now families having to live in a small apartment all day 24 hours but we also have to think of people who maybe live alone and so they're they're really isolated 'd there are some strategies that people maybe can use to cope and to help each other the number one thing the really most important one is to communicate a lot we really try to stay connected to our families to our friends to our loved ones on earth but i think it's really important also for people who right now are in isolation you know we really have to pick up the phone sky e-mail whatever we need whatever works to make sure that we keep those human connections going in the other thing is that our space station we are very very busy and very day and so that helps us i think to keep psychologically healthy because you know every day we

get up and we have a lot of things to do. among the possible impacts of self isolation are post-traumatic stress as well as anxiety anger and health complications that could even lead to permit your death to mush appear sure knock a medical doctor and social commentator believes that just once will be a huge challenge for people. people. for a 3rd of the world we estimate one 3rd of the world is are sleeping for many people this is a new so i think the just and you know you just heard from litle before to now it's going to challenge any all the adults do it it's the friends or families and their immediate forward of that can be excellent television. so i think these people the problem's going to become exacerbated by another 3 topics by solution i think for young people as well i mean for them to log on to a place to go to school to college to university that's a start you young people young adults who suddenly find themselves cut off from

their friends and contacts there are the social lives they hit maybe maybe harder to speak of pandemics cause they global drop and pollution levels with flights grounded and factories closed but there's also an environmental downside peter a live report from berlin on how plastic bags a making a comeback. make no mistake about it the coronavirus is changing the way we live our lives not just when it comes to things like social distancing and hand washing but also when it comes to single use plastics recycling even usable shopping bags and coffee cups by banning harmful single use plastic says earliest 2021 and by making companies responsible for recycling their plastic waste we're protecting our wildlife and giving our kids and grandkids a cleaner and healthier future. knives in. plastic bags a really bad to. do sting generation makes this virus

is territory and with playing by its rules until we have a functioning vaccine or more knowledge about immunity in the united states that seeing some places move away for more usable shopping bags and back towards plastics from now on reusable bags are prohibited in all regulations on plastic bags being as will be left it is now considering delaying a new law to ban plastic bags as the corona virus spreads across maine with identified community transmission it is important that shoppers keep their reusable bags at home given the potential risk to baggers grocers and customers this emergency order directs all grocers and retail stores in the state to temporarily transition to only use new or plastic grocery bags provided by stores and as soon as feasibly possible coffee shops of also returned to their old ways at star books

you'll be served in a throwaway culp even if you bring your own. we're posing the use of personal corruption for here where in our stores environmental groups say the virus is being used as an excuse to undo much hard work in changing attitudes the plastics industry standards are trying to exploit these health crisis but those claims have also come in for criticism with some scientists and experts saying that reusable bags and coffee cups might not of being the panacea for climate change they were being sold as and that right now stopping the spread of this virus is the number one priority i think that's the necessary sacrifices of be made you know people who've been. given been using reusable coffee cups and huge fee taking the main food refills and i'm finding that coffee shops refuse to refill them because those

coffee cups would provide a possible means of transmission of the virus that's unfortunate but people are dying and and so it's probably a reasonable thing to do certainly there is a problem with reusable cups so if you're only going to use you'll reusable cup once or twice in then actually you're better off using a disposable one because it will have a much lower environmental impact some of these measures supposedly to reduce parasitic pollution. necessarily bring you the changes that we need in people's behavior in the real world with so many unknowns out there about the coronavirus protection against infection may well trump about the climate for the forseeable future peter all of our belin. officially saying hey with this international i will return with the latest news updates in half an hour.

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he's urged people respond to facts not fears during this pandemic. dr drew pinsky will offer his controversial perspective on all of this on the city . on the politicking on larry king my 1st guess you know him for many years on television and radio offering medical addiction and relationship advice is dr drew pinsky and he's making news lately for his rather controversial remarks regarding the world's reaction to the coronavirus pandemic let's talk to him about that he also hosts the podcast as dr drew and dr drew after dark and he joins me from here in los angeles i want to want to.