drones are deployed to enforce a lockdown in the u.k. as police there are given extra powers to contain the spread of covert 90. governments around the world use mass surveillance to restrict movement of citizens we find out whether george orwell's 19 eighty-four might becoming reality. also millions of white collar employees keep doing their jobs for. that blue collar worker down front and every service is in europe say that the staff are being put at risk. so russia registers its death from the novel coronavirus says the government puts tougher measures into place we hear from

a russian pediatric surgeon and w h o advice. for me this is a test a few manatee how ready we are for the most important lesson for us is to rebuild the health care system. that's joining is here with your global news headlines this is international. starting with an overview of the covert 19 pandemic the number of confirmed cases worldwide now is more than 600000 that is up 20 percent over the past 24 hours the virus has claimed more than 28000 lives so far 137000 people have recovered.

well let's head 1st to the united kingdom where the government has been ramping up its coronavirus containment measures police have been given new powers in the deploying drones to ensure that citizens stick to the rules and stay at home. coming up now is a video message posted by police in the county of darby ship it urges people to avoid all nonessential movement that includes walking the dog in the pig district or even going for a long hike instagram as have been singled out they're told not to go out of their way to get a good selfie as governments around the world come up with new ways of fighting the pandemic there are fears that things might never return to normal i guess the looks

at how the global lockdown could change our lives. this pandemic will and already it is changing us society i do mean the economy or social distancing i mean privacy freedoms these are now a danger to our health this isn't about judgment condemnation or endorsement this is a global health crisis many lives are at stake and desperate times call for desperate measures but look and see what's happening before our very own eyes troops and armored vehicles on the streets of western cities droon patrolling cities and ordering civilians to return to their homes. ah ah ah ah

ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah nationwide look downs police and troops detaining civilians for violating curfews a lot in the middle east or china but in europe and italy alone more than $100000.00 people have been charged for violating the law down drones monitor citizens from above where they walk their dogs where they park where they congregate robots robots patrolled streets governments telling neighbors and friends and family to report each other if they find out someone violated quarantine we have created an online report in porto where people can submit a form to advise of and a gathering that are not in it here is with the guidance and easy to demand on one on one all of this was completely unimaginable

a few months ago but it's all about. stopping the virus at whatever cost in the fight against this sanitary crisis it is paramount that we anticipate the spread of the pandemic and its likely peak in each country in israel they started tracking people's movements with their phones to catch those violating quarantine or to warn people who have been someone who was infected in america in europe in russia they're talking about doing the same thing mobile phones have been turned into tracking devices for our own good they say it's hard to argue with that and personally for the duration of the crisis i don't mind it my question isn't when this will end the total control my question is will it head and the european data protection supervisor of stresses that such developments usually do

not contain the possibility to step back when the emergencies go home how often the governments or police give up powers you don't need me to answer that you know full well yourself we're all afraid we're all confused and worried for our loved ones fear has gripped world our society because of that we have given up without complaint our freedoms to our governments for our own good i'm not here to judge i'm only stating the obvious with the hope that when this nightmare is over and that fear passes will get our freedoms back. italy has recorded almost a 1000 covert 9000 deaths in just a single day that's the highest figure since the start of the outbreak hospitals there are under huge strain as admissions continue to soar and intensive care unit in the northern italian city of brush is now running at 5 times capacity we heard

from a doctor there who said that the medics are having to improvise just to save lives . or hospitals at the forefront of many aspects of treatment and intensive therapy we have suddenly found ourselves having to invent new treatments and use new machinery that we would have never used in normal condition about 2 thirds of the patients spend a long period in intensive care the number of beds has to be constantly increased because there are always more people coming in than being 'd discharged i spent 13 to 14 hours a day here at the hospital my colleagues have tripled their duties and are working night shifts to cope with the influx of patients or the new reality of self isolation millions of white collar workers get to do their jobs remotely but for most blue collar workers that's just not an option that includes delivery services and unions in europe of raised concerns about the safety of their staff do basically explains. just

a few weeks ago they were deemed unskilled workers i'm talking about the people who stack supermarket shelves or deliver our groceries books clothes and gadgets now as coded 900 forces us to hunker down in our homes they have become alongside health professionals some of the most essential workers of our time without those people we wouldn't be able to run as a nation we wouldn't have an economy and people won't be able to cook food on the table we just various clutches to issue. new roles at school and roles we've always done. in getting these products out. just like doctors and nurses who are fighting a war against this virus delivery drivers are also putting themselves on the front line and potentially at risk of be lying if i wasn't if i was saying that it wasn't

panic especially with everything that's going on in the media well we've obviously implemented a lot of protective measures and social distancing to make sure that they're not as much with us and that was so many minds as these new key workers are ensuring essential and a non essential deliveries many of those who once considered important stock at home either an able to be economically active or at best working remotely the french and british governments are amongst those that have offered to cover a significant proportion of their wages to people who can't be in their place of work during the lockdown unions warned that's led to a feeling of inequality. there is an impression of an equality between blue and white collar workers. truck drivers delivery and postal workers those in trade and

management many employees are in the front line mostly women and the working class and like the executives who shuddered when they didn't leave for their holiday homes this is causing more and more anger there's also concern that remote work is only possible if you're a so-called white collar worker so if you tend ball work as a salesperson in a closed shop it's pretty impossible right now to continue that type of employment now these roles are often based on short term always 0 hours contracts meaning employees don't have to keep the morning when they need to tighten their belts give food already carious nature of such work if containment measures become the new norm while a vaccine is being sought could remote working itself why didn't economic

inequality show that you can ski. paris. we've got reaction to the story from political commentator klitzman morality and market analysts craig. greely is a test to to our enemies and throw away word see how on this in the next few months this is obviously our president the situation room and we are facing like this for a long long time it's the whole chain of business which is really really vulnerable to these kinds of shocks and the longer they become i don't find us i've gotten better at it because the fundamental way working means to go on same way and hopefully governments can come together to support their their citizens for the next few months years right now through this pandemic what we're seeing is one of the benefits of being a white collar worker is that in many cases not all cases but in many cases the ability to work from home is much easier than maybe even offices previously

envisaged now that we've been forced into the situation what we're learning the more i think what to continue to learn over the coming weeks is once you have the infrastructure in place at home and now many people will have the infrastructure in place it's actually much more simple than what we previously envisaged. he rusher a 4th coronavirus patient has died and there are $1200.00 confirmed cases but there's also cause for optimism the world health organization has agreed with the russian government's estimate that the outbreak will start to subside in may to help contain the spread of the virus started from today restaurants cafes and shops are closing their doors only supermarkets and pharmacies will remain open food and other deliveries are still permitted though public parks are also being closed president putin earlier announced a weeklong paid holiday for nonessential workers starting from monday also a new facilities under construction in the russian city of nizhny novgorod officials said that it will be ready in less than a month to cope with

a possible influx of coronavirus patients 16 similar hospitals are being built across the country the government has already allocated equipment and supplies to each one. we discuss the pandemic and russia's response with lynyrd rochelle who is the country's top pediatric surgeon and an expert at the world health organization dr rashard told us that this crisis is a test for humanity. sure humanity has endured another terrible epidemic's both the plague and cholera before this one we've had 3 other types of corona virus this is another one and will not last forever this is a new virus it will also pass but with was lost this is the question. with. the hype the fear mongering for russia and for size is not very relevant the

situation in russia is not so tragic the media will not be able to ask the cas to russia i support the measures if a quarantine was imposed factories and transport would stop and this would cause a collapse that is worse than the virus. neither that you know i'm not a fortune teller in a basket case 2 or 3 months. it is for me this is a test a few manity how ready we are for up and down if i were an examiner looking at what is happening in italy spain and other countries i would give a c. minus great which is the most important lesson for us is to rebuild the health care system we must be prepared for serious disasters we must be prepared for serious pandemics we must be prepared for serious terrorist attacks and we must be prepared

for everything and above all our health care system must be prepared we get worse as health systems currently coping and isn't as overstretched as seen in some countries frontline workers are operating around the clock to keep the virus at bay that includes one of moscow's main their ports where 2 brothers decided to show their appreciation. it was him who decided to volunteer and give free coffee to all medical stuff in the airport workers who are in the vanguard of the fight against the corona virus in these countries our idea is to help with all that we have we can make coffee so it's not difficult for us to do those tackling the virus.

what. nationality of them we don't have any medical education so we can help them treat people the only thing we can do is make coffee and give some sweets to help them through this tough time the ultimate idea is that if we can help theoretically anyone can 2. dogs in the u.s. are being accused of stop piling medication for themselves and for their family so get the full story after this break. is your media

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things in the environment just in case there's a real connection. back to the united states has the most covert 1000 cases in the world now exceeding 104000 from 85000 yesterday more than 1500 americans have died of the virus ventilators there are in short supply and president trump assaulted the automotive joint general motors to produce the devices for coronavirus patients accuse the company of wasting time he said that fast action is needed to save lives meanwhile officials across the country say the situation in hospitals is desperate auntie's john david. pullets from miami. asks you know that and i do 5 masks we've talked so much about over the past few weeks surgical gloves and of course ventilators among other things running out in fact as we've seen and

continue to hear about medical professionals from florida to new york new york to california expressing their frustration about not having enough p.p.s. the gallons the gloves the facemask the ventilators will eventually run out as they continue to be besieged by new coronavirus cases there's been the contention between the governors of various states and president and other federal officials about adequate supplies being delivered by the federal government to the various states or or that are available as of now based in the areas as someone who is a confirmed orders for millions of pieces of gear evaporate in front of us in a can't tell you how frustrating it is you know we know how other orders that are outstanding. are probably quote unquote confirmed but we've literally got to the point where basic position is until the until the thing shows up here in the can

almost a mess that doesn't exist. but i'm telling you people are spending hours and hours and hours trying to get this stuff here in new york there really seems to be at this point as far as this overall issue disconnect between governor cuomo sconce yesterday during his press availability that the state's hospitals are now stocked up on p.p.s. and the head of new york state nursing association basically the union representing all the nurses and says that the governor is wrong that nurses are having a really is their equipment because of the ongoing shortages so while that debate continues so does this ongoing fight for more ventilators. some doctors in the united states of reportedly started to stockpile medication for themselves and their families that's according to pharmacy regulators in several states a new restrictions are being imposed on just how much medication one person can buy we heard from 2 pharmacy board members about the crisis initials groups the

pharmacists reported to us were filled for large quantities that the report was their prescriptions were written for 180 tablets with 6 refills for the physicians and members of their families or pharmacy promulgated a new rule. pharmacists from dispensing more there a 14 day supply we just wanted to. tell the pharmacies what they you know give guidance to them for dispensing the medication so that there would not be shortages for patients who are being treated for things like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis and that needed to medication. there's now a huge demand for drugs of the considered possible treatments for covert 19 but none of them have been officially approved for that purpose the commonly used to treat malaria lupus and the diseases the pharmacy board members again say hoarding of drugs could cost patients lives they can't presume what the doctors are thinking

but certainly the article that came out that the drug has shown some promise with the treatment and maybe perhaps even with profile access the coke at 19 various i think is what informing their decisions if they're being prescribed these in large quantities and dispensed that way it could certainly have an impact on another patients as well it could also impact if there is proving to be that it is a treatment of the corona virus pandemic starting to take hold in the palestinian territories and doctors in gaza have warned of an impending catastrophe with health services to cope after years of living under these really blockade with more is our middle east correspondent paula sleep. i'm standing at the checkpoint between jerusalem and the occupied west bank city of bethlehem every day until recently thousands of crowds would queue here the large crowds the poor ventilation was the perfect opportunity for the coronavirus to sprayed the israeli army is now closing

or checkpoints and at the same time it's tossed the police with trying to stop the spread of the virus however in the case of gaza people they will find themselves trapped in a dainty populated strip with a fragile health care system which according to the united nations has been crumbling away before the pandemic. the gaza and the west bank are fragile areas due to the continue siege there has been deteriorating all our medical capabilities for the 14th year in a row it's meant the gaza strip has lost all its basic facilities which provide health and human interim care and that's the condition and which today we're facing this virus won't be able to fight this problem if we don't receive significant need for the health sector especially medical supplies and i see. the world health organization which visited gaza this week also gave its verdict the strips failing health care system will not be able to deal with

a pandemic or law rather even superpowers couldn't control these fires not to mention the high density of population here which can lead to a severe escalation of the pandemic so. the situation here now is harder than during any war we had before we've witnessed 3 of them but this scenario is definitely worse. we ask all concerned countries to show a bit of humanity can stand with us we don't have enough money to buy those masks we buy only one per day and even this not everybody can afford most people can only buy food and most of the youth are unemployed despite this so far as he's in gaza are trying to be prepared for whatever is coming they are building a common team saying. to host up to 500 people while issue factory in the west bank has now switched to making medical mosques it's reportedly the only place in the area that produces the vital protection israel also apparently understands the severity of the problem israel deliberate hundreds of medical kits to the enabling

observation of the virus also there are joint tutorials and professional medical workshops participated both by israeli and palestinian medical staff were there given the knowledge regarding the virus and probert in dealing with it but with a population of more than 2000000 people it's clearly not enough and guard service calling for the united nations and international community to provide it with urgent aid to battle the crisis in 2013 the american pluck bester world war z. it predicted that a common enemy a zombie plague would force israelis and palestinians to unite and end the decades long conflict it remains to be seen with a covered 19 can do the same. r t m checkpoint. we've asked these really authorities to comment on the situation we're awaiting their response meanwhile journalist gideon levy says that israelis are getting a taste now of what life has been like for the palestinians. for many years israel

is heard about their reality of course through heard about the reality in which people move from one place to they are heard about petro a bet or soft soldiers and policemen in villages in streets in cities but they've never experienced it and now all of a sudden it's becoming a reality in our hometowns in our cities in our villages what we are doing to the palestinians for over 50 years now is becoming grid. our reality it is the un comparable because what they face in root. meantime sees still 100 times worse than what we are now facing in our closure but i hope that some israelis will make it there and energy and remember that we are doing it for so many years the palestinians maybe now we understand

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time actioner times are we going underground as nato nations struggle to stem a pandemic but what about palestine patrolled with major nation weapons when the anniversary of the great march of return we investigate what some focus to be coronavirus qana jin gaza coming up on the show with 2000000 palestinians trapped in what's known as the world's largest open air prison camp and would serious. medical equipment we speak to the director of gaza's biggest mental health program about trauma in the time the parana virus and israel exploiting coronavirus to expand illegal settlements as the west bank goes into law and we speak to the un development and humanitarian chief in palestine jamie mcgoldrick scan the israeli prime minister netanyahu is going to virus justice chief of staff to former israeli prime minister ehud barak also more coming up in today's going underground 1st let's go straight to gaza one of the most densely populated areas on earth tackling

coronavirus dr yes robert you may director of the gaza community mental health program joins me now via skype yes and thanks so much for joining us so what is the situation in gaza israel is claiming it has sent you hundreds of testing kits thousands of or at least 1000 protective suits by the world health organization to save people save 2000000 people arguably from coronavirus. thank you very much and the conditions as like this now we have only tool fortunately only 2 confirmed cases of corner virus so around the same time we have about 1300 people who are in quarantine centers the these are mainly be pull out right from outside because this trip and we have about $3000.00 people who are of our asked requested to be staying at their house and like self contained this is a place that is under a blockade says more than 12 years the health system itself is now.