while sandra was there we're going to close you see officers going undercover as 6 workers and customers to fight the early 6 trades. trying to deploy to enforce a law down in the u.k. is policing given extra powers to contain the spread of code 90. as governments around the world use mass surveillance to restrict the movements of citizens we look at whether george orwell's book 984 was in fact becoming a reality and his millions of white collar workers keep doing their jobs from home many blue collar workers don't have the option of every services in europe to see it for the safety of their stuff plus also to come this hour russia introduces tougher measures it calls its 4th death from the coronavirus we hear from

a pediatric surgeon and world health organization official. for me this is a test a few manatee already we are for brain damage the most important lesson for us is to rebuild the health care system. but i welcome you with r.t. international this saturday afternoon which just gone 5 pm here in the russian capital ok well let's start by giving you the latest figures on covert 19 because across the globe over 600000 cases have now been confirmed that is up 20 percent in the last 24 hours and over 28000 people have died from the outbreak although 137000 have recovered.

now the british government is ramping up its coronavirus contain measures police have been given new powers in to deploying drones to ensure that citizens do stick to the rules and stay at home. and coming up now is a video message posted by police in the county of darbyshire it is people there to avoid all non-essential movement and that includes walking the dog in the peak district or going for a long walk and instagram as a single dad hit you they're being told not to go out of their way to get a good selfie with governments around the world to come up with new ways of fighting the pandemic wrath is that things could never go back to normal but again as the of looks now at how the global lockdown could change our lives. this

pandemic will and already 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 drools 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 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 droom smaller to citizens from above where they walk their dogs where they pog 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 senator a 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've been me as 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 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 such developments usually do not contain the possibility to step back

when the emergencies go 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. or a ghastly of their will italy has recorded more than 919 deaths in a single day that's his highest figure since the outbreak started hospitals are under great strain as admissions continue to soar and intensive care unit in the northern italian city pressure is now running at 5 times capacity we heard from

a. dr there he said that medics are having to improvise to save lives because. hospital is 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 consciously increased because there are always more people coming in than being 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 in the new reality of self isolation millions of white collar workers are able to do their jobs remotely from home at the moment however for most blue collar workers simply isn't an option that includes delivery services unions in europe are now raising concerns though about the safety of their staffers. reports. 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 tissue. rolls of toilet rolls 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 theory. especially with everything else 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 truest and that was so many minds as these new key workers are ensuring essential and non essential deliveries many of those who once considered important stuck 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 the wages of people who can't be in their place of work during the lockdown unions warned that this 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 work is only possible if you're a so-called white collar worker so if you tend ball work as a salesperson in a clothes 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 employers don't have to keep the morning when they need to tighten their belts the current crisis is perhaps only highlighting this divine right and if in the coming months old world starts to return to some semblance of what we need to let's not forget that in our time of need it was the low pay the manual workers that we were

lined on and without the heroes delivering all good so keeping our supermarket shelves stocked we would have been lost. for r.t. in paris because some reaction to this story from the political commentator on morality and also from the market analyst craig good. big really is a test to go to our enemies and throw away we're seeing how this in the next few months this is obviously an artist in 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 sharks and the longer they become out of it or find out i've gotten better because the fundamental way you're working means to go on same way and hopefully governments can come together to support their better citizens for

the next few months or 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 and not all cases but in many cases the ability to work from home is much easier than maybe even the offices previously envisaged we have 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 one shot 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. now here in russia a 5th coronavirus patient has died and there are $1200.00 confirmed cases but there is also some cause for optimism and that's because the world health organization has agreed with the russian government's estimate that the outbreak could start to subside as their lives may help contain the spread of the virus starting today restaurants cafes and shops are closing their doors only supermarkets and

pharmacies remain open although deliveries of food and other items is still permitted there's no restraint on people going outside at the moment but public parks have been shut president putin earlier announced that weeklong paid holiday for non-essential workers starting from monday construction of new health facilities are also under way including this one in the russian city of nation of choroid officials say 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 across the country the government has also allocated equipment and supplies to each one we discuss the pandemic and russia's response to clean it rochelle he is the country's top pediatric surgeon and also an expert the world health organization. humanity has endured another to rule epidemics the plague and cholera before this

one we have 3 other types of corona virus this is another one and will not last forever this is a new virus it will also pass with more losses is the question. the hype or the fear mongering for russia and emphasise is not very relevant the situation in russia is not so tragic the media will not be able to ask the cast a russian 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. or that you know i'm not a fortune teller in a best case 2 or 3 months. for

me this is a test a few manatee already we are for a pandemic if i were an examiner looking at what is happening in need to lead 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. well for the moment russia's health care system is coping is not as overstretched as those in some other countries frontline medics are working around the clock though to keep the virus at bay and that includes one of moscow's main airports and that's prompted 2 brothers 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 fire that is the coronavirus in this country our idea is to help with all that we have we can make coffee so it's not difficult for us to even do those tackling the virus. national day of constant 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 to. our coverage continues after the break when we speak to the strain doctor and t.v.

star whose call for more testing as health professionals demanding that haynes put in charge of the response to the outbreak that story is just after the break.

join me every 1st week on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm sure business i'll see you there. welcome back now a stray one has increased the number of people it tests for corona virus after widespread criticism authorities had only been checking those arriving from abroad and who had been in contact with those people 14 have died from corona virus in the

country with thousands of confirmed infection more than 180000 australians have now been tested for the disease after a high profile doctor and t.v. star took the government to task dr norman swan told the a.b.c. network that far more checks in needed and views and health professionals alike and i demanding that he's put in charge of this situation i'm a doctor and would like dr norman swan to be the country's health spokesperson jaring this crisis australia would have a fighting chance if norman swan was the chief medical officer nonpartisan no fluff qualified respected and well known there winner tonight is dr norman swan those are our australia as he's not our chief medical officer or doctors one assess the country's response to coronavirus and told this to you about whether he'll be the

chief medical officer as many and i demand. why would they want to condemn me to be the chief medical officer of the last drop in the world i want you know chief medical officers whether it's in russia or it's a thankless task there are new easy decisions where we realized that there was a vacuum of information where the public really where frightened and confused and unfortunately here they were necessarily gazing at all the information they felt we needed we didn't and we didn't understand that of the time i've been a broadcast journalist in health for a long time so we thought we provide this service and simply answer people's questions and give them the latest research it's still relatively low numbers when you think about what's going on in italy in america and other places but it's not good are doubling rate that's how how long it takes for 2000 to become $4000.00 cases is it's shortening so it's down to 2 days we haven't been as good.

at finding people we've done a ban we reduced the number of cases by putting a band very early on in china but we were too late put a ban on the united states and that's made it very difficult and so the next phase here in australia has to be with the government hasn't quite got there yet to really expand testing to look for people who may have the virus but don't know it elsewhere the coronavirus pandemic is starting to take hold in the palestinian territories and doctors and have warned of an impending catastrophe with health service is equipped to cope after years of living under. as this report. 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 by philosophy in the gaza and the west bank are fragile areas due to the continuous 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 it. and that's the condition in which today we're facing this virus we 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 the pandemic all along rather even

superpowers couldn't control these forests not to mention the high density of population here which can lead to a severe escalation of the pandemic. and the situation here now is harder than during any war we had before and we've witnessed 3 of them that this scenario is definitely worse. we are concerned countries to show a bit of humanity and stand with us we don't have enough money to buy those masks we buy only $1.00 per day and even this not everybody can afford $100.00 most people can only buy food and most of the youths 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 a shoe factory in the west bank has now switched to making medical masks it's reportedly the only place in the area that produces the vital protection israel also apparently understands the severity of the problem is they will deliberate hundreds of medical kits to enabling observation of the virus also there are joint

and professional medical workshops participated both by israeli and palestinian medical where there are given the knowledge regarding the virus and proper tools 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 blockbuster world war z. it predicted that a common enemy a zombie plague would force his way decent palestinians to unite and end the decades long conflict it remains to be seen with the cost of $19.00 can do the same . r.t. at the big him checkpoint. we have asked the israeli authorities to comment on the situation there and we'll let you know what they say when we get their reply in the meantime journalist gideon levy says that israelis and i are getting a taste of what life is like for the palestinians. for many years is rarely is

heard about the reality of curfew heard about the reality in which people carol move from one place to the other heard about petro a pet or so far so joyous and policemen in villages in streets in cities but they 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 gradually our reality it is still un comparable because what they face in routine times is still 100 times worse than what we are now facing in our closure but i hope that some israelis will make their knowledge g. and remember that we are doing it for so many years the palestinians maybe now we

understand a little bit more about the situation and that brings you up to date now on the global situation we're back again with the headlines. back to 30 minutes time time for get by now you can also follow all the latest developments at our web site at r.t. doc. i can't show you my face but i'm going to tell you must tour in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. they get charged with capital murder even though he didn't have the gun didn't pull the trigger didn't intend to kill anybody magine living in your bathroom. with history for $23.00. i found out that i had to be.

confined within 4 green walls. believed in this room. see problem with having too many claims amount of gold is really hitting the markets in a serious way people want their gold now because they realize that the money world is collapsing and then they go to get their gold and these exchanges where the. b.m.a. are saying no we don't have the gold actually we live. here and so that's causing people to they want their gold even more than all the countries that have repatriated their gold ever since we told germany that they don't even have the gold on their own soil then they repatriated their gold now everyone wants to repatriate they want their gold back and so the physical price of gold is now

zooming iron the paper price soon will become a meaningless price. this is boom bust the one business show you can't afford to miss i'm sorry want to fail in washington coming up congress passes a massive to do trillion dollar stimulus package will break down how markets are reacting to the news and u.s. automakers general motors look to save some cash and avoid layoffs amid the coronavirus pandemic lauren fix the car coach tells us what we could be or what could be coming for the auto industry plus the amazon workers across the country come forward with stories about working conditions and faith after more positive cases of covert 19 but 1st let's start by talking about.

a global death toll still on the rise with more than 25000 people and nearly 555000 back to the united states now leads with the most confirmed cases in the world with more than 86000 in fact and nearly 1300 fatalities new hotspots are emerging across the u.s. and chicago detroit and new orleans vice president mike pence downplayed terms comments over reopening the economy by easter saying the president expressed really an aspirational goal as we continue to follow the data on thursday g. 20 leaders held a virtual meeting where they vowed to work together to combat the virus we talked about the problem. really won't be a problem for too much longer the united states is working with our friends and

partners around the world to stop the spread of the virus and coordinate our efforts we discuss how vitally important it is for all of our nations to immediately share information and data and we've been doing that to a large extent but. do it even more so in the meanwhile europe continues to see a surge in its numbers italy warned it has not yet reached its peak the country imported $8215.00 deaths with total confirmed cases topping 80000 while there are signs of a slowdown authorities say the peak could come in the next few days spain falling italy is also warning the worst is still ahead the number of fatalities rose by 769 in just 24 hours to nearly 5000 the number of affected to more than 64000 number of cases in the u.k. also on the rise more than 11000 come from the factions 570. british prime minister boris johnson tested positive for the covert 19 and is the 1st major world leader to do so for the country and.