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you shouldn't feel you should put all through what was your business. drones are used to enforce a lockdown in the u.k. is police are given extra powers to contain the spread of covert 90. but is governments around the world to use mass surveillance to restrict the movement of their citizens will look at whether george orwell's book $984.00 is fast becoming a reality also to come concerns the safety of those who can't work from home unions in europe are demanding employers do more to protect the delivery staff from infection and as russia recalls its 5th death from cope with 19 tougher measures are put in place to prevent the spread of the virus we hear from an expert from the
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world health organization. for me this is just a few manatee really we are for a pandemic the most important lesson for us is to rebuild the health care system. hello there you're watching our international this saturday evening worse just gone 9 o'clock here in the russian capital now will begin this hour with some of the latest numbers on cave 19 because across the globe more than 600000 cases have been confirmed that is up 20 percent in the last 24 hours alone 138000 have recovered in total but almost $30000.00 people have now died from the outbreak. well the british government is ramping up its efforts to contain the coronavirus
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police have been given new powers in the using drones to make sure the citizens do stick to the rules and stay at home. and what we're showing here is a video message posted by police in the county of darbyshire in the u.k. there's a paper to avoid all non-essential movement and that includes even walking the dog in the pig district or going for a long walk and instagram is to a single dime they're 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 there are phases that things could never go back to normal but it can see it now looks at how the global lockdown could change our lives
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forever. 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 drools patrolling cities and ordering civilians to return to their homes. ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
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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 pog where they congregate robots robots patrolled streets governments attending 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
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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 have been is 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 this 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
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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. now the 1st royal has died from the outbreak princess maria theresa of spain lost her life on friday her brother has confirmed she was 86 years old more than 800 code victims in spain have died in the last 24 hours alone bringing the country's toll to more than 5000 the only country worst hit in europe is this
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lee recorded more than 900 deaths from corona virus on friday that is the highest figure since the start of the outbreak hospitals are under great strain there is as admissions continue to saw an intensive care unit in the northern italian city brashear is now running it 5 times capacity we heard from a doctor there he said that medics are having to improvise to save lives just get out of 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 consciously increased because there are always more people coming in than being 'd destroyed i spend 13 to 14 hours a day here at the hospital my colleagues have triple their duties and are working night shifts to cope with the influx of patients meanwhile self isolation has
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become the new norm for millions of people who are now working from home however most blue collar workers that is simply not an option and that includes delivery services where unions in europe are now raising concern about their safety and shouted 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
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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 . 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 with and that with some 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
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a significant proportion of the wages for people who caused to 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 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 these roles are often based on short term always 0 hours contracts meaning
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employers don't have to keep the morning when they need to tighten their belts the current crisis is perhaps only highlighting the divine right and if in the coming months old world starts to return to some semblance of what we need let's not forget that in our time of need it was the low paid the manual workers that we relied on and without the heroes delivering all good so keeping our supermarket shelves stocked we would have been lost. for r.t. in paris we got some reaction to the story from the political commentator. and also the market analyst craig them. really it's a test to to our readers and through our way we're seeing how. the next few months this is obviously are is a situation. like this for a long long are it's not altering obviousness which is really very vulnerable to
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this kind of show. because remember where you were working means to go on same way. to go to support their citizens or 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 that's not all cases but in many cases the ability to work from home is much easier than maybe even offices previously envisaged were but now that we've been forced into the situation what we're learning the more i think what it continues to learn over the coming weeks is what 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 more than 1200 cases confirmed
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cases but despite the rising numbers there is some potential light at the end of the tunnel because the world health organization has agreed with the russian government's estimate that the break could start subside as is may meanwhile russian officials say they do think anti malaria drugs could potentially help the treatment of covert 19 although more research is needed now to help contain the spread of the virus in the country starting from today restaurants cafes and shops are closing their doors only supermarkets and pharmacies remain open although deliveries of food another items still permitted there are no restrictions on people going outside but public parks have been shut president putin earlier announced a weeklong paid holiday for now. an essential work starting from monday now work construction of new health facilities are also under way including this one in the grad athena west of the country officials say will be ready in less than a month to cope with a possible influx of coronavirus patients 15 similar hospitals are being built
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across the nation the government has already highly catered to equipment and supplies to each one. but we did discuss the pandemic and russia's response to clean it. is the country's top p.d. threat pediatric surgeon and an expert at the world health organization. no to sure humanity has endured other terrible a pedantic 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 losses is the question. will. the hype the fear mongering for russia i emphasize is not very relevant the situation in russia is not so tragic the media will not be able to ask the cas to
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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. that is good that you know i'm not a fortune teller in a best case 3 months. for me this is a test a few manatee have already we are 4 up and down economy if i were an examiner looking at what is happening in need to leave spain and other countries i would give a c. minus great which is the most important lesson for us is to rebuild the healthcare system we must be prepared for serious disasters we must be prepared for serious pandemics we must be prepared for serious terrorist attacks we must be prepared for
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everything and above all our health care system must be prepared now for the moment then rush is the health care system is coping frontline medics are working round the clock to cait the virus that day but they are being held in a small way i think 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 flight because the coronavirus 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 even do those tackling the virus.
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national day of things that 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. please him or to come after the break we spiked we speak to the australian doctor and t.v. star who has called for more testing as health professionals demanding that he's put in charge of the response to that 19 asked to come in a couple. is your media
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a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is truly what is. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. aura made of the shallows. the atlantic alliance the bedrock of the post world war 2 global security order is slowly but surely unraveling more and more often washington in brussels by virtue of them for the foreign policy issues today europe has
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a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. has increased its testing for corona virus after widespread criticism authorities had previously only checked those arriving from abroad and those who've been in contact with them 14 have died from corona virus in the country of thousands infected in total over 180000 australians have been tested for the disease after a high profile doctor and t.v. star took the government to task dr norman swan here told the a.b.c. network that far more checks when needed and health professions are like then demanded that he's put in charge of the outbreak. i'm a doctor and would like dr norman swan to be the country's health spokesperson during this crisis australia would have
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a fighting chance if norman swan was the chief medical officer nonpartisan no fluff qualified respected and well known the winner tonight is dr norman swan those are our australia as he's not our chief medical officer spoke to dr swan who gave us his take on his country's response and also the public's call for him to take charge. 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 who they weren't necessarily gazing at all the information they felt they 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 the service and simply answer people's
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questions and given 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 our doubling rate that's how how long it takes for 2000 to become $4000.00 cases is is shortening so it's down to 2 days we haven't been as good. in the street in it and finally people we've put down a ban we reduced the number of cases by putting a band very early on in china but we were too late to 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 pandemic is starting to take hold in the palestinian territories and doctors in gaza have warned of an impending catastrophe health service is there are ill equipped to cope after years of living under these right in a blockade as. i'm standing at the checkpoint between jerusalem and the occupied
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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 the dangerously 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 and a row it's meant the gaza strip has lost all its basic facilities which provide health and human interest care and that's the condition and which today we're facing this virus and we won't be able to find this problem if we don't receive
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significant need for the health sector especially medical supplies and i.c.u. things to ease 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 all along 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 quarantine center. to host up to 500 people while issue factory in the west bank
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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 is that all 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 given the knowledge regarding the virus and probert who was 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 in the decades long conflict it remains to be seen with a card at 19 can do the same. r
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t m checkpoint we have asked israeli authorities to comment on this story although where so far we haven't received a reply which journalist gideon living does say that israelis are now getting a taste of what life is like for many palestinians. for many years israel is heard about their reality of course through heard about the reality in which people carol move from one place to the other heard about petro of birth 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. our reality it is the un comparable because what they faced. as in routine times is still
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100 times worse than what we are now facing in our closure but i hope that some israelis will make the admin to remember that we are doing it for so many years the palestinians maybe now we understand a little bit more about the situation you're watching r.t. that brings you up to date for the sad and forget there are always plenty of developments and stories to our website you can find that.
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