drones are used to enforce the law down in the u.k. is police to give an extra powers to contain the spread of. what is governments around the world use mass surveillance to restrict the movement of citizens we look at whether george orwell's book 19 eighty-four is fast becoming a reality also to become concerned for the safety of those who can't work from home unions in europe demanding employees do more to protect delivery staff from infection and russia records its 5th day with 19 tougher measures are put in place to prevent the spread of the virus we hear from an expert from the world health

organization. for me this is a test a few manatee we are for the most important lesson for us is to rebuild the health care system. hello good evening welcome you watching r.t. international. 10 o'clock this saturday evening here in moscow let's start with an update on the figures because across the globe more than 650000 cases of 19 have now been confirmed that is up 20 percent in the last 24 hours alone 139000 have recovered in total but over $30000.00 people have died from the outbreak. well the british government is ramping up its efforts to contain the virus police

have been given new powers in the using drones to make sure that citizens do stick to the rules and stay at home. well here's a video message that was posted by police in the county of darby share in the u.k. it is a people to avoid all non-essential movement and that includes walking the dog in the pay to play district or going for a long walk and instagram as a single dad to their told not to get not to go out of their way to get a good selfie because governments around the world to come up with new ways of fighting the pandemic there are fears that things could never go back to normal we were aghast you have takes a look now at how the global lockdown could change our lives 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 ah

ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah. nationwide lockdowns 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 people have been charged for violating the laws down drones monitored 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 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 7 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 often stresses that 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 we'll get our freedoms back now the 1st royal has died from the princes maria teresa or spain lost her life on friday her brother has confirmed she was 86 years old more than 800 feet ins in spain have died in the last 24 hours alone bringing the country's toll to more than 5000 any country worst hit in europe. the moment

and that recorded more than 900 deaths from corona virus on friday alone this is the highest figure since the start of the outbreak hospitals are under great strain there is admissions continue to saw an intensive care unit in the northern italian city of bresh here is now running at 5 times capacity we heard from a doctor there he said that medics are having to improvise to save lives but without the 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 a 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 just. 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 meanwhile ourself isolation has become the new norm for millions of people who are now working from home however for most blue collar workers that's simply not an option that includes delivery services unions in europe and are raising concerns that were back there safety in charlotte pinsky 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 to shoot. rolls of toilet

rolls we've always done things like. 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 risks and that with so many minds as these new key workers are ensuring essential earned 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 cause to 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 bowl 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

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 let's not forget that in our time of need it was the low paid the manual workers that we don't 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 reaction to this story from the political commentator and also the market analyst craig good. big really is a test to to our enemies and through our way we're seeing how on this in the next few months there this is an obviously our present 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 out 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 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 so 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 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 more than 1200 confirmed cases but

despite the rising numbers there is potential light at the end of the tunnel because the world health organization has agreed the russian government estimate the outbreak could actually start to subside is the early is made meanwhile russian officials say that they are they think that anti malaria drugs could potentially help the treatment to cope with 19 although more research is needed to help contain the spread of the virus for the moment starting this weekend restaurants cafes and shops are closing their doors only supermarkets some pharmacies remain open or the deliveries of food and other items are still permitted there are no restrictions on people going outside but public parks being shut. has been out on the streets of moscow. it's the weekend and it's this country's turn the people have been calling the measures that have been announced quarantine all kinds of places from restaurants to gyms are shut down but there's been no formal ban on

people leaving their homes unless they're over 65 years old the weather is beautiful it's a fantastic weekend and usually all the people would be out. that's why i want to check out a few locations to see what's going on and get these places a quarantine commitment score. so i start my tour around moscow's most popular spas with remember the scorpions song on full of the most down to gorky park that's right. gorky park here it is officially it is shut down but there are a couple of beautiful prominence but outside it and i can tell you that i only see

2 people here so i give it not out of 10 for its location quarantine commitments score. moscow there's a whole new place for selfies with the kremlin in the background it's called the soaring bridge. where approaching it right now you can see it over there and it's completely deserted no axis and i've been told that technically it's part of a park that's also closed so like i said access restrict. no people 10 out of 10. we are all nikolsk astri this place was

a magnet for football fans from all over the planet during the world cup 28 saying it literally felt like a tin of sardines and hear. us. ok oh. well at this point as you can see i wouldn't say that of all the encountered one or 2 passers by the restaurants are closed but there you haven't so probably i'd say 5 out of 10. were at a place called the depo food mall which is a combination of the food market and a food court this hip complex is also full of fancy bars and even night clubs and so we're not used to seeing this place almost completely empty actually i was sure

that i'd see some hipsters just trying to hang around here even it out signs it turns out that the food part is actually operating because it counts as groceries but other than that everything shut down and i don't see anyone here pretty much so just for the public's responsibility i guess this place gets 10 out of 10 but of course i guess it's a bit of a hard time for the market traders in the train crashed on the quiet streets of moscow then i will moscow has the largest number of coronavirus cases in russia the government is the one saying take measures nationwide with construction of new health facilities including this one in need of. a city in the west of the country officials say will be ready in less than a month's time to cope with a possible influx of coronaviruses patients 15 similar hospitals are being built across the nation the government has already allocated equipment and supplies to

each one we discussed the pandemic and russia's response to with the need is the country's top pediatric surgeon and an expert at the world health organization. nor would you choose to sure humanity has endured other terrible epidemics 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. we took to. 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 collate the cas to russians 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 wireless. issues that is good 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 have already we are 4 up and dammit 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 and we must be prepared for everything and above all our health care system must be prepared. still ahead here after the break we speak to the strained opteron t.v.

star whose call for more testing his health professionals now demanding that he's put in charge of the response the kind of igniting that's on the way.

join me every week. and i'll be speaking to. i'm sure i'll see you then. welcome back with r.t. now astray has increased its testing for corona virus to widespread criticism authorities there had previously only checked those arriving from abroad and those who'd been in contact with them 14 have died from corona virus in the country with

thousands infected in total over 180000 australians have been tested for the disease but that's not enough according to a high profile doctor and t.v. star dr norman swan told the a.b.c. network that far more checks in needed and he won the support of u.s. and health professionals to who now want him to lead the fight against the outbreak . i'm a doctor and would like dr norman swan to be the country's heart spokesperson during this crisis australia would have 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 the losers are australia as he is not our chief medical officer but we spoke to dr swan who gave us his take on the 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 australia it's a thankless task there are no easy decisions where we realized that there was a vacuum of information where the public really where frightened and confused and unfortunately here 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 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 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 pandemic is starting to take hold in the palestinian territories and doctors in gaza have warned of an impending catastrophe health services there are ill equipped to cope after years of living under the blockade horsley reports. 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 the dangerously 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. and that's the condition in which today we're facing this virus and 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.c.u. pursuing he said 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 or law a law that. was couldn't control these fires not to mention the high density of

population here which can lead to severe the pandemic so. 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 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 $1.00 per day and even this not everybody can afford $100.00 most people can only buy food and most of the youth are unemployed despite this so far as he's in guards are trying to be prepared for whatever is coming they are building a common team center to host up to 500 people while issue 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 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 where they are given the knowledge regarding the virus and probert who also been 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 the cost of $19.00 can do the same. r t m check point we have asked the israeli authorities to comment on the situation although so far they haven't replied journalist gideon levy says that israelis are now getting a taste of what life is like for the palestinians. many years israel is heard about their reality of course through all heard about the reality in which people

carol move from one place to they are 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 gradually our reality it is still uncomparable because what they face is routine times is still $100.00 times worse than what we are now facing in our closure but i hope that some israelis will make their miller gee and remember that we are doing it for so many years the palestinians maybe now we understand a little bit more about the situation. has come at

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