in the top stories of the week russia records its 5th death from coded 19 and tougher measures are introduced to stop the spread of the virus we look at how muscovites view the containment measures. also this hour italy accounts for one 3rd of the world's fatalities as the figure passes $10000.00. take asked how this come on poses you and the british prime minister boris johnson becomes the 1st world leader to contract 1000.

you're watching the weekly here on art see a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us. now we start with an update on the figures across the globe more than 660000 cases of coping $1000.00 have now been confirmed $142000.00 have recovered in total but almost 31000 people have died from the pandemic. now here and russia a 5th cone of virus patient has passed away and there are more than 1200 confirmed cases with 2 thirds of them in moscow but despite the rising numbers there are some light at the end of the tunnel the world health organization has agreed with the russian government estimate that the outbreak should start to subside as early as may starting on saturday all restaurants cafes and nonessential shops shut their doors here in moscow only supermarkets and pharmacies remain open although

deliveries of food and other items are still permitted people over the age of 65 are advised to stay indoors and public parks have been shots artie's in their patrol go 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 of the field cases see what's gone on. these places take quarantine commitment score.

so i start my tour around moscow's most popular spas with remember the scorpions song on soul 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 probably not but outside it and i can tell you that i only see 2 people here so. i give it not out of 10 for ed so 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 we're 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 restricted no people to not attend. where all nikolsk is treat 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 in here. well at this point as you can see i wouldn't say that a holy cow heard one or 2 passers by the restaurants are closed but there you

haven't so probably i'd say 5 out of 10. we're at a place called the depo food mall which is a combination of a food market and a food court this hip complex is also full of fancy bars and even night clubs and soul 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 alice. 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. and we do have an update of news coming just

in from the russian government that has just announced that 4 people have died of coke in 1000 and the past 24 hours in the country bringing the total death toll to 8 and there are 1534 confirmed infections in russia 64 patients have recovered from the virus at this point earlier this week president putin visited a hospital in moscow where coronavirus patients are being treated with a staff for their dedication and efficient work the president also chaired a meeting with the city authorities on containing the pandemic. we're. going to. prove good. movies. are going to get.

across europe there are more than 400000 confirmed cases at least has suffered most 10000 lives lost in the north of the country kerman torrents have been overwhelmed with the sheer number of dead and large numbers of cough and are being stored in churches russia has launched a massive aid operation to help italy fight the pandemic a total of 15 russian military cargo jets have landed in the country over the past week they brought ventilators protective gear for medics coping $1000.00 test kits and disinfection trucks also. 100 russian specialists in biology have been sent to italy they'll be helping out a tongue in hospitals who are currently swamped by patients leaving doctors and nurses at a breaking point. for

. one. thing people all. over. the bed. for months ago we were going to for advice you. know no we don't want. to sleep for home during the week for all the 3. things to. look for you know there will be more there for. most of the lives of. a large portion of the world's population is now living under various forms of restriction spain is under lockdown the death toll there is approaching 6000 the

2nd highest figure after italy medics are working around the clock to treat the infected it's a job that comes with huge risks though according to the latest figures hospital staff account for almost 14 percent of the country's total kovac $1000.00 cases lifesaving equipment is in short supply and hospitals are running out of capacity. shingled imo school find ourselves in an extreme situation in which we've all experienced extreme emotions and stance anguish emotions that many of the professionals may have experienced previously. but this situation will make it even more intense fear anger anguish sadness a very difficult to handle and we're lacking workers and when people go out to the streets you know what happens they get sick we're like an equipment and medication . germany has almost $60000.00 coronavirus cases but the country has managed to keep its mortality rate far lower than in spain our europe correspondent peter all

over it looks at how both countries are dealing with the outbreak. here in berlin we haven't seen the type of lockdown that's being put in place in other parts of europe although social distancing itself isolation being practiced germany thankfully hasn't seen the type of cases and fatalities of covert 19 that have been seen in countries like italy and most recently spain patients are having to lie on the floor as they simply aren't enough beds to treat them in hospitals while in a car but twist of necessity this ice rink normally a place of enjoyment is having to be used as a makeshift mortuary so far spain is the 2nd hardest hit in europe madrid has been the epicenter of the spanish outbreak authorities have had to put in place the strictest measures in an attempt to stop the spread of the momo library the way it was common in those the difficult days are common those are going to test with

a very limited capacity of resources and. look about without doubt the balance as a society the corona virus has overwhelmed some of spain's medical facilities so quickly in fact that some of those that were most at risk from the virus were left behind in the panic dozens of elderly and sick people were found dead at home the situation made all the more harrowing when the army had to disinfect their resting place as the army during certain visits found older people completely abandoned sometimes even dead in their bad spanish health care services fighting against collapse this is a significant problem for healthcare system this collapse which is being talked about could happen in some places germany seems to have the spread of covert 19 under some semblance of control a quick glance to our neighbors elsewhere in europe like spain shows just how

quickly the situation can degenerate and with such tragic consequences peter all of our r.t. belin. u.k. has seen a dramatic spike in cove in 1900 how these over the past week more than a 1000 have died more than 4 times the number at this time last week the british prime minister has written a letter to the nation urging people to stay at home and that's after boris johnson himself tested positive for the corona virus i developed marl 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'm working from home i'm so for isolating and that's entirely the right thing to do but be in no doubt that i can continue thanks to the with everybody technology to communicate with all my top

team to lead the national fight back against corona virus infection numbers continue to rise in the u.k. despite the nationwide lockdown and the citizens have refused to comply with the restrictions going out and meeting friends as if everything were normal twitter users have dedicated a new hash tag for those people who get it 1 . if you want to. and you want. to bring. these bloody idiot seem to think they're enjoying a summer's day in the park the u.k. is in lockdown for sake it's a lockdown people not to hold a student home the longer you persist in behaving like idiots the longer this is going to continue people ignoring the key log down and treating it as a special holy day event video it's. a backlash against those who ignore social

distancing advice is also happening in rule areas of the u.k. some national parks have been busier than ever and locals have been telling visitors to go home we spoke to regional authorities who were left stunned by the influx of people they say the confusion is down the mixed messages coming out of westminster. i don't know whether it's a deliberate ignoring or whether it's and. the advice at the time just wasn't clear enough people and i think unless you you've had something directly impact on you and last a member of your family has been impacted or unless you specifically been quite into isolation and i think here i don't think it people at that point the seriousness of the situation you know we're very reliant on on people coming to the area for the local economy and. i think it just hasn't hit people is

my hope that it just happened people and they just didn't stand in the gravity of the situation unfortunately there was an element of the digital until years and it was very pleased to see the mayor of the town of course call come on to the airwaves to put a more rational case forward i think those visitors were misguided i wouldn't call them stupid because those rules are not at all clear we've heard the u.k. government which was encouraging people to go out and again who would immunity you prime ministers farther saying it was going down the pub seconds after the prime minister advised people not to so you have to. have to be aware that there are very mixed messages and that's the challenge. the pandemic has brought entire economies to the brink of collapse after the break we'll look at how it could

affect our lives. and also coming up on the program at new york city is running critically low on hospital beds ventilators we speak with prognosis on the front line. is your media 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. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallowness. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back to the weekly western governments are stepping in with massive stimulus plans to keep their economies afloat during a health crisis our charlotte devinsky finds out how long nations can keep up the

spending spree. economies across the world have ground to a halt kilian measures have been announced from. governments offering to pay near full salaries to cannot work there is a scramble to inject colossal amount of money into the system to counter the economic fallout of the pandemic the costs are expected to exceed anything known in germany from economic crisis to natural disasters in recent decades as knock downs are implemented with no clear end in sight the real question perhaps is now how long could the world afford this this pandemic has brought the 3rd and most serious economic financial and social crisis of the 21st century the strict measures applied around the world although essential to control the spread of the virus plunge our economies into an unprecedented paralysis from which they will not come

out easily or automatically already we know that some $67000000.00 us citizens are worried about how they going to pay their credit card bills because of the pandemic other fears about finding money for the more essential basic needs of life accommodation and food while the multi-trillion bailouts for now will keep things taking a long and over some point that will end governments will have to choose between keeping the economy running or treating populations it is impossible to leave even in self isolation and to cure people if we do not continue the economic activity that quite simply allows us to live in this country our daily life so that eating out to restaurants going to the cinema meeting friends perhaps for a drink or even having a haircut these are all activities that contribute to. keeping our economies taking

over the money top sliced off by our governments in taxes then goes towards paying for essential services be that the doctors and nurses who are currently at the frontline of the war against $19.00 all the ability to purchase ventilators and other essential medical equipment governments need money and money comes from a healthy working economy we have already been warned that when containment measures finally and this will not be over the virus will not magically disappear. this idea that if you close schools and shut restaurants for a couple of weeks you solve the problem and get back to normal life that's not what's going to happen this virus is going to be circulating potentially for a year or 2 so we need to be thinking on those times goes. social distancing may

provide a respite from infection peak rates the so-called flattening the curve model but the impact that could have term economies could some believe provoke spikes in deaths elsewhere in the u.s. state of massachusetts a suicide prevention hotline has seen a surge in cools the majority of people called lately i'm mentioning all talking about fear of contract in the virus economic impact and prison loneliness or isolation we anticipate and there will be an increased need for services like ours for a time to come in countries where social safety nets 0 and particularly robust or or perhaps nonexistent this is a real concern president trump is well aware of this that despite lawmakers agreeing on a 2 trillion dollars stimulus package trump knows like china he may have to

prioritize the economy we have people get tremendous anxiety and depression and you have suicide over things like this when you have a terrible economy you have death probably i mean definitely would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we're talking about with regard to the virus governments who they interacted draconian lockdowns now face an even bigger die lemma given that a vaccine for the virus is still possibly a year or even 2 years away and that we're being warned by health experts that covert 19 will remain a deadly force when recess a taishan of the financial system becomes the more pressing issue how will they sell the exit strategy from containment. in the us containment measures have led to businesses shutting down and laying off staff unemployment claims hit 3300000 this week smashing previous records that number is 5 times higher than during the peak

of the one $982.00 recession meanwhile the senate has passed 2 trillion dollar stimulus plan to keep firms afloat we heard from economics professor richard wolfe who thinks the measures won't be enough we. were just conditional on the employment now when unemployment goes up a little more like this every conceivable struggle szell raglan we have i got a little child that you do forest you name it goes with it that's one of the reasons you can i still believe predict the fallout of all of this everything that government has done since we 1st learned about the coronavirus in december of last year has been too little and way too late and my judgment as best i can see it now is that this bill are still not really in the form it takes one on and we will all

this will be true little and truly america is now at the center of the cove in 1000 pandemic with the largest number of cases globally over 123000 americans have tested positive for the virus and more than 2200 have died at this point hospitals around the country are struggling with shortages of equipment staff in one new york city hospital under trash bags when they ran out of protective clothing a nurse told us the lack of equipment is in danger and both staff and patients. hospital claims that we have enough the plot but what was happening to us is we were only getting a limited amount of supplies and that day. the day nurse that was charge on that unit was important by the supervisor in the hospital she was told that we had no more blue gowns in the whole hospital one of the nurses that was coming on shift stop at the store she bought the bags and she they put them on and made them so

that they would serve the purpose of that blue gown that they had claimed we no longer had what happened when we don't have the proper equipment is that we put 10 chile expose ourselves which we have been not only do we expose ourselves but we've been exposing the patients that didn't have the virus we've been bringing it home to our families and bring it out into the community. new york state has been by far the worst hit with over 50000 cases that's a little under half of the national total 883 people have died there emergency services line in new york city has been overwhelmed with medical calls about as many as during 911 our teams trying to chávez reports from the city. hospitals in new york struggling under the weight of the pandemic people come in or

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 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 how you're going to do it. as the doctors say a lot of people call the doctor the survivor to expire and you put the same machine one of the 1st on as medical staff operates out their limit hundreds of more people wait lining up outside to get tested for coated 19 but officials say the 545 bed hospital is overrun and in desperate need of medical supplies you know the system's overwhelmed all over the place 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 come will never come. 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 adds 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 an. beds or lifesaving ventilators and as medical personnel remain on the front lines we are learning that a member of mt sinai is nursing staff who has been treating coronavirus patients has passed away from cove in 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 co the 19 to those who are critically ill from the virus the

procedure could be life saving reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . some good news from china's province which was of course where the coronavirus 1st appeared the number of new covered 1000 cases in the region has fallen to almost 0 on saturday 122 medical workers who were sent to the region from elsewhere and china returned home and they were seen off by a crowd of locals well plotted them for their work quarantine measures are being gradually lifted there and people who earlier came into contact with the infected have now been allowed to leave self isolation. now that was the weekly here at r.t. we are also having special measures put in place but at this time every day we'll continue to bring you our your live news update from here moscow and when in doubt you can always head to our website r.t. dot com for up to the minute reports.

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