russia's death toll from kobe of 19 reaches 8 with 4 lives lost in the past day tougher measures have been introduced to stop the spread of the virus and we look at how muscovites view the containment measures. plus italy accounts for one 3rd of the world's spitalfields as the figure passes $10000.00 there. i. asked that has come out positive. and the british prime minister contracts the virus ports johnson has written a letter sent to every u.k. also told urging people to stay at home.

and watching the weekly here on our team a recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us this hour . now we start as always with the latest updates on the figures from the coronavirus across the globe almost 670000 cases of code 1000 have now been confirmed 142000 have recovered in total but over $31000.00 people have died from the pandemic. here in russia 4 people have died of coded 19 in the past 24 hours alone that brings the total figure to 8 in the country there are now more than $1500.00 confirmed infections in russia with 2 thirds of them in moscow but despite the rising numbers there is cause for optimism the world health organization has agreed with the russian government's estimate of the outbreak should start to subside as

early as may well starting on saturday all restaurants cafes and non essential 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 for their safety and public parks are out of bounds. go has been looking at the measures being taken in 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 gems 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 and see what's gone on and get these places

a quarantine commitment score. so i start my tour around moscow's most popular spas swizz remember the scorpion song 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 right outside it and i can tell you ali see 2 people here so i give it not out of 10 for ed slow cation quarantine commitment 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 to no people 10 out of 10. we're all nikolsk a street 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 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. where the 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 nightclubs 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 signed 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 earlier this week president putin visited a hospital in moscow where coronavirus patients are being treated there he thank the staff for their dedication and efficient work the president also chaired a meeting with the city authorities on containing the pandemic. kathy. no. no no no no i'm not going to sort of call him a sure we're not a company additionally. who should get you know notice what article trying to get into mother's room it wouldn't use for some who were. just doing. across europe there are more than 400000 confirmed cases of cope with 19 italy has suffered most with 10000 lives lost in the north of the country have been

overwhelmed with the sheer number of dead and large numbers of coffins are simply 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 from medics coping 19 test kits and disinfection trucks also around $100.00 russian specialists and viral jihad been sent at least they'll be helping out at the time when hospitals are currently swamped by patients leaving doctors and nurses at a breaking point. for . the. problem for you or. for. you but.

for months ago there were groups who for advice you. don't know or we don't want. to salute for all who are in the room for all the 3. things going to. look for you know are there all the more there are. more of those are the leaders of. a large portion of the world's population is now living under various forms of restrictions spain is under lockdown and the death toll there is approaching 6000 the 2nd highest figure after italy medics are working around the clock to treat the infected and it's a job that comes with huge. risks according to the latest figures hospital staff account for almost 14 percent of the country's total coby $1000.00 cases lifesaving

equipment is in short supply and hospitals are reaching their capacity. as england imo school find ourselves in an extreme situation in which we've all experienced extreme emotions and intense 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 i think we're lacking workers and when people go out to the streets you know what happens they get sick we're like an equipment 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 los recently spain patients are having to lie on the floor as there 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 oh brick authorities have had to put in place the strictest measures in an attempt to stop the spread of the momo a very tough way it was coming in of the difficult days are coming they're going to test the very limited capacity of resources and. look about without doubt our 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 1000 older people completely abandoned sometimes even dead in their baths spanish health care services fighting against collapse this is a significant problem for health care 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 artsy belin. the u.k. has seen a dramatic spike in cove in 1900 tell 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 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 have taken a test that has come out positive so i'm working from home i'm so far 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 talk team to lead the national fight back against corona virus infection numbers continue to rise in the u.k. despite the nationwide lockdown many 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 kovi it's. if you want. and you want. and you're playing. 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. the backlash against those who ignore social distancing advice is also happening in rural 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 to mixed messages coming out of westminster. i don't know whether it's a deliberate ignoring or whether it's. the advice at the time just wasn't clear enough. and i think unless you you've had something directly impact on you and last member of your family has been impacted are unless you specifically into isolation and i think he i don't think he'd let that the seriousness of the situation you know we're very reliant on on people coming to the area for the local economy. i think it just hasn't people it's my hope that it just happened people and they just didn't stand in the gravity of the situation unfortunately that was an element of their digital until he is and was very pleased to see the mayor of the town of course called him on to the airwaves

to put a more rational case forward i think those visitors. were misguided 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. 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. still to come in the program the pen demick has brought entire economies to the brink of collapse after the break we'll look at how could affect our lives plus. also coming up new york city is running critically low at hospital beds and ventilator as we speak with nurses on the front line after this short break.

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 a choice to defend its interests or fade into oblivion. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. believe named weird things by the way is called superstition or magical thinking

believing weird things like that is not a bug in the system it's a feature it comes equipped in the software of our program mean to try to connect things in the environment just in case there's a real connection. welcome back western governments are stepping in with massive stimulus plans to keep their economies afloat during the health crisis or to charlotte to minsk it finds out how long nations can keep up the spending sprees. economies across the world have ground to a halt kilian measures have been announced. to governments offering to

pay 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 for now will keep things taking along over some point that will end governments who 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 call me 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 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 various governments who they enact a 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 kovac 19 will remain a deadly force when recess or take over the financial system becomes the more pressing issue how will they sell the exit strategy from containment. in the u.s. containment measures have forced businesses to shut down and lay off staff unemployment claims hit 3300000 this week smashing previous records that number is 5 times higher than during the peak. the 1982 recession meanwhile the senate has passed a 2 trillion dollar stimulus plan to keep firms afloat we heard from economics professor richard wolfe thinks the measures won't be enough. we are going to

a worst conditional on the employment now $100.00 employment go drop a little more like this every conceivable still szell raglan we add i grow a little child that you did poorest you name it gold read it that's one of the reasons you can't i still believe predict the stall out of all of this everything that government has done since we 1st learned about that a 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 when it finally will all shall be true it will and truly. the united states is now at the center of the cove in 1000 pandemic with the largest numbers of cases globally over 123000 americans have tested positive for

the virus and more than 2200 have died at this point new york state has been by far the worst hit with over 50000 cases i threw under half of the national total and 883 people have died the emergency services line in new york city has been overwhelmed with medical calls about as many as 391120 charges reports on the city . hospitals in new york struggling under the weight of the pandemic people come in to 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. i get to suggestion you have to pick and choose what you're going to do are you going to do. as the doctor say a lot of people call the doctor the survivor to expire and you pulled the same machine but not the 1st time as medical staff operates out their limit hundreds of

more people wait lining up outside to get tested for kovan 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 intice a pizza 140000 people will need to be hospitalized warning that he does not have

enough 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 coven 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 cova 19 to those who are critically ill from the virus the procedure could be life saving reporting in new york trinity chavez r.t. . there is some good news coming out of china's hu bay province which was where the corona virus 1st appeared the number of new coke in 1000 cases in the region has fallen to almost 0 on saturday 122 medical workers were sent to the region from elsewhere in china return home and they were seen off by

a crowd of locals who applauded them for their work quarantine measures are being gradually lifted and people who earlier came into contact with the infected have now been allowed to leave self isolation. that was the weekly here at r.t. we also have special measures put in place but at this time every day we'll continue to bring you a live news update here from moscow and when in doubt you can always have to our website r.t. dot com. i can't show you my face but i'm going to teach you must or in 9093 this man was sentenced to death. they could 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 for the week with the son of a $23.00. i felt that i deserved to be. confined

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