in the headlines from moscow this 1st of april a russian craft with medical help is on route to the united states with a message that there's no alternative but together as cases right across the u.s. . mistakes violence victims in france are to be accommodated in hotels abuse cases on the rise as the country enters its 3rd week of locked. in new york orders an investigation into why amazon sacked a warehouse manager after he'd led a strike over protecting staff against corona.

hello this is art international from moscow has just turned midday here this wednesday i'm kevin 0 in well welcome to this 30 minute world news round up 1st these are the latest figures in the covert 19 pandemic more than 860000 cases have now been confirmed globally more than 42000 people have lost their lives and 178000 have recovered here in russia 440 new coronavirus cases have been registered in the last 24 hours with the total number reaching 277720 4 people have died here. well in developments to brief you on today then a russian military aircraft loaded with medical and protective equipment is on its way to the united states to help that country tackle the coronavirus pandemic and once u.s.

manufacturers are able to step up production themselves moscow hopes they might be able to offer help back here in return to russia if it's needed later on with the details to get down off. century russia is following its own pattern of helping those countries that have been by this covert 19 pandemic the worst the united states being the world's sadly leader in the number of cases is certainly falling into this category of this particular batch of help of aid was pre-agreed of by lattimer putin and donald trump as the 2 presidents spoke over the phone this tuesday and within 24 hours russian military jets were and route to the united states carrying medical masks and necessary medical equipment and now russia is essentially saying is sending the message here that the whole world is in this pandemic together and each country should be able to be helping out other countries to the extent that it can that it can afford to here's what russia what russian

president's spokesman has said about this when the existing situation affects everyone without exception and is global in character there is no alternative but to act together in the spirit of partnership and mutual assistance so the question is the situation of the u.s. so serious that russia's selling equipment that it might need itself a bit further down the line well absolutely both countries are of course suffering from this pandemic but the scale is so far at least is absolutely in comparable in the united states the total number of cases is rapidly reaching 200000 people for instance more than 4000 lives have been claimed already by covert 19 on the territory of the united states and medics on the ground have been reporting an alarming shortage of the very necessary medical equipment necessary meaning for them to efficiently fight of this disease they have been understaffed they have

been working long hours the u.s. military even had to use 2 of its hospital war ships to help. deal with this pandemic with a number of cases experts are also saying that by most optimistic projections the pandemic can claim more than 200000 lives in the united states and pessimists well they put these numbers in the millions so essentially any bit of help any bit of aid that the united states is getting right now is welcomed there i have to say we've had great relationships with a lot of countries. china centers some stuff which was terrific russia said as a very very large plane load of things medical equipment which was very nice other countries said things that i was very surprised that very happily surprised we learned a lot we're learning a lot so it looks like the united states are indeed counting on foreign aid to be

able to more efficiently fight this covert $1000.00 pandemic as for russia it is saying that when american manufacturers step up their own production when they become self-sufficient then more school expects reciprocity when or if need be the chief doctor at russia's main hospital treating covert 1000 patients as tested positive him self there is progress sankoh is widely seen as the public face of the country's containment strategy against infections right now the hospital where he works in moscow and is currently treating several 100 people dead as president putin last week when he visited said hospital and shook his hand equipment though says mr putin's been tested regularly and feels well at the moment that the code given several t.v. interviews recently too including the us at r.t. where he said moscow is ready should the situation worse. you've got to put up a new health department has been taking measures like buying

a large number of ventilators so how many ventilators are there now in moscow. there are currently around $5000.00 already in use in hospitals across moscow we need to understand that this number includes not just ventilators but also anesthetic machines which if we turn off the anesthesia supply these can in fact work as ventilators to get to sleep or are you predicting that this will and by september what to do i'm looking at what's happening in the world and there are several scenarios if we have a snarly like the one in china i hope that for us it will be finished by may or june so by the end of spring if we experience an explosion like the woman sore in italy and september would be a good outcome for us with no better option of so everybody should think about other people. of course currently moscow is prepared for covert 19 or. over but you need to surgically operate on people as well with this record so at this in these kinds of situations and as we said initially multi-disciplinary

hospitals will only carry out emergency surgery strictly speaking a person with policy status or a hernia can wait for surgery but. the lockdown in france has been extended now to april the 15th as the country deals with over 5000 known infections and 3500 deaths the enforced stay at home regimes mentally taxing for everyone but for some the dangers are far worse i shall do bensky reports next from paris. president macron has described domestic violence against women as from says shame or average one woman is killed by her partner every 3 days it's one of the highest femicide rates in europe times of crisis are always conductive to rise in violence for those suffering and whole it can quickly go from psychological abuse to physical and sexual violence and can even lead to from inside. as france enters

its 3rd week of lockdown it's becoming clear how dangerous it's been for those in abusive relationships reports of domestic violence sought in paris they were up 36 percent across the rest of the country it was 32 percent 2 victims were murdered notices of. militants humiliate us is representative to feminists associations is that now it is believed that domestic violence is national problem and additionally are in crisis this means that the total number of cases of violence committed against women in relationships increased and instead of increasing the working time and. to work until 10 pm now due to lack of funds the service stops working at 7 pm given the surge over ports of domestic abuse france's gender equality minister has announced the government will pay for hotel rooms for victims it says pop up currently in centers will be opened while an extra

$1000000.00 euros is being funneled into empty domestic abuse organizations my biggest concern is to multiply the points of conduct was women as it is difficult for women to get out we want to make sure the support systems can reach them for many domestic abuse charities confinement under roys in domestic abuse was already a foregone conclusion there was already anecdotal evidence from china that this happened there with incidents reportedly trembling a hash tag translating is empty domestic violence during epidemic also went viral even though this was in january some are questioning why european countries like france didn't put a safety net in place at the start the answer is that our politicians are simply ignoring women's rights that aren't human. right so basically they're very scared

now about the barriers but what about the safety of these women with children living in this houses you know trapped in with men who clearly have a raging hunger problem so who cannot control themselves until we don't raise the public opinion that domestic violence is a social emergency until that day our quality shows will keep thinking and treating this problem as a minor problem it's not just women who are too risk children's charities sounded the alone to over the heightened risk of compiling the. hundreds of millions of children around the world will likely face increasing threats to the safety and wellbeing including mistreatment gender based violence exploitation social exclusion and separation from caregivers because of actions taken to contain the spread of the 19 pandemic with children no longer in school and social distancing

in place it's hold up the younger victims of abuse to be recognized the problem is compounded by cellphone isolation measures given that social workers aren't able to make regular calls in person home is supposed to be the safest place that any of us can be right now for victims of abuse that small case it can mean being trapped inside with an abuser with limited access to help while the government in france has now recognized this it's already too late those who suffered abuse and death in the 1st week of the lock down show that even ski. paris the problem is not restricted to france of course. seeing domestic violence increase in countries around the world there's also a spike in divorce supplications to his family struggle to get along in close proxy

. for so long domestic abuse survivor income poena ridge williams told us it's important to take preventative measures before it's too late. the the right we've seen across the current countries that point in lockdown. we've seen a 304050 percent increase rise and we know this is going to be coming to the u.k. and we need to be pay going forward. you know is pandemic upon a pandemic and this lots of things that can be done before we have massive influx i mean in the u.k. we've seen 9 deaths in the last 3 days. and 2 are those will be the traitors so to families again by dates and 3 separate killings of women i think we've seen a rise in new and cases of domestic abuse being reported and also ben

the the ones who have been living with this for a while. for many years may be that they feel that it really had to be unlocked with the traits of the 247. and i think it's people reaching a because they cannot take it anymore. the mayor of new york's ordered an investigation into why amazon sucked to work a hudler walk over concerns that staff weren't getting enough protection against coronavirus we spoke to the far worse manager explain to us just how worried employees are. i organized this strike you know as a cry for help to close down the buildings of amazon because they're on sea. we got people that's home to haven't been paid for the entire month of march. news people were underlining health conditions they got luke is they got bronchitis the guy

asthma we have an unknown amount of people that tested positive for the corona virus and then not being transparent with employees in ny caring about their employees health we was asking for was to be protected they're not providing us with enough mask the proper type of gloves just not enough cleaning supplies within the building the very scarce right now and him it's always depleted. the cleaning crew that they hired to clean the buildings they're scared to come to work themselves so. a lot of them haven't been showing up to work you know the people who are afraid to work in that building those types of buildings so the only thing amazon can do is listen to their people it whereas in the close the building down a sanitized destine the state can do in a bid now with a do that then we should be have we should be forced to work you know we're not as a sense to our health is not as essential as they want us to be and just not fair and it's not right. sissified chris smalls often ignored instructions to stay home

for 14 days for partly coming into contact with a colleague who tested positive but he claims it's more about amazon's bottom line . then notice that i was called in the uproar j.f.k. a staten island building that's one of the largest buildings in the tri state area holds about 5000 people that's a lot of money that they make in that building a lot of money i'm effect in that i'm effect in the business by speaking out so they got rid of me probably to silence me to terminate me to stop the movement but i see empowered me so they motivated me even more and i'm going to continue to fight like i say we're going to day won't do it we have global go above the head and we'll go to city hall. and we'll fight with the government and so the government steps in and shut the bill down. this is all it international will continuing to report would why does countries talk of a pound make it all the way the debate across america as to what should be

considered essential surgery as a route rages over states butting abortions and blaming the pandemic expert reaction for you. the world is driven by a dreamer shaped by. the day or thinks. we dare to ask.

all the alternative all. as i say the stage so that was called real choice the binary choice and only choice is if you are available and both binary thing is not a chunk of the arab states too small to buy the new architecture revive the quartet and start negotiations with. israel but i don't invite you to know those invited to think about what's been put on the table. in the us the country with the most known infections currently there are more than 180000 affected people more than 4000 have died hospitals refocus their resources than officials in several states want to postpone non-essential surgery now

including pregnancy terminations that sparked a backlash we cannot let anti-abortion activists dictate public health policy a global pandemic is not an excuse to attack essential time sense that if medical procedures like abortion texas is imposed the harshest penalties for abortion facilities have violated the ban including a $1000.00 fine and 6 months jail but on monday a federal. the judge told texas also alabama in ohio too that they couldn't ban abortions because of the pandemic however other states including oklahoma iowa mississippi still suspending the procedure to preserve medical supplies while over in washington state and even the pandemic epicenter of new york abortion clinics are continuing to operate essential service pro-life campaigners told us the judges intervention sets a dangerous president than. it is devastating to see ephedra will judge ruled that abortion is more important than public safety it sets

a dangerous precedent killing unborn children is the legal genocide that is still deemed necessary and essential during a deadly global pandemic we certainly are obstetrician gynecologist dr martin and also women's rights advocate resurfacing here they are. what we're trying to do with the corn scene is of course iceland people so we don't have viral spread and any physical or human contact that we have of course exponentially increases the press or viral spread so the governments or limit seeing all 'd connections to just very essential services that are wife and who are necessary for a life. of fortune is really not one of those it's more of a convenience issue something that is more related to. choice rather than something that is essential for life or death the fact of the matter is that in the united states of america women have the right to obtain an abortion until we decide that

that is no longer the law * of land in that state and with that being the case to say that an abortion is a luxury or a choice is that quite accurate something like plastic surgery or something like an elective procedure where you can you know do something to augment how you look that's a choice whereas a woman choosing to or not carry a child is essentially within her right a constitutional right and it's a medical procedure that has a very thick timeframe in which she needs to happen it's not just in the united states by some people trying to make it it's local it's worldwide it's affecting maybe 180 countries under 95 countries so it's not just about you know states and of course rights if anybody's making a political i think it's planned parenthood. but what we want to do is preserve life and whether it's a life of adults that are susceptible to the coronavirus or there is

a life of the unborn susceptible to death in their mother's womb and planned parenthood is actually put up and sold this test couple days planned parenthood has been killing more children every single day them the viruses killed completely total in the united states since the. giving when it started a couple of months abortions don't take place in hospitals so to remick abortions based on preserving has little that's doesn't even make sense because they're done in private clinics so the the the truth of the matter is is that this is pretextual and when you have a pretext or to restrict rights to simply constitutional rights you're in a very dangerous place because the pm to make the century could be used to you start our constitutional rights in pretty much any other arena so we have to be very careful as a people that we don't allow this pretext to use to kind of infect the rest of our our everyday lives in our rights we're using all this person

of the footman for no necessary or unnecessary or an essential. procedures when we meet them on the front lines i have one mess one in the mess that i've been using over 'd and over and over and over 2 weeks and that's all i have for the next month. well abortionists are going through these several you know also several 1000 for a week while those of us who are truly being affected by this virus knew that. the world economies continue to take a hammering during the pandemic slowdown millions are on a work of course and struggling to pay their bills a wall street is a warning shot that another mortgage crisis is on the way and that it'll be worse than the credit crunch of 2008 more a month than today from ken i'm open. in 2008 there was a global financial meltdown that affected almost every country in the world homes across the usa were foreclosed and it appears we're heading in the same direction

right now. donald trump signed emergency legislation on friday giving anyone who has a federally backed home loan the ability to apply for a 180 day forbearance now that will take the pressure off of homeowners however it means that payments over 7 trillion dollars of federally guaranteed mortgages could stuff and that leaves the banks without money now the federal reserve trying to save the situation by issuing over $250000000000.00 in the hopes of driving down interest rates now this is a temporary measure aimed at helping banks get through the crisis but the bankers

are showing signs of panic the mortgage bankers association penned a letter to regulators on sunday saying that the u.s. housing market is in danger of large scale disruption that government is decided to try to stray money at this that was a problem back in 2008 and night but it had some sense because then it was a credit crisis now the basic crisis is there is no virus and that cutting of production and all business activity which is a very different problem and so throwing money is not a good solution when the virus override it found out already debt depended weak economy the problem has gotten worse but this. solution just to the greater problem and a different problem as americans are staying home and trying to keep healthy they now have images of the 2008 economic horrors flashing through their minds this can

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times are we going underground 24 hours after iran celebrates the overthrow of its british back to the ship albeit under lockdown and amidst a dystopian disinformation war over coronavirus coming on the show as the international community calls for the end of sanctions on iran is it an international war crime for washington to warn the islamic republic that coronavirus cannot save it from economic warfare and while u.k. corporate media rediscovers the sacrifices of n.h.s. doctors and nurses what about the so-called low skilled cleaners risking their lives to protect britain from coronavirus we talk to united voices of the world must be aware of the snowflake a generation is former u.k. prosecution boesky a star set to replace jeremy cool being his neighbor leader on saturday sitting on a socialist demographic time bomb all the small coming up in today's going

underground the 1st us president of trump secretary of state for new sanctions on iran despite pressure from the international community to suspend them all while the islamic republic faces the west corona virus outbreak in the middle east joining me now via face time from gone is dr samadi torabi director of the research that strategic studies institute sam thanks so much for coming on i'm going to ask 1st of all you were in quarantine how is the situation in go home even though obviously the united states has more coronavirus cases in absolute terms and obviously proportionately. yes actually it mom is doing quite well it was the 1st place that the pandemic started in iran and also we've been pretty much you know south korean singing ourselves since the end of february so thank god the numbers are have come down and warm and also as you might have heard in the media you know there's no panic buying you know everything's well stocked and people are going about their lives pretty normally except for the fact of course that they're not

congregating in public but thank god it's common and going well and all right now well that may be the case but washington is accusing tehran of lying about coronavirus that iran is somehow an accomplice in the pandemic i mean would you say that this is a celebration of the constitution of iran there's more and more understanding even amongst the young it's disproportionately young of course iran about the threat from the west well you actually raise a good point which is that you know this trend towards an understanding the reality of what america is then and you know the evil nature of the united states particularly as it relates to the way it treats and the way it deals with iran this was something that was already happening before the coronavirus as it related to the j.c. a and the whole attempt by a part of the iranian leaders to come to some sort of a strategic or historic.