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in the headlines from moscow this 1st of april a russian aircraft of medical help is on route to the united states with a message that there's no alternative but to act together as cases rise across the u.s. . domestic violence victims in france have to be accommodated in hotels abuse cases are on the rise as the country enters its 3rd week of a lot of. new york orders an investigation into why amazon sacked a warehouse manager after he'd led a strike over protecting stuff against coronavirus.
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hello this is art international from moscow it's just 24 pm here this wednesday my name's kevin owen will welcome them to this 30 minute world news round up and 1st these are the latest figures in the covert 19 pandemic more than 877000 cases have now been confirmed globally more than 43000 people have lost their lives and 885000 have recovered here in russia 448 new coronavirus cases have been registered in the last 24 hours with the total number reaching 277724 people have died here and 190 have recovered. and in today's news over it a russian military aircraft loaded with medical and protective equipment is on its
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way to the united states to help the country tackle the coronavirus pandemic and once u.s. manufacturers rebel to step up production themselves moscow hopes they might be able to offer help back here and return to russia if it's needed later on the details he caused it is standoff. 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 this particular batch of help. 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
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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 as 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
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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 warships to help out. 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 things that i was very surprised that very happily surprised we
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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 cold in 1000 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 19 patients has tested positive himself that is promising cohen is widely seen as the public face of the country's containment strategy at the moment against infections the hospital where he works is here in moscow and it currently is treating several 100 people there as part of president putin last week when he arrived at the hospital take a look and shook his hand the kremlin though says mr putin is being tested regularly and feels well at the moment though to prove same coeds given several t.v. interviews recently too including to us where he said moscow is ready should the situation worsen. you've got to put it but in most cases health department has been
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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 keep you predicting that this will and by september small to i'm looking at what's happening in the world and there are several scenarios that if we have a snare 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 will 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.
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over but you need to surgically operate on people as well in the british record so at this in these kinds of situations and as we've seen in italy multi-disciplinary hospitals will only carry out emergency surgery strictly speaking a person with policy status or a hernia can wait for surgery but it's a lot done in france now it's been extended to april the 15th as the country deals with over $5000.00 known infections and 3500 deaths the enforced stay at home regimes mentally taxing for everyone but for the dangers of far worse the shiela do bensky reports next from paris. president mark owen has described domestic violence against women as says shame or average one woman is killed by her partner every 3 days it's one of the highest femicide rates in europe crisis was conducive to rise in violence has also france harm it can quickly go from psychological abuse to physical and sexual violence and can even
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lead to fantasize as france enters its 3rd week of rock down 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 to victims were murdered uses of. militant humiliate us 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 more he determined which he has 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
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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 that support systems can reach them for many domestic abuse charities confinement and all roys in domestic abuse was already a foregone conclusion there was already anecdotal evidence. from china this happened there with incidents reportedly troubling. translating is empty domestic violence during epidemic also went viral even though this was in january so much questioning why european countries like france didn't put a safety net in place at the start the answer is that our politician are simply
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ignoring women's rights that aren't human rights so basically they're very scared now about the barriers but what about the safety of these women with children living in this house is you know trapped in with men who clearly have a raging hunger problem so you cannot control themselves until we don't raise the public opinion that domestic violence is a social emergency until that day our quality shows keep thinking and treating this problem as a minor problem it's not just women who are too risk children's charities sounded the alarm to over the heightened risk of compiling. 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 actions taken to contain the spread of the pandemic with
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children no longer in school and social distancing in place it's hold up the younger victims of abuse to be recognised the problem is compounded by cell phone isolation measures given that social workers aren't able to make regular calls in person. 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 in so i'd within a. with limited access to help while the government in france has now recognized this it's already too late those who suffered abuse and desk in the 1st week of the lockdown show that devinsky altie paris the problem is not restricted to france of course so far solution is seen domestic violence increasing countries around the world there's also
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a spike in divorce from the struggle to get along in close proximity for so long to most abuse survivor income paying the rachel williams told us it's important to take preventative measures before it's too late with the them the right we've seen across the parent pantries that point in locked and 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 paid going forward. you know is pandemic upon a pandemic and this lots of things that can be done before we have this massive influx i mean in the u.k. we've seen 9 deaths in the last 3 days. and 2 of those will be the traitor's so 2 families again by day. 3 separate killings that we're in
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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 know and they feel that it's really had to be unlocked with the traits of the 247. and i think it's people reaching i am because they cannot take it anymore. the mayor of new york sold an investigation into why amazon the sack to work a little walk out of concerns that stuff weren't getting enough protection against coronavirus we spoke to the fired warehouse manager who explained 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 c. we've got people as home i haven't been paid for the entire month of march. these people were underlining health conditions luke is they got bronchitis the guy asthma we
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have an unknown amount of people that tested positive for the coronavirus and not being transparent with employees in ny caring about their employees health we was asking for was to be protecting 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 is listen to their people it we're asking the close the building down a sanitized destiny stay can do it if they're now within the doodad then we should be happy we should be forced to work you know we're not as a sense to our help is not as essential as they want us to be and just not fair and this is not right well this sort of this was insists it fired chris smalls off he
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ignored instructions to stay home for 40 days of apparently coming into contact with a colleague who tested positive but he claims it's more about amazon's bottom line . and 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 then 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 to keep across the story this is not international reporting worldwide as countries tackle the pandemic coming up wall
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just taking over all the alternative. taking and as i say the stage so the. cold will choice the binary choice and only choice is it. best binary thing is not a chance for the arab states to school to provide a new architecture revive the call ted and start negotiations with. israel then on invited to negotiate then bite to think about what's been put on the table. again the world economies to continue to take a hammering during the pandemic slowdown millions are out of work and struggling to pay their bills it's a huge worry on wall street now a warning shot coming in that another mortgage crisis is on the way and
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a little be worse than the credit crunch of 2008 across this one today kellam open for you. 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
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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 stroll money at this that was a problem back in 2008 and 9 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 or ride it found out already get depended weak
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economy the problem has gotten worse but has so. illusion has 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 only add to the current stress ill of martin artsy new york. some other news in after spending 2 years trying to force venezuelan president nicolas maduro out of government and putting opposition leader one guy i don't his place the us government is now trying a new tack the state department's plan is for both men to stand aside while their respective parties try to form a transitional government ahead of fresh elections and in return for all that lifting of sanctions as in a potential report. it sounds like something out of a hawks nightmare the likes of john bolton for sure the man in charge of u.s. foreign ties spoke about stopping the venezuela sanctions that all remaining u.s.
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sanctions would be lifted it's not that some kind of virus with proma do or symptoms found its way into the state department there's a whole bunch of it's in washington's new plan for the latin american troublemaker state and some of the conditions may raise quite a few eyebrows in this man's camp according to the so-called democratic transition framework it's not only nicolas maduro that shouldn't get a seat in the proposed transitional government why do is to step aside as well elected member of the national assembly assembly representing both sides would create a an acceptable council state to serve as a transitional government into a presidential a national some way lectures could be held we hope within 6 to 12 months both nicolas maduro and one where though would accept the council of state as the sole executive during this transitional period and what a surprise the plan is to get people on board to for that new council with all the
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powers you can help asking how come when it's long been decided in d.c. that one white oh is the legitimate president of venezuela united states proudly recognize the national assembly president wanted to i you know as the interim president of venezuela joining us in the gallery is the true and legitimate president of venezuela who won 21 other governments in the region and across the world had joined the united states in recognizing going to go as venezuela's interim president for a while now the stars and stripes have counted on him he's been counting on their support helps been coming in all shapes and forms from a hailstorm of sanctions against the government to threats of sending the world's mightiest military to sort things out in caracas pulis material would do well not to test. the resolve of the united states. are on the table all options are on the table all options are on the table when all of that didn't work
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the u.s. came up with. let's put it this way mission get the drug lord the indictment of nicholas madero and his co-defendants alleges effort to flood the united states with cocaine but still none of that helped mr why do move the most stosh out of the way it could be because america's plans a b. c. d. etc just weren't right or good enough maybe it's because the support for nicolas maduro in the country is still strong enough to fight off all these regime change attempts or one of one guy do is just not the right man to be that tough coup captain what if now the us administration thought so and found a way to begin to wrap up project why go anyway though unlike official caracas he chose to welcome america's newest plan we are taking the right steps to save venezuela it is time as i wrote yesterday for the user to take responsibility and
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accept the offer made by the international community which brings us to an absolutely different vision altogether washington could have just switched to a more long term scheme when the trick is to lure in my circle of trust with concessions be it the socialist elite or the military and then move on to achieving d.c.'s cherished ultimate goal with still quite likely or without one why don't you have a drink o. r t. a lot said for this live update from marty's main studios here in moscow with me kevin owen thank you for watching at this time every day we'll continue to bring you live bulletins from here in russia and the teams around the world record 24 seventh's here as well we're heading to our london studios enough and later on we go stateside too to washington d.c. around the clock he can find the latest in our home not a very social media this is our international.
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about the law or prison so you'd have wallace though should have. a terrible life between the. and this is the one business show you can't afford to miss bridgeboro in washington coming up with 19 has gripped the globe but some regions have been hit harder than others we have a live report on the spread of the pandemic and how different nations have taken different paths to tackle the virus plus as china begins its return to normalcy
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